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Douglas Cameron Macdonald

Douglas Cameron Macdonald

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Douglas Cameron MacdonaldDouglas Cameron Macdonald (son of James Malcolm Macdonald, Jnr. and Janet Lee Short).

    Family/Spouse: Tami Marie Grakowsky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Ian Thomas Macdonald
    2. Megan Lee Macdonald

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  James Malcolm Macdonald, Jnr.James Malcolm Macdonald, Jnr. (son of James Malcolm Macdonald, Snr. and Helen Elizabeth Lasbury).

    James + Janet Lee Short. Janet was born on 19 Apr 1937 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 2 Jan 1998 in South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Janet Lee Short was born on 19 Apr 1937 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 2 Jan 1998 in South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FindaGrave ID: 52350600

    Children:
    1. Deborah Lee Macdonald
    2. 1. Douglas Cameron Macdonald


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  James Malcolm Macdonald, Snr.James Malcolm Macdonald, Snr. was born on 16 Apr 1903 in Poquonock, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (son of James L. R. Macdonald and Mary H. Mohn); died on 16 Jan 1984 in Warehouse Point, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FindaGrave ID: 14502104

    James married Helen Elizabeth Lasbury on 1 Mar 1930 in Broad Brook, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Helen (daughter of James Newton Lasbury, Snr. and Grace Townsend) was born on 28 Oct 1906 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 11 Dec 1984 in Warehouse Point, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Helen Elizabeth LasburyHelen Elizabeth Lasbury was born on 28 Oct 1906 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (daughter of James Newton Lasbury, Snr. and Grace Townsend); died on 11 Dec 1984 in Warehouse Point, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FindaGrave ID: 14502129

    Children:
    1. 2. James Malcolm Macdonald, Jnr.
    2. Marilyn Grace Macdonald


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  James L. R. Macdonald was born in 1868; died in 1929 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FindaGrave ID: 14502066

    James married Mary H. Mohn on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Mary H. Mohn
    Children:
    1. 4. James Malcolm Macdonald, Snr. was born on 16 Apr 1903 in Poquonock, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 16 Jan 1984 in Warehouse Point, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

  3. 10.  James Newton Lasbury, Snr.James Newton Lasbury, Snr. was born on 24 Mar 1877 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA (son of George Lasbury and Esther M. Schoonmaker); died on 19 Feb 1961 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FindaGrave ID: 62058760
    • Occupation: Farmer
    • Alt Birth: 16 Mar 1877
    • Military Service: 12 Sep 1918, Broad Brook, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

    Notes:

    NOTES FOR JAMES NEWTON LASBURY:
    1910 CENSUS East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 151B
    Lasbury, James, head, 33, married 6 yrs, CT, Eng, NY, tobacco farmer
    Grace, wife, 23, married 6 yrs, 2 births 2 living, ME, Maine, Eng
    Hazel, dau 5, CT
    Helen, dau, 3, CT

    Ezra Gilman Townsend, father-in-law, 71, wd, ME, Eng, Eng, wool sorter

    1920 CENSUS East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 136A
    Lasbury, James N, head, 43, married, CT, Eng, NY, tobacco farmer
    Grace, wife, 38, CT, ME, ME
    Hazel, dau, 15, CT
    Helen, dau, 13, CT
    James, son, 8, CT
    Gertrude, dau, 4, CT

    1930 CENSUS East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
    Lasbury, James N, head, 53, 1st married at 25, CT, Eng, NY, tobacco farmer
    Grace. wife, 44, 1st married qt 18, ME, ME, ME
    Hazel, dau, 25, CT
    Helen, dau, 23, CT
    James, son, 18, CT
    Gertrude, dau, 14, CT

    James married Grace Townsend on 19 Apr 1904 in Connecticut, USA. Grace (daughter of Ezra Gilman Townsend and Deborah Annie Ramsdell) was born on 23 Nov 1885 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA; died on 6 Apr 1962 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Grace TownsendGrace Townsend was born on 23 Nov 1885 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA (daughter of Ezra Gilman Townsend and Deborah Annie Ramsdell); died on 6 Apr 1962 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As: Jonah
    • FindaGrave ID: 62058752

    Notes:

    The following was derived from recollections of Gertrude Lasbury Marcy, daughter of Grace Townsend Lasbury and from Gladys H. Warren (from Marilyn Macdonald)

    James married Grace Townsend of Old Town., Maine on April 19, 1904. Grace's father was Ezra Gilman Townsend, born 7 Jun 1838, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA and worked for years as a wool sorter for Chapin Humphrey. He died on 23 Feb 1914, Broad Brook, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Her mother was Deborah Annie Ramsdell, born in 1841 in Lincolnville, Maine and worked at the old "National House" as a table girl. She died on 5 Jun 1893, Hudson, Penobscot, Maine, USA.

    Deborah's mother died very young on the family farm in Hudson, Maine. Deborah's father was a sea captain and sailed around Cape Horn (according to Gertrude Lasbury Marcy and the Lasbury genealogy). He was killed on the wharf at Winterport, Maine by a man who was indignant at not being hired. He struck him with "brass knuckles" in front of the people assembled to see the ship sail. Grace had four sisters, Nellie, Hattie, Maud, and Annie (age 9 when Grace was born) and two brothers, Charlie and Frank. Charles was killed by lightning and worked for Brown Thomson Company in Hartford, Connecticut. Maud and Grace thought the world of each other (14 months difference in age). The family called them "Sol" and Jonah".

    Grace was born on November 23, 1885 (likely in or near Bangor, Maine) and died at age 77 on April 6, 1962 in Broad Brook, Connecticut. She came to Connecticut with her family at about age 6 (based on Annie coming to Connecticut at age 15). Grace and Maud lived with their Sister Harriet Chase on Evergreen Avenue upon coming the Hartford. She was an apprentice dressmaker in Bangor, Maine (according to Gertrude Lasbury Marcy). Her sister Annie was a dressmaker and was put on the first floor of the dress shop as a hemmer because of her good looks. On the Connecticut tobacco farm, Grace cooked and baked on an old wood and coal stove in the early years, often a complete 3-5 course dinner twice every day for 4-6 tobacco farm hands and never complained. Grace loved to garden, sported large flowery hats and made the best molasses cookies and fresh bread with molasses almost every day. She was an accomplished horsewoman and often drove her horse to South Windsor, Connecticut to see her sister Maud Graham on Graham Road.

    James and Grace had three girls, Helen, Hazel and Gertrude (youngest child) and James Jr. Helen and James Malcolm Macdonald had two children, Marilyn Steele and James Malcolm Jr. Hazel and Burt Simmons had one child, Elizabeth Jane, and Margaret and James Lasbury had daughter Suzanne Peck Simmons (no relation to the above family) and son James III. (See page 202 for more details of Lasbury Family Genealogy).

    Reference
    "The Life of Annie M. Warren, written by Gladys H. Warren (her daughter-in-law) May, 1961, research from Marilyn Macdonald. (Annie was Grace Lasbury's sister).

    Children:
    1. Hazel Grace Lasbury was born on 5 Oct 1905 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 8 Jan 1966 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    2. 5. Helen Elizabeth Lasbury was born on 28 Oct 1906 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 11 Dec 1984 in Warehouse Point, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    3. James Newton Lasbury, Jnr. was born on 22 Apr 1911 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 8 Jun 1992 in Vernon, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    4. Gertrude Arlene Lasbury was born on 13 Apr 1915 in Connecticut, USA; died on 5 Jan 2009 in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA.