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Bertha A. MacLean
1914–1953
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Bertha A. MacLean, commemorated at Pioneer Cemetery memorial R4-005 as 1914–1953, was Bertha Alexandra Rankin before her marriage. Her original marriage registration records her marriage to Howard Wallace MacLean at Pictou on 26 July 1934. Both were Island-born and resident there; Bertha was twenty and Howard, a fisherman, twenty-eight. Her parents are named as George Rankin and Christina Whiteway. Her 1953 death registration independently names her husband Howard, father George D. Rankin and mother Christena Whiteway, supporting the existing Rankin family identity. Christina and Christena are retained as source variants. The death record reports a February 1914 birth, but the overwritten day remains uncertain and is not calculated from her age. It records burial on Pictou Island on 26 December 1953 without identifying an exact plot. Doris Anne (MacLean) MacDonald’s 2022 family obituary names Howard and Bertha (Rankin) MacLean as her Island parents, corroborating the family setting already recorded for Alfred H. MacLean. Doris’s later work at Magee’s Pea Factory and Hamilton’s Biscuit Factory followed her departure from the Island; those jobs are part of an off-Island working life and do not locate either factory on Pictou Island.
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George D. Rankin & Christena G. Whiteway Rankin
Selected person’s details ↑Family around Bertha A. MacLean · 3 generations · 7 of 11 people
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Howard MacLean — Alfred father
Howard MacLean — Alfred father
Howard Wallace MacLean’s 26 July 1934 marriage to Bertha Alexandra Rankin records both as Island-born and resident there, with Howard a fisherman aged twenty-eight. Bertha’s 1953 death return names her husband Howard; the existing Alfred obituary and Doris Anne MacDonald’s 2022 family obituary identify Howard and Bertha (Rankin) as parents. The marriage and family notices connect Howard and Bertha with Alfred and Doris. Doris’s pea- and biscuit-factory jobs were off Island.
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- George D. Rankin ↔ spouse of Christena G. Whiteway Rankin
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- George D. Rankin → parent of Ellwood Rankin
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- Christena G. Whiteway Rankin → parent of Ellwood Rankin
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- George D. Rankin → parent of Bertha A. MacLean
- Christena G. Whiteway Rankin → parent of Bertha A. MacLean
- Howard MacLean — Alfred father → parent of Alfred H. MacLean
- Bertha A. MacLean → parent of Alfred H. MacLean
- George D. Rankin → parent of Robert D. Rankin
- Christena G. Whiteway Rankin → parent of Robert D. Rankin
- Robert D. Rankin ↔ sibling of Bertha A. MacLean
- Robert D. Rankin ↔ sibling of Ellwood Rankin
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- Bertha A. MacLean ↔ sibling of Ellwood Rankin
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- Howard MacLean — Alfred father ↔ spouse of Bertha A. MacLean