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Persoonlijke gegevens Benjamin Mac Gillivray- 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1692 in Dunmaglass, Inverness-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
• Beroep: Tacksman on MacPherson lands of Castle Cluny and College of Spynie.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1774 in Scotland, United Kingdom, hij was toen 82 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Farquhar Fiadhaich (Hothead) Vi Chief Mac Gillivray of Dunmaglass- en Emilia Stewart-

Gezin van Benjamin Mac Gillivray-

Hij is getrouwd met Margaret Clarke-.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. Jean Mac Gillivray  1717-????
2. Margaret Mac Gillivray-  1719-????
3. John Mac Gillivray Mac Gillavry-  1722-1795 
4. William Mac Gillivray-  1724-1750
5. Alexander Mac Gillivray-  1727-????
6. Isobel Mac Gillivray-  1730-> 1808
7. Margaret Mac Gillivray-  1733-????

Notities over Benjamin Mac Gillivray-

BENJAMIN Mac Gillivray was Tacksman on the MacPherson lands of the College of Spynie and the Castle of Cluny (his wife our foremother MARGARET belonged to Clan Clarke, a sept of Clan MacPherson). The Dutch/Indonesian and the Canadian branches are descended from them. His great-grandson, the Honourable William Mac Gillivray, was partner in and owner of the North-West Trading Company in Canada. ( Our ancestor WILLIAM Mac Gillivray/Mac Gillavry, who went to The Netherlands, was his grandson.) In the account of the litigation of his great-great-granddaughter Magdalen MacGillivray Bracken,"Benjamin Macgillivray" is identified as the " immediate younger brother of the said Farquhar Macgillivray (VII Chief) of Dunmaglass," that is: second son of FARQUHAR FIADHAICH VI Chief of Dunmaglass.

 

From Wikipedia the Internet Encyclopedia: The daoine uaisle (Gaelic: noble people), as they were known into the 18th Century are synonymous with the term "Tacksmen" and the modern designation of "Cadet." These were/are the gentry of the clan (all clans incorporated these positions). Related by birth to the Chief, these men controlled areas, or "tacks", within the greater clanlands. Rents were collected in various forms and rents from the daoine uaisle were in turn paid to the Chief within some clans, and not in others.

 

From the Cat Clan website: "From the MacGillivray genealogies we find a Janet Mackintosh, born in Kyllachy, who married BENJAMIN MacGillivray, son of FARQUHAR McGillivray and EMILIA Stewart, and had issue two sons." Wrong husband--Janet Mackintosh was married to BENJAMIN'S brother William (Captain Ban) Mac Gillivray. Records and memories got very confused after the traumatic Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 (the 'Fifteen' and the 'Fortyfive'). Apparently most Mac Gillivray papers were lost when Gask, the residence of Alexander Mac Gillavry VIII Chief was burned down in 1746.

 

BENJAMIN took part in a court case regarding land usage fees to the British Crown on the MacPherson lands of Cluny, where he was Tacksman. This was more or less resolved in 1763. A 'Benjamine Macgillivray' was also in a listing ofsummons in 1774 again involving a land rent issue due to his brother William's family and was found to owe 1 pound 30 shilling. So I have put the date of his death as after 1774.

 

Oom Edwin writes: "From (FARQUHAR's-VI Chief's) marriage to EMILIA Stewart of Newtoune were born eight children. The eldest, Farquhar, later VII Chief, came into the world in 1690. The second, BENJAMINor BEAN will have followed him about 1692. This BENJAMIN was Tacksman on the lands of the Castle of Cluny and the College of Spynie (near Elgin--IF), a former cloister. In addition he also occupiedhimself with the cattle trade, as did most clansmen of that time. Since all seven children from his marriage with MARGARET Clarke were born in Elgin, he would have had a house in that town. The family Clarke was an ancient family of Badenoch (and a sept of Clan MacPherson--IF)."

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