mcdonalds of Skye

[dalek39]

Can anyone help please...looking for McDonalds of Tomore..Skye.........McGillvrays.. from Aird..Isle of Skye......... and McIntyres from Kilmallie Argyle..Scotland......... The first name I have is Flora McDonald..but I have no idea of her relatives....I think she is connected to Glencoe...anything would be great...thanks...

[young mo]

Hi  I'm also researching MacDonalds of Skye who emigrated to Canada in the 1920's.  My tree starts with Norman MacDonald who died in Edinbane in 1800, he was married to Alexanderina MacLean. If you are a member of Ancestry I have a public tree on there under the name Chadbourn.

Cheers Mo

[lynne kathrine]

Can anyone help please...looking for McDonalds of Tomore..Skye.........McGillvrays.. from Aird..Isle of Skye......... and McIntyres from Kilmallie Argyle..Scotland......... The first name I have is Flora McDonald..but I have no idea of her relatives....I think she is connected to Glencoe...anything would be great...thanks...

you may find this intresting and possibly irrelevant as you have not stated any dates for flora mcdonald ie year of birth.....

Flora McDonald a Jacobite heroine .
In 1746 she had met Bonnie Prince Charlie, on the run after Culloden. She helped him escape to the Isle of Skye.
She was later arrested and sent to London. On her release the following year she got this painting commissioned and gave it to the captain of the ship which had taken her south, in thanks for his kindness.

macdonalds have lived in Glencoe since the 14th centuary see also the battle of glencoe if relevant.

[dalek39]

Lynne Katherine....
                              I have not gone back past The arrival of the McDonald clan in Aussie..but I do know that Donald McDonald  1851 was born at Tomore.Skye. Inverness Scotland...As for what you have found, its interesting..There is a connection in my tree to the McDonalds of Glencoe...but I need to investigate this further...Flore McDonlad ?? Peter McIntyre ??..There is nothing obtainable before Skye in the early 1800's about These McDonalds..John , we believe was born in Ardvassar, Sleat, Inverness and the family worked on the property Tomore...I take it Tomore may have been the name of the land they had, not a place..I can't find it on the map.

[lynne kathrine]

i have quite a bit of research on this area and would not be quite sure what might intrest you, as a half mcdonald myself born in scotland and ansestry fron this area of your intrest. The names you mention are very common and you do not need to share your info with me, however if i can help then you can send me a message.

[dalek39]

Thanks Lynn Katherine..Appreciate that...My McDonalds came from a place called Tomore, Skye Inverness Scotland..John and Mary McDonald came out to Australia abt 1852, had a son Donald McDonald, who was one yr at the time..This Donald was my Grandmothers father....I haven't a lot of information on this family on the Scotland side..heaps on the Australian side... Wanted to know where Tomore is..Is it a place or a district...I can't find it on the map..maybe it was a property...When they arrived in Aust. they all went on the land as farmers....I am unsure John and Mary's DOB...but that John was born in Skye Inverness....thankful of any information I can get....I was told by an Aunt that our McDonalds were connected to the Glencoe lot..but thats only talk..no factual evidence so far...hope this helps....Dalek..  and a Merry Xmas to you also...

[dalek39]

Sorry about the repeats on my thread...must be the christmas spirit..

[young mo]

There are so many MacDonalds particularly on Skye - which is NOT in Inverness, but, an island I live on off the West coast of the Highlands! I really can't believe that someone has posted re the most famous MacDonald of all who is known worldwide for for her connection with the Bonnis Prince. Her grave is at the end of my road. if you are researching MacDonalds you need to make sure they come from the same area you are researching as there are so many branches of this family. Jonathon MacDonald, who runs the Museum of Island life, again on the road I live on, and is also a well known historian/ genealogist, has no knowledge of the ones I am researching in Edinbane on Skye  Such is the diversity of the branches.

[angusm1939]

Just in case anyone is misled into looking in the wrong places, for the purposes of this board, Skye IS part of the historic county of Inverness. The famous Flora MacDonald, however, was not a Skye Macdonald, except by marriage as she was from the Clanranald, from Balivanich in Benbecula.