Norman MACLEOD (IV of Waternish)

REFERENCE: WATERNISH

Father: Alexander MACLEOD
Mother: Marsaline MORRISON

Family 1: Catherine MACDONALD

                                                                                       _Norman MACLEOD _________
                                                        _John MACLEOD ________________|_[daughter_of] CHISHOLM _
                       _John of_the_fair_hair MACLEOD _|
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                      |                                |_[niece_of Roderick] MACLEOD _|_________________________
 _Alexander MACLEOD __|
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|                     |_Shiela or_Florence MACDONALD __|
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|--Norman MACLEOD 
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|                      _Torquil MORRISON ______________|
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|_Marsaline MORRISON _|
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Notes

!MENTION: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS -- THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, pp. 19, 20, 21. This second Norman was the son of Alexander, fourth son of Iain a'Chuil Bhain, and was the only male of Sliochd Iain Mhic Leoid who escaped death on the fateful night on which Norman MacLeod of Dunvegan (12th Chief) had hoped to exterminate this race forever. The story of young Norman's flight from death is given with great circumstantiality in the BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT. Norman, as a child, had been sent to the home of Finlay Morrison and his wife, Beathag (Rebecca) Morrison [Beathag's patronymic is given as Beathan nighean Choinnich Mac Aonghuis Mhic Gillemhoire (Rebecca, daughter of Kenneth, son of Angus Morrison) in the BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT], in the Island of Taransay, Harris, to be nursed. Both Finlay and Beathag were closely related to Norman's mother, Marsaline Morrison. Finlay was one of the men who had taken the oath to Norman MacLeod of Dunvegan to extirpate the Sliochd Iain Mhic Leoid, but in his heart he was a friend of the doomed race. The age-long Gaelic sentiment that a foster-child had a better right to the love, care and protection of his foster-parents than their own off-spring, weighed heavily on Finlay Morrison's heart, and so on the night on which he was expected to murder his foster-child, he was greatly depressed. When little Norman climbed on his knee to kiss him, Finlay gave vent to his feeling in tears an sobs, and in great agony of heart he cried to his wife: 'Fly and save him'. She udnerstood and at once took the boy, and asked two of her sons to ferry her immediately to the mainland of Harris. Having got her feet on the mainland, she hurried across the hilss to Stockinish, where she encountered one of the murderers returning from Shellibost after murdering in cold blood Allan MacLeod and his family. Beathag asked him to ferry her across the Minch to Skye, offering him as a reward a large silver brooch, which, however, he refused, and which was long preserved as a family heirloom among her descendants [According to the BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT (shorter version), the last person known to possess the heirloom, was Marsaline Morrison in Edinburgh, a descendant of Beathag nighean Choinnich mac Aonghuis mhic Ghillemoire.]. Beathag landed safely in Skye, and, after being nearly captured by some of Norman MacLeod's followers, she arrived at Duntuilm Castle, where she laid her foster-child in the arms of Donald Gormson of Sleat, who was closely related to Norman's father through his mother, saying: "This is the only surviving male of Sliochd Iain Mhic Leoid. To your protection I resign him'. MacDonald of Sleat most humanely and generously reared and educated young Norman, and gave him, when he came of age, the lands of Kingsburgh, which he and his family held until they returned to the MacLeod 'country' after Sir Roderick Mor MacLeod succeeded to the chiefship of the Clan. Norman MacLeod married Catherine, daughter of James MacDonald of Castle Camus, Sleat (and granddaughter of Alasdair Crotach MacLeod of MacLeod) who was the progenitor of the historic family of Kingsburgh, with issue. Norman MacLeod, 4th of the MacLeods of Waternish, died and was succeeded in the representation of the family by his eldest son.

!MENTION: BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY, Eighteenth Edition, Vol. II, London, 1969, pp. 417, 418.

!SOURCE: Rev. Donald MacKinnon, THE MACLEODS OF ARNISDALE, Migration Project Publications Series Number 1, Clan MacLeod Society, USA, 1984, p. 8. As noted above, Norman alone of the "Sliochd Iain MhicLeoid" escaped the fate of his kindred. He married Catherine, daughter of James MacDonald, fourth son of Donald MacDonald, IV of Sleat, and progenitor of the MacDonalds of Kingsburgh [Clan Donald, Vol. III, p. 469; "History of the MacDonald," by MacKenzie, p. 262.] To Norman MacLeod and Catherine MacDonald was born a family of three sons and several daughters. The sons were William, Donald, and Alexander.

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