William MACLEOD (III of Hamer)

BIRTH: BEF 1720

REFERENCE: HAMER

Father: Roderick MACLEOD
Mother: Margaret MACKINNON

Family 1: Margaret MACLEOD

                                                                                      _Tormod [Norman] MACLEOD ___________
                                                 _Sir_Roderick Ruairidh_Mor MACLEOD _|_Giles Julia MACLEAN _______________
                       _William MACLEOD ________|
                      |                         |                                     _Donald MACDONALD __________________
                      |                         |_Isabel MACDONALD __________________|_Margaret MACDONALD ________________
 _Roderick MACLEOD ___|
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|                     |                          _Robert MUNRO_III __________________|____________________________________
|                     |_Elizabeth MUNRO ________|
|                                               |                                     _Robert MUNRO_XVI __________________
|                                               |_Margaret MUNRO ____________________|____________________________________
|
|--William MACLEOD 
|
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|                                                _John "The_Dumb" MACKINNON _________|____________________________________
|                      _Lauchlan Mor MACKINNON _|
|                     |                         |                                     _Alexander MACLEOD _________________
|                     |                         |_Margaret MACLEOD __________________|_Marjory MACKENZIE _________________
|_Margaret MACKINNON _|
                      |                                                               _Sir_Roderick Ruairidh_Mor MACLEOD _
                      |                          _Donald MACLEOD ____________________|_Isabel MACDONALD __________________
                      |_Marion MACLEOD _________|
                                                |                                     _Hugh FRASER _______________________
                                                |_Margaret FRASER ___________________|_Margaret MACKENZIE ________________

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Notes

!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS -- THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1968, p. 107. William is described in 1720 as 'heir to his father', [CLANRANALD PAPERS, Muniment Room, Dunvegan Castle.] and after his father's death as 'nearest and lawful heir male of the deceased Roderick MacLeod of Hammir his father'. [CLANRANALD PAPERS, Muniment Room, Dunvegan Castle.] William was for a time chamberlain for Sir Alexander MacDonald, 7th Baronet of Sleat, in North Uist, and during the troubles of the 1745 Jacobite Rising and afterwards supported the Government. He wrote a treatise on 'Second Sight', under the nom de plume of 'Theophilus Insulanus', which was first published in 1763, and has been reprinted several times. [The title of this curious book is: A TREATISE ON THE SECOND SIGHT, DREAMS AND APPARITIONS: WITH SEVERAL INSTANCES SUFFICIENTLY ATTESTED AND AN APPENDIX OF OTHERS EQUALLY AUTHENTIC: THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED WITH LETTERS TO AND FROM THE AUTHOR ON THE SUBJECT OF HIS TREATISE, AND A SHORT DISSERTATION ON THE MISCHIEVOUS EFFECTS OF LOOSE PRINCIPLES. By Thophilus Insulanus. . . . Edinburgh: Printed by Ruddiman, Auld, and Co., Printers, Morocco's Close, Lawn-Market. MDCCLXIII.] He married his second cousin, Margaret, eldest daughter of John MacLeod, 2nd of the MacLeods of Berneray, and better known as 'Contullich', with issue. [MacKenzie, in his HISTORY OF THE MACLEODS (pp. 262-3), mixed up the children of William of Hamer with those of his uncle, William of Waterstein. The list, given [here], is from a document among the HAMER FAMILY PAPERS at Dunvegan Castle.]

!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE BARONAGE OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, 1798, p. 382.

!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS -- THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1968, p. 87.

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