MacIndeor

The MacIndeor (Dewar) Sept of the Clan Buchanan.

McIndeor, MacAndeoir, MacIndeoir, MacKindwar, MacIndoe, McIndewar, McAndeoir, McIndeoir, McKindwar, McIndoe, McIndewar, Dewar, Dewars.

This is a Gaelic name which may we interpreted to mean “son of the Dewar”.  Buchanan of Auchmar says this this name was given to a Buchanan who accompanied the laird Walter of Buchanan’s daughter to Argyle when she married Campbell of Ardkinglass during the reign of James III. 

Due to the fact that there were no other Buchanans in the territory, this man was called deoradh, which is Gaelic for “alien”, consequently his posterity were called the MacAndeoirs, or the “sons of the sojourner or pilgrim or alien”. 

Black tends to question this and suggests that the name could come from the Gaelic MacIainduihb, “son of the black John”.  It is of interest to note that the M’Indeors or Dewars of Islay often called themselves MacArthurs.