James McDonald

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• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal GEDmatch comparison between James McDonald , GEDmatch kit # LJ8846489, and Katrine (McDonald) Coates, GEDmatch kit # AE4004974, his aunt. Their most-recent common ancestors are Benjamin McDonald and Ella Toland, the grandparents of James McDonald and parents of Katrine (McDonald) Coates. Predicted relationship from GEDmatch: Aunt/Uncle/Niece/Nephew, based on sharing 1736 cM across 57 segments.

Hi James,

There is an Error report (suggestions) on James Rose . Since James Rose is PPP due to being an Alamo Defender, it needed a project box (the Texas Project Box) as well as the account.

I long ago may have requested you to put Military and War on his profile. However now we just need the Texas Account as a manager ). Since you are the primary project manager, Will you help me and REMOVE Military and War in the Privacy settings). That will leave the Texas account, which you can make the manager.

Thanks very much for your help.

Mary Richardson, Project Coordinator

Doug,

These paragraphs are excerpts from a much longer (Barry) family document that was written by one of Rosanna (Toland) Barry’s descendants. It’s written in first person tense since these are the words of Rosanna (Toland) Barry’s daughter, Mary Jane (Barry) Killebrew. They arrived in Philadelphia in 1797 after 10 weeks at sea then traveled by wagon to Pittsburgh where they took a flat boat down the Ohio and ended up in Bardstown, Kentucky. I copied/pasted these paragraphs complete with misspellings and tried to limit this to material that could help answer your questions about your ancestor Hugh Toland and his parents. I’m a rookie at doing genealogy work so this may not even be valid proof of anything that you are looking for since I don’t have any official documents. If you believe that your Hugh Toland and my Rosanna Toland are not siblings, please let me know. In addition, Rosanna (Toland) Barry’s grandparents might be the following but I’m still searching for proof and information. I got this off of another website. Henry Toland and Catherine (Kelly) Toland, of Ireland. Colin McAlpin and Isobell (Wilkie) McAlpin, of Edinburgh, Scotland. Regards, Rod Boyd.

Excerpts from “History of the Barry family”. These are the words of Rosanna (Toland) Barry’s daughter, Mary Jane (Barry) Killebrew.

My mother's family was called "Toland". Her father, Henry Toland; her mother, Elizabeth McAlpine, lived in the county of Antrim, near the southwestern extremity of Bough Nough, ten miles distant from Belfast, a seaport city in the north of Ireland. They raised eleven children; the sons-John, William, Hugh, Roger, Arthur and Henry; the daughers-Elizabeth, Rosanna (my mother), Catherine, Nancy, Alice, and Jennie.

Depending as I do in writing this from memory, many irregularities as to the arrangement will necessarily occur which I hope will meet with due allowance. I should have given the date of my father's birth at first. He was born, August 1st, 1769, near Bannbidge, County of Down, in the north of Ireland. About 1791, he obtained a situation as tutor, but of a high grade, in the house of a gentleman called John Heyland, his residence known as Glen Oak, in the County of Antrium, near the home of my grandfather Toland, where he found his future wife, Rosanna Toland. He had the instruction of daughters, sons, and other relatives here and secured the esteem and warm friendship of the entire family connection. I have seen many evidences of grateful feeling evidenced by presents marked with the names and written by the hands of the donors expressive of kind and grateful acknowledgments.

My parents were married early in November, 1793. My mother still remained at the home of her father, as it was so near "Glen Oak" that it was not necessary to remove and fit up a home. August 1st, 1794, my brother, Valentine Derry was born. He was named for a favorite schoolmate of my father, who many years after came to America and settled on Long Island and established a seminary of some note, of which he was principal. I was next born on July 17, 1796

The increasing troubles of the country, and the prospect of an increasing family, now pointed out to my father the necessity of putting in practice his long cherished project of removal to America. Accordingly, on the 3rd of June, 1797, it was commenced a heart rending farewell between mother and all her family!!.

Hello James,

While doing some genealogy research (which is new to me) I came across the profile page of Hugh L Toland and saw that you are the profile manager. He is the brother of my 4th great grandmother Rosanna (Toland) Barry who immigrated to the U.S. from Ireland with her husband Daniel Barry and their two children. This of course means that we share ancestry from Hugh and Rosanna’s parents, Henry and Elizabeth (McAlpin) Toland, our 5th great grandparents. I do have more details about this but if you already have this information then just consider this a friendly “Hello” from a distant cousin. And I also have McDonalds in my family background from Kintyre, Argyllshire. At least one of them immigrated to Canada in the 1850s along with several Stewarts who are also my ancestors. I have a lot of work to do to find these people.

