Coubrough Family in Canada

The Coubroughs are a Scots family whose earliest records seem to be in the Campsie/Stirling area, about 1550. In the 19th century, they began moving to such exotic places as Canada, Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, Uraguay, and the United States. The surname is quite rare fewer than 300 families in the world today) and we believe that all those who bear the name today are directly connected somewhere in the mists of time.

We are searching for Coubroughs from anywhere in the world at any time. My own family line came to Canada in late 1853 or very early 1854 when my great-grandfather, James Coubrough, b. 1831 in Eastwood Parish, Renfrew County, and his wife, Annie MacDonald, (b. abt. 1826) landed in either Halifax, Nova Scotia or St. John, New Brunswick. James was in the British Army, but all I know about his career there is that he was in 8 Coy, 5 Btn, R.A.

They moved to Dawn Township, in what is now Ontario, sometime between May 1856 and March 1858. Her parents may have been Neil and Flora MacDonald who moved to Dawn Township at about the same time as Jim and Annie went to the East Coast. Jim and Annie settled within a couple of miles of Neil and Flora, where they (Jim and Annie) raised 4 children: one son, Mathew, and three daughters-Flora Jane (Jenny), Mary Ann (Minnie), and Barbara.

I am especially interested in what became of the daughters, of whom I know only that Jenny married William Atwell in 1878, that Barbara married and moved to the United States, and that Mary Ann was never married. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

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