Descendants
of Donald McDougall
Generation One
DONALD MCDOUGALL was born in Scotland and came to Prince Edward Island, where he married
a local girl sometime before 1857. Their two oldest sons appear to have been
born in Souris in 1858 and 1860.
MARY JANE LANDLING, wife of Donald McDougall, was
born on Prince Edward Island in about 1835. Her heritage was Irish but it is
unclear if her parents were born in Ireland or on Prince Edward Island. Her
surname is found only on her son Peter's marriage record in 1902. The surname Landling does not appear in PEI records but the name Landrigan does. There is a Patrick Landrigan,
b. 1815 in Ireland, a farmer in Lot 61 (Kings), PEI in 1881, but his wife, A.
Mary Landrigan, 52, is too young to have been Mary
Jane's mother. Other Landrigans might be Mary Jane's
brothers but it is impossible to prove one way or the other at this time.
By 1881, Donald was apparently
deceased, since the census records for District 1, Lot 7 (Prince), on the
southwest end of the island lists the family as follows:
Jane McDougal, age 46, head of
household, born on PEI, Roman Catholic, Irish heritage
Angus McDougal, 23, born PEI,
fisherman, Scotch heritage
John McDougal, 21, born PEI,
fisherman, Scotch heritage
Mathaw [sic] McDougal, 18, born PEI,
farmer, Scotch heritage
Peter McDougal, 16, born PEI,
farmer's son, Scotch heritage
Mary Jane McDougal, 14, born
PEI, Scotch heritage
Emma Doltan,
8, born New Brunswick, Irish heritage
Relationships to the head of the
household are not given, so it is unclear whether Emma Doltan
was a relative or a servant
Children of DONALD MCDOUGALL and
MARY JANE LANDLING are:
Angus A. McDougall, born April
14, 1858, Souris (?), PEI; died November 16, 1937, Millinocket, ME
John McDougall, born about 1860,
Souris, PEI
Matthew M. McDougall, born May
12, 1863, PEI; died May 8, 1935, Bar Harbor, ME
Peter McDougall, born March
1864, PEI
Mary Jane McDougall, born
October 1866, PEI; died PEI
Generation Two
ANGUS A. MCDOUGALL
Angus McDougall was born, according
to family memory, on April 14, 1858 in Souris, PEI, but in the 1881 census, at
age 23, he was living with his mother and siblings on the opposite end of
Prince Edward Island from Souris. That would, however, agree with a birth year
of 1858 and his tombstone reads 1858-1937, but his grandson Harold claimed he
was 85 when he died and census records give dates of birth varying from 1853 to
1857. In 1881, his occupation was listed as fisherman. He emigrated to the U.
S. in 1886. At 31, on October 2, 1890 (which would give him a birth year of
1859) in St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Old Town, ME, he married ELIZABETH ARSENAULT. One of the
witnesses was his sister, Mary Jane McDougall. There are two records of this,
in the list of marriages at St. Joseph's and in the Old Town vital records.
They differ slightly, the vital records being more complete. In both his
parents were given as Donald and Mary Jane. In the vital records, Angus's
profession was listed as carpenter. His father was born in Scotland and his
mother on Prince Edward Island. Angus worked in various New England mill towns,
engaged in the construction of paper mills as a carpenter and millwright.
Between 1893 and 1895 he was in Orono, ME, between
1900 and 1902 in Rumford, and after 1902 in New Hampshire. He started work at
the mill in Millinocket November 5, 1908, where he was pulp mill foreman. The
entire family moved there in June 1909.
ELIZABETH ARSENAULT was the daughter of DENNIS
ARSENAULT and JENNIE (FITZGERALD?).
Her tombstone says she was born in 1867, as does her death certificate, but
census records indicate that she was born in March 1869 on Prince Edward Island
and her marriage record says she was 21, which also gives her a birth year of
1869. The record of her marriage from St. Joseph's church lists her parents'
names as Denis and Jessie Arsenault. The Old Town vital records give their
names as Dennis and Jeannie, both born on Prince Edward Island. The most likely
candidate to be Elizabeth's father, Dennis Arsenault, is listed in the 1891
census for Canada in Lot 6, District 134, a farmer and a Roman Catholic. His
age is given as 60 (b.c.1831). Living with him are his wife Jane, age 60,
daughters Sarah J. (23) and Emeline (21), and Frederick Arsenault, age 4, who
appears to be his grandson. This family does not turn up in other census
records unless Dennis is the Dennis Arsenault, age 82 (born March 1829) in the
1911 census for Lot 6 District 140, but his wife in that listing is named May
(or Mary), age 79 (b. May 1832). The name Fitzgerald for Dennis Arsenault's
wife comes from Elizabeth's death certificate, but that incorrectly gives her
father's name as Charles Ashley and says he was born in Maine.
