David McDonald

(Diocese of Aberdeen) Born in Glenmoriston, 16th March 1858, the son of Duncan McDonald and Elizabeth McDonell; was at Blairs (1870), Benedictine College, Douai (1875), Issy (1877) and St.-Sulpice (1879), before arriving in Valladolid; received subdiaconate from Bishop Serra of Daulia (Perth, Australia) in college church, 20th November 1881; ordained a priest, bishop’s private chapel, Palencia, 25th March 1882, and left for Scotland, 11th April 1882; canon of the Aberdeen chapter; died in Stonehaven, 27th September 1930. (MT)

Date	Age	Description
16 Mar. 1858		Born Glenmoriston
1870-1875	12	Blairs
1875-1877	17	St Edmund's, Douay
1877-1879	19	Issy
1879-1880	21	St Sulpice
10 Dec. 1880	22	Arrived in the College
20 Nov. 1881	23	Received subdiaconate from Bishop Serra, O.S.B., tit. Bp. of Daulia (former administrator of Perth, Australia) in college church
25 Mar. 1882	24	Ordained a priest, bishop’s private chapel, Palencia
11 Apr. 1882	24	Left for Scotland
1882-1883	24	Inverurie
1883-1886	25	Peterhead
1886-1891	28	Dornie
1891-1896	33	Stratherrick
1896-1912	38	Kirkwall
1912-1913	54	Lerwick
1913-1922	55	Tynet
1922-1930	64	Stonehaven
27 Sep. 1930	72	Died Stonehaven

Report of the ordination of David McDonald in the Scottish Catholic Directory of 1883.

The Rev. David McDonald was born in Glenmoriston on 16th March, 1858; entered Blairs College on 3rd August, 1870; was sent in September, 1875, to St. Edmund’s, Douay, and two years later to the Sulpician Seminary at Issy. In 1879 he entered the Theological Seminary in Paris, where he received the Tonsure. He passed to the Scots College, Valladolid, in December, 1880. He received the Subdiaconate on the 20th, November, 1881, from Mgr. Serra, Bishop of Daulia, in the College Chapel; and was ordained Deacon on the 4th, and Priest on the 25th, March, 1882, by Mgr. Lozano y Terreira, Bishop of Palencia, in the Chapel of his Episcopal Palace. He returned to Scotland in April last, and was appointed to the Mission of Inverurie.