http://www.magma.ca/~mmackay/notes.html/ Research Notes for MacKay Family and Connections in the Maritimes Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:00:00 EST en-ca mmackay@magma.ca (Michael MacKay) 180 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.