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Note: Mary McNab was baptized at Red River on Jan. 16, 1831 by the Rev. David T. Jones (HBCA E.4/1a). The usual practice of the the Church of England missionaries was to baptize children at the age of about one month. A birthdate of Dec. 25, 1830, one year earlier than what you have, would be reasonable. Her parents were listed as John and Jenny McNab, and, unusually, both of them were baptized the same day. John was stated to have been the son of Thomas and Mary McNab, and Jenny the lawful wife of John. What was unusual about this was that there had been plenty of opportunity for the couple to have been baptized before, especially at the time they were married, in 1827. Jenny was Jenny or Jane Saunders, but when she was married to John McNab, on Dec. 18, 1827, at the rapids (much later called St. Andrews) by D.T. Jones, she was unaccountably named Margaret Saunders (HBCA E.4/1b). John and Margaret were both identified as half-breeds, and so was John's father Thomas, who was formally wed to Mary Seauteux the same day. John and Jenny McNab might also have been baptized when their first child (Mary was second) was baptized. Sally, daughter of John and Jean McNab was baptized at Red River Settlement on Dec 18, 1828 (for the 1828-1829 data, missing from HBCo files, one needs to examine Church Missionary Society files, NAC formerly numbered MG-7 B-7-1, Reel M-277). I believe you can find the later siblings of Mary McNab in Gail Morin's 2 volume Metis Families. For the sake of general interest, I can tell you that John McNab, Mary's father, later stated that he had been born at Lake Winnipeg in 1806. He did not die until Aug. 22, 1908, at Poplar Point, Manitoba. Jenny McNab, nee Saunders, stated that she had been born at Lake Winnipeg in 1811. I haven't obtained her date of death, but I know she was still alive in 1881. Source: Rupertslander
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