Margaret
MacLeod
Born after in Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Daughter of Donald MacLeod
and Anne (MacLean) MacLeod
Wife of
Donald MacLeod
— married
about 1768 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Charles MacLeod KCB, Christina MacLeod, Donald MacLeod KCB, John MacLeod KCB, Alexandrina MacLeod, Marion MacLeod and Jessie MacLeod
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Oct 2016
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Biography
Margaret was the daughter of the Rev. Donald MacLeod, Ill. of Greshornish, and minister of Duirinish and Anne MacLean, his wife.
Margaret was only sixteen years old when she married a twice widowed, 75 year old, Donald MacLeod of Bernera. The marriage took place about 1768. They had issue, three sons and six daughters giving Donald a total of 26 children.[1]
Sources
- Hector Hugh MACKENZIE, The MacLeans of Boreray, with Cadet Families and Branches. 1946, Inverness, Northern Chronicle Office, p. 86.
- Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticane, Vol. VII - Synods of Ross, Sutherland and Caithness, Glenelg, Orkney and Shetland, England Ireland and Overseas –Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, Tweeddale Court, published 1928, pp. 168-69.
- Mackenzie, Alexander, History of the Macleods with genealogies of the principal families of the name, 1889, Inverness : A. & W. Mackenzie, pp. 268-9.
- ↑ History of the Macleods, p. 253.
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~3.12%
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