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land (100 acres) granted to Donald by verbal agreement. Wllliam married Margaret MacIntosh (1819-1874) in 1840. She was the daughter of Donald and Nancy (MacKay) MacIntosh who came from Scotland on the Annabella. Wllliam’s sister, Mary, married Benjamin Thomson of Darnley. She was the great—great-grandmother of Rev. E.R. Woodside, minister of Lot 16 United Church, 1932-1937.

William and Margaret had three childreanane,John W, and Frances Isabella (Fanny).Jane married Captain Donald MacDonald; she is buried in People’s Cemetery in Summer- side. John W (1852—1906) married Annie Sullivan (1852— 1942) from Northam, and Fannie moved to Tyne Valley and worked as a telephone operator. She did not marry and is buried in Tyne Valley. William and Margaret Forbes are buried in Lot 16 United Church Cemetery.

Their son, John, and his wife Annie, had six children: Gordon, Margaret, Prescott, William, Mary, and James. They lived for a few years in Lot 16 before selling the farm and moving to Tyne Valley. Three of their sons, Gordon, Prescott, and James moved to Alberta. William worked in Summerside at Brace 8( MacKay Ltd.. Margaret married Loman Adams and, for many years, attended Lot 16 Pres- byterian Church. Mary (1893-1975) retumed to Lot 16 and married Earle Yeo (1893-1975) in 1918. (see Yeo History) John and Annie Forbes are buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery in Tyne Valley. th‘lbuted by Vera Forbes

Fraser Family

The name Fraser is no longer found in Lot 16. Allan Fraser Sr. was born in Scotland in 1801; he immigrated to the Island at an unknown date and leased land in Belmont from Loyalist settler Alex Cameron.1 This parcel of land, known in later years as the Howard Fraser property, includ- ed a small peninsula called Mary’s Island which, according to local history, was a burying ground for the early French settlers.2 Allan Fraser obtained that lease from James Auld. The 1863 Lake Map places the Fraser residence on the south side of the Belmont Road where the Howard Fraser

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