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Descendants of John
MacDonald, Sugar Refinery, Greenock, Scotland, who was twice married,
first to Isabel Galloway and again to Ann MacEchen. The children by the
first wife were Archibald, Hugh, John, Donald, Mary, (Mother of John
MacLean, Troy.); and by the second, Angus, John, and Isabel who died
young.
Archibald and Hugh remained
in Scotland. The rest of the family came out in 1821 and landed at the
Strait in July. The first John married Flora MacQuarrie, North Ainslie and
settled at the rear there where they raised a large family, Ann, Archie,
John, Isabel, Catherine, Mary, Murdock, Maggie, Sarah, Elizabeth, Flora.
Of these, Ann married
Donald MacKinnon, West Lake Ainslie, and left a family: Archibald married
Catherine MacLean, Cape Mabou and left a family: Isabel married Duncan
MacQuarrie, Mackdale, and left children: Mary married John MacDonald,
Barberton and has children; Maggie was Mrs. Dan MacVicar, Melville; Sarah
married Donald Campbell, Malagawatch and has children.
Going back again to the
first family of John MacDonald of Greenock, Mary married Hector MacLean,
Troy, and left children, Isabel, Mary, John, Ann, Sarah and John Neil.
Of these Isabel was married
to John MacQuarrie, Lexington. Her son, Hector Dan occupies and owns the
home now.
Mary, Hector MacLean's
daughter, married Hector MacKinnon, Blue Mts., C.B., and her sister Sarah
married his brother Donald MacKinnon. Both had families.
Ann, daughter of Hector
MacLean, lives in Gloucester, U.S.; John Neil was drowned. John owns and
occupies half the old homestead and Neil MacSwain, married to Donald
MacLean's daughter, Sarah, is in possession of the other half. John
MacLean, Hector's son, was municipal councillor for the district of Port
Hastings for some years. His wife was Alvina Fox. The children are named
on another page.
Neil MacSwain's children:
Christina Cameron, Malcolm John {deceased), Hughina M. (deceased), Donald
George, John Archie, and Jessie Catherine.
Hector MacKinnon, Blue
Mts., C.B., had a large family: Marion Margaret, (Mrs. Hugh MacDonald),
Mary Bell (Mrs. Donald MacDonald, Crandall Road), Martha May.
Dan MacKinnon, Blue Mts.,
C.B., had a large family also: Christina Bell (Mrs. A. C. Wentzell, U.S.),
Julia Margaret (Mrs. W. Robbins, U.S.), Neil, Dan J., Mary Ann (Mrs. H. A.
Giroux, U.S.), Annie {Mrs. Walter MacLaren, U.S.).
The above Hector MacKinnon
and Dan were sons of John MacKinnon and Sarah MacKinnon his wife. Their
grandfather was Dan MacKinnon, Isle of Rum, Scotland.
Angus MacDonald, N. W. Arm,
son of pioneer John, married Flora MacQuarrie, sister to the late Hector
MacQuarrie, South Rhodena. Children: Isabel, John, Hector, Allan, Dan, Ann
and Katie.
Isabel married Farquhar
MacDonald, Marble Mountain and left sons and daughters.
John married Sarah
MacQuarrie and had a family of three sons and four daughters at Askilton,
C.B.: Lauchlin, Angus, John Dan Sarah Ann, Flora Bell (Mrs. James
MacDonald, Sugar Camp), Cassie (Mrs. Campbell, Black River), Annie (Mrs.
Hector MacLean, Sugar Camp).
Hector, Angus' son, married
Annie MacDonald, daughter of Allan MacDonald, Crandall Road, and had one
son. The whole family is dead.
Allan, Angus' son, married
Kate, daughter of Allan MacDonald, Crandall Road. Children: Annie Sarah
(deceased), John Angus, Hugh Allan, John Dan, Archie Neil, and Katie
Flora.
Ann, Angus's daughter,
married Angus MacDonald, carpenter, Sugar Camp. Children: James and
George, both at home with their parents. James is married to a daughter of
John MacDonald, Askilton, and has a son and daughter.
Allan MacDonald married Ann
MacKinnon, West Lake Ainslie. Children: Hugh, Annie, Kate, Donald, John
and Hector.
Of these, Hugh married
Flora, daughter of Neil MacKinnon, West Lake Ainslie, and has one son,
John L. Hugh lives with his aunt at General Line. Annie married Hector
MacDonald, N. W. Arm. Kate married Allan MacDonald N. W. Arm.
