The Louis Marshall home ca. 1920. A fornier .0. built by Henry Curtis Lawson ca. 1895 W. Marshall coll.

expired, for which he paid 24.0.0 rent per annum. In the 1861 census Robert’s household consisted of himself and wife and eight children; he was a fisherman as well as a farmer. In 1871 he was farming 60 acres at a rent of 1/— per acre per annum; this land was on the east side of Auld’s Creek, between lands occupied by James Auld and James Carr. There were two homes on this property, one occupied in 1881 by Robert Sr., now a widower, and his daughter Jane; and the other by Robert Jr., his wife Cordelia, and their young family. Robert Jr.’s eldest child Herbert was born in the Marshall log house (close to the site of the present A-frame, owned by Glen Metcalfe). Herbert married Bessie McGregor from Union Road, Montague, and they had one daughter, Cordelia Ann, born in 1909 in the old Presbyterian Manse in West Covehead. This burned in 1910 and they built a new home which Orr MacCann owns now. This family went west in 1925, to Strasbourg, Saskatchewan; Cordelia married Jim MacKie in 1932 in Saskatoon and they had 2 sons.

Robert’s second son Frank, the miller, married Matilda Brodie, and they had two children, Belle, who married Lloyd Bell and is the mother of Ernest Bell and Ina, married to Ernest MacMillan of

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