Fonds Acc3014 - McRae family fonds : [1841-1943]

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McRae family fonds : [1841-1943]

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CA PCA Acc3014

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  • Copied 1978 (Reproduction)
  • 1841-1943 (Creation)
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    MacRae (Family), Waterside (P.E.I.)

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.215 m. of textual records
142 photographs

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MacRae (Family), Waterside (P.E.I.)

Biographical history

Alexander MacRae (?-1869) emigrated to Prince Edward Island ca.1804 from Glenelg, Inverness shire, Scotland. He married Sarah MacGregor (?-1843) in 1823 and they had eleven children. Their eighth child, Alexander Malcolm, was born on 21 March 1836. He married Annie Mellish (1844-1931) of Waterside, near Pownal, on 7 December 1865. They had eleven children: Mary Helen Moor (1866-1912), Sarah Elizabeth (1867-1953), Florence (1868-1870), Beatrice (1871-1957), Frederick Beaumont (1872-1946), Cornelia Gertrude (1872-?), Lilly Isabella (1876-1878), William Alexander Malcolm (1878-1938), Daniel Peter (1881-1973), Robert (1882-1961), and Alex Jones (1884-1919).

Alexander MacRae, Captain of the 2nd Queens Co. Regiment, also operated a farm at Waterside. He had registered short horn cattle and was a member of the PEI Fruit Growers Association (1904-1905). He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Queens County on 27 August 1889 and Wharfinger of the Pownal Pier on 5 October 1885. Alexander died the 22 March 1913.

Mary Helen MacRae worked as a dressmaker. Frederick, Robert, and Dan all volunteered in the South African War (1889-1902). Robert and Dan eventually settled in Saskatchewan. Frederick was an instructor of machine gunnery in Shorncliffe, England, and a Major in the 82nd Abegweit Light Infantry during World War II. Alexander Jones was killed in action in France in 1918. William Alexander Malcolm was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Queen's County on 22 June 1925.

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The majority of the fonds consists of correspondence between MacRae family members. A significant portion of the fonds also contains many photographs, certificates, and newspaper clippings of Frederick's military career at the Machine Gun School in Shorncliffe, England, and his promotion to the rank of Major in the 82nd regiment. There are also genealogical notes and history of the Pownal area such as copies of the Pownal Argus, a handwritten community newsletter (1885) and Muster Rolls for the Queen's County Regiment R.M. for Pownal from 1868-1871. The fonds also consists of Alexander MacRae's account books listing the income and expenditures of his apple and potato crop from 1889-1892.

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  • English

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NO RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

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PERMISSION FOR USE AND REPRODUCTION IS REQUIRED FROM THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES AND RECORDS OFFICE; QUESTIONS REGARDING COPYRIGHT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USER

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See also: Acc2348/3; Acc2881/365; Acc3043/369,372,373; Acc2783

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