When Beatrice McLaren was born on 28 June 1905, in Matawatchan, Greater Madawaska, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, her father, Joseph McLaren, was 30 and her mother, Sarah Alberta McDonald, was 33. She married Robert Roy Macpherson on 8 November 1924, in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 4 October 2003, at the age of 98, and was buried in Matawatchan Community Cemetery, Matawatchan, Greater Madawaska, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada.
Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Labhrainn ‘son of Labhrann’, Gaelic form of the personal name Lawrence .
History: This is the name of a Scottish clan that appears to have two distinct origins. One group traces its ancestry to Laurence (Gaelic Labhrann), Abbot of Balquhidder in Perths in the 13th century. The other group claims a historical association with the island of Tiree in the Hebrides.
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