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Norman was the youngest son of John & Euphemia MacINTOSH, born in Scotland about 1793. He may have accompanied his brothers David and Donald when they came to New Brunswick in 1817 or may have come later, but in any case he was there by 1826. On 11 February of that year Norman petitioned for land at Black River:
"Norman McIntosh ... a married man with three children ... born in Inverness-shire in Scotland ... [petitions for] an allotment on the north side of Black River (or Meseogues) at Buctouche in rear of land granted to Finley McIntosh and the next lot but one on the eastward to that granted to David McIntosh."
There is no record of the grant being given, but Norman apparently lived at Black River adjacent to his brother David.1 In the 1861 Census returns for Wellington Parish, Norman and his family appear immediately after David's.2
Norman's wife was Flora, born about 1800 in Scotland. Deedie's Meservey's account has it that her surname was also McINTOSH.
The 1861 census lists their children as David (age 39), Finley (27), Neil (20) and Isabell (18).2 Deedie's account lists children Neil, Finlay, Euphemia and Sarah. The census adds David and Isabel, but subtracts Euphemia and Sarah. Sarah (born about 1827) married Samuel MacLELLAN around 1857, which accounts for her absence.3,4
In the 1826 petition Norman indicates that he has three children, but of the children listed in the census above only David, born about 1822, is old enough to have been one of those. It does not seem unreasonable to suppose that the Euphemia which Deedie reported might have been another of the oldest three children alluded to in the land petition. Sarah does not seem likely to have been the third unless her age was misreported in both the 1861 and 1871 censuses. Perhaps there was another child who died young -- we'll probably never know.
By 1871 the aging Norman and Flora had moved to Galloway to live with Sarah and Samuel.5
Norman passed away in 1873 and Flora in 1881. They were buried in MacIntosh Hill next to Black River. Their gravestone was recovered in the 1970s and replaced with a common stone for him, his brother David, their wives and their mother.
Norman's son Finley (ca.1834-1915) remained behind in the Buctouche area in 1871,6 probably inheriting the family farm. His wife's name was Margaret, born about 1837. Finley and his family moved from Wellington parish to Weldford parish by 1881,7 and then sometime after 1891, they left New Brunswick entirely for the United States.
Alan Schlosser (aschlo@aol.com) has researched this family and informs me that Finley's son Norman (b.1865) moved to the U.S.A. in 1891 to pursue his trade as a lumberman. At least some of the family evidently joined him, as father Finley and son Norman are both buried in Emporium, Cameron Co., Pennsylvania. Finley and Margaret had the following children:6,7,8
The resting place of Finley's wife Margaret is an interesting question. According to information Alan Schlosser received from Bill Morris, Margaret's maiden name was McLELLAN. A "Margaret wife of Finley McIntosh, died 1900 age 72" is commemorated in the Galloway Cemetery next to many of the Galloway MacLellands. I strongly suspect this is the same individual, and have so titled this subsection.
In the 1881 and 1891 censuses of Weldford Parish there appears a David McKintoch or McKintock whom I strongly suspect is the son of Norman.12,13 David seems to have been a craftsman, reporting his occupation as carriage-maker in 1881 and joiner in 1891. His wife was Sarah S., a Methodist, born about 1829 to an English father. Sarah and David had a son, Edgbert, about 1867, who is present in 1881 but gone by 1891.
[1] There's research still to be done here into land title transfers.
[2] 1861 Census, NB/Kent/Wellington p.75 #2966-2971. Household 477 in the PANB
transcription.
[3] Identifying Sarah MacLelland as Norman MacIntosh's daughter was not straightforward.
The family papers did not indicate anything more than the names of some of Norman's
children. The 1871 census [Note 5] which has Norman and Flora in the MacLelland
household is the primary evidence, but not conclusive since their relationship is simply
given as "lodger". There is also Samuel and Sarah McLelland's gravestone in
Galloway Cemetery
which gives her maiden name of McIntosh. Against this, however, was
David R. MacLelland's memoirs which named Samuel MacLelland's wife as Sara Foster.
One possible resolution of this is that Sarah may have married a Foster first and was
widowed at a young age. Her oldest known children with Samuel were born when she was
about 31 years of age, plenty of time for a first marriage.
[4] 1861 Census, NB/KentRichibucto p.40, #11-14. Household 235 in PANB transcription.
[5] 1871 Census, NB/Kent/Richibucto div.c-3 p.35, household 108.
[6] 1871 Census, NB/Kent/Wellington div.e-1, household 107. Schedule 2, "Deaths in
the last twelve months" describes Jane. We can identify her with Finley's family because
the enumerator began to enter her in Schedule 1, then struck out the line.
[7] 1881 Census, NB/Kent/Weldford div.e-3, p.20, household 79.
[8] 1891 Census, NB/Kent/Weldford div.i-3, p.20, household 84.
[9] Daniel F. Johnson,
Vital
Statistics From New Brunswick Newspapers Vol.82 No.3226,
citing Richibucto Review of 31 Mar 1892: "m. 23rd, at residence of Finlay
McINTOSH, father of the bride, Walter WARREN, Nicholas River (Kent Co.) / Miss Maggie
McINTOSH, Mill Branch."
[10] Kent County GenWeb, West
Branch Presbyterian Cemetery transcription
[11] 1901 Census,
NB/Kent/Weldford i-3 p.7 household #61
[12] 1881 Census, NB/Kent/Weldford e-3 p.19 household 73.
[13] 1891 Census, NB/Kent/Weldford i-3 p.1 household 4.
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