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About The Kinclaven Connection
The Kinclaven Connection

My Macdonald ancestry can be traced back to the Perthshire parish of Kinclaven and the second half  of the eighteenth century; to John McDonald, a small tenant farmer renting land in 1748 and 1754 at  West Tofts on the estate of the attainted Lord Nairne (Ref. TD93/58 [NRAS 3698] 609).

The Old Parish Registers of the kirk at Kinclaven record that John McDonald of West Tofts was  married to Isabel Cowans on 26th October 1766, and our family tree can be traced from this union  down to the present day.  John’s antecedents, however, remain a mystery. There is no record of his  birth, death or burial at Kinclaven, nor is there a record of his age at marriage.  Was he a young  man?  Or was he an older man, perhaps with an existing family by an earlier wife (or wives)?   Either scenario is tenable, but the truth must await further and more fruitful research. Meantime,  John remains our "brick wall".

The Spell of the Name

The spelling of our family name has varied down the years from its oral origin. All versions have  appeared in parish registers and civil certificates, usually according to the whim of the recorder  rather than that of the bearer. On this website I have used the McDonald spelling throughout until  the family of Frederick Henry Macdonald, who established his business as Macdonald & Co. (possibly  because the name McDonald & Co had already been registered?), and gave that spelling to his  children.

DNA

The Clan Donald DNA Project (see their website at http://dna-project.clan-donald-usa.org/ ) provides  details of the various haplogroups to be found within the clan branches, and the individual DNA  profiles of all the members who have joined the project. DNA can be a useful test of proving or  disproving kinship, and in time may offer some hope that current brick walls may be removed and our  true ancestral heritage revealed.

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