Other (but no less
important) MacGregors
of Digby and Annapolis Counties,
Nova Scotia
(listed chronologically)
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Nathaniel MacGregor; born about 1810, died 19 February 1905 @ Digby (age 95).
George E. MacGregor; born 03 September 1841, died 26 January 1917.
Reverend William MacGregor; born 31 October, 1843 at Black River, Prince Edward Island. He was raised in Charlottetown. He studied at Andover-Newton Baptist Seminary near Boston and finished one year of studies there. He married Mary Louis Richardson of Lawrence Station, New Brunswick on 01 January, 1875.
Their children:
Arthur, Lavinia, Iva, Lucie, Earnest, and Pearl,
all born between 1879 - 1889.
William preached at several smaller churches, - in Ontario, - in Cumberland Bay, New Brunswick, - and finally in Barton, on St. Mary's Bay, Digby County.
William died at South Range, Digby County on 20 August, 1901 under rather odd circumstances on a train. One report had him dying of poison.
The
following is about Rev. William's 2nd marriage: Digby
Courier 9 June 1893
McGregor-Porter
- At
the Baptist parsonage Digby, on the 6th inst. by the Rev. A.T. Dykeman, Groom =
Rev. William McGregor - 49,
widower, clergyman, born: PEI,
residence: Barton, parents: John (farmer) & Elizabeth. Pastor of the
St. Mary's Bay Baptist church, to May Porter, of South Range, Digby Co. - 32,
spinster, born: South Range, residence: South Range, parents: Maynard &
Ruth.
Witnesses:
Edith U. Dykeman, Lindsey Dykeman.
John MacGregor (brother of Nathaniel) was born in 1850, died 1928 at home in Digby. He married Eveline Rice. They had five children:
1) Arthur K; born 1899, died 1963.
2) Elizabeth; born 11 Nov 1881, died 02 Jan 1952
age 70 @ Kentville, NS.
3) Ella; born 1883, died 04 Oct 1890 @ Digby age 7 years.
4) Addie Bell born 1884, died 1910.
5) Ivan Hugh born about 1896, died 1959.
(From 1901 census of Westport, Digby County, N. S.)
Reverend Peter Stewart MacGregor was born 14 May 1853 in South River Lake, Antigonish Co. N. S. to Baptist Rev. Donald MacGregor & nee Elizabeth Stewart, (later called Betsy) born 05 June 1859.
Bessie, Donald's wife, was born Elizabeth Maria Hatfield, in Tusket, Yarmouth Co. N. S. to Jacob Hatfield and Eleanor Jane MacKinnon (later called Jane).
Their children:
1) Judson, born 12 August
1883, in New Glasgow, Pictou Co, N. S.
2) Harold, born 31 Jan 1886,
3) Jeanette, born 05 Feb 1890,
later Mrs. Earl Woodbury of Lethbridge, Alberta.
4) George, born 10 May 1893.
Rev. Peter MacGregor's parents, Donald (born 1801) and Betsy were immigrants from Loch Rannoch, Perthshire, Scotland, arriving in Nova Scotia in 1832. Peter grew up speaking Gaelic, and was a direct descendent of Rob Roy MacGregor through Rob's oldest son, Ranald.
Note: A note of thanks to Jean Simon MacGregor for the above information on her paternal grandparents.
John MacGregor; married Roma Pearl Dorey; born about 1924 in New Cornwall, Lunenburg Co., the daughter of Daniel Dorey and Mary Alice, (nee Bruhm). Roma died 19 Jan 2000, aged 76 in Digby. She was a resident of Deep Brook and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bear River. By Jan 2000, they had five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Their children:
i. Valerie McGregor; married a Snow; of Bear
River, Anna. Co.
ii. Carol McGregor; married a Toope; of Western
Shore, Lunenburg Co.
iii. Davis McGregor; of Western Shore.
John McGregor; born about 1853 in Tremont, Anna Co., married 21 April 1878 at Springfield, Hannah M. Freeman; daughter of J. H. and S. J. Freeman.
Myrtle G. MacGregor born 1900, married Charles Murdoch MacLeod, died May 1983 (age 83) @ Digby.
Marion MacGregor, daughter of Roy MacGregor, born about 1947 in Digby, married Gregor Clinton Outhouse. Died 03 June 1996, (age 49) at Fort McMurray, Alberta.