m A History of Canoe Cove 9

THE MACNEVINS (or MACNIVEN as they are still known in Scotland).

Seven McNiven brothers came from the Isle of Coll in 1820 and all MacNevins on the island, and who knows where else. are descended from these brothers. A MacNevin family tree has been prepared but it is incomplete and very hard to follow. For instance, there is practically nothing on Roderick MacNevin and that is a branch that we are very interested in because so many of our people belong to it.

“One of the MacNevins of lslay says that the way his people got their name was this. Long ago there was a child found at the root of a tree and as nobody knew to whom it belonged they called it MacCraoibhn (the Son of Trees) and it was from that child that all MacNevins are descended”.

(Taken from The Highlander , Vol. 20, No. l Jan/Feb 1982).

Roderick MacNiven, who married Flora MacKinnon, lived first in Fairview and later was established on the farm now owned by Milton MacNevin. The charming MacNevin home is a beautiful example of the architecture of the time.

Roderick and Flora’s family was:

Neil, the Tailor, who married Annabelle MacNeill had one son James and a daughter Adelaide who died shortly afrer her marriage to John MacKinnon of DeSable. James married Mary MacFadyen, sister of John and Neil and they had the following family:

Donald married Mary MacNevin of DeSable and lived on the farm next to his father. Dannie and Mary had a girl, Muriel, married to Hector Schirmer and they live in Charlottetown, and a son Charles who inherited the farm. Charles married Myrtle MacNeill of St. Catherine’s whose grandmother

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