|
Bill: My wife and I have never seen Scotland. Our ancestors came to Canada in the 1850s. My wife's folks being Campbell came from the Isle of Skye. My folks came from a place called Sutherlandshire. I have never been able to find that place on a map of Scotland. My wife's folks immigrated to Cape Breton NS. From your photos and others, those Campbells came to a topography very much like they left behind. As I look at your photos, I could imagine I'm anywhere in rural Cape Breton. My great grandfather Alexander along with 4 brothers immigrated in 1852. They left behind a sister and two brothers. My great grandfather raised 3 boys and 3 girls in the Stewiake Valley of Nova Scotia. The girls married into families; Hamilton, Graham and Ellis, plus their brothers married and raised families there and by 1960 I would have been related to 75% of the population of the Valley, all be it my dad had left the valley for another valley and some fresh blood to marry into. Another of those 5 boys "George" raised a family in Truro Nova Scotia, a town of 12,000. In 1960, if you were a MacKay living in Truro you were a descendant of George. Very prolific boys were George and Alex. The other 3 went on to Toronto, Manitoba and Oergon. The guy in Toronto had two daughters, we have no trace of them. The guy in Manitoba has a family tree as long as the province. He and his descendants made good use of their beds during those long cold prarrie winters. The guy in Oregon died a bachelor. Two cousins of my dad took on the task of a family tree in the 1980s. We have it all as of 1990, including the folks still in Scotland. The Scotland wing is close to 60 people. The only missing link if any, did those two daughters of brother number 3 in Toronto have families. We don't know.
|
