Notes

[NI0001] Donald Glas Macdonald, 12th of Keppoch. d. 1650. Donald Glas and the Keppochs formed part of the force raised in 1644, at Aberdeen by the Marquis of Huntly in support of Charles 1. After that year when Montrose raised the Royal Standard, Donald Glas and his men joined Alasdair MacColla Macdonald (Young Colkitto) to gather forces from the Isles. Donald Glas commanded the center of the loyal Clans in the battle of Inverlochy. The Royal Army, with Montrose as Captain-General and Alasdair MacColla Macdonald as Lieutenant-General, marched on Argyll and plundered the whole district. The Macdonalds took the opportunity to wreak vengeance of the followers of MacCailein Mor in return for the depredations of the Campbells in 1639. The entire regions of Argyll and Lorn were devastated. Montrose then received word that Argyll was at Inverlochy Castle with 3,000 men and that Argyll was laying Lochaber to waste. Montrose then launched an attack on Inverlochy that laid the Campbell troops to waste. In 1645 they returned home to protect their lands from the soldiers of the Covenart. The following year Glencoe, hearing of a marriage between the daughter of Campbell and Menzies of Culdares, thought that would be a good time to raid the area. Along with their kinsmen of Keppoch they raided the lands of Campbell of Glenorchy. 120 Keppoch men joined the raid led by Angus Og of Achnancoichean, youngest brother of the Chief. As they were returning with their spoils the Campbells rushed to regain their cattle and overtook them at Margowan. There was a terrible battle in which the Macdonalds came out the winner. The cost to Lochaber was the death of MacIan of Glen Coe and Angus Og. Donald Glas' death seems to have been in 1650 though there is not record of it. Donald Glas married firstly Jean, Daughter of Robertson of Struan without surviving male issue. He married secondly a daughter of Forrester of Kilbeggie by whom he had Alexander, his successor, Ranald, who was murdered with his brother at Keppoch castle in 1663 and a daughter. [From Ceapach: The Keppoch Newsletter by Joyce Haskell ([email protected]) in turn edited from Clan Ranald of Lochaber by Norman H Macdonald FSA Scot].

[NI0002] 'HANDSOME' JOHN MACDONALD OF KEPPOCH, 4th CHIEF
lain Aluinn (1497-1498)

JOHN, 4th Chief was known as lain Aluinn (Handsome John) and he only remained as Chief for about a year.

Donald MacGillivantic, the celebrated Domhnaill Ruadh Beag Mac Gille Mhantaich (little Red Donald Son of the Stammerer) who figured at the Battle of Leachdar, was a noted cattle lifter, and so often did he prey on the livestock of the Clan Chattan that MacIntosh resolved to bring his career to a close once and for all. The Captain of Clan Chattan, in order to get Donald Ruadh Beag into his hands demanded, in his capacity as Steward of Lochaber, that lain Aluinn, as his Chief should hand him over to answer for his crimes. lain Aluinn agreed to MacIntosh's request on condition that "his blood should not be spilled" so-worded in Gaelic, a condition which the Captain of Clan Chattan fulfilled to the letter, for as soon as he got hold of Donald, he had him hanged from a tree near Clach na Diolta, Torgulbin, at the end of Loch Laggan, in the march between Lochaber and Badenoch.

It had been evident since his accession as Chief that lain Aluinn was unfit to lead the Clan and this final act of weakness resulted in his being deposed by the head men. This the were entitled to do under Celtic tribal law.

Iain AIuinn, who appears to have accepted the decision calmly, retired to an isolated place called Urchair where he spent the remainder of his life. There is no tecord of whom he married. His descendants became known as "Sliochd Dhomhnaill" from his father, Donald, 3rd Chief, and also as "Sliochd a' brathair 'bu shine" i.e. the race of the elder brother. They continued to occupy the lands of Urchair until the late eighteenth century when they settled in various parts of the Braes of Lochaber. From one of lain's sons, Donald, was descended the Gaelic Poet Laureate of Scotland, the famous bard and politician, lain Lom, whose father was Domhnaill Mac lain Mhic Dhomhnaill Mhic lain Aluinn. Another family descended from lain Aluinn, which resided at Murlagan, became hereditary banner bearers to MacIntosh of MacIntosh.

The appointment of a successor to lain Aluinn set a difficult problem before the leading clansmen and it was some time before agreement was reached. The most powerful sept of the Clan at that time was the "Clann Mhic Gille Mhantaich" (The Children of the Stammerer), to which Domhnaill Ruadh Beag belonged. They claimed to have come originally from Barra and proposed to send to that island for one of their own kinsmen. Another sept proposed to send to Uist for Goraidh or Godfrey, a descendant of Goraidh 0f Garmoran, Lord of Uist, second son ofJohn, 1st Lord of the Isles by his first wife, Amy MacRuari. They claimed descent from that family and the said Goraidh came to Lochaber at their invitation and settled at Tirnadris. His descendants became known as "Sliochd Ghoraidh". The family of Alasdair Carrach naturally wished to keep the chiefship in their own family and eventually Alasdair, uncle of the deposed Chief was chosen.

Norman H Macdonald: The Clan Ranald of Lochaber - A History of the MacDonalds or MacDonells of Keppoch.

[NI0004] ANGUS OF FERSIT MACDONALD OF KEPPOCH, 2nd CHIEF
Aonghais Na Fearsaid (ca1478 - 1497)

The Clan continued to hold their lands by the might of the sword and although the 2nd Chief, Angus of Fersit (Aonghas na Fearsaid) as he was known, from the fact that his principal residence was at Fersit near the north end of Loch Treig, is little heard of in history, he is said to have been as great a man as his father and to have encouraged industry among his clansmen. Domhnall Mac Fhionnlaigh Nan Dan, the old hunter bard of Loch Treig and composer of An Comhachag (The Owl) a long Gaelic poem in the early 17th century refers to a mill founded by Angus at Fersit. A mill stone belonging to this mill, now suitably inscribed, can be seen at Fersit.

Angus of Fersit and his followers flocked to the Banner of John, 4th Lord of the Isles and Earl of Ross in 1451 when the High Chief of Clan Donald led his vassals along the shores of Loch Ness and through Badenoch as his contribution to the rebellion he had planned with the House of Douglas. During the insurrection, which lasted until the following year, the Castles of Urquhart and Inverness were seized and held by the Islesmen and the Castle of Ruthven entirely demolished.

Angus and his Clan took part in the naval expedition which Donald Balloch of Isla led to the Firth of Clyde in 1455, in pursuance of the same cause as that of 1451-52.

Angus is witness to a charter of John, Earl of Ross, at Dingwall in 1463 when he is styled "Angus Alexandri de Insulis'. He is said to have died at Fersit but the exact date of his death is unknown. He married a daughter of MacPhee of Glenspean, head of a prominent sept in the Braes at that time, by whom he had:

1. Donald, his successor.
2. Alexander, afterwards Chief.
3. Mariot, who married Allan Cameron of Lochiel (Ailein nan Creach).

Norman H Macdonald: The Clan Ranald of Lochaber - A History of the MacDonalds or MacDonells of Keppoch.

[NI0005] DONALD MAC ANGUS MACDONALD OF KEPPOCH, 3rd CHIEF
Domhnall Mac Aonghais (c1478-1497)

DONALD, 3rd Chief - Domhnall Mac Aonghais - was of a restless disposition. In 1478, John, 4th Lord of the Isles was summoned before Parliament to answer charges which included resetting Donald Mac Angus and his accomplices who had invaded the King's lieges.

Donald gave his full support to Angus Og of the Isles when he resolved to recover the Earldom of Ross for the MacDonalds, and a contingent of Brae Lochaber men under Alexander, the Chief's brother took part in the Battle of Lagabraad (Lagebrad), near Conon Bridge, in 1483, when the redoubtable Angus defeated the combined forces of the MacKenzies, MacKays, Rosses, Frasers and Brodies commanded by the Earl of Athole.

In the following year a body of the Clan fought for Angus Og against his father John at the Battle of Bloody Bay off Mull when Angus was victorious.

In 1491, when Sir Alexander MacDonald of Lochalsh - Alasdair Mac Gilleasbuig - son of Celestine, second surviving son of Alexander, 3rd Lord of the Isles and Earl of Ross made a final attempt to regain Ross, Donald Mac Angus joined him with his Clan. According to tradition, Donald, with a small following was present at the Battle of Park (Blar na Pairc) fought near Jamestown in Ross-shire, where Alexander's raiding force was defeated by a numerically superior force of MacKenzies. Donald's brother, Alexander is said to have been on his way with 240 men but arrived too late to be of any assistance, the issue having already been decided in favour of the MacKenzies.

The Lordship of the Isles was finally forfeited in 1493 and King James IV, with the intention of restoring law and order among the clans, visited the West Highlands three times during that year. Among those who paid homage to the King at Mingary Castle in Ardnamurchan, was Donald Mac Angus. The Lochaber Chief and others were obliged, as further security for their good behaviour, to appear in the year 1496, before the Lords of Council and bind themselves "by the extension of their lands" to the Earl of Argyle, on behalf of the King, to refrain from mutual injuries each under a penalty of £500. In the same year Donald rented the lands of Garvagach i.e. the Inch of Lochaber, as the King's tenant at 40 merks per annum.

After the forfeiture of the Lordship of the Isles, MacIntosh lost no time in procuring a Royal Charter in exchange for the one he had from the Isles Family for the Brae Lochaber lands. This second charter is dated, 5th January, 1493.

In 1497, a complaint was lodged against Donald of Garragach, in Elgin by William Dallas of Cantray for violence and slaughter. Donald failed to appear in answer to the charge and was fined 200 merks by the Lords of Council. For causing the death of this individual he was forfeited, but continued in possession of his lands regardless of the authorities.

In the same year, while the Brae Lochaber men were absent with their Chief on a foray, the MacLaurins of Balquhidder on a similar quest, visited the Braes of Lochaber and drove off all the cattle. When the MacDonalds returned and discovered their loss, they immediately set off in pursuit of the MacLaurins whom they eventually overtook and defeated, recovering the creach. The MacLaurins, however, called on their kinsman, Dugald Stewart, 1st of Appin to come to their assistance. Their appeal was not in vain. Dugald arrived on the scene with his Clan and a fierce battle followed between the combined forces of the Stewarts and MacLaurins and that of the MacDonalds, at a place called Leachdar or Leachada near the head of Glen Orchy on the side of Ben Dorain. In the conflict both Dugald Stewart and Donald of Gargavach were slain, it is said, by each other's swords. A notorious freebooter among the MacDonalds, named Domhnaill Ruadh Beag, observing that Dugald Stewart was taller by a head than Donald, severed the head from Appin's body with his sword so that in future he would not be longer than his Chief.

Donald, 3rd Chief, married a daughter of Cameron of Lochiel by whom he had John, his successor.

Norman H Macdonald: The Clan Ranald of Lochaber - A History of the MacDonalds or MacDonells of Keppoch.

[NI0006] From whom the cadets of Bohuntin, Tulloch, Dalchosnie, Aberarder, Cranachan, Tullochcrom and Gellovie.

[NI0007] 5th of Keppoch. Killed 1498.

[NI0008] Donald Glas Macdonald, 6th of Keppoch. Known as Domhnaill Glas (Grey Donald). He built the castle of Ceapach, anglicised as Keppoch on Tom Beag near the confluence of the Roy and Spean Rivers. The castle was moated with a drawbridge. Before beuilding the castle, Donald Glas lived at Coille Dia Bhan on Torran nan Ceap which had been the residence of his father. In 1498, Donald Glas with Lochiel, entered into a bond with Munro of Foulis, Grant of Freuchie and others through the mediation of the Privy Council in which they bound themselves to safeguard each others' properties. During the Rebellion of Sir Alexander Macdonald of Lochhalsh, Donald Glas had assisted in the capture of the Castle of Novar, belonging to Munro of Foulis, which Sir Alexander had garrisoned and held. For his part in that episode Donald Glas now agreed to make amends, by becoming a loyal subject of the King. In 1500 the Clan Chattan made a raid into Lochaber and committed great devastation. Gillies MacPhail and Patrick MacBain, the leaders of the raid were granted a remission for their crimes, dated 9th June, 1500. In the same year James IV granted the Lordship of Lochaber to the Earl of Huntly, and in the following year Huntly was instructed to collect the King's rents in Lochaber, but he got nothing from Donald Glas of Keppoch. In 1501, the Privy Council passed an act which declared that Donald Glas and others illegally held lands in Lochaber pertaining the Crown and demanded that they be given up without delay. Keppoch ignored the order and a commission of fire and sword was given to Huntly, Lovat and Munro of Foulis to proceed to Lochaber and let the King's lands to "true men" and at the same time to expel all "broken men". Donald Glas then appears to have submitted to Huntly and to have been granted by him a lease of the Lochaber lands occupied by him and his Clan. In l503 Stewart of Appin received a grant of Mamore during the King's pleasure. In the same year, Lochaber was again the storm centre when the Rebellion of Donald Dubh broke out. Although he gave his support to the Islesmen and took part in the invasion of Badenoch, Donald Glas does not appear to have been prominently concerned. In 1505, Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly was given full powers on the district of Lochaber, and made responsible for keeping law and order. Nothing more is heard of Donald Glas of Keppoch, 6th Chief. He married a daughter of Cameron of Lochiel by whom he had Ranald Mor, his successor. [From Ceapach: The Keppoch Newsletter by Joyce Haskell ([email protected]) in turn edited from Clan Ranald of Lochaber by Norman H Macdonald FSA Scot].

