William married Rebecca Winifred HIPSON about 1857 in Nova Scotia. Rebecca was born in 1836 in Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 22 Jun 1867 in Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William E. McDONNELL was born on 22 Oct 1857 in Lower Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 8 May 1937 in Everett, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
2. John Franklin McDONNELL was born on 18 Dec 1858 in Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 17 Aug 1951 in Massachusetts.
3. Francis Eldridge McDONNELL was born on 25 Nov 1859 in Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 16 Sep 1936 in Lower Woods Harbour, Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
4. Ann Lavinia McDONNELL was born in Nov 1862 in Nova Scotia; died on 8 Nov 1944.

William married Henrietta Hipson GOODWIN on 7 Nov 1869 in Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Henrietta was born in 1849 in Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 25 Oct 1870 in Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William J. McDONNELL was born about 1870 in Nova Scotia; died on 15 Nov 1893.

William married Sophie Emily WRAYTON on 29 May 1875 in Pubnico, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Sophie was born on 22 Feb 1853 in Shelburne, Nova Scotia; died on 22 Mar 1895 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ina McDONNELL was born on 16 Aug 1876 in Argyle Sound, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; died on 20 Apr 1958 in Massachusetts.
2. Cassie McDONNELL was born in 1890; died in 1895 in Massachusetts.

Notes:

ANGUS MACDONNELL AND FAMILY
Angus Macdonnell of "Cullachy" in Glengarry, Scotland, came to Antigonish before the dawn of the 19th century. He was married to Ann Bigelow, a native of Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. She first belonged to the Protestant Church but became a convert to the Catholic faith, and lived to the age of 106 years. The issue of her marriage to Mr. Macdonnell was as follows: James, Angus, Charles, William, John and Ann. All the sons excepting James and Angus were, during the greater portion of their lives, Master Mariners, sailing their own vessels, as was their father before them.
The son James came to Port Hood in early life and remained there all the rest of his days. He was widely known, and everywhere respected in the County of Inverness. He was born in Antigonish on May 30th, 1821, and died at Port Hood, September 21st, 1880. He was appointed Prothonotary of the Supreme Court for the County of Inverness on November 30th, 1853; a Justice of the Peace on 13th August 1854; Inspector of Schools-the first for this County under the Public School law, in 1864; Commissioner for taking Affidavit’s in the Supreme Court in 1856; Captain of the 2nd Regiment of Militia, Inverness, in 1863; and Registrar of Deeds for this County in January 1871. In all these positions he did credit to himself, and justice to the public. He was an official of acknowledged accuracy and neatness, with a manner and memory that were quite uncommon.
Mr. James Macdonnell was married to Charlotte Fuller of Arichat. Her father was John Fuller, Esquire, who was successively High Sheriff and County Treasurer for the County of Richmond. She was born in Arichat on October 11th, 1824, and died at Port Hood on May 5th, 1894. The family of Mr. and Mrs. James Macdonnell were the following: William, who became a Master Mariner, sailed the seven seas for many years, and is now exploiting our absorbing Western heritage; John A., who succeeded his father as our respected Registrar of Deeds and Prothonotary; Thomas in Seattle, Washington; Mary Louise, who lives in Antigonish, and was married to the late Dougald MacDonald, formerly a prosperous merchant of Port Hood, and latterly one of the best respected commercial travellers of Nova Scotia; Annie Laurie, who is married to Samuel McAdam, a printer and publisher of long experience now in the United States; Ada, who died young and unmarried; and Maggie, who was married to the late Hon. Daniel MacNeil Judge of the County Court for District No. 6.
Angus Macdonnell, brother to James lived some years in Inverness County where he learned the trade of Saddler and Harness maker.. 3e removed from this, and ultimately settled down into a life, of mercantile business at Pugwash in the County of Cumberland.
John, son of Angus Senior, also spent some time in this, and was appointed Deputy Sheriff for the District of Juste-au-Corps n 1820. He afterwards moved away never to return.
Ann, daughter of Angus Senior, was married to Captain Artemus Cameron, a Nova Scotian, who was drowned on the Grand Banks. [n her early widowhood she came to Port Hood and started an hotel known at that time as the "Cameron House". She kept and conduce-;ed that house creditably all the rest of her life. After her death her mother took charge and held it till she was past the century mile stone. 4s a memorial of happy things that were, this aged and vacant house, till stands, silent, sad and gray.

