b. 1963 (m. to Kathleen McCabe), Heather, b. 1967, Kathryn, b. 1968.

2. Muriel Jane, b. 25 Feb., 1953, m. to Preston Knox, living at Flat River, 4 c., Sherrie, Marsha, Tracey, Amanda.

3. Alva Rose, b. 7 Dec., 1956, m. to Harold Coade, living in Winsloe, 3 c., Vanessa, Joseph, Krista Rose.

LAFFERTY

While talking with our oldest resident, Ramon Carr, we learned that he remembered, as a little fellow, a hill on the road just east of his home called “Lafferty’s Hill”. Today, one can hardly recognise a bill, because it has been cut down during road construction. '

The 1841 census has the name of Michael Lafferty living in Lot 36, and we were able to establish that Michael Neil Cornelius Lafferty leased 50 acres of land in Lot 34 from Sir Graham Montgomery in December, 1868. This land was located in Stanhope, on the Corran Ban Road, as it was then called, on the west side of land owned by Edward Douglas. In the 1871 census there is a Neil Lafferty listed as a farmer living in Stanhope. He and his wife were aged 45-60 and there were two females aged 16-21 in the household; they were leasing 50 acres of property. We are assuming that this is the Michael Neil C. Lafferty previously mentioned. In the 1881 census we find Cornelius Lafferty aged 72, and his Wife Mary aged 67, living in Stanhope, listed as a farmer of Irish birth, but we have not been able to discover anything further about them.

LANK

We are really not quite sure whether the Lank family should be included in this genealogy, since opinions differ as to whether they actually lived in Stanhope; however, they owned land here, and farmed it, so here goes.

Robert Putnam Lank, a native of Nova Scotia, was born in 1860, and came to P.E.I. from Bass River, N .S. He married Sarah Elizabeth Hughes (1857 -1944), daughter of Benjamin Hughes of Covehead West; they had six sons and one daughter; two sons died in infancy, and the daughter died at age 2 years and 10 months by accidental scalding. It is said that the mother was never the same after the little girl’s death.

In 1899 the Lanks bought 62 acres of land on the Stanhope peninsula "at a mortgage sale (the mortgage was from George Herbert Kielly to T.H. Haviland of Charlottetown). This 62 acres had been owned previously by George Buxton, before that by his brother Charles, and before that by Henry Curtis Lawson. There was a house and barn on the property, but these were in poor repair, and it is doubtful if the Lank family ever lived there. However, they certainly farmed the land; old-timers tell of the Lanks driving through Stanhope

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