Emily died on February 6, 1857, aged 67; they were buried at St. Bonaventure’s, Tracadie. N o mention of any MacLean is to be found in the 1861 census for Lot 34, so presumably after the deaths of their parents, the children scattered. One of these MacLean children may have been John MacLean, described as: of Arlington, Lot 17, late of Stanhope. His daughter Caroline married Theophilus Higgins in 1854; she was born in 1833, so may have been one of the younger of the ten children on the homestead in 1841, a granddaughter of Donald. We have found no further information on these MacLeans.

Much more recently, in 1947, John A. MacLean and his wife Annie Florence MacLean came to Stanhope from Belle River, P.E.I. They bought three acres of land with a house and a saw mill on it from George and Mildred Ross; this is where Anne Ross lives today. George Ross had operated the saw mill to cut lumber, with a gasoline engine; John MacLean continued to do the same, from 1947 until 1950, when they moved back to Belle River. On April 27, 1951 they sold the complete 3-acre property to Mervyn Robison, Who moved the saw mill to his own land in Stanhope, next to his boundary with Leslie McCabe, and on October 14, 1952 sold the three acres and the house to Reginald and Anne Ross.

MacLEOD

The first MacLeods to come to the Island settled in the Belfast area, and later some moved to Hunter River, Wheatley River, and Bradalbane; from the last place Donald MacLeod came to Stanhope. The local set-up was as follows: in 1825 Malcolm Shaw was in pos- session of 80 acres of land on the east side of Parson’s Creek in Stanhope, bounded by the Stanhope Road, the John Leitch property, and the Bay. In 1832 he willed this land to his daughter Marian, who married Duncan Shaw. From this union two daughters were born, one of whom, Flora, married Donald MacLeod of Bradalbane.

The 1871 census shows the Donald MacLeod family living in StanhOpe with two sons. An older resident has told us of going with her father, a fisherman, to work on his boat in the Creek, and visiting at the MacLeod home, receiving cookies and enjoying playing with the many pretty ornaments in the house. She also remembered searching through the ashes after the home was burnt to see if she could find any of those little dishes. That house was in the field down near the creek. Later the MacLeod home was built where Joyce and Alvin Mac- Lauchlan now live.

In the 1881 census we find the two sons, Malcolm and James MacLeod, living with their grandfather, Duncan Shaw. Then in April of 1884 Donald MacLeod signed the deed releasing his ownership of

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