'MacDonald04'
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Families covered: Macdonald of Sleat

Hugh MacDonald, 1st of Sleat (d 1498)
m/p1. Fynvola MacIan (dau of MacIan of Ardnamurchan)
1. John Macdonald, 2nd of Sleat (dsp 1502)
m/p2. dau of Gun, Cruineir Ghall (Crowner of Caithness)
2. Donald Galloch Macdonald, 3rd of Sleat (d 1506)
  m. ?? MacDonell (dau of John of Islay and the Glens = Sir John McIan 'Cathanach' MacDonell of Antrim)
A. Donald Grumach Macdonald, 4th of Sleat (d 1539)
  m1. Catherine Macdonald (dau of Alastair MacAllan Macdonald, 7th of Clanranald and Moidart)
  i. Donald Gorm Macdonald, 5th of Sleat (d after 1546)
  m. Mary Macleod (dau of Roderick Macleod of the family of Harris)
  a. Donald Gormeson Macdonald, 6th of Sleat (d 1573)
  m. Mary Maclean (dau of Hector Maclean of Dowart)
  (1) Donald Gorm Mor Macdonald, 7th of Sleat (dsp 12.1616)
  m1. (div 1600) Margaret Macleod (dau of Tormod MacLeod of Harris, 13th Chief)
  m2. Mary Mackenzie (dau of Colin Cam Mackenzie, 11th of Kintail)
(2) Archibald Macdonald
  m. Margaret (Mary) Macdonald (dau of Angus Macdonald of Duniveg and the Glens)
  (A) Sir Donald Macdonald, 1st Bart of Sleat (d 10.1643)
  m. Janet Mackenzie (dau of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord of Kintail)
  (i) Sir James Macdonald, 2nd Bart of Sleat (d 08.12.1675/8)
  m1. (mcrt 23.02.1633) Margaret Mackenzie (dau of Sir Roderick Mackenzie of Tarbat)
  (a) Sir Donald Macdonald, 3rd Bart of Sleat (d 05.02.1695)
  m. (24.07.1662) Mary/Margaret Douglas (dau of Robert Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton)
  ((1)) Sir Donald Macdonald, 4th Bart of Sleat (d 1718)
m. Mary Macdonald (dau of Donald Macdonald of Castleton)
  ((A)) Sir Donald Macdonald, 5th Bart of Sleat (b 1697, d unm 1720)
  ((B)) Margaret Macdonald
  m. John McQueen (Captain)
  ((C)) Isabella Macdonald
  m. Alexander Monro of Auchenbowie
((D)) Janet Macdonald
  m. Norman MacLeod, 22nd Chief (d 1772)
  BP1934 also shows Sir Donald, 4th Bart, as having a daughter Mary (d 1779) who married John MacDougal of Dunollie in 1712 but BLG1952 (MacDougall) shows the wife of John, 22nd of Dunollie, as having married (in 1712) Mary (d 1776), daughter of William, Donald's younger brother. We follow the latter.
  ((2)) Sir James Macdonald, 6th Bart of Sleat (d 1723)
  m1. Janet Macleod (dau of Alastair Macleod of Grishernish)
  ((A)) Sir Alexander Macdonald, 7th Bart of Sleat (b 1711, d 23.11.1746)
  m1. (05.04.1733) Anne Erksine (dau of David Erskine of Dun)
((i)) Donald Macdonald (b 1734, d young)
  m2. (24.04.1739) Margaret (d 30.03.1799, dau of Alexander Seton Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton)
  ((ii)) Sir James Macdonald, 8th Bart of Sleat (b 1742, d unm 26.07.1766)
  ((iii)) Sir Alexander Macdonald, 9th Bart of Sleat, 1st Lord of Slate (d 12.09.1795) had issue
m. (03.05.1768) Elizabeth Diana Bosville (d 18.10.1780, dau of Godfrey Bosville of Gunthwaite)
  ((iv)) Sir Archibald Macdonald, 1st Bart of East Sheen (d 18.05.1826) had issue
  m. (26.12.1777) Louisa Leveson-Gower (d 29.01.1827, dau of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford)
  ((B)) Margaret Macdonald
  m. (c1738) Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Bart of Glenbervie (b 1694, d 24.04.1770, the genealogist)
  ((C)) Isabel Macdonald (d unm)
((D)) Janet Macdonald
  m. Sir Alexander Mackenzie, 5th Bart of Coul (d 1792)
  m2. Margaret Macdonald (dau of John Macdonald of Castleton)
  ((E)) John Macdonald (d young)
  ((3)) William Macdonald ancestor of Macdonalds of Vallay
  m. Katherine Cameron (dau of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel)
  ((A))+ other issue
  ((B)) Mary Macdonald (d 1776)
  m. (1712) John MacDougall, 22nd of Dunollie (d 1737)
((4)) Isabella Macdonald (d 13.06.1743)
  m. Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick
  ((5)) Barbara Macdonald
  m. Coll Macdonald, 15th of Keppoch (b c1670, d c1723)
  (b) Roderick Macdonald had issue
  (c) Hugh Macdonald of Glenmore
  m. Anne Robertson (dau of Alexander Robertson, 16th of Struan)
(d) Somerled Macdonald of Sortie
  (e) Katherine Macdonald
  m. Sir Norman Macleod of Bernera
  (f) Florence Macdonald
  m. John Macleod of Harris and Dunvegan, 19th Chief (b 1637, d 1693)
  m2. Mary Macleod (dau of John Macleod of Macleod)
  (g) John Macdonald of Balconie
  Not sure by which wife was ...
  (h) Mary Macdonald
  m. Donald Gorm Macdonald, 1st of Scotus
(ii) Donald Macdonald, 1st of Castleton had issue
  (iii) Margaret Macdonald
  m. (1646) Angus (Aeneas) Macdonell, 9th of Glengarry, Lord Macdonell (b c1615, dsp 06.12.1680)
  (iv) Katherine Macdonald (dsp)
  m. Kenneth Mackenzie, 6th of Gairloch
  (v) Janet Macdonald (dsp)
  m. Donald Macdonald of Moidart (d 1686)
  (vi) Mary Macdonald (dsp)
  m. Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel
  b. Alexander Og Macdonald
  ii. James Macdonald
  m. ?? MacLeod (dau of Alasdair Crottach ('the Humpbacked') MacLeod, 8th Chief)
  m2. Margaret Macleod of Harris
  b. daughter apparently of this generation
  m. Alastair Macdonald, 5th of Keppoch (d c1498-9)
partner unknown
3. Alexander Macdonald

Main sources: BP1934 (Bosville Macdonald of the Isles)
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