The drama is confirmed to be ending with season eight and the penultimate outing is likely to be building toward the grand finale. One question some Outlander fans have is about Roger MacKenzie (played by Richard Rankin) and his mysterious family tree.

Was Roger’s real father a time traveller in Outlander?

Roger got his time travelling powers from his distant ancestor Geillis Duncan (Lotte Verbeek), however, not much is known about the Oxford historian’s family.

In the seventh novel An Echo in the Bone, Claire Fraser (Caitríona Balfe) suggests she may have some information about Roger’s parents.

She didn’t know the specifics but she had reason to suspect the story Roger had been told wasn’t the truth.

As far as Roger was aware, his parents Jeremiah Walter MacKenzie (Jerry) and Marjorie MacKenzie died in during World War II.

Roger MacKenzie was adopted by Reginald Wakefield (Image: STARZ)

Roger MacKenzie thought his parents had died during the war (Image: STARZ)

Roger was told the plane had gone down while flying over the Channel but Claire said these type of crafts weren’t usually used for such long flights until later on in the conflict.

She said the plane was thought to have gone down around Northumbria, which was littered with stone circles but didn’t know exactly where.

But in the inference was Jerry had travelled through time by accident.

To compound this theory, Jerry had been given a sapphire by his wife Marjorie, which he always kept with him as a good luck charm, and would have aided any time travel through the stones.

As fans know, gems in Outlander or blood sacrifices are used to help people traverse through different eras.

Richard Rankin as Roger MacKenzie in Outlander (Image: STARZ)

Also, Outlander author Diana Gabaldon wrote a novella called A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows, which addresses Roger’s parents’ fate.

In the book, Jerry was a Spitfire pilot and he was sent on a secret mission in 1941 by Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies), who was working for MI6 during the war.

This was the same year Roger was born and he was only a couple of months old when Jerry was sent away.

However, Jerry’s aircraft went missing during his mission with the plane was not shot down but was believed to have suffered from engine failure when it crashed.

In 1943, Frank arrived at Marjorie’s home to break the news he and the authorities thought Jerry was dead and presented her with a posthumous medal for his service.

Marjorie was distraught by the news and blamed Frank for Jerry’s death.

By this point, Roger was a couple of years old and later this year as London was struck by bombs, Marjorie took her son to a nearby tube station for safety during an air raid.

Sadly, a bomb struck the station and the ceiling started to collapse around mother and son.

However, in a twist of fate, Jerry had also made it back and was reunited with his family in the same station as it looked like they were about to die.

Marjorie saw Jerry and managed to get baby Roger to her husband before she was killed by falling debris.

Roger ended up getting adopted by his uncle Reverend Reginald Wakefield, who was Marjorie’s brother.

He initially took the vicar’s surname before taking his father’s later on in Outlander.

Fans are likely to find out more about Roger’s family and their time travelling abilities later on in the story if the show’s writers decide to address this plot point.