Margaret MacDonell

Wife to William Fraser of Culbokie and Guisachan and daughter to John Macdonell of Ardnabi. She had recently given birth when their house at Guisachan was burned. Margaret tutored the Reverend Duncan Farquharson. According to Alexander Mackenzie, "she was well known for her poetical talents, her accurate knowledge of Gaelic and of Highland music, and made a prominent figure in the Ossianic controvsery of the time." She was "accounted the best Gaelic scholar" in Strathglass, was a collector of Gaelic manuscripts, and as a granddaughter of Glengarry was "known in her youth as 'the pride of Glengarry'" (History of the Frasers of Lovat, pp. 617-18).