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Descendants of Alexander Irvine & Jane Cheyne

Generation No. 1

1. ALEXANDER¹ IRVINE (ALEXANDER^A, ALEXANDER^B, ALEXANDER^C) was born Abt. July 1789 in New Deer, Aberdeen, Scotland, and died 1871 in Ristigouche, Bonaventure Co.,PQ. He married JANE CHEYNE 1822 in New Deer, Aberdeen, Scotland, daughter of WILLIAM CHEYNE and MARY FORSYTHE. She was born 1799 in New Deer, Aberdeen, Scotland, and died 1874 in Ristigouche, Bonaventure Co., PQ.

Notes for ALEXANDER IRVINE:
Alexander is listed as a farmer in the 1831 census from Bonaventure, Quebec. Both their daughter Jane (1834) and son Donald (1841) were born in Flatlands, N.B. They eventually settled in Matapedia, Quebec where Jane Cheyne's brother William visited periodically. Jane's brother came to Canada in approximately 1822.
Thelma Pratt Downs wrote that " My great grandfather Alexander Irvine died prior to 1871, he was laid to rest on his farm on the hills overlooking the Restigouche River; across from the hills of New Brunswick which reminded him of his never forgotten homeland. A few years after his death my great grandmother Jane Cheyne Irvine passed away and was laid to rest beside him in their private buriel plot. Their graves can easily be seen from the highway a few miles east of Matapedia. In religion they were staunch members of the Church of Scotland."
In the 1861 CENSUS the spelling of IRVINE was IRVIN

Christening date/place: source from OPR LDS - Scottish Church Records

More About ALEXANDER IRVINE:
Burial: 1871, Ristigouche, Bonaventure Co., PQ
Christening: July 06, 1789, New Deer Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland
Fact 1: 1789, baptised witnessed by Alexander Gordon & Alexander Irvine

Notes for JANE CHEYNE:
3 ii. Jane Cheyne (#5762) was born circa 1800. She died 1874.(676) She married Alexander Irvine circa 1825.(677) (Alexander Irvine is #1078.) Alexander Irvine was born 1793.(678) (Additional notes for Alexander Irvine(679)) He died 1861.(680) (See Alexander Irvine for the continuation of this line.)source: Cheyne Clan web site.

She emigrated with Alexander Irvine from about 1826.

Christening date/place: from Scottish Church Records OPR LDS

More About JANE CHEYNE:
Burial: Ristigouche, Bonaventure Co., PQ
Christening: December 26, 1799, Auchterless, Aberdeen, Scotland

Marriage Notes for ALEXANDER IRVINE and JANE CHEYNE:
Marriage Date 1822 Place Aberdeen Scotland. Source of information IGI Records Batch No. 5012986, Source Call No. 1553552 Sheet 24

Children of ALEXANDER IRVINE and JANE CHEYNE are:

2.	i.	MARY ANN² IRVINE, b. November 12, 1826; d. December 23, 1903.
3.	ii.	SARAH ANN IRVINE, b. June 19, 1828; d. 1872.
	iii.	WILLIAM IRVINE, b. May 11, 1831.
	iv.	ISABELLE IRVINE, b. 1834; d. 1900; m. (1) HUGH HARVEY PRENTICE; b. 1810; m. (2) THOMAS MCDOUGALL.
4.	v.	JANE CHEYNE IRVINE, b. November 30, 1834, Flat Lands, Restigouche Twnshp., N.B.; d. Aft. 1901.
5.	vi.	ALEXANDER IRVINE, b. February 24, 1837, Flat Lands, N.B......Quebec; d. March 10, 1919, Mann Settlement, Matapedia PQ.
6.	vii.	DONALD MCCORMICK IRVINE, b. September 15, 1841, Flatlands, N.B.; d. April 25, 1912, Matapedia , PQ.
	viii.	MARION MCCORMACK IRVINE, b. September 26, 1843; d. October 27, 1928; m. WILLIAM PRATT, April 18, 1871; b. 1832; d. 1923.

Marriage Notes for MARION IRVINE and WILLIAM PRATT:
grandparents of Thelma Pratt Downs.

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