Margaret Winnifred Daniel

Family/Spouse: Alfred Keith MacDougall. Alfred (son of Alfred Lamb MacDougall and Jessie Elizabeth Cunningham) was born on 5 Nov 1911 in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand; died on 13 Jun 1943; was buried in Runnymede Memorial Cemetery, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living

W. + Katherine Cotter. Katherine (daughter of James Laurence Cotter and Frances Symington Ironside) was born on 1 Sep 1877 in Moose Factory, James Bay, Ontario, Canada; died on 6 Jul 1973 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online:

COTTER, JAMES LAURENCE, HBC fur-trader and photographer; b. 24 Dec. 1839 at Jaulna (Jalna), India, son of Colonel George Sackville Cotter and Agnes Kilgour; m. 13 Sept. 1868 at Sault Ste Marie, Ont., Frances Symington Ironside, daughter of George Ironside*, and they had 11 children; d. 6 Aug. 1889 at Sault Ste Marie.

James Laurence Cotter, a descendant of an Irish baronet, was brought up by his grandmother near Edinburgh, where he attended Loretto School. He arrrived in Canada in 1857 and joined the Hudson’s Bay Company that fall as an apprentice clerkeorge Simpson* described him as “a young gentleman of good education” and sent him to Fort La Cloche (Ont.) on Lake Huron, where he was to be kept “actively engaged” and pick up the “French & Indian” languages. Cotter served two seasons at Bersimis (Betsiamites, Que.) and another at Fort Chicoutimi (Que.) as a clerk and was then transferred to Moose Factory (Ont.), the administrative headquarters of the HBC’s Southern Department. At Moose Factory, where he arrived in October 1867, Cotter was initiated into the complexities of a large fur-trading centre. In 1872 he was assigned to the Eastmain District and made junior chief trader the following year. He recommended to George Simpson McTavish, officer-in-charge at Moose Factory, that the district headquarters be moved from Little Whale River (Petite rivière de la Baleine, Que.) to Fort George (Que.). McTavish agreed, and the move was made in the summer of 1874. Cotter was promoted to chief trader in 1875, and remained at Fort George for another year, until he was sent to Rupert’s House (Fort-Rupert, Que.) to take charge of Rupert’s River District.

In 1879 Cotter returned to Moose Factory to take charge of the Southern Department, which comprised the districts of Albany, Rupert’s River, Eastmain, Moose Factory, New Post (on the Abitibi River), and Kenogamissi (on the Moose River). Te a period of important changes in the development of northern Ontario: the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the opening up of the northwest to settlement were, in Cotter’s words, “beginning to have their effect in unsettling the minds of the people.” This general instability was reflected in the difficulty Cotter experienced in retaining qualified staff, especially skilled mechanics and boat builders. He was, however, successful in obtaining higher wages and better pensions for the men. He also succeeded, despite the restrictions on space in company ships, in having the wives and families of his staff brought out and housing provided for them. As settlement advanced to the north and west, the Indians too were affected. They were exposed to epidemics of whooping cough and influenza, which invariably meant death and sorrow, a decrease in fur returns, and an increase in their debts. To protect the Indians, Cotter prevailed upon them not to travel in areas afflicted by contagious diseases. During this unsettling period, Cotter, who attained the rank of chief factor in 1883, kept the fur returns for the Southern Department reasonably stable. His interests went beyond the fur trade. He established a sawmill for the HBC at Moose Factory, brought in livestock to improve the company’s herd, and planted several productive vegetable gardens.

It is perhaps as a photographer, however, and not as a company officer that Cotter is best remembered. He made his own camera, and took some of the first photographs of the area around Hudson Bay. Nine drawings in Harper’s Weekly (New Yfe 1879, for instance, were based on Cotter’s photographs. Historians and anthropologists are particularly interested in the artistically composed, sharp, clear photographs of people, buildings, and transportation. One of his photographs, taken at Moose Factory in 1871, shows a flat-roofed building which probably dates from 1762. Others show the Moose Factory bell tower, double-masted coastal vessels, the fort cannon pointing out to James Bay, and Indians and canoes. His pictures capture scenes reminiscent of a life which had changed little since the establishment of the fort in 1673. Cotter’s photographs of the Inuit of the Eastmain District at Little Whale River, with their skin tents and kayaks, are probably the first photographs from that area.

During the winter of 1888/89 Cotter was too ill to work. He and his family left Moose Factory for Sault Ste Marie, where he died on 6 August.

James married Frances Symington Ironside on 13 Sep 1868 in Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma County, Ontario, Canada. Frances (daughter of George Ironside and unknown) was born in 1842 in Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada; died on 20 Jul 1912 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Frances was very attractive and very Victorian. She wore "widow's weeds" after her husband's death until she died on July 20, 1912, at age 70, in Regina, Saskatchewan, at the home of her daughter, Katharine. Frances maintained a home for all her children for many years in Kingston, Ontario.

