Major Roderick MACLEOD

BIRTH: 1728
DEATH: 31 OCT 1814, Vatten,Duirinish,Skye,Scotland

REFERENCE: BALMEANACH

Father: Donald MACLEOD

Family 1:

MARRIAGE: ABT 1780

                                                          _Alexander MACLEOD _
                                     _Alexander MACLEOD _|_Marsaline MACNEIL _
                   _Donald MACLEOD _|
                  |                 |                     _Kenneth MACKENZIE _
                  |                 |_Flora MACKENZIE ___|____________________
 _Donald MACLEOD _|
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!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, pp. 97, 98, 99. Roderick was born in 1728, and, on 6th February 1757, joined the Scots Brigade in Holland as ensign in Captain Dundas' Company of Gordon's Regiment, and, on 3rd January 1763, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. On 9th March 1774, he became a captain, and in February 1783 his name appears in the Dutch War Office Records with the rank of Major. [THE BRAVE SONS OF SKYE, p. 112.] He retired from the Scots Brigade in 1787, and returned to Skye to become tacksman of Balmeanach in the following year. He was home in Skye on leave in 1773, and when on a jaunt on the mainland he met Dr. Johnson and James Boswell on Mam Rattachan on their way to Glenelg and Skye. Under 1st September, Boswell writes: 'On the top of it (Mam Rattachan) we met Captain MacLEod of Balmeanach (a Dutch officer come from Skye) riding with his sword slung about him'. [Boswell: JOURNAL OF A TOUR (Pottle's and Bennett's edit.), p. 109.] Captain MacLeod, as he then was, returned to Skye before the distinguished visitors left the Island. Boswell mentions [Ibid. p. 239.] that he was one of the company that foregathered at Armadale on 1st October 1773 to bid farewell to Dr. Johnson and himself. It would appear that Major Roderick MacLeod was married twice, and that he had a large family by both wives, but death claimed most of his children in infancy, and their names are not known. By his first wife, whose name has not come down to us, he had two daughters, who survived, married and left descendants. Major Roderick MacLeod's second wife is said to have been a Miss Campbell of Ardnamurchan, whom he married about 1780, and by her he had at least two sons and a daughter. When the tack of Balmeanach expired in 1811, Major Roderick MacLeod, who was then eighty-three years of age, took up residence at Vatten, in the parish of Duirinish, where he died, according to the SCOTS MAGAZINE, on 31st October 1814, aged eighty-six years. He was the last of the family to occupy Balmeanach.

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