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Scottish Roots - Donald Trump
Donald Trump is the son of a Scotswoman. His mother,Mary Anne MacLeod was fromthe hebridean Island ofLewis, off the west coast of Scotland, from where she emigrated to America and met and married Frederick Trump, of German origin. At that time, MacLeod was the most common surname in the island and is well represented there to this day.
Mary Anne was born in the village of Tong, in the parish of Stornoway on 10th May 1912, to a fisherman named Malcolm MacLeod and his wife, Mary Smith. This couple had been married in 1891 and both were Gaelic speakers, and although not so widespread as it once was, the language is still alive and well in that region. It is thus likely that Mary Anne herself would have spoken it and the young Donald may well have been soothed by Gaelic lullabies as a child.
Mary Smith MacLeod lived until the age of ninetysix years, dying in 1963. At that time her address was No. 5, Tong; she had been born, married and died in the village which is on a promontory 4 miles NNE of Stornoway. The birth of her daughter, Mary Anne, had taken place at No. 5 Tong and it seems to have been a close-knit community of crofters and fishermen, many of the menfolk following both these traditional occupations in the appropriate seasons of the year. Certainly, Malcolm MacLeod, Mary's husband was variously described as crofter and fisherman; he also lived to a respectable age and died (also at No. 5 Tong) in 1954 aged eightyseven.
Malcolm MacLeod was born in 1866 in Aird of Tong and his parents were an illustration of the prevalence of the surname, both being MacLeods. His mother had been Ann MacLeod before her marriage in 1853 to Alexander MacLeod. At that time, the spelling of names and placenames was erratic and inconsistent, depending merely upon the whims of the individual themself or of the clerk concerned. Frequently it was the preference of the clerk which prevailed as the earlier generations were not always literate and many of the documents were signed with "X - his mark". Malcolm had evidently learned to write but on registering his 1866 birth, his father, Alexander had simply added his mark.
These families, invariably with numerous children (Malcolm was one of ten) lived in fairly primitive conditions in a harsh environment, and examples of the famous 'black houses' of the area survive today. These consisted of low, thick, stone walls and sturdy roof coverings of thatch (well seasoned with generations of soot) which kept out the worst of the winter weather. The central hearth, in the middle of the floor provided both warmth and cooking facilities. Both men and women worked on the land,with women generally bearing the brunt of the hard labour of cutting and carrying home the peats which fuelled the household fires - children were also pressed into service at this task. Life was hard in this bleak moorland island where the few indigenous trees struggled up through the generally boggy landscape, covered with heather, moss and rushes. The machair, a strip of sandy soil made up of shell sand and vegetation which bordered the sea was good pasture for those who kept cattle.