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Willena “Lena Bill” MacCallum MacDonald

1903–1980

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Family around Willena “Lena Bill” MacCallum MacDonald · 5 generations · 9 of 154 people

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Delina / Dolina / Dollie McCallum Hooper

Delina / Dolina / Dollie McCallum Hooper

Dolina McCallum, also recorded as Delina or Dollie, married James Hooper in Pictou in July 1910. Her marriage describes her as twenty-four, born and resident on Pictou Island, and names Hugh and Flora as her parents. The existing family includes Leonard Victor, Roland Marr, Welsford Lewis and Elmer Douglas. Leonard’s marriage and death and Elmer’s marriage use Dolina with James or John James as their parent pair. Dolina was explicitly the wife informant on James’s 1956 death registration. Welsford’s mother is recorded as Dolly in his death entry and Delina in his marriage. Leonard’s marriage and death use John James and James for the same parental pair, supporting the paternal name variants. Welsford’s birth date and military-service chronology remain uncertain. The later records are not contemporary proof of the children’s birth dates. Dolina’s parents are further identified by Hugh McCollum and Flora McSwain’s 29 October 1884 marriage: Hugh was an Island-born farmer with parents Donald and Agnes; Flora was born at High Bank, with parents Murdoch and Jessie. Cora Jane’s marriage and death name the same parental household, supporting Dolina and Cora as sisters. Flora’s later death record has a MacShaw surname reading and a 15/16 February 1939 death-date conflict, which remain separate source qualifications. The original 1921 household records June, daughter aged two, and Welsford, son aged nine months; the index renders these names as Lorne and Weloford. June’s delayed birth application and 1945 marriage identify June Elaine with the James/John James and Dolina/Delina parent pair. Welsford’s nine-month age in the 1921 census cannot be reconciled with the later reported 11 September 1921 birth date without a contemporary natal source.

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