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From: "Michael [Hryhorczuk] Ford" <>
Subject: Re: [Mull] Margaret Maclaine Currie
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:52:28 +0100
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hi Ida/Carol - i came accross an Archibald Currie born c. 1790, son of
Duncan/Rebecca Currie. Archibald died at Kinloch 27 Feb 1875 aged 84
[widower of Mary McCallum] - Informant > Lachlan McPhail, merchant,
Bunessan.

Also - Margaret Currie born c. 1821, daughter of unk*/Mary McCALLUM
[*possibly Archibald above] - she died a pauper, single, illegit at
Tobermory Poorhouse 10 May 1896 aged 74


Michael


----- Original Message -----
From: "Merle & Ida King" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Mull] Margaret Maclaine Currie


> Hi Carol
>
> From the 1841 census Kinloch
> Glenbyre Curry Duncan 50 Tenant Y 1 M To Owen
> Sound 1842 with 9 of 11 children
> Glenbyre Curry Margaret 48 Y 1 F McLaine m
> Mar 5 1807 Torosay 7014511, 7
> Glenbyre Curry Archibald 20 Y 1 M Aug 10 1817
> Torosay 7015920, 62 mother as Mary
> Glenbyre Curry Neil 15 Y 1 M Mar 28 1824
> Torosay 7015920, 62
> Glenbyre Curry Gillean 12 Y 1 M Glenbyre
> Curry Flora 17 Y 1 F
> Ian and I would love to add any additional children you have for this
> family. Who knows where we might find one of the other Curry children.
>
> Have you checked their marriage reference at the LDS facility ?
> later
> Ida
>
>
> David & Carol Eddleman wrote:
>
>> According to family information, Margaret Maclaine was born in 1782 at
>> Lochbuie. The story goes that she was the eldest daughter of the
>> "chief", but I don't know which. Is it possible that she was the
>> daughter of Murdoch Maclaine? She married Duncan Currie (b. 1774) and
>> emigrated to Owen Sound, Ontario in 1842 with seven of her nine grown
>> children. She and Duncan appear on the 1851 Census of Sydenham, Owen
>> Sound, Ontario. They talk of the men in the family fighting bears with
>> only a knife for a weapon. Duncan died in 1874 (aged 100), after saying
>> the Lord's Prayer in Gaelic; she died on 27 Feb 1852. (I have seen her
>> grave.) They say she was a large, reddish-blonde woman "showing her
>> Viking ancestry".
>>
>> I can find certainty of neither Margaret's parents, nor Duncan's parents.
>> I do know they were on Mull, as I have seen records of monetary
>> settlement with Duncan's employer, just prior to his leaving Mull for
>> Ontario, spelling his name Curry at the time. He was evidently working
>> on a road system of some sort.
>>
>> Please provide me with any clues you might have.
>>
>> Carol C. Eddleman
>> Director, Data Acquisition, PA-Roots
>> http://www.pa-roots.org/data/
>
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