JOHN MARSHALL CAME TO CANADA FROM BELFAST NORTHERN IRELAND IN 1861 UNFORTUNATELY RECORDS OF IMMIGRATION ARE NOT FOUND. , HE LIVED IN GALILEE SASKATCHEWAN AND THEN MOVED TO MANITOBA. HE MARRIED JULIENNE PERREAULT dit MORIN. THEY LIVED IN MINNISOTA USA BEFORE COMING BACK INTO CANADA,  THEIR SON JOHN HENRY MARSHALL WAS MY GRANDFATHER

    MURDOCH CAMPBELL CAME TO CANADA IN 1871 FROM BARVAS SCOTLAND OF THE COUNTY ROSS ON  THE ISLE OF LEWIS. HE CAME TO CANADA TO WORK FOR THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY HE  HAD SIGNED A FIVE YEAR CONTRACT WITH THEM. MURDOCK SPOKE ONLY GAELIC WHEN HE  CAME TO CANADA BUT LEARNED ENGLISH CREE AND CHIPPEWA VERY QUICKLY. DURING HIS TERM  HE MET AND MARRIED HARRIET ANDERSON OF WESTBOURNE AND THEY HAD TWELVE CHILDREN.  HE HAD AN OX NAMED "BORING" WHO WAS USED TO HELP WIH THE LOADING AND UNLOADING OF  BOATS ALONG THE SHORES OF THE LAKES IN MANITOBA. MURDOCK AND HARRIETS DAUGHTER  MABEL CAMPBELL MARRIED JOHN HENRY MARSHALL, THEIR DAUGHTER RUTH MARSHALL MARRIED  CECIL KERR AND I AM THEIR DAUGHTER WENDY. I AM MARRIED TO GARY WOLITSKI.

     RICHARD COATES KERR A BAKER FROM BELFAST NORTHERN IRELAND AND HIS WIFE ANNIE  BALLANTYNE HAD A TOTAL OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. RICHARD AND ANNIE AND EIGHT CHILDREN  IMMIGRATED TO CANADA IN 1926. TWO OF HIS CHILDREN HAD DIED AS INFANTS IN IRELAND.  HIS ELDEST SON RICHARD HAD IMMIGRATED EARLIER AT THE TENDER AGE OF 15. RICHARD'S  SISTER MINNIE WAS IN CANADA AND THAT IS WHO RICHARD'S SON STAYED WITH WHEN HE IMMIGRATED.  RICHARD SR'S DREAM WAS TO FARM. WE DO KNOW THAT THESE NAMES KERR AND BALLANTYNE  BOTH ORIGINATED IN SCOTLAND AND WE ARE WORKING ON TRACING LINES BACK. AS WE GATHER  MORE INFORMATION WE LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR HISTORY.

The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849
 The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable..


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