MacDonald (originally
MacDhòmhnaill in Scottish Gaelic) means son of Donald.
Donald may have originally been the British name
Dyfnwal.
Clan Donald is a Highland Scottish clan and one of the largest Scottish clans. The
Lord Lyon King of Arms
recognizes under Scottish law the High Chief of Clan Donald. The chiefs of the Clan held the title of
Lord of the Isles until 1493, when it was forfeited to James III, ending the lordship as a potent force.
There are numerous branches to the Clan Donald with extensive online genealogies. Regrettably, we have yet to connect with any of these... Tentatively, our earliest known relatives are John MacDonald (1779) and his son Donald (1795), both born in India. John was born:
- a hundred years after the infamous massacre of unarmed MacDonalds in Glencoe by their Campbell rivals
- about fifty years after Flora MacDonald was born, and
- only about thirty years after the MacDonalds fought as Jacobites in the rising of 1745, and at Culloden in 1746, where the rising was crushed and one of the MacDonald chiefs was one of the many killed.
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| Clan Donald Memorial at Culloden (credit) |
Comparing our
DNA ethnicity estimate with likely roots of the different parts of the family make it likely that one or both of our MacDonalds married a native or Anglo-Indian.
Donald MacDonald had one known child:
- 46.1.1 - Robert MacDonald
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