!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS --
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod
Society, 1968, p. 87.
Major James MacDonald (son of Alexander MacDonald, 1st of the
MacDonalds of Boisdale, South Uist, and his third wife, Anne, daughter of
MacNeil of Barra), tacksman of Askernish, South Uist, with issue.
Major James MacDonald of Askernish died, at Rothesay, on 18th June
1857, predeceased by his wife, Christina MacLeod, on 9th July 1835, and
both are buried at Rothesay.