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John Macpherson and Mary Currie
John Macpherson Jr. and Mary Currie
John Macpherson jr. was born c1802 probably on Skye.
He died Oct 9, 1863, and is buried in the Belle Creek Pioneer Cemetery
in PEI. beside his parents. He was the son of John
Macpherson Sr.
and Anne Matheson,
emigrants from the Isle of Skye.
He married Mary
Currie born c1802 on the Isle of Colonsay, but raised on the Isle of
Mull, the daughter of Malcolm
Currie and Marion MacEachern. Mary Currie was a bit of a character
in her day, according to the locals. She liked to drink a nip or two, and
she liked to ride her horse too fast. She also smoked a pipe, according
to family legends. This could not have gone over very well with her son
in law Ewen Lamont, who was a well respected Elder in the Church at the
time! Mary Currie died August 25, 1894 at the age of 92 years, and she
is buried in the Little Sands Cemetery of PEI, Lot 64, Cemetary NO. 5,
Stone #158. For some reason, her husband is not buried with her - he is
buried with his parents in the Belle Creek Cemetery, PEI.
John Macpherson Jr. and Mary Currie had among other
children;
A1.Sarah Macpherson
married Ewen Lamont.
(Picture and family available at this link)
A2.Mary Macpherson married on Jul7y 15 1868, Neil Macpherson
of Lot 8 s/o John "Red" Macpherson and Sarah Maclellan. With children;
B1.John Alexander Macpherson b. 1869 died 1956 m.
Jessie Currie.
B2.Sarah Serena Macpherson b. 1878 died 1975 unmarried.
B3.David Macpherson b. 1871 died 1925 m. Georgia
Smith
Source: George Sanborn 104250.1175@compuserve.com
A3.Margaret Macpherson married Alexander Macleod s/o Murdoch Macleod
and Christina
Macleod of Melville, Montague and Cardross Macleods.
With children;
B1.Murdoch "Pretty" M'leod b. 1856 d. 1942 m. Sarah
Anne Gillis b. 1874 d. 1943 With children;
C1.Margaret M'leod m. Willard
M'pherson
C2.Clarence M'leod m. Violet
Coffin
B2.Sarah M'leod
B3.Christina M'leod
B4.Margaret M'leod m. Angus M'kenzie
B5.Catherine M'leod b. 1859 d. 1937 m. (1) James
M'leod b. 1849 d.1897, m. (2)Murdoch
Gillis. With
children by James M'leod;
C1.Clarence M'leod b. 1896 m. Ona C. M'leod b. april 22 1896 d. Dec 12
1943.
C2.Daniel M'leod b. 1878 m. Miss Bell.
C3.John Murdoch M'leod b. 1885 m. Euphemia Morrison.
C4.Jessie Mary M'leod b. 1883.
C5.Daniel Alexander M'leod b. 1880.
With children by Murdoch
Gillis;
C6.Sarah Gillis m. John J. Connell.
C7.John Malcolm Gillis b. 1887 d. 1895 age 8 years of Scarlet Fever.
C8.John Daniel Gillis b. 1889 d. 1895 age 6 years of Scarlet Fever.
A4.Anne Macpherson married Joseph Jenkins of Birch Hill near Ch'town
He was s/o William Jenkins Sr. (s/o Nicholas Henckell Jenkins)William Jenkins
Sr was born 1785 in Lot 49, PEI, Canada, and died 1880. He married Eleanor
Acorn, daughter of John Acorn and Eleanor Williams. Their son. Joseph Jenkins,
was born Abt. 1825; died March 07, 1907.
A5.Rebecca Macpherson married John Stewart
A6.Flora Macpherson married Alexander Stewart, with daughter
B1.Mary Ellen Stewart who m. Murdoch Gillis. (Mary
Ellen was daughter of either Rebecca or Flora?)
A7.Alexander Sandy Macpherson m. Jessie Nicholson of Iris.(picture
and family available if you follow this link)
A9.Catherine Macpherson b. 1834 d. Oct 24 1920 buried Little Sands
Cemetery, m. Malcolm Gosh Macdonald b. 1831 d. Feb 29 1907 buried
Little Sands Cemetery s/o Norman Macdonald and Catherine Macdonald of Dunvegan
Skye. With children;
B1.Neil M'donald b. 1867 d. Nov 29 1955 died unmarried,
buried Little Sands Cemetery.
B2.John E. M'donald b. 1869 d. 1955 m. Sarah J.
Stewart b. 1887 d. 1929.
Obituary of Neil Macdonald Evening Patriot November 30, 1955
"MacDonald-The death occurred at the home of Mrs. James Cook, Belle
River on Tuesday, November 29, 1955 of Neil MacDonald in his 89th year.
Funeral will be held Thursday, December 1st from Little Sands United Church,
service commencing at 2 pm. Interment Little Sands Cemetery. Remains resting
at Gillis Funeral Home, Eldon, until time of funeral."
"The many friends and neighbours here in Little
Sands regret to hear of the death of one of Little sands fine old gentlemen,
in the person of Mr. Neil MacDonald, who passed away at Mrs. Cook's, Belle
River, on Tuesday evening. Mr. MacDonald was in his 89th year. Doubly sad
is it for the relatives as his brother John passed away one month previously.
Two of Little Sands fine old gentlemen have passed on and we here will
cherish their memory."
(Evening Patriot Dec 6, 1955)
A10.Donald Macpherson m. Elizabeth Brown, moved to Los Angeles California
with children;
B1.John Macpherson b. 1870 died 1943
B2.Daniel Macpherson
B3.Richard Macpherson - when it came time for him
to marry, his father thought the California girls were "too fast", so he
sent his son Richard home to the island to find a bride. Richard searched
the length and breadth of the island for a suitable wife, and ended up
with his cousin Catherine Hume!.
Source: Currie family archives, culandera@hotmail.com
Source: George Sanborn, 104250.1175@compuserve.com
Source: Little Sands PEI Cemetery transcriptions
Source: Harold S. Macleod hmacleod@pei.sympatico.ca
Source: Joyce Kennedy, j.kennedy@pei.sympatico.ca
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