Matthew White

' In 1867 this farm was inthe Duffy name. It was first regs- tered in the name of Matthew White. He was married to ME ry McGuirk and they had four children: Mary, Cassie, Annie and Matthew. They sold the farm to Harland McGuirk in about 19 :8.

Harland McGuirk

Harland built the house that now stands there in 1929. ie married Minnie Sullivan in 1935. Harland died in 1953 and Mn- nie sold the property to Louis O’Connor in 1955. Louis sold to Edison Heaney in 1957.

Emmanuel Doucette

In 1930 Emmanuel Doucette came to Clinton from the Hir- per Road, Tignish, and, after working as a farm hand for seve val farmers, he bought a half acre of land bordering on the Ker ‘y- town Road, from George Brookins and built a home.

He married Melvina Perry, also from Harper Road. She vas born in 1900 and Mike, as he was familiarly known, in 1904. Tley had three children: Margaret, Dorothy and Gerard. Mike wa; a painter and decorator and continued his trade when he moved to Tignish.

Property New Owned by Harold Heaney

The first record available on this property is that it was ow led by William Mayne, who died in 1905. He was married to M il‘y Mills, who died in 1904. They had two children who died in infancy and brought up George Dunn. Mr. Mayne was a school teacher as well as a farmer. The farm was sold to Lewis Taylor in 1903. He married Hannah MacLeod, 1877-1909, and they lad no family. William Dennis, Margate, bought this farm in 1912 to: ‘ his son Charles who lived there from about 1914 to 1925, wdeTl he sold to Wesley Heaney and moved with his wife, the fornel’ Jean MacPherson and their two children, Betty and Ralph, '60 Warren, Ohio. Charles died in 1971. ‘

Harry Whitehead (see Whitehead history) and his wife Win- nie (MacKay) Whitehead lived in this home for about three yearSv until Wesley’s son Ralph married Anna Brown, Springbrook, and they made their home there before moving to Kensington in 1957' They had no family. Ralph died in 1959, and his wife Anna mall" ried Newton MacLure. They reside in Kensington.

Harold Heaney

When Ralph Heaney moved to Kensington, his brother Will bought the farm for his son Harold, born 1940. In 1959 Hal‘o1d

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