Donald, son of Allan,
married Isabel MacKinnon, daughter of Hector MacKinnon, Port Hawkesbury,
formerly of South Rhodena. Children: Annie May, Hector Sylvester, Katie
Bell, Hugh Allan, and William Donald, Donald and his family have the old
homestead.
John MacDonald, son of
Allan, married Mary Ann MacKinnon of South Lake Ainslie and lives at Troy,
C.B. Children: John Allan, Annie Catherine, and Hattie Ann.
Hector MacDonald, Allan's
son, married Emma Weldon of England, and lives at Crandall Road. Children:
Annie E., Catherine J., George Allan, Margaret Hannah, John MacDonald, N.
W. Arm, of the second family of pioneer. John MacDonald, married Christina
MacQuarrie, daughter of Sergeant John MacQuarrie, N. W. Arm. Children:
John, Rachel, Annie (died single), Mary Isabel, Allan, Mary, Archie Hugh,
Sarah, Katie Ann, John Angus.
Of these, John married Ann,
daughter of Charles MacDonald, N. W. Arm, Children: Charles Hector and
Christina Ann (Mrs. John D. MacDonald, West Roxbury, Mass.)
Rachel married Lauchlin
MacDonald, U.S.; Children: Christina, John Alex. and Archie.
Mary Bell married Neil
MacDonald, Crandall Road. See another page. Allan married Mrs. Olsen, who
had children: They live at N. W. Arm.
Mary married John Gray and
has four children living in U. S.: Henry, Sarah, Levi, Lizzie. Her second
husband was a Mr. Sanborn. Archie Hugh, John's son, married Kenina
MacInnis, North Ainslie. Children living: John Allan, Chas William, Henry
Angus.
Charles MacDonald, North
VVest Arm, Hastings married Margaret MacLean, daughter of Neil MacLean
from Sleat, Scotland, an old soldier of Napoleonic days who had been nine
years in the army and participated in twelve battles. On one occasion in
battle he placed his Scotch bonnet on a stump in sight of the enemy. When
he went for it again it was torn by bullets.
Charles MacDonald's
children were: Donald, Mary, Annie, Neil and Kenneth.
Of these Donald married
Kate MacColl and lived on the old homestead. Children: Charles A. and John
Hugh. Annie, Charles MacDonald's daughter, married John MacDonald,
Carpenter, N. W. Arm, and has children and grandchildren. her son Charles
H. lives at home. The daughter, Christina Ann, (Mrs. John D. MacDonald),
and her children live in the United States.
Neil, son of Charles,
married Mary Bell MacDonald, daughter of John MacDonald, elder, N. W. Arm.
Children: Benjamin, Kate
Sarah, Maggie (deceased), Annie.
Their home is on the
Crandall Road, but Kate Sarah recently married Dan R. MacDonald, Oban, C.
B. and has her home there.
Kenneth, son of Charles,
married Margaret, daughter of Donald MacKay, St. George's Channel, West
Bay. Children: Margaret A., Dan Archie, John Duncan and Alexander Hector.
Of these, Margaret A, is Mrs. James H. MacQuarrie, Pleasant Hill, who have
three sons and one daughter. Lincoln, Walter, Isabel Margaret and Neil
Kenneth.
Dan Archie, K's son, gave
his life for his country in the world war. He was missed from the ranks
after severe fighting April 9-11, 1917.
Margaret, daughter of
Charles MacDonald married Daniel Alfred Friend in the United States.
Children: Eleanor May, Jennie Bell, Daniel Sergeant, Arthur Samuel, Lester
Charles and Margaret Alfreda.
Archie, son of Charles,
died long ago. Sarah married Daniel D. MacLeod, Loch Lomond, C. B.
Children: Catherine Bell, Kenneth Donald, Daniel J., and Margaret Ann.
CAMERONS.
In Scotland Donald Cameron married Marjory
Cummings at Craigie about 130 miles from Fort William. His son Hugh (or
Ewen Eobhain a Chreagan) married Christina Laidlaw in Scotland, emmigrated
to the Strait on the ship, Aurora, in 1827, made his home at General Line,
and had a large family; Jane, John, Allan, Tom, Alexander,, George, Kate,
Christina, Alex. Cummings, Donald, Hugh, Marjory.
Of these, John died in Buctouche, N. B.,
leaving a large family.
Tom married Christina MacLean, daughter of
Roderick MacLean Troy, and made his home at Lake Horton, now Lexington.
His children were, Hugh T., Mary Ann (Mrs. Angus Young, Gloucester, Mass)
Catherine (Mrs. Hugh McLean, Sugar Camp); Christina B., deceased.
Hugh T. Cameron married Sarah Macintosh of
Princeville and had two sons and two daughters, Thomas Alex, Janet Flora
(deceased) Christina Mary, James Neil.
