The Outlandish Companion

by Diana Gabaldon

  Ellen MacKenzie Fraser (m)—wife to Brian Fraser; sister to Colum and Dougal MacKenzie; mother to Jamie Fraser

  and Jenny Fraser Murray. [Outlander, Voyager, Drums]

  Faith Fraser (m)—Claire and Jamie’s first child, stillborn at L’Hépital des Anges, following a miscarriage as the indirect result of Jamie’s duel with Jack Randall. [Dragonfly]

  Fergus Fraser—see “Fergus.”

  Lady Frances Fraser—one of Simon Fraser’s daughters. [Dragonfly]

  Geordie Paul Fraser—one of Jamie’s followers. [Dragonfly]

  James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser—Laird of Broch Tuarach. Son of Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser; illegitimately descended (though legitimately born) grandson of Simon Fraser (the Old Fox); Claire’s second husband, father of Faith Fraser (stillborn), Brianna Ellen Randall (Fraser), and (by Geneva Dunsany) William, Viscount Ashness, ninth Earl of Ellesmere. [All]

  Jared Munro Fraser—successful expatriate Scottish wine merchant, with ships and warehouses in Le Havre, and a mansion in Paris. Jamie’s cousin, and a strong Jacobite. He later lends Jamie and Claire his ship, Artemis, to hunt for Young Ian in the West Indies. [Dragonfly, Voyager]

  Marsali Joyce MacKimmie Fraser—see “Marsali.”

  Murtagh FitzGibbons Fraser—Jamie Fraser’s godfather and companion. [Outlander, Dragonfly]

  † Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat (the Old Fox)—chief of clan Fraser; Jamie Fraser’s paternal grandfather. [Dragonfly]

  † Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat (the Young Fox)—son of the executed Lord Lovat (also named Simon, known as the Old Fox); younger half-brother to JamieFraser’s father, thus half-uncle to Jamie Fraser. He led Fraser clansmen at Culloden, but escaped execution, though suffering the loss of most of his family property—later regained through legal process and as a reward for his efforts in raising a regiment to fight in the Colonies during the French and Indian War. [Dragonfly, Drums]

  Wallace Fraser—tenant at Lallybroch. [Dragonfly]

  William Fraser (m)—Jamie’s elder brother, dead of smallpox at age eleven. [Outlander]

  Frank—Claire’s first husband; see also Franklin Wolverton Randall.

  Captain Freeman—captain of the Sally Ann, the riverboat that carried the Frasers up the Cape Fear River from Wilmington to Cross Creek. [Drums]

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  Gabrielle—second wife to Nacognaweto, a woman of mixed blood, earlier married to a French trapper. Fluent in French, she translates for Claire and for her grandmother-in-law, Nayawenne. [Drums]

  Tom Gage—an Edinburgh political agitator and seditionist; hires the printer A. Malcolm to print political pamphlets. [Voyager]

  Lissa Garver—the pregnant girl whom Jamie and Claire finding bleeding to death in the sawmill, the apparent victim of a botched abortion—in truth, murdered by her erstwhile lover, Sergeant Murchison. [Drums]

  Charles Gauloise (m)—Jamie’s rival for the attentions of Annalise de Marillac. [Dragonfly]

  Gayle—see “Gayle Bosworthy.”

  M. Genet—a French banker. [Dragonfly]

  Geordie—print shop employee. [Voyager]

  †George II, King of England. [Dragonfly]

  †George III, King of England. [Voyager]

  Germain(e)—firstborn son of Fergus and Marsali; proper French spelling of the masculine is “Germain.”

  †Comte St. Germain5—a member of the French Court; a noble with a reputation for dabbling in occult matters. Charles Stuart’s business partner. [Dragonfly]

  Comtesse St. Germain—wife of the Comte St. Germain. [Dragonfly]

  Johannes Gerstmann—the King of France’s Austrian music master. [Dragonfly]

  a Native American ghost—Claire meets a man on a deserted mountain in North Carolina, his face painted black, holding a torch that burns but is not consumed. [Drums]

  a Scottish ghost (m)—the spectral figure of a big Highlander, in kilt and running-stag brooch, whom Frank Randall encounters outside the bed-and-breakfast where he and Claire are staying in Inverness. [Outlander]

  Duncan Gibbons (m)—a crofter on Lallybroch; Jenny’s choice to marry Peggy Murray—if Jamie does not want to marry her himself. [Voyager]