[NI0009] Alasdair Nan Cleas Macdonald, 10th of Keppoch. Alasdair of the Tricks. (1587-1635). Alasdair was one of the most accomplished men of his time. He learned the art of conjuring which many Highland folk took to be the black art. This is what earned him the name Alasdair of the Tricks. Alasdair had a long history of conflict with MacIntosh. He allied himself in 1587 with Lochiel and Huntly during a feud between the Earls of Huntly and Moray. MacIntosh allied themselves with Moray. In 1588, A Royal Commission to proceed against Keppoch, his brother Ranald of Inch and others of his Clan was procured by MacIntosh jointly with Huntly and Freuchie. While MacIntosh and Freuchie were set on invading Lochaber, Huntly had no wish to see one of his supporters worsted and prevented them from carrying out their raid against Keppoch. In 1589 Keppoch gave a bond of manrent to MacIntosh. For a time all was peaceful. The death of Moray, at the hands of Huntly, in 1592 resulted in the invasion of Huntly by the vassal of Moray. Keppoch and Lochiel retaliated by plundering the land of MacIntosh and Freuchie. In 1593, Keppoch, on the orders of Huntly, invaded Clan Chattan lands in the neighborhood of Inverness and took the Castle of the town holding it in the name of Huntly. Keppoch's brother, Ranald of Inch, his son John (lain Dubh), and 3 of his officers, Goraidh Dubh and his son were captured by MacIntosh who hanged all but Ranald of lnch who escaped. MacIntosh then raided the Braes of Lochaber. In 1594, the Earls of Errol and Angus tried to re-establish the Roman Catholic religion in Scotland, Keppoch led his Clansmen to join them and fought at the Battle of Glenlivet along with Huntly, Errol and other Catholic earls against Argyll. He was supported by his uncle Black John of Bohuntin. In 1595, Keppoch among others entered into a bond with Argyll. He delivered up his youngest son, Angus Og, as hostage for his good behavior. Argyll promised to protect Keppoch against his enemies in all the lands which he laid claim. When Huntly returned from exile in 1598 Keppoch returned his allegiance to him. In 1602 he was ordered to raise 100 men for the Royal Service in Ireland but did not as he was already engaged in raiding the lands of MacIntosh. Letters were raised by John Campbell, Commissary of Inverness, against Ranald of Inch and Donald of Fersit, brothers of Keppoch, lain Dubh of Bohuntin, uncle of Keppoch, and his sons Angus of Tulloch and Allan of Gellovie for "herschip and fire raising" at Moy. Although Alaisdair nan Cleas apparently did not take part in the invasion of Moy, he was held responsible for his followers' actions and was denounced as a rebel. In 1608, Keppoch was pardoned by the Privy Council for a series of "crimes". On a stormy night in 1612 a fugitive Highlander appeared at the door of the house of Tirnadris. He and his companions were of Clan Gregor and were fleeing Argyll's men. Tirnadris turned them away and informed Keppoch as to their presence. Keppoch, under oath to the Government, surprised the Gregors near Tirnadris and killed them all. The spot is still known as Eas Clann Gregor and the burial is marked by small enclosure planted with Scots Pine in a knoll in front of Tirnadris House. Keppoch sent their heads to Edinburgh and received £100 from the Government. Ranald of lnch was prosecuted for refusing to help his brother. He was captured by Alasdair's oldest son Ranald Og and was hanged. The quarrel between keppoch and Inch appears to have been due to the fact that Ranald had obtained from Huntly a lease of the lands of Loch Treig, which included both Inverlair and Clianaig which Keppoch considered his. In 1618, Keppoch and Lochiel were outlawed for their part in the rebellion. Lochiel made his peace with Huntly but MacIntosh got a commission of fire and sword against Keppoch and his son. He, however, gave offence to Huntly in the execution of it. and the Earl procured its recall. In 1628 Keppoch received from George, Earl of Enzie , a grant of the lands of Fersit, Clianaig, Monessie, Brackletter, Inverlair, Kilmonivaig and Lochtreig, lying on the west side of the Water of Treig. In July 1630, Alasdair, with the consent of Ranald Og, his eldest son, assigned to Donald Glas, his second son and Jean Robertson, his spouse, in liferent, the lands of Fersit. Alasdair died in 1635, He was succeeded by Ranald Og. [From Ceapach: The Keppoch Newsletter by Joyce Haskell ([email protected]) in turn edited from Clan Ranald of Lochaber by Norman H Macdonald FSA Scot].

[NI0010] Ranald Og Macdonald, 9th of Keppoch. d.1587.

[NI0011] Ranald Mor Macdonald, 7th of Keppoch. Killed 1547. Known as Raonaill Mor it is from him that the Keppoch chiefs' patronymic is derived: Mac Mhic Raonaill (the son of Ranald's son). Later chiefs were often styled MacRanald and the clan soon became known as the Clanranald of Lochaber. When Iain Muideartach [John Macdonald of Moidart, 8th Captain Clanranald Ref No 517] raised the Clan Ranald of Garmoran in rebellion against his kinsman Ranald Gallda Macdonald of Clanranald [Ref No 987] in the struggle for the chiefship of Clan Ranald, Ranald Mor of Keppoch lost no time in joining in. Along with Ewen Allansone of Lochiel he gave his utmost support to Iain Moideartach all through the campaign which followed and played a leading part in the Battle of the Shirts (Blar na Leine): Fought on a hot July day in 1544, the combatants discarded their outer garments and fought in their shirts. The macdonalds almost annihilated the Clan Fraser, leaving 300 dead on the field including Lord Lovat, his eldest son the Master of Lovat and their kinsman Ranald Gallda. Enraged at the death of Lovat, the Earl of Huntly invaded Lochaber and pillaged the lands of Keppoch and Lochiel but failed to capture Ranald or Lochiel. In 1547 William MacIntosh of Macntosh, Captain of Clan Chattan had Keppoch, Lochiel and a number of their followers apprehended and he handed them over to Huntly who imprisoned them in Ruthven Castle in Badenoch. They were taken to Elgin, tried and found guilty of high Treason by a jury of lowland gentry. The 2 chiefs were beheaded and their followers hanged. The heads were set over the gates of the town. [From Ceapach: The Keppoch Newsletter by Joyce Haskell ([email protected]) in turn edited from Clan Ranald of Lochaber by Norman H Macdonald FSA Scot].

[NI0013] Alasdair Boloyne Macdonald of Keppoch, 8th of Keppoch. dsp 1554. Succeeded to Keppoch in 1547. His succession to the chiefship was marked by a herschip (a plundering raid) by which the new chief hoped to prove himself worthy of his position. Accompanied by Alasdair MacGorrie and Iain MacInnes with their followers; he invaded the lands of Glen Urquhart, Glen Shee and Strathardle and carried off all the plunder they could lay hands on. For this they were granted a respite under the Privy Seal to last for 21 years. Alasdair was soon a variance with the neighbouring Camerons and their differences came to a head in February 1554 when the Camerons, led by their chief Ewen Beag of Lochiel, invaded the Braes of Lochaber. They were met by Keppoch, ably supported by Iain Dubh (Black John) Macdonald of Bohuntin and the Clan Ranald of Lochaber. Both sides fought with great bravery and after a great struggle the Macdonalds were victorious. Among those slain was Ewen Beag, 14th of Lochiel [Chronicle of Fortingall]. Alasdair was severely wounded in the foot by an arrow and was unable to lad the pursuit of the vanquished. This fell to Iain Dubh who drove the Camerons across the River Lochy into their own country, which he then ravaged with fire and sword. This battle was fought at Boloinne (Both-Flionne) behind Mulroy, the hill above Keppoch and earned Alasdair his name. Afterwards, the arrow wound began to fester and Alasdair sought treatment from a famous herbalist at Kingussie but died there. Some say the wound was poisoned. Alasdair died unmarried and was succeeeded by his broher Ranald Og. [From Ceapach: The Keppoch Newsletter by Joyce Haskell ([email protected]) in turn edited from Clan Ranald of Lochaber by Norman H Macdonald FSA Scot].

[NI0017] Ranald Og Macdonald, 11th of Keppoch. dsp 1641. Ranald Og (means the younger) is mentioned on record in the year 1636 as "of Keppoch" which could indicate that he was the chief. He was in hiding, for his part in the rebellion of Sir James Macdonald of Sleat in 1615 (see Alasdair nan Cleas, 10th chief) in Lochaber for about six years. He went to London. possibly to secure a pardon, and was reinstated in his position in Lochaber He made peace with MacIntosh but was unable to resolve his problems with Grant Freuchie. With the death of his father in 1635 he was committed to the Tolbooth in Edinburgh for failing to conform to the terms of "The General Bond" which held the chiefs responsible for their tenants' actions or lack thereof. He went to London and was freed in 1636 after putting up sufficient security. After this he took the side of the Covenanters (those loyal to the King). In 1639 Argyll raided Lochaber as "Champion of Calvinism" and plundered and burned the area including Keppoch castle. He showed no mercy to any who crossed his path and left a force of 220 men to keep order in Lochaber. By 1640 that force had been killed or driven out by the inhabitants of Lochaber. In October of 1641 Ranald's brother Donald Glas is recorded as "of Keppoch". Ranald Og married a daughter of William Macintosh of Borlum without issue. It is reported that Ranald Og died of smallpox. He was succeeded by his brother Donald Glas. [From Ceapach: The Keppoch Newsletter by Joyce Haskell ([email protected]) in turn edited from Clan Ranald of Lochaber by Norman H Macdonald FSA Scot].

[NI0020] King of The Sudreys and Man

[NI0022] King of Dublin, The Sudreys and Man Reg 1075 - 1095

[NI0023] 20th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0024] 'The Black' of Islay

[NI0026] King of Sureys and Man Reg. 7 years

[NI0028] 21st Jarl of Orkney

[NI0030] King of Lorne

[NI0032] Prioress of Iona

[NI0033] Lord of Bute

[NI0036] The eponymous Donald after whom the Clan Donald takes its name.

[NI0041] Robert 1 King of Scots Acceded 13 Mar 1306

[NI0042] Picked the wrong side in the wars of independance, deposed 1308. Went to Ulster and his family becames Gallowglass warriors.

[NI0044] 1st of Ardnamurchan.

[NI0045] 1st Lord of the Isles.

[NI0050] 5th High Steward of Scotland

[NI0051] King of Scots 1371 - 1390

[NI0053] 2nd Lord of the Isles. Claimant to Earldom of Ross. Fought Battle of Harlaw v Earl of Mar July 1411.

[NI0056] 2nd son

[NI0058] Description: killed

[NI0063] 1st Chief of Clanranald & Glengarry.

[NI0064] From whom the Siol Gorraidh (Clan Godfrey).

[NI0068] 2nd Chief of Glengarry

[NI0071] Sigurd 2 'The Fat' 14th Jarl of Orkney and Rex Insularum.

[NI0073] King of Scots 1005 - 1034

[NI0074] 15th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0075] Thorfinn 'The Mighty' 19th Jarl of Orkney. Joint King with Macbeth.

[NI0076] 16th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0077] 17th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0078] 13th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0081] 18th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0082] 'The Skull Cleaver' 8th Jarl of Orkney 950 - 963

[NI0083] 5th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0085] 9th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0086] 10th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0087] 11th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0088] 12th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0089] 6th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0090] 7th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0091] 'The Wise' .Jarl of Maerr. 1st Jarl of Orkney

[NI0092] 'The Sea King'. 2nd Jarl of Orkney.

[NI0093] 4th Jarl of Orkney

[NI0094] dsp. 3rd Jarl of Orkney

[NI0095] King of Scots 971 - 995

[NI0096] King of Scots 942 - 954

[NI0097] King of Scots 962 - 967. (Duff)

[NI0098] King of Scots 997 - 1005

[NI0099] Chief of Clan Duff

[NI0100] King of Scots 889 - 900

[NI0101] King of Scots 863 - 877

[NI0102] King of Picts & Scots 844 - 859

[NI0103] King of Scots 877 - 878

[NI0104] King of Scots 900 - 942

[NI0105] King of Scots 954 - 962

[NI0106] King of Scots 967 - 971

[NI0107] King of Scots 995 - 997

[NI0109] King of Strathclyde

[NI0110] King of Scots 878 - 889

[NI0111] King of Scots 839 - 841

[NI0112] King of Scots 859 - 863

[NI0115] King of Strathclyde

[NI0116] King of Strathclyde

[NI0118] King of Dalriada

[NI0119] Haakon 'The Imperious'. 23rd Jarl of Orkney.

[NI0123] King of The Sudreys & Man

[NI0124] King of The Sudreys & Man

[NI0131] King of Waterford & Dublin

[NI0132] King of Waterford & Dublin

[NI0133] King of Dublin & Waterford

[NI0134] King of Waterford, Dublin & York

[NI0135] King of Dublin & York

[NI0136] King in Limerick

[NI0142] 1st High Steward of Scotland

[NI0144] of Annandale, Earl of Carrick

[NI0147] of Annandale

[NI0149] Earl of Gloucester

[NI0152] Earl of Huntingdon

[NI0153] of Chester

[NI0154] Ruled lowlands from 1107. King of Scots 1124 - 1153.

[NI0157] 'The Saint' Ruled lowlands from 1107. King of Scots 1224 - 1153

[NI0160] Description: killed by English

[NI0164] Countess of Ross

[NI0165] Recreated Earl of Ross 1370

[NI0166] Description: killed

[NI0172] 3rd Lord of the Isles & Earl of Ross. Also associated with Christina MacIaide (Papal admonition for adultery 1445) and the daughter of Patrick O'Beolan the Red.

[NI0174] 4th Lord of the Isles & Earl of Ross

[NI0177] 1st of Sleat.

[NI0179] Master of the Isles. Killed 1490.

[NI0181] 5th and last Lord of the Isles Deposed 1545.

