Continuing on Eugene's comments:
The Birth Records at Baddeck, Victoria Co. for Samuel (1866), and Norman (1867) gives parents as Malcolm and Ellen Beaton.
The Birth Records at Baddeck, Victoria Co. for Catherine (1868), Ann (1870), Jessie (1872), Samuel (1874), Ronald (1876), all give parents as Malcolm Beaton and Ellen McDonald.
There is also a Birth Record at Baddeck for a Samuel Norman (1876) who is the son of an Angus Beaton and Isabella McDonald.
In 1861 there is a Samuel Beaton (Ellen's father-in-law?) at Baddeck: http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1861/jpg/4108903_00103.jpg