Francis was an officer and partook in the battle of New Ross, County Wexford on June 5, 1798. He married a Miss Flood and had at least four sons.
John - killed at Vittoria, Francis, Richard and Luke.[1]
Sources
Macdonald, Rev. A. and Macdonald Rev. A. (1904). The Clan Donald: Volume 3. Inverness, Scotland. Northern Counties Publishing Company Ltd. p. 205.
↑ Notes, Historical and Personal, on the Tynekill Branch of the Macdonnell Family. Dublin: Browne & Nolan Ltd., Printers, 24 & 25, Nassau St., 1897, pg 31.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Francis by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
Richard McKain :
AncestryDNA Paternal Lineage (discontinued) 46 markers, haplogroup R1b, Ancestry member mckainmckean