Any information about MacDonalds inNorth Morar?

[CollinMacD]

One major defining factor to understand your MacDonald roots, and how to proceed with research is this, are you Roman Catholic? Was you MacDonald ancestor Roman Catholic? That specific area many of the MacDonald's Clanranald left Morar and Loch Morar after the first Jacobite uprising settling in the Knoydart (Knoidart) area, which was even more isolated, and remains that way today.

I know this from my own family research, my ancestor left Lock Morar (Samuel MacDonald and married Joanna Huet of Knoidart, around 1670). You are correct with the MacDonnell and MacDonald (Clanranald) relationship, as many intermarried in the 16th and 17th centuries, so many MacDonald's move south to Glengarry or Glencoe area, while others intermarried with MacDonald's of Sleat. The best sources you can find is through the Roman Catholic Churches, Baptism and Marriage certificates. Since both are sacraments they needed to record names of parents and the people the sacraments were administered too. I hope this helps a little..... I have so much more to do with my family research, as they left Scotland in 1689, ended up in Nova Scotia, and are definitely Clanranald.

I think this is what you might be looking for:

https://westernisles.wordpress.com/uist


Here is something that I think will help you:

History of MacDonald in Morar
http://www.electricscotland.com/webc...acdhughail.htm

http://www.lochmorar.org.uk/wp-conte...Loch-Morar.pdf

Using Roy's Map, here is location of Knoydart...

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/roy/#zoom=15&...=roy-highlands

[FossilHunter]

One major defining factor to understand your MacDonald roots, and how to proceed with research is this, are you Roman Catholic? Was you MacDonald ancestor Roman Catholic? That specific area many of the MacDonald's Clanranald left Morar and Loch Morar after the first Jacobite uprising settling in the Knoydart (Knoidart) area, which was even more isolated, and remains that way today.

I know this from my own family research, my ancestor left Lock Morar (Samuel MacDonald and married Joanna Huet of Knoidart, around 1670). You are correct with the MacDonnell and MacDonald (Clanranald) relationship, as many intermarried in the 16th and 17th centuries, so many MacDonald's move south to Glengarry or Glencoe area, while others intermarried with MacDonald's of Sleat. The best sources you can find is through the Roman Catholic Churches, Baptism and Marriage certificates. Since both are sacraments they needed to record names of parents and the people the sacraments were administered too. I hope this helps a little..... I have so much more to do with my family research, as they left Scotland in 1689, ended up in Nova Scotia, and are definitely Clanranald.

I think this is what you might be looking for:

https://westernisles.wordpress.com/uist


Here is something that I think will help you:

History of MacDonald in Morar
http://www.electricscotland.com/webc...acdhughail.htm

http://www.lochmorar.org.uk/wp-conte...Loch-Morar.pdf

Using Roy's Map, here is location of Knoydart...

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/roy/#zoom=15&...=roy-highlands

While none of my family on my father's side is Catholic today (too much time in the deep South I imagine, mostly Baptist these days and I'm a Piskie but that comes from my mother's side) the recorded religion of Daniel Gillis was Catholic.

I know there is a Catholic church closer to Moraig (OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL AID AND ST. CUMIN'S, MORAR). If Brinacory was abandoned relatively recently would their records have been transferred there?

I will shoot them an email and see what they might have. I know Daniel Gillis was born around 1765 or 1770. He arrived in North Carolina in 1788. So a baptism record is likely all they might have if anything.

Thank you for the links.

[FossilHunter]

According to the website here:

MORAR

By Alasdair Roberts:

Having established a residence in Morar, and conscious of his tenants moving westward, Simon Lord Lovat decided that the time had come to provide ‘a more suitable place of worship than the former inconvenient and unsightly chapel at Bracara.’

...

This may indicate that the church in Daniel's time might have been in Bracara. Since it was built to replace the Bracara location as the primary church of the locals, I think it's possible records may have been moved there. I will see what they say in reply to my email.