  Lachlan Gibbons (m)—a man saved from drowning by Maisri’s Sight. [Dragonfly]

  Ewan Gibson—Hugh Munro’s eldest stepson. [Dragonfly]

  Gideon (m)—Simon Fraser’s secretary. [Dragonfly]

  Gilbert (Gibbie)—a small boy aboard the Gloriana, one of the victims of the smallpox outbreak. [Drums]

  Jonathan Gillette (m)—proprietor of the Wilmington Gazette, in which the death notice for Jamie and Claire Fraser appears. [Drums]

  † Glengarry—prominent Jacobite chief. [Dragonfly]

  † Gérard Gobelin—an important French banker, much involved with the financing of political figures. [Dragonfly]

  Sir Fletcher Gordon—governor of Wentworth Prison. [Outlander]

  † Lord Lewis Gordon (m)—a Jacobite supporter, who raised men for Charles Stuart.

  Pastor Gottfried—pastor of a small group of German Lutherans, settled in North Carolina. He comes to Fraser’s Ridge to tell Claire of the deaths of Petronella Mueller and her baby, and to warn her that Gerhard Mueller is seeking vengeance upon the local Indians, whom he blames for the deaths. [Drums]

  Ned Gowan—a lawyer from Edinburgh; legal advisor to clan MacKenzie; helps to rescue Claire from the witchcraft trial in Cranesmuir; later, he handles negotiations resulting from Jamie Fraser’s invalid marriage to Laoghaire MacKenzie. [Outlander, Voyager]

  Fiona Graham—Mrs. Graham’s grand-daughter. A practical young woman with a domestic touch, she has set her sights on Roger, but abandons this project upon realizing that Roger is in love with Brianna. Fiona succeeds her grandmother, both as housekeeper at the manse, and as the “caller”—the leader of the women who dance on Craigh na Dun, calling down the sun on the Feast of Beltane. A good friend of Roger’s, she helps him with his quest to follow Brianna, giving him the grimoire left behind by Geillis Duncan, and later giving him her own engagement diamond, to safeguard his passage through the stones. Engaged to marry Ernie Buchan. [Dragonfly, Voyager, Drums]

  Master Georgie Graham—Mrs. Graham’s small, coach-sick son. [Voyager]

  Mrs. Graham—the Reverend Wakefield’s housekeeper, Roger’s foster mother, and grandmother to Fiona, who inherits her grandmother’s position as leader of the dancing ladies who call down the sun at Craig na Dun on the Feast of Beltane. [Outlander]

  Mrs. (Jemima) Graham—passenger in the coach taking Claire to Edinburgh to look for Jamie. [Voyager]

  Malcolm Grant (m)—chieftain of clan Grant; rejected suitor of Ellen MacKenzie. [Outlander]

  †Margaret Grant (m)—Simon Fraser’s second wife. [Outlander]

  Miss Grant—proprietor of an Inverness pastry shop; member of the dancing ladies. [Outlander]

  Mungo Grant (m)—assistant cook at Castle Leoch. [Outlander]

  Sir Greville (m)—the King’s Commissioner on Antigua.[Voyager]

  Lord John William Grey (aka “William Grey,” in Dragonfly)—fourth son of Countess Melton; a sixteen-year-old who attacks Jamie in the wood, shortly before Prestonpans. He is overpowered, captured, and eventually returned to his companions, swearing vengeance onJamie. Later, he is appointed Governor of Ardsmuir Prison, where he makes Jamie’s acquaintance once more. He marries Isobel Dunsany, and becomes stepfather to her nephew William. As Acting Governor of Jamaica, he meets Claire and Jamie again, and later befriends their daughter Brianna in North Carolina. [Dragonfly, Voyager, Drums]

  Mr. Grey (m)—a Jamaican planter, who purchases the Artemis’s cargo of bat guano. [Voyager]

  Mr. Grieves (m)—factor at Helwater. [Voyager]

  Sergeant Grissom—one of Lord John Grey’s officers at Ardsmuir. [Voyager]

  Griswald—a fourteen-year-old private in the English army, who stops the Frasers on the road from Charleston to Wilmington, as they aid Stephen Bonnet’s escape. [Drums]

  Lady Grozier—friend
of Lady Dunsany; remarks the unusual resemblance between the young William and his groom, MacKenzie, thus precipitating Jamie’s exit from Helwater. [Voyager]

