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Adeline “Dollie” MacFarlane MacDonald
1868–1950
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Adeline “Dollie” MacFarlane married Angus Hector “Happy Angus” MacDonald and became part of one of Pictou Island’s best-documented later family networks. Ruth Munro’s family material and PIHS family research link their household to children including John Alexander “Jack Happy” MacDonald and Andrew “Happy” MacDonald. Adeline is commemorated with Angus at R9-006, where the memorial preserves her MacFarlane maiden surname. The 1921 manuscript places a son John, aged about twenty-four, and a son with a Lauchie/Lauchlin-like name, aged about twenty-six, in the household. The indexed Ester/Landon forms do not faithfully represent those readings. John’s comparison with the later Jack Happy biography retains the separate 1896/1898 birth-year question. The later identity and conflicting birth year remain uncertain; no connection with the Quincy Lauchie household has been established.
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- 1921 Pictou Island census, original p.1, lines 29–30
- Nova Scotia delayed birth 136614 (identity and date comparison only)
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195 enumerated residents in 37 original census family units. These are source households, not inferred genealogical branches or street addresses. Cancelled entries are excluded; source spellings and recorded ages are retained.
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Kenneth McKenzie (1812–1883) & Annie McDonald McKenzie
Selected person’s details ↑Family around Adeline “Dollie” MacFarlane MacDonald · 4 generations · 5 of 27 people
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- Angus H. “Happy Angus” MacDonald ↔ spouse of Adeline “Dollie” MacFarlane MacDonald
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- Angus H. “Happy Angus” MacDonald → parent of John Alexander “Jack Happy” MacDonald
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- Adeline “Dollie” MacFarlane MacDonald → parent of John Alexander “Jack Happy” MacDonald
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- Angus H. “Happy Angus” MacDonald → parent of Robert MacDonald (son of Happy Angus and Dollie)
- Adeline “Dollie” MacFarlane MacDonald → parent of Robert MacDonald (son of Happy Angus and Dollie)
- Angus H. “Happy Angus” MacDonald → parent of James Duncan MacDonald
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- Adeline “Dollie” MacFarlane MacDonald → parent of James Duncan MacDonald
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- Robert MacDonald (son of Happy Angus and Dollie) ↔ sibling of John Alexander “Jack Happy” MacDonald
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