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George Cotter was a Colonel in the Royal Madras Artillery and served in the Indian campaign. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath. Some details of his career:

Lieutenant - 1832
Captain - 1842
Major - 1842
Lt. Colonel - 1858
Colonel - 1861
Retired full pension

He served in the Indian Mutiny Campaign in Bengal from June 1857 to September 1858. He was ordered to Allahabad but was detained in Benares in consequence of the mutiny at that station from July to September. He was employed in a command in the Palamov district in November and December. He joined the Jounpore Field Force and was present of the taking of Nusrutpore and Chanda, actions of Umeepore and Sultanpore, also the attack on the fort of Dowrara. He commanded the Madras Artillery at the siege of Lucknow. Afterwards, he was present at the relief of Azimghur, the taking of Jugdespore and several minor actions in command of the Artillery.

He was thanked by the Governor General of India. He was five times mentioned in dispatches and received the C.B. Medal with clasp. He, probably, received the C.B. (The Companion of the Order of the Bath) in about 1861. It is not mentioned in the Army list for 1861 but is in the edition for 1862. His Uncle Colonel George Sackville (1783-1869), probably his namesake, of the 69th Regiment fought in the Peninsular War and in the Battle of Waterloo.

George Sackville Cotter’s Obituary in the London Illustrated News of August 3, 1878, read:
Colonel George Sackville, C.B., Royal (late Madras) Artillery, on June 25, in his
seventieth year. He was the son of the Reverend James Laurence Cotter, LL.D.,
T.C.D., Vicar of Buttevant, County Cork, and he was descended from Sir James
Lombard Cotter, First Baronet of Rockforest in the County of Cork, Ireland. He
received his decoration for services in India in 1857.

George married Agnes Kilgour in 1836. Agnes (daughter of Martin Kilgour and unknown) was born in cir 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George Ironside was an Indian Agent for the Canadian government.

George + unknown. unknown was born in 1810; died in 1902. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The wife od George Ironside was reputedly a Shawnee Metis.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Vicar of Buttevant

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James Cotter matriculated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, on 22 June 1802. He received his B.A. at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1809. He received his LL.D. and LL.B. One of James Cotter's marriages occurred 1 Sep 1807.

James married Matilda Sampayo in 1807 in Diocese of Cloyne, Cork, Ireland. Matilda (daughter of Antonio Sampayo and unknown) was born in cir 1785 in Dublin, Ireland; died before 1827. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Martin Kilgour was ffrom Musselburgh, Scotland.

Martin + unknown. unknown died in cir 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George Ironside emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1780. He was an Indian Agent for the Canadian government.

George married Vocemassussia on 1 Apr 1810. Vocemassussia was born in 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Isabella

Notes:

Vocemassussia was an Ojibway Indian. She was reportedly the sister or half-sister of Tecumseh.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: St. Peter's College, Cambridge, England
• Education: Westminster School, London, England

Notes:

From: The Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee; Vol. IV. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.

"Cotter, George Sackville (1755-1831), poet and translator, was the fourth son of Sir James Cotter. He was educated at Westminster School, of which he was captain in 1770, and in 1771 he was elected to St. Peter's College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1775 and M.A. in 1779. Having taken holy orders he became vicar of Kilmacdonough, and rector of Kilcreddan-Garrivoe and Ightermorragh, diocese of Cloyne. In 1788 he published two volumes of 'Poems,' dedicated to Lady Shannon, and consisting of a poem in two books, entitled 'Prospects,' and a collection of odes and other fugitive pieces. In 1826 he published a translation of Terence for the use of the schools, in the preface to which he states that when at Westminster School he had been an actor in three of Terence's comedies. In the following year he printed seven of the plays of Plautus, 'translated literally and grammatically, and cleared of objectionable passages.' The later years of his life were spent at Youghal, Cork, and he died in 1831. By his wife, a daughter of Bayly Rogers, physician and banker of Cork, he left, with other issue, four sons."

George Sackville Cotter was named after Lord George Sackville, a friend of his father's, and was known as "a great musician." His translations of the comedies of Plautus was "Plauti Comoediae septem selectae; Anglice redditae, expurgatae." The comedies are Aulularia, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercator, Pseudolus, Trinummus, and Rudens. The book was published by J. F. Dove, London, in 1827. The poems dedicated to Lady Shannon were published by William Flynn, Cork, in 1788. The full title is "Poems, consisting of odes, songs, pastorals, satyrs, &c, and a descriptive poem in four books, called Prospects." His translations of the comedies of Terence was "Four Comedies of Terence, translated, and the stage management and mode of acting them set down, as they were acted at Westminster School; and also the other two comedies of Terence, the Heautotimorumenos and the Hecyra..." It was published by Dodges and M'Arthur, Dublin, in 1824. George Cotter also wrote "An Essay on the Best Mode of Extension of Agriculture in Ireland, by the breaking up and cultivating lay or grasslands." It was printed by A. Edwards, Cork, in 1802. It was originally published in "Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 1801." Grorge Cotter is listed in "A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors" by A. Austin Allibone, published by J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, in 1858, and in "The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary" by David J. O'Donoghue, published by the author, London, in 1892-3.

George married Margaret Rogers on 4 Nov 1775 in St. Finbarr's, Cork, Ireland. Margaret (daughter of Bayly Rogers and Martha Pigott) died on 11 Feb 1832 in (probably) Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Antonio Sampayo was a diplomat from the Argentine.

Antonio + unknown. unknown was born in cir 1760. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]