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P5840

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ID Number: P5840
Item Name: Image
Maker: Paterson, Andrew
Title: Mrs. Margaret Mackintosh & Laird Lachlan D. Mackintosh / Mme. Margaret Mackintosh et Chef Lachlan D. Mackintosh
Title (Fre): Mme. Margaret Mackintosh et Chef Lachlan D. Mackintosh
Date: 1955/07
Description: Black and white photograph of Margaret and Lachlan D. Mackintosh at Moy Hall in Inverness, Scotland; Mrs. Mackintosh is wearing a dark skirt and belted jacket with a white shirt underneath; the Mackintosh is wearing an Air Force uniform with wings and stripes above the left pocket (his left); he is holding his hat; the two are standing beside a short stone wall with a cannon placed on top; they are standing on a path; there are trees, and more of the wall, visible in the background; the photographer's name (Andrew Paterson), Date (July, 1955) and location (Inverness) are hand written at the bottom of the photograph.
History: Their connection to Windsor is through Angus Mackintosh, great grandfather of Lachlan, was born in Scotland in 1755. He moved to Detroit as a young man and married Mary Archange St. Martin in 1783. They had 14 children including ten girls. In 1797 Mackintosh purchased farmland from Joseph Beaubien for $1170. Angus built a large residence there which served as inn, trading post of the North West Co. (of which he was an agent) and home. He named it Moy House (or Hall), after his family's ancestral seat. Located on what is now Riverside Drive E., between Gladstone and Moy, it took two years to build. Mary, the eighth Mackintosh child, was born here in 1801. Angus' wife died in 1827 and was buried in Assumption Church Cemetery. That same year, Angus returned to Scotland to succeed his brother Alexander as the 25th Chief of the Mackintosh Clan. He died six years later in 1833 at the age of 78 at Moy Hall in Scotland. Moy House was sold to William Gaspe Hall in 1835. His family lived there until he died in 1882 when the property passed to his niece, Frances Baby. Frances married John Davis, a financier and five-time mayor of Windsor. When Davis died in 1912, the home was demolished. Alexander Mackintosh, a younger son of Angus', became the Chief of the Mackintosh Clan following his father's death. One-time commander of the Nancy (Angus' schooner for North West Co. trading), Alexander had two small brass cannons from the ship buried. These were later recovered and mounted on the low stone walls at Moy Hall near Inverness. Lachlan Donald Mackintosh, grandson of Angus' son Aeneas, became the 27th Chief of Clan Mackintosh. He served in the British Armed Forces during World War I and World War II. He visited Windsor twice in the 1950s. He died in 1957 at the age of 60.
Place made: Scotland - Inverness
Collection Name: Museum Windsor