Mc CLURE
Clan
MacLeod
MacClure, MacLure, MacCloor, MacLeur
"Windows
Into Our Past A Genealogy of the Garton, Smith & Associated Families, Volume
2", compiled by Judy Parsons Smith © 2003
Motto:
Hold Fast
G.
M'Ill
'uidhir,
"son of Odhar's servant." A common surname in
Galloway
of old as it is to-day.
John
McLur
,
Robert
McLure
, and
Robert
McClure
, followers of the earl of Cassilis, were respited for murder, 1526 (RSS.,
I.
3386), and
Tho. Maklure was sergeant of assize in Carrick, 1532 (RMS.,
III, 1196).
Johnne
McLoir
signed the Band of Dumfries, 1570
(RPC., XIV, p. 67).
Andrew
McLuir
in Bugane and three others of the
name were charged with assault, 1607 (ibid, p. 518), and
Fergus
McLur
in Craigfine was charged with usury, 1617 (ifid., XI, p.142).
Gilleane
Maciloure
was bowman to the laird of Parbrek,
1618. (ibid., p. 464), and
John
M'Clour
appears in Apyn, 1664 (Dunblane).
Elizabeth
M'Cloor
or
M'Clwre
is in record in Barley,
Galloway
, 1684, as is
Elizabeth
M'Whore (!) in Barley. She and
Mary
M'Whore
were sentenced to be banished to the plantations for resetting of rebels and
other offences in the same year (ibid., IX, p. 578).
William
MacClure
( 63-1840), born in
Ayr
, was called "Father of American geology.' There are a number of families
in Sleat named in
English
Maclure, but whose name is spelled in
G.
M'Leora
(for MacGille dhe6radha), aside form of
DEWAR
, q.v.
The earliest documentary evidence of a clan piper is a
reference to Robert MacLure
, piper to the chief of the Buchanans, in 1600, who got into trouble a few years
later as appears from the Stirling Kirk-Session Register, under May 28th, 169
McCluir and McCluire 1684, Makcluir 1637.[i]
The name
McClure
is none other than MacLobhair-the Leper’s son[ii].