_Tormod [Norman] MACLEOD _
_Sir_Roderick Ruairidh_Mor MACLEOD _|_Giles Julia MACLEAN _____
_Sir Norman MACLEOD __|
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| |_Isabel MACDONALD __________________|_Margaret MACDONALD ______
_William MACLEOD ____|
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| | _Sir James MACDONALD _______________|_Janet MACKENZIE _________
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|_Margaret MACKENZIE _|
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!BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS--THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1968, pp. 36-37, 38. He was MacLeod's factor in Harris on two occsions and the first period lasted from 1726 to 1735. He appears as one of the forty-one witnesses for Berneray in the Grianam Case 1765-1766, over the controverted marches between between Harris and North Uist in the Court of Session. In that case he provided valuable, precise and interesting information on the history of the island. He stated that his grandfather Sir Norman entered on his liferent in Berneray in 1633 and that he died in 1705; that he was succeeded in the tack by "his Lady" for one year and his father (William MacLeod of Berneray and Luskintyre) to 1730. He further stated that "he himself came from school in the year 1720 and lived with his father in Berneray to 1726 and he lived with his father five or six months at a time before 1720". He succeeded Donald MacLeod, the Old Trojan, in the tack of Unish in Skye from 1730 until 1738, when he succeeded his father at Luskintyre which he gave up in 1769 and seems to have settled in Stornoway. The tack of Unish was now given to Norman MacLeod, the eldest son of the Old Trojan. Alexander constructed the "chappel" to his father at St. Clement's churchyard in Rodel as well as the inscribed tombstone to his memory. Captain Barlow of the Buffs believed that Alexander was "well affected" to the Hanoverian Government during the Forty Five. At least, he did not join the Prince's army! He married Margaret Morrison, who seems to have been more than a match for Donald MacLeod, the Old Trojan of Berneray, who describes her in no flattering terms. For some reason, unknown, her name seems to have been excised from the tombstone erected by her husband to William MacLeod, his father. There were nineteen children of this marriage but most of them seem to have died young. Alexander MacLeod II of Luskintyre was succeeded in the representation of the family by his eldest surviving son, John, of whom nothing is known. he probably died shorlty after his father.