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Jessie MacLeod (MacDonald)

Also Known As: "Jesse McDonald"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Knockcowe, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland
Death: 1846 (83-92)
Keill, Eigg, Inverness-shire, Scotland
Immediate Family:

Daughter of James MacDonald of Knockcowe and Margaret "Peggy" MacDonald (MacLeod)
Wife of Capt. Norman “Cyprus” MacLeod
Mother of Elizabeth Pringle MacLean (MacLeod); Margaret Calder (MacLeod); Alexandra Cowan (MacLeod) and Matilda MacLeod
Sister of Anne "Annie" McKenzie (MacDonald); Roderick MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald; Capt. Alexander MacDonald; Flora MacDonald and 1 other

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About Jessie MacLeod (MacDonald)

Jessie MacDonald (James Macdonald of 2, Alexander Old Kingsburgh 1) was born about 1758 in Isle of Skye, Scotland and died in 1846 in Keill. Eigg, Scotland, aged about 88.

General Notes: Was second wife of Captain MacLeod and married him when she was 22 years old. Died in the house of her granddaughter Mrs. John macDonald.

Jessie married Captain Norman MacLeod Cyprus, son of The Red Man Norman MacLeod 22nd Chief of MacLeod. Norman was born about 1740 in Edinburgh, Scotland and died in Jun 1807 in Kilmuir, Dunvegan, Isle of Skye, Scotland, aged about 67.

Children from this marriage were:
i. Elizabeth Pringle MacLeod
ii. Margaret MacLeod. Margaret married Donald Calder
iii. Alexandra MacLeod. Alexandra married Cowan
iv. Matilda MacLeod



Macleod's other natural son was known as Captain Macleod "of Cyprus," being so called in consequence of his having spent a part of his time doing duty in that island. He married, first, a daughter of Macleod of Drynoch, who was drowned by the upsetting of a boat in Talisker Bay on the day of her marriage.

He married, secondly, a niece of Flora Macdonald, with issue- — three or four daughters, one of whom married the Rev. Roderick Maclean, minister of South Uist.

Norman Macleod died in 1772, and was buried in St. Andrews

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