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Allan MacFarlane
1874–1941
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Allan MacFarlane and his wife Annie Wilkins MacCallum formed part of a large twentieth-century Pictou Island farm family. The 1931 census records Allan, age fifty-six, as a farmer operating a general farm and places him at the head of a household that included Annie and children John, Bert, Allena, Susan, Hugh, Wilma, Thelma and Helen. The same census evidence records sons John, Bert and Hugh working on their father’s farm, showing the household nature of Island agriculture. Their Pioneer Cemetery family monument at R9-017 commemorates Allan and Annie with Smith A. and Helen S. MacFarlane, while nearby R9-016 continues the family story through daughter Allena Mae Robertson and grandson James William Robertson. His contemporary birth registration records 18 December 1874 on Pictou Island and names John McFarlane and Nancy McCallum as his parents. His marriage to Annie Wilkins McCallum is recorded at Pictou on 21 July 1905, with parents John and Annie; his death registration records 2 August 1941 on the Island, the same birthday, parents John MacFarlane and Annie MacCallum, and his deceased wife Annie MacCallum. Nancy and Annie remain source-specific name variants. The marriage age of 28 conflicts with the contemporary birth year and is retained as reported. The death certificate’s Island burial entry does not establish an exact grave location.
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- Nova Scotia Archives birth registration, ID 87765: https://archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/birth/?ID=87765
- Nova Scotia Archives marriage registration, ID 119328: https://archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/marriage/?ID=119328
- Nova Scotia Archives death registration, ID 314277: https://archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/death/?ID=314277
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Daniel MacCallum & Susanna Robertson MacCallum
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Jessie Ann MacFarlane
Jessie Ann MacFarlane
Jessie Ann MacFarlane is recorded as a daughter of Allan MacFarlane and Annie W. MacCallum in a retrospective duplicate birth return reporting birth on Pictou Island on 26 September 1909. Allan was described as an Island-born farmer; the return was made in July 1928. Although filed under a 1913 registration sequence, it does not report a 1913 birth. The entry is stamped duplicate and cross-refers to a separate delayed registration. This later return supports the existing Allan–Annie family connection while preserving the distinction between the reported birth date and the registration history.
Wilma Kathlyn MacFarlane
Wilma Kathlyn MacFarlane
Wilma Kathlyn MacFarlane’s delayed application, filed in August 1985, reports her birth on Pictou Island on 5 April 1921 to Allan MacFarlane and Annie MacCallum. Its applicant, Susan D. MacAuley, explicitly describes herself as Wilma’s sister. Wilma married Dennis Newton at St James Rectory, Pictou, on 27 April 1944. The original marriage identifies her as an Island-born and resident housekeeper, with the same parents; its registration number 125575 exactly matches the marriage cited in the delayed birth application. Dennis was a soldier, a private. The marriage gives Wilma’s age as twenty-two, whereas the later reported birth date would make her twenty-three; both statements are retained. Attached census and National Registration search reports are later extracts. A later search report’s Newton surname is not evidence that she was already married in 1940.
Susan Danella MacFarlane / MacAuley
Susan Danella MacFarlane / MacAuley
Susan Danella MacFarlane was born on Pictou Island on 7 December 1915, according to her contemporary birth return, which names Allan McFarlane, an Island-born farmer, and Annie Wilkins McCallum as her parents. She married Charles E. Peter MacAulay in Pictou on 11 October 1945. The marriage describes her as twenty-nine, born and resident on the Island, with the same parents; Charles, thirty-five, was a Canadian Army sergeant born in Cape Breton and resident in Pictou. Susan D. MacAuley is explicitly named as a sister in Wilma’s and Hugh’s delayed birth applications. The parent pair, names and chronology support Susan’s adult MacAulay/MacAuley comparison; the spellings are retained as source variants. The wedding witnesses are not assigned kinship merely from their names.
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- Annie Wilkins MacCallum MacFarlane ↔ spouse of Allan MacFarlane
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- Allan MacFarlane → parent of Jessie Ann MacFarlane
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- Annie Wilkins MacCallum MacFarlane → parent of Jessie Ann MacFarlane
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- Allan MacFarlane → parent of Allena Mae Robertson
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- Annie Wilkins MacCallum MacFarlane → parent of Allena Mae Robertson
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- Allan MacFarlane → parent of Wilma Kathlyn MacFarlane
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- Annie Wilkins MacCallum MacFarlane → parent of Wilma Kathlyn MacFarlane
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- Wilma Kathlyn MacFarlane ↔ sibling of Susan Danella MacFarlane / MacAuley
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- Allan MacFarlane → parent of Smith Anderson MacFarlane
- Annie Wilkins MacCallum MacFarlane → parent of Smith Anderson MacFarlane
- Allan MacFarlane → parent of Helen Sutherland MacFarlane
- Annie Wilkins MacCallum MacFarlane → parent of Helen Sutherland MacFarlane
- Jessie Ann MacFarlane ↔ sibling of Allena Mae Robertson
- Jessie Ann MacFarlane ↔ sibling of Wilma Kathlyn MacFarlane
- Jessie Ann MacFarlane ↔ sibling of Smith Anderson MacFarlane
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- Jessie Ann MacFarlane ↔ sibling of Helen Sutherland MacFarlane
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- Allena Mae Robertson ↔ sibling of Wilma Kathlyn MacFarlane
- Allena Mae Robertson ↔ sibling of Smith Anderson MacFarlane
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- Allena Mae Robertson ↔ sibling of Helen Sutherland MacFarlane
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- Wilma Kathlyn MacFarlane ↔ sibling of Smith Anderson MacFarlane
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- Wilma Kathlyn MacFarlane ↔ sibling of Helen Sutherland MacFarlane
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- Smith Anderson MacFarlane ↔ sibling of Helen Sutherland MacFarlane
- Allan MacFarlane → parent of Susan Danella MacFarlane / MacAuley
- Annie Wilkins MacCallum MacFarlane → parent of Susan Danella MacFarlane / MacAuley
- Jessie Ann MacFarlane ↔ sibling of Susan Danella MacFarlane / MacAuley
- Allena Mae Robertson ↔ sibling of Susan Danella MacFarlane / MacAuley
- Susan Danella MacFarlane / MacAuley ↔ sibling of Smith Anderson MacFarlane
- Susan Danella MacFarlane / MacAuley ↔ sibling of Helen Sutherland MacFarlane