John McGuigan (1852-1919) and Agnes McInnis (1874—1959) had five children.

1. Alice (1892) was the eldest of John and Agnes’s children. She spent one year at Stanley Bridge School and then went to Notre Dame Convent and Prince of Wales College for 10 years. She obtained a first class teacher’s license at the age of 17. She taught on the Island in Millvale, Stanley Bridge and the Brae. She then moved to Western Canada and taught in vari— ous schools in Saskatchewan and Alberta. In 1930, she met a man from the Island, James Sullivan, and they moved to Denver, Colorado, and there they married. The marriage did not last, and Alice moved to Ottawa and worked in the civil service until 1947 when she moved back to PEI. She lived with her mother until Mrs. McGuigan’s death in 1959. For some twenty years, she worked at Revel Dickieson’s store in New Glasgow and later retired at the young age of 83. She died while living at the Sacred Heart Home in June1983.

2. Catherine (1894) was the second child of Agnes and John McGuigan. She studied at Stanley Bridge and at Notre Dame Convent and later attended business college. In 1918, she married Frank Hennessey who operated and soon owned the Hennessey Funeral Home on Kent Street Charlottetown. Frank and Catherine had four children:

(1) Mary who married Ronan MacDonald and they have one son, Kent. (2) Michael married Aletha Doyle and live in Charlottetown. Michael recently retired from being Registrar at St. Dunstan’s and U.P.E.I. They have five children: Kathleen, Maureen, Frank, Shawn and Patrick. (3) Frances married Harold Bowlan. They did not have any children, They live in Alberta. (4) George married Theresa MacIntyre and they have five children: Michael, Francis, Elizabeth, Paul and Patricia. They live in Ontario. Frank Hennessey died in February 1946, and Catherine Hennessey died in Queen Elizabeth Hospital on December 22, 1983.

3. Brendan was born in 1896. Brendan was never a healthy person. He really was not able to farm. He did make excellent use of his time and was extremely intelligent and quite well-read. He died in 1918 at the young age of 24.

4. Rose Mary was born on May 21, 1901. Rose was educated like her sisters at Stanley Bridge, Notre Dame Convent, Prince of Wales and Business College. Rose married Sergeant Alfred King, R.C.M.P. at St. Dunstan’s Basilica, Charlottetown on May 21, 1948. He is remembered as being one of the three R.C.M.P. officers who captured “The Mad Trapper”, Albert Johnstone. Rose and Alfred lived in Ontario for many years. Alfred died in 1978. Rose died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown in 1990.

5. John Damien, the youngest of the McGuigan family on North Road, was born on February 20, 1905. He attended school in Stanley Bridge until he was 14. He then went West for two years. He stayed with Alice and worked on farms while attending school. In 1921, two years after his father’s death, Damien returned to the North Road and took on the responsibility of operating the farm. He and his mother lived in the home. Apart from the war period when he and his mother worked in Nova Scotia, he operated the farm until 1970. In that year, Damien sold the farm to the Land Development Corporation. On November 24, 1951, he married Ada Trainor. The house was divided, and his mother lived in the home until her death in 1959. Damien and Ada did not have a family. Ada still lives in the home during the summer months. Damien died in March 23, 1987 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The MacLeod family from South Granville, Verna, Robert and Donald bought the land from the LDC. Ada has the inalienable right to live in the house until her death if she so desires. The land has since been sold to Lloyd MacEwen of MacEwen Farms.

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