Kincardine Township Con 12 Lot 17
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Kincardine Township – Land History
CON 12 LOT 17
1854 Allan McFadyen
1854 Neil McFadyen, l870 Duncan Rowan, 1871 Neil McFadyen, 1880 John McArthur - W½, 1899 Daniel McFadyen – W½, 1908 Neil, Mary & Catherine McFadyen - W½, 1921 Crown Deed - Mary & Catherine McFadyen, 1927 Russell Reid, 1943 Thomas Reid, 1947 Howard Reid, 1977 John Falconer, 1982 John & Drena Falconer, 1985 Farm Credit Corporation, 1987 Stephen & Shirley Crossley
Neil McFadyen (1821-1912) married Mary McKinnon (1827- 1893) of Bruce Township and raised eleven children in this small house:
- Allan (1854-1926) married in 1910 Elizabeth Scott, widow of Captain Duncan McFadyen of C12 L16 and resided on the W½ of Lot 16. Their daughter married William Clayton
- Mary (1857-1943), unmarried, a dressmaker in Tiverton
- Alexander “Sandy” (b. 1859), unmarried, went to Bruce Mines in 1893
- Flora (1862-1924) married Archibald McKinnon of Bruce Township
- Margaret “Maggie” married in 1889 Thomas Lindsay, a butcher in Tiverton, and died in childbirth in 1893
- Catherine “Kate” (b.c. 1866- 1940), unmarried, cooked on a lake boat, resided with her sister Mary in Tiverton
- Sarah (b.c. 1868-1900) died from typhoid fever
- James
- Donald “Dan” farmed with his father until Neil died, then moved to Bruce Township
- Mary Florence “Minnie” (1872-1946) married in 1896 Robert Carleton of C11 L6, resided in Bruce Township
- Christina “Tena” (b. 1876) trained as an R.N., worked in Sherbrooke, Que., lived in Calif.
Toils, Tears & Triumph - A History of Kincardine Township, Kincardine Township Historical Society, 1990, pg 332