Individual record
First name: Murdo
Surname: MacDonald
Maiden name:
Sloinneadh/nickname: Murchadh Ruadh
Date of death: 19/05/17
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Age: 74
Year of death: 1917
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Gravestone inscription: In loving memory Erected by the sorrowing family
of
Anabel MacDonald
who died 25th July 1902
aged 27 years
Finlay Macdonald
Master Mariner
died 12th December 1906
aged 33 years
Annie MacDonald
who died 17th December 1875
aged 4 years
and their father
Murdo MacDonald
who died 19th May 1917
aged 74 years
and their mother
Mary Murchison
who died 26th December 1927
aged 85 years
also
Mary Ann MacDonald
who died 1st July 1927
aged 55 years
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Biography: His full name was Murdo John MacDonald, known as Murchadh Ruadh. See family tree provided by Noreen MacDonald, Lincoln Park, Michigan (2002). It is believed that Murdo John MacDonald’s grandmother was over 100 when she died. An entry in the Ross-shire Journal (3 March 1882) states that the only death in Applecross in the last quarter of 1881 was that of a”… female aged 101.” John Ferguson, Raasay, had a tradition that she was 105 when she died. One of his sons, Captain Kenneth MacDonald, was awarded an MBE (or similar) for charting the Magellan Straits. Kenneth used to give prizes to the children of Applecross SChool, up until around the 1940s.
Reference number: 274
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Graveyard section: 3
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