Donald MacDonald (bef. 1700 - 1746)

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Died 18 Oct 1746 after age 46 in Carlisle, Cumberland, England

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Biography

Donald was born before 1700. He was the son of Ranald MacDonald. Donald, a Colonel in Clanranald's Regiment, was taken captive in 1745 and on September 24. 1746 he was found guilty of high treason. Donald was executed October 18, 1746 and his head was put on public display, hanging over a gate, as a warning to others.

(Surprisingly, another Jacobite officer named Donald Macdonald (of Tyendrish or Terndriech) was also executed at Carlisle on the same day. It is necessary to be careful not to confuse them. See: MacDonald-15683)

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Sources

Macdonald, Rev. A. and Macdonald Rev. A. (1904). The Clan Donald: Volume 3. Inverness, Scotland. Northern Counties Publishing Company Ltd. http://archive.org/stream/clandonald03macduoft#page/300/mode/2up

• The Scots Magazine, 5 September 1746 page 38. findmypast

Proceedings against the rebels at Carlisle.

In the beginning of August, a great many rebel-prisoners were carried from Scotland, and some from Newcastle, to Carlisle. On the 12th, Lord Chief Baron Parker, Mess. Justices Burnet and Denison, and Mr. Baron Clarke, opened their commission of Oyer and Terminer there. ...

(The list of those found guilty includes:)

Donald Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart

Donald Macdonald of Tyendrish, Major

• The Scots Magazine, 3 October 1746 page 45. findmypast

LONDON

Before the middle of October, an order was sent to Carlisle for the execution of thirty of the rebels condemned there, p. 438, 9. ten at Carlisle on the 18th, ten at Brampton on the 21st, and ten at Penrith on the 28th. Accordingly, Mr Thomas Coppock, the pretended Bishop, Edward Roper, Francis Buchanan of Arnprior, Donald Macdonald of Kinloch-moidart, Major Donald Macdonald of Tyendrish, John Henderson, John Macnaughton, James Brand, and Hugh Cameron, were executed at Carlisle...