Researching Donald Macdonell
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 123 people with the Macdonell surname? In that year Macdonell was ranked number 3456 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Donald means "proud chief, world ruler" and is of Celtic origin.
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Donald Macdonell (Upper Canada politician)
Donald Macdonell of Greenfield (January 17, 1778 – June 13, 1861) was a political figure in Upper Canada.
He was born in Greenfield, near Aberchalder, in Inverness-shire, Scotland in 1778, the son of Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield, and came to Charlottenburgh Township in Upper Canada in 1792 as part of a group of Scottish settlers led by his father. He studied with John Strachan in Cornwall. He served with the local militia during the War of 1812, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. During the war, his brother John Macdonell of Greenfield was killed at the Battle of Queenston Heights. After the war, he was appointed registrar for Glengarry County. In 1819, he became sheriff for the Eastern District. Like another brother Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield he served in government and in 1834, he was elected to represent Glengarry in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and he served until 1841. He served in the militia during the Lower Canada Rebellion. In 1846, he was appointed assistant adjutant-general of militia for Canada West, serving until his death in Quebec City in 1861.
In 1853, Macdonell laid the cornerstone for the Brock Memorial at Queenston Heights, where Brock and his brother had died.
His grandson Donald Greenfield MacDonell served as a member of the Canadian House of Commons.
Source: Donald Macdonell (Upper Canada politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaDonald Greenfield MacDonell
Donald Greenfield MacDonell (July 2, 1849 – November 12, 1916) was a lawyer and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Lanark North in the House of Commons of Canada from 1880 to 1882 as a Liberal member.
He was born in Morrisburg, Canada West, the son of A.G. MacDonell and the grandson of Donald Macdonell of Greenfield. He was educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto. MacDonell was married twice: to Margaret Rosamond in 1875 and to Edith Rose in 1880. He served as reeve of Almonte in 1878. MacDonell was first elected to the House of Commons in an 1880 by-election held after the death of Daniel Galbraith. He was unsuccessful in bids for reelection in 1882 and 1887.
Source: Donald Greenfield MacDonell, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaDonald Macdonell (Australian politician)
Donald Macdonell (1862 – 26 October 1911) was a politician, trade unionist and shearer in New South Wales, Australia.
Born at Stuart Mill near St Arnaud, Victoria, to Christina McMaster and Alexander Macdonell, a Scottish-born farmer and shearer. He helped on his father's farm as a child and moved to New South Wales in 1886, being an early member of the Australian Shearers' Union. He played a leading party in the 1891 strike, during which time he had traveled to Queensland. He became secretary of the Shearers' Union's Bourke branch and a member of the Labor Party in 1894, and helped to draft the rules for the new Australian Workers' Union when the shearers' and labourers' unions amalgamated in the same year. He continued as secretary of the AWU's Bourke branch thereafter. He was general secretary of the AWU from 1900 to 1911.
In 1901 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Cobar, serving until 1911. He was Minister for Agriculture and Chief Secretary in the McGowen ministry from 1910 to 1911. He was absent from parliament from 1 March 1911 due to illness but was expected to recover when a political crisis caused by the resignation of 2 Labor members resulted in parliament being prorogued and he was automatically expelled for non-attendance during an entire session. He was re-elected unopposed in the Cobar by-election on 7 October, but died three weeks later.
Macdonell died in Melbourne on and is buried at Stuart Mill.
He was a friend of Henry Lawson who in 1899 described Macdonell as "the tallest, straightest, and perhaps the best of the Bourke-side bush-leaders".
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