Hello Mary, That's a difficult search for you. You'd almost have to view all the death registrations in Scotland for Thomas McDOnald after 1915 (date HM Factory Gretna started?) There is a passenger arrival record for a Violet E McDOnald Sept 1927 to Quebec Canada , b Ecclefechan, going to sister Mary Gordon of Winnipeg. Sounds like your Violet. Didn't mention her father as the contact but Miss May Elliot on PaisleyRd, West Glasgow. I don't see a passenger arrival record for Isabella in Canada or New York Joanna Waugh > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:37:03 -0500 > From: "Mary A. Paladin" <mapc@ptd.net> > Subject: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Mcdonald, Elliot > To: <dumfries-galloway@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <001b01c9554c$3a2bbc30$6401a8c0@homeoffice> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I am in search of: and it may be listed as MacDonald, McDonald, Macdonald; > and Elliot > > My g'grandfather, Thomas Boyd Mcdonald (b:21 Aug 1876 in Ecclefechan) > married Mary Smith Campbell (b: 6 Jul 1879 Thorthorwald d: 30 Oct 1909 > Ecclefechan) She died during childbirth, he seems to have 'dissappearred'. > He is on 1901 census as estate laborer, in 1909 on my g'aunt Violet's birth > certificate he is listed as a motor car driver. > We have a photo of him (no date) in a group of, what appears to be, HM > Factory Gretna workers. He is sitting in a row with other men and there is a > row of women in front of, and behind them. The women all have the Dornack > workers badge on their uniforms but the men have no isignia on their coats. > > His daur, my g'aunt Isabella Scott Mcdonald (b:17 Jun 1899) in Knockburn, > Ecclefechan. In 1901 she is listed on the census in Hoddam. No trail after > that. Emmigration? Marriage? > > My g'g'aunt Elizabeth Mcdonald, -sister to Thomas Mcdonald- (b:7 Aug. 1873 > in Hoddam). Last record is 1901 census Eskdalemuir, Dumfries. She married > Thomas Elliot (b:1868 in Westerkirk) in 1892. He was a shephard in 1892 in > Hoddam and in 1901 appeared on 1901 census in Eskdalmuir. They had 3 > children: May Elliot(B:abt 1894), John Mcdonald Elliot (b:13 May 1896 d:10 > Oct 1918 in Sicily IT) and George (b: abt 1901). Elizabeth and Thomas > raised my g'aunt Violet after Mary Smith Campbell died giving birth to > Violet Elliot Mcdonald and Margaret Murray Mcdonald (d: 20 Nov 1909), as did > 3rd (unborn) triplet. > > Any leads would be greatly appreciated. > Mary Paladin > PA; USA > > Mary A. Paladin > mapc@ptd.net > *