Three Different James Macdonalds
The clan Donald by Macdonald, Angus; Macdonald, Archibald. Publication date 1896-1904
VI. John MacDonald, 6th an officer in the Custom House in Stornoway. He married, and had 7 children -.
5. James MacDonald died unmarried in Jamaica
Wilton McDonald has found this record of a James Macdonald James Macdonald in Old Parish Records Croy and Dalcros - National Records of Scotland. James, son to John Macdonald in Kingshambui? ?Thomson his spouse, born the 8th was baptised 17th April 1788
The Jamaica Parish Register Marriage III & IV, 1838-1855, III, p. 68 #26 & the Jamaica Law Burial Register I, 1871-1874, I, p. 13 #616 show a James Macdonald who is classified 'White', married to a 'Quadroon' Jane McDonald in St Andrew Hanover, Jamaica, dying on June 18,1871 in Morgan's Bridge, Westmoreland, Jamaica. They had 5 children -