Characters / Outlander Jamie And Claires Family

This is a listing for characters in Jamie and Claire's family in Outlander.

For the main character index, see here.

The Murrays of Lallybroch

Ian Murray (Elder Ian)

Ian Murray (Elder Ian)

Jamie's closest friend, and like a brother to him. He is married to Jenny, Jamie's sister.

• Babies Ever After: Has six children with Jenny.
• Childhood Friends: With Jamie Fraser.
• Happily Married: To Jenny, before his death in Echo.
• Marry for Love: What Ian did with Jenny.
• Non-Action Guy: Was a soldier in his youth in France with Jamie, but was hit in the leg by a cannonball and had to have it amputated below the knee. So obviously, warfare of any kind is now beyond him.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Is this to the people of Lallybroch.

Jenny Fraser Murray

Jenny Fraser Murray

Jamie's sister.

• Action Girl: When her brother is taken by English soldiers and Claire is determined to go and search for him, Jenny — despite having given birth only a few days earlier — straps on a couple of pistols, mounts a horse and tracks the English patrol to their camp in the forest, whereupon she traps a soldier, tortures him into revealing that he's a courier, and enables them to find out where Jamie has gone. She is fully prepared to kill the courier to stop him revealing that they are looking for Jamie, except that Murtagh gets there first. Action Girl indeed.
• Attempted Rape: Was almost raped by Jack Randall on the day Jamie was arrested and sent to Fort William to be flogged.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: With Jamie. Although the two may bicker and fight, in the end, they are still very loyal to one another and would do anything for each other. Special mention goes to the moment in Outlander when Jamie and Claire return to Lallybroch to stay, after fleeing from the witch trial. There is a terrible argument between Jenny and Jamie, because of a mistaken assumption on Jamie's part, but in the end, the two reconcile and have a heartwarming sibling-bonding moment together.
• Babies Ever After: Jenny has six children with Ian.
• Big Sister Instinct: She promised her mother on her deathbed that she would always look after Jamie, and God help you if you try to harm him.

• Convenient Miscarriage: Sometime during the famine that comes after Culloden, Jenny miscarries a baby girl. Though it's not treated as convenient.

• Deadpan Snarker: Has her moments.

• Fire-Forged Friends: Jenny and Claire.
• Happily Married: To Ian Murray, until his death in Echo.
• Marry for Love: What Jenny did with Ian.
• The Medic: Treated Jamie's leg and brought him past his fever after Culloden.

• Parental Substitute: For Fergus, who she raised as one of her own children after the battle of Culloden.
• Plucky Girl: Has a very stubborn and determined streak.
• Promotion to Parent: Her mother died in childbirth when Jenny was ten years old, forcing her to become the unofficial Lady of Lallybroch and perform all the duties her mother had when she was alive. It's also revealed in Outlander that she helped Brian raise Jamie to adulthood. Even when they are both grown up, Jenny still acts like a mother toward Jamie in many ways.

• Starting a New Life: After Ian's death Jenny returns with Jamie to America, claiming that she cannot bear to stay in Lallybroch due to the memories of Ian that linger there. Jamie also notes later to Claire that it was also likely that Jenny left to avoid clashing with Young Jamie's wife, who has now become the new Lady of Lallybroch and has taken over the household duties Jenny once had.

James Murray (Young Jamie)

James Murray (Young Jamie)

Michael Murray

Michael Murray

A son of Ian and Jenny, and a wine merchant in Jared Fraser's business in France.

• Heroic BSoD: Is very depressed and lonely after the recent death of his much-loved wife.
• The Lost Lenore: His deceased wife is this for him.
• Nice Guy: He is very nice and understanding, with an open-minded and considerate nature.
• Second Love: Joan is this for him.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He is said to be much like Colum MacKenzie.

Ian Murray (Young Ian)

Ian Murray (Young Ian)

Jamie's nephew, he is the youngest son of Jenny and Ian. He is first introduced in Voyager.

• Much later, Ian remains with the Indians to replace the Indian who was killed and ends up marrying an Indian woman, Emily. At first they are very much in love, but then when Emily falls pregnant she miscarries the child. Emily's love for Ian begins to lessen, and after the third miscarriage, Emily kicks Ian out of her home completely, effectively ending their marriage. Ian is left alone, heartbroken and guilt-ridden because he believes (as the Indians did) that the miscarriages were his fault.

• Accidental Murder: At the beginning of Echo, during a chase through Fraser's Ridge Ian accidentally shoots Murdina Bug, killing her. Unfortunately for him, though he never gets in trouble for it by local authorities, he ends up earning the rage of Murdina's husband Arch Bug, who swears to revenge himself on him by taking away what (or whom) Ian loves the most.
• Babies Ever After: Has a baby near the end of MOBY, which the Fraser's Ridge clan collectively nicknames Oggy.
• Canine Companion: He has a faithful dog called Rollo who follows him everywhere.
• Converting for Love: Talked about in-story, but averted. Ian and Rachel accept that though Ian would be willing to become a Quaker if it meant being with Rachel, he does not have the right personality for that sort of way of life. And as Ian says, Rachel would not want him to try to be something that he is not.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He was abducted by pirates while trying to swim for the seal's gold, and ended up as a sex slave to Geillis Abernathy. During this time he was sexually abused by Geillis who was searching for a way to travel back through the stones to the 20th century, and in the end was almost used as a blood sacrifice in Geillis's attempt to time-travel. It's a wonder that he's not more traumatized by it all.

