Bantjes, Rod, “MacDonald_Family.html,” in Eigg Mountain Settlement History, last modified, 14 August 2015 (http://people.stfx.ca/rbantjes/gis/txt/eigg/introduction.html).

 

MacDonald Family Name (Eigg Mountain Settlement History)

 

Donald MacDonald, pioneer, Eigg

Annie …left the Mountain

Charles …left the Mountain

“Mrs John MacDonald” …left the Mountain?

Donald MacDonald pioneer, Rear Arisaig – Highfield

Alexander MacDonald pioneer, Rear Arisaig – Highfield

 

Big Archie MacDonald (b. d. dead by 1892? See deed, ~1891), Pioneer married to Marcella MacEachern (sister of Kate Power)

John MacDonald (b.1853 – 1891 -)…left the mountain?

James MacDonald (b.1860 – 1891 -)

Margaret MacDonald married Alex MacMillan (related to Donald MacMillan?)

Ellen MacDonald married Rory Fraser (from Harvre Bouchie)

Mary MacDonald married Duncan MacDonald (Doctor’s Brook)

 

Coll MacDonalds:

Lewis (Loddy) MacDonald emigrated from Scotland and settled east of the Church at Arisaig

Coll MacDonald (…on a grant in 1859 ..dead by 1891) married Mary (b.1814-1891-?)

Angus MacDonald (b.1842-1891-?)

Colin Coll MacDonald (b.1852-1891-?) (son of Colin) [Coll listed in McAlpine, 1908 as “f s” (Farmers son) [makes no sense as the father is not listed]] married Mary (b.1861-1891-?)

Sarah MacDonald (b.1889-1891-?)

Mary MacDonald (b.1841-1891-?) married [name?] Lavender [from photo] (b.1900/03-?) [error here]

William Coll MacDonald (b.1845-1891-?) married Mary Smith (1899-1984) [can’t be right – unless this is John Smith’s son John’s daughter]

Jim Coll MacDonald (…James R. listed as “f s,” 1908? [makes no sense as the father is not listed])

Ronald Coll MacDonald (b.1855-1908…) married Catherine (b.1857-1891-?)

Lewis MacDonald (b.1880-1891-?)

Angus MacDonald (b.1882-1891-?)

James MacDonald (b.1885-1891-?)

Mary MacDonald (b.1888-1891-?)

Sarah MacDonald (b.1889-1891-?)

John MacDonald (b.1812-1891-?) [grant #285] married Sarah

Roderick MacDonald (b.1852-1891-?)

William MacDonald (b.1868-1891-?) (…William J. 1908?)

Mary MacDonald (b.1857-1891-?)

Margaret MacDonald (b.1859-1891-?)

Isabella MacDonald (b.1863-1891-?)

Anne MacDonald (b.1868-1891-?)

Angus MacDonald (b.1819-1891-?) brother of John [some doubt about relation to Lewis] married Catherine (b.1841-1891-?)

Rodrick MacDonald (b.1861-1891-?)

Margaret MacDonald (b.1859-1891-?)

Lewis MacDonald (b.1868-1891-?)

Donald MacDonald (b.1872-1891-?)

Alexander MacDonald (b.1876-1891-?)

Margaret MacDonald (b.1870-1891-?)

Christy MacDonald (b.1877-1891-?)

Sarah MacDonald (b.1882-1891-?)

 

Trunk MacDonalds:

Roderick (Rory) MacDonald (from Ardness, Pictou county, never settled on the mountain) (MacLean, et al., 114) [Rory has a grant on the brow in 1858 which is later transferred to Angus]

John MacDonald … according to Rev. MacGillivary lived somewhere near the “brow” of the mountain, but where? [John & Donald granted land on the Trunk Road 1858-68]

Angus Rory MacDonald (alive in 1867-1890-2) … according to Rev. MacGillivary lived somewhere near the “brow” of the mountain.

Johnny MacDonald

Danny (Trunk) MacDonald

Margaret MacDonald married Alec Ross

John Allan MacDonald, married with one child

Donald MacDonald [on “trunk” grant in 1833, (R_52) 1859 ..but was granted to Michael MacDonald in 1858]

 

Alexander MacDonald [grant east of the Trunk Road 1867-8]

Angus J. MacDonald (McAlpine Publishing, 1908)

 

Agnes (Johnny Lewis) MacDonald (ne. Bowie(sp.?) b. 1916

-married Johnny Lewis Macdonald (of the Coll MacDonalds)

 

Arisaig MacDonalds

 

Donald MacDonald (different from Trunk MacDonalds)

 

Reference List

 

MacLean, R. A, et al. History of Antigonish. Antigonish, N.S: Casket Printing & Publishing Co, 1976.

McAlpine Publishing. McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory 1907-08. Halifax: McAlpine Publishing Company, 1908.