MACGREGOR, Iain Og (John) (Murray) 1st of Glencarnoch 5th Chief of Children of the Mist

1668 - 1744  (76 years)

• Name	MACGREGOR, Iain Og (John) (Murray)  [1]
  Suffix	1st of Glencarnoch 5th Chief of Children of the Mist
  Born	1668	Glencarnoch, Balquhidder, Perth, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Sep 1744	Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland
  Buried	1777	Loch Doine, Perthshire, SCOTLAND,   [1]
  Person ID	I7625	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	MACGREGOR, Iain (John) (in Glenlochy 4th Chief of the Children of the Mist),   b. 1620, Scotland ,   d. 1689, Scotland  (Age 69 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	MACGREGOR (GORDON), Anne,   b. Abt 1645, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F3248	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	CAMPBELL, Catherine,   b. 1674, Leix, Argyle, Scotland ,   d. 14 May 1774, Scotland  (Age 100 years)
  Married	Abt 1697	Glencarnoch, Balquhidder, Perth, Scotland
  Children	1. MACGREGOR, Mary,   b. Abt 1690, Argyll, Scotland  [natural]   2. MACGREGOR, Robert,   b. Abt 1698, Glencarnaig in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. Oct 1758, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  (Age ~ 60 years)  [natural]   3. MCGREGOR, Patrick,   b. 1702, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 8 Jul 1758, Scotland  (Age 56 years)  [natural]   4. MACGREGOR, Duncan (3rd of Glencarnoch Chieftain of the Children of the Mist),   b. 1707, Glencarnaig in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 1 Feb 1787  (Age 80 years)  [natural]   5. MACGREGOR, Major Evan Murray Lieutenant,   b. 1714, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 29 Oct 1778, Jersey, Channel Islands  (Age 64 years)  [natural]   6. MACGREGOR, Capt. John,   b. Abt 1719, Glencarnaig in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 1759, Ticonderoga, Essex, New York, USA  (Age ~ 40 years)  [natural]   7. MACGREGOR (MURRAY), Aba,   d. London, England  [natural]   8. MACGREGOR (MURRAY), Peggy  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F2024	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Served as a military officer, with great distinction, in Germany 1 - 1st of Glencarnoch in Balquhidder Quarreled with Rob Roy, who ambushed him with 40 of his men when they were about to evict some tenants under Rob's protection. Out in the 1715 rising. Died in 1744. Buried in a field near Loch Doine. 2 - JOHN Mac GREGOR of Glencarnoch in Balquhidder, Chieftain of the Children of the Mist; took the alias Murray; b 1668; quarrelled with Rob Roy MacGregor (of the Clan Dugal Ciar branch of the Gregarach), who ambushed him and 30 of his men 1722; it is said that at a meeting at Blair Atholl with the Grants in 1726 the MacGregors offered to take the name of Grant of Glencarnoch if JOHN was recognised as Chief of the united Clan Alpin, to include all the Grants; m Catherine (d 14 May 1774), dau of Hugh Campbell of Lix, and d 18 Sept 1744. [1, 10] Following excerpt from: The Clan Gregor in the last Jacobite rising of 1745-46 By Peter Lawrie, ©2017 Glencarnaig The Glencarnaig family, ancestors of the present chief, descend from Duncan Ladasach and a lineage occasionally known as "Children of the mist". They used the alias Murray and, earlier in the century had obtained feus of farms in upper Balquhidder from the Marquis of Atholl, to the annoyance of Rob Roy and the Glengyle family. [15] Robert, the eldest brother who was 'of Glencarnaig', was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in the '45 and led his own contingent. Captain Duncan Murray, the second brother, shot in the foot at Gladsmuir and taking no further part thereafter, was the author of the story of Clan Gregor in Douglas's Baronage of Scotland, which according to a 1989 thesis by Dr Martin MacGregor was 'a work of sustained fiction marred only by the occasional intrusion of fact'. Evan, the third brother, was also appointed Captain, but according to McPharrie was soon promoted Major and appointed an ADC to the Prince [one of nine in total, listed under Staff in the "Muster Roll"]. Glencarnaig and Evan surrendered themselves in July 1746, and were imprisoned in Edinburgh until 1749.

  
  

• Sources

  [S309] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;), Database online. Record for Iain Og (John) (MacGregor) Murray (1st of Glencarnoch 5th Chief of Children of the Mist) http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=2785