Thank you
Graham

Carole

*edit – actually there was a Maclean who ran a ship to the Baltic.

Carole

Thank you for taking the trouble to answer my questions about Inaclaid/Inaclet. I would love to know more about these Hebridean ancestors.

Regards Carole

On quick consideration your Iniclet sounds to me like the other Einacleit (various spellings) in Stornoway – now absorbed by the town, but home to mariners at the time. I’ll see if I can find anything to confirm this and maybe someone else will be able to comment.

This may not be relevant to you now if it’s not the Uig Enaclete that you want, but the school records here date from 1881 when the school at Lochcroistean opened (serving Enaclete). There are no records surviving from the earlier Gaelic school, as far as I know.

Thanks for your comments and for the info – I’ll let you know if we find anything to add.

I would dearly love to see the school registers for Enacete as well as other documents.

I have traced my husband’s ancestors to Ewen Macdonald (Ship Master) and Margaret Reid who were both resident in Iniclet (sic) at the time of their marriage on 8/2/1832 at Stornoway.

The only possible baptism record I can find for Ewen is the one given for Evan Macdonald 4/1/1806, father’s name given as Donald Macdonald sailor of Inaclaid (sic). Was there a place called Inaclaid or was this a reference to Enaclete? Was Iniclet also a misspelling of Enaclete?

Ewen Macdonald and Margaret Reid had seven children in all. The first two, Joseph (b about 1833) and johanna (b about 1837) I can’t find the baptisms for; but the next three children were baptised at Stornoway and gave their residence then as Stornoway. These chldren were Barbara Morrison Macdonald c 14/8/1838, Donald Macdonald (c 11/7/1840) and William Morrison Macdonald (5/1/1847). By 1849 Ewen and Margaret had moved to Aberdeen where two more daughters were born. These were Margaret McKenzie McDonald (b/c 28/12/1849) and Susan Garden McDonald (b/c 3/12/1851). Contrary to the other baptisms on the pages, no name was given for the minister and no baptism date given either. Does anyone know why this might have occurred?

On her marriage certificate in 19/1/1860, Barbara Morrison Macdonald gives her father’s name as Evan Macdonald (Mariner) which seems to verify the 1806 baptism entry.

The 1841 census has Margaret Macdonald (nee Reid) and her children living at Keith St Stornoway; Ewen is absent, probably away at sea. Margaret is described as Independant.
Also present in the household is Lillias Morison, aged 70 and Independant. Was Lillias Morison an older relative?

I have since discovered from her death certificate in 1864 that she lived to be 100, and was a widow of Donald Morison, and daughter of Kenneth Morison and Mary McNeill.

The 1851 census gives Ewen and Margaret with their children in Aberdeen,

By 1861 Margaret is a widow living in Liverpool Lancashire with a couple of her children. Her daughter Joahanna has married and her surname is now Leslie. Another daughter Barbara Morrison Macdonald has married Augustus Barlow (Mariner).

The 1871 has Margaret Macdonald still in Liverpool and living with her is a cousin Josephina Scarlett. This was Josephina McInnes who in 1841 was an 11 year old servant with a Reid family in Stornoway. The family she was with could have well been Margaret’s mother and other family members. They were Isabella Reid (50), Ann Reid (20) and Mary Reid 12. Ewen’s wife Margaret Reid, was the daughthter of Joseph Reid (shoemaker of Stornoway) and Isabella McKenzie daughter of Murdoch McKenzie (tacksman of Aird sometime before 1807 when his daughter Isabella married).

I would love to trace the Macdonald family of Enaclete back further that 1806. Although your website only lists a few dwellings in Enaclete there were many in the 1841 census.

Thank you and kind regards

Carole Parkes