This is a reply to Aodh , because I can clarify a few points with absolute certainty .
Kinloch , meaning head of the loch , is at the head of Loch Dunvegan , and adjacent to the place where I was born and brought up , called variously Ostal , Osdale , or Ostle which is nearest to the Gaelic pronunciation which we all used . Kinloch is where the Church of Scotland manse is/was situated , and Ostal is where Donald Maclean's son Roderick Maclean was born . So was I .
I am a direct descendant of Matilda , sister of Elizabeth Pringle who married Roderick Maclean , and I am very interested that you should know that this Roderick had a half-sister by his father's second marriage . Her name was Anne , and she married a Duirinish ( Skye ) school master called Archibald Campbell and emigrated to Nova Scotia , where he continued to be a school master . Her mother's brother was the famous soldier , Major General Norman MacLeod of Gillen , near Waternish .
I am particularly interested in this matter because Morrison's genealogy gets it wrong , and it should be corrected . He confuses Roderick's sister-in-law , Matilda , with his half-sister , Anne who emigrated and raised her family in Canada . According to his erroneous account , Matilda ( whose grandfather was the Clan Chief of the MacLeods , Norman MacLeod of MacLeod ) left Scotland , whereas in fact, there are direct descendants of Matilda living in the west of Skye to this day . Matilda lived and died at Ardmore , Harlosh on 9th November 1877 , and her death and parental names were certified by her grandson , Donald Macaskill , brother of my great grandmother .
I would be very interested to learn more from you about Anne , and how you come to know about her , because one day I intend to write a full account in a Clan MacLeod magazine , setting out the true story of the descendants of Matilda , of which I myself am one . Her mother Jessie , daughter of James MacDonald of Knocowe ( who got Boswell drunk , on his tour with Dr Johnson ) brother of Allan MacDonald ( husband of the famous Flora MacDonald ) was descended from the MacDonalds of Kingsburgh , and from the Lords of the Isles , and her father was the son of the MacLeod Chieftain .