John MACLEOD (II of Waternish)

Father: Norman MACLEOD
Mother: [daughter_of] CHISHOLM

Family 1: [niece_of Roderick] MACLEOD
  1. Norman MACLEOD
  2. John of_the_fair_hair MACLEOD 
                                                                                  _John Iain Ciar MACLEOD _
                                                     _William Cleireach MACLEOD _|_? O'NEIL _______________
                           _John Iain_Borb MACLEOD _|
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 _Norman MACLEOD _________|
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|                         |_Margaret DOUGLAS _______|
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|--John MACLEOD 
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|_[daughter_of] CHISHOLM _|
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!SOURCE: THE MACLEODS OF ARNISDALE, compiled by Rev. Donald MacKinnon, Portree, Skye, Scotland, 1929, reprinted by The Clan MacLeod Society USA, Migration Project Publications Series, Number 1, 1984, p. 7. From this John, the descendants of Norman take their name, "Sliochd Iain MhicLeod." He was brought up by his Grandfather, Iain Borb, and, after his death, by Roderick MacLeod, VII of Lewis, who was married to his aunt, Margaret, daughter of his grandfather, Iain Borb. Young John married the niece of Roderick of Lewis, and received along with her, as her dowry, Waternish, in Skye. John had a son Norman.

!BIOGRAPHY: 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, p. 15. This MacLeod family [The MacLeods of Waternish] was descended from Norman, second son of John MacLeod (Iain Borb), 6th Chief of the MacLeods of Dunvegan. According to the BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT, Normans was an older twin of William, afterwards 7th Chief, but no other MacLeod manuscript, known at present, says so. The TALISKER MANUSCRIPT and alsot the DUNVEGAN MANUSCRIPT simply state that Norman was a second son of Iain Borb. The BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT tells a very moving story. Norman was William's older twin, and led both branches of the Clan -- Siol Tormoid and the Siol Torcuil -- at the battle of Inverlochy in Lochaber, that he was killed, and that his wife, a daughter of Chisholm of Strathglass, on hearing of his death, gave birth to a child and died. If Norman was really William's twin brother, he would have been born in 1415, and and in 1429 (the date of the battle of Inverlochy) would have been too young to lead the Clan in battle, be married and have a son born to him when he was only fourteen years of age. Probably the story given in the Bannatyne Mauscript may be artly true with some at least of the events desribed taking place subsequent to 1429. [Very often the author of the BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT misplaces chronological events which are historically true.) The Manuscripts, with the exception of BANNATYNE's are all agreed that Norman was Iain Borb's second son, and that his son was John. His grandfather, Iain Borb, took a special interest in young John, and sent him to his Castle on Pabbay in the Sound of Harris. After Iain Borb's death, his aunt, Margaret, who was married to Roderick MacLeod of Lewis, befriended John, and invited him to live with her in Lewis. In due course, young John married a niece of Roderick MacLeod of Lewis [BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT], and received as her dowry the lands of Waternish, which belonged at that time to the MacLeods of Lewis. The BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT states that he had a son, Norman, but no other manuscript mentions him. The TALISKER MANUSCRIPT says that his son was John Og (John the younger), styled 'of Minginish'. It would appear that at some unspecified period John MacLeod migrated from Waternish to Minginish, probably in the time of Alasdair Crotach, 8th Chief. His descendants known as SLIOCHD IAIN MHIC LEOID, were associated with Minginish down to the time of Sir Roderick Mor MacLeod, 15th Chief, who died in 1626. It is not known when John MacLeod died, but he was succeeded by his son.

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