According to the 1900 census,
both Angus and Elizabeth came to the U.S. in 1886. By 1900 they had been
married eleven years and Elizabeth had given birth to five children, four of
whom were living. Angus McDougall was living with his son Clayton at the time
of the 1930 census. He died November 16, 1937 in Millinocket, ME and is buried
there. His age on his death certificate is recorded as "about 80
years." At the time of her death, Elizabeth had been confined in the
Bangor State Hospital for twenty years and ten months. She died there on June
25, 1945. She was buried in Millinocket, ME.
Census records, as usual, are
contradictory and full of errors
1900 census, Rumford Falls,
Maine - June 1, 1900
McDougall, Angus, b. June 1852,
age 47, married for 11 years, born English Canada, both parents born English
Canada, immigration to U. S. 1886, occupation carpenter, not naturalized
McDougall, Elizabeth, b. March
1869, age 31, 5 children (4 living), born English Canada, both parents born
English Canada, immigration to U. S. 1886
McDougall, Dan. J., born July
1893, age 6, born Maine
McDougall, Clayton H., born
February 1894, age 5, born Maine
McDougall, Milliam,
born May 1898, age 2, born Maine
McDougall, James H., born March
1900, age two months, born Maine
boarding with the family were Samuel
and Grace F. Goff, ages 22 and 21, and their ten month old daughter Inez.
Samuel was a bartender.
1910
no record found
1920 census - Millinocket, Maine
McDougall, Angus, 65, b. English
Canada, parents both born Scotland, immigrated 1909, alien, millwright
McDougall, Elizabeth, 58, born
Massachusetts, parents both born Massachusetts, x on year of immigration but
marked al under whether or not naturalized
McDougall, Dan'l,
24
McDougall, Harry, 19
1930 census - Millinocket, Maine
Harold J. Mcdougal,
30
Josephine M. Mcdougal,
25
Harold J. Mcdougal,
1 3/12
Mildred M. Mcdougal,
9
Demirse Willette,
41
Walter J. Willette,
23
George V. Willette,
17
Brindela M. Willette,
12
Aldea Willette,
8
Viola M. Willette,
4 2/12
Angus Mcdougal,
73
1930 census - Bangor, Maine
Elizabeth Mcdougall,
62, a patient at BMH, father born Massachusetts,
mother born Canada, m. at 23
Children of ANGUS MCDOUGALL and
ELIZABETH ARSENAULT are:
Unnamed McDougall, b. October
28, 1891, Old Town, ME; d. November 15, 1891, Old Town, ME
Daniel Joseph McDougall, b. July
21, 1893, Orono, ME; d. December 14, 1965, Sanford,
ME. He was a papermaker, served in World War I, and never married
Clayton H. Bayard McDougall, b.
January 30, 1895, Orono, ME; d. November 03, 1936,
Millinocket, ME
Marion A. McDougall, b. March
1898, Berlin, NH; d. May 7, 1981, Sanford ME
Harold James McDougall, b. March
10, 1900, Rumford, ME; d. March 31, 1975, Millinocket, ME.
Alice Catherine McDougall, b.
May 25, 1902, Rumford Falls, ME; d. December 30, 1989, Farmington, ME
JOHN MCDOUGALL
According to the 1881 census, he
was 21 in 1881 and born in 1860 on Prince Edward Island. In 1881 he was listed
as a fisherman. The "U.S. Record of Aliens Pre-Examined in Canada"
tells us that he was 59 in August 1920 and born in Souris, Prince Edward Island
(the opposite end of the island from where the family was living in 1881) and
was single. His occupation is listed as mason tender. The card filled out in
the port of St. John, New Brunswick also records that he was 5'4" tall. His
hair and eye color were listed as Gr, which I assume is gray. He had been in
the U.S. from 1888-8/1/20 and listed his last residence as Millinocket,ME.
