NICHOLSON (No.2) of Portree

From Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation by John O'Hart

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Neil, brother of Donald, who is No. 122 on the foregoing ("Nicolson," No. 1) pedigree, was the ancestor of Nicolson, of Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland.

122. Neil: son of Alexander.

123. John: son of Neil.

124. Samhairle (Sorley or Samuel), of Drumnie: his son; married Margaret O'Donnell.

125. Alexander: his son; married a MacLean, of Borera.

126. Donald: his son; married Mary MacQueen.

127. Alexander: his son; born in 1722; married Catherine MacQueen; died 1809.

128. Samuel (2): his son; born in 1757; married in 1789 Betsey for Elizabeth), daughter of Norman Nicolson * of Peinefiler, Portree. This Samuel died in 1832; and Betsey, his wife, died in 1853.

129. Norman:† their son; born in 1803; married Marion Bethune in 1837; living in 1878 in Peinefiler, Portree, Isle of Skye.

130. Samuel Nicolson, of Greenock: his son; born in 1838; married in June, 1873, to Jessie McDougall; living in 1877; had two brothers and two sisters: the brothers were--1. Neil; 2. Norman and the sisters were--1. Maryanne, 2. Margaret.

131.Norman Nicolson: son of Samuel; born in 1873, and living in 1878; had two sisters--1. Marion, 2. Mary.

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NOTES

* Nicolson: This Norman Nicolson was the son of John, son of Neil, son of Donald MacNicol (No. 124 on the foregoing No. 1 pedigree), the Chief of the Clan in the Isle of Skye, in the reigns of King Charles I. & II; and this Neil with many members of the Nicolson family, migrated to America, at the end of the seventeenth, and beginning of the eighteenth, century.

† Norman: This Norman Nicolson, in a letter to the writer of these pages, says--"The MacDonalds, MacLeods, Nicolsons, and MacQueens (or MacQuinns) came from Ireland here (to Scotland) ages and ages ago."