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†Mr. Urmstone—a circuit-riding preacher, famous for his outdoor sermons preached on the Bluffs, near Cross Creek. [Drums]
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Mr. Villiers (m)—a Barbados planter. [Voyager]
Jacques Vincennes (m)—friend of Marie d’Arbanvilles, who sees Jamie meet with Jack Randall in a brothel. [Dragonfly]
Madame Vionnet—Jared’s cook at the house in the Rue Tremoulins. [Dragonfly]
Hanneke Viorst—sister of Hans Viorst; she offers temporary shelter and food to Brianna and Lizzie in Cross Creek. [Drums]
Hans Viorst—a resident of Cross Creek, who makes a living by transporting passengers and cargo by canoe on the Cape Fear River between Cross Creek and Wilmington. He agrees to carry Brianna and Lizzie upriver to Cross Creek, and takes them home with him when Lizzie falls ill en route. [Drums]
M. Voleru—an amateur medico who offers his services at L’Hôpital des Anges. [Dragonfly]
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Wakatihsnore (“Acts Fast”)—sachem of the Mohawk village where Roger is held captive. [Drums]
Reverend Reginald Wakefield—a Presbyterian minister, friend of Frank Randall. An amateur historian with a preference for the eighteenth century and the instincts of a pack rat, he is great-uncle and adoptive father to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield. [Outlander]
Roger Jeremiah MacKenzie Wakefield (aka Roger MacKenzie)—the Reverend Wakefield’s great-nephew, adopted by the Reverend following the death of Roger’s parents in World War II. Agreeing to help Claire discover the fate of the Highlanders from Broch Tuarach, he finds himself falling in love with Brianna Randall, and being ever more deeply enmeshed in the Randalls’ affairs. [All]
Wakyo’teyehsnonhsa (aka “Emily”)— “Works with her hands”; the Mohawk girl with whom Ian Murray falls in love, and whom he eventually marries. [Drums]
Wallace—Lord Melton’s aide. [Voyager]
Mr. Ambrose Wallace—an Edinburgh lawyer; a passenger in the coach taking Claire to Edinburgh to look for Jamie. [Voyager]
Wally (m)—Jamie’s employee/accomplice; drives a wagon filled with decoy casks, as part of a brandy-smuggling scheme. [Voyager]
Walmisley—butler at Bellhurst (Duke of Sandringham’s estate). [Dragonfly]
†Antoine Walsh (m)—a slave trader; one of the companions who landed with Charles Stuart at Glenfinnan, having supplied the prince with a ship. [Dragonfly]
Wan-Mei—second wife of the Chinese Emperor, who wished to take Yi Tien Cho into her household—forcing him to choose between exile and emasculation. [Voyager]
Mr. Warren—sailing master of the Artemis. [Voyager]
Elizabeth Wemyss—known as Lizzie. The daughter of Joseph Wemyss, sold as an indentured servant to Brianna Fraser. Accompanying her mistress to the New World, she falls sick of malaria upon their arrival, detaining them in Wilmington. Drawing conclusions from a meeting between Brianna and Roger, she later informs Jamie Fraser that Roger is a rapist, and the father of Brianna’s impending child. [Drums]
Joseph Wemyss—a failed shopkeeper from Inverness, forced to sell himself and his daughter Elizabeth as indentured servants. Fearing that Lizzie’s contract will be bought by a man who intends to misuse her, he begs Brianna to buy her instead. [Drums]
White Raven—the name given to Claire by the Tuscarora medicine woman, Nayawenne, the result of a dream. [Drums]
William, Viscount Dunsany, Viscount Ashness, ninth earl of Ellesmere—heir of Lords Ellesmere and Dunsany; illegitimate son of James Fraser and Geneva Dunsany. Assumed by nearly everyone to be the legitimate heir of Geneva’s elderly husband, the eighth Earl. [Voyager, Drums]
†William of Orange (m)—monarch of England; invited to take the throne when the Stuarts were exiled. [Dragonfly]
Judah Williams (m)—proprietor of Twelve-trees plantation, on Jamaica, later burned during a slave revolt. [Voyager]
Marcelline Williams—a woman who befriends Claire at the Governor’s reception in Kingston; sister of Judah Williams, of Twelvetrees. [Voyager]
Mary Walker Willis17 (m)—a woman found dead