Also recorded as Janet McDonald
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Island story
Janet MacDonald is commemorated with Hector MacDonald at R8-006 in Pioneer Cemetery, where the memorial records 1871–1938. PIHS’s accepted family reconstruction identifies her with Janet/Jessie E. MacCallum MacDonald, Hector’s wife. William Creighton “Bill Cole” MacDonald’s delayed birth and 1922 marriage explicitly name his mother as Janet McCallum and father as Hector MacDonald. Janetta May MacDonald Volpe is also linked as their daughter in the existing family network. Janet and Jessie spellings remain recorded as source variants; no additional namesake or descendant is inferred. In the 1921 household headed by Hector, Dorothy and Ralph are recorded as his granddaughter and grandson; the 1931 household again records them as grandchildren. Their immediate parents have not been identified. The records identify their place in Hector’s household but do not identify the intervening parent generation.
Family connections
- Spouse of: Hector MacDonald
- Parent of: Janetta May MacDonald Volpe
- Parent of: William C. “Bill Cole” MacDonald
Places & memorials
- Pictou Island
Pioneer Cemetery memorial
The memorial establishes a family or commemorative relationship. It does not by itself prove burial or interment at this location.
Open memorial and photographsMemorial record details
R8-006 · NovaStory 3448
Record reference: R8-006 · NovaStory 3448
Related PIHS history
Sources and photo credits
- NovaStory R8-006
- William Creighton MacDonald delayed birth — https://archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/birth/?ID=136434
- William Creighton McDonald / Willena Belle McCallum marriage, 27 July 1922 — https://archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/marriage/?ID=178434
- Ruth Munro, Pictou Island (1984), household group21
- 1921 Pictou Island original census, p.5, lines 33–34, family 45
- 1931 Pictou Island original census, p.5, family 39