Margaret “Peggy” Malloy
When Margaret “Peggy” Malloy was born 08 FEB 1808 • Kilchenzie, Argyleshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Neil Milloy (also spelled Molloy), was 44 and her mother, Isabel Watson, was 43. She married John Cairns on 30 January 1827, in Thornhill, York, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. They farmed in King Township, York, Ontario, Canada and her husband, died in 1879. In the 1881 census, the farm was divided between her sons James and William, with Peggy living in the original house with William.
She moved to Port Elgin in Bruce County a few years later (by July 1885) , along with James and his brother Adam was already farming there in 1880 with his wife Esther Cherry who was from Conc 18 King Twp and whose parents were from Ireland. His brother Neil had moved to Bruce County in 1855.
She died on 22 February 1888, in Bruce, Ontario, Canada, at 81, and was buried in Schomberg, York, Ontario, Canada.
Margaret’s sister Isabella Malloy (1815) married John’s brother Donald Cairns (1804) and purchased John’s first farm on Conc 6 Vaughn Township. In 1878 there were at least six Malloy farms in the area south of Laskey..
