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THE MacINNES FAMILY.
In Scotland of old this family name was written and used without the "Mac". The name we now write as Robert Maclnnes would have been written in earlier Scotland as Robert Innes. We presume this was the chief difficulty in proving the rights of this family of Judique to a vast estate left in Scotland to the heirs and next of kin of one Jane Innes.
It would appear that none of that name without the Mac can now be found in Scotland to claim that large legacy, and that the development of the prefix "Mac" is a disqualification for such of the family as have come to America. Hence, the large estate of Innes has to wait, nay grow, and go a-begging for claimants who know their own name. The case is a painful comment on the misfortune of not preserving family names and records.
Some years ago we saw an official statement anent the Innes Estate, a portion of which was then valued at more than Eight Thousand Pounds sterling. We have a strong moral conviction that the true and lawful heirs to that estate are the MacInnes family of Judique: but, as at present advised, we have not the positive legal proof. We believe the Government of the Province would do well to appoint a strong and reliable Commission to trace out the history of this family in Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island and Scotland, in connection with the above estate. According to certain documents which we have read, the direct heir of Jane Innes was one Robert Innes. Who is or was this Robert Innes?
About the year 1800 Robert MacInnes came, with his family, to Judique, where he settled down permanently. For a considerable period of years, just before coming to Judique, Mr. MacInnes had lived and worked at his trade (that of a stone mason) in Prince Edward Island. We think he came to yonder Island in 1772, in the ship A!exander, with a large body of Highlanders brought out hither by Captain John MacDonald, Lord of Glenaladale. He was married to Mary MacEachern, sister to Aeneas MacEachern who afterwards became a Catholic Bishop, with jurisdiction over Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, and Nova Scotia. Two sisters and a brother of Mrs. Maclnnes also settled in Judique. They were Mrs. ZAllan Ban MacK Donnell, Mrs. Michael MacDonald, and Ewen MacEachern elsewhere referred to. The family of Robert Maclnnes by his wife Mary MacEachern consisted of three sons and nine daughters, namely: Alexander, Donald, Robert, Margaret, Mary, Cecily, Isabel, Elizabeth, Jane, Catherine, Mary and Ann.
Alexander (Alisdair Mac Rob) was married to Mary MacEachern of Creignish, and had the following sons and daughters: Hugh, Angus, Robert, Alexander, John, Allan, Charles, Cecily, Mary, Jessie and Flora.
Donald (son of Robert Sr.) was married to Mary Cameron, by whom he had: Charles, Robert, and several daughters.
Rob's daughters were married as follows: Margaret to John MacEachern of Creignish; Mary to Donald Cameron of Rear Judique; Cecily to Alexander MacDonald of East Bay; Isabel to John MacDonald of Little Mabou; Elizabeth to Angus MacDougall of Rear Judique Intervale; Jane to Wm. Sutherland of Little Mabou; Catherine to a MacDonald of Mabou Harbor; Mary (Jr.) was also married at East Bay; and Ann lived out her life on the homestead unmarried.
Robert, son of Alexander, was married to Rebecca Cameron with issue: Alexander, Robert, Allan, Mary, Cecily, Flora, Jessie and Mary.
John, son of Alexander, was married to Catherine Innis and had Alexander, Allan, and Mary. Charles was married to Flora MacLean with issue: Alexander, Allan and Mary.
Alexander, Rob Gow's son, was married to Jessie MacDonald of Port Hastings and had Robert, Duncan, Kate, Ann, Jane, and Mary Jane.
Allan was married to a Miss McInnis of Rear Judique with issue: Robert, Rebecca and Catherine.
Mary married Duncan MacEachern Rear Banks, Flora married Angus Cameron, West Lake Ainslie; Catherine, Hugh Gillis, Port Hood Mines; Jessie married John J. Daly, New York- and Mary married Angus R. MacDougall of Port Hood.
Duncan MacInnes married Martha Livingstone of Little Judique and his children are the sixth generation living successively on the one farm for more than a century.
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, d. Aft 1871 (Age ~ 85 years)