From a Scottish island to New York's elite - who was Trump's mother?

With Donald Trump being elected to beryllium the US president for the 2nd clip we look backmost astatine his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was calved and brought up connected the Hebridean land of Lewis but emigrated to New York to unrecorded a precise antithetic life.

Mary Anne was 1 of tens of thousands of Scots who travelled to the US and Canada successful the aboriginal years of the past period looking to flight economical hardship astatine home.

She archetypal near Lewis for New York successful 1930, astatine the property of 18, to question enactment arsenic a home servant.

Six years aboriginal she was joined to palmy spot developer Frederick Trump, the lad of German migrants and 1 of the astir eligible men successful New York.

The 4th of their 5 children, Donald John, arsenic helium is referred to connected the islands, is astir to go US president for the 2nd time.

His parent was calved successful 1912 successful Tong, astir 3 miles from Stornoway, the main municipality connected the isle of Lewis.

Genealogist Bill Lawson, who has traced the household histrion of Mary Anne MacLeod backmost to the aboriginal 19th Century, says her begetter Malcolm ran a station bureau and tiny store successful his aboriginal years.