This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MACDONALD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WOC.2ACE/3244 Message Board Post: I'm researching the family listed in Rankin's "History of Antigonish" as "Christina (MacDonald) married Hugh MacDonald, and had one son, Hugh". Christina's obituary reads "On July 18th (1913)... CHRISTIE MACDONALD, aged eighty seven years formerly of *Bailey's Brook, Pictou Co.*, and widow of Hugh MacDonald, of that place. R.I.P." I've found that when she was widowed (c1869) Christina moved to her brother's house in the town of Antigonish. She was listed with her son there in the 1871 and 1881 censuses, and by herself in 1901. The obituary states she died at her brother's house. I need to find out about the background of her husband Hugh, find out when he died, and just when the son Hugh was born. Any suggestions appreciated. Raymond MacDonald