A history of the Scottish Highlands, Highland clans and Highland regiments . n de Atholia, dominus de Ranagh, abovementioned. The Eobertsons of Kindeace descend fromWilliam Eobertson, third son of John, ances-tor of the Eobertsons of the Inshes, by hiswife, a daughter ot Fearn of Pitcullen. Heobtained from his father, in patrimony, severallands about Inverness, and having acquiredgreat riches as a merchant, purchased, in1615, the lands of Orkney, Nairnshire, andin 1639, those of Kindeace, Boss-shire;the latter becoming the chief title of thefamily. The Eobertsons of Kinlochmoidart, In-verness-
A history of the Scottish Highlands, Highland clans and Highland regiments . n de Atholia, dominus de Ranagh, abovementioned. The Eobertsons of Kindeace descend fromWilliam Eobertson, third son of John, ances-tor of the Eobertsons of the Inshes, by hiswife, a daughter ot Fearn of Pitcullen. Heobtained from his father, in patrimony, severallands about Inverness, and having acquiredgreat riches as a merchant, purchased, in1615, the lands of Orkney, Nairnshire, andin 1639, those of Kindeace, Boss-shire;the latter becoming the chief title of thefamily. The Eobertsons of Kinlochmoidart, In-verness-shire, are descended from JohnEobertson of Muirton, Elginshire, secondson of Alexander Robertson of Strowan, byhis wife, Lady Elizabeth, daughter of the Earlof Athole. The fifth in succession, the Eev. WilliamEobertson, one of the ministers of Edinburgh,was father of Principal Eobertson, and ofMary, who married the Eev. James Syme, andhad an only child, Eleonora, mother of Henry,Lord Brougham. The Principal had threesons and two daughters. THE MACFARLANES. 173 Badge.—Cloudberry bush. Of the clan Macfarlane, INIr Skene givesthe best account, and we shall therefore take theliberty of availing ourselves of his to him, with the exception of theclan Donnachie, the clan Parian or Pharlan isthe only one, the descent of which from theancient earls of the district where their posses-sions were situated, may be established by theauthority of a charter. It appears, indeed,that the ancestor of this clan was Gilchrist,the brother of Maldowen or Malduin, the thirdEarl of Lennox. This is proved by a charterof Maldowen, still extant, by which he givesto his brother Gilchrist a grant de terris desuperiori Arrochar de Luss; and these lands,which continued in possession of the clanuntil the death of the last chief, have at alltimes constituted their principal inheritance. But although the descent of the clan fromthe Earls of Lennox be thus established, theorigi
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