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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Inverness => Topic started by: joydivision on Tuesday 28 January 14 21:39 GMT (UK)
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i am after information on my grandfather donald maclean ,all i know of him is that he was born on the isle of barra in the outer hebrides in approx 1898 and that he was a sailor and was swept overboard in a storm somewhere round the shetland islands probably in the late 1930's i know nothing of the vessel or the exact location , i would love to know how i can go about getting his service record and perhaps a photo of him . id like to know how i can go about getting his death certificate ? would it have been registered on one of the islands ?
thankyou
kevin haram
south wales
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Hi Kevin :) ,
I have removed your other post from the Scotland Resources board as that is a board for information rather than requests.
Also , not a good idea to have duplicate posts on the same topic as that can lead to others posting information that has already been found.
Do you know who Donald Maclean's parents were ?
Do you know who he married ?
You mention a service record , did Donald serve in the Armed Forces ?
ev
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Hi Kevin,
I noticed you hadn't returned to your post?
There is a great site for Barra genealogy run by Vince MacNeil who has posted on RC (Rootschat) in the past but everyone on the site has roots/family connections there (including myself).
Anne Marie
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Hi Kevin,
There are two Donald McLean's in Barra in the 1901 Cenus, one born 1896 and one born 1900. What documentation do you already have for Donald?
Whilst having a look at Barra, I found this interesting website with some old photographs which I thought may be of interest to you http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/search/do_quick_search.html?q=barra&mime_type= (http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/search/do_quick_search.html?q=barra&mime_type=) they even have a register of Motor cars.
Regards
Sarah :)
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thankyou for the time and trouble my details so far on this branch of my family is sketchy
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Hi Joy,
2 Donald Mclean's in barra is not too many to sort out, both are son's of fishermen. It would really help us to help you if you could let us know what documents you have or have not. Family stories are also very important maybe the information is from our family?
Regards
Sarah :)
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Hi Kevin,
An old post but wondering if you have made any progress?
Annie
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Hi
Donald's Parents were Hector MacLean (B1861) and Flora MacCormick (B1864 in Pabbay)
Hector's Parents were Neil MacLean and Christina MacPhee.
Neil's Parents were Donald MacLean and Mary MacKinnon
That is as far as I got Kevin
Sarah
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Hi, I'm not sure if this is an active post or not but I wanted to respond with an idea for you. We have several MacLeans from Uist (and elsewhere) in the Clan MacLean DNA Surname Project at familytreedna .com. You would have to test a male of your MacLean line... it can even be a very distant male cousin or uncle, not of your direct line. If you don't know of any, then we often suggest doing ancestry.com dna test, and building a tree with all the aunts uncles and cousins you can find... ancestry has very cool tools to help you build out that tree and if you did into your matches' trees you can often tell if someone is a recent MacLean who may know of a male that you can test in your line. Just a suggestion. Write to us at macleandnaproject at gmail.com. All administrators are just volunteers with no interest in this financially. In fact, we OFTEN will recommend tests from other companies as we learn more about your goals and your line. We have identified clusters in Ireland versus Scotland in various geographic areas and have 3 testees with credible evidence to the chiefly line. Our goal is simply to learn more about MacLeans from all over the world and ideally to help connect cousins and prove out important lines (even NPE lines) of MacLeans. Everyone who is a MacLean of any spelling is welcome.