[NI0182] Description: killed

[NI0183] dep 1519

[NI0184] 6th Chief of Glengarry. MacIain MhicAlasdair

[NI0190] 4th Chief of Glengarry. 'Of the Woods' (Alasdair Nan Coille)

[NI0194] 5th Chief of Glengarry. Murdered.

[NI0197] From whom cadet families of Griminish, Balranald, Heiskir & Skeabost.

[NI0199] 2nd of Sleat. dsp 1505.

[NI0200] 3rd of Sleat.

[NI0204] Black Archibald (illegitimate)

[NI0205] illegitimate

[NI0206] illegitimate

[NI0208] 4th of Sleat.

[NI0211] dsp

[NI0213] dsp

[NI0215] 5th of Sleat.

[NI0216] had 2 sons

[NI0220] 6th of Sleat.

[NI0221] dsp

[NI0223] Lord of Lorne

[NI0224] Lord of Lorne

[NI0225] Lord of Lorne

[NI0226] Lord of Lorne

[NI0227] Lord of Lorne

[NI0228] Killed sp

[NI0229] dsp

[NI0230] 1st of Dunnyveg and the Glens (Clann Iain Mhor Ile). Murdered 1427.

[NI0231] Heiress of the Glens of Antrim

[NI0232] ALEXANDER, LORD OF LOCHABER, 1st CHIEF of KEPPOCH
Alasdair Carrach (ca 1390 - ca 1443)

DEAN Munro in his M.S. History of the MacDonalds has described Alasdair Carrach as "the fairest haired man as they say of aney that ever was". The word "carrach" however, has a less complimentary meaning. Alasdair probably had a number of warts among his facial characteristics. He received as his share of his father's patrimony, the Lordship of Lochaber, which included the lands of Lochy, Glen S pean and Glen Roy. His seat appears to have been firstly at Tom a' Charraich, near Torlundy, (MacDonald Bards) and later at Tor Castle, near Banavie (Celtic Monthly).

On 5th September, 1394, Alasdair Carrach, as Lord of Lochaber, entered into an agreement with the Earl of Moray by which he undertook to protect all the possessions of the Regality of Moray and all the church lands in the province for the space of seven years. The Earl had, by a previous agreement, bound himself to protect these very same lands, but the marriage between the Wolf of Badenoch and the Countess of Ross in 1383, and the subsequent acquisition by the Wolf of the Earldom of Ross, had caused him to seek the protection of the Lord of Lochaber. By the terms of the agreement Alexander further undertook to protect the Earl and his property against all comers with the exception of the King, the Earl of Fife and the Lord of the Isles. In return, he was to receive from the Earl, 80 merks per annum and his support against all save the King, the Earl of Fife, the Earl of Mar and Alexander Lesley, heir to the Earldom of Ross. The death of the Wolf of Badenoch in the same year influenced events and made it impossible for the terms of the treaty to be carried out.

Donald, 2nd Lord of the Isles, in the interest of his wife, who was a claimant to the Earldom of Ross, quietly watched events and when the struggle began for the lands of the Earldom, he allowed his brother, Alasdair Carrach, to lead a strong force to Loss Ness side which was laid waste. Castle Urquhart was attacked and seized by the Lord of Lochaber and Glen Urquhart plundered by his followers. The rebellion was short lived and the Lord of the Isles and his two brothers, John Mor of Isla and Alasdair Carrach, were charged with treason. The two elder brothers submitted and were pardoned while the blame for the insurrection was conveniently taken by the Lord of Lochaber who was "imprisoned" by his brother Donald but soon released.

Alasdair was soon in trouble with the church over lands which he had distributed among his supporters. These included lands in Glen Urquhart with the keeping of Castle Urquhart to his loyal friend Charles MacLaine, a son of Lochbuie. On the 20th November 1398, a complaint was made against Alasdair by the Bishop of Moray for having the Church of Kinmylies and given the lands of Upper Kinmylies to one Ranald Mac Alexander and those of Lower Kinmylies to John Chishoim of the Aird besides having assigned the fishings of Lower Kinmylies to John White, a burgess of Inverness. Alasdair is here styled "Magnificus Vir et Potens Alexander de Insulis Dominus de Lochaber".

In 1402, when his bond was up, Alasdair Carrach took his revenge on the Bishop leading a strong body of his followers to Elgin where he raided the canonry, burnt most of the town and carried off spoils. For this he was threatened with excommunication and he thereafter repented and paid compensation for the damage done.

In 1411, the Lord of the Isles again attempted to enforce his claim to the Earldom of Ross. In this campaign he was ably supported by his brother, Alasdair Carrach. The Lord of Lochaber fought by his brother's side at Dingwall where the islesmen defeated the Sutherland clans under Angus Dubh MacKay, but is supposed not to have been allowed by his brother, Donald, to take a large part in the Battle of Harlaw "lest the whole of the brothers should be hazarded at once" (Hugh MacDonald's MS History).

Alasdair ably supported Donald during the rebellion of their brother, John Mor, instigated by the Abbot MacKinnon. The rebellion was eventually quelled and the brothers reconciled.

After the death of Donald, 2nd Lord of the Isles, in 1425, the treachery of the King, James I, resulting in the assassination of John Mor of Isla, at the hands of the King's agent, James Campbell, and the seizure of Alexander, the new Lord of the Isles and most of the principal chiefs at Inverness, in 1427, and the subsequent execution of some, including Alexander of Garmoran, a leading Macdonald chieftain, fanned the flames of rebellion and the fiery cross was sent through the dominions of the Lordship whenever Alexander was released. The army of the Isles, which included Alasdair Carrach and his followers marched, in 1429, through Lochaber, wasting the crown lands as it went and seized and burnt the town of Inverness. With the approach of the Royal Army and the desertion from the Banner of the Lord of the Isles by the Clans Chattan and Cameron the rebellion was soon quelled. After a series of reverses, Alexander surrendered to the King and was imprisoned in Tantallon Castle.

If the King thought the imprisonment of their Chief would quieten the Islesmen, he was much mistaken. In 1431, Alexander's cousin, Donald Balloch, son of John Mor of Isla, raised once more the Standard of rebellion in Sunart and called on the neighbouring clans to join him in attacking the Royal Army which was encamped before the Castle of Inverlochy. Donald Balloch set sail, with his followers, for lnverskippinish, two miles south of Inverlochy, where he remained until his force increased. He sent messengers to his uncle, Alasdair Carrach, requesting him to make ready for a combined attack. The forces of the Lord of Lochaber are said to have consisted, on this occasion, of a body of 220 archers which took up a strong position of strategic importance on the steep side of the hill overlooking the Castle of Inverlochy. From this vantage point Alasdair Carrach directed his archers to shoot their arrows at the unprotected flank of the Royal Army when it was hotly engaged with the Islesmen to its front. After this murderous discharge the Lochaber men swept down the hill in all the fury of a Highland charge, before which the Royal flank gave way. (Hugh MacDonald's MS History).

The Lord of the Isles was soon after released from captivity, but not before he had agreed to punish his relations who were responsible for destroying the King's forces at Inverlochy. Donald Balloch fled to Ireland for the time being and Alasdair Carrach, for his part in the rebellion, was dispossessed of all his estates. Most of his lands in Glen Spean and Glen Roy were granted to Malcolm Macintosh of Macintosh, Captain of Clan Chattan, who had fought on the Royalist side at Inverlochy, probably as compensation for what he had suffered as a result of the battle and almost certainly one of the conditions under which the Lord of the Isles was released. Alexander did not, however, grant Macintosh a charter for the lands until the year 1443, by which time Alasdair Carrach was probably dead. The Lordship of Loch aber was granted to the Earl of Mar.

Norman H Macdonald: The Clan Ranald of Lochaber - A History of the MacDonalds or MacDonells of Keppoch.

[NI0234] Earl of Lennox

[NI0235] dsp

[NI0236] Thane of Glentilt. Descendants said to have become a branch of the MacIntoshes.

[NI0240] Later of Eglinton.

[NI0245] Earl of Ross from 1398

[NI0246] Duke of Albany. Regent.

[NI0249] de jure Countess of Ross. Entered a convent and resigned her claim in favour of the Regent Albany (her maternal grandfather)

[NI0250] Bishop of the Isles

[NI0251] Became a monk. dsp

[NI0256] 7th Chief of Glengarry

[NI0258] 8th Chief of Glengarry.

[NI0259] ksp

[NI0265] 9th Chief of Glengarry. dsp

[NI0266] 10th Chief of Glengarry

[NI0267] 11th Chief of Glengarry

[NI0269] Brother of Glengarry.

[NI0272] 'Out' in 1745

[NI0273] fl 1745

[NI0275] 12th Chief of Glengarry

[NI0276] Killed

[NI0277] 13th Chief of Glengarry. Died unmarried.

[NI0279] 15th Chief of Glengarry. Colonel.

[NI0281] 16th Chief of Glengarry. Sold Estates.

[NI0282] 17th Chief of Glengarry. Died unmarried.

[NI0283] 18th Chief of Glengarry. Died unmarried.

[NI0284] fl 1498

[NI0294] killed

10th Chief of Clanranald

[NI0295] Drowned with his family.

[NI0296] 11th Chief of Clanranald

[NI0299] 12th Chief of Clanranald

[NI0300] 13th Chief of Clanranald

[NI0301] Killed at the Battle of Sheriffmuir. sp.

14th Chief of Clanranald

[NI0302] Unmarried

15th Chief of Clanranald

[NI0303] 7th of Sleat. dsp 1617.

[NI0305] 17th Chief of Clanranald

[NI0306] 1st of Boisdale. From whom the present (24th) Captain Clanranald Ranald Alexander b.1934

[NI0308] Alasdair Buidhe Macdonald, 14th of Keppoch. Alasdair Buidhe (yellow haired), who was the Tutor of Keppoch, became the unopposed chief after the murder of the young chiefs. In the Royal Commission, granted July 1665, to proceed against the murderers two of his sons were named. A band of 50 warriors arrived in the Braes of Lochaber in September of 1665, two years after the murders. They surprised Sliochd Dhughaill (Macdonalds of Inverlair) at Inverlair and after a bloody fight Alasdair Ruadh MacDughaill and six of his relatives were killed. lain Lom cut off the heads and ordered the seven headless bodies to be buried on a knoll opposite the house of Inverlair. (The skeletons of the bodies were unearthed in this century and no skulls were found.) The two sons of Alasdair Buidhe avoided capture. The elder, Ailein Dearg, had fled, some say to Lewis, others say to Badenoch. There is one story that has him killed at Tulloch. The younger son, Donald Gorm's, name appears among those against whom legal proceedings were begun in 1671 for the 1663 murders. Keppoch was summoned, among others, before the Privy Council on 15 January, 1669 for using violence against a company of soldiers sent to assist in collecting the taxes. He is said to have drowned in the River Spean the same year. He was succeeded by his second son Archibald, also called Gilleasbuig. [From Ceapach: The Keppoch Newsletter by Joyce Haskell ([email protected]) in turn edited from Clan Ranald of Lochaber by Norman H Macdonald FSA Scot].

[NI0309] Alexander Macdonald, 13th of Keppoch. Murdered 1663 sp. Alexander was a young boy when his father died. He and his brother Ranald are said to have been fostered at Duntuim Castle, and later sent to Rome to complete their education. During this time the clan was administered by Alasdair Buidhe as Tutor of Keppoch. When they returned to Scotland they took up residence at Keppoch Castle and Alasdair Buidhe returned to his home at Bohuntin. Alexander first appears as Chief of the Clan on 2 August 1661 when he was charged by the Privy Council for failing to appear. There was unrest and trouble between Keppoch and the Macdonalds of Inverlair. Some disaffected members of the clan decided that the Chief had to be removed. On the morning of 25 September 1663, assassins entered Keppoch Castle and murdered Alexander and Ranald. The assassins were Allan Dearg, Donald Gorm, Alasdair Ruadh of Inverlair and six of his relations. After the murders the castle was pulled down by the clan and not a stone is now to be seen. The sister of the murdered Chief composed a lament "Cumha na Peathair" (The Sister's Lament) and died shortly after it is said of grief. He was succeeded by Alasdair Buidhe without opposition. Though no action was taken to avenge the deaths Iain Lom was not content to let it lay. He went to Lord MacDonald and Aros, Chief of Glengarry as the High Chief of the day. Glengarry would not take part in any reprisal for Keppoch. Iain Lom then turned to Sleat who came to his aid. Sir James got permission from the Privy Council to move against the murderers. Two years after the murder the band arrived at Inverlair where they took full revenge. Only Donald Gorm and Allan Dearg escaped. Iain Lom cut off the heads of the seven murderers and took them to Glengarry. He stopped on the way to wash them at the place now called "Well of the Heads." He is said to have cast them at Glengarry's feet and said "This was your responsibility!" Glengarry admitted he should have handled it. Perhaps the fact that one of Glengarry's daughters was married to one of the murderers influenced his decision to not take any part in the affair. [From Ceapach: The Keppoch Newsletter by Joyce Haskell ([email protected]) in turn edited from Clan Ranald of Lochaber by Norman H Macdonald FSA Scot].

[NI0310] Murdered 1663 sp.

[NI0311] Fled 1663.

[NI0312] 15th of Keppoch.

[NI0313] 16th of Keppoch.

[NI0315] 17th of Keppoch. Killed 1746.

[NI0316] Killed 1745 sp.

[NI0317] Killed 1745 sp.

[NI0318] 18th of Keppoch. Major 78th Frase's Hldrs.

[NI0321] 19th of Keppoch. dsp 1808.

[NI0322] 20th of Keppoch. dsp 1819.

[NI0323] 21st of Keppoch. Pre-deceased by 2 sons, no further trace.

