Evelyn Burns, Dorothy Auld, Margaret (Cameron) AuId (sitting in front).

elected an elder shortly after coming to Freetown and remained a member of the Session, of which he for

some years was the clerk, until his death. He also served for some years on the Board of Stewards. Mrs. Auld worked in the Mission Band and the Women’s Missionary Society. Both Mr. and Mrs. Auld sang in the choir and taught in the Sunday School, of which Mr_. Auld for many years was the Superintendent.

Margaret Auld d. 21 Feb. 1957 and Robert Auld d. 12 Feb. 1963. They are bur. in the family plot in the People’s Cem. in Freetown.

They had three ch. in Freetown, surname Auld. 3a 20 a son - d. at birth, b. 14 June 1914.

3b 20 Dorothy Isabel b. 28 June 1915. Attended Prince of Wales College and graduated from Mount Allison University (B.A.) 1942. Taught school in P.E.I. for some years. On 25 Aug. 1956 m. Ernest L. Heighton, professor at Dalhousie University, and moved to Halifax to live. In 1960 received B. Ed. degree from Dalhousie University and taught in the Halifax Public Schools. No family.

3c 2c Robert Waldron b. in Freetown 12 July 1922. Graduated from Prince of Wales College and Dalhousie University Medical School. In 1949 he m. Barbara Cecile Strong of Windsor, N.S. He practised medicine in Kensington for a number of years, and then he and his family moved to Toronto where he continues to practice. He and his wife have two children, surname Auld.

4a3c2c. Barbara Anne Auld married Donald Lloyd Stonehouse 21 Sept. 1974. They have two children. Suzanne 4 yrs old and Peter 1 yr old. (1983). They live in Halifax.

4b3c2c. Robert (David) Strong Auld graduated from Dalhousie University (B.Sc.) 1980. Employed at

C.F.D.R. FM Radio Station. n.m. Lives in Halifax, NS. . Submitted by Dorothy Heighton

ROBERT AULD

Robert Auld and his wife, Mary Ann (Boughton) with their five eldest children, were the first of the Auld family to live in Freetown. An Indenture with the P.E.I. Archives shows that on 24 Aug. 1860, the main part of the farm, the land in Lot 25 (see the J.H. Meacham & Co. Atlas of 1880), was bought from Edmund and Elizabeth Crosby. A Memorandum of Agreement, however, between Robert Auld and the same Edmund Crosby indicates that negotiations had begun in 1859, and the part of the farm in Lot 26 may have been purchased at that time.

Robert Auld was b. in Covehead, on 4 Apr. 1801, his wife, Mary Ann, on 19 Feb. 1820, most probably in Charlottetown. They were m. 17 Jan. 1843. Before moving to Freetown, they had lived at Covehead and, it appears, for a period in the 18505, somewhere in Lot 32. An account with a customer, F. Longworth, indicates that for a time Robert had a general store in Covehead. At the time of their move to Freetown, if in 1859, their children would have ranged in age from three to fifteen years. Only one child, Robert Boughton, was

born in Freetown, in 1862.

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