" Further, George
of Kildun married, first, Mary Skene, daughter of Skene of Skene, in
1661. This is proved by a charter to her of her jointure lands of
Kincardine, etc. (see Particular Register of Sasines Invss., vol.
ix. fol. 9). He married, secondly, Margaret, daughter of Urquhart
of Craighouse. The absolute impossibility is at once obvious of
George of Kildun - who only married his first wife in 1661 - having
had a son, John Mackenzie of Gruinard, in a position to have obtained
a charter in his favour of the lands of Little Gruinard, etc., in
1669 - within eight years of his reputed father's marriage to his
first wife - and who was himself designated in that charter as
of "Meikle Gruinard," while it is proved by undoubted official
documents that John of Gruinard's "wife" had lands disponed to her
as his wife in 1655; that is, six years before the marriage of
George of Kildun, John's alleged father. And further, how could
John of Gruinard's second son, Kenneth, have married, as be is known
to have done, the widow of Kenneth Og, fourth Earl of Seaforth,
who died in 1701, if John, his father, had been the son by a
second marriage of George of Kildun, who married his first wife
in 1661? The thing is absolutely impossible.
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