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Alexander MCINNIS

Male 1807 - 1876  (69 years)


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  • Name Alexander MCINNIS 
    Born 1807  Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1876  Russell County, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5269  Patrick Goodmurphy Family Tree
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2020 

    Father John MCGINNIS
              b. Aug 1755, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 31 Dec 1849, St Raphael, Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 94 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Christy MCLEOD
              b. 1776, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 24 Dec 1859, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F1798  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret MCDONALD
              b. 10 Aug 1819, St Raphael, Lancaster, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 22 May 1880, St Bernard, Fournier, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years) 
    Married 4 May 1842  St Finnans Alexandria, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Alexander A (Sandy) MCINNIS
              b. 8 May 1843, Lancaster, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 12 Oct 1921, Shell Lake, Washburn, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)  [natural]
     2. Katharine Anna MCINNIS
              b. 4 Feb 1845, Alexandria, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 3 May 1928, Lemieux, Prescott and Russell County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)  [natural]
     3. Archibald MCINNIS
              b. 4 Jun 1846, Alexandria, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 30 Jan 1924, Fournier, Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)  [natural]
     4. Mary MCINNIS
              b. Abt 1850, Plantagenet South, Prescott County, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 22 May 1900, Plantagenet South, Prescott County, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 50 years)  [natural]
     5. Christina MCINNIS
              b. 10 Apr 1851, Cambridge Twp, Russell County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 2 Jun 1920, South Plantagenet, Prescott County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)  [natural]
     6. John Patrick MCINNIS
              b. 2 Mar 1854, Curran, South Plantagenet Twp, Prescott County, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 18 Apr 1931, Lemieux, Prescott and Russell County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2020 
    Family ID F1797  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • Notes for Alexander McInnis: Alexander was one of the early settlers in the Lemieux area. He had an agricultural farm on the Boundary Lot No. 3, which remained in the family until 1975. They were both buried on the McInnis family plot in Fournier, Ontario in the Parish of St. Bernard in the old section of the cemetery.

      It was also known that Aleck (Alexander) McInnis was a good fiddler. He caused quite a stir on the opening night of the Riceville Townhall in 1859. There was a Mr. Campbell of Lochiel in Glengarry County, who had been invited to the Hall and who had a reputation as a Phrenologist who claimed to be able to show people how to be happy, how to choose a profession, how to select a mate and how to raise children. He also claimed he had a system of measuring a person's character and intelligence by feeling the bumps and depressions of the skull. This has never been accepted by scientist and today the practice of phrenology is considered a form of fraud. This Mr. Campbell was a one-man show. Besides lecturing on phrenology and giving demonstrations on the heads of half a dozen of those present, he played the violin. He must have been something of a real musician because some of the stuff he played was classical music. The hall was filled with farmers, theirs sons and daughters coming from miles around through the bush. Well, there wasn't a man or a women in the hall who didn't profess to be able to tell what was good fiddle. They had heard Aleck McInnis, the local fiddler, who had a widespread reputation as a dance fiddler and after listening to the strange classical music played by Mr. Campbell, everyone decided they had enough. One "bold" farmer went over to Mr. Campbell and asked him if he would mind lending his fiddle to Mr. McInnis, who was there at the time, the crowd wanted to hear his music. By way of variety, Mr. Campbell agreed. Then, there were loud calls for Aleck McInnis to which he modestly responded. After doing some tuning up, came the lively jig music for which Aleck was famous. Everybody in the hall was tapping the floor with their feet. Then Mr. McInnis stopped playing because he wanted his own fiddle. So he left the hall and returned home to get it. It was about a mile away from the hall. While he was away, Mr. Campbell played his classical music, which was not to the crowd's pleasure. It took Aleck about 45 minutes, the road had been rough and dark. It didn't take him long to get tuned up and started his jig stuff with a swing and abandon which set the crowd applauding. It was 10:30 when he began playing and stopped wornout, it was daylight. Everybody danced all night. It was a night to remember by many oldtimers who lived along the banks of the Nation and Scotch rivers.