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- John MacNab's 1907 History of Clan MacNab says that Allan MacNab of Dundurn was out in the '45.
Marion MacRae's MacNab of Dundurn (1971), says "John, fifteenth Chief of MacNab, supported the House of Hanover, but an old Clan history states that many MacNabs fought for Prince Charles Edward under the leadership of cadet cheiftains, one of whom was Allan MacNab of Dundurn. The same history records that at this time, one of the MacNab ladies of Kinnell, that is of the chielfly family -- married MacNab of Dundurn."
MacRae later states that this Allan MacNab was the father of Capt. Robert MacNab of Dundurn, who "was writing letters to Colonel Archibald MacNab, brother of John, fifteenth Chief, whom he addressed as his uncle, and informing him that he had sent money to "the boy" in Canada.
David Richard Rorer, historian for Clan MacNab, published a compilation of various sources of the history of Clan MacNab in 2012 in which he cites the contradictory origins of the Dundurn branch of MacNab, including John MacNab's 1907 history and Marion MacRae's 1971 history. From these accounts, cited below, there are two contradictory accounts of the origin of the Dundurn MacNabs. Both accounts agree that Capt. Robert MacNab of Dundurn was a nephew to John MacNab, 15th Chief of Clan MacNab. However, they disagree on whether the chief was a paternal uncle or a maternal uncle. One claim states that Robert's father "may have been named Robert" (more likely Allan) and was a younger brother of John MacNab, 15th Chief. The other claim is that Alan MacNab of Dundurn married the sister of John MacNab, 15th Chief. Thus, Allan MacNab of Dundurn was either the son of Robert MacNab, 14th of MacNab or his son-in-law. It is beyond the scope of this Stewart research project to resolve this MacNab discrepancy. What matters to Stewart of Ardvorlich researchers is that Capt. Robert MacNab of Dundurn married Jean Stewart of Ardvorlich in 1771.
"Sir Allan Napier Macnab is descended from the Dundura branch. His grandfather, Robert Macnab of Dundurn, Perthshire, was cousin-german of John Macnab of Macnab, capt. 42d Highlanders. He married Mary (sic) Stuart of Ardvoirlich, and his eldest son, Allan Macnab, lieutenant 3d dragoons and principal aide-de-camp to General Simcoe, 1st governor of Upper Canada, married Anne, youngest daughter of Capt. William Napier, commissioner of the port of Quebec, of the family of Lord Napier, and had a son, Sir Allan Macnab, baronet of Dundurn-castle, Canada West, born Feb. 19, 1789; colonel of militia in Upper Canada, member and some time speaker of the
legislative assembly of Upper and Lower Canada, and prime minister of that province; knighted July 14, 1838, for his efforts in putting an end to the rebellion there; created a baronet Feb. 5, 1858. Sir Allan married in 1821, Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant Daniel Brooke; issue a son (born in 1822, died in 1824), and a daughter. His wife having died in 1825, he married, 2dly, in 1831, Mary,
eldest daughter of John Stuart, sheriff of Johnstown district, Upper Canada; issue, two daughters. The elder, Sophia, born July 5, 1832, married in 1855, William Coutts, Viscount Bury, M.P., eldest son of earl of Albemarle."
"Of the Kinnell ladies of this time [1740s] one,Anne, married John Stewart 7th of Fasnacloich; another named Christian married Alan Stewart of Innerhadden 2ndson of Rev. Duncan Stewart of Innerhadden and Strathgarry. Another daughter is said to have married a member of the Dundurn family."
The Dundurn Branch
Robert Macnab (14th Chief) and Anna Campbell of Glenorchy (sister of the first Earl of Breadalbane) had seven sons. One of them, who’s name probably was Robert, had a son also called Robert, who while serving in the Army in Canada left behind him a son called Allan (after his grandfather’s brother Allan, who died as an officer in the Army at the age of nineteen and was buried in the churchyard at Tarland, in Aberdeenshire). Robert, on his return to Scotland, became the Forester of the Royal Forest of Glenartney, and lived at Dundurn. He married Jean Stewart of Ardvorlich; they had a son who married and three daughters who never married.
The last surviving member of this family accompanied her half nephew Sir Allan to the Burial Island at Killin in 1842 and pointed out to him who was buried in which grave. The portrait of Jean Stewart and her Macnab tea service, comprising a teapot, sugar bowl and milk jug are now in Ardvorlich House. There are letters in the MacGregor collection in Register House in Edinburgh from Robert to his uncle, General Archibald, brother of John 15th Chief) expressing the hope that his cousin Francis (16th Chief) would begin to behave himself; also reference to his sending money for the support of ‘the boy’ in Canada.
The son Allan married Ann Napier in Quebec in 1792 and their son Allan Napier Macnab was born on 19 February 1798."
"By his wife, Elizabeth, a sister of Sir Alexander Menzies, of Weem, baronet, Alexander Macnab of that Ilk had a son and heir, Robert Macnab, tenth laird, who married Anne Campbell, sister of the earl of Breadalbane. Of several children only two survived, John, who succeeded his father, and Archibald. The elder son, John, held a commission in the Black Watch, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Prestonpans, and, with several others, confined in Doune Castle, under the charge of Macgregor of Glengyle, where he remained till after the battle of Culloden. The majority of the clan took the side of the house of Stuart, and was led by Alistair Macnab of Inshewan and Archibald Macnab of Acharne. They were mostly incorporated in the Duke of Perth’s regiment, of which Alexander Macnab of Dundurn was the standard bearer."
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Abt 1715 - UNKNOWN