  Loch Ness guide—a Highlander who takes Claire and Frank on a boat trip down Loch Ness, recounting many of the local legends. [Outlander]

  Gwyllyn—Welsh bard, a retainer at Castle Leoch. [Outlander]

  H

  †Jenny Ha (m)—proprietor of a well-known tavern on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. [Dragonfly]

  Mr. Harding (m)—an agent of the Hand-in-Hand Assurance Society, which insured A. Malcolm’s premises in Edinburgh. [Voyager]

  Mr. Haugh—proprietor of an apothecary’s shop on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. [Dragonfly]

  Haugh the Younger—proprietor of an apothecary’s shop on the Royal Mile, inherited from his father. [Voyager]

  Louisa Haugh—wife of Haugh the Younger. [Voyager]

  Father Hayes (m)—priest who hears Jamie’s and Young Ian’s confession, following the print shop fire and its aftermath at the brothel. [Voyager]

  Archie Hayes (Leftenant)—son of Gavin Hayes; wounded and captured at Culloden, Archie Hayes joined the English army as an alternative to transportation, and achieved the rank of leftenant. With his regiment of Scottish Highlanders, he arrives at the Gathering at Mount Helicon, in search of Jamie, who—he has heard—“kent my faither.” [Drums]

  Gavin Hayes—one of the Jacobite prisoners at Ardsmuir during Jamie Fraser’s imprisonment there. Transported to the American Colonies after the closing of the prison, Gavin was later convicted of theft and hanged in Charleston, South Carolina. In a tavern, following the hanging, Jamie and Duncan tell Claire the story of Gavin’s past—of his encounter with a tannasg in the Highlands, and of his search for his son, Archie—who took the field with his father at Culloden, but disappeared after the battle. Jamie claims Gavin’s body, and buries him by night in the churchyard of St. Michael’s, before traveling northward to North Carolina. [Drums]

  Mrs. Hayes—one of Roger’s neighbors at Inverness. [Drums]

  Corporal Hawkins—aide to Captain Jonathan Randall. [Outlander]

  Mary Hawkins—daughter of a minor English baronet, niece to Silas Hawkins. Engaged to an ancient member of the French nobility, but in love with Alexander Randall. [Dragonfly]

  Mrs. Hawkins—Silas Hawkins’s wife; Mary Hawkins’s aunt. [Dragonfly]

  Silas Hawkins—uncle of Mary Hawkins, brother of a baronet; a wine-seller, and customer of Jared Fraser. [Dragonfly]

  †General Hawley (m)—an English commander, who led some of the troops that met the Highland army at Falkirk. [Dragonfly]

  Harry (and Arnold)—English deserters. [Outlander]

  Hector—MacRannoch’s henchman, who finds and assists Claire following her escape from Wentworth. [Outlander]

  Hector (Dalrymple) (m)—John Grey’s first lover; killed at Culloden. [Voyager]

  Lady Hensley (m)—a friend of the Dowager Countess Melton. [Voyager]

  Herbert (m)—one of the Reverend Wakefield’s dogs, mentioned in his journal. [Dragonfly]

  Mother Hildegarde—Mother Superior of L’Hôpital des Anges; Claire’s friend, and a good amateur musician and composer, who disentangles the musical cipher used by the Duke of Sandringham. [Dragonfly]

  Dr. and Mrs. Hinchcliffe—dean of the history department and his wife. [Voyager]

  Arvin Hodgepile6—An English soldier, stationed at the Crown warehouse in Cross Creek. Suspecting that someone is substituting cheap contraband for legitimately imported liquor, he ferrets about incognito, making inquiries that lead him as far as Jamie’s mountain still, where he loses a button. He is blown up, presumed dead, in the conflagration following Stephen Bonnet’s escape from the prison cells under the warehouse. [Drums]

  Hoechstein (m)—an intern at the hospital where Claire did her medical training. [Voyager]

  Hugo—Louise de Rohan’s footman. [Dragonfly]

  Hughes—head groom at Helwater. [Voyager]

  Hughie—Jenny Murray’s merino ram. [Voyager, Drums]

  Mr. Hunter (m)—late surgeon of the Porpoise, dead of typhoid. Claire inherits his instruments and medicines. [Voyager]

  †Mr. Evan Hunter (m)—a well-known medical authority and researcher, who wrote extensively on medical topics in the eighteenth century. [Drums]

