My 2x Great Grandfather, Donald McLarty was born on Islay on July 23, 1803. His father and mother (my 3x Great Grandparents) were John McLarty and Elizabeth McVoran. They married in 1793 on Islay (Parish Bowmore or Killarrow) He (Donald) was born on Ealabus Farm, Islay, Scotland (Parish Bowmore or Killarrow) in 1803. Donald married Mary Love in 1833 on Islay and I'm trying to trace her. I can't find any information on Mary Love, except that she married Donald McLarty and was born in 1805. Donald McLarty and Mary Love came to Canada to St. Andrew's East, Quebec (don't know the year but it would be between 1833 & 1843) where my Great Grandfather Dugald was born in 1843. Dugald married Catherine McMartin daughter of Daniel McMartin and Catherine Jackson. (Don't know where Catherine was born but probably in Quebec as well. Dugald was a carpenter. They moved to the Ottawa area in Ontario. Dugald is buried in our family plot at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. He died in 1926. Catherine is buried there too and died in 1916. Their son James is buried there as well. He died apparently of heart failure at the age of 16. As their first child was born in 1843, and that would make Mary Love about 38 when she gave birth for the first time and Donald 40, I wonder if this was a 2nd marriage for Donald???? The 1881? Census shows that these were Dugald & Catherine's children: Daniel MCLARTY Male Scottish 10 Q <Quebec> Weslyan Methodist John MCLARTY Male Scottish 9 O <Ontario> Weslyan Methodist James MCLARTY Male Scottish 5 O <Ontario> Weslyan Methodist Agnes MCLARTY Female Scottish 3 O <Ontario> Weslyan Methodist Source Information: Census Place Wellington Ward, Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario Family History Library Film 1375865 As Daniel was born in Quebec and John was born in Ontario, that means that they probably moved to Ontario from Quebec in about 1871. Agnes McLarty was my Mother's Mother. Also, because my Mother and Father were first cousins, I do get confused with the names. Agnes McLarty married Henry Kennedy Atkinson and they had 3 children. Catherine, Leslie and Agnes Gertrude (my Mother). My Mother married John Lamb MacLarty son of John McLarty (see above) and Jessie Lamb. Also, would like to find the year of emigration to Canada or any information regarding this. Can you be of any help here? I am going to Islay from British Columbia, Canada in September and would like to follow up. thanks so much Nancy MacLarty