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- ↑ "McDonald Name Meaning and History". Ancestry.com . Retrieved 2 June 2009.
- ↑ MacLysaght, Edward (1991). The Surnames of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-7165-2364-7.
- 1 2 "Surnames in Scotland over the last 140 years". Occasional papers. General Register Office for Scotland. Archived from the original on 2010-03-23. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
In this new survey of surnames, as in all previous surveys, we have not distinguished between the varying use of capital letters within surnames e.g. MacDonald/Macdonald. However, as in the previous two surveys, each spelling is noted separately in the tables e.g. McDonald/MacDonald.
- 1 2 %freq = percentage of the sample population sharing a particular surname.
- 1 2 3 4 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-30. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
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- ↑ "McDonald Surname". Forebears. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-31. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Note: Quote from GROScotSurnames: "Note that McDonald is shown as more common than MacDonald in 1901, although given the uncertainties surrounding the spelling of these names it would seem wrong to regard this as significant." - ↑ macdonald Families Living in England and Wales in 1891 – Ancestry.com
- ↑ mcdonald Families Living in England and Wales in 1891 – Ancestry.com
- ↑ mcdonald Family History Facts 1880 – Ancestry.com
- ↑ macdonald Family History Facts 1880 – Ancestry.com
- ↑ mcdonald Family History Facts 1840 – Ancestry.com
- ↑ macdonald Family History Facts 1840 – Ancestry.com
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