MacKinnon Line — Probable Father of Neil

Archibald MacKinnon

c. 1796 – 1866

Probable

Kyle DerryWyn DerryBeverly J. (Hartle) DerryCatherine A. MacKinnon HartleJohn MacKinnonNeil McKinnonArchibald MacKinnon

Life

Archibald McKinnon was born about 1796 on Tiree and died on 14 February 1866 in Bruce County, Ontario, aged 70. He is buried at Lovat Cemetery in the same plot as Neil McKinnon (1827–1905) and Neil's wife Janet McLaren; his gravestone is transcribed as "Native of Tiree Scotland". Find a Grave lists him as Neil's father, with a wife, Annie McLean, and the Bruce Township "Migrants" compilation (Anne Judd) names an Archibald, a widower, as the father of Neil and Hugh MacKinnon in Bruce Township. Neil's own son Archie was born in 1866, the year Archibald died. FamilySearch's tree instead gives Donald McKinnon and Christina McFarlane as Neil's parents, but that profile merges two men named Neil McKinnon; Donald and Christina's son was a different man, a minister at Mosa. No record has been found that names Archibald as Neil's father, and his own baptism is not identified: several Archibald McKinnons were christened on Tiree in 1794–1797 (to John and Cathe. McDonald, John and Flora Kennedy, John and Flora McLean, Malcolm and Marion McNiel, and others).

Timeline

1796
Bornabout 1796 — Tiree, Argyll, Scotland (age 70 on his gravestone; 'Native of Tiree')
1866
Died14 Feb 1866 — Bruce County, Ontario (gravestone transcription)

Claims in the record

Born Probableabout 1796 — Tiree, Argyll, Scotland (age 70 on his gravestone; 'Native of Tiree')

Died Probable14 Feb 1866 — Bruce County, Ontario (gravestone transcription)

Wife Needs researchAnnie McLean (Find a Grave) — her role is unresolved; see her entry

Son ProbableNeil McKinnon (b. 17 Jul 1827, Tiree; d. 15 May 1905) — Find a Grave and the Bruce 'Migrants' compilation

Source ProbableFind a Grave memorial 135357637 and gravestone transcription; Bruce Township 'Migrants' compilation (Anne Judd)

Places

Isle of Tiree, Argyll — Scotland Bruce Township, Tiverton and Inverhuron, OntarioBurialLovat Cemetery, Lovat, Bruce County, Ontario — Section 2, Plot 5 (shared with Neil and Janet)

Sources

Probable

Find a Grave memorial 135357637 (Archibald McKinnon) with gravestone transcription, Lovat Cemetery

Probable

Bruce Township "Migrants" compilation (Anne Judd) — names an Archibald as father of Neil and Hugh MacKinnon

Research next

A record naming Archibald as Neil's father (Neil's Ontario marriage or a sibling's death record). The 1861 census of Bruce Township (Archibald, about 65). On Tiree, the register (from 1766) should hold Archibald's baptism around 1796 and Neil's in 1827; the Tiree censuses of 1841 and 1851 show no Archibald-and-Neil household, so the family probably left before 1841. Ontario civil registration began in 1869, so there is no civil record of his 1866 death.