where Deborah and Windsor Wight live in 1992. The Dunbars and the Groggetts traded farms in the late 18005, and the Dunbars moved to Tryon, on the Cape Traverse Road. Nathaniel MacDonald, b.c. 1825, NS, and Annie MacDonald, b.c. 1861, NS, were living with the Dunbars in 1881. These people were probably Adah’s father and sister.
Alexander Dunbar and Adah MacDonald had 7 children: Charles b. Sept 1874, d. 14 Dec 1882, bur. North Tryon Presbyterian Cem..
Agnes M. b. 1875, d. 1942, bur. North Tryon Presbyterian Cem., m. Phillip Holland, b. 1862, d. 1937, bur. North Tryon Presbyterian Cem.. They lived in Tryon on the Cape Traverse Road and had no children.
Jessie b. May 1878, d. 20 Dec 1882, bur. North Tryon Presbyterian Cem..
Catherine b. 28 Feb 1879, m., according to the Daily Examiner, 3 May 1902.
Jasper b. Feb 1880, d. 20 Dec 1882, bur. North Tryon Presbyterian Cem..
Bessie b. 1885, m.John Albert Rogerson. See Rogerson history. Charlie b. 1891. Charlie moved to Saskatchewan where he farmed.
Sources: Baptismal Records; Census.
@uncan Family
Sidney d. 9 Nov 1864, bur. Lower Bedeque Cem., m. 9 Feb 1854 Isabella Elder.
A Sydney Duncan, a landowner and farmer, lived in the Bedeque area, Lot 27, according to the 1841 census. He had 4 children and may have been the father of the Sydney who married Isabella Elder. The 1881 census lists the following family living with Isabella:
+Alfred age 24, son.
Solomon age 20, son, farmer.
Ida age 18, daughter.
Lidia age 16, daughter.
Alfred b.c. 1857, d. 9Jan 1890, son of Sidney Duncan and Isabella Elder, m. 12 Apr 1882 Charlotte Strang, b. Burton, Lot 7, 1859, d. 25 Jan 1939, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem., daughter of Ephriam Allen Strang and Mary Rix.
Alfred Duncan, of Scottish stock, was a bootmaker by trade. Char- lotte Strang came from a family who had arrived in PEI with the United Empire Loyalists from Maine and settled near Burton. Unfortunately, Alfred Duncan, like many others of that day, suffered poor health and
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