Finevola (MacLeod) MacNeil (abt. 1408 - aft. 1472)

Born about 1408 in Harris, Scotland

Ancestors

Wife of Gilleonan MacNeil — married before 1427 (to after 1427) in Harris Scotland [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 1472 after about age 64 in Barra, Inverness-shire, Scotland

Biography

Finevola was a daughter of Ian MacLeod, known as Ian Borb (John the Turbulent) and Chief of Clan MacLeod. His wife is not provided in original source but she is said to be a granddaughter of the Earl of Douglas, the name believed to be Margaret. Her name is not provided in the Macleod genealogy although Finevola is confirmed in other family genealogies.^[1][2]

Finevola married Lauchlan MacLean. seventh of Duart, ^[3] that source noting that they had two sons: Neil and John Garbh. The Peerage website,^[4] although not confirmed in original source material, suggests that she married, firstly, Lachlan 'Bronnach' Maclean, 4th of Duart, son of Eachan 'Ruadh nan Cath' Maclean, 3rd of Duart, likely the same person but numbered differently, and then she married, secondly, Gilleonan Macneil, 9th of Barra, son of Roderick Macneil, 8th of Barra and unknown daughter Maclean. She had, at least one son, Roderick, by her second marriage.

Sources

1. ↑ The Macleods of Dunvegan from the time of Leod to the end of the seventeenth century; Roderick Charles MacLeod; 1927, page 67
2. ↑ Sinclair, Alexander Maclean (1899). The Clan Gillean. Charlottetown: Haszard and Moore. p. 248.
3. ↑ Sinclair, Alexander Maclean (1899). The Clan Gillean. Charlottetown: Haszard and Moore. p. 248.
4. ↑ The Peerage website, Finevola MacLeod

See also:

• The Macleods of Dunvegan from the time of Leod to the end of the seventeenth century; Roderick Charles MacLeod; 1927 archive.org

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p50614.htm#i506140