Magdalen (MacDonald) McGillivray (1775-1811)
Mrs Magdalen (MacDonald) McGillivray
She was married in 1800, at St. Mary's, Marylebone, London. Sir Alexander Mackenzie described Magdalen as, "an agreeable, lively brunette of the most expressive countenance". She was a brother of John MacDonald of Garth and their sister was married to General Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the First Anglo-Burmese War. She and her husband lived at Chateau Saint-Antoine in Montreal were the parents of five daughters and one son, but only two of their daughters reached adulthood: (1) Anna Maria, Mrs Thomas Richardson Auldjo (2) Magdalen Julia, wife of Vice-Admiral William Congreve Cutliffe Brackenbury.
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Image (cropped) Courtesy of the McCord Museum, Montreal