MacKay Champion Genealogy - Person Sheet
MacKay Champion Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameDaniel "Red Dan" McKay 
Birth Date1849
Birth PlaceTaffytown, PEI
Death Date7 Nov 1933
Death PlacePark Corner, PEI
MemoOld age, Buried at Geddie Memorial. Dan has a pic of the grave marker, it
says "age 84"
says "age 84"
Burial PlaceMalpeque, PEI
OccupationFarmer & Sailor
ReligionPresbyterian
FatherNeil MacKay (~1821-?)
MotherJessie Squarebriggs (1830-?)
Spouses
Birth Date1845
Birth PlaceCavendish, PEI
Death Date27 Dec 1933
Death PlacePark Corner, PEI
MemoOld age, Buried in Geddie Memorial. Dan has photo of grave marker; looks like
it says "aged 78".
it says "aged 78".
FatherAlexander MacNeill (2) (~1810-?)
MotherHelen MacNeill (1810-1879)
Marr Dateabt 1869
ChildrenNellie (~1871-?)
Edith Edna (~1883-1961)
John Everett "Jack" (1892-1959)
Chester (1898-1911)
Notes for Daniel "Red Dan" McKay
Taffytown was part of Granville. Lived with Donald MacKay and Bella.
Grandfather Dan was Red Dan. He had red hair and a red beard. He came from New Brunswick and lived with an Uncle Donald and Aunt Bella in Clifton, PEI. She was unmarried, so was he. He was not well, so spent most of his time reading the Bible.
A lady next door told me they were very dear dear people. She was a child next door and went over every day. They would have tea and sour bread. Red Dan lived with them when he didn't sail with an uncle, Uncle Henry Squarebriggs at Stanley Bridge, PEI.
Daniel and Matilda had a great apple orchard of both summer and winter apples. He always brought us a large barrel of apples for Xmas. In the orchard they had hens and chickens. Each hen had her own little house, with a wire fence around it. In those days, groceries were always bought with eggs taken to the store.
He (Daniel) loved to speak Gaelic and tried to teach Elsie and me. We would just laugh at him. Wish I had learned it. When they moved to our home, he was not very well and very deaf. It was hard to talk to him. His beard and hair had turned grey. He spent most of his time in bed.
Information supplied by Mayme Champion, March 2001
MKM: no record of Daniel's parents. When young, sailed with Uncle Henry who owned a vessel at Stanley Bridge. Dan lived with a bachelor uncle and spinster aunt in an old stone house in New London.
Had red hair and beard.
MKM: One of his aunts married Malcolm MacLean Sr. of Graham's Pond; their family was Mrs William Whitehead of Clifton; Mrs Alexander Buntain of Clifton; Rev. Archibald MacLean, a college professor in the US; James MacLean, a lawyer in Bridgewater, NS; Malcolm MacLean was married twice: first wife was Red Dan's aunt, second wife was a MacKay whose mother was a Calder.
Lived on a farm in Spring Brook/Stanley Bridge.
Deed reads "McKay" not "MacKay"
See Valerie Joy MacKay for info about his Bible, "British And Foreign Bible Society Bible" inside front cover reads "234949 The Avenue, Vancouver, BC" ... maybe Edith Edna MacKay's address or phone number?
“The Descendants of Squarebridge” person no. 42
Grandfather Dan was Red Dan. He had red hair and a red beard. He came from New Brunswick and lived with an Uncle Donald and Aunt Bella in Clifton, PEI. She was unmarried, so was he. He was not well, so spent most of his time reading the Bible.
A lady next door told me they were very dear dear people. She was a child next door and went over every day. They would have tea and sour bread. Red Dan lived with them when he didn't sail with an uncle, Uncle Henry Squarebriggs at Stanley Bridge, PEI.
Daniel and Matilda had a great apple orchard of both summer and winter apples. He always brought us a large barrel of apples for Xmas. In the orchard they had hens and chickens. Each hen had her own little house, with a wire fence around it. In those days, groceries were always bought with eggs taken to the store.
He (Daniel) loved to speak Gaelic and tried to teach Elsie and me. We would just laugh at him. Wish I had learned it. When they moved to our home, he was not very well and very deaf. It was hard to talk to him. His beard and hair had turned grey. He spent most of his time in bed.
Information supplied by Mayme Champion, March 2001
MKM: no record of Daniel's parents. When young, sailed with Uncle Henry who owned a vessel at Stanley Bridge. Dan lived with a bachelor uncle and spinster aunt in an old stone house in New London.
Had red hair and beard.
MKM: One of his aunts married Malcolm MacLean Sr. of Graham's Pond; their family was Mrs William Whitehead of Clifton; Mrs Alexander Buntain of Clifton; Rev. Archibald MacLean, a college professor in the US; James MacLean, a lawyer in Bridgewater, NS; Malcolm MacLean was married twice: first wife was Red Dan's aunt, second wife was a MacKay whose mother was a Calder.
Lived on a farm in Spring Brook/Stanley Bridge.
Deed reads "McKay" not "MacKay"
See Valerie Joy MacKay for info about his Bible, "British And Foreign Bible Society Bible" inside front cover reads "234949 The Avenue, Vancouver, BC" ... maybe Edith Edna MacKay's address or phone number?
“The Descendants of Squarebridge” person no. 42