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dougal " of i\Iorir, or Morar, Avliilc several others, among them the AUai
grange " Ancient" IMS., say that she Avas " Macllanukl's daughter." Tli
Ardintoul MS. has it that slie was "Muidort's daughter." One of tli,
Gairloch MSS. in our possession says tliat she was "Margarito, tli
daughter of the Macdonald of Morar, of tlie Clan Ranald Eace from tli
Stock of Donald, Lord of the yEbudie Islands," while in another, also ii
our possession, she is described as "Margaret Macdonald, daughter c
Macdonald of Morar." There is here an apparent contradiction, Init i
can be shown, we think, with perfect accuracy, that the lady so various!
described was one and the same person. Gregory, in his " Highland
and Isles of Scotland," p. 158, clearly shows that this Macdougal was th
patronymic of one of the Families of Clan Eanald of Moydart and jMorai
Speaking of Dougal MacRanald, son and successor to Eanald Ban Eaii
aldson of Moydart, he says, " Allan, the eldest son of Dougal, and tin
undoubted male heir of Clan Eanald, accxuired the estate of Morar, wliiel
he transmitted to his descendants. He and his successors weru alway
styled, in Gaelic, MacDhughail Tdhorair, i.e., MacDougal of Morar, frou
their ancestor, Dougal I\IacEanald." At p. 65 he informs us that "th-
Clan Eanald of Garmoran comprehended the families of Moydart, 3.Iorai ,
Knoydart, and Glengarry," and that they were descended from Eauakl
younger son of John of the Isles, by his marriage Avith the heiress of tl)>
MacEorys, or MacEuairies of Garmoran, Avhose ancestry, from Somerlei
of the Isles, is as illustrious as that of any family in Britain. A distric
north of Arisaig is still known among the Western Islanders as " Mor-tlii
Mhic Dhughail," or the mainland possession of the son of Dougal. Thi
MS. histories of the Mackenzies, having been all written after the pat
ronymic of " MacDhughail " Avas acquired by the Macdonalds of INIoydar
and Morar, naturally enough called Alexander of Kintail's second wife, ;
daughter of Macdougal of Morar, or Muidurt, and of Clan Eanald indis
criminately, for all these designations applied to the same family.
Alexander Avas tAvice married, first to Anna, daughter of Macdougal
of DunoUy ; secondly to Margaret, daughter of Clan Eanald, by AvhoD
he had
I. Hector Eoy Mackenzie, generally known as " Eachainu Euadli,'^
the first of the family of ]\Lackenzie Avho obtained possession of Gairloch
Hector played such an important part in the history of his time that i
will be necessary to describe somewhat in detail the various matters oi;
moment in Avhich he Avas concerned. This has been, to some extent.!
already done in his capacity of Tutor or Guardian to his nepheAV, John olj
Kdlin, IX. of Kintail. j
It has been conclusively established that Kemreth ^Mackenzie'
(a Bhlair), VII. of Kintail, died in 1491, and that his son, Kemieth Og/
killed in the Torwood by tlie Laird of Buchanan in 1497, outlived him
and became one of the Barons of Kintail, though there is no account ol
his ever having been served heir. It has been affirmed that Duncan.
Kenneth a Bhlair's elder brother, predeceased him, and that, consecpientl}
Hector Eoy succeeded in the usual Avay^ he being the eldest surviving!
hrother of the Chief, as legal guardian of Kenneth Og. We have notj
been able to establish this assertion ; but Duncan's name docs not ai^peai'
after his brother's death in 1491 in any of the MS. histories of the Clan.