15 January 2021

John MacDonald's Probate Contested In Court


From The American probate reports: containing recent cases of general value ..., the case of 
John MacDonald, who died in Windsor, Ontario, January 15, 1870....


John MacDonald's Will: Isabella MacDonald, wife; children James Sherman and William John MacDonald; ....wife and said (William) Hannah of the City of Detroit, executors...

MacDonald was engaged in the business of manufacturing tobacco.  March 3, 1870 she [the widow] sold the business...after paying debts, etc., brought money to Detroit and converted it to American money... .  After her marriage to Mr. Barnard, they moved to L'Anse, Michigan, where the complainants grew up and then left home.


L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, United States
John L Barnard Self M 48 New York, United States
Isabella Barnard Wife F 38 Ohio, United States
Sherman Barnard Son M 6 Michigan, United States
Mary Bell Barnard Daughter F 4 Michigan, United States
Eliza W Barnard Daughter F 3 Michigan, United States
Annie M Barnard Daughter F 1 Michigan, United States
James Macdonald Stepson M 17 Michigan, United States
William J Macdonald Stepson M 15 Canada
Joseph P Bray Other M 26 England
N H Hayden Other M 24 Michigan, United States
Annie Handly Other F 17 Michigan, United States
Adelia Hall Other F 20 Michigan, United States

Isabella McKendrick MacDonald Barnard died in 1926.


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