Most people who know me (and probably most people who read my blog) know that it really annoys me when someone spells my last name wrong. Actually, it annoys me a little less these days, just because I’m so used to it. But it’s still annoying. No matter how many times I tell people it’s [...]
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Tagged: English, family, Gaelic, history, language, links, MacVay, migration, names, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, photos, Scotland
I often find myself lamenting the lack of sidewalks here in Malaysia. Sometimes I think it’s silly to feel annoyed that there are so few real sidewalks here, but I just can’t help it.
Well, maybe it’s simply in my blood to feel that way: while googling for some further information on the members of [...]
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Tagged: family, genealogy, history, links, MacVay, names, New Brunswick
In my first post about the MacVay family, I mentioned that my great-grandfather, William MacVay, helped his brother Joseph (who was working with his son, also named William) build the railway station in McAdam, New Brunswick. Well, today I read a news article from New Brunswick that mentions the MacVays’ work.
The article provided me [...]
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Tagged: family, genealogy, history, links, MacVay, names, New Brunswick
As I mentioned in Part One, my great-grandparents, William and Fanny MacVay, had several children. The first, Robert Franklin MacVay, was born barely nine months after their marriage. Next came Alexander MacVay, Alice Maude MacVay, Elizabeth Armour MacVay, and finally William Kirk MacVay. Most records I’ve found say that all were born in New Brunswick [...]
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Tagged: Cape Breton, Freemasonry, genealogy, history, MacVay, names, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, photos, Sydney
While I’d like to consider myself a fairly competent, experienced amateur genealogist, and have unearthed a great deal of information about my family history, I have to admit that it’s impossible to write a complete family history. The further back I go in time, the more ancestors I had: two parents, four grandparents, eight [...]
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Tagged: Armour, family, genealogy, history, Ireland, MacVay, migration, New Brunswick, photos, Scotland, Ulster