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Donald MacDonell 8th Chief of Glengarry¹

• Father: Angus MacAlasdair MacDonell 7th Chief of Glengarry^2,1,3 b. c 1520, d. 1574
• Mother: Lady Janet MacLean of Duart^2,1 b. c 1527, d. 10 Nov 1573

• Relationships: 7th cousin 5 times removed of Dougald MacFarlane, 3rd great-grandfather of Margaret MacDonell, 8th great-grandfather of Donald James MacFarlane
• Charts: Ancestry of Archibald MacFarlane (#1), Ancestry of Archibald MacFarlane (#2)

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• Birth*: Donald was born in 1543 in Glengarry, Scotland.^2,4,5,6
• Marriage: He married Helen Grant of Freuchie on 27 November 1571 in Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland.²
• Marriage*: He married Margaret MacDonald after 1575 in Scotland.^2,7
• Death*: Donald died on 2 February 1645 in battle of Inverlochy, Scotland.^2,4
• Biography: "I have seen many of this Donald's signatures, which all run '"Donald Mack Angus," not Macdonald. Donald's eldest son, Alastair Dearg, having pre-deceased his father, the succession to Glengarry opened to his son Eneas, afterwards Lord Macdonell and Aros. Lord Macdonell dying in 1682 without issue, the success-ion to Glengarry devolved upon his cousin-german Ranald, second of Scotos, eldest son of Donald the first. At this period Ranald was advanced in years, having two grown-up sons, Allister Dubh and Eneas. Allister Dubh possessed Glengarry, and his male descendants, until their extinction in I668, were chiefs of Glengarry."
  
  Donald Macdonald, 8th of Glengary and Morar was born in 1543. He was the son of Angus Macalister Macdonald, 7th of Glengarry and Janet Maclean. He married Margaret Macdonald, daughter of Allan Macdonald, 9th of Clanranald and Moidart and Janet Maclean. He married Katherine Mackintosh, daughter of Lachlan 'Mor' Mackintosh, 16th of Mackintosh, on 24 April 1590. He died on 2 February 1645.
  
  On 19 July 1574 had a charter under the Gt Seal of the lands of Glengarry. On 15 April 1584 legitimated under Privy Seal. On 5 November 1584 served heir to Margaret his gmother in half of the lands of Achuilt and to his great-great-grandfather Celestine of Lochalsh. On 27 March 1627 had a charter under the Great Seal, on his own resignation, of the lands of Glengarry incorporating it into a free barony.^4,6