John MACLEOD

Father: Donald 'Old_Trojan' MACLEOD
Mother: Margaret MACLEOD

Family 1: Jane Gordon FINLAYSON
  1. Donald John MACLEOD
  2. Elizabeth MACLEOD
  3. Margaret MACLEOD 
                                                                             _Sir_Roderick Ruairidh_Mor MACLEOD _
                                                       _Sir Norman MACLEOD _|_Isabel MACDONALD __________________
                                _John MACLEOD ________|
                               |                      |                      _John MACKENZIE ____________________
                               |                      |_Margaret MACKENZIE _|_Isabel MACKENZIE __________________
 _Donald 'Old_Trojan' MACLEOD _|
|                              |                                             _Sir_Roderick MACKENZIE ____________
|                              |                       _Kenneth MACKENZIE __|____________________________________
|                              |_Isabel MACKENZIE ____|
|                                                     |                      _Walter ROSS _______________________
|                                                     |_Janet ROSS _________|____________________________________
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|--John MACLEOD 
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|                                                                            _Donald MACLEOD ____________________
|                                                      _Norman MACLEOD _____|_Margaret FRASER ___________________
|                               _Rev. Donald MACLEOD _|
|                              |                      |                      _Lauchlan MACLEAN_X ________________
|                              |                      |_Catharine MACLEAN __|____________________________________
|_Margaret MACLEOD ____________|
                               |                                             _John MACLEAN_VIII _________________
                               |                       _Rev. John MACLEAN __|____________________________________
                               |_Anne MACLEAN ________|
                                                      |                      ____________________________________
                                                      |_____________________|____________________________________
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!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS--THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1968, p. 83. Was born, on 9th January 1766, and was appointed Ensigh, on 9th Marth 1793, in the 78th Foot Regiment. His promotion was rapid, becoming Lieutenant on 2nd May 1794, Captin on 24th June 1795, Major in the Princess Charlotte of Wales' Fencible Regiment on 9th June 1799, Major (half-pay) on 25th June 1802, Major in the 5th Garrison Battalion on 14th September 1804, Major in the 56th Foot Regiment on 21st February 1805, Brevet-Lieut.-colonel on 1st January 1806, Lieut.-Colonel of the 78th Foot Regiment on 12th May 1808, Brevet-Colonel on 4th June 1813, Major-General on 12th August 1819, Lieut.-General on 10th January 1837, and Colonel of the 77th Foot Regiment on 17th February 1840. He served in Holland under the Duke of York. At home he was successful in recruiting in the Highlands and Islands, and brought six hundred men to the 78th Regiment, when he and Lord Seaforth raised th 2nd Battalion. For his services to his country he was created a Companion of the Bath (C.B.), and afterwards a Knight of the Hanoverian Order of the Guelphs (K.C.H.). Sir John MacLeod died, on 3rd April 1851, in London. He married, on 17th December 1814, Jane Gordon, daughter of Lieut.-Colonel William Finlayson, Aberdeen, with issue.

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