Clachan Graveyard Mapping Project

Individual record

First name: John

Surname: MacDonald

Maiden name:

Sloinneadh/nickname: Seonan

Date of death: 05/02/50

Place of death:

Age: 77

Year of death: 1950

Date of burial:

Date of funeral:

Gravestone inscription:

In memory of
our parents
John MacDonald
died 5th February 1950
aged 77 years
and
Alexandrina MacBeath
died 1st June 1948
aged 56 years
also our brother
Alistair
lost at sea
19th October 1941
aged 27 years

Home address: Camusteel

Township: Camusteel

Originally from:

Date of birth:

Biography:

The owner of the lair when he died was his son Kenneth. Shonan, a joiner, was a self-taught painter and served in the Ross Mountain Battery in World War I. His brother Murdo (Murchadh Mòr) in Milltown was a skipper on the ‘Passing Cloud’.

Reference number: 281

Interment number: 255

Graveyard section: 3

Lair number: 37

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