[NI0324] Died unmarried.

[NI0331] Killed at Inverness.

[NI0340] Fled 1663, implicated in the murder of his cousins Alexander 13th chief and his brother Ranald.

Hugh Peskett, acting for Ranald Alexander Macdonald in his claim to be Keppoch [see: http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/XA22.html] claims Donald Gorm of Clianaig and Donald Gorm of Inveroy Mor as one and the same person, with Inveroy Mor being possibly also a tacksman of Clianaig.

Castleton shows these 2 as separate individuals, uncle and nephew. Indeed, the Register of the Privy Council 3rd Series Vol. 3 (1683-1684) Ed. by P Hume Brown (1915) States in 2 successive decreets of the Privy Council for 1683 - 1684:

"Decreitt. John Campbell in Torr contra Donald Gorme in Clinadge [Clianaig], Angus McDonald Leanichinbeg and Angus Mcdonald of Killichonat, his nephew, and chieff of the famillie, whereof he is desciendit, for his interest. Daited at Achallader, the seventein day of August, 1683."

"Decreitt. Donald Gorme McDonald of Inneroy contra Alexander Campbell of Lochneill, wherefor he is asolzied becaus the lybell is not sufficiently provine."

This would seem to suggest that the 2 Donald Gorms were not one and the same individual.

Norman H MacDonald states that: "There is no proof that Donald Gorm MacDonald of Inverroy Mor [as stated by Hugh Peskett] was a son of Alasdair Buidhe 14th of Keppoch. All the printed accounts, based on local knowledge, or tradition, show a Donald Gorm of Inverroy as a son of Alasdair nan Cleas, 10th o Keppoch and therefore a younger brother of Alasdair Buidhe, 14th Chief. Alasdair Buidhe, indeed did have a son known as Donald Gorm who, along with his eldest brother alan, was indicted for the morder of alexander 13th Chief and his brother Ranald in 1663... and DC MacPherson ... states in a letter, that he thought but was not absolutely sure, that this latter Donald Gorm was the progenitor of the Clianaig cadet family of Keppoch."

There are other difficulties with this case and the genealogy below is not univerally accepted. However, it is included here, to use the terms of the Court of Session, for aught yet seen. I have retained the designation "of Clianaig" as that is the one used by Casleton, which is my preferred source. RKWM.

[NI0341] dsp.

[NI0344] Received tack of Gaskmore from Lachlan Macintosh of Strone 1718.
Officer in Lord Mark Kerr's Regt 1706, Half Pay 1712

[NI0347] Grandmother of the Lachlan MacPherson of Ossianic fame.

[NI0349] Source: Father Charles, Priest of Moidart. Other sources give Dugall's wife as a daughter of Sir Alexander of Lochalsh, whose other daughter and co-heiress married Alexander, 6th of Glengarry. Another source gives Dugall's wife as a daughter of Norman O'Beolan of the Applecross clerical family.

[NI0369] Rector of Island Finlaggan.

[NI0371] Died young in an accident at Strome.

[NI0375] Murdered by his half brothers John and Angus.

[NI0377] dsp 1636.

[NI0378] dsp.

[NI0379] dsp.

[NI0384] 8th of Sleat and 1st Baronet (Created 1625).

[NI0388] 9th of Sleat, 2nd Baronet.

[NI0390] 10th of Sleat, 3rd Baronet.

[NI0391] 11th of Sleat, 4th Baronet.

[NI0392] 13th of Sleat, 6th Baronet.

[NI0393] 12th of Sleat, 5th Baronet. Died 1720 unmarried.

[NI0394] 14th of Sleat, 7th Baronet.

[NI0395] 15th of Sleat, 8th Baronet. dsp 1766.

[NI0396] 16th of Sleat, 9th Baronet. 1st Lord Macdonald. Took the name Bosville-Macdonald after marrying Elizabeth, heiress of Thorpe, Yorkshire, England.

[NI0398] 17th of Sleat, 10th Baronet, 2nd Lord Macdonald. Died 1824 unmarried.

[NI0399] 18th of Sleat, 11th Baronet, 3rd Lord Macdonald.

[NI0400] Illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Gloucester.

[NI0401] Illegitimate son, later legitimated by his Grandson. Took the name Bosville and the estates.

[NI0402] 19th of Sleat, 4th Lord Macdonald.

[NI0404] 14th Baronet. Had his Grandfather legitimated in court and assumed the titles.

[NI0405] 23rd of Sleat, 15th Baronet.

[NI0406] 24th of Sleat, 16th Baronet.

[NI0409] 20th of Sleat, 5th Lord Macdonald. Died unmarried.

[NI0410] 21st of Sleat, 6th Lord Macdonald.

[NI0412] Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record: In Memory of THE HON. GOFREY EVAN HUGH MACDONALD Lieutenant 1st Bn., Scots Guards who died on Monday, 2nd November 1914. Age 35. Additional Information: Son of 6th Baron Macdonald of Slate; husband of Helen Macdonald (nee Bankes), of Ostaig, Isle of Skye. Served in the South African Campaign. Commemorative Information Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Grave Reference/ Panel Number: Panel 11 Location: Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin and Courtrai, and bears the names of men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War.

[NI0413] 7th Lord Macdonald. Named High Chief and Macdonald of Macdonald 1947 by the Lord Lyon.

[NI0417] From whom descend the Glenmore and Mugstad (Monkstadt in Skye) families. Source for all descendants: Meta-Anne Hudson of Australia.

[NI0431] Of Balconie in Easter Ross.

[NI0433] 'Natural' son from whom the Baleshare family descends.

[NI0435] 2nd of Dunnyveg and the Glens (Clann Iain Mhor Ile).

[NI0436] Of Largie in Kintyre. From whom the cadets of Largie.

[NI0439] 3rd of Dunnyveg and the Glens (Clann Iain Mhor Ile). Executed Abt. 1494.

[NI0443] 4th of Dunnyveg and the Glens (Clann Iain Mhor Ile). Executed with his father Abt. 1494.

[NI0445] 5th of Dunnyveg and the Glens (Clann Iain Mhor Ile).

[NI0446] From whom descend the cadets of Sanda. Killed 1565.

[NI0447] From whom descend the cadets of Kinbane.

[NI0449] Physically disabled, did not inherit.

[NI0450] 6th of Dunnyveg and the Glens (Clann Iain Mhor Ile)

[NI0453] Known to Irish history as 'Sorley Boy' also Lord of the Route (N.E. Antrim).

[NI0466] 7th of Dunnyveg and the Glens (Clann Iain Mhor Ile). dsp 1568.

[NI0468] Of Smerbie in Kintyre.

[NI0470] Of the barony of Carey in Antrim.

[NI0471] Line died out in males with Donald Gorm Og.

[NI0472] 1st Earl of Tyrone.

[NI0473] 9th of Dunnyveg and the Glens (Clann Iain Mhor Ile). dsp 1626.

[NI0474] Executed 1615. 2 sons of whom no trace.

[NI0478] Line died out.

[NI0486] Killed 1580 sp.

[NI0487] Killed 1585 sp.

[NI0489] 1st Earl of Antrim.

[NI0494] Executed Abt. 1641

[NI0502] 2nd Earl of Antrim. 1st Marquis.

[NI0503] 3rd Earl of Antrim.

[NI0505] 3rd Earl of Tyrone.

[NI0506] Assasinated 1628.

[NI0513] 4th Earl of Antrim.

[NI0517] Illegitimate.

[NI0519] 5th Earl of Antrim.

[NI0520] Died unmarried.

[NI0522] 6th Earl of Antrim.

[NI0526] Countess of Antrim.

[NI0527] dsp.

[NI0528] Countess of Antrim.

[NI0530] From whom later Earls of Antrim descend.

[NI0531] Angus did not marry the daughter of Dugall MacEanruig (the chief man of Glencoe) but had a natural son by her.

[NI0533] 1st of Glencoe.

[NI0534] 2nd of Glencoe.

[NI0535] 3rd of Glencoe.

[NI0536] 4th of Glencoe.

[NI0537] 5th of Glencoe.

[NI0538] 6th of Glencoe.

[NI0539] 7th of Glencoe.

[NI0540] 8th of Glencoe.

[NI0543] 9th of Glencoe.

[NI0544] From whom descend the cadets of Dalness, Achtriochtan, Laroch, Inverigan and Achnacon.

[NI0545] 10th of Glencoe.

[NI0546] 11th of Glencoe.

[NI0547] 12th of Glencoe. Murdered 1692.

[NI0548] The Gaelic Bard.

[NI0549] 13th of Glencoe.

[NI0551] Line emigrated to Calgary, Canada. Said to have died out in males in 1915/16 with Alexander, born 1890.

[NI0553] 14th of Glencoe.

[NI0558] By tradition this line in males exists to the present day ,possibly to Colin Macdonald of Canterbury, New Zealand. See http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/3455/canty.htm

[NI0559] 15th of Glencoe.

[NI0562] Major-General RA.

[NI0563] 16th of Glencoe.

[NI0565] 17th of Glencoe. Served in the East India Company with his brother Colin and inherited Glencoe from the Trustees in 1828, 14 years after his father's death. [Source: Macdonald, Iain S: "Alexander Macdonald Esq. of Glencoe: Insights into Early Highland Sheep Farming". Review of Scottish Culture No 10 1996-7 pp 55-66]

[NI0566] Produced 1 son and 1 daughter according to Don Hargraves. Line died out [Castleton].

[NI0567] Line died out.

[NI0568] Heiress of Glencoe. Memorial Inscription St Mary's Church, Glencoe: "In loving Memory of Ellen Caroline MacPherson Macdonald, wife of Archibald Burns Macdonald of Glencoe; Died at Carnoch, Perth, 3 March 1887; Interred in St Munn's Isle."

[NI0570] 2nd of Ardnamurchan.

[NI0571] 3rd of Ardnamurchan. At Harlaw 1411.

[NI0572] 4th of Ardnamurchan.

[NI0573] 5th of Ardnamurchan.

[NI0577] 6th of Ardnamurchan.

[NI0583] 7th of Ardnamurchan.

[NI0584] Heiress.

[NI0586] 8th of Ardnamurchan.

[NI0587] 9th of Ardnamurchan.

[NI0588] 11th of Ardnamurchan. Killed at Leac nan Saighead 1596.

[NI0590] 10th of Ardnamurchan. Murdered by his Uncle Donald 1596.

[NI0591] 12th of Ardnamurchan.

[NI0593] 13th of Ardnamurchan. Last known in 1633.

[NI0597] King of Dublin

[NI0598] 'The Young'. King of Dublin.

[NI0601] King of Vestfold

[NI0602] The Proud. King of Vestfold.

[NI0603] The Old and Stingy. King of Vestfold.

[NI0604] The Fart. King of Raumarike.

[NI0605] White-Leg. King of the Upplanders. Conquered Raumarike.

[NI0606] The Tree Hewer. King of Vermaland. Sacrificed to Woden Abt. 710.

[NI0607] King of Sweden.

[NI0608] The Clatterer. Jarl of the Uplanders. fl 830.

[NI0609] Jarl of the Uplanders.

[NI0612] King in Heidark.

[NI0615] Jarl of Agder.

[NI0633] King of Agder.

[NI0636] 1st King of Norway.

[NI0638] King of Norway 934 - 936.

[NI0639] King of Norway from 936.

[NI0644] Notorious thief and outlaw. Known to be in the tollbooth in Edinburgh in 1611. Probably executed shortly afterwards.

[NI0682] First of the line to be called King.

[NI0686] First man to be called King in the Danish tongue.

[NI0687] After whom Denmark is named.

[NI0690] Heimskringla: Vanlande, Swegde's son, succeeded his father, and ruled over the Upsal domain. He was a great warrior, and went far around in different lands. Once he took up his winter abode in Finland with Snae the Old, and got his daughter Driva in marriage; but in spring he set out leaving Driva behind, and although he had promised to return within three years he did not come back for ten. Then Driva sent a message to the witch Huld; and sent Visbur, her son by Vanlande, to Sweden. Driva bribed the witch-wife Huld, either that she should bewitch Vanlande to return to Finland, or kill him. When this witch-work was going on Vanlande was at Upsal, and a great desire came over him to go to Finland; but his friends and counsellors advised him against it, and said the witchcraft of the Finn people showed itself in this desire of his to go there. He then became very drowsy, and laid himself down to sleep; but when he had slept but a little while he cried out, saying that the Mara was treading upon him. His men
hastened to him to help him; but when they took hold of his head she trod on his legs, and when they laid hold of his legs she pressed upon his head; and it was his death. The Swedes took his body and burnt it at a river called Skytaa, where a standing stone was raised over him.

[NI0693] Heimskringla: Swegde took the kingdom after his father, and he made a solemn vow to seek Godheim and Odin. He went with twelve men through the world, and came to Turkland, and the Great Svithiod, where he found many of his connections. He was five years on this journey; and when he returned home to Sweden he remained there for some time. He had got a wife in Vanheim, who was called
Vana, and their son was Vanlande. Swegde went out afterwards to seek again for Godheim, and came to a mansion on the east side of Swithiod called Stein, where there was a stone as big as a large house. In the evening after sunset, as Swegde was going from the drinking-table to his sleeping-room, he cast his eye upon the stone, and saw that a dwarf was sitting under it. Swegde and his man were very drunk, and they ran towards the stone. The dwarf stood in the door, and called to Swegde, and told him to come in, and he should see Odin. Swegde ran into the stone, which instantly closed behind him, and Swegde never came back.