  †James Hunter—one of the leaders of the Regulator movement in North Carolina. [Drums]

  †Hermon Husband—one of the leaders of the Regulator movement in North Carolina; a Quaker, and thus opposed to violence, but a man of principle who cannot abide the malfeasance of corrupt officialdom. [Drums]

  Hutchinson—first mate of the Gloriana. [Drums]

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  the Indian in the corncrib—one of Ian’s Tuscarora hunting companions, whofalls ill of the measles. Despite Claire’s nursing, he dies in the corncrib, thus landing the Frasers with the difficult problem of how best to dispose of his remains, without either infecting his people or giving them the unfortunate notion that the Frasers had somehow caused his death. [Drums]

  Duncan Innes—a one-time fisherman, part-time smuggler, ex-Ardsmuir prisoner. Jamie’s friend and helper, despite the loss of one arm. Later becomes the consort of Jocasta MacKenzie. [Voyager, Drums]

  Mrs. Innes—the midwife who delivers Young Ian. [Voyager]

  Mr. Isaacson (m)—a wealthy Jew, interested in marrying Mary Hawkins. [Dragonfly]

  Ishmael—the ex-cook of Rose Hall; a houngan who is kidnapped by pirates, escapes, and is rescued by the Artemis. [Voyager]

  Isobeail—a small girl whom Roger befriends aboard the Gloriana [Drums]

  J

  “Black Jack” Randall (aka Jonathan Wolverton Randall)—see under “R.”

  Captain Jacobs—militia captain of Kingston, charged with hunting Mr. Willoughby following Mrs. Alcott’s murder. [Voyager]

  Jamie Roy—nom de guerre used by Jamie Fraser during his smuggling career. Derived from his nickname during the Rising—“Red Jamie” (Seaumais ruaid, in Gaidhlig: pronounced [roughly] as “Jamie Roy”). See “James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.” [Voyager]

  Madame Jeanne—French Madame of an Edinburgh brothel, partner and customer of “Jamie Roy” in the brandy-smuggling business. [Voyager]

  Jeffries—Irish coachman, employed by Lord Dunsany; present when Jamie shot Lord Ellesmere. [Voyager]

  Jenkins—English soldier who searches Lallybroch following Young Ian’s birth, when the attention of the English is drawn by pistol shots. [Voyager]

  Jenny (Janet) Fraser Murray—see under “M.”

  Joan (MacKimmie)—Laoghaire’s younger daughter by Simon MacKimmie. [Voyager]

  Jocky—Young Ian’s dog at Lallybroch. [Voyager]

  Annekje Johansen—goat-keeper on board the Porpoise, who helps both Claire and then Jamie to escape from the ship. [Voyager]

  Erik Johansen—gunner on the Porpoise, Annekje’s husband. [Voyager]

  John—one of Colum’s attendants at Castle Leoch. [Outlander]

  Johnson—Sir Percival Turner’s aide. [Voyager]

  Josephine—Jared Fraser’s parlormaid. [Voyager]

  Josh—Jocasta Cameron’s groom; a slave born in North Carolina, but speaking both Gaelic and Scots-accented English, as a result of having been born on a plantation owned by a man from Aberdeen. [Drums]

  Judas—Claire’s horse, who tosses her off a ledge during a thunderstorm, leaving her exposed to the elements and to Indian ghosts. [Drums]

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  Kennyanisi-t’ago (m)—a war chief of the Mohawk, converted by Father Ferigault. [Drums]

  Duncan Kerr—a MacKenzie clansman, found wandering near Ardsmuir, sea-soaked and demented, babbling of white witches and hidden gold. [Voyager]

  Amyas Kettrick (m)—neighbor who tells Jenny of Hobart MacKenzie’s impending arrival to deal with the matter of his sister’s honor. Years later, he sees Brianna riding toward Lallybroch at a distance, and mistaking her for her father, tells Laoghaire MacKenzie (Fraser) that Jamie
Fraser has returned. [Voyager, Drums]

  †Lord Kilmarnock—one of the Jacobite earls; later executed for treason. [Dragonfly]

  †John, Master of Kilmarnock—Lord Kilmarnock’s young son and heir, who had tormented Fergus; later killed on the field at Culloden. [Dragonfly]

  Alexander Kincaid—one of Jamie Fraser’s tenants from Lallybroch, who dies of wounds sustained in the Battle of Prestonpans. [Outlander]