McDonalds at Ardionra on Iona, Scotland
Euphemia (also Effie and Fanny on records) McDonald was born in 1830 at Coll and baptized in the parish of Tiree & Coll. Parents were Neil - a farmer - and Elizabeth - maiden name McDougall (from her death certificate in Victoria).We have found only two candidates for her parents across all of Argyll.The most likely pair lived at Ardionra in the 1851 and 1871 Census, and seem to have had children of appropriate ages to be siblings of Euphemia.
Euphemia shows up at the home of the McKinnon family on Coll in 1841 as a student.We have so far found neither her arrival here, nor that of her parents, but she reappears when married to Michael Spring in 1853 at Penola in South Australia (just near Mt Gambier).Details are from her marriage record.After that we have a comprehensive idea of her descendents.The McKinnon name was, and still is, associated with places all around Lindsay VIC, where she and Michael Spring ran the Border Inn: right on the SA border.
What we suspect is that, for whatever reason, her parents went from Coll to Iona (a short distance by boat) between 1830 and 1841, but she remained - or returned for the date of the 1841 Census at least - and migrated here with the McKinnons as a young adult, while her brothers and parents remained farming at Ardionra on Iona.The presence in Mt Gambier, and in the Glenelg valley, of so many McDonald's makes it hard to find individuals, but they do seem to have been from the Hebrides.
Any help with this family would be much appreciated.
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