• The Exile: Ian is abducted and taken away from Scotland by pirates, who sell him as a slave to Geillis Abernathy. He is eventually rescued by Jamie and Claire and settles with them in North Carolina. He doesn't return to Scotland for over a decade.
  • After Ian chooses to remain with the Indians, he sacrifices all his former cultural and familial connections, thus making him an exile again. Though he does later return to his old life.
• Facial Markings: He has markings on his face from his time with the Indians.
• Family of Choice: Though he remembers his parents and siblings fondly and does love them very much, he chooses to stay with Jamie and Claire and their close-knit group of friends/family. Later books make it evident that Jamie is like a father to Ian, just as Claire is like a second mother to him. He also views Bree and Roger as a close part of his family (though he develops a crush on Bree when she first comes to the 18th century).
• Fire-Forged Friends: Ian and William... sort of. After their talk about Rachel while on their way to the house Claire is staying at, they appear to be much more at ease with one another and less antagonistic.
• In-Series Nickname: Others in his family call him Young Ian, to distinguish him from his father, who is also called Ian.
• It's All My Fault: For a long time Ian blames himself for the miscarriages Emily went through which ultimately resulted in the end of their marriage, as it was a part of the Indians' beliefs that a miscarriage was caused by the woman's husband and meant that they were not meant to be together. It didn't help that Emily left him for another man for this very reason. It also doesn't help that Claire affirms that the miscarriages were caused because of incompatible blood types, which Ian takes to mean that it was his fault on one level. However, Claire is quick to tell him that it was something beyond his control and that he shouldn't beat himself up over it.
• Long-Distance Relationship: For a time, when Ian travels with Claire and Jamie to Scotland to see his family. He and Rachel are already a couple, though they haven't made it official yet, though one could see his leaving Rollo in her care as telling her how he feels about her. Though they don't communicate at all during this period, mainly because of how long it takes for a letter to get from America to Scotland and vice versa. In any case, Ian is quick to return to America to be with Rachel again (and is even encouraged to do so by his dying father).
• Made a Slave: He was abducted by pirates and sold as a slave to Geillis Abernathy in Rose Hall. He was eventually rescued from it by Jamie and Claire.
• Marry for Love: What he does with Rachel in MOBY.
• Non-Human Sidekick: He is constantly followed by his devoted wolf-dog Rollo.
• Parental Substitute: Jamie and Claire are this for him after they settle in the New World. Justified, since Ian is separated from his own parents and likely never to see them again (except for the occasional visit) for years at a time.
• Rape as Drama: Was forced multiple times into sleeping with Geillis Duncan Abernathy during his tenure as her slave.
• Second Love: With Rachel (his first being Works With Her Hands).
• Sex Slave: His role as a slave in Rose Hall.
• Tattoo as Character Type: After he returns from his stay with the Indians, those tattoos on his face practically scream that he is someone not to be messed with.
• Took a Level in Badass: After returning from the Indians.
• Troubled, but Cute: Becomes this after his return from the Indians. Though he is very attractive, he is haunted by his memories of Works With Her Hands (aka Emily) and the unfortunate events that sent their relationship rolling downhill.

The MacKenzies

Roger Wakefield MacKenzie

Roger Wakefield MacKenzie

A young historian who is first introduced in Dragonfly in Amber. He develops feelings for Claire's daughter Brianna and eventually marries her.

• Action Dad: During his stay in the past he becomes quite the fighter, and participates in Claire's (and later Brianna's) rescue in Breath.
  • He also goes back into the past to search for Jem at the end of Echo.
• Babies Ever After: Roger and Brianna have two children in later books, Jem and Amanda.
• Badass Preacher: Becomes an unofficial minister in Breath to the Protestant settlers on Fraser's Ridge. He attempts to become officially ordained at one point, but after hearing of Bree's abduction chooses instead to leave and help rescue her from Bonnet.
• Beta Couple: Roger and Brianna, alongside Marsali and Fergus.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Roger is usually a friendly, mild-mannered man, but if one gets on his bad side then he can become really fearsome. When Henri-Christian is attacked by ignorant boys in Breath, he is truly enraged, and gives them all a lecture about it which they won't forget in a hurry, and which Jamie (who witnessed it) jokes would have scared him. The flip side of this is that he isn't good at "faking" being angry; Jamie notes at one point that Roger is too calm to make people fear him "save he's truly roused."
• Big Damn Heroes: Is a part of the rescue raid in Breath to free Claire from her captors (who abducted her to get at Jamie), and even beats on the Scottish jungle drums himself, which alerts Claire to the Ridge men's approach.
• Body Horror: Roger is mistakenly hanged in The Fiery Cross which results in a scarred throat for him.

