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Posted on 09/16/2025 8:29:28 AM PDT by simpson96
Donald Trump is a US president with a uniquely strong connection to Scotland. His mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born and brought up on the Hebridean island of Lewis but emigrated to New York to live a very different life.
Mary Anne was one of tens of thousands of Scots who travelled to the US and Canada in the early years of the last century looking to escape economic hardship at home.
She first left Lewis for New York in 1930, at the age of 18, to seek work as a domestic servant.
Six years later she was married to successful property developer Frederick Trump, the son of German migrants and one of the most eligible men in New York.
The fourth of their five children, Donald John, as he is referred to on the islands, is now US president for the second time.
His mother was born in 1912 in Tong, about three miles from Stornoway, the main town on the isle of Lewis.
Genealogist Bill Lawson, who has traced the family tree of Mary Anne MacLeod back to the early 19th Century, says her father Malcolm ran a post office and small shop in his later years.
Economically, the family would have been slightly better off than the average in the township, he says.
However, life during and after World War One, in which 1,000 islanders died, was very hard and many young people were leaving the Western Isles.(snip)
Mr Lawson says: "Mary Anne MacLeod was from a very large family, nine siblings, and the move at that time was away from the island.
"The move by Viscount Leverhulme to revive the island had gone bust and there was not much prospect for young people.
"What else could she do?"
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My husband has MacCleod family from the Hebrides. It would be a ton of work to find a connection, though.
Typical crap BBC UK state-run media - has to get its subtle digs in against Trump by the end of the article.
She was born two years before my mother, and died 12 years before my mother did.
My mother also had red hair, and worked in houses of the wealthy before she got married.
I think it’s BS how Getty images gathers up other peoples photos, slaps their logo on it and suddenly you need to ask their permission to use it. I am sure Trump never gave them the rights to his family photos.
“My husband has MacCleod family from the Hebrides. “
My maternal grandmother was a McLean.
Traced back to Scotland. The MacLean’s and MacLeod’s lived close by an intermarried.
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“I think it’s BS how Getty images gathers up other peoples photos, slaps their logo on it and suddenly you need to ask their permission to use it.”
Not exactly how Getty works.
“I am sure Trump never gave them the rights to his family photos.”
Somebody did.
Thanks for those pictures.
See here: Column: Photographer sues Getty Images for $1 billion after she’s billed for her own photo
Site of the discovery of The Lewis Chessmen.
He loved both his parents so much. I've never read a bad word he has said about them.
I do, too but mine are from the Isle of Skye.
It would be quite easy. Go to the local Mormon office in your city. They will do your genealogy for you. Their church has the best genealogy data and some of their volunteers have years of experience. The work they do would cost you a lot if you hired someone. They do it for free.
I should see if I can narrow the island down. Never looked.
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