Morgan Ancient

Morgan is considered a sept of Clan MacKay. However, the Scottish Morgan Society is currently campaigning for greater recognition from Lord Lyon. 

Morgan is a very common name throughout Britain, and it is of more than one origin. It comes from the early Celtic 'sea-bright', and also exists in Old British, Old Breton, Cornish and Welsh. 'Morgunn' is the Pictish form of the name. The founder of the Pelagian heresy was a British monk named Morgan. In Scotland it is remarkable that the name survives, for in historic times it existed nowhere else than in Aberdeenshire and among the Sutherland Mackays. 'Clan Morgan' was for long the title of the Mackays of the Reay country who later became Clan Aoidh, and it is probable, though perhaps not demonstrable, that there was close connection between them and the Aberdeenshire Morgans.  The Morgans appear to have gradually spread down the East Coast as far as Fife, where the place-name 'Ramornie' means 'rath of the Morganach'. Morgan of Glenesk in Angus renderd homage to Edward I of England in 1296. The name still is found in Aberdeenshire, and John Murgan was one of the Huntly Volunteers in 1798.