!SOURCE: THE MACLEODS OF ARNISDALE, compiled by Rev. Donald
MacKinnon, Portree, Skye, Scotland, 1929, reprinted by The Clan MacLeod
Society USA, Migration Project Publications Series, Number 1, 1984, p.
7.
From this John, the descendants of Norman take their name, "Sliochd
Iain MhicLeod." He was brought up by his Grandfather, Iain Borb, and,
after his death, by Roderick MacLeod, VII of Lewis, who was married to
his aunt, Margaret, daughter of his grandfather, Iain Borb. Young John
married the niece of Roderick of Lewis, and received along with her, as
her dowry, Waternish, in Skye. John had a son Norman.
!BIOGRAPHY: 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, p. 15.
This MacLeod family [The MacLeods of Waternish] was descended from
Norman, second son of John MacLeod (Iain Borb), 6th Chief of the
MacLeods of Dunvegan. According to the BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT,
Normans was an older twin of William, afterwards 7th Chief, but no
other MacLeod manuscript, known at present, says so. The TALISKER
MANUSCRIPT and alsot the DUNVEGAN MANUSCRIPT simply state that
Norman was a second son of Iain Borb. The BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT
tells a very moving story. Norman was William''s older twin, and led both
branches of the Clan -- Siol Tormoid and the Siol Torcuil -- at the battle
of Inverlochy in Lochaber, that he was killed, and that his wife, a
daughter of Chisholm of Strathglass, on hearing of his death, gave birth
to a child and died. If Norman was really William''s twin brother, he
would have been born in 1415, and and in 1429 (the date of the battle of
Inverlochy) would have been too young to lead the Clan in battle, be
married and have a son born to him when he was only fourteen years of
age. Probably the story given in the Bannatyne Mauscript may be artly
true with some at least of the events desribed taking place subsequent
to 1429. [Very often the author of the BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT
misplaces chronological events which are historically true.) The
Manuscripts, with the exception of BANNATYNE''s are all agreed that
Norman was Iain Borb''s second son, and that his son was John.
His grandfather, Iain Borb, took a special interest in young John, and
sent him to his Castle on Pabbay in the Sound of Harris. After Iain Borb''s
death, his aunt, Margaret, who was married to Roderick MacLeod of
Lewis, befriended John, and invited him to live with her in Lewis. In due
course, young John married a niece of Roderick MacLeod of Lewis
[BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT], and received as her dowry the lands of
Waternish, which belonged at that time to the MacLeods of Lewis. The
BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT states that he had a son, Norman, but no other
manuscript mentions him. The TALISKER MANUSCRIPT says that his son
was John Og (John the younger), styled ''of Minginish''. It would appear
that at some unspecified period John MacLeod migrated from Waternish
to Minginish, probably in the time of Alasdair Crotach, 8th Chief. His
descendants known as SLIOCHD IAIN MHIC LEOID, were associated with
Minginish down to the time of Sir Roderick Mor MacLeod, 15th Chief, who
died in 1626. It is not known when John MacLeod died, but he was
succeeded by his son.