Time for an update!
Today I received a reply to a letter I sent two months ago from the oral history expert I came in contact with this summer. I was not counting on a reply as it was more of a "thank you, and if you have any more info please advise". With the reply came the fact I am the third different decendant of James & Jane Peters to have contacted him the past twenty years.
Moreover, I also received a reply today from the PCGHS. What a pleasant surprise to get a friendly answer in just two business days, with news that "some digging" had already been done on my behalf and summed up with a bit of good advice!
Just want to take a moment to say, after having visited Nova Scotia very recently for the first time, the people there are just the nicest I've ever met. Not that I'm much of a traveller ... but remarkable people.
So, finally to the point:
Note that info is not sourced ... yet.
William Robertson/Robinson married Ellen MacLeod form Invernesshire, and lived in Pictou County, NS. Ellen was a sister to Christy MacLeod who married Patrick Peters. William and Ellen had ten children.
1. Christy, m. Alex Bruce and had William, daniel, Alexander, Philip, Henry, Ellen, Marion, Jessie, Margaret, and one other.
2. Margaret, m. William Fraser and had James Henry, William, Catharine, Ellen Jane, Margaret, Sophia, Alexander, Annie L., Hector, Lena Bell, and Minnie E.
3. Alexander, m. Jane (maiden name unknown) and had one son, died young.
4. Henry, m. Catherine McNaughton and had William, John, Dan Philip, Alexander, Ellen, Marjorie, Mary Ann, Christy, Lizzie, Cassie, and James R.
5. Philip, m. Bell Halliday and had Thomas, Gordon, Alexander, Joe, John, Elizabeth, and Ellen.
6. Catherine Ann, m.no.1: George Robertson and had Ellen, Margaret, Jane, Jessie Bell, and William. m.no.2: George Murray and had Cassie, Jane, Walter, George, and John. m.no.3: John Jardine - no children.
7. Daniel, m. his cousin Catherine Peters (daughter of Patrick and Christy Peters), lived in Earltown, NS and later went to Boston, where she died. Children: Margaret, Evelyn, Mary Jane (called Minnie), Christy, John, Alexander, William, and James Allen. Evelyn, Christy, and the three boys died unmarried. Margaret m. John Lloyd, lived in South Boston and had three children. Minnie m. James Henry Peters (son of James and Jane Peters) - no children.
8. Roderick, m. Janet Thompson and ad Margaret, Ellen, Martha, and four others who died young.
9. Jane, m. her cousin James Peters and had Christy Ann, John George, James Henry, Alexander Daniel, Ellen Sophia, Lydia Jane, Margaret Catherine, Elizabeth Emma, Mary Bell, William Roderick, Susan Edith, and Philip Austin.
10. Walter, died very young.
I am requesting Jane Peters death certificate from Massachusetts (thanks to a suggestion from Pictou CGHS, why didn't I think of that?!) to finally get a document (hopefully) proving the connection between Jane and her parents.
Val, your theory of a MacLeod relationship would seem to be fact - Ellen MacLeod and Christy MacLeod were sisters. Cousins in the tree! Guess that's never happened before
. Hope this might help distant cousins out there.
Thanks fellow rootschatters for your help and support, it means alot!
Jeannie
