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The Bury Bulletin, 1952.

The Bury Family by J. M. Warwick, Lambton Settlers Series Volume 2, More Early Days Along the St. Clair, published by the Lambton Branch of the OGS (These articles were originally published in 1948-1949 as part of the Lambton Centennial Series in the Sarnia Observer):
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     Now history records that William and Phillip were but two of John Colbrook Bury's twenty children; and besides William Bury of Sombra, four other children of John Bury brought his blood-line to Lambton and perpetuated it until today. The other four were daughters. First there was Jane, named for himself and the darling of his heart. She came to Lambton to visit her brother William and met his Port Lambton neighbour, Angus McDonald from the Isle of Mull. She and Angus became the forbears of a host of McDonalds, Harts, McLeans, McGregors, McSweeneys, McPhails and others who have colored the history of both sides of the river.

The McDonald Family by Helen McDonald Wreath, Lambton Settlers Series Volume 2, More Early Days Along the St. Clair, published by the Lambton Branch of the OGS (These articles were originally published in 1948-1949 as part of the Lambton Centennial Series in the Sarnia Observer):
     In 1805, Hector McDonald of the Isle of Mull, and his wife Margaret McIntyre, set sail for Upper Canada and Baldoon with their five children, Margaret, Flora, Angus, Christina and Mary. They crossed the Atlantic safely enough but shortly after their arrival on the Sydenham fell victim to a plague now unknown to Lambton or Kent - malaria...
     ... Their one son, Angus had been born only in 1790 and was now but a stripling of fifteen years...Their one solace must have been the education they had provided him when they had sent him from Mull to a grammar school in Edinburgh.
     ...A school was in process of building near "The Forks" as Wallaceburg was then known, and Angus McDonald, proving his qualifications to the satisfaction of the pioneer school board became the first school-master.
     ...Angus McDonald threw school-teaching into the Snye and headed for Amherstburg to learn a more profitable vocation. He apprenticed himself to a tannery there...Angus McDonald built the river-front's first tannery in 1818...
     Jane Bury, daughter of John Colbrook Bury and Elizabeth Traver, born in 1797 at Scotland, Oakland township, Brant county...daughter of an educated Englishman, was impressed by Angus' mind...Presbyterian Angus and Anglican Jane were married by a Methodist missionary, the Rev. James Evans...

The McDonalds of Port Lambton
The first child of Angus and Jane was Elizabeth, born in 1830 and named for her grandmother Bury down in Kent. She grew up and married Samuel Hart and lived first in Sombra Village. Later the Harts came into possession of part of the McDonald holdings at Port Lambton and the sixth generation of Harts live there still. Another daughter Catherine, arrived in 1831. She lived to become the bride of Donald Gilean McLean of Lobo township in Middlesex county and lived there until she moved with her husband to Michigan...
     The third child of Angus and Jane McDonald was another daughter, Mary, born in 1834. She married Richard Cole of St. Clair, Michigan, and resided with him near that town and later at Oxford in the same State. They had one daughter, Susan Cole, born in 1854.
     Margaret McDonald, born in 1836, fourth daughter of the McDonalds, became a school teacher and never married...
     Martha McDonald, born 1838, married Duncan Gregor McGregor and lived at Algonac, later moving to Bay City, Michigan, where her daughter still lives.
     Jane McDonald arrived in the McDonald menage in 1840. She married John McSweeney of Smith's Creek in St. Clair county, Michigan, who later became a Detroit merchant. The McSweeneys are still well-known in Detroit...
     The seventh McDonald child and first son was William Richard, born in 1842. William married Eliza Chambers and lived for some time in Sombra township. He moved to the Canadian West and homesteaded in Manitoba. He died at a comparatively early age and his family returned to Ontario, taking up residence at Dresden, in Kent County. Later his daughters moved to Detroit, Michigan. William's two daughters Miss Jessie McDonald and Mrs. Margaret Crawford still spend their summers in a Port Lambton cottage on the banks of the St. Clair river.
     Dorothy McDonald was added to the family in 1846. She never married...
     Duncan Angus McDonald, born in 1848, married a member of two of the earliest families to settle on the American shore of the St. Clair. Mary Elizabeth Cottrell was the daughter of George Cottrell and his wife Archange Minnie. Cottrellville township in St. Clair county was named for his family. The Minnie family had arrived in North America from France with General Lafayette at the time of the American Revolution...
     Maurice Minnie of Sombra and his brother Lewis Minnie are members of the same family and at the same time members of the Bury clan through their mother who a grand-daughter of William Bury of Sombra. Born Mary Elizabeth Smith some 93 years ago she died in Cleveland in the summer of 1948.
     Duncan Angus McDonald's move to Michigan came with the sale of the family farm north of Port Lambton in 1899.
     Duncan Angus and his wife were the parents of five children, all daughters. They are Anna Grace McDonald; Marietta McDonald, now Mrs. Arthur Kiddle; Jennie Gertrude McDonald, Mrs. W. Wallace Hazen; Edna Lois McDonald, Mrs. Watson Frank Walker; and Helen Catherine, now Mrs. Thomas Wreath of Sombra.
     Florence McDonald, born in 1850, was the youngest and last child of Angus McDonald of the Isles and his wife Jane Bury. She later married Wilson Brooks McGregor and lived in Cottrellville township on the American shore of the St. Clair, later moving to St. Clair, Michigan.
     Besides the ten McDonald children who reached maturity there where two others who died young, both of them boys and both of them named Angus. One of them died in infancy and one at the age of four years.

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Hector McDonald †1805   Katherine McIntyre 1767-ca 1805
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Angus McDonald ca 1793-1856