!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A
CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society,
1970, p. 102, 103, 104.
Donald was born at Scallasaig in 1706, and in 1744 received from the
Laird of MacLeod ''in tack'' ''the Touns and Lands of Sandaigg, Clambuell
and Achdadyle, with houses, beggings, grasseings, sheilling, &c., all
Lyeing within the Barony of Glenelg and Sheriffdome of Inverness''. In
the following year (11th May) the Laird of MacLeod appointed him ''Baillie
of the Lands and Barony of Glenelg... with full power to Fence hold fix and
affirm and Continue Courts at the town of Kirktown or upon any other
part of the said Lands most convenient for administrating Justice to the
Inhabitants thereof and others as oft as the same shall be needful''.
Donald married Christian (not Margaret, as stated by MacKenzie in his
HISTORY OF THE MACLEODS), daughter of William MacLeod, 3rd of the
MacLeods of Hamer, with issue.
Donald MacDonald [sic], 2nd of the MacLeods of Arnisdale, had a ''natural''
son, Hector.
In October 1793, aged eighty-seven years, Donald MacLeod died, and
was buried in the graveyard of the Parish Church of Glenelg. His widow,
Christian MacLeod, died in May 1799, aged eighty years. Their sons
erected a tablet to their memory in the Parish Church of Glenelg as a
''slight testimony of their affection''. Donald MacLeod was succeeded in
the representation of the family of Arnisdale by his son.
!SOURCE: Rev. Donald MacKinnon, THE MACLEODS OF ARNISDALE, Portree,
Skye, Scotland, 1929, reprinted by The Clan MacLeod Society USA,
Migration Project Publications Series, Number 1, 1984, pp. 14-16.
He was born in 1706. He married "Christina MacLeod, youngest lawful
daughter of William MacLeod of Hammir," great-grandson of Rory Mor,
XIII of Dunvegan. The marriage contract is dated 26th December 1744,
and was written by Roderick MacDonald, writer in Skye. The witnesses
were William MacLeod, son of William macLeod of Hammir; Mr. James
MacDonald, Itinerant Preacher in the Isle of Skye. MacKenzie, in his
"History of the MacLeods," is in error when he states (page 263), that it
was Margaret MacLeod who married Donald MacLeod of Arnisdale. It was
Christina, as stated above. William MacLeod of Hammir had other
daughters not mentioned by MacKenzie, vix.: -- Elizabeth, who died
before 8th October 1759; Mary, and Sybella, who was married to Norman
MacLeod of Glenfunery.
In 1744, Donald MacLeod of Arnisdale received from the Laird of
MacLeod, "in tack", "The Touns and Lands of Sandaigg, Clambuell, and
Achdadyle, with houses, beggings, grasseings, sheillings, etc., all Lyeing
within the Barrony of Glenelg and Sheriffdome of Inverness." In the
following year (11th May), the Laird of MacLeod (Norman, 19th Chief),
appointed Donald MacLeod as "Baillie of the Lands and Barrony of Glenelg
. . . with full power to Fence hold fix and affirm and Continue Courts at
the town of Kirktown or upon any other part of the said Lands most
convenient for administrating Justice to the Inhabitants thereof and
others as oft as the same shall be needful."
Donald MacLeod died in October 1793, and is buried in the Churchyard in
Glenelg. His widow died in May, 1799, aged 80 years, and is also buried
in Glenelg. A tablet to their memory was erected in the Parish Church of
Glenelg, with the following inscription: --
SACRED TO THE MEMORY
OF DONALD MACLEOD
OF ARNISDALE WHO DIED
OCT. 1793, AGED 87 YEARS.
ALSO
TO THE MEMORY OF
CHRISTINA MACLEOD
WHO DIED MAY 1799,
AGED 80 YEARS.
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED
BY THE SURVIVING SONS AS
A SLIGHT TESTIMONY OF
THEIR AFFECTION.
Donald MacLeod, 11th of Arnisdale, was succeeded by his eldest son in
the representation of the family.