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The ancient past
Clan Cameron
Includes MacSorley, MacSorlie as a sept of Clan Cameron.
One of the original four branches of Clan Cameron (and therefore not technically a ‘sept,” but included here for clarification) the MacSorlies were one of the earliest tribes of Lochaber. They are said to have originally descended from the same “stock” as the MacDonalds, as their patronymic implies “Sliochd Shomhairle Ruaidh,” “The Race of Somerled the Red.” Closely allied to their neighbors the MacMartins, the MacSorlies resided in Glen Nevis.
By the end of the fifteenth century the MacSorlies came under the leadership of Clan Cameron, although they seemingly didn’t adopt the name of Cameron until the early seventeenth century. The MacSorlies/Camerons of Glen Nevis were not the most faithful adherents to the Cameron Chiefs; they were known to be at feud with them on numerous occasions.
In the 1745 Jacobite Uprising the MacSorlies/ Camerons of Glen Nevis were not “out” under their their leader, Alexander Cameron of Glen Nevis, but many of them were with Lochiel’s regiment nevertheless; Alexander’s brother Angus “brought out” the Rannoch Camerons to join the regiment.
