Catherine MacDougall (1832 - bef. 1901)

Born 29 Oct 1832 in Lot 13, Prince, Prince Edward Island

Ancestors

Died before 1901 before age 68 in Prince Edward Island, Canada [uncertain]

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Biography

Catherine was born in 1832. She was the daughter of Alexander MacDougall and Ann McLean. ^[1] It is assumed that she died before 1901.

Catherine was probably the young woman in the 1861 census with her parents.

In 1863, Duncan's widowed mother and brothers and sisters living on the Island signed an agreement where Duncan would provide support for their mother, unmarried sister Catherine, and Alexander McDougall Jr, in return for them not making a claim on the land owned by their father, 100 acres in Lot 12. In addition to Duncan, those named were married daughters Nancy Dyment and Elizabeth Dyment, daughter Catherine, and sons Peter, Charles, James, Alexander Jr., and Hector. Alexander was described as being under 21, and living with their mother. This Alexander is probably Elizabeth's son, born before her marriage to Charles Dyment. ^[2]

Research Notes

There were a number of Catherine McDougalls in the PEI Marriage Registers who can be eliminated on the basis of location, religion, or date.

If her mother had been born around 1783, then Catherine would probably have been their youngest child.

A possibility is that Catherine never married, but had a daughter Eliza, the Eliza McDougall who married Daniel Hutchinson. Eliza's death record did not have the name of her father. Catherine was not with Daniel and Eliza in 1881.

A Catherine McDougall age 56 is in the 1891 census with Daniel and Eliza. Her father was born PEI, and her mother in Scotland. The Hutchinson household was next to the family of Duncan McDougall.^[3]

This Catherine was not in the 1901 census with Daniel and Eliza.

Another possibility is that Catherine, mother of Eliza, was the widow of Archibald McDougall, Alexander's son who predeceased him.

Sources

1. ↑ "Canada, Prince Edward Island Baptism Card Index, 1721-1885," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCXF-R2D : 8 March 2021), Catharine Mcdougald, 27 Jan 1833; citing p. 101, volume 1, Richmond , Prince Edward Island, Public Archives, Charlottetown; FHL microfilm 1,487,762.
2. ↑ Prince Edward Island Land Registry, Land Conveyance Dated 28th September 1863, Ann McDougall Widow and others to Duncan McDougall, Agreement, Registered 14th March 1873
3. ↑ Year: 1891; Census Place: Lot 12, Prince, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Roll: T-6383; Family No: 30; Source Information Ancestry.com. 1891 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.

• PEI Baptismal Index, PEI PARO Collections Database
• Duncan McDougall petitioned the courts to administer the estate of his father, Alexander McDougall of Lot 12. PEI Probate, Estate file McD-171.