of Gairloch, by his
first wife, Margaret, daughter of Roderick Mor Mackenzie, I. of
Redcastle, by Florence, daughter of Robert Munro, XV of Fowlis.
Hector, who was a Cornet in Sir George Munro's Regiment, married
a daughter of Donald Maciver, of whose issue "a small tribe in
Gairloch." [Gairloch MS. Hector, his three sons - John, Murdoch,
and Duncan - and a grandson, Kenneth, are referred to by name in
the Records of the Presbytery of Dingwall under date of 6th August,
1678.] That Mellan Charles was not a permanent possession of
any member of the Gairloch family is obvious from the fact that
another Hector, the second son, by the second marriage, of John
Roy Mackenzie, IV. of Gairloch, and uncle of Hector, third son of
Alexander Mackenzie, V. of Gairloch, of whose descendants we now
treat, occupied it in the preceding generation, and from the further
fact that Charles Mackenzie, I. of Letterewe, eldest son by his
third marriage of Kenneth Mackenzie, VI. of Gairloch, who would
come of age about 1670, is described as "of Mellan," which he
possessed along with Loggie-Wester, until he exchanged both places
with his eldest half-brother, Alexander Mackenzie, VII.
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