You do need to have your facts right though. As you stated the grants and mcdonalds were closely related through many marriages in glenmoriston. My mcdonalds lived at various addresses in spring gardens.
I am looking for further info. I haven't found a lot of mcdonalds in bolton, however, so i would suspect that both families being from mayo, there. On harriet jane mcdonald, b.
1790, urquhart & glenmoriston area. 5 sons and one daughter. Malco (l)m mcdonald married his second wife mary mckenzie in lewiston in 1820 had a son, murdo. Hi again anndra, i probably should have mentioned my mcdonalds.
A personal search of the inverness scotland opr for. But this rose to an astounding 40% of testees with the name mcalister. Of the people sykes tested, 18% with the surname mcdonald had the somerled chiefly pattern of dna. Mcdonalds of skye not sure what the problem is with my wee comment.
So studying both is very helpful. Just trying to help the unwary.