William Abner MacAlpine (abt. 1882 - 1972)

Born about 1882 in Ontario, Canada

Husband of Myrtle May (Masters) MacAlpine — married 1909 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Died 1972 at about age 90 in Lambton County, Ontario

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Biography

William Mcalpine was born in 1882 in Ontario, son of Malcolm and Mary MacAlpine, and was with them in 1891 in Euphemia Township (now in Lambton County) and in 1901. He married Myrtle Masters. In 1916 and 1921 they were in Pibroch, Alberta, but by 1932 they were in Lambton County: Oakdale 1938, Florence 1953-1957, Alvinston 1962-1972. He was a farmer, retired by 1968. They had eleven children. He died in 1972 and was buried in Euphemia Township.

Note

See pedigree resource file at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LZPR-4BN for five generations of William's forebears.

Grandson Neil MacAlpine states, in May 2021: McAlpine was the family spelling for the McAlpines who immigrated from Scotland in 1818. Grandad Will changed the spelling to MacAlpine when he and Grandma Myrtle were homesteading at Westlock, AB. There are two stories on why he changed the spelling. One is that he met an Irishman who told him: "The Irish use Mc and the Scots use Mac". The other that Grandma told was that there was another William McAlpine near Westlock and they kept getting their mail mixed up. So Grandad took the Mac spelling. But there was other family that also spelled the name MacAlpine as the gravestones in Rickards cemetery attest. 

From Barbara Dimenna to Peterson-2111 2 May 2021: GENERATION 1 Alexander MacAlpine (1700's) married Catherine McInterand Lived in Argyllshire County, Scotland

GENERATION 2 Malcolm Daniel MacAlpine b. March 20, 1796 d.February 20, 1860 (while felling a tree) born in Tayvallich (North Knapdale Argyllshire)

• don't know of any other children

In 1818 married.... Wife: Marron Black (Marron is Gaelic for Sara)...(Marron is name used on head stone) b. March 8, 1797 d. September 20, 1858 m. 1818 (born Argyllshire and Bute, Scotland....died Euphemia, Lambton County, Ontario) shortly after they married Malcolm and Sara immigrated to Canada via New York City eventually landed in Port Glasgow, Ontario ...they moved to Euphemia township (East of Chatham, Ontario, Canada) They had 9 children (7 boys, 2 girls) Alexander, Archibald, Daniel, Malcolm, Sara, Kate, Joe, Peter, Duncan Alexander b. 1820 d. ? married: Rachel Rickard They had 7 children Mary, Thomas, Fred, Sara, John, Malcolm (Black Mac), Rachel Mary b. March 17, 1852 d. November 9, 1930 Malcolm b. March 17, 1852 d. August 11, 1941

Malcolm (1853-1941)...married....Mary Smith (1857-1927) ...THEY HAD 6 CHILDREN Maude, Angus, Annie, Rachel, William Abnor, Hattie

• Angus (1878 - 1953)
• William Abnor (September 28, 1882 - November 26, 1972 )

Around 1907 William Abnor worked in Chicago shoveling coal on railway engine, then..."Go West Young Man"....lured William to move to Edmonton where he worked in a livery, he met Myrtle who was working as a dressmaker, they married around 1909 in Edmonton then moved to Westlock (60 miles north of Edmonton to clear land ...(a program offered by the government)....

GENERATION 3 Generation 3 Alexander Archibald Daniel Malcolm Sara Kate Joe Peter Duncan (1820 - ?) Alexander m rachel Rickard (1820 - 1890)

GENERATION 4 Mary Thomas Fred Sara John Malcolm Rachel (1853 - 1941) Malcolm m Mary Smith (1857 - 1927)

GENERATION 5 Maude Angus Annie Rachel William Hattie (1882 - 1972) William Abner M in 1909 Lulu Myrtle May Masters (1891 - 1993)

GENERATION 6 Malcolm Mary Harriett Evan Myrtle Archie Ethel Barbara Glen Irene Murray [there may also be a daughter Sarah]

Sources

Ontario Census, Middlesex West (now Lambton) Count, Euphemia Township, 1891 (William Mcalpine)--Ancestry.com

Canada Census, Ontario, Lambton County, Bothwell, 1901, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KH2C-6Q4 (as Wm. A. Alpine)

Canada Census, Ontario, Middlesex West, Ekfrid Township, 1911, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L987-L9M9-L?i=123 (William is not in this record, but his parents and five siblings are; William not found in 1911)

1916 Census of Alberta, Edmonton West, Pibroch (William Mccalpine), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM5N-Y3N

1921 Census of Canada, Alberta, Edmonton West, Pibroch, https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1921&op=img&id=e002859171

FindAGrave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=134419162&ref=acom

Szarka Family Tree, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/25013834/person/5116147776

communications from Granddaughter Barbara DiMenna in April and May, 2021, to Peterson-2111, and via Barbara from her cousin Neil MacAlpine (quoted above)

Acknowledgments

Profile begun in 2015 by R.S. Peterson-2111, with additions from Granddaughter Barbara DiMenna in 2021.