Brief Life History of Isabella
When Isabella McDonald was born on 4 April 1858, in Westmeath Township, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, her father, Donald Vichey McDonald, was 28 and her mother, Mary Anne McLeod, was 18. She married Michael Joseph McDonald on 4 January 1886, in Pembroke Township, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Westmeath Township, Renfrew, Canada West, British Colonial America in 1861 and Renfrew, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 16 March 1940, in Pembroke Township, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 81.
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- Isabella Mc Donell in household of Donell Mc Donell, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Bella Mcdonald, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Isabel McDonald in the Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1947
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1867 · Ontario Founded
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
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1883 · Mining Boom
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
Name Meaning
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Domhnaill ‘son of Domhnall’, a name derived from the Celtic elements domno- ‘world’ + val- ‘might, rule’. Donald is an Anglicized form (via Latin) of this personal name used in Scotland, though the surname is also widespread in Ireland. The name is equivalent to Irish McDonnell and McConnell , and to Manx Cannell .
History: This is the name of the largest and most disparate of the Scottish clans (Clan Donald), associated in particular with the Hebrides and claiming descent from Domhnall mac Raghnaill mac Somhairle, who lived in the late 12th century. From that time until 1493 the head of the clan was known as Lord (or King) of the Isles. The reigns of the Lords of the Isles were always stormy, often in conflict with the kings of Scotland, and peppered with disasters. After a series of defeats in the 1480s, Eoin Mac Dhomhnaill a Ìle (John Macdonald of Islay, Earl of Ross and Lord of the Isles) forfeited his lands, his power, and his title as Lord of the Isles in 1493 to King James IV of Scotland. By then, a branch of the family had settled in the Antrim Glens in Ireland and members moved between the southern Hebrides and Ireland throughout the 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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