Livingston(e) of Livingstone Cove, Antigonish

[Throth]

Is that the Dougald Livingstone who had the following children: Mary McEachern, Catherine, Ann, Janet, Sarah, John and Malcolm?

All of these families must be related and be descendants of the 1791 Malcolm and Mary

[Jacquie in Canada]

Is that the Dougald Livingstone who had the following children: Mary McEachern, Catherine, Ann, Janet, Sarah, John and Malcolm?

All of these families must be related and be descendants of the 1791 Malcolm and Mary

Those were the names for Dougald's children in the book but I'm now confused as to the 1791 Malcolm and Mary. Are they mentioned in the book? I see "Malcolm Livingstone, married to Kate MacPhee, had issue: Duncan, married to Christina Robertson..." but I don't see a Malcolm married to a Mary listed.

And I thought some of my lines were convoluted. 

Jacquie

[Jacquie in Canada]

The entry in "A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada before Confederation" by Donald Whyte for 1791 Malcolm says:

LIVINGSTON, Malcolm, d <1814. From ARL. To NS, 1791; loc prob at Antigonish Bay. Petitioned for land at Cape George, 1809. wid again petitioned, 1814, when she had ch: 1. John; 2. Angus; 3. Duncan; 4. Allan; 5. Colin.

The Antigonish book didn't mention Malcolm having a son named Colin.

Jacquie

[Throth]

Perhaps there is a transcription error but Mary Livingstone in Morristown (where is that?) is given as the mother of a list of children that appear to be those of Malcolm Livingston(e).  Is this a second wife?

Antigonish Wills: Book B, 1843 – 1867 Transcribed by Marleen MacDonald-Hubley 2010

 WILL#     DATE     NAME     LOCATION     SPOUSE    CHILDREN     DETAILS

P. 56
Will: Dec. 04, 1825;  Mary Livingstone;   Morristown; Allan, Duncan, Angus, Colin, Christiana, deceased son John (no details)

There are wills relating to other Livingstones

[Jacquie in Canada]

Perhaps there is a transcription error but Mary Livingstone in Morristown (where is that?) is given as the mother of a list of children that appear to be those of Malcolm Livingston(e).  Is this a second wife?

Antigonish Wills: Book B, 1843 – 1867 Transcribed by Marleen MacDonald-Hubley 2010

 WILL#     DATE     NAME     LOCATION     SPOUSE    CHILDREN     DETAILS

P. 56
Will: Dec. 04, 1825;  Mary Livingstone;   Morristown; Allan, Duncan, Angus, Colin, Christiana, deceased son John (no details)

There are wills relating to other Livingstones

I would tend to believe the error is in the book.

That Will does seem to be the correct person. I see that it indicates that Mary was "late from Cape George" and the widow of Malcolm Livingstone. All of the children listed for Malcolm in the Donald Whyte book entry would seem to indicate she was the wife who came to Canada with him. In case you haven't seen it, the actual Will is online at the Family Search site:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jwe/

Jacquie

[Throth]

Thanks for the link.  We have very limited experience of the Canadian records, much happier working on Scottish records, so we were wondering if the wills were available on-line.  Now we know. Many thanks again.

In some ways this is just curiosity (or a distraction?), as our interest only starts at Malcolm's son Duncan, but it seems to open a whole can of worms for some Livingstone family histories.  The coincidences are too great to make one believe that these are two separate families.

Did the families own land both at Cape George and Morristown?

Where does Kate McPhee fit in?

The early tax returns apparently show a Malcolm Livingstone Snr. and a Malcolm Livingstone Jnr., the latter being the 1791 emigrant, and there has been a discussion as to whether they were father and son.  Certainly in our Blair Atholl Old Parish Registers the use of such terms terms usually means that two men of identical names were living in the same settlement, but we are dealing with 80% of the population having only 4 different surnames (Robertson, Stewart, McIntosh, McDonald)