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gather
•
for ceilidh •
On the beautiful sunny
afternoon of June 29,
. nearly 200 descendants of •
John and Barbara.
(MacGregor) MacKenzie
gathered on the shore of
Lake Huron at ,the •
Ashfield Park, which is at
the foot of the '12th
Concession.,
This was an appropriate
settingas it is similar to
the lakeshore 'west of ,
• ICintail where Barbara and
her family settled when
they anived in Ashfield in.
1842. I3arbara, her three
sons,Colin, Alexander
and Roderick, and three
daughters, . Annie, •
Chrisdna and Isabelle had
, been evicted from Dorn,
in Killearnan Parish, Ross
Shire, Scotland after hav-
ing been.previously •evict-
ed from Scardroy, Stath
Conon two years earlier.
Due teill health and harsh
treatment •John had
become a casualty of the
eviction.
--Those in attendance -1.,
were descended from all ,
the above mentioned chil-
dren except Roderick who •
was drowned at the age of •
20 years, while helping to
load a lumber boat at
Grand Bend They cline.
from various parts of
Canada and the U.S. and
were of ail ages, from
three wpeks, to the late
• eighties. •Due to, the good
turnout the mention of
names would hazard the
tisk of missing some.
The afternoon, was
spent with the older peo-
ple visiting and reminisc-
1 ing many of them meet-
ing and getting acquainted -
with cousins whom they
had never met before. The
younger members took •
advantage of the nice day,
the wide sandy beach and
• shallow water for some
fun on the beach and a dip
hrthe-water.• '
Following a pot -luck
• lunch from an abundance
of food, and a brief meet-
ing, . those: present
• expressed their desire for a
:similar event at the .same
•location, in two yeats
•time..
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