HELLO All going over all this info, I THINK we have the wrong Neil MacKeigan By the list of Stewart's siblings mine don't match up. Lark On 03/06/09 7:45 AM, "Juanita MacDonald" <joseph000@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Ron; > > I wouldn't say you threw a kink in it. Its more like you opened a door and > let a little fresh in for Bob. I noticed as I searched the archives, that > Bob's 1st posting for this family was back I believe sometime in 2004. > > I would say you are right on the money, with this family. Lark seems to > agree also that it is the "NEIL MACKEIGAN" we are looking for and I know > Lark has done a lot of research on the "MacKeigans". > > Seward T. Hunt's wife Dolly d. Jan 30 1988. buried Riverview Cemetery. > > On the off chance there might be other members of Seward's family buried > there, I used his sister Gladys name, and there was a woman named "Gladys > Winnifred McCall b. 1915-1973, married to Rev. Harry McCall, further reseach > revealed there were four children, 1. Christine, 2. Neil, 3 unnamed dau > living in England, 4. unnamed dau. living in Scotland. Possibly Gladys > maiden name may have been Hunt. I don't know. > > As for Bessie's obit for "Feb 12, 1869", I am no where near either the > Beaton or NS archives, to do a look up for you. So hopefully some kind soul > with a few minutes to spare, will do the look up for you and Bob. Or you can > write directly to the Halifax Herald, the Beaton [UCB], or NS archives for a > copy of the obit. > > Happy hunting > Juanita MacDonald > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron McDougall" <ronaldmcdougall@prodigy.net> >> Since you obviously have the ability to pick up on a tip, here is more for >> your edification. (And yes the above Neil MacKeigan is the one to whom I >> referred). I dug through some of my stuff and here is the story as I see >> it. Did Bessie Hunt die young? Given that Neil MacKeigan and Bessie Hunt >> had 6 children I am going to go out on a limb and say she did NOT die >> really young. Why to I think she had six children? Because of the obit >> for her son, Donald. Cape Breton Post March 4, 1992 page 23 Donald >> MacKeigan 57, Louisbourg Donald H. MacKeigan, 57, Louisbourg, died Monday, >> March 2, 1992, at his residence. Born in Louisbourg, he was the son of the >> late Neil and Bessie (Hunt) MacKeigan. ~~~~ I like the name of Florence >> and especially like the name of Seward as children of Bessie Hunt >> MacKeigan. (Charles Alfred Hunt and Flora Gillis had a son Seward.) CB >> Post obit Jan 22, 2003 Seward Hunt 87, Marion Bridge Seward Thomas Hunt, >> 87, of Gabarus Highway, Marion Bridge, passed >> away at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Sydney, Monday, Jan. 20, >> 2003. ~~~~~ Now lets throw in a kink. Is it "possible" that the Bessie >> Hunt wife of Neil MacKeigan (per Donald MacKeigan obit) and the Bessie >> Hunt, daughter of Flora Gillis, (per Seward Hunt obit) are two different >> Bessies? Yes. I find it highly unlikely though. My next step if I had >> access to the Halifax Herald microfilm would be to check the Feb 12, 1969 >> edition for the obit for Mrs. Bessie MacKeigan who died in Louisbourg and >> is purported to be in that edition. She may have had an obit in the Cape >> Breton Post also. (I would like to think that the UCCB library still has >> microfilm of both the Halifax Herald & Cape Breton Post as I have viewed >> such film there in the somewhat distant past.) >> Ron > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NS-CAPE-BRETON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >