Donald McLellan

(Diocese of Argyll and the Isles) Born at Kilpheder, South Uist, 3rd April 1854; left, due to ill health, 13th June 1880, but went to Partickhill and ordained a priest by Bishop MacDonald, 3rd December 1882; died in Morar, 26th January 1903. (MT)

Date	Age	Description
3 Apr. 1854		Born Kilpheder, South Uist
1871-1875	17	Blairs
15 Sep. 1875	21	Arrived in the College
13 Jun. 1880	26	Left due to ill health and went to Partickhill
3 Dec. 1882	28	Ordained a priest by Bishop MacDonald in St Peter's College
1882-1888	28	Eigg
1888-1903	34	Morar
26 Jan. 1903	48	Died Morar

Civil records show Donald McLellan's father was Alexander and his mother Kirsty or Christy Walker.

Report of the ordination of Donald McLellan in the Scottish Catholic Directory of 1883.

The Rev. Donald McLellan was born in Kilpheder, S. Uist, on 3rd April, 1854; entered Blairs College on 1st September, 1871; and passed to the Scots College, Valladolid, in August, 1875. He returned to Scotland in bad health in June, 1880, and entered St. Peter’s Seminary, Glasgow, in February, 1881. He received the Tonsure on the 24th, and Minor Orders on the 26th, November, 1881, from Archbishop Eyre; and was ordained Subdeacon on the 26th, and Deacon on the 30th, November, 1882, by Bishop Macdonald at Oban, and Priest on the 3rd December by the same Prelate in the Seminary, Glasgow. He was appointed to the Mission of Eigg.