Torlysich Family
See Preface,
The Torlysich family, again, claim that their progenitor, Farquhar (gen 5), was the eldest son of Christopher (gen 4), Constable of Ellandonan, and that the reason why John of Killin refused to give Farquhar the post of Constable was, that the appointment of the eldest son to a post formerly held by his father might lead the Macraes to regard the office of Constable as hereditary in their own family, and that they might thus become inconveniently powerful for the Mackenzie family, which at that time was small and comparitively unimportant.