• Compelling Voice: After he begins preaching as a minister, Roger's voice (when he puts his mind to it) is one of the most compelling in the series, despite his damaged throat. It is enough to frighten miscreants into good behaviour, and still entire crowds of people. Claire in Breath narrates that if Roger had been present when the angry mob came for herself and Jamie, then he may have been able to pacify the people before they did them true harm.
  • Has another moment of this in Breath, when he sees a group of boys on the Ridge attempt to drown Henri-Christian because of his dwarfism. He yells at them to stop, which they do, and berates them for trying to kill an innocent baby and quotes evidence from the Bible about the wrongness of what they are doing. By the end of it, the boys are penitent and terrified, and vow never to do such a thing again.
• Converting for Love: Roger is willing to do this to marry Brianna, since Jamie insists on Roger and Brianna being wed by a Catholic priest. However, this is ultimately subverted as the priest is delayed and Bree and Roger take things into their own hands by convincing a Protestant minister to marry them instead (much to Jamie's disapproval).
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: His father was killed fighting an aerial battle over the English Channel, and his mother was killed during the Blitz.
• Determinator: After choosing to stay with Brianna in the 18th century, he strives to mend the relationship between himself and Bree, and does whatever it takes to prove to her that he loves her and wants to marry her and be a father to Jemmy out of love and not duty.
  • In MOBY he refuses to give up searching for Jem in 1739 until he's found him and safely brought him home.
• Former Teen Rebel: Recounts to Bree that growing up as "the minister's son" made him think he had to 'prove' he could be just as delinquent as his friends (though since this is Scotland in the 1950s, the extent of their antics was tipping over garbage bins, cutting class, and smoking.)

• Happily Married: to Brianna, after the events of The Fiery Cross.
• I Choose to Stay: By the end of The Fiery Cross, Bree and Roger have chosen to remain with Jamie and Claire in the 18th century and not return to their own time.
  • Subverted at the end of Breath, though, when they do end up returning to their own time to take care of Mandy's heart condition.
• I Have Many Names: Roger Wakefield, Roger MacKenzie, MacKenzie, Roger Mac.
• Long-Distance Relationship: With Brianna, before and for a time during their stay in the 18th century.
• Manly Tears: Is said by Jem to have been weeping after emerging from the Ocracoke stones into the 1980s. In MOBY he breaks down into tears when he is unexpectedly reunited with Jem and Mandy outside Lallybroch in 1739.
• Marry for Love: What he does with Brianna.
• Meanwhile, in the Future…: The chapters focusing on Bree and Roger when they are in 1980s Scotland become this trope.
• Near-Death Experience: Roger is mistakenly hanged in The Fiery Cross and would have died if Claire had not performed an emergency operation on him.
• Papa Wolf: Though Roger is one of the more reasonable and pacific characters in the series, he can be extremely fierce when his children are threatened.
  • In Echo, when he discovers that Jem has been wrongly punished by a teacher at school for speaking Gaelic in class, he is furious, and goes straight to the school to let the principal know just what he thinks about it. Though he manages to settle the matter without any further conflict, he is determined to support Jem no matter what and makes sure that the principal speaks to the teacher about what she did to Jem.
• Parental Substitute: Rev. Reginald Wakefield was one to him, as his own parents had died when he was very young.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Becomes this to the Protestants (and also others) on the Ridge after he begins preaching as a minister.

• Sympathy for the Devil: In MOBY, during his sojourn in 1739 Roger encounters Jack Randall in Fort William, and is surprised by how friendly and human he looks, knowing from Claire what he would eventually do to Jamie and Lallybroch. Rather than hate the man for what he will become, Roger feels sorry for him, and offers to give him a minister's blessing, so that he may have a chance of finding heaven after his death.
• Tranquil Fury: When Gerald Forbes engineers Brianna's kidnapping, Roger doesn't hesitate to let Forbes know what a dangerous game he's playing, with Forbes noting that Roger's angry gaze is "like a snake's".
• Trapped in the Past: Chooses to stay in the past because Brianna cannot return to the 20th century with him. He would rather stay with her and raise Jem rather than go back alone.

Brianna Randall Fraser MacKenzie

Brianna Randall Fraser MacKenzie

Claire and Jamie's daughter.

• Action Girl: Is a crack shot with modern and eighteenth-century firearms, attacks a bison with an ax, beats a potential rapist into unconsciousness while half-naked, and just in general is not a woman you want to piss off.
• Action Mom: In MOBY she manages to crown a potential rapist with a pair of denim jeans while only wearing a T-shirt and underwear.
  • While going through the stones at Ocracoke to reach Jamie and Claire, Brianna realises that her heart had stopped beating and feared that she was dead. She is revived, but is left with a damaged heartbeat that will likely plague her for the rest of her life.
• Attempted Rape: Rob Cameron tries to rape her in MOBY after he breaks into Lallybroch to tell her that he has Jemmy. He gets as far as making her take off her pants before Bree fights back.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Frequently with Jamie. Also later on with William in Bees.
• Babies Ever After: She and Roger have two children, Jem and Amanda.
• Beta Couple: Alongside Fergus and Marsali.

