Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish bagpipes music, of the Glencoe Massacre Memorial Monument on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Glencoe village in the Scottish Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. Not far from here on 13 February 1692, MacIain, Chief of the MacDonalds of Glencoe and 37 of his clansmen were murdered by a militia of the Earl of Argyll's regiment in the infamous Massacre of Glencoe. Cruel is the snow that sweeps Glencoe and covers the grave o' Donald. Sculpted by Alexander Macdonald and Company. of Aberdeen in 1883, it is a tapering 18 foot granite Celtic cross soars up from a rugged cairn above the river in Upper Carnoch. Its design is based on the elaborate Gosforth Cross. An annual wreath laying ceremony is held at the Monument to commemorate those who fell in the massacre. The ancestors of the MacDonald family come from the ancient Scottish kingdom of Dalriada. The family name comes from the Anglicized version of the Gaelic personal name Mac Dhomhnuill. The surname MacDonald was first found in Kintyre, and much of the Eastern islands and coast-lands where members of this Clan, descended through Somerled, Lord of the Isles and had resided for many years. William Macdonald, a Scottish convict from Edinburgh, was transported aboard the ship Asia on July 29th, 1823, settling in Van Diemen's Land, Australia; John Macdonald, a Scottish convict who was convicted in Edinburgh, Scotland for 14 years, was transported aboard the Barossa on 8th December 1839, arriving in New South Wales, Australia; Janet Macdonald, aged 3, landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1801; Norman and Elizabeth Macdonald, and their two children settled in Georgia, America, in 1741; Alastair Macdonald landed in Baltimore, Maryland, America, in 1803; James Macdonald landed in North Carolina, America, in 1772
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