Missing MacDonald

[chempat]

Is this Selina in 1891, where she is described as a widow?
1891 census
Selina Mac Donell age 31  Servant
born Bicknolar, Somerset  living at Bawdrip, Somerset, with Bessie Towell, 14, a visitor.

[heathera1940]

Thank you all so much. You've really made my day. I've now got something to work on.  I've looked for any possible children of their marriage but can't find any.  Old Donald Mac Donald seems to have been a bit of a scallywag. 
😀😀😀

[djm297]

I might have found him in the 1861 census in Brighton with his parents:

William Macdonald born 1822 Perthshire Scotland - A Pensioner-He is Blind
Mary Ann-wife born 1831 Staffordshire
William , son born 1855 Chartham ,Kent
Henry, son  born 1858 Sheerness, Kent
Wallace , son born 1860, Brighton ,Sussex

Off to work now....the other side of the kitchen table with the work computer! I'll be interested to see what else turns up about him-always good fun when you find a "rogue"!

djm297

[heathera1940]

I'll look into that one.  The trouble is ,.  I seem to be unearthing quite a few rogues in my family tree.  😀😀

[chempat]

?
GRO birth
Wallace McDonald mmn Bishon   
December quarter 1859 in Brighton

Henry McDonald  mmn Bishon  1857 Sheppey

[heathera1940]

I'm sure that's got to be him. Although his date of birth doesn't match up with his age on his marriage certificate. However his place of birth does match up with the newspaper reports about him
Many thanks

[Kay99]

I think this is the Wallace Macdonald b 1859 Brighton, Sussex in 1911 but he was working as a porter with a similiar occapation in 1901   
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWGJ-7M4

[heathera1940]

There is a marriage between a William Norman McDonnell and Mary Ann Bishon 1848 in Whitechapel London. Thinking about it,  if the Wallace b.1859 in Brighton is the one I'm looking for, he would have only been just 18years old when he married Selina in 1879. Marriage certificate states he's 27 and widowed.  If this is my Wallace he would be pretty young to have been married before Selina and widowed.  What a puzzle.

[Kay99]

Sadly I don't think Wallace Macdonald was your Donald with a big age gap and this Wallace appears to have lived his life after marriage in 1888 in London working as a porter.   

He is listed as a porter and batchelor when he marries in 1888 to Sarah Gishingham and appeared at the Old Bailey as a witness in 1908 where he appears to be an upstanding citizen https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t19080107-46

Kay