Dougald's Crowd
Summer-Fall 2010
Copyright 1990 et seq, Donald Rowe
New Data Sources
Two new sources for genealogical data have become available recently.
The Cape Breton Genealogical & Historical Society has published on CD many of the 19th century marriage records from the various counties on the island. These CDs contain images of the original records.
The second new source is one that has been taking up much of my time this summer, and will probably continue to do so throughout the winter and beyond.
The Family Search website
contains records from the Catholic Diocese of Antigonish from 1823-1905.
This is a partner project with the Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia to index digital images for this Catholic diocese. The images contain church records for some, but not all parishes in the diocese and include christenings, marriages and births.
Record History
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish was originally known as the Diocese of Arichat and was established on September 22, 1844. Previously the diocese was part of the Diocese of Quebec. On August 23, 1886, the see was moved from Arichat to the town of Antigonish, and the diocese becamethe Diocese of Antigonish. The diocese covers seven counties in northeastern Nova Scotia: Richmond, Inverness, Victoria, Cape Breton, Antigonish, Pictou and Guysborough. Catholic records are traditionally kept on the parish level so the registers are usually found at the church where the event occurred.
Based on statistics from the 1901 Canadian census, around 28% of the population of Nova Scotia was Catholic and 58% of the Catholics in Nova Scotia lived in the Diocese of Antigonish. About 68% of the pre-1906 parishes in the diocese are included in this record set.
Searching the Site
The site’s search engine is quite useful. My first search was for the last name of MacFarlane. This would show any record in which the surname MacFarlane shows, including spelling variations. This would include the name appearing as a baptized child, the parent thereof, a husband or spouse of a marriage or the parent of the husband of the marriage (why not the wife’s parents I can’t say). Four hundred twenty-nine records appeared! There were some duplication but since every Catholic MacFarlane in Nova Scotia appears to be a descendant of Dougald this one search provided me with a
tremendous amount of new data.
Of course not all of Dougald & Margaret’s descendants or their parents have the surname MacFarlane. These searches are going much more slowly, as they must be done, for the most part, on a one-by-one basis.
Milestones
Stephen/ Michele/ Irene/ John Angus/ James/ Angus/ Archy/ Dougald
Wedding: Stephen Daniel Mac Donald to Stephanie Mae Power at St. Margaret of Scotland Church, Broad Cove, Inverness Co. Date: August 7, 2010.
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Andrew/ Elizabeth (Betty)/ Irene/ John Angus/ James/ Angus/ Archy/ Dougald
Wedding: Andrew Peter Fortune & Melodie Andrea Elliot, on August 21, 2019 in Wilson United Church, Margaree, NS
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Chad/ Wesley / Elizabeth (Mina)/ John Angus/ James/ Angus/ Archy/ Dougald.
Chad Ferguson married Mary Jesslyn Mac Donald on July 17,2010 in Mabou, NS at St. Mary's Church
Thanks to Janice Ferguson for the above
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Kathleen Doolan / Ann MacFarlane / Donald J. / James John/ John / Archibald / Dougald
Ryan Thomas Titsworth was born on August 19, 2010 to Kathleen and John Titsworth.
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Lynn / Jim / Catherine MacFarlane / James john / John / Archibald / Dougald
Lynn Coady married Robert Appleford in September 2010.
Website Update
I’ve been making some major additions and revisions to the web site, I hope you make a visit.
The People’s Clearance 1770-1815
By J. M. Bumsted
This is my third reading of this particular book. Each re-reading reveals several new nuggets of information.
At the time of its first publication in 1982 it was considered as a revisionist account of early Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada. The accepted view of the time was of oppressed, impoverished peasantry being driven off the estates to make way for sheep. While this picture was certainly true of later, post 1815 Scotland, the author, with careful documentation paints a very different picture of the earlier period.
One of the principle exports of Scotland throughout its long history had been people, but the emigration that began in 1763 was regarded as new, different and extremely frightening. For the first time men became aware of the possibility that the wrong people were emigration. Prior to this time the only organized groups leaving Scotland were the result of government policy, such as the deportation of Jacobites. Post 1763 Scots were organizing to emigrate, often chartering whole ships. Although some continued to depart as indentured servants most were able to finance their own passage. The fact that the vast majority of emigrants paid their own way was significant for a number of reasons. These people were the prosperous part of the laboring classes of Scotland. They took with them a significant amount of money with them. The organization involved suggests that the emigrants were among the more dynamic of the citizenry.
The opposition to this emigration during this by the government, the ruling class and the landlords (often the same people) is markedly different from the later forced clearances of post-1815.
Bumstead’s detailed research and extensive appendices make this a text worth reading.
Help Needed
There are a few MacFarlanes in the Diocese records that I have not been able to connect. Your help would be appreciated.
You will see that in some cases there are whole families involved. Please don’t be shy. I would much rather hear from three people with the same information than from no one.
