!SOURCE: 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, pp. 66, 81.
Lived in Brittle in the Minginish district, and was married to a lady,
whose name has not come down to us, with issue. He and his family
emigrated to North Carolina, but, …he returned to Skye, where he died.
This MacLeod Family [The MacLeods of Brittle] stemmed from the
family of Glendale [See ante The MacLeods of Glendale (First Family)].
Alexander MacLeod, 6th of the family, who married, as his second wife,
Christina, daughter of John MacLeod, 4th of the MacLeods of Drynoch, had
issue: John, who succeeded his father as 6th of the family of Glendale,
Alexander, who was the progenitor of the MacLeod family of Brittle, and
Roderick, who was killed at the battle of Falkirk in 1745.
Alexander, who was born about 1717, was known to his contemporaries
as ALASDAIR MOR BHREATAIL (Big Alexander of Brittle), Brittle in
Minginish being the tack, which he held from MacLeod of MacLeod. He
married Margaret MacDonald, of whom nothing is known, with issue. He,
with some members of his family, emigrated to North Carolina, but when
his brother''s wife died at Wilmington, North Carolina, he returned to
Skye in order to persuade his sisters, Elizabeth and Isabella, to emigrate
to look after their brother''s motherless children. Family tradition says
that Elizabeth and Isabella crossed the Atlantic Ocean and settled in
Wilmington, where the three children lived [MacLeod: Our MacLeod
Ancestry, pp. 10-12.]. Alexander himself did not return to North
Carolina. By his wife, Margaret MacDonald, he had issue.
It is not known when Alexander Mor MacLeod of Brittle died. He was
succeeded in the representation of the family by his son.