Neil McIntyre and Mary Ann McLellan: 52 Ancestors #75

I've decided that when I have relatively little information on a couple in my pedigree chart, it makes more sense to write a single sketch for both of them. One such couple is my maternal great-great-grandparents (#26 and #27 in my Ahnentafel), Neil McIntyre and Mary Ann McLellan of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Neil McIntyre was born 24 Apr 1814 in Barbara Weit, Lot 19, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was baptized on 8 May 1814 at St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church in Rustico.¹ He was probably the oldest of six children of Angus McIntyre and Ann "Hanna" Gillis.

In 1840, Neil married Mary Ann McLellan at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Indian River, Lot 18.² Mary Ann was the daughter of Alexander McLellan and Sarah "Sally" McCormick, born on 20 Sep 1817, and baptized on 22 Oct at St. John the Baptist church in Miscouche.³

Neil and Mary Ann had ten children:

1. Hannah (b. ca 1841-1845, d. 1912), m. Octavius McIsaac
2. Angus (1842-1914), m. Bridget McPhee
3. Alexander (1845-??), twin
4. Leo (1845-??), twin
5. Sarah Ann (1847-??)
6. Catherine "Kate" (1849-??)
7. Mary (1850-??), prob. died young
8. Mary Ann (1852-??), m. Peter Hickey
9. John Alfred "Johnny" (1860-??), m. Regina Gillis
10. Rose Ann (1862-1937), m. Dominic Murphy (my great grandparents)

In 1861, they were still in Indian River, with eight children in the household.⁴ Rose Ann hadn't been born yet, and there are only three daughters in the 5-16 range, implying that one had died, probably Mary. (It seems somewhat unlikely they would have named two consecutive daughters Mary and Mary Ann unless the first had died. On the other hand, I don't have any definitive information on Sarah or Catherine, either.)

1861 Canada census, Township 18, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Neil McIntyre household

In 1881, the McIntyres lived in Lot 8, PEI, with their two youngest children.⁵ (Rose Ann's future husband, Dominic Murphy, was in the next household enumerated, though it wasn't actually right next door.)⁶

1881 Canada census, Township 8, Prince County, PEI, Neil McIntyre and Angus Steele households.

Angus Steele and Neil McIntyre farms, 1880.

Neil died between 1881 and 1891, when the widowed Mary Ann was living in lot 8 with her youngest son, John;⁷ her youngest daughter, Rose Ann, had married Dominic Murphy 1n 1883. Mary Ann died on 26 Apr 1896 in Hebron, and was buried two days later in St. Mary's Church Cemetery, Brae, Lot 9.⁸

1891 Canada census, Township 8, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Mary McIntyre household

My descent from Neil McIntyre and Mary Ann McLellan:

• Neil McIntyre and Mary Ann McLellan
• Dominic Murphy and Rose Anne McIntyre
• William George Murphy and Glenna Marie Rabideau
• Kathleen Marie Murphy and Roger Kirk (my parents)

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SOURCES

1. Marshall K. Kirk, manuscript research notes, undated; Marshall K. Kirk Research Files; privately held by Kathleen Kirk McCracken, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Abstract of baptismal record for Neil McIntyre, 8 May 1814, citing St. Augustine's Church (Rustico, PEI).
2. Ibid. Abstract of Neil McIntyre-Mary McLellan marriage, 1840, citing St. Mary's Church (Indian River, PEi).
3. Ibid. Abstract of baptismal record for "Marie M'clarlem", 22 Oct 1817, citing St. John-the-Baptist Church (Miscouche, PEI), register, 1817-1835.
4. 1861 census of Canada, Prince Edward Island, district 134, Prince County, Township 18, p. 1, line 7, Neil McIntyre household; digital images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 Jan 2014).
5. 1881 Canada Census, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Township No. 8, pp. 29-30, dwellings 113-114, families 113-114, Neil McIntyre and Angus Steele households; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com : accessed 19 Feb 2012). 
6. "Plan of Lot Eight, Prince Co., P.E.I.," Illustrated Historical Atlas Of The Province Of Prince Edward Island (Philadelphia: J.H. Meacham & Co., 1880), p. 42; digital image, David Rumsey Map Collection (https://www.davidrumsey.com : accessed 10 Dec 2012), item 4475024. The map shown above was cropped from the full lot map.
7. 1891 census of Canada, Prince Edward Island, district 134, Prince County, Township 8, p. 1, family 5, Mary McIntyre household; digital images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Jan 2017).
8. St. Mary's church (Brae, Lot 9, PEI), church registers, Book 1, p. 136, burial of "Mary M'intyre widow of Neil M'intyre", 28 Apr 1896; microfilm, Public Archives, Prince Edward Island; transcribed by the author in 1982.