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Thank you so much for your help. I think Nolin is French too. I have been coming to a brick wall time and time again.
What I do find interesting is I believe Marcella and Donald were Catholic and therefore their daughter Mary was probably baptised Catholic, but Mary’s daughter Emily married a Huguenot descendant and Mary and Emily became Protestant.
I would love to find out more about them as my Grandmother ( Emily’s daughter) would tell me that her Great Great Grandfather was killed by a bear in Canada, it could be just hearsay but who knows.

Hi thankyou everyone you have got the right Allar’s, but I am really stuck on how to find Marcella Nolin and Donald McDonald, as there are lots of McDonalds in the Ontario records do you think by cutting it down to the Donald McDonald would there be less with that name?

Hello I have hit a brick wall. All I have is a typed copy of a Certificate of Birth and Baptism, dated 27th May 1844, was baptised Mary born the 26th instant of the legitimate marriage of Donald McDonald and Marcella No’lin the1st. Concession of Kenyon.
Sponsors: Angus Williams and Mrs. Catherine. Signed J. McDonald, Priest. Place of Baptism St Finnan’s Cathedral, Alexandria, Ontario.
I don’t know where to start! My Great +2 Grandmother who’s Baptism it was, married to a Henry Fletcher and their daughter Emily Mary was born in Toronto and moved to London with her parents and married Henry E  Allar a Huguenot descendant.

Where did you get the original info from?

Hello, thankyou for replying. I got the information from family members, including my mother who is the Granddaughter of Matthew Philipson Junior. She also has a photo of them with banners on a march with about a dozen others.