macDonald/ currie..south uist

[chan01]

Hi working my way through your list....however i have drawn a complete blank at finding birth cert for Alexander MacDonald 1895/6 son of donald ewen....I cant understand why i cant find this on SP...i have all the other children but he just doesn't seam to be there...tried other dates and everything i can think of.....any suggestions ??
jackie

[Rosinish]

Hi Jackie,

Have you checked this one out:

Correct area (unless however he was born elsewhere) but I only have the index:

1892   MACDONALD   ALEXANDER   M   BOISDALE   /INVERNESS   118/03 0006

If not then widen your search with using only the initials "Al" as he may have been recorded as Alasdair/Alisdair/Alastair/Alistair which is gaelic for Alexander.

The alternative would be to download this death (from scotlandspeople) to see if there's a link:

http://www.hallancemeterysouthuist.co.uk/view-grave.php?num=664

That's the father of the Donald Ewen I posted on this thread previously.

If you check back to my post Wednesday 09 September 15 13:36

That death would be my 1st port of call but that's my own opinion of what I would do if it was myself doing the research.

Let me know how you get on.


Anne Marie


ADDED....I'm assuming you got the name of Alexander from 1901 censu?

I think there's a possibility he may have been born Donald Alexander but known as Alexander to differentiate who was who with so many Donalds...very common on Uist!

The other thing is not to stick rigid with 1895/96...you need to at least expand by a couple of yrs either side as a lot of the time the ages on census' were guessed.

[chan01]

Thanks Anne marie il try that...I think he was also known as alistair....im guessing he was born before 1904 as this is when his father died, ( died young) and im sure donald ewen was his father as he appears on marrage cert....

[Rosinish]

Jackie,

I will PM you the index list.

Anne Marie

[chan01]

I found that index on SP but its not him....i also put in "al" with thousands of hits but when narrowed down to inverness and boisdale only 1 hit and its the same one as mentioned....there were no others under south uist...

[Rosinish]

Jackie,

Can you tell me where you found Alexander (the source), where he was residing, where born & how old he was please (if on census)?

There are 3 Registration Districts for South Uist on SP.

Boisdale, Howmore & South Uist.

If you can give me those details, I will have a look for you 


Anne Marie

ADDED....There are also the Catholic Registers with 2 Parishes for South Uist.

St. Mary's, Bornish
St. Michael's, Ardkenneth

I have not checked the index for either of those as I would have expected (for the era) for him to be in the Statutory Register Index but of course I may be wrong on that 

I have found all the ones I've searched for in my own tree (who I assumed were all Catholic) on the Statutory Birth Index, if that helps?


ADDED...There is also Benbecula which I have not looked at.

Failing all else then this may be a route but I would stick with the south end of South Uist for now if you know from your source he was born South Uist as at that stage (1901/1911), I would expect if it was a census it would state Benbecula but again I can't be too sure?

[chan01]

alexander appears on the 1901 census along with his siblings...age given as 5 years.( on ancestry).
It states born south uist...district boisdale.....address Daliburgh.
Donald ewen was born in north uist....married marion currie 1885,

I have all the other siblings all born daliburgh...except the oldest peggy who i havent got yet..

[Rosinish]

Ok Jackie,

Found it.

Where born is South Uist

Daliburgh on the census is where they were living in 1901

I can't find any Alexander/Donald Alexander born c1896 in Boisdale

I found these for Howmore;

7   1894   MACDONALD   ALEXANDER   M   HOWMORE   /INVERNESS   118/02 0017   

8   1896   MACDONALD   ALEXANDER   M   HOWMORE   /INVERNESS   118/02 0021   

9   1896   MACDONALD   ALEXANDER   M   HOWMORE   /INVERNESS   118/02 0043   

10   1896   MACDONALD   ALEXANDER   M   HOWMORE   /INVERNESS   118/02 0038   

11   1897   MACDONALD   ALEXANDER   M   HOWMORE   /INVERNESS   118/02 0022   

12   1897   MACDONALD   ALEXANDER   M   HOWMORE   /INVERNESS   118/02 0043   


Anne Marie

[ellenbrora]

Hi

I've not been on Rootschat for a while, and have just come across this thread whilst browsing on my return!

Donald Ewan MacDonald b.1859 is my late ex-husband's great great uncle, if my memory has the relationship correct.

His parents were indeed Donald MacDonald, a Farm Grieve, and Margaret MacLeod. Donald snr was from North Uist and Margaret from Harris. Donald snr's role as Grieve took him all over the islands. In 1861 census they were at Luskentyre with their then 5 children, all born in Harris: Peggy, Angus, Mary, Donald (Donald Ewan) and Christina (ex husband's great grandmother).
1871, the family had moved to Griminish, N. Uist and had 5 (albeit not the same 5) children with them incl Donald.

Donald Ewan MacDonald died of Typhoid Fever at Askernish, South Uist in 1904. Informant was Peggy MacDonald , daughter.

If you contact me by private message with your email address I will send you the info and certificates/census copies I have. My ex-husband sadly died last year, and we had been divorced for a number of years prior, but I am still on good terms with his family.

Regards

Ellen