• Break the Cutie: Is shocked into near-catatonia when she sees Roger has been hanged in TFC (he's still alive, if barely, but she doesn't know that at the time).
• Broken Pedestal: Her view of Jamie is shattered when she discovers that he beat up the man she loved and sold him into slavery with the Iroquois.
  • Rebuilt Pedestal: She eventually accepts that Jamie isn't perfect and with Lord John's help, is able to forgive him for what he did.
• Character Development: In her first appearance, she's a smart, but somewhat naiive nineteen year old college student, who steadfastly refuses to believe her mother's outlandish stories about time travel and the truth of her sireage. Eventually, she accepts the truth, graduates MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering, and joins her mother in the eighteenth century, where she not only uses her technical knowledge to make several quality of life improvements, but teaches school (briefly, she doesn't enjoy it), temporarily fills in as factor of Fraser's Ridge when Jamie is ill and Arch absent, while also being a devoted wife and mother.
• Daddy's Girl: She adored Frank, even though he was not her biological father, and called him 'daddy'. She is quick to defend him and say that he was her father as much as Jamie is, and knows that she will always love and remember him.
• Damsel in Distress: Gets hit with this on a few occasions, most notably when kidnapped by Stephen Bonnet.
• Damsel out of Distress: As the daughter of Jamie and Claire, this is a given. Bree is headstrong, courageous, and always tries to think her way out of a difficult situation. Notable examples include her attempts to escape from Bonnet near the end of Breath (and her convincing the prostitute to alert Jamie and Roger to where she is headed and how), and her confrontation with Rob Cameron at the beginning of MOBY.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has a notably dry wit that she doesn't hesitate to use.
• Determinator/Plucky Girl: She never seems to give up or lose hope. In A Breath of Snow and Ashes, when she is being held captive by Stephen Bonnet she attempts to convince a prostitute that Bonnet had hired to please him to help her escape. When that fails, she trades in her much-loved wedding ring to the girl to get her to send a message to Jamie, Roger or Jocasta to tell them the ship's next stop. She even promises that Jamie would pay the prostitute well for her trouble. This, in addition to Eppy's relationship with Manfred Mc Gillisvray helps her family to locate and rescue her and apprehend Bonnet.
• Fiery Redhead: Brianna has red hair, and also has inherited the fierce temper which all Frasers seem to have.

• Happily Married: To Roger Wakefield MacKenzie.
• Hot-Blooded: Being a Fraser, when she loses her temper, she loses her temper. When she and Jamie have a screaming argument over Roger's fate in Drums of Autumn, one of the things she says to him is that she would gladly see him burning in Hell and sell her soul to the devil if she could have Frank back as her father, because he would have believed her story without hesitation, unlike Jamie.
• I Choose to Stay: By the end of The Fiery Cross, Bree and Roger have chosen to remain with Jamie and Claire in the 18th century and not return to their own time. Subverted when Bree and her family return to the present time to take care of Mandy's heart condition.
• In-Series Nickname: 'Bree', by her mother, her husband and her friends in the 20th century.
• Long-Distance Relationship: With Roger, before and for a time during their stay in the 18th century.
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Two days after making love to Roger in an inn in the Colonies, Brianna is raped by Stephen Bonnet and finds herself pregnant soon after. The problem is, having slept with both Bonnet and Roger within two days of one another, it is nigh on impossible to tell which man is the baby's father, though it's later cleared up by a congenital birthmark that Roger and Jem share.
• Mama Bear: To Jemmy and Mandy.
• Marry for Love: What she does with Roger.
• Meanwhile, in the Future…: The chapters focusing on Bree and Roger when they are in 1980s Scotland become this trope.
• Nice Girl: She is as kind and warm-hearted and generous as Claire, but is enough like Jamie that she isn't as prone to putting trust in the wrong people, especially after her rape.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If she had actually Jamie that Roger was also known as 'MacKenzie' or even described him, then Jamie would never have mistaken him for Brianna's rapist, beat him up and sold him to the Iroquois. Not to say that there weren't other factors involved in making the whole mess, but Brianna's was a major one.
• Parental Abandonment: Her adoptive father Frank was killed in a car accident, while her mother leaves her two years later to go through the stones and reunite with Jamie Fraser, her mother's one true love and Brianna's biological father. Although Brianna accepts her mother's choice and blesses her trip through the stones, it is revealed much later that she does feel abandoned by her.
• Pride: Has this in bucketloads. She gets it from Jamie.
• Rape as Drama: She is raped by Stephen Bonnet, a convicted criminal who Jamie allowed to escape a few years before out of a sense of compassion and empathy. It's something which Jamie never really forgives himself for.

• Statuesque Stunner: Brianna is just over six feet tall, and described as very beautiful.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Resembles Jamie down to her flaming red hair, slanted Fraser eyes and tall, majestic figure.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Ends up doling out a Mercy Kill to Stephen Bonnet (the man who raped her and nearly sold her into slavery) to save him from his greatest fear, death by drowning.

