Donald Maclellan gave evidence to the Napier Commission on behalf of Garynamonie, in the far south of South Uist. We find him in the 1861 census, with the name of his township mutilated in the entry. He is aged 27 at the time, married to Mary (34). The couple have two young children, Donald (3) and another Donald (1 month old). The youngest died in 1868 at the age of 7.
In 1871, a Donald and Mary Maclellan can be found at 17 Garrehalli, which lies just north of Daliburgh, with by then five children, varying in ages between 1 and 12. The youngest is called Donald. I cannot be certain that these are the same family as the one located in 1861. Garryhalli is a few miles north of Garynamonie, and the evidence by Donald specifies him as the spokesperson for latter village.
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