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- Acharn is located in Killin parish on the south bank of the River Dochart at the north mouth of Glen Ogle (the main route between Killin and Balquhidder.)
Alexander MacNab of MacNab (11th Chief)
1. Patrick Dow Mor MacNab 1st of Acharn, succeeded to Acharn surrendered from the earlier Acharn family
1. Gilbert MacNab 2nd of Acharn, succeeded in 1605
1. Archibald MacNab 3rd of Acharn (a1649), m Dtr of Graham of Duchray, Rednock and Blairnack
1. John MacNab 4th of Acharn (ineft 1655)
1. Patrick MacNab 5th of Acharn (infeft 1731) (family disappears after 1731)
2. John MacNab in Acharn
3. Donald MacNab, 1st of Braeleny, ancestor of French MacNabs
4. Duncan MacNab, m Mary Campbell of Drumsynie
2. Duncan MacNab
2. James MacNab, ancestor of Newton MacNabs, m Helen MacNab of Innishewan
1. John MacNab
1. three sons and two daughters
3. Duncan Dow MacNab in Strathgartney, m Campbell of Linia
1. James MacNab
2. John MacNab
Source: Clans of the Brea d’Alban - A collection of Scottish Histories: Macnab, Dewar, Macnish and Associated Families, Compiled and edited by David Rorer (former Historian for the Clan MacNab Society in America), 2012.
The Acharn Branch
On 28 July 1553 Donald Macnab, son of Archibald Macnab in Acharn, was in possession of Acharn. On 18 April 1568 John Bane McGillespie Macnab married Isobel MacFarlane, ‘mayer’ of Patrick Dow Mor; and on 12 November 1573 John Bane was sued by Finlay (10th Chief) and on 12 October 1574 by Finlay’s brother and successor, Alexander Macnab of Macnab (11th Chief) for the rents of Sleoch and Acharn. Alexander’s younger son, Patrick Dow More, then succeeded to the two-merk land of Acharn and the twenty-shilling land of Sleicht (Sleoh), of which John Bane McGillespie had received a tack on 18 April 1568. This had been surrendered to Patrick and on 15 April 1605 Gilbert succeeded his father in this tack.
The eldest of Gilbert’s three sons, Archibald, is shown in the Perthshire Rent-roll of 1649 as being assessed to £45 for Acharn. He married a daughter of Graham of Duchray Castle and Rednock and Blairinack.
Archibald had two sons, John and Duncan. John was infeft on 6 October 1655 in the two-merk land97 of Achaharne on a charter dated 4 October 1655 from Finlay Macnab of Bovaine (12th Chief). The Acharn Bowl of 1672 in the Museum of Antiquities, Queen Street, Edinburgh, dates from this time. Failing John, the grant by Alexander Macnab of Bovain (13th Chief) was to John’s half brother Duncan, by his father’s second marriage. The boys must have been very young at the time. It was not until 13 July 1731 that Patrick, John’s son, was granted a Precept of Clare Constal by John Macnab of Bovain, (15th Chief).
On 15th February 1731 Patrick was prosecuted for a clandestine marriage performed by Mr. Alexander Comrie, the deposed minister of Kenmore. There is no further trace of this family.
Gilbert’s second son James was the ancestor of the Macnabs of Newton.
His third son Duncan Dow, on 25 February 1619, received certain lands in the lordship of Stragartney from Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, through Finlay Macnab of Bovain as attorney to Sir Duncan. Duncan Dow married a daughter of Campbell of Linia and had two sons, James and John.
James married his cousin Helen Macnab of Innishewan. His son John had three sons, the eldest of whom married a Miss
Macdonald of Glenaladale. This son (Alexander) died young. James also had two daughters, Margaret and Catherine, one of whom married John Macdonald of Bunadap and had four sons and three daughters.
John’s second son Donald was the ancestor of the French Branch. His third son Duncan married Mary, daughter of Campbell of Drumsynie, and Mry, sister of the first Earl of Breadalbane. Duncan’s daughter was alive in 1787.
Patrick, who was granted the Precept in 1731 may have had a brother John in Acharn who married Anne Campbell of Tuerachan and Innisdamsh. She was baptized in 1692. They had six sons and two daughters; both daughters died unmarried. Of the sons, Duncan (baptized 1728) married Janet McNaughton of Glendochart and had four sons, John, Robert, Alexander and Peter, and two daughters, of whom one died young and the other married a McCallum in Kintyre. The second son James died unmarried. John, the third son, married a daughter of James Walker in Acharn and had three sons, Alexander, Patrick (deceased) and Robert (unmarried in 1803). The fourth Alexander (baptized 1731). Who was alive in 1805, baillie of Inverneill and Ross, married Christian, daughter of Nicol McNicol in Killin. They had a son, Major Robert of the 91st Regiment 1772-1833. The fifth, Patrick, was unmarried. The sixth, Robert (baptized 1737 was Collector in Argyll.
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Abt 1650 - 1731 (~ 81 years)
