Peerage Record – 50556

     John Maclean, 5th of Lochbuie was born circa 1470.² He was the son of Hector Maclean, 4th of Lochbuie and Margaret Campbell.² He married, firstly, unknown woman (?) in a handfast marriage.² He married, secondly, unknown daughter Macdougall, daughter of unknown Macdougall of Dunollie.² He died circa 1539.²
     John Maclean, 5th of Lochbuie also went by the nick-name of Iain ‘Og’.² In March 1492 he received a charter as Baillie (magistrate) of South Tiree from the Lord of the Isles and a royal charter of all the lands granted to his family by the Lords of the Isles from King James IV in March 1494, with an additional royal grant of lands in Inverness-shire.² In 1499 he joined Lachlan Maclean of Duart and John Maclean of College in an invasion of Cameron of Lochiel’s lands and carried off large booty.² In 1504 he supported the rising of Donald Macdonald of the Isles, quarrelled with Lachlan Maclean of Duart about their conterminous lands in Morvern and Tiree in 1506, but was ordered by the King to keep his peace with Duart in 1507.² In 1512 he failed to enforce his claims to lands in Lochiel.² In 1514 he fought against Duart, but received remission for all his past offences in March 1517.² In June 1522 he sold his claim to lands in Lochiel and Duror and his Baillieship of South Tiree to Sir John Campbell of Cawdor (who transf his right in to his elder brother Colin Campbell, Earl of Argyll in July 1528.)² In 1526 he was invaded by Allan Maclean (styled Ailein-nan-Sop or Allan of the Straws), younger son of Duart, who killed many of Lochbuie’s tenants, and joined Maclean of Duart in ravaging Roseneath, Craignish and other Campbell lands in 1529.² Before 1530 he had possession of lands in Lochbuie, Molorish (now Killean), Scallastle, and Glenforsa in Mull, and lands in the isles of Scarba, Jura and Tiree.²

     Murdoch Maclean is the son of Hector Maclean, 4th of Lochbuie and Margaret Campbell.²
     He tried to seize the lands of Lochbuie from his nephew Murdoch, who recaptured them after a battle at Moy Castle in Lochbuie.¹ He lived at Scallastle, Mull of Kintyre, Scotland^G.¹

     unknown woman (?) married John Maclean, 5th of Lochbuie, son of Hector Maclean, 4th of Lochbuie and Margaret Campbell, in a handfast marriage.¹
     Her married name became Maclean.

     Murdoch Maclean, 6th of Lochbuie was born circa 1496.¹ He was the son of John Maclean, 5th of Lochbuie and unknown woman (?)² He married, firstly, Ann Mac Donnell, daughter of Sorley ‘Buie’ MacDonnel and Mary O’Neill.¹ He married, secondly, unknown daughter MacLeod, daughter of Alasdair ‘Crottach’ MacLeod, 8th of MacLeod and unknown daughter Cameron.² He died in January 1586.¹
     Murdoch Maclean, 6th of Lochbuie also went by the nick-name of Murchadh ‘Gearr’ (or in English, Short Murdoch.)¹ On 13 September 1538 he received from his father lands in Morvern, including Achalennan and Drimnin.¹ On 13 September 1538 he was legitimated.¹ In 1539 after his father’s death his lands were seized by his uncle Murdoch Maclean of Scallastle and he was forced to flee to Antrim , but returned c 1540.¹ He was with the help of the Macleans of Ross of Mull he defeated his uncle (who was supported by the Stewarts of Appin), recd a charter of all the lands that had belonged to his father , complained to the Privy Counsellor (P.C.) of the bad treatment he h in June 1542.¹

     Charles Maclean is the son of John Maclean, 5th of Lochbuie and unknown woman (?)²
     On 13 September 1538 he was legitimated.¹

     unknown daughter Macdougall is the daughter of unknown Macdougall of Dunollie.² She married John Maclean, 5th of Lochbuie, son of Hector Maclean, 4th of Lochbuie and Margaret Campbell.¹
     Her married name became Maclean.

     John Maclean was the son of John Maclean, 5th of Lochbuie and unknown daughter Macdougall.² He died in 1526, murdered by Allan Maclean of Gigha (Allan of the Straws).¹

     Ewen Maclean was the son of John Maclean, 5th of Lochbuie and unknown daughter Macdougall.² He died circa 1528, killed in a fight with the Macleans of Duart at Gruline and was buried at Iona, where his grave is still to be seen, his headless ghost is said to ride a dun horse whenever a member of the Lochbuie family is about to die.¹
     He was a distinguished warrior.¹ He was styled Eoghan-a-Chinn-bhig or Ewen of the Little Head.¹

     William Henry F. Woodard was born in 1854.¹ He was the son of Edward Woodard and Caroline Bridge.¹ He died in 1882.¹