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From: "Malcolm Black" <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] McCormack/McKinnon/McKechnie/Black/Fletcher
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:59:55 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20060914133338.54254.qmail@web50108.mail.yahoo.com>


Good morning again,

There is a Fletcher – Black connection in my notes and it seems to jump the
pond.



My GGF Archie Blacks’ first wife (on Iona) was a Fletcher but I don’t have
any more information about her than that she was “Hugh Fletcher’s aunt” it
is a deduction that she is probably buried on Iona before 1850. This note
was made by Archie’s grandson (my dad) about 1940.



I am pretty sure that the Hugh referred to was living over here in
Grey/Bruce but I don’t see any Fletchers living in Glenelg (Ont) by 1880
when the atlas was done.



Is anybody “doing Fletchers” that might shed some light on this match?



Malcolm Black



-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Ben Tinck
Sent: September 14, 2006 9:34 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] McCormack/McKinnon/McKechnie



Gerry



This is really interesting to me. The Mull connections here in this
community are numerous, are also interesting, revealing and seem to have
happened often,

as they knew each other back on Mull and nearby islands.



The first thing that I find curious is the Campbell / MGillivray
connection here in Bentinck Township, as well as our McCormick / McKinnon,
McCormick / McEachern conncection from Mull and over here in this area of
Grey County called the Queens Bush which specifically is the Rocky Community
that was established in 1841. The Durham Road between Durham and Priceville
is also as you know, heavily connected with Mull people. Some of our
McCormicks ventured there from the Rocky Community and settled there too.



Right across our Concession 2 side road and down a couple of farms from
us, is a farm that our family goes back with to Mull and the pioneer days
here in Grey County specifically the Rocky Community. The Fletchers lived
across from our pioneer McCormicks on that farm on Lots 22, 23, and 24 Con.
2 WGR from 1848 onward. Our McCormicks came to the Rocky Community just
north of Durham on the Garafraxa Road in 1843 and 1846.



THESE Fletchers were from Fidden Farm and built a beautiful field stone
home that was a replica of the Fidden Farm house on Mull. It is a beautiful
house as seen from the road. NOW THE CAMPBELL / MCGILLIVRAY / FLETCHER
CONNECTION. Not only did our McCormicks know the Fletchers and do business
with them, when I was a kid visiting our McCormick farm here where we live
now, I went to visit the another owner OF THAT FIDDEN FARM REPLICA HOUSE
and farm. Those owners of that farm were Donald Campbell who was married to
a McGillivray. The Campbells and McGillivrays go back to the pioneer days
around here too.



Also, my gr grandfather Archibald McCormick's sister Flora McCormick
married a John McKinnon and they lived from the early 1850's onward just
north of the Rocky Community on the Garafraxa Road. Awhile after that my gr
grandfather bought this farm from a DONALD MCKINNON in 1868. Those McKinnons
may have been related.



My gr grandfather Rodderick McEachern who lived in the Priceville area
of Glenelg Township married Annie McKinnon. He purchased the three ajoining
McKinnon lots from my my gr gr gr grandfather and his two sons John Jr. and
Hector.



. The McKinnons are buried in the Priceville Pioneer Cemetary near some of
my McEacherns.



****The various Mull family connections around here go on and on and are
facinating.





Sandy





Hi John Campbell son of Hector had lot 12.Hector was nearby. I

am pretty sure we have a McCormick link.Also the Kennedys from Mull were

nearby.Hector by then( was a widower) and married their daughter Susan bn

1826 who was a young widow.Her mother was Flora McGilvray. Hector had four

sons by Catherine Fletcher .Son Donald Frances married a Catherine Mclaclan

whose mother was a Sarah Campbell. I wonder who in that neck of the woods

the other 3 boys married. I have the feeling there lots of marriages between


the Mull settlers. If we all live as long as they did it would be a bonus

unless any of us have a penchant for sheep stealing. My campbell Wilson

Uncles loved horses .They were pretty wild but they did not get caught for

livestock duffing.



regards Gerry

----- Original Message -----

From: "Malcolm Black"

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Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:41 AM

Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] McCormack/McKinnon/McKechnie





> Hi Sandy,

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> My Grandfather Malcolm Black was on lot 14 and his brother John A. was on

> lot 13. Their father Archibald Black built the first school at Bunnessan

> and

> taught in it as well. They would certainly have known neighbours 6 lots

> away!

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>

> Malcolm Black

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> -----Original Message-----

> From:

> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Ben Tinck

> Sent: September 13, 2006 5:44 PM

> To:

> Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] McCormack/McKinnon/McKechnie

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> Good Day

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> Yes it does ring a bell with me. Where the Bunesson school is, is very

> close to where my McCormicks lived on Lot 20 NDR. My McEacherns knew the

> Blacks.

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> Sandy

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> Malcolm Black wrote:

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> Good Evening,

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> You mentioned the Beaton sisters who settled on the Durham Road in pioneer

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> times. My Great Grandfather Archibald Black settled on the north side of

> the

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> Durham Road where the Bunnessan School is located. He had a sister Effie

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> (Euphemia, b1813) who married a Beaton and had two children Duncan and

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> Flora. It is most likely that she married Beaton on Iona or Mull. Beaton

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> died and she married Archie Sinclair with whom she begat Dan and Neil.

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> Does any of this ring any bells for anyone?

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> Malcolm Black

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