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In the 1851 Agricultural Census for Westmeath Township, two brothers are farming side by side: Allan McCracken (1820-  ) at Lot 24 of Concession Front A, with 200 acres and 40 acres under cultivation, and Thomas McCracken on  Lot 23 of Conc. Front A, with 140 acres and 6 acres under cultivation. The Front A Concession was waterfront READ MORE

The McBride Immigrant Ancestors John McBride, with his 18 year old son James, came out from Belfast, County Down, Ireland, to Canada in 1848. Some months later, John’s wife Annie Jeffrey, and the other children, followed on the voyage to Canada.  Annie kept a little store in Ireland after her husband had sailed for Canada, READ MORE

Born into a large family in 1877, he would witness person after person die at his home during his adult life. That degree of grief, turmoil and personal loss would take a large toll.  Henry McBride was born second youngest in a family of seven brothers and two sisters, one of whom, eldest sister Annie, died young at age READ MORE

“William Ian McMullen and his wife  Mary Jane Shields; whom he married after he came to Canada from Ireland over 100 years ago, and bought land one mile West of Haley’s Station, to them was born five sons: William, James, John, Samuel, Jacob  and two daughters Jennie, (Mrs. John Rose, Haley’s Station) and Nancy (Mrs. READ MORE

“McLean or Maclean is a family name that goes back many years in the history of Beachburg. In some cases the spelling of the family name varies even within the same branch of the family. At one time there were three McLean families not related to each other in the Beachburg area.” Source:  On the READ MORE

Jim McKibbon As submitted by his daughter Sandra Hansen to Beachburg-A Rich Inheritance Jim McKibbon was an enterprising man making his living from farming as well as fitting in many other jobs in the community. One of these tasks was to drain the buttermilk from Mr. Singleton’s creamery tanks into his own homemade tank and draw READ MORE

At age 32 in 1860,  Daniel McLeese (1828-1915) married (1) Mary Jane Murphy (1839-1874) in Ballymoney, Antrim, Ireland. Daniel was the son of Daniel McLeese (1800-) and Margaret “Peggy” McGuigan (1810-1874).  Like so many of their countrymen, they joined the Irish diaspora. They arrived in Canada in 1871 with two babies and some siblings of Daniel’s, including a younger brother William. READ MORE

Robert McGlaughlin (1820-1886) was born in County Down, Ireland and came to Canada on the ship “Dolphin”, sailing from Kill Keel, County Down, in the spring of 1845. He married Margaret Horricks on January 14th, 1850, in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario. They had five children and their marriages would connect, over the generations, with many READ MORE

Scotsman Duncan McLaren came to the New Frontier and into Lanark County. There he met and married Helen Stewart in Perth, Ont. Together they would come to Westmeath Township and raise their family of 10 children. The MCLAREN Family Tree has been prepared and graciously submitted by Linda Gervais Bromley: McLaren Family Tree. This family married into the Bulmer, READ MORE

“The following is a brief history of the McClelland family of Beachburg, Ontario; all descendants of Robert McClelland and Eliza McLean of Ireland.” So begins a family history prepared by Maureen Carey Pegg and submitted by Edgar White. Robert McClelland was born in the County Armaugh, Ireland, in 1819 or 1820.  He married Eliza McLean READ MORE