Alistair Mor MacDonell, of Aberchalder

Biographical Summary

"The families of Aberchalder and Culachie are both descended from AlastaIr Mor, son of Donald VIII. of Glengarry. His descendants for at least a hundred years held the lands of Easter and Wester Aberchalder, Easter and Wester Culachie, as well as Pitmean, in common, and formed one family, the heads of which, as well as the younger members, are designated now of one and now of another of these holdings. The younger sons are sometimes described as portioners in the lifetime of their fathers. It was not until some time after the '45 that representatives of the family began to be designated separately and definitely as of Aberchalder and Culachie. Hitherto they had been known as Claim Alastair Mhoir.

The senior line being descended from Donald, the eldest son of Alastair Mor, and known as of Aberchalder, we shall take first. Alastair Mor had a wadset of Culachie. and others, from Glengarry in 1641. In 1669, there is a discharge to Alexander by his nephew, Sir Norman Macleod of Bernera. He died shortly thereafter, and left five sons —

• Donald.
• Ranald, from whom the family latterly known as of Culachie.
• Alexander of Muckerach, who, besides a daughter Mary, had a son Angus II. of Muckerach, and he had a son Alexander, who lived at Croichul, III. of Muckerach.
• Angus, who married Isabel Macintosh, with issue.
• Allan of Kytrie, who married Mary Chisholm, and had a son, Alexander II of Kytrie, who had a son, Allan III. of Kytrie, who had a son, Alexander IV. of Kytrie, removed in 1751 at the instance of Alastair Ruadh of Glengarry.

Alastair Mor was succeeded by his son."

SOURCE: The clan Donald; by the Rev. A. Macdonald, minister of Killearnan, and the Rev. A. Macdonald, minister of Kiltarlity; Vol. III; 1896; page 350

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