[NI0694] Heimskringla: Fjolne, Yngve Frey's son, ruled thereafter over the Swedes and the Upsal domains. He was powerful, and lucky in seasons and in holding the peace. Fredfrode ruled then in Leidre, and between them there was great friendship and visiting. Once when Fjolne went to Frode in Sealand, a great feast was prepared for him, and invitations to it were sent all over the country. Frode had a large house, in which there was a great vessel many ells high, and put together of great pieces of timber; and this vessel stood in a lower room. Above it was a loft, in the floor of which was an opening through which liquor was poured into this vessel. The vessel was full of mead, which was excessively strong. In the evening Fjolne, with his attendants, was taken into the adjoining loft to sleep. In the night he went out to the gallery to seek a certain place, and he was very sleepy and exceedingly drunk. As he came back to his room he went along the gallery to the door of another left, went into it, and his foot slipping, he fell into the vessel of mead and was drowned.

[NI0695] Heimskringla: Frey took the kingdom after Njord, and was called drot by the Swedes, and they paid taxes to him. He was, like his father, fortunate in friends and in good seasons. Frey built a great temple at Upsal, made it his chief seat, and gave it all his taxes, his land, and goods. Then began the Upsal domains, which have remained ever since. Then began in his days the Frode-peace; and then there were good seasons, in all the land, which the Swedes ascribed to Frey, so that he was more worshipped than the other gods, as the people became much richer in his days by reason of the peace and good seasons. His wife was called Gerd, daughter of Gymis, and their son was called Fjolne. Frey was
called by another name, Yngve; and this name Yngve was considered long after in his race as a name of honour, so that his descendants have since been called Ynglinger. Frey fell into a sickness; and as his illness took the upper hand, his men took the plan of letting few approach him. In the meantime they
raised a great mound, in which they placed a door with three holes in it. Now when Frey died they bore him secretly into the mound, but told the Swedes he was alive; and they kept watch over him for three years. They brought all the taxes into the mound, and through the one hole they put in the gold, through the other the silver, and through the third the copper money that was paid. Peace and good seasons continued.

[NI0697] Heimskringla: Njord of Noatun was then the sole sovereign of the Swedes; and he continued the sacrifices, and was called the drot or sovereign by the Swedes, and he received scatt and gifts from them. In his days were peace and plenty, and such good years, in all respects, that the Swedes believed Njord ruled over the growth of seasons and the prosperity of the people. In his time all the diar or gods died, and blood sacrifices were made for them. Njord died on a bed of sickness, and before he died made himself be marked for Odin with the spear-point. The Swedes burned him, and all wept over his grave-mound.

[NI0708] King of the Upplanders and ruler of Hedemark.

[NI0717] Killed with his father Harald Redbeard by Godfrey Halfdanson in the raid when Godfrey took his siter to wife.

[NI0720] Died age 10.

[NI0776] King of Man. Deposed 1156.

[NI0785] Progenitor of the Clan Macleod.

[NI0797] Ruled Highlands from 1107.

[NI0843] Cadet of Glengarry

[NI0844] Had 15 children, the names of 9 are unknown to Meta-Anne Hudson.

[NI0850] Floreat 973

[NI0860] Probably died young as he is unmentioned in later history.

[NI0866] Murdered Muchdanach of Ardnamurchan and Moidart. Disappears from history. Descendants probably married into MacIain of Arnamurchan family.

[NI0869] Went to Ireland.

[NI0905] Emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1816

[NI0909] Owned the MacDonald Arms in Fort William

[NI0912] Floreat 1314

[NI0913] Floreat 1291 - 1314

[NI0914] Floreat 1314

[NI0915] Acquired lands in the county of Stirling by charter in 1330. From whom the Alexanders of Menstrie, Earls of Stirling.

[NI0916] Floreat 1366. From whom the MacAlisters of Loup.

[NI0933] Died Unmarried.

[NI0934] dsp.

[NI0939] 2nd of Skeabost

[NI0988] Died young.

[NI0999] dsp

[NI1057] Died Unmarried

[NI1058] Died young sp.

[NI1062] Died unmarried

[NI1074] Died unmarried in WW2 age 24

[NI1125] From whom descend the MacEacherns.

[NI1137] Succeded to Morar during his father's lifetime.

[NI1138] dsp

[NI1139] dsp

[NI1140] dsp

[NI1143] Captain of the Brig "Alexander". Source: Cory Johnson [email protected]

[NI1144] A nephew to Bishop Hugh was Father James MACDONALD, born 1745, first resident pastor of Arisaig, Nova Scotia, 1793 -1798; died in Quebec City in 1807. Source: Cory Johnson.

[NI1151] 16th Chief of Clanranald

[NI1154] 18th Chief of Clanranald. "Young Clanranald" of the '45. Line died out in 1944.

[NI1166] Had 21 children

[NI1174] dsp

[NI1175] dsp

[NI1194] Bought land in Prince Edward Island. Family and descendants remained there. Sold Glenaladale Estate to Alexander Macdonald of Borrodale (Alasdair an Oir).

[NI1201] Alasdair an Oir. Bought Glenaladale estate.

[NI1205] Died unmarried age 28.

[NI1218] Died unmarried.

[NI1318] Succeeded to Glengarry 1868.

[NI1321] Air Commodore Aeneas Ranald Donald Macdonell of Glengarry CB DFC RAF. Battle of Britain pilot.

[NI1628] Ranald and his brother John were sub-tenants of Alexander Macdonald (16th of Glencoe) at Muilze, Glenstrathfarrar. Ranald dsp.

[NI1637] Emigrated to USA about 1852.

[NI1700] Kenneth Macdonald of Dalnacroich (1821-1883).

Gravestone Inscription: The family in memory of their father Kenneth Macdonald, Innkeeper of Strathconon died 29th May 1883. And his wife Margaret Beaton died 15th September 1897. And their family John died in 1854, Johan. died 3rd November 1883, Angus died in Australia, William died 9th January 1897. And his brother John Macdonald died 2nd April 1895. And his sister Mary Macdonald died 4th July 1890. And his sister-in-law Lexy Beaton died 20th June 1886.

Death Cert: No 3 District of Carnoch in the County of Ross. Kenneth MacDonald Innkeeper married to Margaret Beaton 29 May 1883 12:30 pm Dalnacroich, Strathconon. Male. Age 63 years. Son of John MacDonald, Sheep Farmer (Deceased) and Margaret MacDonald M.S. MacDonald (Deceased). Cause: Heart disease 2 years - Suppression of urine 3 days. Obstruction of bowels 7 days as cert by K Corbet MD. Alex McDonald Son (present). 5 June 1883 at Strathconon. Alexr McKenzie Registrar.

1851 Census:

22 Dalnacroich

Kenneth Macdonald Head 32 Innkeeper Rosshire Fodderty
Peggy Wife 23 Invernesshire Kilmonivaig
John Son ?11 Rosshire Fodderty
Peggy McDonald Servant Unmarried ?20 Housemaid Rosshire Contin.

[NI1714] Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record:
In Memory of
RODERICK MACDONALD
Stoker 1st Class
D/KX 178586
H.M.S. Mounsey, Royal Navy
who died on
Wednesday, 1st November 1944. Age 20.
Additional Information: Son of Angus and Mabel Macdonald, of Edinburgh.


Commemorative Information
Memorial: PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Devon, United Kingdom
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: Panel 90, Column 1.

Location: The Memorial is situated centrally on The Hoe which overlooks directly towards Plymouth Sound. It is accessible at all times.

[NI1730] Changed his name to Macdonald. Died of war-related injuries aged 46. Source: Elizabeth Prior.

[NI1742] DSP Unmarried.

[NI1744] DSP Unmarried.

[NI1745] Emigrated to Melbourne, Australia. Was a very successful businessman. 10 children.

[NI1804] Emigrated to Australia

[NI1807] Emigrated to Australia

[NI1808] Emigrated to Australia

[NI1809] dsp

[NI1924] Gravestone Inscription Strathconon Burial Ground: In loving memory of Angus Macdonald Bridgend, Strathconon died 30 Mar 1955 aged 81 years.

[NI1934] Was Angus Macdonald's best friend in the Army in WW1. Came home, met Nellie and married her. Emigrated to Australia. This is where the Gow in Wm Gow Lambert Macdonald came from.

[NI1941] 1841 Census Ft William

MONI FAICHEM-IS-COL 4 KENNETH BEATON M 35 SHOEMAKER Y
MONI FAICHEM-IS-COL 4 HELEN BEATON F 35 Y
MONI FAICHEM-IS-COL 4 MARGARET BEATON F 12 Y
MONI FAICHEM-IS-COL 4 ALEXANDRIN BEATON F 8 Y
MONI FAICHEM-IS-COL 4 JOHN BEATON M 5 Y
MONI FAICHEM-IS-COL 4 DOROTHY BEATON F 2 Y
MONI FAICHEM-IS-COL 4 ANGUS BEATON M 1 Y


1861 Census Ft William

MONI OLD-GROUND 5 HELEN BEATON F HEAD W 56 CONTIN
MONI OLD-GROUND 5 ALEXIE BEATON F DAUR U 27 SERV. DOMESTIC KILMONIVAIG
MONI OLD-GROUND 5 JOHN BEATON M SON U 25 SHOEMAKER KILMONIVAIG
MONI OLD-GROUND 5 DOROTHY BEATON F DAUR U 23 SERV. DOMESTIC KILMONIVAIG
MONI OLD-GROUND 5 ANGUS BEATON M SON U 21 STUDENT (TEACHER) KILMONIVAIG
MONI OLD-GROUND 5 ISABELLA BEATON F DAUR U 17 SERV. DOMESTIC KILMONIVAIG
MONI OLD-GROUND 5 JOANNA BEATON F DAUR U 11 SCHOLAR KILMONIVAIG

[NI1954] Gravestone Inscription: In Loving Memory of Alexander Macdonald Innkeeper, Strathconon who died 22nd Jany 1935 in his 80th year. His wife Margaret MacLennan who died 19 November 1942 aged 87. Their daughter Cathie Bella Macdonald died 11 March 1951 aged 51.

[NI1958] Joan was adopted. dsp.

[NI1964] This is where the Lambert in William Gow Lambert Macdonald comes from.

[NI2043] Gravestone Inscription Strathconon Burial Ground: In loving memory of our parents Roderick Macdonald Bridgend, Strathconon died 16 Oct 1958 aged 89 years also his wife Jessie MacPherson died 16 Jan 1962 aged 74 years and their son Alexander James died at Heathfield Hospital, Ayr 3 May 1971 aged 57 years.

[NI2044] Gravestone Inscription in Strathconon burial Ground: In Loving Memory Alexander Macdonald who died at Bridgend, Strathconon 17 May 1913 aged 86 years. Also his wife Rachel Mathieson died 13 April 1912 aged 75 years. Also their daughter Annie died 9 April 1880 aged 8 years. And their son James Sgt 1/4/ Seaforth Hldrs killed in Great War 1914 - 1918. Also their eldest son Donald died at the Northern Infirmary 17 February 1932 aged 65 years. Also their daughter Mary died 31 July 1954 aged 78 years.

[NI2045] Gravestone Inscription in Strathconon burial Ground: In Loving Memory Alexander Macdonald who died at Bridgend, Strathconon 17 May 1913 aged 86 years. Also his wife Rachel Mathieson died 13 April 1912 aged 75 years. Also their daughter Annie died 9 April 1880 aged 8 years. And their son James Sgt 1/4/ Seaforth Hldrs killed in Great War 1914 - 1918. Also their eldest son Donald died at the Northern Infirmary 17 February 1932 aged 65 years. Also their daughter Mary died 31 July 1954 aged 78 years.

[NI2046] Gravestone Inscription in Strathconon burial Ground: In Loving Memory Alexander Macdonald who died at Bridgend, Strathconon 17 May 1913 aged 86 years. Also his wife Rachel Mathieson died 13 April 1912 aged 75 years. Also their daughter Annie died 9 April 1880 aged 8 years. And their son James Sgt 1/4/ Seaforth Hldrs killed in Great War 1914 - 1918. Also their eldest son Donald died at the Northern Infirmary 17 February 1932 aged 65 years. Also their daughter Mary died 31 July 1954 aged 78 years.

[NI2047] In Memory of JAMES MACDONALD Sergeant 204806 4th Bn., Seaforth Highlanders who died on Tuesday, 20th November 1917. Age 38. Additional Information: Son of Alexander and Rachel Macdonald, of Bridgend, Strathconon, Muir of Ord, Ross-shire. Commemorative Information Memorial: CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL, Nord, France Grave Reference/Panel Number: Panel 10

Location: The small village of Louverval is on the north side of the N30, Bapaume to Cambrai road, 13 kilometres north-east of Bapaume and 16 kilometres south-west of Cambrai. The Memorial stands on a terrace in Louverval Military Cemetery, which is situated on the north side of the N30, south of Louverval village. CWGC signposts on the N30 give advance warning of arrival at the Cemetery Situated behind a colonnade, the memorial takes the form of a semi-circular wall on which the names of the dead are carved. At the entrance is the following inscription in English and French: TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE ENDURING MEMORY OF 7048 OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE FORCES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI BETWEEN THE 20TH NOVEMBER AND THE 3RD DECEMBER 1917, WHOSE NAMES ARE HERE RECORDED BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNES OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.

Gravestone Inscription in Strathconon burial Ground: In Loving Memory Alexander Macdonald who died at Bridgend, Strathconon 17 May 1913 aged 86 years. Also his wife Rachel Mathieson died 13 April 1912 aged 75 years. Also their daughter Annie died 9 April 1880 aged 8 years. And their son James Sgt 1/4/ Seaforth Hldrs killed in Great War 1914 - 1918. Also their eldest son Donald died at the Northern Infirmary 17 February 1932 aged 65 years. Also their daughter Mary died 31 July 1954 aged 78 years.

