Re: Hello from London/trying to trace roots
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Re: Hello from London/trying to trace roots
Brian McCalmont 11/04/01
something just happened to the computer and i'm not sure whether you may have a part of a message. my family is fromislandmagee. the most recent death was jack mccalmont, a school principal, married to annette colwell a doctor. she is remarried and still lives in islandmagee.
my father was robert alexander mccalmont and he moved from ireland about 1915 to come to winnipeg, canada to work for eaton's store. timothy eaton came from that same part of ireland and asked his friends to come over to work for him.
dad's brother and sisters stayed on...one girl moved to australia. many of them were connected to the boats between stranraer and ireland....pilots or captains, etc. all for now, des