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THE ANCESTRY OF ANDREW BONAR LAW
1 Andrew Bonar Law
b 16
Sep 1858, Kingston, New Brunswick
d 30
Oct 1923, London
2 James Law of Kingston and Richibucto,
New Brunswick, Presbyterian minister
b 1822, co. Antrim
d 6 Oct 1882, Benorm, near Coleraine
m 3 Nov 1852, Halifax, Nova Scotia
3 Eliza Ann Kidston
bap 30 Dec 1823, Halifax
d ca 1861
4 Robert Law of co. Londonderry, farmer
b
d
m
5
b
d
6 William Kidston of Halifax, merchant
b Halifax, bap 22 May 1788
d 1
Aug 1836, Spryfield, Nova Scotia
m 13 Jul 1811, Pictou, Nova Scotia
7 Elizabeth Louisa Dawson
b ca
1793
d
8
b
d
m
9
b
d
10
b
d
m
11
b
d
12 William
Kidston of Glasgow, merchant banker
b 2 Nov 1757, bap 6 Nov 1757, Logie,
Perthshire
d
26 Nov 1831
m 15 Mar 1784, Airth
13 Catherine
Glen
b 4 Jun 1754, bap 27 Jun 1754, St
Ninians, Stirlingshire
d
11 Dec 1838, Glasgow
14 John
Dawson of Pictou
b
Kirkpatrick Irongray, Kirkcudbrightshire, bap
9 Apr 1761, Kirkpatrick Irongray
d 2
Jan 1815, Pictou
m
15
b
d
16
b
d
m
17
b
d
18
b
d
m
19
b
d
20
b
d
m
21
b
d
22
b
d
m
23
b
d
24 Richard
Kidston of New York and of Halifax
bap 15 Sep 1736, Logie
d 1816, Halifax
m
1756
25 Anne
Thompson
b
d
26 Archibald
Glen of St Ninians
bap 2 Oct 1710, St Ninians
d
m 30 Oct 1735, St Ninians
27 Elizabeth
Anderson
b
d
28 James
Dawson
b
d
m
29 Agnes
Germory
b
d
30
b
d
m
31
b
d
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
W. Innes Addison, The Matriculation Albums of the University of Glasgow from 1728 to 1858
(Glasgow, 1913)
R.J.Q. Adams, Bonar Law (London, 1999)
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia
(Salem, 1910)
George Patterson, A History of the County of Pictou, Nova Scotia (Montreal, 1877)
J.P. MacPhie, Pictonians at Home and Abroad (Boston, 1914)
Shelagh MacKenzie and Scott Robson,
eds., Halifax Street Names (Halifax,
2004)
Burke’s Landed Gentry
R. Menzies Fergusson, Logie: A Parish History (Paisley, 1905)
Charles Rogers, Memorials of the Scottish Family of Glen (Edinburgh, 1888)
Extract from New Brunswick Courier,
13 Nov 1852 (archives.gnb.ca/Search/NewspaperVitalStats/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&guid=039C15F1-56BB-4A9B-91FE-2057290929AB)
Kirkpatrick Irongray parish registers
Airth parish registers
Logie parish registers
St Ninians parish registers
Mary Peck, The Bitter with the Sweet
(Tantallon, Nova Scotia, 1983)
Perthshire Courier, 22 Sep 1836
The Scotsman, 19 Dec 1838
The Scots Magazine, 1811
Probate
record of John Dawson
Notes
Number 5 may have been a McDonald (see web.archive.org/web/20060712233805/http://www.nbgs.ca/firstfamilies/FAMILY-L-2006.pdf).
The widow of John Dawson (number 14) was
named
Elizabeth. They may be the John Dawson and “Miss MacKegan” married
in 1791.