• Trapped in the Past: After she gives birth to her child she is essentially trapped in the 18th century, as she's unwilling to risk a baby journeying through the stones. Brianna would never choose to go back and leave behind a child of her blood. Becomes subverted when she, Roger and their children are forced to go back to the 20th century to take care of Mandy's heart condition.

Jeremiah "Jem" MacKenzie

Jeremiah Fraser MacKenzie (Jem)

Son of Brianna and Roger.

• Hot-Blooded: Can be very quick to anger if his family are endangered.
• In the Blood: Has the ability to time-travel like his sister, parents, and grandmother. He and Mandy also have some kind of psychic power that the others don't.
• Psychic Link: Shares one with his sister Mandy.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Prefers to swear in Gaelic, which doesn't really have any 'naughty' words, instead focusing on inventive forms of insult.
• Strong Family Resemblance: To his mother Brianna and his grandfather Jamie.

Amanda Claire Hope MacKenzie

Amanda Hope Fraser MacKenzie

Daughter of Brianna and Roger, and younger sister to Jem.

• Cheerful Child: Is a very cheerful, happy little girl.
• In the Blood: Has the ability to time-travel like her brother, parents, and grandmother. She and Jem also share some kind of psychic power that the others don't.
• Psychic Link: Is linked mentally to her brother Jem.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Inherits both Roger's black hair and the tendency of Claire's for it to curl.

The Frasers

Fergus Claudel Fraser

Fergus Claudel Fraser

A young Frenchman whom Jamie found in a brothel in Paris and eventually adopted in 1744.

• Age-Gap Romance: With Marsali — he is ten years older than she.
• Babies Ever After: Fergus and Marsali have many children together, two of which are Germain and Henri-Christian.
• Body Horror: He is branded by Jack Randall in Paris.
• Cheerful Child: As a child in Paris he is surprisingly cheerful, given his past history of being raised in a brothel and living on the streets without parents to care for him.
• Child Soldier: He fought at Prestonpans, age 10.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: His mother is dead; his father is unknown.
• Disappeared Dad: His father has not been seen or identified in the series yet; not even Fergus himself knows who he is.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Jamie and Claire during their stay in Paris.

• Handicapped Badass: Though he has a hook in place of one hand, he's still a damn good fighter.
• Happily Adopted: Is unofficially adopted by Jamie and Claire Fraser during their stay in Paris, and ends up accompanying them back to Scotland.
• Happily Married: To Marsali, after the events of Voyager.
• Hook Hand: After losing his hand it is replaced by a hook.
• Interrupted Suicide: After hearing of the near-murder of Henri-Christian Fergus breaks down and attempts to kill himself by cutting the veins of his wrist. Jamie comes by just in time to stop him.
• Marry for Love: He elopes with and marries Marsali for love.
• Mr. Fanservice: Is noted to be quite handsome, with classically French features, thick dark hair, and a tendency to dress well enough that Jamie jokingly refers to him as a "dandy".
• Parental Substitute: Jamie, Claire and later Jenny are this for him.
• Pride: He hates being unable to properly support his family on Fraser's Ridge and feels that he is not much of a man because of it. This (and the near-murder of Henri-Christian) results in his attempted suicide. Once they move to the city and he takes up printing, he becomes very successful at it.
• Rape as Drama: When he was living on the streets as a child in Paris, sometimes while taking shelter in the brothel he would sometimes be mistaken for one of the prostitutes and chosen by certain customers of the brothel to 'please' them. In Dragonfly in Amber, he is similarly raped by Jack Randall, who (probably) mistook him for one of the prostitutes of the brothel. This is the event which sends Jamie over the edge and causes him to break his vow to Claire to not duel Randall until after the birth of Randall's child.
• Son of a Whore: His mother was allegedly a prostitute in a brothel in Paris. Fergus comments to Claire in Dragonfly in Amber that he would often take shelter in the brothel where he was born and imagine which one of the ladies is his mother.
• Starting a New Life: Fergus returns with Jamie and Claire to Lallybroch, where he eventually settles in and becomes like a son to Jenny, who raises him alongside her own children. After Claire's return in 1766, he accompanies Jamie and Claire on their quest to the New World to rescue Young Ian from the pirates who have abducted him and eventually makes a life for himself as a printer in the American Colonies.
• Street Urchin: Before being adopted by Jamie, Fergus spent his childhood in the streets, occasionally taking shelter in a brothel, and took to thieving to survive.

• Undying Loyalty: To Jamie Fraser.

Marsali MacKimmie Fraser

Marsali MacKimmie Fraser

Laoghaire's eldest daughter and Jamie's stepdaughter. She falls in love with Fergus and thus travels to the New World with Claire, Jamie and Fergus so that she can marry him.

