Memorials of the Clan Shaw

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Intermarriages of $haws with ^acpher^ons.
The above-mentioned Angus had a son, Thomas, the founder of
the Macphersons of Killihuntly. They had a son, Donald, who
married Euphie Shaw, daughter of Robert Shaw of Tordarroch,
(temp. Charles II.) His (Angus') eldest son, William of Invereshie,.
fought under Montrose and was killed at Auldern.* His son, Sir
iEneas, is the author of the various MSS. relating to the Mac-
phersons, Shaws, and Farquharsons, from which much of the infor-
mation now given in these Memorials is derived. The father of
the above-named Robert Shaw of Tordarroch, was iEneas, who,
along with many others, signed the Bond of Manrent to Mackin-
tosh in 1609.
Another ancient branch of the Macphersons was the family of
Pitchern, tracing from Donald, son of Thomas of Pitmean, (temp,
James V.) His great-granddaughter, Mary, married Donald Shaw
of Delnavert, who is mentioned by Sir iEneas Macpherson, as be-
ing one of the old men, alive when he himself was young, from whom,
he got his information in " Vanitie Exposed." The date of Donald
must therefore have been circa 1600.
The brother-in-law of Donald, Alexander Macpherson of Pit-
chern, married Mary, daughter of Evan Macpherson of Cluny, and
their grandson, William Macpherson of Pitchern (1648J, married
Margaret, daughter of said Donald Shaw of Delnavert. William
Macpherson of Pitchern, was one of those censured by the Synod
of Moray, in 1648.
I shall now give the intermarriages between the Shaws and the
Macphersons of Photness and Etterish. Gillicallum Macpher-
son was the progenitor of the former, and " Thomas Roy " of the
latter family. They were sons of Donald Macpherson, married.
to Jean Macpherson, daughter of Macpherson of Crubenmore.
Thomas Roy was out in the Rising under Montrose (1647), and
* His name does not, of course, occur in the Roll of those cited to compear before
the Synod at Forres. His father, Angus, was one of those excused on account o£
hia age.