Memorials of the Clan Shaw

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Queen's Rangers (64th Regiment), was afterwards a Ma-
jor-General in the army, and a member of the Legislative
Council of Upper Canada. He died of fatigue in the war
of 1818. He left a large family, mostly settled near
Toronto, at Oakhill i.e. (in Gaelic) Tordarroch.
III. — John, Major 68th Regiment, was killed in action with a
privateer on his voyage to the West Indies.
IV. — Anne.
V. — Margaret, married Farquhar M'Gillivray of Dalcronibie.
The above-named Alexander had ten children : — (1) ^Eneas,
died a Major in the Army ; (2) John, a Major-General ; (3) Henry
also an officer in the Army ; (4) Charles, Lieutenant, 17th Regi-
ment ; (5) Claudius, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, served in the
Peninsular "War, and afterwards on the Niagara frontier, was co-
lonel in command of Artillery in the British Legion in Spain in
1835, and is a knight of the orders of San Fernando and S. John
of Jersulem ; (6) Duncan William, Major, 20th Bombay N.I. ;
(7) Anne ; (8) Elizabeth ; (9) Millicent ; (10) Augusta."
Mr A. Mackintosh Shaw is the grandson of the above-named
Claudius.
J. A. Shaw Mackenzie, Esq., of Newhall, Ross-shire, is the eldest
son of the above-named John, and so the head of this branch. On
succeeding to Newhall through his grandmother, he had to take
the name of Mackenzie.
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It is 160 years since Crathinard passed from the Shaws, and,
indeed, it was only held by them for two generations ; but I desig-
nate the branch, as to which I shall next give a few particulars,
by that name, because of the prominent position held in our Clan
history by my ancestor, Duncan of Crathinard.
As shown in a former portion of these Memorials, the Crathi-
nard Shaws, and the Inchrory Shaws, both trace their descent from
Alister Ruadh of Achnahaitnich, a brother of Allan the outlawed
-chief. Alister was noted for his determined resistance to the