!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF
CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society,
1970, pp. 131, 132.
Marion... married Rev. John Beaton, M.A., minister of Bracadale
(1642-1708), with issue.
Marion MacLeod of Drynoch and her husband, the Rev. John Beaton of
Vracadale,had several sons, who died young; their eldest son died in
Edinburgh, when studying for the ministry, and soon afterwards ''three or
four sons died at home of the small pox.'' [HISTORICAL AND
GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BETHUNES OF THE ISLAND OF SKY (reprint
1893), p. 33.]