of Gairloch, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Roderick Mor
Mackenzie, I. of Redcastle, by his wife Florence, daughter of Robert
Munro, XVth Baron of Fowlis. Alexander, like his brother Hector,
was a Cornet in Sir George Munro's Regiment, and according to
one of the Gairloch manuscript Histories was "an officer under
Cromwell, whom he afterwards left, and was wounded on the King's
side at the battle of Worcester, leaving a succession in Gairloch
by his wife Janet, daughter of Mackenzie of Ord." He lost an eye
at Worcester, and was consequently ever after known Alastair Cam.
His descendants are still numerous in Gairloch, where, having had
no land to be designated of, they were always known as "Sliochd
Alastair Chaim" or "The descendants of Alexander the One-Eyed."
He married, in 1652, Janet, third daughter of John Mackenzie, I.
of Ord, [The marriage contract is dated "at Chanonrie, the 21st
of July and 26th of August, 1652," the year after the Battle of
Worcester, and is in the Ord charter chest.] by his wife Isobel,
daughter of Alexander Cuthbert of Drakies, Inverness, with issue -
1. Roderick, his heir.
2. Alexander, commonly called "Alastair Mor Mac Alastair Chaim,"
from whom are descended, among several others in Gairloch, the
late John Mackenzie of the "Beauties of Gaelic Poetry," and Alexander
Mackenzie, the author of this History.
Pages:
735
736
737
738
739
740
741
742
743
744
745
746
747
748
749
750
751
752
753
754
755
756
757
758
759