B3.Reverend Murdoch Lamont b. April 13 or April 30 1865
Murray Harbour Road PEI, died Dec 4 1828 in Scotland. (or Aug 13 1927)
He m. in 1888 in PEI, his cousin Euphemia Anne Hume b. c1870, d/o Samuel
Hume and Catherine Lamont. Murdoch wrote “Rev.D. Macdonald, Glimpses
of his Life and Times” Ref: “Church of Scotland in PEI, MacDonaldite Section
by J. H. Bishop page 72.
Reverend Murdoch was minister on Islay, St. Mark’s of Glasgow,
and Rothiemurchus. According to his obituary, he was a carpenter in Boston
when the call came, and he went to the University of Glasgow in Scotland
to become a minister in the Church of Scotland. He served for awhile as
an assistant in the Church of St. Columba, Glasgow. While he still lived
on PEI, evidently he kept a diary, and when Harold Macleod went to Scotland
to visit him, he tried to track it down. He had heard that when Murdoch
moved from the farm in Stanchel to Mass, he had placed the diary, among
other things, in a wooden barrel and stored it in a barn until he
was settled. Harold (bless his heart!) asked Murdoch’s son William if he
could take a copy of the diary back to PeI where it could be open for future
historians, and William agreed. This diary can now be viewed at the University
of PEI. We have one entry from it below:
Murdoch Lamont's diary, entry for July 5, 1885,
Sabbath- hot, few in meeting.
Angus and wife at Don. Gillis' today.
There were three dead bodies found on Don Gillis place since it was
first settled on - one was that of a little child, another was the body
of a man who hanged himself there to a tree and the third was found the
other day. It was the body of one named Morley? who cut his throat. those
three bodies were found near the same place in the same woods.
Entry May 26, 1885
Malcolm was over today telling father some of the remarks made about
him
for not attending Mrs Gillis' funeral.
They say "he has studied too much, the Lamonts cannot stand studying-
William had much learning and got queer.
Donald was a great scholar and took to drinking.
Ronald's son Murdoch, studied a great deal and got crazy, and now Ewen
has
set his mind astray by studying".
When I heard these amusing remarks they reminded me of Festus' words
to St.
Paul - "Paul thou art beside thyself much learning doth make thee mad".
- Harold Macleod.
Children of Murdoch Lamont and Euphemia Hume;
C1.Samuel Lamont m. Lillian Taylor of Millview, Wood Islands.
Moved B.C.
C2.Ewen Lamont M.A., b. PeI, Professor. He m. Anne Tomison.
C3.William Dawson Lamont M.A., b. PEI, Professor of Moral
Philosophy at Glasgow University, he was working in Egypt (something to
do with education) when he was appointed representative for the British
Government m. Anne Fraser Christie, they met while he was attending Oxford
University. They had no children.
C4.Malcolm Lamont M.A. b. Glasgow, Scotland, m. Angusina
Macdonald.
C5.Catherine Bell Lamont m. Wilson Scott.
C6.Murdina Lamont b. Glasgow, Scotland, called Ena May, m. J.
Stewart.
C7.Frances Lamont b. PEI, died young.
C8.Donald Lamont
C9.David Henry Lamont b. Glasgow Scotland.
C10.Sarah Anne Lamont b. PEI, she was a Nurse, m. R.P. Jack
M.D. of Birmingham Enland, s/o Donald Jack of Port Hope Ontario, who wrote
several books including “That’s me over There”. (Available at Coles Book
Stores). Sarah Anne lived in England, but was in Ontario visiting a son
when she died there. With children;
D1.Donald Lamont Jack.