Account of the Clan-Iver

Account of the Clan-Iver. 103
The representative of this family, and the head of all the numerous
descendants of Duncan MacKenneth- Vic-Iain, of Ness and Tolsta, is
Kenneth M'lver, Esq., now of Bombay, only son of the late Rev. Alexander
M'lver of Dornoch.*
6. Donald M'lver of Tolsta, son of Alexander, son of Duncan of Ness. His
sons were — 1, Alexander, who died in the United States ; 2, Kenneth, d. s. p-
3, John, Merchant in New York ; 4, Evander, drowned near Stornoway,
leaving a daughter, Evandrina ; 5, Murdo, Minister of Lochalsh, 1770,
married, 1st, 11 March, 1775, Mary, daughter of John Mackenzie of Hilton ;
2nd, Isabella, daughter of William Fraser of Boughton. The Rev. Murdo
M'lver was drowned in passing to Gruinard 12th Feb., 1790, aged 48,
leaving a son, Donald, served heir to his father 25 July, 1792, a youth of
great promise, who joined his uncle John, at New York, but died unmarried
at Bermuda, and four daughters, of whom three were married, one of them
being Mrs, M'Aulay, whose daughter is married to Norman M'lver, Esq.,
Banker in Stornoway.
c. John M'lver, son of Alexander, son of Duncan of Ness, came into possession
of Tolsta after his brother Donald. He was a man of singular probity and
honour, and is said to have excelled all of his time in Lewis in personal
strength. He married a daughter of Mackenzie of Lochend, Poolewe, and
had four sons— 1, Donald, d. s. p. ; 2, Colin, d. s. p. ; 3, Dr. Alexander,
Stornoway ; 4, Lewis, d. s. p. ; also a daughter, Anne, married to Kenneth
M'lver, son of William of Coll — see below — who succeeded him in the pos-
session of Tolsta.
Dr. Alexander M'lver was a man of great public spirit and benevolence,
and devoted his professional services to his native island for fifty years
without fee or reward, except the universal gratitude and respect of its
inhabitants. He married Mary M'Leod, and had two sons —
1 . Daniel, now in Stornoway, who m. Emily, dr. of Capt. Neil M'Kinnon,
of the 93rd Regt., and by her (who d. in 1872) has a son, Walter.
2. Norman, Banker in Stornoway, who married Barbara M'Aulay, grand-
daughter of the Rev. Murdo M'lver of Lochalsh, and has issue
Alexander Colin, now in Madras, and six daughters, of whom the
second, Catharine, married, 1867, Dr. William M'Rae, of the Madras
Medical Service, son of the Rev. John M'Rae, Minister of Stornoway,
and has issue, 1, John-Lewis; 2, Norman; and the third, Helen-
Isabella, m. 1873, Donald Maclver Murray, Esq. of Darjeeling, in
India.
Dr. Alexander M'lver had also several daughters who married, and had
issue.
* In his '• Sketches of the Coasts and Islands," I. 186, Lord Teignmouth relates
that at a funeral entertainment, at which he was present, near Stornoway, in 1827,
the health of the Rev. Colin Mclver of Glenelg, who presided on the occasion, was
proposed as the Chief of the Lewis Maclvers. lie was certainly the Chief of the Ness
or Tolsta division of the Clan, the most numerous in Lewis, and to which probably
all the Mclvers then present belonged. But he is said himself to have admitted the
priority of the Gress family in reference to the Mclvers of Lewis and Ross as a whole,
probably as more directly representing the old Mclvers of Leckmelm.
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