Roderick Maclean (named Rory on his baptism record; likely the son of Hector McLean and Christian McKenzie) was baptised 19 December 1764 exactly nine months after his parents’ marriage, and during his life he worked as a general labourer and farmer. He married Christian Matheson on 10 June 1791 at the Parish of Urquhart and Logie Wester, located at the tip of the Black Isle, a peninsula within Ross and Cromarty, in the Scottish Highlands. Urquhart and Logie Wester is located 24 miles north west of Inverness. Roderick and Christian would have been 26 and 27 years of age, respectively, at the time of their marriage and they had one known son, Hector.
The marriage record of Roderick and Christian shows they were married in the Parish of Urquhart and Logie Wester, but they may have lived for a short time in Bail’ Iochdrach or Baliochrach (Am Baile Ìochdrach in Gaelic), a village on Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, as this is stated in the baptism record of their son, Hector. But even if so, it is likely the couple moved back to the area of Urquhart and Logie Wester around the time Hector was born.
