Research Notes for MacKay Family and Connections in the Maritimes http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html/ Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:15:00 EDT http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#h_worcester http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#h_worcester Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:32:17 EST Simon Dakin (1694 - aft. 1742) married a woman named Hulda in 1718. They had four children, including my ancestor Timothy Dakin, and lived in Concord, Massachusetts. Sources have confused the wife of Simon Dakin with that woman's mother, but now the confusion has been cleared up. Simon Dakin married Hulda Worcester, the daughter of Timothy Worcester and Hulda Cheney. F. E. Crowell's New Englander's in Nova Scotia is incorrect. It is not the case, as stated there, that Simon Dakin married Hulda Cheney. Albert H. Dakin's Descendants of Thomas Dakin of Concord, Mass. is correct in stating that Simon Dakin married Hulda Worcester, and that Hulda Cheney was that woman's mother. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#j_h_mackay http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#j_h_mackay Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:09:51 EDT William Elmore MacKay applied for a New Brunswick late registration of birth in 1926. At that time he was 47 years old, and his father, James Harold MacKay, had died eight years previously. Fortuitously, the New Brunswick form had fields not only for the father's full name, but also for the father's age at the birth of the child and his birthplace. These stated that "James H MacKay" was 41 years old when William Elmore MacKay was born on 1 October 1878, and that he was born in "C H Town P.E.I". You can see an image of the form at the New Brunswick Provincial Archives web site here (note that the record is indexed incorrectly as "MacKay, William Elmire"). Putting this information together with the 1911 Census and the death certificate of James Harold MacKay in 1917 saying he was "80 years old", I come up with following: James Harold MacKay born 20 April 1837 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island married 1 January 1878 in Dorchester, New Brunswick to Margaret Jane Chapman died 15 September 1917 in Pugwash, Nova Scotia Next — find records from Prince Edward Island! http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#w_mackay http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#w_mackay Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:27:12 EDT "William McKay of Bonaventure district of Gaspé" was married to "Mary Ann Warren of New Carlisle" on 14 April 1831 in the Anglican church in New Carlisle, Bonaventure county, Gaspé district, Lower Canada (today, Quebec). This is a surprise, as I had always assumed that William MacKay emigrated to Prince Edward Island, and met and married Mary Ann Warren there. It turns out that Mary Ann Warren was probably two years old when her father, James Warren, died, and her mother, Ann (Beairsto) (Murchland) Warren remarried very soon after that, in 1815. The widow Ann Warren married John (Jean) Rafter of Bonaventure, Quebec, and it is likely that Mary Ann Warren grew up in New Carlise, Quebec, along with her Rafter half-sisters: Margaret, Frances, Sarah Catherine, and Marjory. Mary Ann Warren was born in Prince Edward Island, but moved off the island at the age of two or three, and grew up on the south shore of the Gaspé. William MacKay may have emigrated from Scotland to the Gaspé, and sometime between 1831 and 1836 (the birth of his eldest son, Daniel W.) he and his wife moved to Prince Edward Island. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#j_beairsto http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#j_beairsto Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:03:15 EDT Mary Ann Warren, the wife of my great-great-great-grandfather William MacKay, was a daughter of James and Ann (Beairsto) Warren. Thanks to some careful detective work by my father, Harry MacKay, and the research into the Beairsto family by Karin Allan and into the Hyde family by Dave Hunter, which you can see on The Island Register, I have started to put together a better picture of Mary Ann Warren's ancestry. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#e_s_mackay http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#e_s_mackay Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:36:03 EDT The New Brunswick Provincial Archives is taking a page from Nova Scotia's book, and is now making available digitised images of vital records. This is great news for researchers world-wide who cannot go personally to Fredericton. Without this service, I would probably not have uncovered this find: the late registration of birth of Etta Sarah MacKay, the sister of my great-grandfather, which you can view here. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#c_s_mitchell http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#c_s_mitchell Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:22:37 EDT She was anonymous in death. The wife of George Simon Johnstone died in 1934 in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, but is recorded on the Certificate of Registration of Death as Mrs. George S. Johnston. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#j_w_bates http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#j_w_bates Wed, 7 Sep 2011 20:03:14 EDT Most of the attestation papers of men who volunteered for the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Force during the First World War have been digitised by Library and Archives Canada and are presented online. Unfortunately, the record for James Wilfred Bates is among those missing. As can be seen on the Soldiers of the First World War page, all that is available is his service number and the reference to the original holdings. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#j_warren http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#j_warren Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:00:00 EST The parents of my great-great grandmother, Mary (Warren) MacKay, were probaby James and Ann (Bearstoe) Warren. Evidence has emerged that James Warren may have been wed previously, in 1798, to Elizabeth Fraser, in Tryon, Lot 31, Prince Edward Island. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#c_shreve http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#c_shreve Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST A Dakin cousin, Charles Dayrell Shreve from Digby, Nova Scotia, won the Military Cross at the Battle of Passchendaele during the Great War of 1914-1918. Here is a list of officers of the 36th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, in which he served. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#j_buckley http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#j_buckley Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:00:00 EDT Another cousin in the Martell line has been added: Peter Buckley, born in 1807. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#m_warren http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#m_warren Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:00:00 EDT Two settlers of Lot 31 on Prince Edward Island, Thomas Hyde and Johnson Bearstoe, had purchased their allotments before the arrival of the Selkirk settlers in 1803. These men may be related to Mary Warren, who married William MacKay. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#t_smith http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#t_smith Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:00:00 EDT A cousin in the Chapman line, Trueman Mortimer Smith, was hanged for murder in Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1933 --- the last execution to occur in that city. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#centreville_cemetery http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#centreville_cemetery Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:00:00 EDT As part of the 225th anniversary of the landing of the Loyalists in Digby, Nova Scotia, the Old Schoolyard Cemetery in Centreville was refurbished and rededicated. Prominent pioneers of Digby Neck are interred in this once-forgotten cemetery. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#billy_smith http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#billy_smith Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:00:00 EDT Amos M. Smith, a Dakin cousin, was better known as "Mysterious" Billy Smith, a boxer and Welterweight Champion of the World in the 1890s. He has been described as "unscrupulous and savage." http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#t_martell http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#t_martell Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EDT Documentation in support of Lula May Martell's Delayed Registration of Birth in 1882 in Nova Scotia contains an extract from the family Bible of her parents, Theodore Harding Martell and Martha Maria Peters. Some of these data fall outside the years of official registration, and are known for the first time in this online document. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#a_stewart http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#a_stewart Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:00:00 EST My great-grandfather, William Elmore MacKay, married in later life, as his second wife, Alice Stewart. They were cousins; their mothers were sisters: Chapmans from Dorchester, New Brunswick. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#j_snow http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#j_snow Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:00:00 EDT Jabez Snow was a pre-Loyalist settler of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. His will, making bequests to his four sons, is now online. http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#a_mayo http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html#a_mayo Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:00:00 EDT The parents of Elizabeth Hamlin, the wife of William Holmes, were Benjamin Hamlin and Anne Mayo. What was the parentage of Anne Mayo? The sources conflict. She may be a Mayflower descendant.