William MARTIN

Family 1: Anne PETRIE
  1. Roderick MARTIN
  2. Euphame MARTIN
  3. Isobel MARTIN
  4. Mary MARTIN
Family 2: Katherine FORBES
  1. John MARTIN
  2. William MARTIN
  3. Norman MARTIN
  4. Barbara MARTIN
  5. Anne MARTIN 
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Notes

[The following interesting notes on Anne Martin's father and family have been extracted from MARTIN PAPERS in the Muniment Room at Dunvegan Castle. Her father was William Martin, who belonged to a family of Martins, settled at Dunvegan in the seventheenth century. No doubt the family was branch of the Martins of Duntuilm, who for many generations were of considerable importance and high standing in the social life of Skye. William was born at Dunvegan, and had at least two brothers: Patrick, who was a writer in Edinburgh, and aftewards is on record as 'servitor' to Norman, 21st Chief, and John, who was a drover, a calling not considered in those days unsuitable for a gentleman. His cousin, 'Mr. John Martin', was schoolmaster of Perth. William himself was the companion of Roderick, 10th Chief, and was with him when he died at Fortrose in 1699. After Roderick's death, William became a merchant in Edinburgh. We find hiom later a resident in Fortrose, of which he was made a burgess. Still later he is wadsetter of Brae, near Cromarty, and a year or so before his death in 1733, he acquired the property of Inchfure in Easter Ross. William Martin married, in Edinburgh, as his first wife, Anne Petrie, with issue....

One of William Martin's daughters of his first marriage was married to Roderick MacNeil, merchant in Dunvegan, who looked after Lady Grange during the last nine months of her life in Skye, and arranged for her funeral at Trumpan in Waternish.

William Martin married, as his second wife, Katherine, sister of Duncan Forbes, bailie of Fortrose, with issue.

[Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, and Alick Morrison, MACLEOD CHIEFS OF HARRIS AND DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1969, pp. 28ff..]

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