Death date
12 August 1857
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Birth about 1794 • Argyllshire, Scotland
Death 12 August 1857 • Campbell Cemetery, Seafoam, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Alternate names None recorded
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01_people/person-john-mckinnon-argyle-shire-1794.md Record notes
- Created after user acceptance of source-gravestone-john-mckinnon-argyle-shire-1857 on 26 April 2026.
- The accepted gravestone photograph records John McKinnon as a native of Argyle-shire who died 12 August 1857 aged 63 years.
- Birth year is calculated from the age-at-death inscription and is approximate.
- Death/burial location is represented from the gravestone's Campbell Cemetery location; the inscription does not name a separate place of death.
- This person is distinct from the John McKinnon of the Isle of Mull who died 9 October 1871 and is represented separately by lead-john-mckinnon-isle-of-mull-1790 until that source is accepted.
- No relationship is assigned to Donald Mac Kinnon, Margaret Mac Kennon Ponceby, Lachlin MacKinnon, or the Isle of Mull John McKinnon until a direct kinship source is reviewed.
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Death place
Campbell Cemetery, Seafoam, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada
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John McKinnon
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photograph fact
Wide-angle photograph of Campbell Cemetery, Seafoam, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. The cemetery contains numerous 19th-century gravestones in mixed styles (upright tablets, obelisks, rounded markers) on a grassy hillside with the Northumberland Strait and red cliffs visible in the background. Both John McKinnon gravestone photographs in this batch are from this cemetery.
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Campbell Cemetery, Seafoam, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada
