Death Certs. MacDonald in Moidart (Argyll/Inverness-Shire)

[alanbraveheart]

Hi Monica, Yes Catherine, Clementina and Margaret Ann were from her second husband Angus Macdonald and Angus, Ena and John from her first Marriage to John Macdonald.

[dusty719]

Hi Monica, I'm trying to find out some information about my Grandfather's MacDonald, Moidart, line and saw that you have a death cert. listed for Jessie 85 in 1916, Glenuig. I'm trying to trace the Hugh/Euan MacDonald connections but am finding it tricky to get more information. If you have any information, tips or thoughts I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

[MonicaL]

Welcome to RootsChat 

Will need to dig out the details if you can bare with me.

Monica

[MonicaL]

Me again    Have got the cert now. Where have you to to on your searches so far?  What is it you are trying to find in particular.

Had a little look around and see birth registrations post the start of official registrations in Scotland in 1855. Looks like Hugh and Jessie were married before this date. The birth cert for son Dugald in 1855 should include date and place of their marriage along with useful info. The first year of official registration, certs ran over two pages of the register. They had two sons called Dugald, the second born in 1857 and both alive and well in 1861...they look to like the name!

Janet/Jessie showed as widow to Hugh by 1916. Her son Dugald reported her death. Do you have this cert? If not, happy to send it to you. She may already have been a widow much earlier. From 1901:

Janet Mcdonald 73 Retired Crofter b. Ardnamurchan
Angus Mcdonald 35 son post master b. Moidart
Maggie Mcdonald 31daughter post master b. Moidart
Christina Kennedy 17 grandchild b. Moidart

Address: Glenuig Postoffice, Acharacle

I also look to have daughter Margaret's death reg:

1919 / Margaret / 49 / None / Glenuig / Hugh / Janet MacPhee

The Post Office in Glenuig in now a Catergory B Listed Building, https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200330524-glenuig-post-office-fort-william-and-ardnamurchan-ward#.W_MlUTGYTIU

Monica

[MonicaL]

A reference here to the MacDonald family and the Glenuig Post office:

Newspaper cutting
Glenuig Postman
28/9/00 1895 2000
Glenuig postman
Angus MacDonald postman from 1895 to 1934. Travelled Lochailort to Glenuig on pony, 'Johnny'. Photo taken at Glenshian bridge. MacDonald family ran Glenuig post office till death of Jean Kennedy, postmistress, about 1987.
Scots Magazine , ca 1989

www.moidart.org.uk/archives/landscapearchive.htm

Monica

[alison ogorman]

Hi Monica

I noticed the lists you had posted and my family are on there, I've been researching through Scotland people records, my Macdonald's are from Dorlin, gg parents, Michael and Ann, My granny was Isabella, with siblings Mary Ann, Donald, Angus, Charles, Archie & John, and then I see some half siblings also. I am stuck here! My granny married O'Gorman, and there isn't any trace of this name in this area that I can find. I was recently in Dorlin and ran into a gentleman who used the do the butcher van, and had many a tale to tell about my aunty Mary Ann, his name was Dougie Cameron, the croft cottage they lived in is named after my aunty (but now part of the Shiel estate. If you have any information, I would be grateful.
Thanks, Alison

[MonicaL]

Hi Alison

Welcome to RootsChat 

Is this your family in 1901:

Michael Mcdonald 45 labourer
Ann Mcdonald 44
John Mcdonald 17
Maryann Mcdonald 15
Bella Mcdonald 13
Donald Mcdonald 11
Charles Mcdonald 9
Ronald Mcdonald 7
Angus Mcdonald 5
Archibald Mcdonald 3

Address: Labourer's House, Acharacle

One more child from 1891 in Dorlin who doesn't show above looks to be Cristy aged 9 in 1891.

Why do you think that there were step siblings there to Isabella?

Monica

[MonicaL]

Did Isabella and Edward O'Gorman actually marry? Can't easily see it so far.

Their son's Angus Edward O'Gorman's birth looks to be registered in both Kincardine (Perth) and Newington in 1921. Double entries like this occur where the birth of a child took place away from parents/mother's normal residence. Clerks were supposed to pass a note of the birth to the corresponding clerk in order that birth was also noted there.

If not married, Edward must have attendend the registration of Angus Edward's birth for the surname to be noted as O'Gorman.

Have you viewed a copy of the birth for Angus? Have you viewed his death cert? He died young in 1953 in Newington?

Monica

[MonicaL]

Can I ask you how much work have you done up the line of Michael MacDonald and Ann MacDonald?

A few online trees (I think one is yours) give Ann MacDonald's parents as John MacIsaac or MacDonald and Mary MacDonald. The death cert I have listed for Ann does shows John and Mary as parents. Have you done further work on John, Ann's father?

It was the mention of MacIsaac that caught my eye!

1891 / John / 72 / Mary / Dalnabreck / Ronald / Ann MacVarish

1872 / Ranald / 93 / Ann MacVarish / Dalnabreck / John / Catherine MacPherson

If the correct John, he would be a brother to my 4g Angus MacIsaac or MacDonald, son of Ranald and Ann. The family all seemed to move to MacDonald by the mid 1800s. Earlier docs refer to them as MacIsaac or by both surnames.

Monica