Aeneas died in 1954; Aloysius married Viola Beamish of St. John now live in Charlottetown; they have 6 children, Mary Ann, Joseph, Geoffrey, Wendy, Gregory and Robert.
Peter married Mabel Sinnott of Morell and is living on the home place in Indian River. Their family are: Kenneth, married to Anne Marie Arsenault. They-have one son, William.
Patsy Ann, a student nurse at P.E.l. School of Nursing. Clair attends Holland College.
Paula attends Acadia University.
Peter and Blane attend Kensington Regional High School.
Cornelius — married Isabel MacDonald. They have one son Allan Joseph who is a dentist in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
MacLELLAN
Donald MacLellan, whose grandparents came from South Uist, Scot- land, was born in Grand River; his parents were Donald MacLellan and Mary Gillis. He married Catherine MacLellan, daughter of Capt. Roderick Mac- Lellan, who was the son of Angus MacLellan and Effie Stewart, a real pioneer woman. Donald and Catherine settled in lndian River and raised a family of nine children, five sons: Augustine James, Joseph Francis, John Alexander, Daniel Alexis and Roderick Stephen; and four daughters: Mary Ann, Sarah Ann, Elizabeth Elena and Monica Jane. Augustine followed the teaching profession for some years, then moved to Summerside where he engaged in mercantile pursuits and in 1889 moved to Richmond where he conducted a general store until his retirement in 1915; to Indian River and was appointed leader of the church choir by Mgr. D. J. Gillis, and sang mass every morning until his final sickness during the ‘flu’ epidemic in 1919.
Joseph began his commercial life with the firm of Reddin Brothers in Charlottetown. AftenNards he was bookkeeper with the James Kennedy 00., Kensington, later with Jack Kennedy, O’Leary. He had taken violin lessons from Professor Vinnicombe while in Charlottetown, and was an accomplish- ed musician.
John was the farmer, also postmaster, at Indian River for many years for the sum of $35.00 per year.
Daniel left home while a young man and located in the USA, had a garden farm in Maine, was married to Elmira Jane Perry of that place. After forty years he returned to Indian River for a visit, went back to Maine, but returned again and remained home till his death.
Augustine, Joseph and John remained single all their lives.
I Roderick was twice married, first to Mary Ellen MacKinnon of New Annan. They had a family of two daughters, Monica, now Mrs. Hubert Gillis and Bertha, Mrs. Alonzo Cameron. After five years of marriage his wife died on Christmas Eve, 1899. He married Mary Campbell of Indian River in 1910 and had two more children, a boy and a girl. John, now living in Dartmouth, N. S. and Catherine, Mrs. John Evans, living in Irishtown. Roderick was a blacksmith, also played the violin.
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