"Brother: Angus, Millinocket, ME" is listed under "address of
relative or friend there." If he was indeed living in the U.S. from 1888
until 1920, it is possible that he is the Jake McDougall listed in Rumford
Falls (where Angus was in that year) in the census in 1900. This Jake McDougall
was married with children but John's single status on the 1920 record could be
explained by his having become a widower. Here is the entry, in case it proves
to be relevent:
1900 census - Rumford Falls, ME
McDougall, Jake, born February
1864, age 36, married nine years, born English Canada, both parents born
English Canada, year of immigration 1892, occupation laborer, Baker Mill
McDougall, Mary E., wife, born
April 1865, age 35, born English Canada, both parents born English Canada, year
of immigration 1892
McDougall, Angus J., born April
1893, age 7, born Maine [on April 2, 1892 in Rumford, ME he married Isabella;
in 1942 they were living in Boston]
McDougall, James, born June
1894, age 6, born Maine
McDougall, Grover, born
September 1895, age 4, born Maine
MATTHEW MCDOUGALL
Matthew McDougall was born May
12, 1863 on Prince Edward Island. In the 1881 Canadian census he was living
with his mother and employed as a farmer. Various U. S. census records have
differing emigration dates: 1890 in 1910; 1888 in 1920; 1887 in 1930. In 1900
he and his younger brother Peter were in Eden, Hancock County, ME and boarding
with their sister, Mary Casey, and her husband Patrick, as were several other
unmarried men. In 1910 he was still in Eden and still single and is listed as
Matthew M. McDougall, age 44. By 1912, when they are listed in the City
Directory for Falmouth, ME, he had married a woman named Henrietta. By 1920,
they were in Bar Harbor, ME, where his age is listed as 55 and hers as 48. She
was born in Bavaria, Germany. Her year of emigration is given as 1892 in the
1930 census, also in Bar Harbor. In that year their surname is spelled Mcdougle. He worked as a gardener at a Bar Harbor estate.
On their tombstones in Holy Redeemer Cemetery, Bar Harbor, ME, her dates are
given as 1865-1934 and his as 1863-1935. He died May 08, 1935 in Bar Harbor.
Information on his death certificate came from his nephew, John Casey, and
contains several inaccuracies. It lists his father's name as Ambrose McDougall,
says he was born May 12, 1856 and gives 38 years as the length of his residence
in Bar Harbor (with his previous residence on PEI), which would make his
emigration date 1897.
PETER MCDOUGALL
Peter McDougall was born in
about 1865 on Prince Edward Island. He was listed as "farmer's son"
at age sixteen in the 1881 census, when he was still living with his mother. In
1900 he and his brother Matthew were boarders in the house of their sister,
Mary Casey, in Eden, ME. On September 9, 1901, Peter married Mary's husband's
sister, Mary Casey. He was 37. She was 36.
MARY CASEY
was the daughter of John Casey and Mary Doran of St. Georges (Georgetown), PEI.
She was born February 22, 1864. In the 1881 census (District 3; Kings; Lot 53)
the family consisted of Mary Casey, 45, widow, born in Ireland, and her
children, all born on PEI. They were Mary, 16, Patrick, 15, Francis 13, and
Elizabeth 9. Although in U. S. census records Mary is recorded as having
emigrated in 1887, the 1891 census for the same location in PEI lists Mary,
widow, age 55, Mary, 25, Patrick, 23, Francis, 21, and Elizabeth 16. By 1900,
however, Mary and her brother Patrick were living in Eden, ME. where he Patrick
was the head of a household that consisted of:
Patrick Casey, 33
Mary J. Casey, 33
John F. Casey, 8
Francis M. Casey, 3
Peter J. Casey, 1 month
Mary Casey 35
Peter McDougal, 35
Mathew McDougal, 37
six other male boarders
Patrick Casey, Mary McDougall
Casey, Peter McDougall, and Matthew McDougall are all listed as having come to
the U.S. in 1887 in the 1900 census.
1910 census, Eden, ME:
Peter McDougall, immigrated 1889
Mary McDougall, immigrated 1887
MARY JANE MCDOUGALL
Mary Jane McDougall was born in
PEI in October 1866. She was in the U.S. by 1890, when she witnessed her
brother Angus's marriage in 1890 in Old Town, ME. In 1891 she married Patrick
Casey (b. January 14, 1869 in Georgetown, PEI according to birth records;
December 1866 according to census records). They were living in living in Eden,
ME by 1900 but by 1911 had moved back to King's District, Lot 53, where is
family had come from.
1911 Census: Prince Edward
Island
Patrick Casey, 43, farmer
Mary J. Casey, 44
John F. Casey, 19
Francis Casey, 14
Peter I. Casey, 11
Patrick Casey, 4
Mary J. Casey, 7
Margaret A. Casey, 2
Children of Mary Jane McDougall
and Peter Casey:
John F. Casey, b. Old Town March
3, 1892; d. Bar Harbor, ME March 17, 1954.
