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Jack Rankin
c.1882/83–?
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John Alexander ‘Jack’ Rankin was a Pictou Island farmer whose household is unusually well represented in the surviving family record. Nova Scotia’s marriage register records John Rankin marrying Mary MacDonald at Pictou on 21 November 1910. The 1931 Pictou Island census index records John Rankin, age forty-eight, and Mary Rankin, age thirty-eight. Ruth Munro’s Island family list identifies Jack as a farmer and records their family, while the Rankin photographic collection repeatedly identifies Jack and Mary and their homestead. Family review identifies a general store building beside the homestead and a separate grain-storage building. PIHS interpretation also preserves the family account that Jack and Mary developed their home around the time of their marriage. These photographs and records make Jack’s biography a story of farming, household enterprise and family continuity rather than a gravestone-derived profile. Laura Catherine’s original delayed birth registration reports her birth on Pictou Island on 7 September 1911 and explicitly names John Alexander Rankin and Mary Munn MacDonald as her parents. Dolina Agnes’s delayed birth registration names the same parents in its account of a 1913 Island birth. Its main form and affidavit differ on 16/10 May, so the precise day remains qualified. The natal records support these daughter relationships; Laura’s and Dolina’s later married identities require their own evidence.
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- Pictou Island Rankin homestead/farm Biographical association; consult sources for dates and extent.
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- Nova Scotia marriage registration 1910 book 1833 p.58 no.187; 1931 Pictou Island census index; Ruth Munro family list; PIHS Rankin family photograph identifications; current PIHS When the Island Was Full
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Contribute evidence or a correction →Census households · 1911
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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Ann Rankin — 1901 family 9 head
Ann Rankin — 1901 family 9 head
The 1901 Pictou Island census identifies Ann Rankin as head of family 9. The census identifies Neil Rankin as her son, while his father's identity remains unresolved.
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Catherine Kate Ann Rankin
Catherine Kate Ann Rankin
Child of Duncan Rankin. Child of Ann Rankin — 1901 family 9 head. This family entry preserves the relationships reported by the sources below; further life details have not been established.
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George Duncan Rankin — Duncan/Annie son
George Duncan Rankin — Duncan/Annie son
Child of Duncan Rankin. Child of Ann Rankin — 1901 family 9 head. This family entry preserves the relationships reported by the sources below; further life details have not been established.
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- Ann Rankin — 1901 family 9 head → parent of Neil Rankin
- Jack Rankin → parent of Vernon “Vernie” Rankin
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- Jack Rankin ↔ spouse of Mary (MacDonald) Rankin
- Duncan Rankin ↔ spouse of Ann Rankin — 1901 family 9 head
- Duncan Rankin → parent of Lauchlin Rankin
- Ann Rankin — 1901 family 9 head → parent of Lauchlin Rankin
- Duncan Rankin → parent of Neil Rankin
- Duncan Rankin → parent of Jack Rankin
- Ann Rankin — 1901 family 9 head → parent of Jack Rankin
- Duncan Rankin → parent of Catherine Kate Ann Rankin
- Ann Rankin — 1901 family 9 head → parent of Catherine Kate Ann Rankin
- Duncan Rankin → parent of George Duncan Rankin — Duncan/Annie son
- Ann Rankin — 1901 family 9 head → parent of George Duncan Rankin — Duncan/Annie son
- Jack Rankin → parent of Florence (Rankin) MacKeil
- George Duncan Rankin — Duncan/Annie son ↔ sibling of Catherine Kate Ann Rankin
- George Duncan Rankin — Duncan/Annie son ↔ sibling of Lauchlin Rankin
- George Duncan Rankin — Duncan/Annie son ↔ sibling of Neil Rankin
- George Duncan Rankin — Duncan/Annie son ↔ sibling of Jack Rankin
- Catherine Kate Ann Rankin ↔ sibling of Lauchlin Rankin
- Catherine Kate Ann Rankin ↔ sibling of Neil Rankin
- Catherine Kate Ann Rankin ↔ sibling of Jack Rankin
- Lauchlin Rankin ↔ sibling of Neil Rankin
- Lauchlin Rankin ↔ sibling of Jack Rankin
- Neil Rankin ↔ sibling of Jack Rankin
- Florence (Rankin) MacKeil ↔ sibling of Vernon “Vernie” Rankin
- Mary (MacDonald) Rankin → parent of Vernon “Vernie” Rankin
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