Peerage Record – 51101

     Coll Macdonald of Colonsay married unknown daughter Macneil, daughter of Gilleonan Macneil, 13th of Barra.¹
     His married name became Macneil.

     Mary Macleod is the daughter of William MacLeod, 13th of MacLeod.² She married, secondly, Roderick ‘Og’ Macneil, 14th of Barra, son of Gilleonan Macneil, 13th of Barra.¹ She married, firstly, Duncan Campbell of Castleswynie.¹
     She held the office of a Lady-in-Waiting to Mary Queen of Scots.¹ Her married name became Macneil. Her married name became Campbell.¹

     Roderick Macneil, 15th of Barra is the son of Roderick ‘Og’ Macneil, 14th of Barra and Mary Macleod.² He married, secondly, Marion Macdonald, daughter of Allan Macdonald, 9th of Clanranald and Moidart and Janet Maclean.² He married, firstly, unknown daughter Maclean, daughter of unknown Maclean of Duart.¹
     He was he was constantly being outlawed by the Privy Council and various Royal Commissions.¹ He took part in an attack on the colonists of the Isle of Lewis, and the King gave orders to ‘extirpate and rute out’ the chief and clan of Macneil, the Macdonalds of Clanranald, and Clan Donald of the North.¹ He was accused of piracy but released by King James VI into the hands of the Tutor of Kintail.¹ Roderick Macneil, 15th of Barra also went by the nick-name of Roderick ‘the Turbulent’.¹ In 1601 Macdonald of Clanranald wrested the lands of Boisdale from him in a hard fought battle.¹

     John Macneil is the son of Roderick ‘Og’ Macneil, 14th of Barra and Mary Macleod.²
     In 1586 he was among the eight hostages held by Maclean of Dowart.¹

     Murdo Macneil was the son of Roderick ‘Og’ Macneil, 14th of Barra and Mary Macleod.² He died in 1598, killed by the Campbells of Glenlyon.¹
     In 1586 he was among the eight hostages held by Maclean of Dowart.¹

     Flora Macneil is the daughter of Roderick ‘Og’ Macneil, 14th of Barra and Mary Macleod.² She married, firstly, Charles Maclean of Dowart.¹ She married, secondly, Ewen Maclean of Treshnish.¹
     Her married name became Maclean.

     Charles Maclean of Dowart married Flora Macneil, daughter of Roderick ‘Og’ Macneil, 14th of Barra and Mary Macleod.¹

     unknown daughter Maclean is the daughter of unknown Maclean of Duart.¹ She married Roderick Macneil, 15th of Barra, son of Roderick ‘Og’ Macneil, 14th of Barra and Mary Macleod.¹
     Her married name became Macneil.

     John ‘Og’ Macneil was the son of Roderick Macneil, 15th of Barra and unknown daughter Maclean.² He died at Tolbooth, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, in the lifetime of his father, having been captured by Clanranald.¹

     Neil ‘Og’ Macneil, 16th of Barra is the son of Roderick Macneil, 15th of Barra and unknown daughter Maclean.² He married Margaret Maclean, daughter of Allan Maclean of Ardtornish.¹
     He was frequently summoned before the Privy Council for alleged misbehaviour.¹ Although commanded, with others, to proceed against ‘Jesuits, seminarie and messe preists and rebellious Papists, in all points’, he begged the Irish priest Father Dugan to missionize in Barra.¹ He successfully held Kisimul Castle against Neil Uisteach and Gilleonan Og, their half-brothers, with whom they had a bitter feud.¹ On 28 July 1629 soon after his succession family peace was established by giving the lands of Skirval to Neil Uisteach.¹ He fought in the Battle of Worcester in 1651, as a ‘Colonell of Horsse’ in the royalist army.¹