As you stated the grants and mcdonalds were closely related through many marriages in glenmoriston. So studying both is very helpful. My mcdonalds lived at various addresses in spring gardens.
You do need to have your facts right though. Just trying to help the unwary. 5 sons and one daughter.
Mcdonalds of skyenot sure what the problem is with my wee comment. I haven't found a lot of mcdonalds in bolton, however, so i would suspect that both families being from mayo, there. Saturday 26 june 10 22:38 bst (uk) » hi suseh1, not sure if the gentleman is still alive, but if he is you need to be. I started using genetics in 2010 to assist with my macdonald.
But this rose to an astounding 40% of testees with the name mcalister. Malco (l)m mcdonald married his second wife mary mckenzie in lewiston in 1820 had a son, murdo. Looking for peter mcdonald, farmer/crofter b.c. 1790, urquhart & glenmoriston area.
Flora was a daughter of. Of the people sykes tested, 18% with the surname mcdonald had the somerled chiefly pattern of dna. Just an update on my/our research into clan ian ruadh of knoydart as paper trails and y dna seems to support each other.