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Hugh McKinnon, s/o Gregor McKinnon, lived in Glenelg Parish. Northumberland County, New Brunswick. His wife is said to have been Jane Forsyth, d/o Robert and Jane (Martin) Forsyth; but she is generally omitted in Forsyth genealogies. McKinnon genealogies seem to generally overlook Jane McKinnon b. ca. 1833 who appears with John and Margaret McKinnon in the 1851 census. Why she should have been overlooked, and why the obvious suspicion that she was Hugh and Jane's daughter seems to have escaped diligent searchers is not clear to me. Even if the connection was not clear, surely her presence should have been noted. This once more warns us of relying on the findings and conclusions of others.
The following is a brief form of a two-day search. The results make unescaple the conclusions that Jane McKinnon was Hugh's daughter; and that her mother was a d/o Robert Forsyth. Also, she married her maternal 1st cousin, Robert Russsell. Basically:
JANE McKINNON b. ca. 1833, m. the Manse, Chatham, Chatham Parish, Northumberland Co., NB by the Rev. Wm. Stewart 8APR1852 ROBERT RUSSELL (b. ca. 1825), s/o Francis and Ann Russell.
As noted above, Jane McKinnon b. ca. 1833 appears with John McDonald (b. ca. 1814) and his wife, Margaret (b. ca. 1823) in the 1851 census of Glenelg Parish, Northumberland Co., NB. The eldest son of John and Margaret is Francis McDonald (b. ca. 1842), suggesting they were married ca. 1840. As it turns out, Francis’ forename suggests more than that.
Jane is given, in 1851, as a cousin to John and Margaret McDonald. An attempt to find a McKinnon-McDonald kinship was fruitless. Turning to the possibility that Jane and Margaret were cousins, a marriage worth noting is that of John McDonald at Point aux Car, by A. Goodfellow, Esq. 6JAN1840 to Margaret Russell, eldest d/o F. Russell, all of Glenelg Parish. The timing and the fact that Jane’s cousins are the only John and Margaret McDonald in Glenelg Parish in 1851 suggest they are the same persons.
F. Russell, Margaret’s father, lives very close in 1851 (one page of the census returns), and is Francis Russell b. NB ca. 1790, with a wife, Ann (b. NB ca. 1793) and a son, Robert (b. ca. 1825.) there is also a Francis R. Taylor b. ca, 1843, likely a grandson, and suggesting at least one older, married daughter. Robert Taylor would also be the same who m. Jane McKinnon. Thus, while the 1851 census seems to anticipate a bit, Jane and Margaret (Russell) McDonald will soon be related a sisters-in-law.
It should be noted that mentions of Hardwick Parish, where Hugh’s mother died, are not inconsistent as Hardwick was set off from Glenelg Parish in 1851, just after the census. Thus a change of ‘place‘ does not mean an actual movement of persons. Also, John McDonald, one of the first families listed in 1851, seems to have lived near a boundary of the Parish. Thus, when a newspaper notes Jane’s marriage as:
“m. Manse, Chatham (North. Co.) Thursday 8th inst., by Rev. Wm Stewart, Robert RUSSELL, Glenelg / Miss Jane MCKINNON, Hardwicke”
the mention of Hardwicke Parish is not only consistent, but supportive.
Francis Russell is mentioned in Doreen M. Arbuckle’s, “The North West Miramichi“, pgs. 211-215; and in Kathleen Willis Williston’s, “Biographies and notes on early settlers” written by Mrs. Williston in 1947. In summary, he is given as b. Scotland ca. 1790, d. 1874, m. 4FEB1813 Ann Forsyth (b. ca. 1793), d/o Robert and Jane (Martin) Forsyth.
These circumstances strongly suggest that Jane McKinnon and Margaret (Russell) McDonald were first cousins; therefore Jane was the daughter of Margaret’s maternal aunt (paternal aunt being unlikely), therefore Hugh McKinnon’s wife, Jane, was Jane Forsyth, d/o Robert and Jane (Martin) Forsyth, as suspected. Also, that Jane McKinnon’s husband, Robert Russell, is her maternal first cousin.
Thomas
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