(16 Aug. 1830-26 May 1907), carpenter. Born presumably in the Dalkeith area of GC. Parents: Jonathan MacLennan and his wife Mary MacCuaig. He was married in 1859 to Rachel MacIntosh (Oct. 1829-9 Sept. 1922). (six children, “but of these only two survived, both of whom were present” at the mother’s funeral) In their later years, he and his wife lived in what had formerly been the celebrated Bullfrog Tavern at Lochinvar, GC. Donald A. Fraser’s Lochinvar Journal (see Simon Fraser, tanner) records his death under 26 May 1907, saying “Duncan McLennan, Carpenter, Vankleek Hill, died.” It was about two years before his death that MacLennan and his wife moved to Vankleek Hill. The Vankleek Hill obituary says, “Mr. McLennan was a gentleman who was very retiring in his disposition and was not known to many, but was very popular with personal friends.” The wife’s final years were spent at Vankleek Hill, but the MacLennan family is said to have maintained some connection with the tavern residence till her death. Duncan MacLennan is of interest, through his surviving him business accounts, and the research incorporated in Madeleine McCrimmon and Donaldson MacLeod’s Lochinvar to Skye history, as a 19th-century GC workman about whose work and life a reasonable amount is known. He is buried at the West Church cemetery, Kirk Hill.

VanKleek Hill Review 31 May 1907 * Lochinvar to Skye 30, 100 *obituary of wife, Glengarry News 15 Sept. 1922 (QF) * St. Columba CR, 40 (wife) * Lochinvar diary 14