Beaton family

[weemary]

another family only this time neil born 1872 -  this one also lists a donald john

1891 Scotland Census about Neil Beaton
Name:   Neil Beaton
Age:   19
Estimated Birth Year:   abt 1872
Relationship:   Son
Father's Name:   Donald Beaton
Mother's Name:   Margaret Beaton
Gender:   Male
Where born:   South Uist, Inverness Shire
Registration Number:   118/2
Registration district:   Howmore
Civil parish:   South Uist
County:   Inverness
Address:   Lochskipport
Occupation:   Light House Letter Carrier
ED:   8
Household schedule number:   15
Line:   6
Roll:   CSSCT1891_34
Household Members:   
Name   Age
Donald Beaton   54
Margaret Beaton   46
Flora Beaton   20
Neil Beaton   19
Ann Beaton   17
Donald John Beaton   16
John Beaton   13
Kenneth Beaton   11
Christina Beaton   6
Catherine Beaton   4
Alexander Beaton   1

Source Citation: Parish: South Uist; ED: 8; Page:  5; Line: 6; Roll: CSSCT1891_34; Year: 1891.

[Uist1911]

Hi Weemary
The first one is mine but Neils Father was married before and was from skye his
first wife died thank you

[weemary]

this is neil son married Mary Mackay 1911 -  the tree doesn't go any further back on ancestry

Donald John Beaton
Birth 13 SEP 1917 in Rhugasinish South Uist
Death 23 SEP 1976 in County Hospital Oban P.C.

[weemary]

when did donald die

[Uist1911]

Donald JoHn Beaton died age 59 in 1976

 

[weemary]

no Neil's father it should(death cert) list his 2 wives names -  I have some spare credits at SP

was Neil's father alive at the time of his marriage in 1911 is his mother Margaret and is she listed on the marr cert

[Uist1911]

I can't find Donalds first  marriage but he also had children with the first wife

[Uist1911]

Hi
Yes Donald was alive at the time of the marriage between Neil and Mary
and his mother is down as Peggy

[angusm1939]

Sorry, I had meant to clear this one up way back but, as Red Mystic knows, I had a wee accident in August and the stream has only just come back to the surface.

The marriage of the first Donald Beaton that has not been found took place at Nunton in Benbecula 14.8.1873. The wife Maggie of the 1891 Census was Margaret MacMillan, my first cousin twice removed from 12 Torlum, Benbecula, daughter of Neil [mac Aonghais 'ic Dhomhnaill 'ic Chaluim] MacMillan and Catherine MacPherson, daughter of Donald MacPhersonn, the maor or ground officer of Iochdar at Kilaulay Farm but from a Benbecula family, originally of the MacMhuirich bardic line. There are descendants still in Benbecula.

The other Donald Beaton was also from a Skye family, his father John, a shepherd, being noted in Alexander Carmichael's Gaelic collection, Carmina Gadelica, as having a great knowledge of medicinal herbs and flowers as he was descended from the doctors employed by the MacDonalds of Sleat. There is quite a story to this family but I imagine it is the first one that is of interest.

I do have greater detail, especially about the first family above, if you wish to email me directly.

Angus Macmillan