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Nova Scotia Shipwreck in 1746

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Re: Nova Scotia Shipwreck in 1746

ruthjoanbain  (View posts) Posted: 28 Jun 2008 5:29PM GMT
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Captain Alexander Bain was the young boy that was the only survivor on the shipwreck that carried his parents and a sister. He had fifteen children by two wives. He lived in Yarmouth Nova Scotia and I am from the Bain family in Yarmouth who has had a farm since his son bought it. My aunt now owns it. I would like to try to find out where they came from. I have the shipwreck dated as 1762, that he was eleven years old and married in 1774. That sounds reasonable, He would have been 23. No one has yet been able to make the link to Scotland. There was a castle sold in Dingwall, Scotland in 1762 by a Kenneth Bain who sold the castle to a cousin William Davidson. . My brother went over and stayed there, it is now a hotel, but the records of the Bains were apparently lost in a church fire. But could it be that they sold the castle, boarded a ship, and all drowned except Alexander, who became Captain Alexander.

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