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MACDONALD OF STAFFA.
War O0.--"Fraoch Eilean" ("The Heathery Isle").
Badge: Froach (Common Heath).
HE MacDonaliLs of Staffa are now in reality the family of Steuart-Seton of Allanton,
in Lanarkshire, created Baronets of Great Britain in 1815.
Reginald MacDonald of Staffa was the fourth son of Colin MacDonald of Boisdale,
son of Alexander, first of Boisdale in South Uist, and grandson of Donald
MacDonald of Benbecula, bj his second marriage with Margaret, daughter of George
MacKenzie of Kildun.
Reginald of Staffa was an Advocate and Sheriff" Dep\ite of Stirlingshire. On his
marriage with Elizabeth Margaret, only daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Steuart
of Allanton and Touch, Bart., in January 1812, he assumed the name of Steuart. In
1835 this lady added to her own name that of Seton, as sole heiress of Touch-Seton.
She at the same time " succeeded to the Offices of Heritable Armour-Bearer to the
Queen, and Squire of the Royal Body," which have been from time immemorial in
the family of Seton of Touch. Her grandson, Sir Alan Seton Steuart, Bart., is the present representative.