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Flora MacSwain MacCallum is commemorated at R2-016 with Hugh MacCallum and their son William. Her 29 October 1884 marriage records her as twenty, born and resident at High Bank, Prince Edward Island, with parents Murdoch and Jessie. The 1901 census records her as Hugh’s wife in Island family 14. Cora Jane’s death registration names her mother Flora MacSwain of High Bank, and Willena’s marriage uses Flora McSwain. Flora’s own 1939 death registration describes her as Hugh’s widow, a housewife born in Prince Edward Island and resident on Pictou Island, who died in Pictou. It reports a birth date of 3 February 1864, differing from the memorial’s 1863 year. Its father’s surname is written MacShaw with given name Murdoch, and its mother’s maiden name is Jessie MacKenzie; the MacShaw reading is retained alongside the other records’ McSwain/MacSwain forms. The index gives death on 15 February 1939, while the medical field reads 16 February; that discrepancy remains unresolved. Burial on Pictou Island is recorded on 17 February without a cemetery or plot. The nurse informant’s stated relationship was nurse, and is not evidence of family kinship.

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Pioneer · R2-016 · NovaStory 3406

The memorial establishes a family or commemorative relationship. It does not by itself prove burial or interment at this location.

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Pictou Island Biographical association; consult sources for dates and extent.
Pioneer Cemetery Biographical association; consult sources for dates and extent.

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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.

Flora MacSwain MacCallum

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Census households · 1911

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Daniel MacCallum & Susanna Robertson MacCallum

Delina / Dolina / Dollie McCallum Hooper