Can anyone help me find my Great + 3 Grandmother and Grandfather

[Haydon58]

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.

[Girl Guide]

When did Emily move to London with her parents?

This seems to be her marriage record

Marriages Jun 1898   
Allar    Henry        Fulham    1a   548   
Fletcher    Emily Mary        Fulham    1a   548

I'm not clear as to what you wish to find out.

[crisane]

Emily is with her parents and sister Henrietta in the UK 1881 census. This is her birth record.
Emily Mary Fletcher
Birth 6 May 1875 at York, Ontario, Canada
Father - Henry Kossuth Fletcher
Mother - Mary Macdonald

Are you are looking to go back beyond Mary No'lin? and Donald McDonald?

[Haydon58]

Thanks for replying. Yes I am looking to go back to Marcella Nolin and Donald McDonald but I don’t know where I should be looking.

[crisane]

Just to get our bearings, 1st Concession of Kenyon appears to refer to Kenyon Concession Rd 1. There are also Roads no  5,  4, 8 with what appear to be suburbs of Alexandria, South Glengarry, Nth Glengarry etc.
I have been looking at the 1851 Canada census on ancestry.com and am overwhelmed with all the McDonalds living in Kenyon alone but haven't come across a Marcella McDonald so can't tie them in to your Mary McDonald baptised 1844.

[amondg]

Schedule of marriages Toronto Canada
11 October 1872
Henry Fletcher age 23 waiter born England parents John & Elizabeth Fletcher. (C of E)
to
Mary McDonnell 24 born Glengarry Ontario daughter of Donald & Merciline McDonnell  (R.C.)

Witness are George McDonald and Joseph Fletcher

The bride's name is clearly McDonnell and so are her parents when she married.

[wivenhoe]

Is this your family?

Census 1901  at 105 Southgate Rd Islngton    (Ancestry)
ALLAR Henry          42y     silver stick mounter        b. Shoreditch London
ALLAR Emily           45y     wife                              b. Toronto Canada
ALLAR Henry          20y     son silver stick mounter  b. Shoreditch London
ALLAR Jane            15y     dau                               b. Shoreditch London
ALLAR Eva               2y     dau                                b. Hackney London
FLETCHER Mary      50y    boarder widow laundress  b. Toronto Canada
 

[garstonite]

so is No'lin a French name ?
I have found No'lin in Lorraine ,France in 1800's

[Haydon58]

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?