!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE BARONAGE
OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1798, pp. 384, 386.
"Malcolm-Garve MacLeod, second son of Malcolm eighth baron of Lewes,
was the first of this family.
"In the reign of King James V, he obtained from his father in patrimony
the island of Rasay, etc. which hath ever since been the chief title of his
family, and is still enjoyed by his posterity.
"He died in the reign of queen Mary, leaving issue a son."
!BIOGRAPHY: BURKE''S LANDED GENTRY, Eighteenth Edition, Vol. II, London,
Burke''s Peerage Limited, 1969, pp. 416-417.
!SOURCE: Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN,
Section IV, "The MacLeods of Lewis", Edinburgh, Associated Clan MacLeod
Societies, 1974, p. 5. Progenitor of the MacLeods of Raasay.
!SOURCE: Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN,
Section IV, Revised Edition, "The MacLeods of Lewis", Edinburgh,
Associated Clan MacLeod Societies, 1990, p. 7.
Malcolm Garbh, progenitor of the MacLeods of Raasay, of whom not
much is known. In 1532, Farquhar, Bishop of the Isles, mentions
"MacGillechalum callit of Raasay" and in 1549 Dean Munro wrote that
Raasay belonged to "MacGillechalum by the sword and the Bishop of the
Isles by heritage". His wife''s name is not known, but they had issue.
!SOURCE: Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN,
Section IV, Second Edition, Revised by Major Loudoun Hector Davenport
MacLeod, RM, and others, "The MacLeods of Lewis", Edinburgh, Associated
Clan MacLeod Societies, 1990, p. 39.
The MacLeods of Raasay are descended from Malcolm MacLeod IX of
Lewis who, about 1510, gave his second son, known as Calum Garbh
(Malcolm the Stout), as his patrimony the Islands of Raasay and Rona as
well as the districts of Coigeach and Gairloch on the western mainland
of Ross. The first MacLeod of Raasay (Mac Gillechaluim) was Malcolm
Garbh MacLeod (c. 1503-c. 1560).
Neither history nor tradition has much to say about him. In 1532 we
find Farquhar, Bishop of the Isles, had occasion to call to account
MacNeil of Barra and "Mac Gillechalum callit of Raasay". In 1549 Dean
Monro stated that "Raasay belonged to Mac Gillechalum by the sword and
the Bishop of the Isles by heritage". Malcolm was married and had at
least two sons.
!SOURCE: Robert B. Malloy, THE ISLE OF RAASAY", Framingham Center,
Massachusetts, 1975.