Angus married Ann Chipman BIGELOW. Ann (daughter of Reuben BIGELOW and Lavinia SKINNER) was born on 30 Sep 1803 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia; died in 1888 in Port Hood, Inverness, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Reuben and Lavinia lived a few years in Cornwallis, then moved to Antigonish.

Reuben married Lavinia SKINNER on 9 Nov 1802. Lavinia (daughter of Charles SKINNER and Sarah OSBORN) was born on 27 Jan 1784 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 9 May 1874 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amasa married Roxanna CONE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

“Sarah and Charles Skinner went to Maugerville, N.B. just before the Loyalists, and it is assumed they might have gotten a good price for their land and moved to Bass River, N.S., where Charles was a school teacher. They stayed there about five years before moving to Kings County. The school records in Bass River were burned in a fire.” (Source: Isabel Palmeter) This would suggest that the family came to Cornwallis Township just prior to the influx of Loyalists.

Charles Skinner was a grantee at Cornwallis township, that he was born 3 Jan 1748 in Colchester, Connecticut, son of Aaron Skinner. He married 24 Nov 1774 at Passamaquoddy, Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Osborn, perhaps from Martha’s Vinyard. She lists 15 children, including my Ann Skinner, who married 1802 Thomas Lyons. (Source: Esther Clark Wright in “Planters and Pioneers”)

The Skinners first came to Passamaquoddy, Campobello or Indian Island (all in Passamaquoddy Bay in Charlotte, New Brunswick), where Charles might have taught school from 1774 to 1778. They moved to St. John and Maugerville in 1778 where he taught school until 1780. The arrival of the Loyalists may have provided financial incentive to sell their lands profitably. They moved to Five Islands, Cumberland, N.S. (but I think then all part of Cornwallis Township) where the family lived for the first five years, before they settled in 1785 at Little Pereau, near Blomidon, in the Cornwallis area of present day Kings County. (Source: Rev. Davison in his book “Alice of Grand-Pré”)

Charles Skinner was a school teacher by profession, and one reference said he was a “refined gentleman”.

The father of Samuel Skinner (i.e., Charles Skinner) came from New England to the Maritimes just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. (Source: The book “Biographical Review… Province of New Brunswick” published in Boston in 1900 page 97)

“Died 15 January 1848 in Cornwallis, Mrs. Sarah Skinner in 88th year, daughter of the late Samuel Osborne of Martha’s Vineyard, U.S. They removed to Casco, Maine, to New Brunswick, then to Nova Scotia. Born 22 July 1760, married in NB at age 16 to Charles Skinner, native of Connecticut. Leaves 8 sons, 7 daughters, 113 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren. Late W. A. Chipman was a brother-in-law. Edward Manning and George Dimock sons-in-law. Rev. I. E. Bill married a granddaughter.” (Source: The Christian Messenger an early Baptist magazine).

Charles married Sarah OSBORN on 24 Nov 1774 in Passamaquoddy, Nova Scotia. Sarah was born on 22 Jul 1760 in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; died on 15 Jul 1848 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From notes of A. Joanne (Irving) Hunt, Litchfield, NH:

From The Christian Messenger (an early Baptist magazine): “Died 15 January 1848 in Cornwallis, Mrs. Sarah Skinner in 88th year, daughter of the late Samuel Osborne of Martha’s Vineyard, U.S. They removed to Casco, Maine, to New Brunswick, then to Nova Scotia. Born 22 July 1760, married in NB at age 16 to Charles Skinner, native of Connecticut. Leaves 8 sons, 7 daughters, 113 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren. Late W. A. Chipman was a brother-in-law. Edward Manning and George Dimock sons-in-law. Rev. I. E. Bill married a granddaughter.”