Memorials of the Clan Shaw

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The parties to it are — " Vylyame Thayne of Caldor, on the one part,
and Doncane Mackintoshe Capitane of the Clancattane, Fearchar
M'Intosche sone and aperand ayr [heir] to the foresaid Doncane
and Huchone Allansone." The witnesses are — " Master Thomas
the Grant Official of Murra, Yilyame Doles [Dallas] Canttra
[Cantray], Alexander Allanson, brother to the said Huchone,
Bean Makimpersone, wyth divers sindri." The lady's portion was
" fourty pundis of the usuall mone of Scotlande/'
It is interesting to find the MS. thus confirmed by authentic
evidence. It states, also, that Allan had two daughters, besides the
one married to Ian-Mac- Alister-Kiar Shaw of Rothiemurchus, viz.,
Renille, married to Alexander Mackintosh, and Mary to Robert-
son of Lude.
To return to the genealogies of the Shaws. The MS. proceeds
to state that, John of Rothiemurchus was succeeded by his son
Allan, who married a daughter of Ferchard, (XIBh) Laird of
Mackintosh. Turning to the Mackintosh Genealogy in the same
MS., we find that this Ferchard (mentioued in the above quoted
Contract of Marriage) married Giles Fraser, daughter of Lord
Lovat, and by her had four daughters, viz., one married to Allan
Shaw of Rothiemurchus ; another, Janet, married to the Laird of
Guthrie ; another to Strachan of Glenkindie ; and another to
Alister MacAllan, chief of Clan Ranald. The Laird of Guthrie
above mentioned was David, son of Sir Alexander Guthrie. Both
father and son fell at Flodden in 1513.*
Allan Shaw was succeeded by John (sixth in descent from
Coriaclich). "This gentleman," says the MS,, "married ■
Campbell, and by her had Allan and other sons."
Allan was the last Shaw who held the lands of Rothiemurchus.
The MS, proceeds to tell us how he lost his heritage.
$ow the $hau?$ lo$t Bothiemuijchus.
" In this gentleman's time, in the end of the 16th century, the Shaws
lost the lands of Rothiemurchus in the manner following. Allan, a
batchelor, resided in Balnespick, a part of his estate. His mother (who
* See Guthrie Genealogy, in Burke's Landed Gentry, vol. ii. p. 416.