a family of nine children to be reared by his widow: Mary, James, Michael, Elizabeth, Mary Ann Margaret, Helen, Amelia, Catherine Veronica, and Maria Penelope — the last child being born about two weeks after her father’s untimely death.

The next of the Grand Tracadie MacAulays to come to Stanhope was John Alexander, another son of Alexander, born in 1828 in Grand Tracadie. Known locally as “John Sandy”, he farmed and made his home on a 50-acre property on the south side of the Stanhope East Road, bounded on the west by lands of David Carr and David Lawson, on the south by Henry Green, and on the east by Edward Douglas. This property was transferred from William Seaman to John Mac- Aulay in 1869, with an additional 4 acres being purchased by him in 1882. With John Sandy lived his spinster sister Elizabeth (b. 1823 at Grand Tracadie, d. December, 1892, Stanhope, bur. Corran Ban); and also another sister, Mary Anne (b. 1837 at Grand Tracadie, d. Feb., 1894 at Stanhope, bur. Tracadie). Mary Anne was married 24 January, 1871 to Donald McIsaac of Millcove, who died on December 8, 1874. After his death, Mary Anne brought their two small children, Mary Isabel McIsaac, born 1872, and Donald McIsaac, born June 2, 1873, to live at Stanhope, where they attended school — “Belle” going off to Boston after her mother’s death, and Donald living for a brief time with his uncle John Sandy before he too left for the US. This 54—acre property was acquired by George Gill in 1901.

A more recent MacAulay, of Grand Tracadie descent, now living in Stanhope, is James Allan MacAulay, who was born on May 17, 1900 at. Grand Tracadie, the son of James (Jimmy-Jim) MacAulay, grand- son of James MacAulay and Ann MacAskill, and great-grandson of Alexander, the founder of the Grand Tracadie MacAulays. James was nicknamed “Bobbins” by his Gaelic-speaking grandmother, Ann MacAskill MacAulay, to distinguish him from the two prior genera- tions of James MacAulays. “Jimmy Bobbins” came to Stanhope in 1970 to work as night watchman at the newly opened Stanhope Golf and Country Club. After spending a few winters in James Allen’s house on the Stanhope East Road, in 1974 he purchased a house trailer which he located at the MacLauchlan Homestead, where he, his dog, and his horse enjoy their daily round of activites at the farm. J immy is a noted raconteur, and many of the Stanhope neighbours have been held spellbound for hours with Jimmy’s tales of his past. Whether it is stories of orphanage days, or war tales (he is a veteran of WWI, enlisting at age 15) or of fish peddling or lumbering days, or just horse stories, J immy can hold the floor with the best of them.

After generations of large families of MacAulays in Stanhope, Jimmy now represents the only MacAulay, or descendant of a MacAulay, presently living in Stanhope, with the exception of Loman

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