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Alexander was the third son of Alexander and Ann McDougall, according to the administration papers for his father's estate.

I was unable to find a marriage record for Hannah Ellis and Alexander McDougall in PEI Marriages, although the date was probably around 1840. The marriage was noted in the History of the Ellis Family, and their names were on baptismal, marriage and death records for their children.

The Alex McDougall in the 1861 PEI census in Lot 12 next to Charles McDougald, was Charles' father.

There was another entry in this census, in Lot 12, for a McDougald, first name garbled, that had 10 people in the household. Ancestry transcribed the name as Alexander Vangold, but the National Library and Archives transcription said Alexander McDougal, a better match with the name on the image. The ages fit with this family, 3 boys and their father, one girl under 5, and 4 girls under 15. They were Bible Christians. One member of the family had been born the previous year (Mary Ann), and one had married (Ann to Horatio Nelson Robinson). This McDougald was 22 years into his lease, which supports a date of marriage around 1840.

Of the children generally attributed to this couple, Sarah, Eliza, Jane Campbell, John Archibald, Mary Anne, and James Ellis were in the PEI Baptismal Index. The names of William's parents were on his death record, Susannah's on her marriage and death record. Sarah's marriage record in Port Hill C of E said she was married at the home of her father, Alexander McDougall, on the Western Road in Lot 13.

Hannah remarried in 1875, which means that Alex had died before that date. He is a good fit for the Alexander McDougald who died in 1867 in Mount Pleasant, Lot 13, who was described in the book Booze by Clinton Morrison as "Worthy Chief Templar, Hope Temple, IOGT" and whose obituary was quoted, describing him as "a man of great moral rectitude and sterling virtue." This Alex died at age 51, leaving a wife and 10 children, and lived in Lot 12, which fits with this Alexander's age, location, size of family, and religion - the Bible Christians and Methodists were strong supporters of the temperance movement.

d. Mount Pleasant, Lot 12, P.E.I., Saturday, 22nd June, Alexander McDOUGALD, age 51. Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 25 Number 757, Date July 9 1867, Place Saint John, Newspaper Morning Telegraph

At Mount Pleasant, Lot 12, on Saturday June 22nd after a severe illness of 4 days borne with Christian resignation, Mr. Alexander McDougald in the 51st year of his age, much and deservedly regretted by all who knew him. Miramichi and St. John papers please copy. Summerside Journal July 4 1867 page 3