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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

  

Parents

 

2  James Law of Kingston and Richibucto, New Brunswick, Presbyterian minister

   b 1822, Maddybenny, co. Londonderry

   d 6 Oct 1882, Maddybenny

   m 3 Nov 1852, Halifax, Nova Scotia

3  Eliza Ann Kidston

   bap 30 Dec 1823, Halifax

   d ca 1861

 

Grandparents

 

4  Robert Law of Maddybenny, farmer

   b

   d 3 Apr 1857

   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

 

Great-grandparents

 

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

 

Great-great-grandparents

 

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

 

 

Sources

 

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)

Death record for James Law (www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1882/06387/4833927.pdf)

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 Coleraine Chronicle, 14 Oct 1882

The Scots Magazine, 1811

Probate record of John Dawson

Will books, Connor and Down

 

Notes

 

Number 5 may have been a McDonald (see web.archive.org/web/20060712233805/http://www.nbgs.ca/firstfamilies/FAMILY-L-2006.pdf).

 

A marriage notice in The Northern Whig of 10 Nov 1879 states that James Law (number 2) was a cousin of Martha, daughter of William Millar of Ballymagarry.

 

The widow of John Dawson (number 14) was named Elizabeth. They may be the John Dawson and “Miss MacKegan” married in 1791.