!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS --
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod
Society, 1968, p. 84.
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A
CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society,
1970, pp. 143, 156.
When John Norman MacLeod of MacLeod sold the Glenelg portion of his
estates in 1811 to a London merchant of the name of Bruce, Norman
MacLeod of Drynoch, foreseeing that great economic changes were bound
to take place, advised the Glenelg tenants to emigrate in a body to
Canada, and he himself decided to go with them. Many of the people of
Glenelg took his advice, and sailed for Canada, but his friends persuaded
him to remain at home. Although he did not cross the Atlantic Ocean, he
did not stay on in Glenelg, but returned to Skye, where he took over the
tack of Knock in Sleat, where he died in 1828. He was buried in Glenelg.
Norman married Alexandrina, eldest daughter of Donald MacLeod of
Berneray (the ''Old Trojan''), by his third wife, Margaret, daughter of the
Rev. Donald MacLeod, 3rd of the MacLeods of Greshornish, minister of
Duirinish, Skye, with issue.
Norman MacLeod, the father of ...fifteen children, died, in 1828, at
Knock, Sleat, and was succeeded in the representation of the family of
Drynoch by his grandson.