Margaret Davidson - McGuigan Cemetery - Merrickville, Ontario
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McGuigan Cemetery is located at 448 Country Road 23 (Burritts Rapids Road), directly across the river from Clowes Lock, about 0.8 km south on River Road from Upper Nicholsons Lockstation.
Waymark Code: WMT897
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 10/13/2016
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Margaret Davidson, who died at 2 years of age on either November 5 (Brockville Gazette) or 13th (gravestone), 1829.
The Brockville Gazette on December 4, 1829 reported:
"DIED at the Rideau, near Merrickville, on Thursday the 9th ult. Francis Ivers, son of Mr. R. Frayne, Master Mason of that part of the Rideau Works, and belonging to the Royal Engineer department, aged 18 months.
At the same place on the 5th ult. from a contusion in the head, Margaret, daughter of P. Davidson, Esq. of the firm of Hay and Davidson, canal contractor"
Name of Cemetery: McGuigan Cemetery
Condition of Death Mask: Good
Gravestone Inscription:
SACRED
TO
The MEMORY of
MARGARET DAVIDSON
Who DEPARTED This Life
Nov 13th 1829
AGED 2 Years
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