NAME: JOHN Ian Breac MACREA

SURNAME: Macrea................GIVEN NAMES: John Ian Breac............ *SEX: M

BIRTH: 13 Mar 1614 in Kintail, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland

DEATH: Aug 1673 Dingwall, Scotland

• FATHER: Farquhar MaCRAE
• MOTHER: Christina MacCULLOCH

MARRIAGE 1 :Agnes MACKENZIE - daugh. of Colin Mackenzie of Kincraig

MARRIED:  1640  

CHILDREN

1..M... Alexander of Conchra

2...M...Duncan, bailie of Dingwall

3...F... Catherine (marr. Donald Ross of Knockcartie)

MARRIAGE 2: Florence INNES -Heiress of Balmain in Urray

MARRIED:1651

1...M... John Macrae

2...M... James Macrae

3...M...Alexander Macrae

4...M... Murdoch Macrae

OCCUPATION= He was Episcopal Minister of Dingwall. Rev John (John 'Ian Breac') "8th of Dingwall" Macrae'

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=NOTES=

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• John Macrae, born 13th March 1614, son of Farquhar M., min. of Kintail ;

educated at Grammar School, Fortrose, and Univ. of St Andrews, M.A. (where his rival for honours was the Earl, afterwards Duke of Lauderdale), and Aberdeen ; pres. by George, Earl of Seaforth, and adm. in 1640. He became a bitter opponent of Presbyterianism, and in 1658 was rebuked for his " litigiousness, needless contention and untractableness, his stubbornness, selfishness, his tediousness, misapplication of scripture, seeking passages savouring of much bitterness and disaffection, and his pertinacity and loquaciousness."  After 1660 the minute of censure was deleted and characterised on the margin "as shameless lying and the spirit of lying and malice."  He died Aug. 1673.

He marr. (1) Agnes, daugh. of Colin Mackenzie of Kincraig, and had issue —

Alexander of Conchra; Duncan, bailie of Dingwall ;

Catherine (marr. Donald Ross of Knockcartie) ;

Isabel (marr. Lauchlan Mackinnon of Corry, Skye) : 

(2) Florence Innes, heiress of Balmain in Urray, and had issue
— John ; James, who succeeded in right of his mother to Balmain."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 33

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• Rev. John Macrae of Dingwall, Episcopalian Minister. In 1638, when the Presbyterians gained the ascendancy in the Church of Scotland and deposed the clergy who would not subscribe the National Covenant, Mr. John wished to leave the country, but was prevented by his father, who kept him with himself in Kintail.

 He married, first, Agnes, daughter of Colin Mackenzie, a younger son of Roderick Mackenzie, first of Redcastle, and

secondly, Florence Innes, heiress of Balnain.  He died in 1673 and was buried in Dingwall.

John Breac Macrae, ws foster brother [of] Kenneth Mor, third Earl of Seaforth, both being brought up by John Breac’s father, the Rev. Farquhar Macrae, in Ellandonan Castle. He was Tacksman of Achyaragan and had a joint wadset [(Scots Law) A kind of pledge or mortgage.] of Camusluinie with his brothers Miles and Murdoch, for which his father paid ten thousand marks. John Breac was also Chamberlain of Kintail

SOURCES

IGI RECORDS from The Church of the Latterday Saints - familysearch.org

:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Macrae-207

: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 33

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