MacDonald? or MacDonald of the isles?

[CollinMacD]

I too two DNA test not the expensive one yet. I am R-M269. I went to the Donald Clan and took that one, and then took another my wife got me both came out the same.

I have documented my family back to 1740 Knoydart marriage of John Alexander MacDonald, who married Margaret MacBride, one of his sons Samuel was born o/a 1750, married Johanna Huet in Knoydart, having three sons and daughter, Angus (My 7h grandfather), Donald and Allan, and one daughter Catherine. All Samuel and all family left Scotland on the Nora in 1790, arriving at Cape Bretton, NS. Angus and Donald Chisholm got land grants and cleared the forest for farmland what call Marydale, now called St. Andrews, Antigonish County, NS. Family remained there for generations until my Grandfather left, married Mary Elizabeth Chisholm, migrated to the US, 1916, became a US Citizen in 1934. My father was born with his siblings in the US. All my family were substance farmers, miners, or fishermen. Nobody in my family roots was famous, just hard workers. We all are still practicing Roman Catholics, and all Clanranald, all very Scottish and proud. My MacDonald's had very close clanship with Chisholm's, MacBride's, Macintosh's, MacIsaac, and other MacDonalds, (MacDonnell from Glencoe, and MacDonald of Sleat) but ALL were Catholics. I have solid documentation from 1790 through current when they arrived in Nova Scotia, I have all brother sisters etc. Several generations to current. There is even a Kennedy thrown in there...


I do know that John Alexander MacDonald was a Jacobite Captain, arrested several years after Culloden near Knoydart and imprisioned at Fort Williams, put on trial, served time, forfeit all lands and property, So they became tenant farmers and lived in poverty and he died around 1765, wife died year later. He could have come from Keppock or more likely Airsaig. have not got beyond him yet, so can't tell you much more. Our family left just after the Clearances, and from what I can summarize, they wanted to own land, which they could not do because of their religion, as they never signed the allegiance and remained Catholic, which caused some serious problems with their welfare. I have much more, but don't want to bore you, that is what I have that is documented. I hope to go to Scotland and learn more in the future. Although both of us have ancestors called John with wives of Margaret, I doubt there is a relationship, unless its the same one who was Catholic and a Jacobite. Was one of his sons name Samuel? Knoydart is in Inverness-shire.