Allan Cameron, son of pioneer Hugh, married
Jane MacLachlan,. West Bay Road and made his home at General Line, now
Lexington: and had a family: Kate (Mrs. James MacKinnon), Lexington
deceased;: Mary Jane (Mrs. Duncan MacArthur, Princeville, C. B.),
deceased;: Mary Ann (Mrs. Capt. Murdo A. MacInnis, Port Hastings) ; Dan
George, deceased; and Hugh A., single, on the old homestead.
Alexander married Isabel Laidlaw made his home
north of Hastings and had a large family: Maggie, Kate, Isabel, Donald
Hugh, Margaret, Annie, George Peter, John Hugh, James Skinner.
Maggie married Nathaniel Martell, North
Sydney, and left children: Charlie, Aubrey Alexander, Maggie, George,
Fanny. Alexander
Cameron's second daughter, Kate, was twice married, first to Roderick
Morrison, Port Hastings, and again to D. A. Campbell, Strathlorne. By the
first marriage she had a son and daughter, J. Lewis Morrison lately in
Japan on the Liner, Keystone State, and Flora Bell at present in the
United States. By the second marriage she has one son, Cameron Campbell,
Strathlorne. Alex.
Cameron's third daughter, Isabel, is Mrs. Ira Andrews, Lynn, Mass., and
has one daughter Annie, and three sons, O. Alex, Sumner, Aubrey. His
eldest son, Donald Hugh died suddenly in his bed a few days ago on the old
homestead. He was married to Margaret Isabel, daughter of John Macintosh,
Big Brook, River Denys, and left a son and daughter, Alexander John and
Florence Isabella, both grown up and at home with their mother.
Alexander Cameron's fourth daughter, Margaret
Annie, is Mrs. Benjamin T. Haywood, U. S.
Alex. Cameron's second son, George Peter, died
young. third son, John Hugh, is a custom's officer at North Sydney.
The fourth son, James Skinner, has a son and
daughter in U. S., Kenneth Alexander and Madlin Isabel.
Alexander C. Cameron, son of pioneer Hugh
Cameron, married Annie Cameron of Princeville, C. B., and had a large
family; Marjory (deceased); Catherine Ann (Mrs. Henry Stewart), Waltham,
Mass.; Margaret (Mrs. D. W. Cameron, Princeville), deceased; John Hugh,
deceased; Annie Christina; Christina Bell, died in Boston; Johanna (Mrs.
Allan MacFadyen, Lexington); Marjory Maggieie (Mrs. M. M. MacQuarrie)
Mackdale, C.B.; Hugh James. Hugh J. is married to Langley. Mrs. M. M.
MacQuarrie has three children living,-Alexander Cameron, Donald John,
Annie Margaret. Her first daughter, Margaret Catherine, died in infancy.
Her husband was John C. MacQuarrie.
George Cameron, son of pioneer Hugh, born at
Lochaber, Scotland in 1820 married Margaret Cameron and made his home at
Broad Cove Banks about 1845 and had a large family. By trade he was a
stone mason and built many of the old time chimneys. Of his children, six
died in infancy. Those who grew up were Marjory Ann, Hugh G., John H.,
Christy Ann, Maggie J., by the first wife. His second wife was Lily Fraser
of Whycocomagh. His children by her were George Fraser, Maud Cassie, Mary
Sarah. Of these
Marjory Ann was Mrs. Allan R. MacKinnon, Strathlorne Christy Ann, Mrs.
Alex. Dan Fraser, Inverness; Maggie J., Mrs. John G. MacKay, Inverness and
later of New Waterford, C. B.; Maud Cassie, Mrs. Hugh Allan MacLeod, Mine
Manager, Inverness, and later at New Waterford; Mary Sarah, Mrs. Samuel
Quigley, Inverness.
John H. Cameron died in 1897, a couple of months after his father.
Hugh G. and George F. had children, and so had
their married sisters.
Donald Cameron, son of pioneer Hugh, went to
Australia on John MacMillan's ship built at Buctouche, N. B.
Hugh, another son of pioneer Hugh, died young.
The eldest daughter of pioneer Hugh was Jane,
the eldest of the family, who married John Skinner, Port Hastings, and had
three sons and two daughters. Her sister Kate married Malcolm Morrison and
had a large family in Buctouche, N. B.
Christina, another daughter of pioneer Hugh,
married Donald MacLean, Troy, son of Roderick and had children. Another
daughter, Marjory, remained single and lived with her brother Alex. C. at
General Line.