[NI2048] Gravestone Inscription in Strathconon burial Ground: In Loving Memory Alexander Macdonald who died at Bridgend, Strathconon 17 May 1913 aged 86 years. Also his wife Rachel Mathieson died 13 April 1912 aged 75 years. Also their daughter Annie died 9 April 1880 aged 8 years. And their son James Sgt 1/4/ Seaforth Hldrs killed in Great War 1914 - 1918. Also their eldest son Donald died at the Northern Infirmary 17 February 1932 aged 65 years. Also their daughter Mary died 31 July 1954 aged 78 years.

[NI2049] Gravestone Inscription in Strathconon burial Ground: In Loving Memory Alexander Macdonald who died at Bridgend, Strathconon 17 May 1913 aged 86 years. Also his wife Rachel Mathieson died 13 April 1912 aged 75 years. Also their daughter Annie died 9 April 1880 aged 8 years. And their son James Sgt 1/4/ Seaforth Hldrs killed in Great War 1914 - 1918. Also their eldest son Donald died at the Northern Infirmary 17 February 1932 aged 65 years. Also their daughter Mary died 31 July 1954 aged 78 years.

[NI2051] Gravestone inscription Strathconon Burial Ground: The family in memory of their father Kenneth Macdonald Innkeeper of Strathconon died 29 May 1883 and his wife Margaret Beaton died 15th Sept 1897 and their family John died in 1854 Johan. died 3rd Nov 1883 Angus died in Australia William died 9th Jan 1897. And his brother John Macdonald died 2nd April 1895. And his sister Mary Macdonald died 4th July 1890. And his sister in law Lexy Beaton died 20th June 1886.

[NI2052] Gravestone inscription Strathconon Burial Ground: The family in memory of their father Kenneth Macdonald Innkeeper of Strathconon died 29 May 1883 and his wife Margaret Beaton died 15th Sept 1897 and their family John died in 1854 Johan. died 3rd Nov 1883 Angus died in Australia William died 9th Jan 1897. And his brother John Macdonald died 2nd April 1895. And his sister Mary Macdonald died 4th July 1890. And his sister in law Lexy Beaton died 20th June 1886.

[NI2053] Gravestone Inscription: In Loving Memory of Alexander Macdonald Innkeeper, Strathconon who died 22nd January 1935 in his 80th year. His wife Margaret MacLennan who died 19 November 1942 aged 87. Their daughter Cathie Bella Macdonald died 11 March 1951 aged 51.

[NI2054] Gravestone Inscription: In Loving Memory of Alexander Macdonald Innkeeper, Strathconon who died 22nd Jany 1935 in his 80th year. His wife Margaret MacLennan who died 19 November 1942 aged 87. Their daughter Cathie Bella Macdonald died 11 March 1951 aged 51.

[NI2062] Gravestone Inscription in Strathconon Burial Ground: In Loving Memory of James McIntosh died at Strathconon Inn on 11 November 1967 in his 71st year beloved husband of Johan. M Macdonald who died 10th February 1973 aged 77 years.

Johanna inherited the Strathconon Inn.

[NI2063] Gravestone Inscription in Strathconon Burial Ground: In Loving Memory of James McIntosh died at Strathconon Inn on 11 November 1967 in his 71st year beloved husband of Johan. M Macdonald who died 10th February 1973 aged 77 years.

[NI2065] Gravestone Inscription at Strathconon Burial Ground: Sacred to the memory of Alexander Macdonald (Alastair Og) who died at Strathconon in 1819. His wife Isabella MacLennan who died in 1831. His only son Donald Macdonald died 1851 aged 64 years and 3 of their grandchildren: James died in infancy. Donald who died in Kansas USA 1867. Alexander who died at Redcastle Killearnan in 1870 and Jane Macdonald wife of Donald Macdonald died at Inverness 1894 aged 86 years.

[NI2066] Gravestone Inscription at Strathconon Burial Ground: Sacred to the memory of Alexander Macdonald (Alastair Og) who died at Strathconon in 1819. His wife Isabella MacLennan who died in 1831. His only son Donald Macdonald died 1851 aged 64 years and 3 of their grandchildren: James died in infancy. Donald who died in Kansas USA 1867. Alexander who died at Redcastle Killearnan in 1870 and Jane Macdonald wife of Donald Macdonald died at Inverness 1894 aged 86 years.

[NI2067] Gravestone Inscription at Strathconon Burial Ground: Sacred to the memory of Alexander Macdonald (Alastair Og) who died at Strathconon in 1819. His wife Isabella MacLennan who died in 1831. His only son Donald Macdonald died 1851 aged 64 years and 3 of their grandchildren: James died in infancy. Donald who died in Kansas USA 1867. Alexander who died at Redcastle Killearnan in 1870 and Jane Macdonald wife of Donald Macdonald died at Inverness 1894 aged 86 years.

[NI2068] Gravestone Inscription at Strathconon Burial Ground: Sacred to the memory of Alexander Macdonald (Alastair Og) who died at Strathconon in 1819. His wife Isabella MacLennan who died in 1831. His only son Donald Macdonald died 1851 aged 64 years and 3 of their grandchildren: James died in infancy. Donald who died in Kansas USA 1867. Alexander who died at Redcastle Killearnan in 1870 and Jane Macdonald wife of Donald Macdonald died at Inverness 1894 aged 86 years.

[NI2069] Gravestone Inscription at Strathconon Burial Ground: Sacred to the memory of Alexander Macdonald (Alastair Og) who died at Strathconon in 1819. His wife Isabella MacLennan who died in 1831. His only son Donald Macdonald died 1851 aged 64 years and 3 of their grandchildren: James died in infancy. Donald who died in Kansas USA 1867. Alexander who died at Redcastle Killearnan in 1870 and Jane Macdonald wife of Donald Macdonald died at Inverness 1894 aged 86 years.

[NI2070] [John.FTW]

Gravestone Inscription at Strathconon Burial Ground: Sacred to the memory of Alexander Macdonald (Alastair Og) who died at Strathconon in 1819. His wife Isabella MacLennan who died in 1831. His only son Donald Macdonald died 1851 aged 64 years and 3 of their grandchildren: James died in infancy. Donald who died in Kansas USA 1867. Alexander who died at Redcastle Killearnan in 1870 and Jane Macdonald wife of Donald Macdonald died at Inverness 1894 aged 86 years.

[NI2071] [John.FTW]

Gravestone Inscription at Strathconon Burial Ground: Sacred to the memory of Alexander Macdonald (Alastair Og) who died at Strathconon in 1819. His wife Isabella MacLennan who died in 1831. His only son Donald Macdonald died 1851 aged 64 years and 3 of their grandchildren: James died in infancy. Donald who died in Kansas USA 1867. Alexander who died at Redcastle Killearnan in 1870 and Jane Macdonald wife of Donald Macdonald died at Inverness 1894 aged 86 years.

[NI2218] [John.FTW]

Val Henshaw has the descendants of this family down to Marjorie Heggan nee Drysdale, her 8th cousin born 1929 who lives in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

[NI2334] Killed by Donald MacAngus Macdonald, 3rd of Keppoch at the battle of Leachdar (They killed each other).

[NI2385] dsp

[NI2390] Gravestone inscription Strathconon Burial Ground: Erected by John Macdonald in loving memory of his daughter Jane who died at Dalbreck Home Farm on 22 Apr 1876 aged 11 years. Also of Margaret Falconer his beloved wife who died at same farm 8 May 1899 aged 72 years. Also the said John Macdonald died 13 Mar 1907 aged 79 years. Also their son Charles died 10 Nov 1912 aged 58 years. Hugh 4th son of Charles died 13 Feb 1925 aged 31 years.

[NI2391] Gravestone inscription Strathconon Burial Ground: Erected by John Macdonald in loving memory of his daughter Jane who died at Dalbreck Home Farm on 22 Apr 1876 aged 11 years. Also of Margaret Falconer his beloved wife who died at same farm 8 May 1899 aged 72 years. Also the said John Macdonald died 13 Mar 1907 aged 79 years. Also their son Charles died 10 Nov 1912 aged 58 years. Hugh 4th son of Charles died 13 Feb 1925 aged 31 years.

[NI2392] Gravestone inscription Strathconon Burial Ground: Erected by John Macdonald in loving memory of his daughter Jane who died at Dalbreck Home Farm on 22 Apr 1876 aged 11 years. Also of Margaret Falconer his beloved wife who died at same farm 8 May 1899 aged 72 years. Also the said John Macdonald died 13 Mar 1907 aged 79 years. Also their son Charles died 10 Nov 1912 aged 58 years. Hugh 4th son of Charles died 13 Feb 1925 aged 31 years.

[NI2393] Gravestone inscription Strathconon Burial Ground: Erected by John Macdonald in loving memory of his daughter Jane who died at Dalbreck Home Farm on 22 Apr 1876 aged 11 years. Also of Margaret Falconer his beloved wife who died at same farm 8 May 1899 aged 72 years. Also the said John Macdonald died 13 Mar 1907 aged 79 years. Also their son Charles died 10 Nov 1912 aged 58 years. Hugh 4th son of Charles died 13 Feb 1925 aged 31 years.

[NI2396] Gravestone inscription Strathconon Burial Ground: Erected by John Macdonald in loving memory of his daughter Jane who died at Dalbreck Home Farm on 22 Apr 1876 aged 11 years. Also of Margaret Falconer his beloved wife who died at same farm 8 May 1899 aged 72 years. Also the said John Macdonald died 13 Mar 1907 aged 79 years. Also their son Charles died 10 Nov 1912 aged 58 years. Hugh 4th son of Charles died 13 Feb 1925 aged 31 years.

[NI2405] Gravestone Inscription Strathconon Burial Ground: In loving memory of our parents Roderick Macdonald Bridgend, Strathconon died 16 Oct 1958 aged 89 years also his wife Jessie MacPherson died 16 Jan 1962 aged 74 years and their son Alexander James died at Heathfield Hospital, Ayr 3 May 1971 aged 57 years.

[NI2406] Gravestone Inscription Strathconon Burial Ground: In loving memory of our parents Roderick Macdonald Bridgend, Strathconon died 16 Oct 1958 aged 89 years also his wife Jessie MacPherson died 16 Jan 1962 aged 74 years and their son Alexander James died at Heathfield Hospital, Ayr 3 May 1971 aged 57 years.

[NI2451] Commanded the troops used in the Massacre of Glencoe 13 February 1692.

[NI2536] Murdered in infancy.

[NI2701] died unmarried

[NI2752] Sources: Basil Campbell [email protected], Heather MacEachern [email protected] & Ted Connors [email protected] Not attributed as a son of Ranald in Moidart or Among the Clanranalds by Fr Charles Macdonald but included here as unproven for the moment. Family emigrated to Nova Scotia.

[NI2755] Migrated to Canada separately from his family Abt. 1800, first to Prince Edward Island then to Broad Cove, Inverness County, Cape Breton in 1804. Source: Ted Connors.

[NI2759] Captain Allan (Ailean MacRuaridh) Macdonald. Granted land at South West Margaree, Inverness Co, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Source: Heather MacEachern ([email protected]).

[NI2779] The Gaelic Bard of the 1745 Rebellion.

[NI3048] From whom descend the Gunn family of Caithness and Sutherland

[NI3222] The "Red Fox" whose murder in 1752 was fictionalised in RL Stevenson's "Kidnapped".

[NI3224] 7th chieftain of the Children of the Mist. Aide-de-camp to Prince Charles Edward (Bonnie Prince Charlie) in the '45, the Prince presenting him with a dirk still worn by the present Chief. b 1714/15, d 1778. m Janet daur of John Macdonald of Balconie. 4 sons all colonels in the army, but only the first two left male descendants. Another son was born at Crianlarich but d before he was baptised. He was to have been called Donald. Otherwise described as `simple Evan Murray vintner at the head of Lochearn, aged 34 in 1752 when he was examined as a witness in the trial of James Stewart for the murder of Campbell of Glenure. Mr C. K. Sharpe informs us that old Mrs Campbell of Monzie, a relative of his own, well remembered the old publican, in whose wretched hostelry a small alehouse at Lochearnhead she had often been. She never heard anything of the great McGregor descent which was probably an afterthought upon the son's acquiring wealth in the East Indies. (GD50/184/113). After the '45 he served with government forces in the 88th and 41st regiments. He died while on duty with the latter in Jersey. (CGS Newsletter No 39 p11). [John Ward's MacGregor homepage, http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wardjc/glencarn.htm] http://www.mcgeheezone.com

[NI3225] Emigrated to Australia on board the "Hooghley", arr. Sydney 12 Oct 1836. GG Grandfather of the husband of Marcia MacIntyre, ([email protected]) the source on the MacIntyres of Glen Noe & Camusnaherie.

[NI3350] d.s.p.

[NI3352] d.s.p.

[NI3406] Died unmarried.

[NI3452] The Scottish novelist, Eric Linklater (1899-1974) was a prolific writer of novels, popular histories and children's stories. 1932. He was born in 1899, the son of Captain Robert Linklater, of Dounby, Orkney. According to some sources, Eric Linklater was born there in Dournby, Orkney Islands, but it was not until in his third volume of autobiography, FANFARE FOR A TIN HAT, when he corrected the birth place: it is Penarth, Wales. "I have never said that I was born in Orkney, but my close connections with the islands prompted that assumption." However, Linklater regarded the islands as his spiritual home. His father was a master mariner and the family moved back to Orkney when Linklater was very young. He attended the Intermediate School for boys and Aberdeen Grammar School. In 1916 he entered the Aberdeen University to read medicine and English.