• Action Mom: When a man assaults her and her infant son in Drums of Autumn, she kicks him in the face, knocking out one of his teeth.
• Age-Gap Romance: With Fergus — he is fifteen years older than she is.
• Babies Ever After: Has many children with Fergus.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Claire.
• Happily Married: To Fergus, after the events of Voyager.
• Parental Substitute: She and Claire initially do not get along at all, though this is more from Marsali believing her mother's complaints about Claire. Once they get to know each other, she quickly comes to consider Claire as a maternal figure, even referring to her as "Mother Claire".
• Pregnant Badass: When a group of brigands attempt to rob the Fraser's Ridge malting shed and threaten Claire, Marsali goes after one of them with an ax, despite being big-belly pregnant.

Germain Fraser

Other Relatives

Brian Fraser

Brian Fraser

Jamie and Jenny's father and Ellen's husband. Called 'Black Brian'.

• Black Sheep: He has cut ties with Clan Fraser after eloping with Ellen, and even beforehand his relationship with the Frasers at Beauly was strained.
• Good Parents: Brian is seen to care very much for Jamie and Jenny, and does his best to raise them well.
• Happily Married: To Ellen before her Death by Childbirth.
• In-Series Nickname: Is called Brian Dubh, or 'Black Brian', among his friends and others who know him.
• Love at First Sight: Decides to elope with Ellen MacKenzie not even a day after having first met her.
• Manly Tears: Cries when he sees what he thinks are the ghosts of Ellen and his baby son (who are really Brianna and her son Jem) while visiting Ellen's grave.
• Marry for Love: Chose to do this with Ellen.
• Nice Guy: Despite his rather ominous-sounding nickname, he is actually quite kind and understanding. Once he realises that Roger isn't a threat to his family, he is very warm and friendly towards him and willingly assists him in locating Jem.
• Posthumous Character: Zigzagged. He was deceased during the events of Outlander, but as a result of Roger and Buck travelling too far back in MOBY to search for Jem, he makes a surprise appearance in the series, and ends up helping them in their quest to find Jem.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Is this for the people of Lallybroch. He is perfectly willing to help Roger search for his missing son, but only as long as it doesn't put his own people in danger.

Ellen MacKenzie Fraser

Ellen MacKenzie Fraser

Jamie and Jenny's mother, Brian Fraser's wife, and sister to the MacKenzie brothers. She eloped with Brian long ago in defiance of Colum's wishes and chose to wed him.

• Death by Childbirth: She died from childbed fever not long after giving birth to a son (who also died).
• Fiery Redhead: She is red-headed like most of Clan MacKenzie and has a feisty and strong-minded personality.
• Good Parents: Both she and Brian were this for Jamie and Jenny.
• Happily Married: To Brian before her death.
• The Lost Lenore: Is this for Brian. Even ten years later he still hasn't gotten over losing her.
  • Also is this for Murtagh and MacRannoch, who were both in love with her but lost her to Brian. Murtagh is particular never stops mourning and loving her and swears to protect her children with his life.
• Marry for Love: Her marriage to Brian is this.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Her and Brian's eldest child Willie died of smallpox at age eleven. Ellen died a few years later.
• Posthumous Character: She was dead before the beginning of the series. The only information we get about her is through other characters' memories of her.
• Rebellious Spirit: While her brothers were choosing a good marriage for her (as was the norm of the time), she decided to choose one herself. This led to her going behind their backs to elope with Brian.

Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser

Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser

Jamie's godfather. He is extremely loyal to Jamie, and had sworn an oath at Jamie's birth to protect and look after him. It is also possible that he had been in love with Jamie's mother, Ellen MacKenzie. Murtagh is dour and rarely smiles, though he can sing very well.

• Big Damn Heroes: Aids Claire in breaking Jaime out of Wentworth Prison in Outlander.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Chooses to stay by Jamie's side to fight during the battle of Culloden, despite knowing that it may mean his death. It's possible (and implied) that he may have been killed in an attempt to save Jamie's life.
• Hero of Another Story: He is the main POV character in The Exile, while being a minor supporting character in the main Outlander books. It turns out that he foiled an assassination attempt on Jamie's life when Jamie was with Claire at Craigh na Dun, killing the one responsible.
• Undying Loyalty: To Jamie.
• Unrequited Love: For Ellen, Jamie's mother. Because of his love for Ellen, he swore never to marry another and spend his life protecting Ellen's children.

William "Willie" Fraser

William 'Willie' Fraser

Eldest son of Brian and Ellen. He died of smallpox at age eleven.

Joan MacKimmie

Joan MacKimmie

Youngest daughter of Laoghaire by her second husband, and sister of Marsali. Possesses seer-like abilities that frighten her and influence her into leaving Scotland for the life of a nun in France. However, once she arrives, she realises that nothing is what it seems.

• Seers: Sees visions or shadows of those who are fated to die.
• Taking the Veil: Has a vocation as a nun.

Colum MacKenzie

Colum ban Campbell MacKenzie

The Laird of the MacKenzie Clan, and also Jamie's uncle on his mother's side. Often called 'The MacKenzie', he is ruthless, sly, charming, and cunning. Colum has Toulouse-Lautrec Syndrome, causing him to have bent, misshapen legs which barely hold up his body. Despite his disability, Colum is the true laird of the MacKenzies, with his excellent showmanship skills and a good eye for strategy.