Regards, Rod Roderick Barry Jackson Boyd (Some names are a bit long but there’s a story behind each one.)

Hello James,

My name is Sarah and I’m the Project Coordinator for the Scotland Project. As you may have heard, we have merged the Scottish Clans project into the Scotland Project. I am contacting you today to find out if you are interested in continuing with us under this new format. If you would like to go forward on the Scottish Clans Team, please reply and let me know which clans you have been working on or would like to work on. I look forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards,

Sarah Mason, Scotland PC

Hi, I saw your post of the Macdonalds. I don't know much about the Clans, but you and I are are 11th cousins once removed through my Macdonald/Grant line. My Greats were Scott's, Campbell's, MacDonald, MacDougall's etc on my father's side. Just thought i would say hello. =)

Hi James, I have just discovered we are 15th cousins once removed  :)

Hello James

I was very excited to see that you are another COATE descendant who has had their autosomal DNA tested. Do you have a GEDmatch ID so we can compare results?

Veronica

Hi James. I wrote the biography of James M. Rose, which of which you are PM. You gave me trusted access. Recently a new person edited this profile, added a source, thus botching my inline referencing. I have restored. I added the wikitree Military and Wars profile manager to help safe guard this type of profiles.

Will you go to privacy and click it to make it manager? I would appreciate it. In the other history of the family, I notice he added profiles, thus you might need to check them.

PS to the left is William Cox (one of your ancestors.) (also mine) Have you considered joining the Jamestown Colony subproject of US Southern Colonists project. ... ~mary

Hello james.

I have Robert Maule in my family tree. His mother-in- law, Janet Ogston ( my gt x 13 grandmother) . He died at Panmure not in England. Following is what I have for his biography but there is a lot more including physical appearance and temprement in the Registrum. Robert could not read but was a great horseman, delighted in hawking & hunting and loved football. He made a football pitch on the Muir of Bathil. Played golf at Barry Links. He was Sheriff-depute at Retour of James Ogilvy of Cookston in 1522. Was wounded in 1527 by James at Barry during a poynd. In 1548 he was wounded by a culverin when taken by the English and held by them in the fort at Broughty. From there he was taken by ship to London and held for a year In the Tower. After release he returned to Panmure. He was expert in genealogies. He took ill after the death of his second wife, Isabel Arbuthnot and died two years later in the 63rd year of his life. He was latterly a confirmed and strong supporter of the Reformed Church of Scotland.

These facts were recorded with more detail by his grandson Robert maule, Commissary of St Andrews. Source: Registrum de Panmure

Hi James - re all the sons listed for Thomas Oliver-82, Great Migrations has twelve children listed for him. I haven't cross-checked all of them, but most seem to be listed there (albeit there are definitely duplicates shown). David, and William aren't in the source and there appear to be duplicate daughters needing merged as well. I added the source to Oliver-82

I managed to reduce the number of sons named Thomas substantially. More work still to do on the others.

Thank you 17th Cousin 2x removed via my Tuttle, Burr, Warren line to King Edward III Plantagenet via John Gaunt. I appreciate your warning on the difficulty of proof re: Magna Carta badges. I am a Berkeley girl, born and raised. My grandmother Ella Tuttle, who helped raise me, graduated from Welleseley in 1904, as they weren't allowing women into MIT or Harvard. Maybe a DNA test would help with the Magna Carta validations? I am going to MA this fall to do some research though. Grateful for your contributions to our One Tree, Renee Malloy, JD

Hi Doug,

My coleader of the Magna Carta project, John Schmeeckle sent me a note that you will be a great addition to the project.

So welcome to the Magna Carta project Doug, and congratulations on your new badge. It is getting late here so tomorrow I will send you more of an introduction to the project, but meanwhile please explore our Base Camp page, where we track our progress.

John says your ancestor, Rev. Robert Rose, can be proven as a descendant of a surety baron, and he is our expert on lineage.

Wonderful to have you join us!

I added James M Rose's categories, biography, references, and 2 of the bounties heirs received., etc He is connected now to the Alamo Defenders. I know you are proud of this relative.

Hi Doug, Thanks for your message. Excellent and welcome! I've added the project badge to your profile. If you click on the badge it will take you to the full list of our wonderful members. Click on Scottish Clans Project will take you the first page of the project. Thanks for adding your name etc to the list of participants. You'll also find info on how to join the project google group.

See Clan MacDonald page and feel free to develop it further. You might also want to consider joining our DNA Project

Thanks again for joining and enjoy. Maria