Lost the trail of Fralton MacDonald of Aberdeenshire

Question

Fralton MacDonald is noted as the father and Nest Douglass as the mother of Douglass Darling MacDonald b.1869 (MacDonald-3623) in his marriage license at Kalispell, Montana in 1908.

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I have found no further record of Fralton. Am unsure if St. Nichols records are digitized.

Answer 1

Someone has posted his death cert on findagrave giving his parents as Malcolm and Mabel.  Wife Nellie Morris Swan. 

Birth: 1867Death: 1952
 Burial:
Willamette Memorial Park 
Albany
Linn County
Oregon, USA 
Created by: diana greb
Record added: Jan 16, 2012 
Find A Grave Memorial# 83560168

 

HTH

Elizabeth

Comments

That sounds very promising, I appreciate your time and diligence Elizabeth

Answer 2

Fralton is a surname, though fairly rare. May be worth looking to see if you can find a marriage between a MacDonald/McDonald and a Fralton that could have been the reason for his first name.

I also considered how the name may have been mangled by misunderstanding of Scottish accents. This may be a wild goose chase, but in the 1841 census for Peterhead, Aberdeenshire there is a Fulerton MacDonald. He is 60 at the time, but it could be worth looking at his grandchildren to see if one could have been your Fralton.