!SOURCE: William Matheson, "The MacLeods of Lewis," TRANSACTIONS OF
THE GAELIC SOCIETY OF INVERNESS, Vol. LI (1978-1980), Inverness,
Scotland, 1981, p. 320-337.
As already indicated, he must have been the MacLeod who married the
daughter of Nicolson of Lewis. He had issue.
!SOURCE: Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN,
Section IV, Revised Edition, "The MacLeods of Lewis", Edinburgh,
Associated Clan MacLeod Societies, 1990, pp. 1, 2.
According to the written sources (largely in Old Norse, but also in Latin
and Scots) as well as local traditions, the Long Island was subject to
Norse rule from the beginning of the ninth century until the Treaty of
Perth of 1266 when the territory was ceded to the King of the Scots. The
main families were predominantly of Norse origin, judging by their
names: the MacAulays around Uig in the West of Lewis; the Morrisons
around Port of Ness in the North; the Nicolsons on the east side from the
Eye Peninsula to Seaforth, but also in Gairloch and Assynt on the
mainland of Scotland across the Minch. The Macleods do not appear in
Lewis until the end of the 13th century, at the earliest. In his paper
"The Macleods of Lewis", [Matheson, TGSI (LI) pp. 320-337.] [William]
Matheson argues on the basis of the conventional of first or given names
within family groups that the progenitor of the MacLeods - the Siol
Torcaill - was a Torquil who was so named because his father, a MacLeod
of Harris, married the heiress of the Nicolson clan, in which the name
Torquil was traditional, and in due course succeeded to, or acquired, all
the Nicolson holdings in Lewis and Assynt. Working from a Gaelic
genealogy on the MacLeods of Lewis, now in the Royal Irish Academy,
[Ibid., p. 324.] Matheson suggests that Torquil was the son of one Murdoch
MacLeod who might have been the son of Norman (Tormod), the son of the
eponymous, Leod.
!SOURCE: See <A HREF="matheson2.html">William Matheson, &quot;The
Ancestry of the MacLeods&quot;,</A> TRANSACTIONS OF THE GAELIC
SOCIETY OF INVERNESS, Vol. LI (1978-1980), The Gaelic Society of
Inverness, 1998, pp. 68-80. <BR>