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(lseabail
Dhomhnaill Bhain) Decided, in 1873 to join her brothers
and sisters near Lake Megantic in Quebec Province,
her husband, Donald Buidhe, having died two years
previously. All her children, except Murdo, went with
her. They were:
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1. Donald Mor Buidhe and his wife, Kate Macleod,
Ceit Saighdear, (20). The children were: John, Donald,
Murdo D; other three were born in Canada, Kenneth, Margaret
and Donald Beag
2. Donald Beag Buidhe or Donald Cuagach Buidhe,
as he was also called, and his wife Isabella Murray, lseabail
Og. Her mother had been married to a Norman Murray, Ness,
but on her husband's death by falling off a load of herring
nets five months before her baby was born, her mother
returned to her father's house (John Smith, lan Og, Tolsta's
first elder) at No. 24, and there lseabail was born and
reared.
Her mother later married, as his second wife, Donald ban
Maciver, (32). Six children were born to Donald and Iseabail
in Canada. They were: Danny, Norman, Anne, Katie, Harry
and Helen
3. Christina was married to Donald Murray, Domhnall
Beag Choinnich, (27), as already mentioned. All their
children were born in Tolsta. They lost five boys with
typhus, before emigrating, two at one time; three were
buried the same day.
They had four girls Christina, Effie, Kennina and Margaret.
Christina was married twice, first to Donald Mackay, and
secondly, to a William Macleod; Effie married her cousin,
Kenneth Macdonald; Kennina died at eighteen in Massachusetts;
Margaret married Alexander Nicolson, whose parents were
among the early emigrants from Tolsta in 1852.
They had three girls, Christy Bell, Dolina, Catherine
and a boy, Murray, who spent three years in a prisoner
of war camp in Japan
4. John was a widower when he left Tolsta with
his four children, Annie, Katie, Mary and Norman.
He married thrice in Canada, the last time to a spinster
named Macrae, who had a vile temper.
She finally set fire to their house, after making sure
that all her own belongings had been removed to a place
of safety
5. Margaret (Peigi) married a farmer near Milan,
Quebec. She died young and childless
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