
All welcome and encouraged to collaborate - please go ahead and edit and add: it's going to rely on the Macdonald managers helping - over years - so not a one person job :-) Notice Sub-Projects below SOMERLED (-killed in battle 1164). Balfour Paul says that the first reference to Somerled records him as living in the district of Morven with his father Gillebride, but he does not cite the pre...
Thomas Wright and Francis Wright emigrated from northern Ireland to Philadelphia in 1798. They arrived between February 7 and 13th, and both signed their Declaration of Intent to Naturalize on February 20, 1798, after which Francis scratched out his signature, only to sign again in May of that year. The original research for this project centered around where in northern Ireland these brothers...
All welcome and encouraged to help us collate the Mac or McDonalds in Jamaica in the 1700s and 1800s. This is a Work in Progress long-term project, and will require lots of help from interested parties. Nobody is going to nitpick about formatting - give it a go - others will fix for you if you need it - and you can do the same for them. By map: MacedonianBoy - CC BY-SA 3.0, Map of the c...
Original MacDonald settlers in South Africa and their desendants MacDonald, Macdonald, and McDonald are surnames of Scottish Origin. In the Scottish Gaelic and Irish languages they are patronymic, referring to an ancestor with given name Donald. The surname is an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic MacDhòmhnaill or Dòmhnallach. The name is a patronym meaning 'son of Dòmhna...