Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of Duart Castle, or Caisteal Dhubhairt in Scottish Gaelic, on ancestry visit to the Isle Of Mull, Inner Hebrides. Duart Castle was probably built by Clan MacDougall in the 13th century, and appears to have come into the hands of Clan MacLean in the following century. In 1350 Lachlan Lubanach Maclean of Duart, the 5th Clan Chief, married Mary, daughter of John of Islay, Lord of the Isles and Duart was part of her dowry. In 1647, Duart Castle was attacked and laid siege to by the Argyll government troops of Clan Campbell, but they were defeated and driven off by the Royalist troops of Clan MacLean. In 1691 Duart Castle was surrendered by Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet to Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll. The Campbell clan demolished the castle, and the stones from the walls were scattered. By 1751 the remains of the castle were abandoned. On 11 September 1911, the ruin was bought by Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean, the 26th Chief of the Clan MacLean and restored.
In the mountains of Scotland's west coast and on the Hebrides islands, the ancestors of the McLean family were born. Their name comes from a devotion to St. John. The surname is an Anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac Gille Eathain, a patronymic name meaning "son of the servant of Saint John." The Clan is descended from Eachan Reaganach, brother of Lachlan the progenitor of the Macleans of Duart. These two brothers were both descended from Gilleathain na Tuaidh, known as 'Gillian of the Battleaxe', a famed warrior of the 5th century. Eachan, or Hector was given the lands of Lochbuie from John, the first Lord of the Isles, some time in the 14th century.
McLean has been spelled MacLean, MacLaine, MacLane, MacLeane, MacClean, MacClain, MacClaine, MacGhille Eoin in Gaelic and many more.
Donald McLean, a Scottish convict from Glasgow, was transported aboard the ship Asia on September 3rd, 1820, settling in New South Wales, Australia; Mary Mclean, aged 19, a Scottish house maid who was convicted in Glasgow, Scotland for 7 years for theft, and transported aboard the ship Atwick on 28 September 1837, arriving in Tasmania; James McLean, aged 29, arrived in Nelson, New Zealand aboard the ship Phoebe Dunbar between 1841 and 1850; Elizabeth McLean settled in Belle Vue, Beaver Harbour, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada in 1783; Isobel McLean arrived in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1801; Hector McLean arrived in Canada in 1812; Allan McLean arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, America, in 1740; Archibald McLean, aged 43, arrived in North Carolina, America, in 1812
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