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- Family Tree - McDonald, Hugh (MacDonald)
| Name at birth: | MacDonald, Hugh | Name at death: | McDonald, Hugh |
| Date of birth: |
1801,01,08 |
Date of death: | 1891,01,03 |
| Location of birth: | Argyleshire, Scotland | Location of death: | Mersea Township, Essex County, Ontario, Canada |
| Gender: | male | ||
| Ethnicity: | Scottish 100% | ||
| Religion: | Presbyterian | ||
| Mother: | MacDonald, Mary (Calhoun) | ||
| Father: | MacDonald, John | ||
| Siblings: | McDonald, Hugh (MacDonald) | ||
| MacDonald, Mary | |||
| MacDonald, Nancy | |||
| MacDonald, John | |||
| MacDonald, Alexander | |||
| Spouses: | McDonald, Elizabeth (Williams) | Married: |
1833,06,03 |
| Children: | Fox, Ann (McDonald) | ||
| Notes: | -
In 1815, he, his parents, and four siblings left from Fort Appin for
Canada, a trip that took 16 weeks of ocean sailing. They took the
St. Lawrence River to Lake Ontario to Lake Erie, bound for Port Talbot.
A storm came and the ship docked at what is now Port Stanley, Ontario.
The four eldest children got on shore, but the ship was forced back
out by the storm. These four children, Hugh (aged 15 at the time), Mary, Nancy, and John, were alone for four days before the ship came back to port. They survived by eating wild berries and sleeping in unused pigpens. After being reunited with his children, John walked to Port Talbot, where Colonel Talbot was residing, an presented a letter from the colonel's brother, who was still in Scotland, and was given 400 acres of land on Talbot Road in Tilbury East Township. - He changed his surname to McDonald as to not be associated with his (in)famous cousin, Canada's first prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald. Hugh was a non-drinker and very religious, and his cousin John was a well-known drinker. It is said that whenever John visited that there was no consumption of alcohol nor discussion of politics or religion. |
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