This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TeC.2ACE/1109.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Anne, What a coinvcidence it seems we've both been at the Munerigie cemetery recently with our children.I took my 17 year old with me in the October hlidays. The cemetery was to have been flooded in the 1940s when a kind sole from England collated the graves left standing and one of my brothers picked up a copy from the small museum dedicated to mainly the MacDonnells in Invergarry.My gggrandma Anne or Annie was a McDonnell. She was born in Boleskine but so were some buried near her came also from Leek also in Boleskine so iI presume they were quite closely related. My gggrandfather ewen came from the Glengarry part of Kilmonivaig so around Invergarry but I'm not sure where. his sister Anne McDonald is also buried at Munerigie but her stone no longer stands. I researched those that still stood on Scotlands People and many were Gillies and McDonells [McDonnells]and McDonalds but as you saw many are now in ruins. Funnily enough my lot were tied up in other ways. One of Ewen and Annie's other son's John , married the girl next door in Market Hill, Fort Augustus , Mary McDonell, and both her father Donald and I think her Mum was Mary too were McDonells.John and Mary had a daughter Johanna Also their son Donald , my ggrandfather left for Australia with his wife Jane Lamont and their 2 young children, Margaret and Ewen [ my grandfather] in 1864 after his Dad's death.Unfortunately Jane died of ovarian cancer but another relative in Bendigo,Victoria ,Anne McDonald ,a nurse and the daughter of Samuel McDonald and Christina Gillies fostered Annie Jane , their youngest daughter. McDonald and McDonnell were interchangeable. The IGI lists the 2 , Ewen and Anne as both McDonells in a couple of their childrens births. Our family was Catholic was yours also. I'd love to hear more, I know they were very proud of their McDonell link and I'd love to know more of who your relatives were in the Munerigie cemetery. As I said I have many records that don't make complete sense Kind regards, Julia I see you are also of Ngai Tahu descent . We were up in the Hokianga today and i hope your Waitangi day passes well. The social structure of our Clans with their septs mirrors the iwi and hapu structures to a tee