John Maclean

From 'Sketch of the Military Services of Lieutenant-General Skinner and his sons,':

Allan Maclean Skinner wrote of his mother, and her father John Maclean:

"(You were) Born December 12th, 1773, at Ardgour House, Argyleshire, then called Cooil House, Ardgour, the second daughter of John Maclean, of Arrihoolan (eldest son of Donald Maclean of Kilmalouairg in Tyree, by his wife Isobelle, daughter of Neil Campbell, of Dunstaffnage Castle, ancestor of the present Baronet), your father residing there, as guardian of the person and estates of his hereditary chieftain, and near kinsman (the late Colonel Alexander Maclean, 13th of Ardgour, then an infant), under the expressive local title of Factor Mohr........" and:

".......... your childhood, when your parents were contrained to send their own vessel four times a year for supplies to Glasgow, round what was then a lonely coast, though now incessantly supplied by passing steamboats, and of times when shelter might be required and as surely given, under such circumstances as those under which your father gave hospitality to Sir Allan Cameron of Erach, pursued by the emissaries of the law when with strong hand, in family feud, he had slain three men, cleaving them with his heavy sword, finding refuge in the house till the observation of the servants and the children - of whom you were one - made it discreet to remove the mysterious stranger to a recess in the hillside, screened by a fall of water, your parents stealthily taking him food and comforts, till flight to America preserved him to receive from William Pitt a pardon, and to make atonement, by raising (in England's troubles), at his own expense and by his hereditary influence, in August 1793, the 79th Highlanders, called the Cameronians.............."


From John MacLean of Kilmoluag.doc in the Maclean folder - information from Linda Bennion, a MacLean/McLean researcher in North Carolina, USA, via the Internet, she having found www.ray-jones.org.uk:

'John MACLEAN of Kilmoluag.

From the Seneachie: (p.278) His eldest son John, a man of high respectability and great moral worth, married
Florence, daughter of John MacLean, son of Charles of Inverscadell, by whom he left five sons and three daughters:
Charles; John; Donald; James; Hugh; Isabella; Ann; and Barbara.

From Clan Gillean (p.323-324): John, his eldest son, was factor of the estate of Ardgour. He married Florence,
daughter of John Maclean, son of Charles of Inverscadale, and had eight children: Charles; John; Donald; James;
Hugh; Isabel; Ann; and Barbara.

From History of the Clan MacLean, by J. P. MacLean (p.274): John had five sons and three daughters.

From The MacLeans of Boreray, by Hector Hugh MacKenzie (1946), p. 34: John, who was factor for his kinsman,
MacLean of Ardgour. He married Florence, daughter of John MacLean, of Sorn, Mull, son of Charles MacLean,
fifth of Inverscadale, by his second wife, a daughter of Archibald MacLean, of Ardtun, with issue: Chalres; John;
Donald; James; Hugh; Isabella; Ann; and Barbara.'