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Here I go again.

If anyone has access to ship's rolls or whatever please.

Are there any Dominic Mc/MacDonalds listed anywhere.

It is rumoured that my great grandad went down with his ship but this could well be nothing more than family folklore.

The only record I have come across so far ( of the death of a Dominic) states that he was a dock worker and died of a heart attack.

I do know that he died before 1911 as he was deceased by the time of his son's wedding in 1911.

Thank you all.

Thank you Piglet for your most extensive information and you too Elaine for your contribution.

I do have the medal card copy and the Memorial certificate for my grandad who is actually the one you mentioned in your second reply Piglet.

He married my grandmother here in North Wales in 1911 and I have the copy of the certificate. That is how I know that he was born c 1887.

I thought it would be an easy thing to just tie up his name (Mc or Mac) with his date of birth and the name of his father (which is not all that common). It hasn't been so though unfortunately because it doesn't seem as if that many James had  Dominics as their father.

Yes it certainly looks as if the man who died in Glasgow in 1906 could well have been my great grandad but unless I find something earlier with the name of James on too, how will I know for sure?

I realise that if the family were in fact Irish then I am going to have problems what with the destruction of the records in 1922 and all but if I could at least fo back a couple more generations and know for sure who my great grandmother was and maybe if my grandad had brothers or sisters, that would be wonderful.

My Dad passed away in 2004 and I would have dearly loved to find out all these things for him but we didn't have the access that we have today.

He passed away convinced that many generations of his forebears were from Scotland but I have reason now to suppose that only my grandad was born there of Irish descent.

It is lovely to know that there are people like yourselves who take an interest. I wear the MacDonald kilt at Hogmanay as did my Dad wear the tartan for many years. Perhaps I am not as Scots as I thought I once was but old habits are hard to break and heck, we're all Celts at the end of the day.

Thank you again.