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by Alan L MacLeod
Mon Apr 05, 2010 12:17 am
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: Harrison Lincoln Livingstone, Marble Mountain, Cape Breton
Replies: 13
Views: 37732

Re: Harrison Lincoln Livingstone, Marble Mountain, Cape Breton

Harrison was my great-uncle and a VIIP in my life -- very influential & important person. Yes, he was a 'Boularderie Livingstone', the 11th and last child of Capt. William and Sarah (MacLean) Livingstone, and a great-grandson of the Boularderie pioneer, Angus. Harrison was a man of many and vari...
by Alan L MacLeod
Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:58 am
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: The Livingstons of Boularderie, Cape Breton, NS, Canada
Replies: 89
Views: 209331

Re: The Livingstons of Boularderie, Cape Breton, NS, Canada

My ancestor (2Xggf) was Alexander. His wife, Isabella Deason, was Catholic but she is of course buried beside her husband and close by her father-in-law, Angus, at St. James. I recall sympathetic relatives of earlier generations feeling sad on her behalf for having been consigned to the staunchly Pr...
by Alan L MacLeod
Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:21 pm
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: Livingstone Enlistments WW1
Replies: 102
Views: 209969

Re: Livingstone Enlistments WW1

Indeed, the LAC site is a mother lode for those of us looking for WWI Canadian soldiers. The link to the LAC WWI soldier search page: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-100.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=26aqfid5g4g18r6j3nq4711ba3 The attestation (enlistment) documents of 97 Livingstons and...
by Alan L MacLeod
Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:20 pm
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: The Livingstons of Boularderie, Cape Breton, NS, Canada
Replies: 89
Views: 209331

Re: The Livingstons of Boularderie, Cape Breton, NS, Canada

Thank you, Donald, for the welcome. In my previous post I ought to have specified I was referencing the Boularderie Angus Livingstone, to avoid confusing others. Yes, I am well acquainted with the Ann Capstick web resource and with the details of Angus Livingstone’s petitions for land at Boularderie...
by Alan L MacLeod
Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:54 pm
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: Livingstone Enlistments WW1
Replies: 102
Views: 209969

Re: Livingstone Enlistments WW1

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission [CWGC] lists all the Livingstone soldiers (both with and without the 'e') who served under British command and who died during the 1914-18 war. Twenty-seven are Canadian, 15 Australian, 7 New Zealand and 132 United Kingdom. The CWGC does splendid work in mainta...
by Alan L MacLeod
Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:45 pm
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: The Livingstons of Boularderie, Cape Breton, NS, Canada
Replies: 89
Views: 209331

Re: The Livingstons of Boularderie, Cape Breton, NS, Canada

Hello All. My name is Alan Livingstone MacLeod; I am a 3Xgreat-grandson of Angus Livingstone, through the Alexander-William line. (Captain William Livingstone of Big Bras d’Or, d. 1909, being my great-grandfather.) My principal residence is at Victoria BC but I have a summer home at Big Bras d’Or – ...