A young soldier during the '14 - '18 war, he was seriously wounded in France while serving with the Black Watch. He continued his studies of medicine and English at Aberdeen, receiving his M.A. in 1925. From 1925 to 1927 he worked as an assistant editor of The Times of India in Bombay. He returned to university work in Aberdeen and in the United States, but his inclination was for writing. His first novel, WHITE-MAA'S SAGA, an autobiographical story about a young Orcadian who attends medical school in 'Inverdoon', published in 1929, gained immediate appreciation, especially in his native islands. Thereafter a stream of novels, essays, and plays placed him in a foremost position among modern authors. The play THE DEVIL'S IN THE NEWS (1929) concerns a séance whose participants are possessed by Cromwell, Napoleon and characters from the cast of John Gay's The Beggar Opera. While in the US he wrote POET'S PUB, the first in series of his popular satirical novels. Subsequent journey to the Orient provided material for JUAN IN AMERICA and JUAN IN CHINA. In the 1930s Linklater wrote a modern version of Aristophane's Lysistrata as THE IMPREGNABLE WOMEN (1938).

In 1933 Linklater stood unsuccessfully as a parliamentary candidate in the East Fife by-election. Linklater was an ardent Scottish nationalist and THE LION AND THE UNICORN (1935), about Scotland's historical relations with England, came down in favour of Scottish autonomy.

During World War II Linklater commanded a fortress in the Orkneys and later worked at the public relations section of the British War Office. His experiences in Italy gave basis for the novel PRIVATE ANGELO (1946), which have been compared to Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Schweik. The book was also filmed. From 1945 to 1948 he was Rector of Aberdeen University. In the 1950s Linklater travelled in the Far East, and depicted his experiences in A YEAR IN SPACE (1953). His other works include juvenile tales, a non-fiction book about the Icelandic Sagas, THE ULTIMATE VIKING (1955), philosophical dialogues written for the BBC, including THE GREAT SHIP and RABELAIS REPLIES, and a radio play.

THE PIRATES IN THE DEEP GREEN SEA (1949), written for children, is a fantasy, in which Davy Jones and all the drowned pirates under the sea are discovered guarding the great knots that tie latitudes and longitudes together to keep the world from splitting. A SPELL FOR OLD BONES (1949) was a fantasy set in a mythical 1st-century Scotland. In A TERRIBLE FREEDOM (1966) a man finds the characters of his dreams world taking over the real one. Linklater's autobiographical FANFARE FOR A TIN HAT appeared in 1970.

Linklater died in Aberdeen on November 7, 1974. He is buried in Orkney.

[NI3519] Ancestor of the MacIntyres (Mac-an-t'saoir) son of the carpenter.

[NI3681] Composed the lament "Cumha na Peathair"

[NI3693] The famous Flora Macdonald who helped Charles Edward Stuart escape after Culloden.

[NI3703] John Macdonald was born at Flodigarry on Skye in 1759, the son of Allan Macdonald of Kingsburgh and Flora Macdonald, the Jacobite heroine, his wife. Educated at Portree and Edinburgh, he acquired an Indian cadetship in 1780 and became a military engineer because of an early aptitude. He moved to the Bengal Engineers in 1783 and was posted to Sumatra three years later. There he was raised to the local rank of Captain and commander of artillery, and spent his spare time making observations and maps which are now held in the British Museum. He was made 1st. Lieutenant in 1794, and in 1796 took sick leave home. Back in Edinburgh he became Commandant of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteer Artillery. He retired from the Bengal Engineers on half-pay in 1800 and was made Lieutenant Colonel of the Alpine Fencible Infantry, and served with them for a year in Ireland before they were disbanded. He published translations of French military works, then moved to Dover to work on the Cinque Ports. Later work on military telegraphs took him to Exeter where he settled, and was much involved in charity work. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1800 and was one of the original members of the Asiatic Society. He died in Exeter in 1831.

[NI3936] Of Castle Camus. Progenitor of Clann Domhnaill Gruamaich. Cadets: Ostaig, Capstill & Kingsburgh

[NI4005] Reginald Crawford. Created 1st Earl of Crawford by King David 1 in 1127.

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[NI4173] Died unmarried.

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[NI4230] Emigrated with his family to Canada 1792.

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[NI4253] Died age 19

[NI4319] This is conjecture given that the daughter's full name was Ellen Caroline MacPherson Macdonald.

[NI4320] Memorial Inscription St Mary's Church, Glencoe: "Archibald Maxwell Macdonald of Glencoe; Born at Fanans, Inverawe, 1st January 1855; Died at Taifletts, Perth, 9th June 1894." Last laird of Glencoe.

[NI4335] Last proprietrix of Dalness from 1855 until her death in 1912. The property then passed to the Antrim Macdonells who sold it, less the house, to the National Trust for Scotland in 1937.

[NI4400] Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record: In Memory of JAMES ARCHIBALD MACDONALD Captain 47837 5th Bn., Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders who died on Thursday, 22nd October 1942. Age 30. Additional Information: Son of H. Godfrey Macdonald and of Helen Macdonald (nee Bankes). B.A. (Cantab.), LL.B. (Edinburgh); Advocate. Commemorative Information Memorial: ALAMEIN MEMORIAL, Egypt Grave Reference/ Panel Number: Column 69. Location: The Alamein Memorial forms the entrance to the El Alamein War Cemetery. Alamein is a village, bypassed by the main coast road, approximately 130 kilometres west of Alexandria on the road to Mersa Matruh. The first Commission road direction sign is located just beyond the Alamein police checkpoint and all cemetery visitors should turn off from the main road onto the parallel old coast road. The cemetery lies off the road beyond the ridge, and road direction signs are in place approximately 25 metres before the low metal gates and stone wing walls which are situated centrally at the road edge at the head of the access path into the cemetery. The Cross of Sacrifice feature may be seen from the road. Within the south-eastern part of the cemetery will be found the Alamein Cremation Memorial. Historical Information: The Alamein Memorial Land Forces panels commemorate the soldiers of the British Commonwealth and Empire who fell in the campaigns in Egypt and Libya, and in the operations of the Eighth Army in Tunisia up to 19th february 1943 - the date when it came under the command of General Eisenhower - and who have no known grave. It also commemorates those who served and fell in Syria and Lebanon, Iraq and Persia. The Alamein Memorial Air Forces panels commemorate the airmen of the Commonwealth who fell in the campaigns in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece, Crete and the Aegean, Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Somalilands, the Sudan, East Africa, Aden and Madagascar and who have no known grave. Those who served with the Rhodesian and South African Air Training Scheme and have no known grave are also honoured here. The Alamein Memorial commemorates nearly 12,000 Second World War casualties.

[NI4402] Killed in Action.

[NI4403] Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record: In Memory of The Hon. RONALD IAN MACDONALD
Captain 3rd Bn., Cameron Highlanders attd., General Staff who died on Thursday, 17th October 1918. Age 34. Additional Information: Legion of Honour. Son of 6th Baron Macdonald of Slate and Baroness Macdonald, of Armadale Castle, Isle of Skye; husband of the Hon. Mrs. R. I. Macdonald, of Frilsham Home Farm, Yattendon. Berks. Commemorative Information Cemetery: TOURLAVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY & EXTENSION, Manche, France Grave Reference/Panel Number: B. I. Location: Tourlaville is a village 5 kilometres east of Cherbourg, on the N.801 road to St. Pierre-Eglise and Barfleur. The Communal Cemetery is on the south-eastern side of the village some 364 metres south of the N.801 road. From Bayeux, turn right at the roundabout in Cherbourg. Pass the traffic lights and the cemetery will be found on the left at the top of the hill. The British plot is approximately 120 metres south of the entrance, on the west side of the path. Historical Information: The majority of the burials in the Communal Cemetery date from December, 1917, to January, 1919 when it was used by Allied Hospitals. Tourlaville was No.1 Rest Camp and Cherbourg became the Portuguese Base in 1919. There are now nearly 60, 1914-18 and over 10, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site.

[NI4455] Enlisted in 92nd (later Gordon Highlanders) 1870; service in ranks 1870-1879; Afghan War 1879-1880; South African War 1881; Nile expedition 1884-1885; Suakin 1888; Nile 1889; Commander, 2 Infantry Bde, Dongola Expeditionary Force 1896; Egyptian Bde 1897-1898; India 1899; South Africa 1899-1901; In command of Highland Bde, South Africa 1900; Commander, Southern and Belgaum District, India 1901; Commander, Ceylon 1902-1903; committed suicide shortly before he was due to be courtmartialled for indecent behaviour 1903. He was buried in the Dean cemetery, Edinburgh. In 1884 he married Christina McDonald, daughter of Alexander MacLouchlan Duncan of Leith; she died at Edinburgh on 11 March 1911, leaving one son. Macdonald holds an exceptional place in the history of the British army as a private who rose wholly by virtue of his soldierly capacity and physical courage to all but the highest military rank. As a dauntless fighter and a resourceful leader of men in battle he acquired well-merited fame. A rough tongue always showed traces of his origin. Among the Highlanders his memory was idolised. A memorial in the form of a tower 100 feet high was completed at Dingwall, overlooking his birthplace.

[NI4492] Full Name: Reginald John James George Macdonald of Clanranald, Admiral Sir

[NI4501] Gravestone Inscription Contin Churchyard: In Loving Memory of John McLennan, Farmer, Glascharn, died 25th October 1901 aged 99, and of his wife, Catherine Matheson, died 28th July 1909 aged 80, and their daughter, Catherine MacLennan, died 29th September 1925 aged 65. Peace Perfect Peace.

[NI4502] Gravestone Inscription Contin Churchyard: In Loving Memory of John McLennan, Farmer, Glascharn, died 25th October 1901 aged 99, and of his wife, Catherine Matheson, died 28th July 1909 aged 80, and their daughter, Catherine MacLennan, died 29th September 1925 aged 65. Peace Perfect Peace.

[NI4508] Gravestone Inscription Contin Churchyard: In Loving Memory of John McLennan, Farmer, Glascharn, died 25th October 1901 aged 99, and of his wife, Catherine Matheson, died 28th July 1909 aged 80, and their daughter, Catherine MacLennan, died 29th September 1925 aged 65. Peace Perfect Peace.

[NI4708] William Macdonald, 1st of Aird & Vallay, Tutor of Sleat.

DUNTULM CASTLE was formerly, the residence of Clann Domhnuill called "The Lords of the Isles." Sir Alexander Macdonald's great-grandfather, viz., the first Sir James, built a large circular tower (now demolished) at the house of Monkstadt, in which the family resided afterwards for many years. An establishment was, however, kept up at Duntulm Castle for a long time after the death of Sir James. The last of the family born there was Domhnull Ban, only son of Sir Donald Macdonald, commonly called "Domhnull a' Chogaidh," and great-grandson of Sir James. He was an amiable, much beloved, and promising youth, but he died, greatly lamented, by the bursting of a blood vessel, when on a visit to the Island of Berneray, in the Sound of Harris. The family afterwards resided alternately at Monkstadt, in Troternish, and at Armadale, in the parish of Sleat. William the "Taightear" or Tutor, was likewise born in Duntulm Castle. His elder brother was Domhnull a' Chogaidh, and their father was Sir Donald Macdonald, commonly called Domhnull Breac, who was married to Lady Mary Douglas. William the Taightear was major under the Earl Of Mar in the battle of Sheriffmuir, and his brother Domhnull a'
Chogaidh, while on his way to that bloody field, was seized with a fit of paralysis at Perth, wbich disabled him from proceeding farther. On account of the part which Domhnull a' Chogaidh and his vassals took in that rebellion, his estates were forfeited to the Crown. For some years afterwards the barony of Troternish was managed by a Government factor of the name of Donald Macleod, alias " Domhnull Mac Ruairidh Mhic Uilleim," whose services were anything but acceptable to the inhabitants of Troternish. At length the Property was returned by the Crown, not, however, to the rightful heir, but to William the Taightear, who got possession of it in his own name. No sooner, however had this taken place than he delivered it over to his brother Domhnull a' Chogaidh. The Taightear lived and died at Aird, a place about two miles north of Duntulm Castle. His remains were interred in the parish burying-ground, Quite near the spot where the remains of the celebrated Flora Macdonald were buried many years afterwards. The funeral of the Taightear was attended by many thousands from all parts of Skye and of the adjacent isles. An idea may be formed of the number present on that occasion when it is stated that the procession was two miles in length, with six men walking abreast. Seven pipers were in attendance, who, by having been placed at certain distances in the procession, severally played the usual "coronach," or funeral lament, all the way from the residence of the deceased to the cemetery. Upwards of three hundred imperial gallons of whisky were provided for the occasion, with every other necessary refreshment. Except the funeral of Flora Macdonald, which as to numbers was similarly attended, that of the Taightear was the largest ever known in Skye.

As has been already stated, the Crown appointed the above-named "Domhnull Mac Ruairidh Mhic Uilliem" as Government factor over the barony of Troternish. He occupied the farm of Gienbrittle, on the property of Macleod of Dunvegan, and in the parish or Bracadale. He was a man possessed of considerable talents and accuteness of mind - a firm adherent of the reigning Government, and an inveterate enemy to all who professed Jacobite Principles.

The Celtic Magazine

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[NI4915] Emigrated to Australia

[NI4920] Emigrated to Australia with 5 sons.

[NI4926] Founded Ben Nevis Distillery. Descendants in Blarour.

[NI4957] David McDonald gives Marion as dau Donald 18th of Clanranald, this must be a mistake as th contemporary was Donald 16th of Clanranald.

[NI4990] Died young.

[NI4999] Founder member of the Clan Donald Society of Edinburgh in 1891 of which he became Vice-President.

[NI5066] Emigrated to PEI, Canada 1772. With issue.

