!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE BARONAGE
OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, 1798, p. 382.
!BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE
MACLEODS--THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan
MacLeod Society, 1968, pp. 35, 36.
Born in the island of Berneray [JACOBITE PEERAGE], Harris, married in
1720, Ranald MacDonald, 17th of Clanranald. She was a sincere Jacobite
much loved in Berneray and South Uist, and is famous in Scottish history
as Lady Clanranald of the ''45. She was the close friend of Flora
MacDonald, the Highland heroine and did all in her power to help Prince
Charles Edward Stuart, while he was in South Uist. She not only
provided him with food but also with clothes, wherein acted the part of
"Betty Burke" and so enabled him to slip through the closing net of his
pursuers. She was blamed for bringing her husband into "the scrape" and
after suffering imprisonment in Tilbury, London, she was allowed to
return home. Ranald MacDonald 17th and Margaret MacLeod had issue.
Margaret, Lady Clanranald died on the 20th September 1780 at
Ormiclate and was buried at Nunton, South Uist.