When the first Marchbank settlers came from Annan, Du mfreshire, Scotland, they landed in the Miramichi area of New Brunswick. About 182 they came to Prince Edward Island and settled in the area that they and the Walkers and MacKays named New Annan. This area is now included in the Traveller's Rest School district. They named their farm Outermains and the branding iron with the Outermains name still remains with the family.

The name James has been carried dowo through the generations. The first Marchbank settler was James. He was born in Scotland. Besides farming he moved grain to England and was lost at sea. His wife was Mary Walker. They had a family of nine children. Margaret, (Mrs. John Glover). Kelvin; Mary, (Mrs. Platts); and Isabel, (Mrs. Platts). Both Platts families moved to USA. David died in his youth; John went to California by sailing around the Horn, South America. He later settled at DeSable, and operated a mill and farm. Robert went to the gold fields in Australia. When he came back, he began transporting grain to England until he also was lost at sea. Ellen. (Mrs. James Heffell). remained in Traveller's Rest. Samuel farmed at “Outermains" and married Mary Ann MacKay. James bought the Mugridge farm and named it "Hirkledale“. He married Jane Webster. Their family was: Robert, married to Lizzie Yeo, who bought the Townsend farm at Trav- eller's Rest Corner. They had no family.

Percy bought from William Bowness the farm originally settled by Robert Walker. Although their home is in New Annan part of their land is in Traveller’s Rest where their family attended school. His wife was Mae Cairns. They had a family of four: Ernestine, (Mrs. John Scott), Summer- side; Marjorie, (Mrs. Wyman Cairns), Summerside East; Mary, (Mrs. Kenneth MacLean), Central Lot 16; and John on the family farm. His wife was Ruby Cousins who died in 1967. They had a family of three: Robert. married to Nancy Simmons, and living in New Annan: Garth at home, and a daughter. Myrna Jane who died in infancy in 1946.

Mary, Mrs. Robert Crozier, Kelvin, had one son. Belle, first married Samuel Stavert, Lower Bedeque and later married Allan Marchbank, Montrose. Grace was a school teacher. She married John J. Hall and later John W. Hall, Sherbrooke. Lucy was a school teacher and died at an early age of thirty-one years. Neither Jennie, a practical nurse, nor Emmeline ever married. They made their home with their brother James at Hirkledale. James‘ wife was Amy MacMurdo. Their children were Margaret, (Mrs. Earl Lowther), Cornwall, and Clarence who married Louise Johnson and their children are Adele, a secretary at DeBlois Bros., Charlottetown and James, a student at Athena School.

After Clarence’s death in 1969, the land at Outermains was sold to the Waite Brothers but the house that was built by Clarence in 1940 continues to be the home for his family. Hirkledale still remains in the family name with Garth Marchbank as its owner. James S. R. resides with his daughter Margaret at Cornwall. Outermains has had many owners beginning with the first James Marchbank to his son Samuel thence to Samuel‘s brother-in- law John MacKay then to Harry Stewart and Samuel Waugh. The third James Marchbank bought the farm for his son Clarence. Today Clarence’s son. James. being the fifth generation and fourth James Marchbank, is re- siding at “Outermains".

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