_Dr. Angus BETHUNE __
_Ferquhard BETHUNE _|_____________________
_Dr. Angus BETHUNE __|
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_Rev. John BETHUNE _|
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|--Farquhar BETHUNE
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| _Alexander MACLEOD __
| _Donald MACLEOD ____|_Margaret MACKINNON _
| _John MACLEOD _______|
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|_Marion MACLEOD ____|
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|_Catherine CAMPBELL _|
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!SOURCE: Rev. Thomas Whyte, AN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL ACOCUNT OF THE BETHUNES OF THE ISLAND OF SKYE, Edinburgh, 1778, reprinted London, 1893, by Alfred A. Bethune-Baker, reprinted by ScotsPress, pp. 34-35. Ferquhard, the eldest son of Mr. John Bethune just now mentioned, was the ninth descendent in a male line from John Bethune fifth laird of Balfour, and Marjory third daughter of David Boswell of Balmuto. He removed from Sky to Kintyre, where he married Isobel, daughter of Colin M'Eacharn of Kilellan. He succeeded to the estate of Kilellan, upon the death of his wife's brother Neil without issue. But it was so much burdened with debt, and what was free of it was so much embarrassd by the Duchess Dowager of Argyle, who raised a most expensive and tedious process against him, which could not be brought to a final decision until some time after his spouse's death: For these reasons, instead of gaining anything by the succession, he was a great loser; and, on that account, was obliged to part with a good deal of his own patrimony. He died in the year 1762, aged almost an hundred. By his wife Isobel M'Eacharn, he had six sons, Angus, Hector, John, Colin, Lauchlan, and Duncan.