Any information about MacDonalds inNorth Morar?

[CollinMacD]

One major defining factor to understand your MacDonald roots, and how to proceed with research is this, are you Roman Catholic? Was you MacDonald ancestor Roman Catholic? That specific area many of the MacDonald's Clanranald left Morar and Loch Morar after the first Jacobite uprising settling in the Knoydart (Knoidart) area, which was even more isolated, and remains that way today.

I know this from my own family research, my ancestor left Lock Morar (Samuel MacDonald and married Joanna Huet of Knoidart, around 1670). You are correct with the MacDonnell and MacDonald (Clanranald) relationship, as many intermarried in the 16th and 17th centuries, so many MacDonald's move south to Glengarry or Glencoe area, while others intermarried with MacDonald's of Sleat. The best sources you can find is through the Roman Catholic Churches, Baptism and Marriage certificates. Since both are sacraments they needed to record names of parents and the people the sacraments were administered too. I hope this helps a little..... I have so much more to do with my family research, as they left Scotland in 1689, ended up in Nova Scotia, and are definitely Clanranald.

I think this is what you might be looking for:

https://westernisles.wordpress.com/uist


Here is something that I think will help you:

History of MacDonald in Morar
http://www.electricscotland.com/webc...acdhughail.htm

http://www.lochmorar.org.uk/wp-conte...Loch-Morar.pdf

Using Roy's Map, here is location of Knoydart...

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/roy/#zoom=15&...=roy-highlands