I know it's not grammatically correct, but the (s) is meant to indicate more than one Donald Gunn at the Selkirk Settlement, Manitoba. I have as his wife only Janet and that she died c 1814, Canada. The source of much of my information stems from a newspaper interview of 1906 given by the above Donald's very elderly grandson living in Elgin Co. Facts nearly a hundred years old were related to in that interview with D A Gunn, information that I now suspect was only as accurate as the memories of the people who handed the tales down from one generation to another. That newspaper account said Donald and Janet Gunn were the parents of 9 children, William being the eldest and who refused to take his turn in the British military and may have been a contributing factor in the Gunn's decision to leave Scotland. A younger brother, Alex or Alec, stepped in and took William's place. Angus was already a young married man; Benjamin came out to Manitoba with the Hudson's Bay Co.; Katherine Gunn died at Ft. Churchill upon the Prince of Wales putting in there to put sick passengers and sailors off the ship and George. There are 11 children in total who could be Donald and Janet's children found in the IGI records: including those already named, Esther, Margaret, Christian and Helen. I never considered Robert Gunn the piper from the ship's passenger list their child, or his sister Mary, because of their reputed Irish birth. I haven't had time to check my sources yet for where I found that information.But in light of Rena's information about the Robert Gunn who died at the RR Settlement, I will have to take another look at that; one more possible son, Donald. I have as Angus' wife, Janet Matheson; Benjamin Gunn' wife Eliza Currie; George' #1Jane ____, #2Margaret also unkown; Christian/Christina mar Charles McBeath. Some of the birthdates I have, I now think must be christening dates and that the children may've been older than infants and toddlers at the time. How common might it have been in the Highlands of the late 1700s and early 1800s to baptize children of some age? I have no record beyond his name and placement in the family, of William Gunn nor any military records of Alec/Alex who was probably Alexander. Some day when I have more time, I will transcribe the 1906 newspaper interview for the list if it will help anyone track a relative -- and if you'd like me to do it Joan Wilton