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- MHH notes:
Story says that she married a MacGregor and is the mother of Rob Roy MacGregor. (First the age doesn't work, Tabby would be younger than Rob Roy himself. Rob Roy MacGregor's mother was Margaret Campbell. So, where did this story come from?
Found this history at http://hal_macgregor.tripod.com/gregor/tree.html which shows a marriage of Rob Roy's grandfather to a MacFarlane for his first wife.
26. MALCOLM 0IG (Callum) MacGREGOR, was b. about 1580. As "Malcolme Oig McGregour McDougall Keir" his name appears on a list of 36 of the Clan Gregor who gave bond to the Earl of Argyll as Lord Lieutenant, 22 April 1601. After the proscription of the MacGregor name on 8 April 1604, Malcolm Oig took the name of Stewart. He married (1st) Miss MacFarlane (Issue 3 sons). He married (2nd) Miss MacDonald with whom he had nine sons and daughters incl. Gregor and Donald Glas, his younger son:
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27. DONALD GLAS STEWART MacGREGOR, b. about 1630, resumed his ancestral name of' MacGregor on the repeal of the proscription in 1661 Soon after this he was commissioned a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British army, and thereafter is generally termed "Lieut.-Col. Donald MacGregor in Glengyle". He died due to sustained torture in Tolbooth Prison in Edinburgh about 1686 at the hands of the reinstated Campbells (under William of Orange). He married Margaret Campbell in 1656.
Children of DONALD MACGREGOR and MARGARET CAMPBELL:
i. JOHN McCONNEL MCGREGOR, b. 1658.
ii. DUNCAN MCGREGOR. (d. 1694)
iii. SARAH MCGREGOR.
iv. MARGARET MCGREGOR.
v. ROBERT ROY MCGREGOR (ROB ROY), b. 1677.
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