Hi all: I've just subscribed to this list, after my PML criteria threw up at me the following message from Peggy: > Here is my McPherson lineage...... > > 1. Donald MacPherson abt 1701 - 1723 Kingussie, INV,SCT > +Mary Robertson abt 1711 - unk Kingussie, INV,SCT > children: > Malcolm chr 1725 Kingussie, INV,SCT > Elspet chr 22 Jun 1728 > 2. Duncan chr 6 Feb 1736 Kingussie, INV,SCT > d, 1807 Wheatland/Caledonia, NY > Original Elder of the First Presbyterian Church Of Caledonia (est 1805) > Listed on register of elders as having died on or before 1807 (dated 4 Mar > 1805 on sheet) > + Catherine Campbell abt 1748 Badenoch, INV, SCT, d. Caledonia, NY > married 29 Jan 1761 Kingussie & Insch, INV, SCT > children: > Hanna b. INV, SCT > John chr 22 Jun 1762 Kingussie & Insch, INV, SCT > Isobell chr 1 Aug 1764 Kingussie & Insch, INV, SCT > Alexander chr 21 Mar 1766 Kingussie & Insch, INV,SCT > Findlay b 1782 INV, SCT, d 1847 Mumford, NY > 3. Donald McPherson b 1770 INV, SCT, > d. 27 May 1846 buried in Mumford Cem, Genesee Co. ,NY > + Catherine Anderson b. 1784, d. 12 Sept 1818 Mumford Cem,NY > + Mary McMartin b. 1780, d. 8 Sept 1851 Mumford Cem, NY > children: > Catherine prob SCT > Eleanor prob SCT > John prob SCT > Alexander b. 1801 Churchville, Monroe Co., NY > Donald b. 1806 Churchville, Monroe Co., NY > 4. Duncan b. 22 Nov 1799 Churchville, Monroe Co., NY > d, 8 Feb 1879 & buried Paris Plains, Brant Co., Ont, CAN > + Jane McNaughton b. 4 Feb 1800 Glenlyon, Perthshire, SCT > (chr at Fortingall, Perthshire) > d. 12 Jan 1871 & buried Paris Plains, Brant Co., Ont, CAN > children: > Jane Paris, Brant co., ONT CAN > (5.) Catherine b. 24 Sept 1822 Paris, Brant co., ONT CAN > d. Nov 1875 & buried Ayr, Waterloo Co., ONT > + William Scott > Margaret b. 1824 Paris, Brant co., ONT CAN > Elizabeth b. 1827 Paris, Brant co., ONT CAN > Daniel b. 1829 Paris, Brant co., ONT CAN > Mary b. 1832 Paris, Brant co., ONT CAN > Malcolm b. 1834 Paris, Brant co., ONT CAN > Ellen b. 1839 Paris, Brant co., ONT CAN > > Generation #2 Duncan came with other McPhersons and Scots from the Badenoch > area (Newtonmore, Kingussie, etc) to settle the Oatka River valley in > Monroe Co. NY (now Genesee Co.). Duncan's grave is nonexistant at this > time. I believe he was probably buried in Caledonia Presbyterian Cem as he > was a founding elder. All others are buried in Mumford cem down the road. > Duncan's daughter married Black Alex McPherson's son tying the two founding > McPherson families together. They may be already a connection between the > two but I haven't confirmed it yet. Black Alex of Crubinbeg, INV's lineage > is in the book The Mcpherson's of Genesee Country, Vols 1 & 2 by Donald > McPherson. > Duncan's (gen #4) uncle Findley McPherson (gen#3) married Mary McNaughton, > sister to Duncan's wife Jane McNaughton. > My McPherson's end with Catherine who marries William Scott. > Would love to hear if anyone has a connection....... > > Peggy > This really caught my attention because of the reference to Caledonia, NY, a place I had not heard of before in connection with McPhersons, except in relation to a "family legend" I heard from a distant cousin about "our" McPhersons, about which more later. First, a little background on my lineage. My g-g-grandfather, Alexander MCPHERSON, came from Perthshire (according to his gravestone in the abandoned Baptist graveyard in the hamlet of Tennyson, Drummond Township, Lanark County, Ontario), but I don't know for certain where in Perthshire. My grandfather maintained the family had come from Aberfoyle in the west of Perthshire, but other evidence (a copy of a will of a Peter Malloch and his wife, Susan McPherson, who may have been Alexander's sister) suggests that the family came from the Tay Valley, maybe AberFELDY, rather than AberFOYLE, as my grandfather remembered. It is not clear either exactly when Alexander arrived in Drummond Township. There was an Alexander McPherson settled near what is now the town of Perth, Ontario, in 1817, and some evidence suggests this was my g-g-grandfather. What can be documented (from diaries kept by my g-grandfather) is that by 1823, the family was settled on a farm near Carleton Place, Ontario, specifically, Lot 26, Concession 5, Drummond County. My g-g-grandmother's name was Janet, but I have no idea what her maiden name was, where she came from, or indeed if she and Alexander were married in Scotland or after they arrived in Canada. From census records, she appears to have been born, in Scotland, about 1785. There is no record of when she died, nor of where she is buried, but death must have been in the 1870's, since she appears in the 1871 census, but not in 1881. Alexander and Janet had two sons, John, who inherited the family farm, and Alexander, my g-grandfather, who left home about 1843, got an education and became a school teacher, ending up in Etobicoke Township, west of Toronto. where my grandfather, John Alexander Llewellyn Macpherson, was born in 1859, and where my father, Frederick Drummond Macpherson, and I, were subsequently born and raised. Now, ("finally", you may say), my interest in Caledonia. A cousin of mine, descended from my g-granduncle John, has in her possession, an old lithograph, now almost unrecognizable due to multiple coats of varnish applied to "protect" it, depicting what she remembers, as a child,was two men in full Highland regalia, with a representation between them of Cluny McPherson's coat of arms. Attached to one corner of the picture is a piece of paper, to which is affixed a scap of cloth, which used to be dark green. On the paper is the following handwritten text: "Piece of an Ancient McPherson banner carried in the wars of 1715 and 1745 and presented to John MacPherson of Caledonia by the chief of his clan". No one in my family knows the significance of this picture and piece of cloth, nor who John MacPherson was. Is it possible that the Caledonia referred to is Caledonia, NY? I haven't been able to find a Caledonia in Scotland, nor in Canada. I checked this story with the Clan Macpherson genealogist, Alan Macpherson, of Memorial University in Newfoundland, some years ago, and he was as baffled as I was. I would really appreciate any information any subscribers to the list might be able to provide me with on any of the above. Any connections to other lineages that you know of? Thanks, Alec Macpherson.