(McRae) MacLaughlin of Grand Tracadie . To this marriage, Margaret brought her 5 years of teaching experience, which proved invaluable when helping a large family with homework. John Charles inherited the family farm at Stanhope from his father, Malcolm, and it was here that he and Margaret raised 11 children, providing for them with harvest from the soil, the sea and the woods, as well as from , which was partially located on their property. When their Stanhope homestead was expropriated for the in 1937, this family bade a fond farewell to the log house which had been home to five generations of MacAulays . John Charles and Margaret then retired to a 4-acre property near Corner , which they purchased from James McCabe . After John Charles ' death in 1940, Margaret's brother, James MacLaughlin (b. 18 Dec, 1868, d. 1958, Saint John , N .B. , bur. Corran Ban ) came to live with her in Stanhope until 1957, when they both went to Saint John , N .B. to live with her son Joseph MacAulay . John Charles and Margaret had lie, Catherine, Helen, Malcolm, twins Dorothy and Mary, Cecelia, Anastasia, William, Vincent, Joseph, and Louis, {see below) 4. Mary Ann, b. 1868, Stanhope , m. to Stephen O' Brien ; they lived in Hartford, Conn. , where they raised 6c ??? Catherine, Mary, June, Margaret, Virgina, and Stephen. 5. Duncan, b. 1871, Stanhope , m. to Carrie Duffy of Fort Augustus . After studies at College 1889-91, Duncan taught school in various districts on P.E.I , before moving to the U.S.A . where he worked with an insurance company. 2 c, Edgar and Mary. Children of Johnny Makem and Margaret Jane (MacAulay) MacAulay 1. Margaret Frances , b. 16 Jan., 1892, Stanhope , d. 21 Sept., 1957, Ch'town, bur. Corran Ban . Margaret attended Stanhope School and St. Joseph's Convent in Ch'town. After her mother's death in 1910, she worked in for many years, then returning to Charlottetown where she worked at various places (Goff's Shoe Store, Charlottetown Hospital, Holman's) before her retirement. 2. Gertrude, b. 5 Jan., 1894, Stanhope , attended Stanhope School, St. Joseph's Convent and P.W.C. Obtaining her teacher's license in 1912, she taught at Rennie's Road, Millcove , St. Joseph's Convent and Queen Square School in Charlottetown . She served as head-mistress of a girls' private school in Montreal, and also as an assistant to the Dean of Women at . Bernard's College, Antigonish, N.S. She supplemented her teaching income by spending several summers as hostess at Dalvay Hotel, which whetted her appetite for this type of work; she went on to be Executive Housekeeper with Canadian Pacific Hotels for several years in Calgary, Banff, and Victoria , B.C. She retired to Charlottetown where she is living with her brother Malcolm. 3. Malcolm, b. 12 Sept., 1895, Stanhope ; he attended school in Stanhope and in Ch'town before enlisting in the army and seeing front line duty in WW1 with the 2nd Canadian Siege Battery. He was critically wounded at Ypres in 1916, the local Island newspaper of the day reporting him ... dead from wounds ..., much to the distress of his father and family at home in Charlottetown . Slow communications at that time made it most difficult to confirm or deny the report, but a cablegram sent off to England brought a reply in two words ... Still alive ... The family waited impatiently for further word to relieve their grave concern about their brother and son. Finally, after several weeks, a friend and post office employee, while sorting mail on the night shift at the Charlottetown Post Office, recognised the writing on a letter addressed to 381