!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, and Alick Morrison, MACLEOD CHIEFS
OF HARRIS AND DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1969,
pp. 28ff..
The following interesting notes on Anne Martin''s father and family have
been extracted from MARTIN PAPERS in the Muniment Room at Dunvegan
Castle. Her father was William Martin, who belonged to a family of
Martins, settled at Dunvegan in the seventeenth century. No doubt the
family was branch of the Martins of Duntuilm, who for many generations
were of considerable importance and high standing in the social life of
Skye. William was born at Dunvegan, and had at least two brothers:
Patrick, who was a writer in Edinburgh, and afterwards is on record as
''servitor'' to Norman, 21st Chief, and John, who was a drover, a calling
not considered in those days unsuitable for a gentleman. His cousin, ''Mr.
John Martin'', was schoolmaster of Perth. William himself was the
companion of Roderick, 10th Chief, and was with him when he died at
Fortrose in 1699. After Roderick''s death, William became a merchant in
Edinburgh. We find him later a resident in Fortrose, of which he was
made a burgess. Still later he is wadsetter of Brae, near Cromarty, and a
year or so before his death in 1733, he acquired the property of Inchfure
in Easter Ross. William Martin married, in Edinburgh, as his first wife,
Anne Petrie, with issue....
One of William Martin''s daughters of his first marriage was married to
Roderick MacNeil, merchant in Dunvegan, who looked after Lady Grange
during the last nine months of her life in Skye, and arranged for her
funeral at Trumpan in Waternish.
William Martin married, as his second wife, Katherine, sister of Duncan
Forbes, bailie of Fortrose, with issue.