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From: "Nancy A. MacLarty" <>
Subject: McLarty's of Islay
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:05:09 -0700

My 2x Great Grandfather, Donald McLarty was born on Islay on July 23,
1803. His father and mother (my 3x Great Grandparents) were John
McLarty and Elizabeth McVoran. They married in 1793 on Islay (Parish
Bowmore or Killarrow)

He (Donald) was born on Ealabus Farm, Islay, Scotland (Parish Bowmore
or Killarrow) in 1803.

Donald married Mary Love in 1833 on Islay and I'm trying to trace her.
I can't find any information on Mary Love, except that she married
Donald McLarty and was born in 1805.

Donald McLarty and Mary Love came to Canada to St. Andrew's East,
Quebec (don't know the year but it would be between 1833 & 1843) where
my Great Grandfather Dugald was born in 1843.

Dugald married Catherine McMartin daughter of Daniel McMartin and
Catherine Jackson. (Don't know where Catherine was born but probably in
Quebec as well. Dugald was a carpenter.

They moved to the Ottawa area in Ontario. Dugald is buried in our
family plot at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. He died in 1926.
Catherine is buried there too and died in 1916. Their son James is
buried there as well. He died apparently of heart failure at the age
of 16.

As their first child was born in 1843, and that would make Mary Love
about 38 when she gave birth for the first time and Donald 40, I wonder
if this was a 2nd marriage for Donald????

The 1881? Census shows that these were Dugald & Catherine's children:
Daniel MCLARTY Male Scottish 10 Q <Quebec> Weslyan Methodist
John MCLARTY Male Scottish 9 O <Ontario> Weslyan Methodist
James MCLARTY Male Scottish 5 O <Ontario> Weslyan Methodist
Agnes MCLARTY Female Scottish 3 O <Ontario> Weslyan Methodist
Source Information:
Census Place Wellington Ward, Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario
Family History Library Film 1375865

As Daniel was born in Quebec and John was born in Ontario, that means
that they probably moved to Ontario from Quebec in about 1871.

Agnes McLarty was my Mother's Mother. Also, because my Mother and
Father were first cousins, I do get confused with the names. Agnes
McLarty married Henry Kennedy Atkinson and they had 3 children.
Catherine, Leslie and Agnes Gertrude (my Mother). My Mother married
John Lamb MacLarty son of John McLarty (see above) and Jessie Lamb.

Also, would like to find the year of emigration to Canada or any
information regarding this.

Can you be of any help here? I am going to Islay from British
Columbia, Canada in September and would like to follow up.

thanks so much

Nancy MacLarty

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