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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 277 Htneaae. This is supposed to be a cadet line of the family of the chief of Mackinnon. The Mackinnons descend from Fingon, youngest son of Alpin, King of Scotland ; the name Macfingon became subsequently Macfinden, and then Mackinnon. Little can be accurately leai-ned as to the early history of the Mackinnons ; but there is one event of importance which is recorded by clear testimony. On the decease of John of the Isles, in the fourteenth century, Mac- kinnon excited his second son, John Mor, to rebel against his eldest brother, and his fac- tion was joined by the Macleans and the Macleods. But Donald, the elder brother, was supported by so large a majority of the tribe, that he drove John Mor and his party out of the Isles, and pursued them to Ire- land. Eventually, John Mur appealed to his brother's mercy, and was pardoned ; but Mackinnon, as the instigator of the rebellion, was seized and put to death. On the forfeiture of the last Lord of the Isles, and in the disturbances which con- tinued during the following century, the name of Sir Lauchlan Mackinnon occurs very frequently, and he appears to have been a man of consideration. John Mackinnon, Esq. of the Isle of Skye, in the Western Highlands of Scotland (who had a brother, the Eev. Donald Mac- kinnon, of Strath), m. in 1792, Mary, sister of the Rev. Donald Maclean (she d. in 1855), and d. in 1811, leaving issue, Allan Mackinnon, Esq. of Dalness, Evan- dale, Tasmania, J.P., b. 1796, in Skye, Scot- land ; m. Z3rd July, 1833, Jessie, daughter of Allan Maclean, Esq. of Talisker, Scotland (of a younger branch of the clan Maclean), and by her (who was b. in the Island of Coll, in the Western Highlands, and is still living) had issue, I. John Lachlan, b. 12th November, 1834 ; d. iinm. 16th November, 1880. II. Allan Maclean, now of Mount- ford. III. Donald, of Dalness, Evandale. See next article. I. Sibbella, b. 14th September, 1837 ; m. the late William Alexander Tolmie, Esq., manager of the Colonial Bank of Australia, Geelong, Victoria (who was b. in Skye), and has issue, one son and two daughters, viz., 1. Hugh, of Waipahi, New Zea- land. 1. Jessie. 2. Lilias. II. Hannah Maria Russell, b. 11th Feb- ruary, 1839 ; in. Malcolm Tolmie, Esq., manager of the Colonial Bank of Australia, Sandhurst, Victoria, and has issue, four sons. III. Flora Mary, b. 1st February, 1845 ; unm. Mr. Allan Mackinnon arrived in Tasmania 1823 ; became owner of Strath in 1827 and of Dalness in 1835, which properties have since remained in the possession of the family. He was a justice of tlie peace for upwards of 20 years, and d. at Dalness, Evandale, 17th October, 1877. His first cousin, the Rev. John Mackinnon, sometime minister of Sleat, and subsequently of Strath, in. in 1815, Anne, daughter of Lauchlan Mackinnon, Esq. of Cori-y and Letterfearn ; a number of their descendants are settled in the adjacent Australian colonies. Arms (of the chief of the clan Mackinnon) — Quarterly : 1st, vert, a boar's head couped arg., holding in the mouth the shank bone of a deer ppr., for Mackinnon ; 2nd, az., a tower triple-towered arg., masoned sa., windows and portcullis gu., for Macleod ; 3rd, or, a lymphad or galley gu. ; 4th, arg., a dexter hand couped fessewise from the sinister ppr., holding a cross crosslet fitchee sa., the two last for MacdonALD. Crest — A boar's head erased, holding in the mouth the shank bone of a deer ppr. Another crest is also borne, in commemoration of King Alpin, slain in 834, viz., a man's head, crowned, couped ppr., gutte de sang. Mottoes — Audeutes fortuna juvat; Cuimh- nich has Alpin. Residence — Mountford, Longford, Tas- mania. Estates — Mountford, in the Longford Dis- trict ; and Strath and Wandilla, in the West- bury District (in all about 8,600 acres), Tasmania. jHacfefnnon of Balnts^. MACKINNON, DONALD, Esq. of Dalness, Evandale, Tasmania, J.P. and warden of the municipality of Evandale, h. 12th February, 1841 ; TO. 11th July, 1883, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of William Stone, Esq. of Kent, England, by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Josiah William Britting- ham, Esq., third son of Christopher Roper Brittingham, Esq. of Swanton Hall, Norfolk, England, and by her (who d. 7th May, 1889) has issue.