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Re: MacDonald in Moidart (Argyll/Inverness-Shire)
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 29 February 12 22:37 GMT (UK) »
Mmmm....not sure on the link of Alasdair to your Ronald given the birth year given here for son Ronald of 1728 (p.13 on the document I posted earlier www.moidart.org.uk/datasets/alasdair1.pdf)

This document is new to me. Helped me figure out a tombstone with an engraving of skeleton) I had seen on St Finnan's Isle in the summer of 2010.

Given the locations we are seeing for your family, you too must have family buried at Island Finnan,“the Green Isle”, on Loch Shiel. I posted some photos here (I know, a bit of let me show you may holiday photos, only 5 though and I took so many  8)). www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,473750.0.html

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Re: MacDonald in Moidart (Argyll/Inverness-Shire)
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 03 March 12 21:00 GMT (UK) »
Yes, re- Ranald and Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair. I think the dates are very much different. There are some reports on the web that indicate that the MacMhaighster descendents went to canada and i think the birth date is out by decades.

back to square one at egnaig.

Bill
Mary MacDonald bc 1839 to John MacDonald bc 1795 and Margaret nee mcKissack bc 1803

arrived Marco Polo 20 sep 1852 aboard Marco Polo from Moidart with parents 3 bro 2 sis



Ken McKenzie bc 1814 Inverness to John McKenzie and Catherine Ann nee Mackay

arrived 16 Oct 1852 aboard Miltiades from Ross County with wife and 6 children

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Re: MacDonald in Moidart (Argyll/Inverness-Shire)
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 25 April 17 04:43 BST (UK) »
Hi Bill,

I descend from MacDonald's of Egnaig prior to your dates and have some written info.
Lynch-Cork/Ontario
Considine-Ireland/Ontario
Daly-Galway/New Brunswick
Kelly-Galway/New Brunswick
MacDonald-Moidart/Nova Scotia
Thomson-Ireland/Gaspe Que
Thompson-Moidart/Nova Scotia
Kane-Ireland/New Brunswick
McNish-Scotland/Ontario
McCulloch-Keppoch/Ontario
MacDonell-Glengarry/Ontario
Fitzgerald-Limerick/Ontario

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Re: MacDonald in Moidart (Argyll/Inverness-Shire)
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 25 April 17 22:44 BST (UK) »
Thanks Greg.

I would love to see some written material. I am in OZ.

Would you write to me here? or email direct?

Bill
Mary MacDonald bc 1839 to John MacDonald bc 1795 and Margaret nee mcKissack bc 1803

arrived Marco Polo 20 sep 1852 aboard Marco Polo from Moidart with parents 3 bro 2 sis



Ken McKenzie bc 1814 Inverness to John McKenzie and Catherine Ann nee Mackay

arrived 16 Oct 1852 aboard Miltiades from Ross County with wife and 6 children

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Re: MacDonald in Moidart (Argyll/Inverness-Shire)
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 26 April 17 18:24 BST (UK) »
Send me an email greglynch96@gmail.com
I will reply with a PDF of the biography of Angus MacDonald (1755-1835) whose father Roderick was tacksman at Egnaig. Angus was pressed into service with the Royal Navy and ended up in Pictou, Nova Scotia.
Have you looked at Egnaig on google earth?
Lynch-Cork/Ontario
Considine-Ireland/Ontario
Daly-Galway/New Brunswick
Kelly-Galway/New Brunswick
MacDonald-Moidart/Nova Scotia
Thomson-Ireland/Gaspe Que
Thompson-Moidart/Nova Scotia
Kane-Ireland/New Brunswick
McNish-Scotland/Ontario
McCulloch-Keppoch/Ontario
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Re: MacDonald in Moidart (Argyll/Inverness-Shire)
« Reply #14 on: Friday 28 April 17 17:07 BST (UK) »
Hi Bill,

You mentioned you had visited the area. Did you see Egnaig?

What leads you to the Forbes connection?

Greg
Lynch-Cork/Ontario
Considine-Ireland/Ontario
Daly-Galway/New Brunswick
Kelly-Galway/New Brunswick
MacDonald-Moidart/Nova Scotia
Thomson-Ireland/Gaspe Que
Thompson-Moidart/Nova Scotia
Kane-Ireland/New Brunswick
McNish-Scotland/Ontario
McCulloch-Keppoch/Ontario
MacDonell-Glengarry/Ontario
Fitzgerald-Limerick/Ontario

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Re: MacDonald in Moidart (Argyll/Inverness-Shire)
« Reply #15 on: Friday 28 April 17 23:18 BST (UK) »
Gday Greg

Yes, we went to Egnaig and the areas around there.

I have the Catherine Forbes connection on a (I think) baptism register. I will have to look it up.

Bill
Mary MacDonald bc 1839 to John MacDonald bc 1795 and Margaret nee mcKissack bc 1803

arrived Marco Polo 20 sep 1852 aboard Marco Polo from Moidart with parents 3 bro 2 sis



Ken McKenzie bc 1814 Inverness to John McKenzie and Catherine Ann nee Mackay

arrived 16 Oct 1852 aboard Miltiades from Ross County with wife and 6 children

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Re: MacDonald in Moidart (Argyll/Inverness-Shire)
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 29 April 17 03:33 BST (UK) »
Having only seen this thread for the 1st time tonight, I have been doing a bit of reading.

ALEXANDER (Alasdair MacMhaighster Alasdair) : (1700?-1780?); Gaelic poet; s. Alexander, M.A. ("Maighstear Alasdair"); the Episcopal clergyman of Ardnamurchan; had a commission in highland army under his cousin, but the passing of Act of Indemnity gave him a settled home. Clanranald made him baillie of Isle of Canna and gave him farm of Eigneig on the Glenuig estate.

Monica

I noted from reading the content from the above quote from Monica here:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01k0g/

There was mention of a place name 'Bornish' & wondered if it was Bornish on South Uist knowing that South Uist was Clanranald Land?

I decided to look further & found this which I thought may be of interest....

http://www.moidart.org.uk/datasets/alasdair1.pdf

"Alasdair was born around 1698 in Dalilea on the shore of Loch Shiel.
His parents were from Benbecula and Morvern"

Benbecula was at one time an Island between South Uist & North Uist now accessed by a causeway.

This lead me here which I've read in the past but it relates to my earlier thoughts on this thread:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacMhuirich_bardic_family

I believe I'm descended from this family although I have no paper trail to prove it sadly.

All very interesting reading.

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: MacDonald in Moidart (Argyll/Inverness-Shire)
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 29 April 17 04:09 BST (UK) »
I meant to add, although there are variations in the gaelic name MacMhuirich/MacVurich/MacVarich etc. the name is known as 'Currie' (Anglicised) from which I descend.

My 2 x g g/mother was known as Margaret Currie (her m/s) on all documents I have apart from 1 which was the BC of one of her daughters born 1857 (Eriskay, a small island just off South Uist) where her m/s is recorded as MacVurich & a delight to have as I had read about the name being anglicised but had never come across the original in my family paperwork until this BC.

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"