Robert Shaw of Tordarroch, son of Angus MacBean Shaw of Tordarroch, and Catherine
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He married Agnes Fraser.
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He signed renewal of the Bond of 1609 with other Clan Chattan Chiefs.
In 1679 he accompanied The Mackintosh to Keppoch against the MacDonalds.
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He was one of the Commissioners appointed to assist The Mackintosh to pursue Archibald MacDonald, 14th of Keppoch and other MacDonalds of his clan 'with fire and sword' in 1681
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He was Commissioner of Supply for County Inverness in 1690.
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He died in 1691
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Children of Robert Shaw of Tordarroch and Agnes Fraser
? Alexander Shaw of Tordarroch ( d. 22 Nov 1719)
? John Shaw
? Donald Shaw
? William Shaw
? Euffin Shaw
? Elspeth Shaw
Citations
- Burkes Peerage
[S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 3587. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S37] BP2003. [S37]
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Robert, son of Angus, is the first of his line mentioned by the surname of Shaw, his father being called in the Valuation Eoll and elsewhere " Angus mac Bean," that is "son of Bean." The first mention we find of Bobert is as witness? with Lachlan Mackintosh of Kinrara, brother of the eighteenth chief of Mackintosh and author of the MS.
History of the Mackintoshes to a deed of Benunciation, dated 30th November 1669, by Lachlan Mackintosh of Aberarder in favour of Donald and William MacGillivray.
As Robert Schaw of Tordarroch he is recorded in Vol. iii. of the Commissary Records of Inverness, under date 19th June 1677, as "faithfully giving up debts resting to deceased John m'Ean vie Alister in Tordarroch." Again, as Robert Shaw portioner of Leys he is named a Commissioner of Supply for the county of Inverness in an Act of Parliament of 7th June 1690 ; and, also as portioner of Leys, his name appears in the Valuation Boll of Inverness-shire in 1691, where his portion is valued at ?96 13s. Scots. In this roll, Tordarroch is set down under the Laird of Mackintosh, the superior. Robert died in 1691, leaving three sons
?neas signed the bond of Manrent given by the Chief of Mackintosh in 1609, by the heads of the various banches of the Clan Chattan.
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Bean was succeeded by his son, Angus, who signed the Band of Union among Clan Chattan in 1609 as "Ay mac Bean vie Robert of Tordarroch, for himself and taking the full burden of his race of Clan Ay." As already mentioned, the fact of his signing this band, in common with the chieftains of the other clans forming the confederacy of Clan Chattan, shows that the Shaws of Tordarroch had already attained the position of a distinct sept under their own chieftain, who was directly subordinate to the chief of Mackintosh, the head of the whole confederacy. --- Angus also appears? as Angus Mac Bean? in a Stent Boll of the Parish of Inverness dated the last day of March 1634, in which he is rated at 25 merks for each plough of his lands of Knocknageal. In addition to Tordarroch he was proprietor of part of the Leys in the parish of Inverness, and in a Valuation Boll of 1644 his holding in this parish is valued at ?110 3s. 4:d. Scots, while Tordarroch in Dunlichity Parish is set down as worth only ?61 6s. 8d. Scots. Wester Leys continued in possession of the Shaws down to the beginning of the present century.
Dying without issue, son Angus was succeeded in the headship of the family and in the occupation of Tordarroch by his brother, Bean, or Benjamin, whose daughter Effie, according to the MacPherson Genealogy, married Donald mac Gillicallum (Macpherson) of Essich.
Bean was succeeded by his son
Robert Shaw of Tordarroch, 2nd Chief of Clan Ay was born circa 1450.
He was the son of Adam Shaw of Tordarroch, 1st Chief of Clan Ay.
He married, his wife's identity is unknown.
He held the position of 2nd Chief of the Clan Ay
Children of Robert Shaw of Tordarroch, 2nd Chief of Clan Ay
? Aedh Shaw
? Donald Shaw
? John Shaw
? Mathilda Shaw
? Angus M'Robert Shaw of Tordarroch, 3rd Chief of Clan Ay b. c 1500
? Bean Shaw of Tordarroch, 4th Chief of Clan Ay+2 b. bt 1510 - 1520, d. 1608
Citations
[S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 3587. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S37] BP2003. [S37]
John Fraser, second of Farraline, known among his country men as "Ian Mac Alastair," or John the son of Alexander. He was the first of this family who settled in Stratherrick. He married Katharine, fourth daughter of Hugh Rose, IX of Kilravock, by Agnes, daughter of Alexander Urquhart of Cromarty, with issue:
1. Thomas, his heir and successor.
2. Hugh, from whom fhe Frasers of Erchitt.
3. James, born after his father's death, ancestor of the Frasers of Culduthell.
John was slain at the Battle of Blar-nan-leine, at Kinloch-Lochy, on the 15th of July 1544.
From him the Frasers of Farraline became known all over the Highlands as "Sliochd In Mhic Alastair" ? the descendants of John the son of Alexander.
He was succeeded by his eldest son, Thomas ?
Source: HISTORY OF THE FRASERS OF LOVAT, by Alexander Mackenzie, M.J.I., Inverness,1896, pp. 544-45.
LifeSketch: ; "A fourth daughter of this mariage, named Kathrine, was maried to John Fraser of Farralen, (whose familie is best known by the title of Bailzie of Stratherrick,) who, with the Lord Lovat, and most of the name of Fraser, were killed at Kinlochlochie 1543.
Name: Katherine-nic-Hugh Rose
Notes:
"A fourth daughter of this mariage, named Kathrine, was maried to John Fraser of Farralen, (whose familie is best known by the title of Bailzie of Stratherrick,) who, with the Lord Lovat, and most of the name of Fraser, were killed at Kinlochlochie 1543. She was one of the four scor widows who, by haveing posthume sons, restored the name of Fraser, almost extinct by killing of their husbands, as aforesaid. What his tocher was, I find not, only I find a receipt of eleaven merks Scots, in compleat payment of his tocher. This Kathrine Rose, after the deceass of John Fraser, her first husband, maried Donald M'Intosh Williamson, by whom she was mother to Angus M'Intosh, (called Williamson also,) a verie wittie and dareing man, predecessor to the present M'Intosh of Kylachie."
from Family of Rose 1
Sources
1 e-books, A Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock by Hew Rose and Lachlan Shaw (1848).
Children:
Hugh FRASER, 1st of Erchitt was born in 1540 in Inverness-shire, Scotland; died in Oct 1610 in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
Abt 1619 - 1691 (~ 72 years)