John Reid McDonald

Attorney with James McDonald for Blackheath estate in Westmoreland, Jamaica, in 1832.

He married Margaret Taylor Smith in St Elizabeth on 10/06/1840.

When his thirteen-year-old son died of pulmonary consumption in 1888, John Reid McDonald was living at Coffee Hall in Trelawny, previously owned by his brother James Macdonald.

He died on 19/04/1896, aged 90, at Duan Vale, Trelawny (q.v.); his death certificate recorded "pains in his chest."

We are grateful to Anne Thornley-Brown for assistance in compiling this entry.

T71/189 pp. 57-58. Jamaica, Civil Registration, 1880-1999 via FamilySearch; Registrar General's Department, Spanish Town. Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 via FamilySearch; Entry for John Reid MacDonald and Margaret Taylor Smith, 10 Jun 1840.