My Family Tree

Donald Montgomery married Nancy Penman, eldest daughter of George Penman. According to Princetown church records, They had seventeen children, nine sons and eight daughters. Their son Donald Montgomery was a farmer and politician from Prince Edward Island. He was born in Fox Point, Princetown, Lot 18, Prince Edward Island.

Nancy's place of birth is unknown, and the name of Nancy's mother is unknown. A gravestone erected by her descendants said she died at age 69 in 1857. The death notice in the Royal Gazette gave her age as 66 years.

Biographies of a descendant, the senator Montgomery, said his mother was a native of New England.

A son named Archibald was not in the Margate records, but was named in Past and Present of Prince Edward Island. If Archibald's gravestone is correct, he was born a few years before their marriage.

Lucy Maud Montgomery said, in her selected journals, that George Penman favoured David Murray over Donald Montgomery as a husband for his daughter. He sent his brother John to get Nancy. Nancy was worried that Donald might not marry her after all. John said that if Donald wouldn't marry her, he would. "And I would have died sooner than marry John Montgomery" Nancy is supposed to have told Eliza Townsend.