Francis M. Casey, b. September
1896
Peter J. Casey, b. April 5,
1900, Eden, ME; d. October 20, 1974, Tewksbury, MA
Mary J. Casey, b. 1903
Patrick Casey, b. 1906
Margaret A. Casey, b. 1909
Generation Three
children
of Angus McDougall and Elizabeth Arsenault
CLAYTON H. BAYARD MCDOUGALL was
born January 30, 1895 in Orono, ME, and died November
3, 1936 in Millinocket, ME. He married LENA V. CARRIGAN
October 21, 1916 in Millinocket, ME, daughter of DANIEL and JENNIE CARRIGAN. She was born February 6, 1898, and died July 2,
1965. Both are buried in Millinocket, ME. Family records indicate that Clayton
committed suicide.
Children of CLAYTON MCDOUGALL
and LENA CARRIGAN are:
James C. McDougall, b. March 12,
1914; d. November 11, 1967. Listed as Colon P. McDougall in one census record.
Clayton J. McDougall, b. 1918
MARION A. MCDOUGALL was born
March 7, 1898 in Berlin, NH. Her birth record lists her parents as Angus
McDougal and Elizabeth Arsenault and gives her name as Marie Anna Elizabeth
McDougal, her father's birthplace as Canada and his age as 38, and her mother's
birthplace as Canada and her age as 29. Marion died at some point after
December 1965 and is probably the Marie Moore who died May 7, 1981 in Sanford,
ME at age 83. Marion married (1) FRANK L. YORK October 15, 1913 in Millinocket,
ME, son of FRANK YORK and JULIA RHINEHART. He was
born 1891 in New York, and died between 1920 and 1922. She married (2) LEWIS C.
MOORE January 27, 1923 in Brewer, ME. He was born about 1869 and had been
married twice before, first to Annie Closson on
September 24, 1897 and second to Alda B. Moody on
April 16, 1916. Marian A. McDougall is listed as Marie Ann McDougall in her
daughter's obituary and as Mary A. McDougall on the record of her second
marriage. At the time of the 1930 census she lived on Essex Street, Bangor.
Children of MARION MCDOUGALL and
FRANK YORK are:
Catherine F. York, b. 1915 d.
Portland, ME; m. NORMAN KIMBALL September 19, 1936; lived with Harold McDougall
for a time; Her children are Norma Gay Kimball (March 20, 1937-August 31, 1971)
m. Thomas Ovila Goyette
(October 8, 1926-June 20, 1989) and Donald Wayne Kimball (January 31,
1938-April 10, 2011) m. Roberta Jean Gee (d. October 20, 2005)
Clayton L. York, b. 1918; d. May
18, 1991, Chelsea, ME
Mildred M. York, b. February 04,
1921; m. (unknown) HAZELETT; Mildred is listed as
Mildred McDougall in the 1930 census. She was living with her uncle, Clayton
McDougall, and may have been adopted by him. She also lived with her uncle,
Harold McDougall for a time.
Children of MARION MCDOUGALL and
LEWIS MOORE are:
Robert J. Moore, born about 1924
Ethel A. Moore, born about 1926;
m. Charles E. Hatch (1924-2010), April 12, 1947
Mary C. Moore, born about 1928
Nadine Moore, born after 1930;
m. EVERETT E. PATCH, September 12, 1953
HAROLD JAMES MCDOUGALL was born
March 10, 1900 in Rumford, ME, and died March 31, 1975 in Millinocket, ME. He
married JOSEPHINE M. WILLETTE January 17, 1921 in
Millinocket, ME. She was born in 1904 and died July 25, 1980 in Millinocket,
ME. They are both buried in Millinocket, ME.
Children of HAROLD MCDOUGALL and
JOSEPHINE WILLETTE are:
Harold J. McDougall (June 2,
1929-April 27, 2011); m. December 23, 1950 LELA JEAN BESSEY
(June 1, 1929-July 19, 2006)
Evelyn T. McDougall
(1933-2012+); m. 1954 LOREN E. BROWN
Alice McDougall (August 3,
1935-August 30, 2006); m. 1955 JEROME OKANE
Walter McDougall, born 1937; m.
1957 BETTY A. HALL
Ethel McDougall, born 1938; m.
1958 DAVID S. MCFARLAND
Catherine McDougall, born 1942;
m. 1953 ROBERT KING
ALICE CATHERINE MCDOUGALL was
born May 25, 1902 in Rumford Falls, ME and died December 30, 1989 in Farmington
ME. She is buried in Good Will Cemetery, Hinckley, ME. She married 1) Leon
Paradis on July 5, 1920 in Boston, MA (divorced). She married 2) Walter
Hinckley on June 29, 1952 in Maine. One child: Ethel Catherine Paradis
(1922-2007) who married W Merritt Emerson (1921-2009).
Harold
and Alice McDougall
This account was complied by
Kathy Lynn Emerson in 2014, based on the best information available at the
time. If you have any additions or corrections please send them to emerson (at) megalink.net