McDONALDS of Fearn

[paisleyborn]

Hi, am a novice on this particular website. Please bear with me...
I am researching

Joseph McKenzie McDonald ( master mason)
b. circa 1785 ? place
d. 1863 Balintore Fearn

married Jane/Jean ROSS  b.circa 1807  ?place
d. 1870 Balintore , Fearn 

I know a son John McDONALD  of 58 Muirtown St Inverness
signed  his mother's death certificate but know nothing else of him. I know of no other issue in this line except the following son.

 Andrew ( my g.gfather )b. 1837/8
also Balintore Fearn  ( he was a mason to trade also )
d. Paisley ( accident )  1897
married Mary McINTOSH  in Perth  1867
d.1897 Paisley

Children:-  Joseph, Margaret, ( both born Inverness )
John ( born Kirkintilloch ) and Alice.

Would be so pleased to hear from anyone with information on
any member of the above family. Willing to share what little info I do have ...should it be required . regards..." paisleyborn "

[MonicaL]

Hi Paisleyborn
 
Just checking whether you had seen the 1841 Census entry from FreeCen for the family:

MCDONALD Joseph    50       Mason        Ross and Cromarty    
MCDONALD Jean      45                     Ross and Cromarty            
MCDONALD John        8                        Ross and Cromarty    
MCDONALD Andrew     3                     Ross and Cromarty    
CORBET Janet         20  Female Servant    Ross and Cromarty            
 
Address: Balintore

By the ages of Joseph and Jean, you would think that there had been older children who had already left home by 1841. There are some details of births on IGI, including your Andrew's:

1. ANDREW MC DONALD   Birth: 11 FEB 1837 Christening: 10 MAR 1837 Fearn, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland
2. JANET MC DONALD Birth: 30 MAY 1832 Christening: 13 JUN 1832 Fearn, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland  (Janet is not showing in 1841, so may have died young?)

There are some other ideas which might be worth you following up:

1. From IGI, I wonder whether this is the birth of a boy Joseph to maybe brother John that you have:
JOSEPH MC DONALD  Birth:  04 APR 1849  Fearn, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland
Parents: Father: JOHN MC DONALD Mother: JESSIE ANDERSON

And the marriage of this John to Jessie also on IGI:
JOHN MACDONALD  Marriages: Spouse: JESSIE ANDERSON    
Marriage:  12 AUG 1845  Fearn, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland

These are other children showing for John and Jessie:

1. JAMES MC DONALD  Birth: 14 MAY 1851 Fearn, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland
2. JOHN MACDONALD Birth: 22 MAY 1855 Fearn, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland
3. JOSEPH MC DONALD Birth: 04 APR 1849 Fearn, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland
4. ALEXANDER MAC DONALD Birth: 19 OCT 1845 Christening: 27 OCT 1845 Fearn, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland
5. DAVID MC DONALD Birth: 04 APR 1849 Fearn, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland
6. JEAN MC DONALD Birth: 21 MAY 1847 Fearn, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland

If you are going to look at any birth cert, you have an 1855 one there. The first year of official registration in Scotland provided a wealth of additional info for one year only.

2. Have you tried finding Joseph and Jean in the 1851 Census. This would give you an indication of where they were born.

3. The death certs for Joseph and Jean have given you their parents details.  Hopefully this will also let you go back. Sometimes further clues re childen's names can be obtained this way.

Regards.

Monica

[paisleyborn]

Thank you very much Monicalesl....I hadn't got as far as the 1841
Census...that was a help ta.  I had found approx 68 McDonalds in Fearn in1851 index....so had no clue who lived where /with whom.
I think I ran myself ragged at that time and turned my attention to other domestic duties ...shutting the door tight on my pc!!!!

I am aware that Janet Corbet was jean McDonald's own mother's name so presume the 20 year old could have been  a relative of hers.

Looks as though there's a lot more McD. research to be done ..thank you for your help and encouragement.

[MonicaL]

Good luck with your MacDonalds. I spent a year battling with mine in Argyll!

Regards.

Monica

[MonicaL]

Hi Paisleyborn

I've just realised that on my posts yesterday I've made a silly link between the John aged 8 in the 1841 Census and the John having a child Joseph in 1849. Couldn't possibly be Andrew's brother, he would have been 13 when he married! Ooops!

Monica

[paisleyborn]

Hi Monica....don't worry about it......after a year of researching your own branch of the MacDonalds....you are forgiven ....WE are forgiven for " inter-generational  confusion " ( IF there is such a phrase???).    I would have  noticed it myself had I not found a great account of the MCDonalds within their community of Balintore RoC...last night , which I have been reading online this morning . (www.rchs.uhi.ac.uk/communit/p37/ht/hy/DTTS/Cover.html  if you or anyone with Ross & Cromarty connections are interested.)
Thanks again Monica...I'm most impressed that you are still considering MY McDonald problems this morning!!!!    TA!!

Moira ( paisleyborn ) Crawford  

[MonicaL]

Hi Moira

I'd go back on your last post and I'd take your email address off (to prevent spamming etc).

Re your MacIntosh in Argyll, either post here or PM me.....when you've sorted out your MacDonalds!

Regards.

Monica

[paisleyborn]

 ...of course....thanks.........M

[joemacd]

This family of MacDonald,s Match my family My father was Joseph His father was Joseph and his father was Andrew MacDonald a stone Mason and his father also a master stone mason.

Joseph MacDonald and Jane/Jean Ross,
Andrew MacDonald and Mary mackintosh married Queens hotel Perth 1st Jan1867.
My grand father Joseph MacDonald Born Leashkine Inverness.

in my family MacDonald married MacDonald, My grandfather married Janet MacDonald and his younger brother John Andrew MacDonald married grandmothers younger sister Sarah Mcnab MacDonald.

 this looks like this is the same family , My grandfather was killed by a tram car in Toronto Canada. My email is (*) if this MacDonald would  like to contact me. Joe macDonald

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