[NI5083] Roderick Macdonald of Shuggary, later of Dungarry, Port Hood, Cape Breton. He is stated to be of the Borrodale family and this would appear to be the most likely generation he would come from. I am indebted to George MacGillivray for information on Roderick's descendants, who look on themselves as Borrodale Macdonalds. - Tearlach MacFarlane: Some notes on the Macdonalds of Glenalladale & Borrodale, Clan Donald Magazine No 12 p 105.

[NI5087] Emigrated 1806 to Three Rivers, PEI, Canada. Had issue 15 children.

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[NI5101] Died unmarried.

[NI5105] Lived at Dalilea. Died unmarried.

[NI5106] Lived at Dalilea, having practiced for several years in PEI.

[NI5109] With issue.

[NI5111] Lived at Dalilea and died unmarried.

[NI5118] First name not know. Emigrated to Australia and drowned with his wife while crossing a river.

[NI5186] Keppoch's youngest son

[NI5357] Died unmarried.

[NI5379] Died unmarried.

[NI5386] Ranald Ronald Dugal H. Macdonald of Clanranald. dsp.

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[NI5465] Died unmarried.

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[NI5512] Died unmarried. After retiring from the Army returned to Waternish to manage the estates of Waternish and Ardmore with the help of his nephew, Allan Reginald 10 of Belfinlay. - Source: Ann Grant [email protected]

[NI5513] Died unmarried.

[NI5524] Died in prison from wounds received at Culloden.

[NI5532] Died unmarried.

[NI5535] Died unmarried.

[NI5553] Died unmarried.

[NI5570] Spouse unknown, had 3 daughters and 1 son.

[NI5576] Spouse unknown. Had 2 sons and 1 daughter.

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[NI5598] Of the Glengarry Fencibles. Had 2 sons and 2 daughters to Mgt.

[NI5642] Died unmarried.

[NI5684] Assumed the name Macdonell.

[NI5685] 3rd Marquess of Londonderry.

[NI5839] Died unmarried.

[NI5864] DONALD MARTIN, M.A. (1820-1838).—Mr Martin was a native of Skye, of the old family of the Martins of the Beallach in Kilmuir. He was educated at Edinburgh, where during his four sessions he resided in the house of Lord Macdonald as the favoured son of his father, who was agent to Sir Alexander, the first Lord Macdonald. His first charge was Kilmuir, to which he was admitted 5th October, 1785, in succession to Mr Donald Macqueen, who figures so prominently in Johnson’s Tour. Here, 7th February, 1788, he married Ann, daughter of Norman Macdonald of Scalpay. Three of her brothers rose to high rank in the army, General Sir John Macdonald, K.C.B. ; General Archibald Macdonald, and General Sir Alexander Macdonald, R.A. A fourth brother, Matthew Hume, was the father of the present Lord Kingsburgh, Lord Justice Clerk, who has in many ways shown the soldierly instincts of his race. In 1808 Mr Martin was translated to the Chapel of Ease, Inverness, and in 1820 he was presented to Abernethy, where he was inducted on the 15th August of that year. From his high reputation as a clergyman, his coming was hailed with much satisfaction. But there was one drawback. "He is but a ladie" (laddie) said a contentious critic, objecting to a certain minister on the score of his youth. Mr Martin might have been objected to on the ground of his age, for he was 71, but no voice was raised in dissent. On the contrary, his settlement was in the truest sense harmonious. Perhaps there is no parallel case on record in the Church. But though Mr Martin had passed the threescore years and ten, his eye was not dim nor his natural force abated. He had come of a race remarkable not only for strength of body, for as he used to say he was the youngest and the weakest of seven brothers, but also for strength of character. He had much of the soldier spirit, and seemed born to command. His unfeigned piety won the respect, and his earnest discharge of duty and his unswerving rectitude soon gained him the confidence and the attachment of his people. He was an able Gospel preacher, and in Gaelic an orator of the highest order. The Churches that had been for some time scantily attended were crowded. A solemn awe pervaded the congregation, and many who had lived carelessly, or who had contented themselves with a cold morality, were turned to God and to a godly life. Mr Martin was also most zealous in pastoral work. He distributed Bibles (in connection with the Strathspey Bible Society formed in his time), he held diets of catechising, and he established Sabbath Schools, in which he took much delight. He also called out men of earnest piety to be elders, who greatly helped him in his evangelistic work. As the result, the religious tone of society was raised, and the spiritual condition of the people greatly improved. It is said that Mr Martin had been rather hard and worldly in his early days. The death of his wife (1803) was a turning point in his career. Mrs Martin was held in much esteem, not only on account of her birth and accomplishments, but for her unfeigned piety, as is recorded on her tombstone— "raised by the love and friendship of a sorrowful husband" she had "through a short life of thirty-two years served with unwearied assiduity the interests of Christ and of the poor." When Mr Martin saw that his wife was dying, he was much distressed. Holding her hand, he said with a faltering voice, "Annie, dear, are you not sorry leaving me ?" With a heart tender but true she answered, "That is not what troubles me, but that I am leaving children without a father and a minister without grace." This terrible word went like an arrow from the bow of the Great King straight to the mark. From that time it was noted that Mr Martin was a changed man, and that his preaching had taken a higher character. It was like the crisis in Dr Chalmers’ life. Sometimes to his intimate friends Mr Martin would confess how the world had been too much with him, and that he owed his better spirit, under God, to his saintly wife. In 1826, when there was almost a total failure of the crop, Mr Martin preached a powerful sermon, exhorting the people to consider their ways, and warning them that the bad harvest was a judgment of God, and that if they did not repent worse things might come upon them. Next day he happened to meet Captain Macdonald, Coulnakyle, an old sailor of rather a jovial temper. Captain Macdonald jocularly said—" Parson, that was a terrible sermon you preached yesterday, but your doctrine might be applied to yourself. See, your crop (pointing to Croft Croy) is the worst in the parish, and if your argument be good, you yourself must be the greatest sinner !" The parson, in whom the "Old Adam" was not dead, was at first disposed to resent this attack, but restrained himself and answered mildly—" Whether the crop be the worst or not is no matter, I am the greatest sinner, but I have obtained mercy." Mr Martin used to make Saturday a rest day, a wise custom which other ministers might imitate. Generally he spent part of the time at Grantown, visiting friends and doing business. Once when driving to the village he was accosted by an Irish woman, who asked charity. He gave her sixpence. The sight of the silver, when she only expected copper, touched her heart, and she cried with much fervour, "God bless your Rivirence, and may you be in Abraham’s bosom this verra nicht." "Thank you, my good woman," said the parson, "but you need not have been so patticular as to the time." This saying is somewhat like that of another Irish woman to a minister who had given her a pair of shoes, "God bliss your Rivirence, your sheen I’ll be in Heaven afore ye." Once a parishioner called upon Mr Martin about the baptism of a child. He was a man notoriously ignorant and careless, and the minister took advantage of the opportunity to speak to him seriously. He put several questions, with very unsatisfactory results. At last, in the hope of quickening his conscience, he said, "Man, do you know what people you belong to?" The man had now his chance. The answer came quick and clear. " Yes, Mr Martin, I belong to the good old stock of Tullochgorm." What followed is not known, but Mr Martin seldom failed to turn such opportunities to account. There was a striking instance of this in the case of one of his elders. William Forsyth, Culreach, was a quiet, honest living man, but he had shewn no personal interest in religion. Indeed, he was more notable for strength than for piety. One hot summer day, when the Church was very full, Mrs Grant, Birchfield, who sat in the front seat of the west gallery, suddenly fainted. She was a big heavy woman, said to be over 20 stones, and there was difficulty in lifting her out. But William stepped forward, caught her up in his arms, and carried her out, as if she were a baby. Other extraordinary feats of strength by him are still spoken of. One week William lost his reckoning. He thought it was Saturday, and set out to the moss to bring home some peats. When busy he heard what seemed the Church bell, but he set it down to fancy and went on with his work. When passing the manse on his way home he met the herd boy, the late John Grant of Glenlochy, who said sharply, "The Sabbath is no a day for carting peats." "You little rascal," he answered, "what are you saying?" But he had his doubts. Shortly after he met some people going to Church, and he knew that it was the Sabbath. The shock to his simple mind was severe. He at once unyoked his horse, left cart and peats by the roadside, and returned home with a sad heart. Next day he was early at the Manse and told his tale to the minister. Mr Martin spoke to him as only a true minister could do, and was the means, by God’s blessing, of winning his soul to Christ. Some time after he made him one of his elders, and he continued to his death to bear the character of a humble and sincere Christian. Mr Martin had three sons—Donald, who became a Captain of Artillery, and died at Naples; Norman, who died at Demerara; and Sir James Ranald, whose distinguished career in India and London as a physician and sanitary reformer is well known. Two of Mr Martin’s grandsons rose to high distinction— Major-General Andrew Aldcorn Munro, who was brought up at the Manse of Abernethy, and Field-Marshal Sir Donald Stewart, Bart., K.C.B., whose father, Robert Stewart, was of the old family of Clachglas in Kincardine.

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[NI6008] Peskett 70: "Alister Macdonald alias Mcconill guerm principall posessor of Inverroy moir in 1697." (later of clianaig?)

[NI6009] Peskett 71: Had a tack of Inverroy 1724.

[NI6010] Peskett 72: Deceased Bef 1729.

[NI6012] Peskett 78: Married c. 1725 ? Kennedy who claimed Tocher 1732.

[NI6013] Peskett 76: Ranald mac Ian vic Conil-Gorm of Inverroy: joint tacksman with his father 1724.

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[NI6021] Peskett 75: "Tacksman of Clianaig in 1751 aged circa 40." Other issue.

[NI6022] Peskett 80: Priest at Arisaig, Antigonish, N.S.

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[NI6024] Peskett 82: in Leanachan Beg; cleared 1806 thereafter crofter in Brackletter. d. by 1819

[NI6025] Peskett: Tenant in Brackletter croft in widowhood 1819 named in death registration of both her sons.

[NI6026] Peskett 83: crofter in Brackletter, cattle dealer and drover b.c.1781 d. 10/12/1863.

Listed as single on his death certificate as is Mgt Ross (d.31/7/1870).

[NI6028] Peskett 84: Cattle dealer and deover in Inverroy b.c.1783 d.1867.

[NI6031] Peskett 85: Domhnaill an Drobhair in Inverroy; b.c. 1826 Spoke to George Borrow in 1858.

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[NI6034] Peskett 96: (youngest child) b. 1872

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[NI6037] Peskett: 85: Alasdair Raonuill b.c.1832

[NI6039] Peskett 87: Erchie Raonuill shepherd in Bohuntine

[NI6040] Peskett 88: Railway Employee

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[NI6047] Peskett: 1st Wife. Died in childbirth.

[NI6048] Peskett 97:

[NI6051] Peskett: After the death of her husband, Mrs Rachel MacDonald and her 3 daughter emigrated to Boston, USA.

[NI6053] Peskett 98: To Boston, USA

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[NF0054] Granted dispensation from Pope Benedict XII to marry her third cousin John.

[NF0227] Handfast Union, the son Angus legitimated by precept of legitimation from the Crown in 1584.

[NF0732] First marriage s.p.

[NF0967] Marr Cert: No 10 Western District of Cadden in the County of Lanark 6 Jun 1933 at 4 Victoria Road, Lenzie after Banns according to the forms of the Church of Scotland. William Elliot, grocery salesman, Bachelor of 993 Maryhill Road, Glasgow N.W. age 27 son of William Elliot, bread salesman and Janet Elliot, M.S. Denholm and Dorothy Ann Sanders, grocer's assistant, Spinster age 23 of 70 Balfour Street, Glasgow N.W. daughter of John Stuart Sanders, Shipping Clerk (Deceased) and Ann Sanders M.S. Robertson. Signed Duncan McDiairmid, Minister of Gairbraid Church, Glasgow N.W. M. Vasey, 4 Victoria Road, Lenzie, witness. John Elliot, 993 Maryhill Road, Glasgow, witness. Registered 8 Jun 1833 at Bishopbriggs signed Andrew Lees Registrar.

[NF1013] Marr Cert: No 667 District of St Nicholas, Burgh of Aberdeen. 21 Dec 1894 at Crooked Lane Hall, Aberdeen. After publication according to the forms of the Church of Scotland. J Sanders, Sgt, Gordon Hldrs (Bachelor) age 22 of Castlehill Bks, Aberdeen son of John Sanders, Cabinet Maker (Deceased) and Isabella Gibson previously Sanders M.S. Pringle and Ann Robertson, Cotton Mill Worker (Spinster) age 19 of 14 Hanover Street, Aberdeen daughter of George Robertson, Ship Carpenter and Elizabeth Robertson M.S. White (deceased). Signed James [Co]oper DD Minister of the East Parish of St Nicholas, Aberdeen. JSD McDermot, witness Alex Somerville, witness. Registered 24 Dec 1894 at Aberdeen Charles Stronach, Registrar.

[NF1067] Parish of Contin; Parish No. 60; Entry No. 1. Date of marriage 16th June, 1892. Place of marriage - Glascharn under Free Church. Husband - McDonald, Alexander. Age 36. Occupation - Crofter. Address Dalnacroich, Carnoch. His father - McDonald, Kenneth, deceased, Crofter. His mother - Beaton, Margaret.
Wife - McLennan, Margaret. Age 37. Occupation - Domestic Servant. Address - Glascharn, Contin. Her father - McLennan, John, Retired Farmer. Her mother - Matheson, Catherine. Witnesses - Murdo Macdonald; Donald McLennan.

[NF1144] [John.FTW]

Anexander & Ann had 4 children.

[NF2215] No issue from this marriage.

[NS18181] e-mail [email protected]

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[NS16873] Clan Donald Society of Ediburgh Library

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