Donald + Wainwood McDonald Tibbermore Perthshire c 1800s

[LeNeve]

I am looking for a couple that I’m quite sure shall remain a mystery.

They went by Donald and Wainwood McDonald. They married 1776 Tibbermore, Perthshire. I think Donald died 1809 and Wainwood 1821.

They had children
Janet
Margaret
David
Alexander
Helen Stewart
Ann m John Nicol

I’ve seen Donald’s name as Daniel on another record that I couldn’t find at the time of writing this and Wainwood as Winwood

I don’t think anybody will be able to help me find who this couple was as there seems to be ALOT of Donald McDonalds and Wainwood around the area at the same time but I thought I’d post about them anyway

Any help would be appreciated

[Geoff]

Hi LeNeve,
You will often see Donald and Daniel for the same person, i suppose it's a bit like John & Jack, they are interchangeable. As for Wainwood & Winwood, this could be one of those brogue interpretations of what the listener is hearing.
I'm saying they are the same person as well.

Cheers
Geoff

[LeNeve]

Yea, This is one of the main reasons ive struggled to locate births for them. I’ve found births the right time frames and areas for every variation of name that you could think of!

This might be a stupid question, but both their surnames are McDonald on the marriage cert. so McDonald would have been her surname too right? I remember getting a marriage certificate back once and the maiden wasn’t what it was Bcos the lady had been married before....

[Forfarian]

This might be a stupid question, but both their surnames are McDonald on the marriage cert. so McDonald would have been her surname too right? I remember getting a marriage certificate back once and the maiden wasn’t what it was Bcos the lady had been married before....

This is too early to be a marriage certificate. Marriage certificates are part of the statutory civil registration system that began in 1855.

Generally speaking, in a Scottish marriage record the bride's surname will normally be her maiden surname, even if she was married before.

Searching the old parish registers on SP for given name w*n*w*d produces 12 marriages and 19 baptisms, with nine different spellings.

[LeNeve]

Oh ok...yea I did the wildcard on sp. there’s a few winewoods of various spellings like you say, but none have the surname of McDonald.

On family search it’s recorded twice, once 3rd Feb and once 22nd Feb both 1776.

I would’ve thought Winwood was an uncommon name as I’ve never heard it before....