• Affably Evil: Though he can be very calculating and cold, he rarely shows this in public and instead, acts charismatic and friendly — except when he is in a temper. He always shows a good face to everyone, even his enemies.
• Arranged Marriage: To his wife Letitia.
• Badass Bookworm: He is very well-read and educated, and he is badass in his own way.
• Berserk Button: He does not like having his orders disobeyed. This is especially apparent in the TV series. When Jamie goes to see the Duke of Sandringham about pardoning him for his crimes, he is provoked into fighting with some MacDonald clansmen (who are enemies of the MacKenzies) and ends up spilling their blood. Colum is furious, as it means that he may have to deal with another blood feud in the making, and punishes Jamie for it by exiling him to Dougal's estate alongside Dougal himself.
  • Also hates anyone treating him differently because of his illness and his stunted legs. In the TV series, he snaps at the tailor at Leoch who had made him a coat with tails that hid his legs and forces the man to make a new one with tails of the normal length.
• Brains and Brawn: Is the brain to Dougal's brawn. While Dougal can be cunning if he wants to be, it's made clear that Colum is the most cunning and pragmatic of the two, hence the reason he leads the clan.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has a moment of this in the TV series.
• Handicapped Badass: His legs may be stumped, but he is not someone you should fool around with.
• Happily Married: To Letitia.
• The Leader: Of the MacKenzie clan.
• Pride: Is seen to be very proud, especially when it comes to his appearance. Special mention goes to the scene in the TV series episode "The Way Out", in which Colum calmly and quietly rebukes a tailor for fashioning a coat that is designed to hide his legs.
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• Refusal of the Call: He refuses to send the clan to fight in the Uprising, as he doesn't support Charles Stuart and doesn't feel that it would benefit the MacKenzies. Dougal isn't happy about this.
• Tranquil Fury: Is just as likely to resort to this as he is to full-blown shouting.

William Ransom

William Ransom

Jamie's illegitimate son, conceived the night Jamie was forced to sleep with Geneva Dunsay. Lord John is his stepfather and cares for him deeply.

• Big Damn Heroes: He saves Rachel twice from being murdered by Axe-Crazy Arch Bug at the end of Echo. The first time, he hadn't much choice about it, since Mr Bug had caved his head with an axe and meant to kill him. The second time he came upon her, Ian and Arch as Arch was about to attack them both with his axe. William promptly shot him dead with his pistol.

• Deceased Parents Are the Best: William's mother Geneva died in childbirth. Ellesmere, the man William believes (at least until the end of Echo) is his biological father, is killed by his actual biological father Jamie Fraser, who saves a newborn William from Ellesmere. Jamie shoots Ellesmere to prevent Ellesmere from throwing baby William out the window.
• Declaration of Protection: William takes two prostitutes into his care and later resolves to keep them safe until they can start a new life in a new city.
• Determinator: He's dead-set on seeing Fanny and Jane to safety, even after discovering the reason the sisters are on the run.
• Hot-Blooded: Very much so, like his father.
• Honor Before Reason: Upon learning the truth of his heritage, William wants to renounce his peerage. Although he has a legal right to his title, William considers it dishonest to continue to pretend to be of noble English birth when he's actually the bastard son of a convicted Jacobite traitor. Everyone around him tries to dissuade him since English law legally entitles him to his titles and land regardless of his biological paternity, but William still gives up his army commission and dislikes being called by his peerage title.
• I Am Who?: Poor Willie has no clue that he is a bastard or Jamie's son until he realizes his resemblance to Jamie himself at the end of Echo. It does not go over well with him.
• I Gave My Word: He's as fond of this trope as his fathers, Jamie and Lord John, are. Considering he is Jamie's son by nature and Lord John's by nurture, it's not surprising that this is such a strong part of his personality. He's very insistent on delivering Jane and Fanny to a safe place even when they are trying to get away from him, simply because he swore that he'd do so.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be prideful and a bit arrogant, but he has a good heart and is willing to go out of his way to help another person. In MOBY, his sense of honor compels him to take two prostitutes under his wing while in the English Army and see them to a safe place in the north of America.
• Like Brother and Sister: Rachel and William. Though William initially is in love with Rachel and hopes to court her, after Rachel/Ian become an item, this trope comes into effect.
• Love Triangle: There is one between himself, Ian Murray and Rachel Hunter. He loses.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Jamie is revealed as Willie's biological father.

• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
  • With Ian Murray after he is revealed to be William's cousin (and also a rival for Rachel's love). Every time they happen to meet, William is not happy to see him and only works with him when need be because of necessity.
  • In MOBY, William is pulled into seeing Ian safely to where Claire and Jamie are staying while Rachel escorts Jane and Franny to a Quaker settlement around two hours away from where they are now. Needless to say, he has mixed feelings about being with Ian for even a small while. They end up having a deep conversation about Rachel.
  • William is forced to ask Jamie for help in his attempt to help Jane escape custody. While William is clearly very conflicted about asking his biological father for anything, Jamie is more than willing to help, no questions asked, simply because it is important to William.
  • At the very end of Go Tell the Bees, William sets aside his animosity towards Jamie and rides out to the Ridge to ask for his help in finding Lord John.
• Parental Substitute: Both Isobel and Lord John for Willie, who raise him from age six onward. Lord John becomes Willie's primary father-figure and the one Willie recognizes as his father while growing up. Isobel is the sister of Willie's mother, who had died in childbirth. Willie's biological father Jamie is not permitted to publicly claim him as his son but stays at Helwater in order to take an active role in raising Willie. When Willie is six years old, people begin to recognize the strong resemblance between the two and Jamie and Lord John realize it is becoming a risk for Willie. When Jamie must leave Helwater to protect Willie, he asks Lord John to be a father figure to his son, wherein Lord John raises Willie as his own.
• Pride: He has a huge amount of pride, which is sorely tested after he discovers his true parentage.
• Spoiled Brat: A minor example. Because his grandmother and aunt pamper him so much as a child, he receives little discipline and believes he can have his own way with anything. However, while Willie is a small child, his biological father Jamie — though he is not permitted to publicly claim Willie as his son — takes an active role in raising Willie properly, managing to foster an affectionate relationship with his son while rearing him with a firm hand to combat this trope. When Lord John becomes Willie's guardian, Willie likewise receives more discipline than he does from his grandmother and aunt.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Though he lacks the trademark red hair, many characters comment on how much he looks like Jamie, his biological father. It gets to the point where it becomes a Running Gag.
• Unrequited Love: For Rachel Hunter.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Between William and Jane.

Frank Randall

Frank Randall

Claire's first husband, and the adoptive father of Brianna.

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• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: After Claire's disappearance Frank tries to move on with his life but never forgets Claire or falls out of love with her. Claire, however, plays this trope straight in regards to Frank, as after she has spent some time in the 18th century she finds herself falling for Jamie instead and chooses to stay with him as a result.
• Age-Gap Romance: Claire is only eighteen when they first fall in love and marry; Frank himself is in his thirties or forties.
• Affair? Blame the Bastard: Averted. Frank loves Brianna as though she's his own, and indeed prior to Frank's death, Brianna appeared to be closer to Frank than to Claire.
• Bait-and-Switch: All through Outlander, it is believed that Claire is barren as she and Frank fail to produce any children together before their holiday in Inverness. At the very end of the novel, Claire becomes pregnant with Jamie's child, revealing that it is Frank with the fertility issues. Later Frank admits that he took a fertility test during Claire's absence which showed that he was indeed barren.
• Berserk Button: Discovering that Claire has returned pregnant with another man's child while he himself is sterile causes Frank to lash out.

• Derailing Love Interests: Frank's racism, although entirely typical of the time period, is never indicated in the first book, and seems to come out of nowhere to give Claire an excuse to return to Jamie.

• Doesn't Trust Those Guys: Frank displays a large amount of racism towards Claire's African-American friends, the Abernathys, and complains to Claire at one point that he doesn't want to see Brianna marry their son or even dating him.
• Driven to Suicide: The circumstances of his death imply this, as it was after Claire finally told him that she would never love him that he drove away and was killed in a car accident.
• Good Parents: To Brianna, who was a Daddy's Girl
• Happily Married: To Claire, before her disappearance at Craigh na Dun.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Implied to have done this in Voyager, by killing himself in a car crash.

• Hypocrite: In Outlander, he asks whether Claire was having an affair with one of her patients during the war (albeit only to say that, if she were, he would understand and it wouldn't stop him from loving her), and yet he himself is implied to have been involved in romantic affairs as well. In Voyager, it's revealed through flashbacks that he believed that Claire was in a romantic relationship with Joe Abernathy, who was only just a friend to her, and he confronted her about this. However, he was a worse offender than Claire, as he was involved with multiple various women for years during his and Claire's marriage.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Stays close friends with Reverend Reginald Wakefield, who shares his interest in Jacobite history.
• Lipstick Mark: Claire notes that Frank "took pains not to have lipstick on his collar."
• Love Hurts: With Claire after she returns, they are eventually both unhappy in their marriage and putting on a Happy Marriage Charade for Brianna's sake. Also it appears that Frank still loves Claire, but she was unable to feel the same after falling for Jamie.

• Nice Guy: Played with. While Frank is genuinely a good man and friendly to those around him, he also harbors a more vicious side (seen in the mid-season finale).

• Papa Wolf: He cares very deeply for Brianna.

• Secretly Dying: In a letter to the Reverend Wakefield which Roger discovers in the manse, Frank confesses that he is dying from a terminal heart condition. He never tells Claire or Bree about it, for whatever reason, and they only find out when they read his letter in the 18th century.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: He looks eerily like his ancestor Jonathan Randall, so much so that Claire mistakes Randall for Frank when she first arrives in the 18th century. Alex Randall also bears a strong resemblance to him.