The children of Donald MacLean, Troy, and Christina Cameron, his wife,
were; Catherine in U.S.; Catherine Ann; Maggie (Mrs. Lauchlin MacKinnon),
Kingsville; Sarah (Mrs. Neil MacSwain) Troy.
LAIDLAW.
The Laidlaws claim a long line of George's in
their family history. Anne Laidlaw, the late Mrs. Hector MacQuarrie, Port
Hastings, claimed that her brother George was the twenty-first by regular
descent, and that his son George was the twenty second.
This sketch begins with George, the shepherd,
who planned to come to America but died in port, in Lochaber, Scotland.
His widow came out with her son George in the
ship Aurora in 1826. Sophia, a sister of George, the shepherd, died young.
Two brothers, William and Robert moved to Ontario. A son, John, remained
in Scotland. Two daughters, Christina, (Mrs. Hugh Cameron) and Isabel,
came out with their mother and their brother George to this country. This
George married Margaret MacLean, daughter of Roderick MacLean, Troy, and
by her had a large family, viz: Christina, Isabel, Anne, Sophia, Mary,
Kate, Roderick, John and George.
Of these Christina married Hector MacFadyen,
General Line, now Lexington, and by him had a family of sons and
daughters, viz: John,
George, Alex. Maggie Mary, Dan, Annie and Roderick. Of these MacFadyens
George died at home aged 17 years. Dan and Alex. were drowned at sea.
Maggie Mary married John J. MacLean, Port Hawkesbury (deceased) and has
one son, George Henry.
Annie MacFadyen married James MacKinnon of
Greece's Point, Quebec, now engineer on the Inverness Railway and living
at Port Hastings, N. S. Their children are Christina Margaret, Elizabeth
Auburn Goodwin, Alexander Archibald, James Colvin, George Roderick.
Norman MacLeod, Ian Hector, Roy Laidlaw, and
Howard Kimball. Their oldest child, Walter James died when 10 mos. old.
Isabel Laidlaw was married to Alexander Cameron, a farmer on the Port Hood
Road about a mile North of Port Hastings. Their children are named in the
Cameron list, Anne Laidlaw married Hector MacQuarrie, tailor, Port
Hastings, where he was later proprietor of the Caledonia Hotel. Both
passed away some years ago, and their only son, George, a few years later.
Sophie married John MacLean, "'Turner" by whom she had a family of five
sons and four daughters; John James, George Laidlaw, Allan John George,
George, Maggie, Mary Ann, Catherine, Sarah Ann. This "Turner" was son of
John MacLean, "Turner", from Fort William, Scotland to Mabou and Rear Port
Hawkesbury. Mary Laidlaw married John Cameron, Grandance, Richmond County.
Kate Laidlaw married Philip McLeod, South Side
Boulardarie, Victoria County and left four daughters, Janet (Mrs. Taylor)
and Minnie, (Mrs. Capt. Hickey, North Sydney); Georgina and Annie, trained
nurses.
Roderick Laidlaw died some years ago. His children were George and
Margaret. Margaret is dead, and George is manager of Western Union
Telegraph Office, Halifax.
John Laidlaw, Troy married Jessie MacKinnon of
Strathlorne and has five children living: Maud Sophia (Mrs. Alfred
Morrison, Halifax), Sarah Margaret (Mrs. Howard Hart, Canso), Annie (Mrs.
Albert Hall, Boston), Rodena, (a trained nurse, Boston), and John Allan at
home with his parents. Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Hall are trained nurses.
George, another son, was accidentally killed
operating a steam shovel near Niagara Falls in 1919. John Allan has three
medals for war service at the front-one of them a Mons Medal. He came
through without a scratch. George Laidlaw married Flora MacKinnon,
daughter of the late Malcolm MacKinnon, West Lake Ainslie, C. B.
Children: George Roderick, Malcolm Murdock,
Dan Hector, Margaret Mary, and Sarah Christina, of whom three were
recently married, viz; George Rodk. to Gertrude Langley of Sunnyside, C.B.
and now living at Cochrane, Ontario; Dan Hector to Mary Taylor of Baddeck,
C.B. and now living in Boston: and Sarah Christina to Ernest Langley,
Sunnyside, C.B. where they have made their home.
It may be added that the widow of George
Laidlaw, the shepherd, after coming to Cape Breton lived for years with
her son George at Troy where he had bought a farm for $500,000, - a large
sum at that time. Later she lived in a house of her own and had with her
one of her grand children, Thomas Cameron, who afterwards made his home at
Lake Horton.
Her daughter, Isabel,
married Alexander MacIntosh of South River, Antigonish County, and had a
family of four sons and four daughters. |