Name: Mary Macdonald
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 28 Jul 1869
Event Place: St. John the Baptist, Brook Village, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 25 Jul 1869
Birthplace: Lake Ainslie
Father: Donald Macdonald
Mother: Ann Macfarlane
Name: Ann Macfarlane
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 25 Nov 1866
Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 10 Nov 1866
Secondary Event Type: Birth
Secondary Event Date: 10 Nov 1866
Father: Donald Macfarlane
Mother: S Macdonald
Name: Mary Ann Macfarlane
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 04 Sep 1841
Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 03 Sep 1841
Father: Peter Macfarlane
Mother: Mary Ann
Name: Joseph Fraser
Gender: Male
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 23 Jun 1903
Event Place: St. Ninian's Cathedral, Antigonish, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Father: Alex Fraser
Mother: Mary Cameron
Spouse: Anna Dora Carter
Name: Ellen Bridget Carter
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 28 May 1889
Event Place: St. Ninian's Cathedral, Antigonish, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 25 May 1889
Birthplace: Antigonish
Father: James Carter
Mother: Ellen Mcfarlane
Name: Colin Peter Mcdonald
Gender: Male
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 07 Aug 1886
Event Place: Immaculate Conception, Heatherton, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 07 Aug 1886
Father: John R Mcdonald
Mother: Mary Ann Mcfarlane
Name: Donald Norbert Mcdonald
Gender: Male
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 06 Jun 1888
Event Place: Immaculate Conception, Heatherton, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 06 Jun 1888
Father: John R Mcdonald
Mother: Mary Ann Mcfarlane
Name: Allen Mcdonald
Gender: Male
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 29 Oct 1867
Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 18 Oct 1867
Secondary Event Type: Birth
Secondary Event Date: 18 Oct 1867
Father: Angus Mcdonald
Mother: Mary Mcfarlane
Name: Mary Mcdonald
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 21 Dec 1869
Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 13 Dec 1869
Secondary Event Type: Birth
Secondary Event Date: 13 Dec 1869
Father: Angus Mcdonald
Mother: Mary Mcfarlane
Name: James Benedict Mcdonald
Gender: Male
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 23 Mar 1890
Event Place: Immaculate Conception, Heatherton, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 22 Mar 1890
Father: John R Mcdonald
Mother: Mary Ann Mcfarlane
Name: Mary Gillis
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 18 Sep 1892
Event Place: St. Joseph's, North Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 13 Sep 1892
Father: Angus Gillis
Mother: Margaret Mcfarlane
Name: Mary Macdonald
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 21 Dec 1869
Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 13 Dec 1869
Secondary Event Type: Birth
Father: Angus Macdonald
Mother: Mary Macfarlane
Name: Marian Maclellan
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 12 Jun 1870
Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 02 Jun 1870
Secondary Event Type: Birth
Secondary Event Date: 02 Jun 1870
Father: Archie Macfarlane
Mother: Mary Macfarlane
Name: Catherine Macdonald
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 18 Jun 1872
Event Place: St. John the Baptist, Brook Village, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 04 Jun 1872
Father: Donald Macdonald
Mother: Ann Macfarlane
Name: Marie Anne Mcfarlane
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 20 Feb 1845
Event Place: Holy Guardian Angels, L'Ardoise, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 16 Mar 1844
Secondary Event Type: Birth
Secondary Event Date: 16 Mar 1844
Father: Archibald Mcfarlane
Mother: Julie Mcdonald
Name: Isabella Effie Mcmaster
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 14 Aug 1892
Event Place: St. Joseph, Port Hawkesbury, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 28 Jul 1892
Secondary Event Type: Birth
Secondary Event Date: 28 Jul 1892
Father: James Mcmaster
Mother: Sarah Mcfarlane
Name: John Mahoney
Gender: Male
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 31 Jul 1883
Event Place: St. Ninian's Cathedral, Antigonish, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Spouse: Sarah Mcfarlane
Name: Angus Cameron
Gender: Male
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 23 Sep 1884
Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Spouse: Mary Jane Mcfarlane
Name: Donald Mclellan
Gender: Male
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 02 Aug 1864
Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Father: Angus Mclellan
Mother:
Spouse: Elizabeth Mcfarlane
Name: John R Mcdonald
Gender: Male
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 14 Jul 1885
Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Spouse: Mary Ann Mcfarlane
Name: John Mcfarlane
Gender: Male
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 24 Apr 1898
Event Place: St. John the Baptist, Brook Village, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Spouse: Catherine E Gillis
Name: Elizabeth Mcmillan
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 1904
Event Place: St. Peter's, Port Hood, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 1884
Father: Norman Mcmillan
Mother: Margaret Mcfarlane
Name: Hugh Cameron Mcfarlane
Gender: Male
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 06 Mar 1905
Event Place: Sacred Heart, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Spouse: Margaret Forestall
Name: Mary Mcadam
Gender: Female
Event Type: Death
Event Date:
Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Arisaig, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Father: Hugh Mcfarlane
Mother: Ann Mcdonald
Name: John Mcpharlane (sic)
Gender: Male
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 25 May 1857
Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 24 May 1857
Father: John Mcpharlane
Mother: Mary Mcgilvray
Name: Caty Ann Maclellan
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 18 Aug 1867
Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 02 Aug 1867
Secondary Event Type: Birth
Secondary Event Date: 02 Aug 1867
Father: Hugh Maclellan
Mother: Mary Macfarlane
Name: Catherine Sarah Mcfarlane
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 30 Mar 1846
Event Place: Holy Guardian Angels, L'Ardoise, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 14 Dec 1845
Birthplace: Not Given
Secondary Event Type: Birth
Secondary Event Date: 14 Dec 1845
Father: Archibald Mcfarlane
Mother: Julie Mcdonald
Name: Genevieve Mcfarlane
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 20 Feb 1845
Event Place: Holy Guardian Angels, L'Ardoise, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 1842
Secondary Event Type: Birth
Secondary Event Date: 1842
Father: Archibald Mcfarlane
Mother: Julliet Mcdonald
Name: Mary Jane Mcfarlane
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 19 Nov 1861
Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 18 Nov 1861
Father: Peter Mcfarlane
Mother: Catherine Mcisaa
Name: Peter Mcfarlane
Gender: Male
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 11 Sep 1866
Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date: 09 Sep 1866
Father: Peter Mcfarlane
Mother: Catherine Mcisaac
Name: Catherine Mcfarlane
Gender: Female
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 19 Dec 1873
Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Father: Andrew Mcfarlane
Mother: Catherine Mcpherson
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