CHAPTER 8

Memories of Boughton Island By 0.0. King, February 20, 2004

age a child I grew up on Boughton Island, a small island located off Prince Edward Island’s east coast, and a one mile journey at that time from the nearest mainland, Launching. l was born on Boughton Island in 1928 and lived there until 1944 when my family moved to Georgetown. I started fishing with my father at age

11, and have fished off the Island’s shores every year since. These are some of my memories of growing up on Boughton Island.

ISLAND FAMILIES

W mother’s family, the Aliens, lived on Boughton Island for at least five generations. Benjamin Allen

was there in 1880. His son Joseph married Margaret Hemphill and had five children: Mary Ann, Margaret, Fanny, (Frances), James Bartlett (who died young) and Nathan (Nathaniel). His daughter Fanny (my Grandmother) married John F. Allen and had one child, Edna. She married my father, Daniel King in 1916. Edna and Dan had eight children, all born on Boughton Island: Frances, 1‘" if:

1917; Lloyd, 1919;, BGUIah’ DoaIdKingofGeorgetown,formerresidcnl 1928; John(Jack), 1924; twins Martha ofBoughlanlsland

and myself(Donald), 1928; Lionel,

1929; and Olive(Ol|ie), 1933. We were the only family that I know of whose children were all born on the Island. The King family also had roots on Boughton island. My Grandfather, George, moved there from Milltown Cross sometime around 1900. As I recall the total population of Boughton Island in 1939 was 39 people. My sisters, Frances and Beulah, were not there at the time as they had moved at a very young age to work in Georgetown or Montague. Dan John MacCormack and

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