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- Shown as father of Torquil (2nd Chief of the Lewis) Macleod athttp://www.macleodgenealogy.com/ACMS/D0002/I8613.html
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"!SOURCE: William Matheson, "The MacLeods of Lewis," TRANSACTIONS OF THEGAELIC SOCIETY OF INVERNESS, Vol. LI (1978-1980), Inverness, Scotland,1981, p. 320-337. As already indicated, he must have been the MacLeod whomarried the daughter of Nicolson of Lewis. He had issue.
!SOURCE: Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, SectionIV, Revised Edition, "The MacLeods of Lewis", Edinburgh, Associated ClanMacLeod Societies, 1990, pp. 1, 2. According to the written sources(largely in Old Norse, but also in Latin and Scots) as well as localtraditions, the Long Island was subject to Norse rule from the beginningof the ninth century until the Treaty of Perth of 1266 when the territorywas ceded to the King of the Scots. The main families were predominantlyof Norse origin, judging by their names: the MacAulays around Uig in theWest of Lewis; the Morrisons around Port of Ness in the North; theNicolsons on the east side from the Eye Peninsula to Seaforth, but alsoin Gairloch and Assynt on the mainland of Scotland across the Minch. TheMacleods do not appear in Lewis until the end of the 13th century, at theearlieSt In his paper "The Macleods of Lewis", [Matheson, TGSI (LI) pp.320-337.] [William] Matheson argues on the basis of the conventional offirst or given names within family groups that the progenitor of theMacLeods - the Siol Torcaill - was a Torquil who was so named because hisfather, a MacLeod of Harris, married the heiress of the Nicolson clan, inwhich the name Torquil was traditional, and in due course succeeded to,or acquired, all the Nicolson holdings in Lewis and Assynt. Working froma Gaelic genealogy on the MacLeods of Lewis, now in the Royal IrishAcademy, [Ibid., p. 324.] Matheson suggests that Torquil was the son ofone Murdoch MacLeod who might have been the son of Norman (Tormod), theson of the eponymous, Leod. "
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