The McCormack Family of River Side, Lot 34

Columbia indicating that the pioneering spirit of their great grandfather and great granduncle, John and Hugh, was still alive one hundred years later. Annie McCormack was the only one of John’s children to raise a family on Prince Edward Island. She married David Lewis who was a partner in Lewis Brothers, tombstone makers of Cardigan. Following the death of her husband in 1898, Annie Lewis remodelled their new home and advertised as a hotel, keeping travellers who came in by train and summer visitors. In 1913 she moved to British Columbia where three of her four children had located. Her daughter Irene taught in the West. During the Influenza epidemic schools were closed and Irene served time as a nurse. She returned to Cardigan and married Andrew Macdonald of R.J. MacDonald & Co. They had eight children, seven sons and a daughter. Two sons became priests, one a university professor, one a high school teacher, two were social workers, one a broadcaster, and their daughter an employee of Health and Welfare

in Halifax.

Irene, daughter of Annie McCormack, grand— daughter of John, and great granddaughter of Dougald McCormack of Marshfield, died in 1984 at the age of 90.

DOCUMENTATION

1798 Census Old McCormick, male over 60 John McCormick.

Head of family consisting of one male and one female between 16-60 and three under 16. There were 27 families in Lot 34 at the time. (Duncan Campbell’s history of PEI (1875) page 207.)

1811 A map of Marshfield drawn by John Plaw shows a

John McCormick with 100 acres and Peter Stewart late Hugh McCormick with 100 acres. (Public

Archives)

1860

July 3, EXAMINER reports the death at East River, Lot 34, on Wednesday the 27th ult of consumption, of Mr. Dugald (sic) McCormick, age 60 years. (Beaconsfield) Cemetery Records at Beaconsfield record that on June 27 Dugald McCormick died, age 59 years. Buried at St. Bonaventure’s Tracadie.

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His son, Angus’ name is also shown on the stone. He died November 20, 1868.

May 5, 1888

Mary McCormack died. Cemetery records for St. Georges Church, Lot 55, No. 2 Stone 149, “In memoryf Mary Campbell, beloved wife of Dougald McCormack. Died May 5, 1888, age 85 years”. (Lewis stone.) Beaconsfield.

Submitted by Kent and Jean Macdonald

The following geneology chart is by Ronan Macdonald.

Dougald McCormack b. 1800, d. 27 June 1860 East River; In. Mary Campbell, b. 1803, d. 5 May 1888 St.Georges.

Children:

i Anne McCormack b. 1833.

ii John McCormack b. 22 Sept. 1834.

iii James McCormack b. 1836 Marshfield,

d. 1870 Cardigan.

iv Mary McCormack.

v Catherine McCormack b. 1840 Marshfield, d. 1919 USA; m. Martin Walker.

Angus McCormack b. 1842 Marshfield,

d. 1868.

vii Elizabeth McCormack b. 1845.

viii Margaret McCormack b. 1847.

ix Matilda McCormack b. 1851 Marshfield, d. 1869.

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Second Generation

John McCormack (Dougald‘) b. 22 Sept. 1834

Marshfield, d. 19 March 1910 Cardigan;

m. 4 March 1862 Catherine Kent, b. 1841

Wellington, d. 22 March 1889 Cardigan. Children:

i Francis Dugald McCormack b. 20 Oct. 1862 Wellington, (1. 1903 Cardigan. Joseph Nicholas McCormack b. 28 March 1864 Wellington, (1. 1898, Cardigan.

Mary Catherine McCormack b. 10 Jan. 1866 Wellington, d. BC.

Annie Gertrude McCormack b. 18 Oct. 1867.

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