MACKENZIE, Barbara Mabel

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1910, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; Relative Relation to Head: Wife
• Arrival: 1892
• Residence: 1910, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: Abt 1912
• Residence: 1920, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA

Notes:

Buried:
South Cemetery - a tomb

James married LANG, Pearl May on 1 Jan 1906 in Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. Pearl was born about 1888 in New Hampshire, USA; died on 29 Jul 1975 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1910, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: Abt 1912
• Residence: 1920, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA

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• Departure: Charlottetown, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Race: Scottish
• Relation to Me: 3 GGF
• Name: Happy Jack
• Name: John A McKinzie
• Name: John Alexander MacKenzie
• Name: John MacKenzie
• Name: John MacKenzie
• _DNA: Match (paternal) Ancestry DNA Circle
• Birth: 1845, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Arrival: 13 Jun 1870, Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
• Residence: 1881, Granville, Prince, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Lot 67 per the 1881 census
• Religion: 1901; Presbyterian - as noted on 1901 Census
• Residence: 1901, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Lot (township/canton) 21, Queen's (west
• Arrival: 1908
• Residence: 1910; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head/North Hampton Road, Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1911, Kings, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Burial: 25 Dec 1914, South Granville, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Notes:

During the 1901 Census of Canada, John and Barbara and three children, A. Christie (8 Mar 1886), D. John (8 Jun 1888), and Voilet (16 May 1892) on PEI. He is noted as a Presbyterian, as is the rest of his family. It says he lived in DISTRICT NUMBER: 136; SUB-DISTRICT: Lot (township/canton) 21; SUB-DISTRICT NUMBER: C-1. His birth is noted as being 15 Apr 1849. However, it is assumed the census taker wrote this incorrectly as his baptism record say 1845. Two doors down there is a John Corbett born in 1844, his wife Sarah b. 4 Apr 1851 and 2 children - 19 yo A. Hector and 17 yo A. Margaret. Could these be Barbara's brother and his family?

In the 1910 US Census, John, Barbara and their two adult sons Hector and John D. were living on North Hampton Rd. in Greenland, NH. John A. was listed as a farm manager, able to read but not write. He was born in PEI, but his father was born in Scotland. His two sons were listed as farm laborers. They were renting. The immigration year for all of them was listed as 1908, with the exception of Hector who was listed as 1906. All four of these family members are buried in the South Granville Presbyterian Cemetery on PEI and we know that is where John and Barbara died on Christmas Day 1914, so they must have returned to PEI sometime between 1910 and 1914. Their daughter Annie was married to Harry DeRochemont of Newington. Annie and her baby died in 1906, but their other grandchildren remained in Newington, so clearly they had some ties to the New Hampshire seacoast region.

it is important to keep in view that the Scots became the largest ethnic group on the island and that PEI was to become the most Scottish province in Canada. Moreover, as Kennedy has suggested, over 80% of the Scots on PEI were from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland


Birth:
The 1901 Census reports his birth date as 15 Apr 1849. However, his actual "baptism" date, which many in PEI seem to report as a birth date I've observed, was 15 Apr 1845. Either the census taker heard it wrong or wrote it wrong.

Name:
Newspaper article describing John and Barbara's death says he was known as Happy Jack in town

John married CORBETT, Barbara on 4 Jan 1872 in Strathalbyn, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Barbara (daughter of CORBETT, William Gunn and SPENCER, Mary) was born in Aug 1848 in Prince Edward Island, Canada; died on 25 Dec 1914 in Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada; was buried in South Granville, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 3 GGM
• _DNA: Match (paternal) Ancestry DNA Circle
• Residence: 1881, Lot 67, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Marital Status: Married
• Residence: 1901, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Lot (township/canton) 21, Queen's (west
• Arrival: 1908, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1910, Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1911, Kings, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Burial: 25 Dec 1914, South Granville, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1844, Granville, Prince, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Lot 67, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Township
• Residence: 1870, Lot 21, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Residence: 1881, Lot 67, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Marital Status: Married
• Residence: 1891, Lot 67, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1901, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Notes:

Donald McKenzie's son John McKenzie was baptized on 15 Apr 1845 at the United Church in Breadalban. My research has shown that Lot 67 was populated in the 1830s and 1840s by Highlanders who came from the Isle of Skye area. Is this where Donald is from?

I am ready to definitively say Donald McKenzie is John’s father. When John and Barbara were married, it stated John was from lot 67. So was Donald.

From Wikitree:
There was a Donald McKenzie who owned a Schooner named MARGARET that was registered for all ports of PEI. The vessel was constructed in 1822 and was said to have a crew of three people. Donald was said to be a planter/farmer. The I826024 was the registration number.
Schooner Owner: Index of Surnames from the Ships and Seafarers of Atlantic Canada. CD-ROM. Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.

Also from Wikitree:

The search for the parents of Donald and Margaret MacKenzie has been a long one. We know that they were born in Scotland and immigrated to Prince Edward Island in the early 1800s. We can only confirm one child born in 1844.

We can confirm that three boats from Scotland did arrive in Prince Edward Island in 1803: the "Polly" (April 5, 1803), the "Dykes" (April 7, 1803), and the "Oughton" (Aug 27, 1803). A few MacKenzie's are listed and the father of a Hector MacKenzie was said to have arrived on the Polly. Additionally, there was a "DONALD McKENZIE," known as a successful farmer and blacksmith at Flat River, was born in Lot 60, Prince Edward Island, on May 1, 1840, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Williams) McKenzie. The father was born in Rosshire, Scotland, and was a passenger on the ship "Polly" in 1803, settling in Lot 6o, Queen’s county, where he followed farming. In 1874 Mr. McKenzie married Miss Christina F. McRae, a daughter of John and Christie (MacRae) MacRae, natives also of Scotland, and who came to Prince Edward Island with Mr. MacRae’s parents on the ship "Polly." The subject’s maternal grandfather Williams was the first land agent for Lord Selkirk in Prince Edward Island. To the subject and his wife have been born the following children: James, at home; John F., deceased; Roderick and Alexander Sinclair, at home; Eliza M. is a physician at Charlottetown; Jane B. is at home; Elsie F. is a student of Prince of Wales College, at Charlottetown; Grace C.; Christie A., deceased; and two who died in infancy. In politics, Mr. McKenzie gives his support to the Liberal party, and in religion is a member of the Presbyterian church. He is industrious and practical in his methods" P&P, Pg. 412 [5]

Donald + HUGHAN, Margaret. Margaret was born about 1821 in Scotland; died before 1853 in Prince Edward Island, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1844, Granville, Prince, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Residence: 1901, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1840, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Residence: 1841, Eddrachillis, Sutherland, Scotland
• Residence: 1881, Lot 21, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Residence: 1901, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Lot (township/canton) 21, Queen's (west
• Burial: 1 Jul 1904, South Granville, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada

William married SPENCER, Mary about 1848 in Breadalbane, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Mary (daughter of Living, daughter of Living and Living) was born on 9 Aug 1826 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 4 Sep 1836 in Skipton, Yorkshire, England; died in 1890 in Prince Edward Island, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]