Notes In 1886, F McDonald, 16, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 9 boys from Barton Regis Union, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, accompanied by Mr. Bird, and en route to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
"Copy of Reports of Inspection of Pauper Children sent out to Canada made by Immigration Officers of the Dominion Government and received from the Colonial Office on the 12th December 1888."
Report of Mr. Samuel Gardner, Government Immigration Agent at St. John, New Brunswick.
Frank McDonald, aged 15. From Barton Regis Union. Now with Israel Spragg, Springfield, Kino's Co.?Was placed with Geo. Willigar (not Milligan), 1 May 1886, who found him lazy, untruthful, and ugly, in short, a nuisance; has been with Drake Hatfield, Kars, and Daniel Morrill, Springfield; neither had a good word for him; is now doing much better; has to do so in order to keep his place; presume he will from his experience got along now, as he is in his seventeenth year."
On February 18, 1897, at Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, a marriage was registered between Frank McDonald, 23, machinist, born in Bristol, England, to John Charles and Mary McDonald; and Hattie Perrie, 22, born in Portland, Maine, USA, to George and Martha Perrie.
In 1900, Hattie McDonald, 26, and son George McDonald, 4 months of age, were residing with her married sister, Mary A. DeYoung, at 250 Cherry Street, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.