7. Anastasia, b. 3 Apr., 1908, d. 23 Sept, 1981, Brooklyn, New York, bur. St. Augustine’s, Westfield, N.B. Leaving Stanhope as a young woman, Anna spent many years living and working in New York.
8. William, b. 30 Apr., 1910, Stanhope, d. 1978, Saint John, in. Ann Teresa (Dolly) Ready, dau. of Daniel and Mary Ann (Reardon) Ready of Covehead Road. William, Dolly and their first-born, Malcolm, lived for about a year with William's mother at Stanhope before moving to Saint John in 1941. Malcolm, a sixth generation MacAulay on P.E.I., was the youngest of this line of MacAulays to live in Stanhope. William and Dolly had 3 c., Malcolm, Aubrey, and John.
9. Vincent, b. 18 June, 1912, d. 1968, Oakville, Ontario, m. Elsie Keizer (b. 29 Dec., 1922, d. 18 Nov., 1952, Pictou) dau. of Stanley and Bernice (Rudolph) Keizer of Grand Tracadie. Vince and Elsie lived at Pictou until after her death, when he moved to Oakville, Ont. Self-educated in the mechanics of heavy equipment, Vince developed such expertise in his own construction business in Oakville that he was commissioned to Charlottetown in 1964 to assist with the construction of the Hillsborough Bridge. 6 c., Blain, Louis, Catherine, Vincent, Vivian, and Janet.
10. Joseph, b. 12 July, 1914, Stanhope, m. Muriel McGrath of Newcastle, NB. ((1. 17 Sept., 1983). After working in New York, Joseph returned to Canada, enlisted in the army in 1941 and saw front line action in the infantry in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, plus another year after WWII with the Occupation Forces in Germany. Since then, Joseph and Muriel have lived in Saint John, where Joseph worked with DVA as an ambulance driver and medic,
retiring in 1974 to their home in Grand Bay, NB. 4 c., Mary Lynn, Maureen, J oAnne, and Kevin.
11. Louis, b. 10 Oct., 1916, Stanhope, d. 1963, Oakville, Ont. Enlisting in the North Nova Regiment in 1939, Louis saw front line action in Italy, being with the victorious army into Rome, then into Holland and Germany. After WWII, Louis returned to his family home in Stanhope for a few years before moving to
Oakville, Ont. For valued information on the foregoing MacAulays, much appreciation is expressed to Sister Cecelia MacAulay of Souris, and
her brother Joseph of Saint John; also to Gertrude and Malcolm MacAulay of Charlottetown.
The Grand Tracadie MacAulays
Alexander MacAulay, a native of Scotland, settled on 200 acres of land in Grand Tracadie, Lot 35, around 1810, and from his family of 10, six sons and four daughters, some descendants of this man found their way across the lot line into Stanhope.
The first of these migrants was his son James MacAulay, born in 1821 in Grand Tracadie, died 18 Apr., 1870, Grand Tracadie, married about 1851 to Ann (or Nancy) MacAskill (b. 1826, d. 15 July, 1910, Charlottetown, bur. Corran Ban). James MacAulay took up a lease on 73 acres of land on the Friston Road on 5 Aug., 1847, releasing this to Michael Hayes in 1867, while he and his Wife farmed 100 acres of his father’s land at Grand Tracadie. James was gored by a bull on his farm at Grand Tracadie and died at the age of forty-nine years, leaving
383