Sibella Mackenzie

SIBELLA MACKENZIE

Sibella Mackenzie is the daughter of Kenneth, Lord Mackenzie of Kintail. She married John MacLeod of Dunegan. MacLeod History: 99

From pages 99-100 of the HISTORY OF THE MACLEODS

"John of Dunvegan married Sibella, daughter of Kenneth, first Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, by his second wife, Isobel, daughter of Sir Gilbert Ogilvie of Powrie. She was thus half-sister of Colin, first, and full sister of George, second Earl of Seaforth. By her (who, as her second husband, married Alexander Fraser, Tutor of Lovat ; and, as her third husband, Patrick Grant of Cluny Mor and Cluny Beg, second son of Sir John Grant of Freuchie, and Tutor of Grant) Macleod had issue, two sons and five daughters:

• 1. Roderick, his heir and successor.
• 2. John, who succeeded his brother, Roderick.
• 3. Mary, who married, first, as his second wife, her cousin, Sir James Macdonald IX. of Sleat, with issue, John Macdonald of Backney. She married, secondly, Muir of Rowallson.
• 4. Marion, who married her cousin, Donald Macdonald XI. of Clanranald, with issue, among others, Allan and Ranald, twelfth and thirteenth Chiefs of the family in succession. Her husband died at Canna in 1686, and her son, Allan, was killed at Sheriffmuir.
• 5. Giles, or Julian, who married, first, Sir Alan Maclean, third Baronet of Morvern and Duart, with surviving issue. Sir John Maclean, fourth Baronet, who fought when quite a young man under Dundee at Killiecrankie and afterwards led his Clan to Sheriffmuir, where he fought at their head under the Earl of Mar. She married, secondly, Campbell of Glendaruel.
• 6. Sibella, who in 1665 married Thomas Fraser of Beaufort, tenth Lord Lovat, with issue, among others, Simon, Lord Lovat, beheaded in 1746 for his part in the Rising of 1745 ; and Alexander, from whom John Fraser of Wales, the present claimant to the Lovat honours and estates, traces his descent.
• 7. Margaret, who married Sir James Campbell of Lawers, without issue.

John Macleod died early in September, 1649, when he was succeeded by his eldest son,