With several siblings having already established themselves there, MacLeod may have first visited the United States for a short stay in December 1929. The outbreak of World War I weakened the area's economy and male population further. Local historians have said properties at the time were "indescribably filthy", and that families in the area lived austere lives as fishers, farmers and peat diggers. According to one genealogical account, displaced families in Mary's village lived in "human wretchedness" while nearby farmable land was used as game reserves. Some of the family's generations had been forced off their land as part of the Highland Clearances. Donald died at sea aged 34 when his sailing ship sank, a common fate for men in the region which was dependent on fishing. They were from the locations of Vatisker and South Lochs, respectively. Her paternal grandparents were Alexander MacLeod and Ann MacLeod her maternal grandparents were Donald Smith and Mary MacAulay. English was her second language, which she learned at the school she attended until secondary school. Her father was a crofter, fisherman and compulsory officer at Mary's school.
Raised in a Scottish Gaelic-speaking household, Mary was the youngest of ten children born to Malcolm (1866–1954) and Mary MacLeod ( née Smith 1867–1963). Mary Anne MacLeod was born in a pebbledashed croft house owned by her father since 1895 in the village of Tong, Lewis, Scotland.
She raised five children with her husband and lived in the New York area. She was the wife of real-estate developer Fred Trump, and the mother of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.īorn in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Mary Trump immigrated to the United States in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in March 1942. Mary Anne Trump ( née MacLeod Scottish Gaelic: Màiri Anna Nic Leòid – August 7, 2000) was a Scottish-American domestic worker.
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