![]() ![]() ![]() In his seventeenth year he obtained employment as a farm labourer. 1786-1805), gardener, the son of a highland peasant, born in Aberdeenshire in 1754. Notable amongst the Clan at this time was James MacPhail ( fl. ![]() Early Notables of the McPhail family (pre 1700) Sir John Mcfaell, a Pope's knight, who witnessed a bond of manrent in 1533, is possibly D John M'Fale who witnessed a charter relating to the church of Lindichty, 1535, and in 1538 appears as rector of the church." The lands of Dulatyr in the lordship of Petty were let to Gilleis McFale in 1504. ![]() Finlay MacChaell, bailie of Rothesay, 1501, appears in 1503 as Macfaill, and again in 1506 as Makcaill, under which name he received a grant of a third of the lands of Dunallirde in Bute. "Donald M'Pawle witnessed an indenture between Doncan Makyntosche and Huchone the Rois, Baron of Kylraok, 1490, and Donald Makfaill and Gylleis Makfaill were witnesses to a contract of friendship between Dunbar of Westfield and the Clanchattan, 1492. įrom this earliest record, spellings were frequently changed. The surname McPhail was first found in Inverness, where one of the first records was of Gillemore M'Phale who was one of an inquest at Inverness in 1414. ![]()
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