such was not the case during the past two centuries, as you will discover as you read on. During the latter half of the 19th century, there were at least five John MacAulays living in Stanhope at one time; to distinguish them, four of them bore nicknames: John Sandy , Johnny Donald , Johnny Makem and John Charles . You will appreciate the confusion to a researcher when uncovering any document referring to John MacAulay , Stanhope . According to family tradition, Malcolm MacAulay and his wife came to P.E.I , from Scotland , accompanied by a number of sons who settled in various places on P.E.I. , thus providing the descendants of the Stanhope son, John MacAulay , with cousins throughout this Island. At the time of writing, it has not been discerned whether some of these cousins are second or third cousins or whether they are once or twice removed; however, such an interest in this family has emerged that the subject of MacAulays in P.E.I , should be an ongoing matter, and any MacAulay interested in referring to the volume of research material in the Stanhope Women 's Institute History Files is invited to do so. The Charlottetown Examiner, for February 1, 1882, notes the death of John MacAulay of Stanhope as follows... Died, at Stanhope , Lot 34, on Dec. 22 of paralysis, John MacAulay , in the 96th year of his age. Deceased emigrated to this Island from Uist, Invernesshire, Scotland , in the year 1803 and was therefore one of the earlier settlers of this place. He leaves two sons and four daughters to mourn their loss. When the MacAulays first arrived in Stanhope , they settled on 100 acres of land which had formed part of the original 1000-acre Farm, and they moved into a log house which according to family tradition, was already on the property when they arrived and which became home to five generations of MacAulays ; it was finally torn down after this land was expropriated for the in 1937, and the last generation of MacAulays located elsewhere. (See the chapter on the " of Life" for details on this log house). A deed for the above 100 acres was granted to John and Donald MacAulay from Robert and Archibald Montgomery, on 9 Dec, 1844, with the description of the property including... from the to the old back line of Farm. The 1841 census for Lot 34 indicates two householders on this property ??? John MacAulay , farmer, with a total of ten persons in his household; and Donald MacAulay , farmer, his wife and one daughter in the second household. In addition to this 100 acres owned jointly by John and Donald MacAulay, they were each leasing two adjoining 50-acre parcels of land, south of the present , and between the lands of Dougald Maclsaac to the east, and Philip Hughes to the west, showing a total of 40 acres 376