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Members To Contact:
Peggy Macleod 295-2669 email pegnsandy@ns.sympatico.ca
Shirley Hart 295-2686 mrhs844@gmail.com
Middle River & Area Historical Society
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Middle River & Area Historical Society 
Hi,
Do you have any information regarding the Scottish home of Hector Morrison,b. about 1825, married to Barbara, and a farmer in Middle River by 1881?
Hello,
I was looking to buy the book middle river where would I get it at?
I live in Calgary AB Canada and can’t find the book up here, so if there anyway I can get a copy would be great.
Thanks: Carson J
Hello. I am looking for information on a Catherine Mclean (or Maclean). she would have been born in 1844. she later a man from newfoundland James Shears on nov 16 1863. I would like to know who her parents names are. ty
I am searching for information about my ancestors Norman McMillan/MacMillam/McMullan and Lillias Buchanan, both died in Middle River 1877 and 1864. We are visiting Cape Breton August 20-23. I am hoping you may have some documentation that would be of interest to me.
Regards
Robert Hoglund
Norman MacMillan and family also lived at the Cùl, or Buchanan Mountain. The sons John and Donald went to the USA, while William went to New Zealand. There were also two sons named Norman and Malcolm and a daughter Ann who married Malcolm MacIver.
(from page 195, new Middle River history book)
Thanks Clarence. Normans Norman inherited the farm at Buchanans Mountain. He is my grandmother Euphemia MacMillans father. I did see Peggy MacLeod the other day and we exchanged what we knew of the family.
I’M LOOKING FOR THE SPECIFIC LOCATION OF MY DESCENDANT DONALD MCCHARLES SOMETIMES (CHARLESON) WHO WITH HIS – FAMILY -FROM SCOTLAND TO MIDDLE RIVER CB. HE IS BURIED ON HIS BUSH FARM. IF YOU CAN HELP ME I WOULD APPRECIATE IT. HE WAS BORN IN 1780. HE LEFT MIDDLE RIVER AROUND 1854. THANKS GARY MCCHARLES.
MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS garymccharles83@gmail.com
Looking for any information on a William McRae (sometimes misspelled McRay), born approximately 1855 on Cape Breton Island. His father was David McRae b approximately 1818 – 1825 in Nova Scotia, and his mother was Catherine nee MacCharles or McCharles, b approximately 1823, also born in Nova Scotia. He appears to have had a brother John who eventually married and lived in Boston. William himself was in the US Census in Illinois, then married Emily Jane Grier in Schulyer, Nebraska and had a son Kenneth (my great-grandfather). Then he disappeared.
I’ve scoured the Presbyterian cemetery and found lots of MacRaes and McRaes – but no leads on my line.
Is it possible that the MacRaes came “directly” from Kintail and the McRaes from Applecross?
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