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TABLE OF CONTENTS

HOW THE COLLECTION HAS BEEN ARRANGED

ELGIN COUNTY CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTIONS

NEWSPAPER INDEXES

NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

MARRIAGE RECORDS

CENSUS INDEXES

ELGIN COUNTY RESOURCES (GENERAL)

ELGIN COUNTY CHURCH RECORDS & HISTORY

FUNERAL HOME RECORDS

ELGIN COUNTY SCHOOLS

MIDDLESEX COUNTY RECORDS

OXFORD COUNTY RECORDS

NORFOLK / HALDIMAND COUNTY RECORDS

KENT COUNTY RECORDS

NIAGARA AREA RECORDS

MILITARY / UNITED EMPIRE LOYALIST RECORDS

PASSENGER & IMMIGRATION RECORDS

GENEALOGICAL REFERENCE (GENERAL)

CHURCH NEWSPAPERS & CHURCH RECORDS OUTSIDE ELGIN

IRELAND

ENGLAND

ATLANTIC CANADA

MICHIGAN

GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTERS

FAMILY HISTORIES

HOW THE COLLECTION HAS BEEN ARRANGED

The Elgin County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society has arranged its material by general subject groupings, as outlined in the Table of Contents for this Finding Aid.

Each book or publication has been placed in a cardboard magazine holder or red plastic holder [throughout the Finding Aid referred to as “box”]. Each “box” has been numbered and labeled with the title of each book. Each book also bears a sticker with the number of the “box” in which it belongs.

Other material has been placed in binders, which have also been numbered.

Please note that this Finding Aid lists only the material in the library collection. For information on additional resources in Elgin County, consult the book “Discovering Your Roots in Elgin” which can be found in the library or on the Elgin OGS website: www.elginogs.ca

ELGIN COUNTY CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTIONS

Transcriptions of all known cemeteries in Elgin County are found in the white binders on the side shelf in the George Thorman Room.

Researchers are advised to consult our website: www.elginogs.ca where updated and revised transcriptions have been posted. Many of the cemeteries have been updated and corrected, and this information will NOT be found in the binders. Elgin OGS has also been adding information regarding burials without monuments on the website.

Exception: Transcriptions for the larger cemeteries in the townships of Aldborough and Dunwich have not been posted on the website. For those, only the indexes and some burials without monuments will be found.

ST. THOMAS CEMETERIES: Please be aware that when compiling the indexes to St. Thomas cemeteries, several other sources were used, including records held by the cemeteries. Therefore, you will find reference to interments without monuments in these indexes.

Records of interments without monuments from the Old English Cemetery and St. Thomas Cemetery, West Ave. have been posted on the website.

The website also contains contact information for cemetery offices or custodians of any records that may exist.

NEWSPAPER INDEXES

Box 1: Aylmer Express Indexes

            1907-1909; 1910-1914; 1915-1919; 1920-1924

Box 2: Aylmer Express Indexes

            1925-1929; 1930-1934; 1935-1939

Box 3: Aylmer Express Indexes

            1940-1944; 1945-1949; 1950-1959; 1960-1964; 1965-1969

Box 4: Dutton Advance Indexes

            1910-1914; 1915-1919; 1920-1924; 1925-1929; 1930-1934; 1935-1939; 1940-1944

            1945-1949

Box 5: Dutton Advance Indexes

            1950-1954; 1955-1959; 1960-1964; 1965-1969

            Rodney Mercury Index

            1887-1924

The above indexes, with the exception of Rodney Mercury, have also been posted on the Elgin OGS website

Binder 6:         St. Thomas Newspaper Indexes

                        - St. Thomas Liberal, 1832-1833

                        - St. Thomas Standard, 1844-1846

                        - Misc. Papers: Journal, Chronicle, Canadian Freeman, Middlesex Standard,

                                    St. Thomas Watchman, St. Thomas Weekly Dispatch, 1853-1863

Box 73:           Index of Births, Deaths & Marriages from the St. Thomas Times-Journal & Aylmer Express: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 (an annual project)

NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

Clippings from area newspapers of births, deaths and marriages are found in the wooden filing cabinets in the centre of the George Thorman Room. This collection is best described as “miscellaneous”, but dates approximately from the early 1980's to the late 1990's. Newspapers included were mainly the St. Thomas Times-Journal, the Aylmer Express, and some London Free Press and Tillsonburg News.

Newspaper Clippings, continued:

The clipping project continued in the late 1990's and up to the end of 2001, but the collection was placed in binders, as follows:

Binder 11:       Clippings Index, 1983-1990

Binder 12:       Births & Birthdays, 1990's, 2002 and 2001

Binder 13:       Marriages, Anniversaries & Engagements, 1990's, 2000 and 2001 (A - K)

Binder 14:       Marriages, Anniversaries & Engagements, 1990's, 200 and 2001 (L - Z)

Binder 15:       Obituaries, Miscellaneous 1990's and 2000 (A - L)

Binder 16:       Obituaries: Miscellaneous 1990's & 2000 ( M - Z)

Binder 17:       Obituaries: 2001

The clipping project was discontinued in 2002, and instead, an index is compiled annually from the St. Thomas Times-Journal and Aylmer Express (see Box 73)

AYLMER & AREA OBITUARIES: Binders 46 through 53 are photocopies of obituaries kept by various Funeral Homes in Aylmer between the years (approximately)1936 to 1966.

Binder 46:       Aylmer & Area Obituaries, 1936-66: A & B

Binder 47:       Aylmer & Area Obituaries, 1936-66: C & D

Binder 48:       Aylmer & Area Obituaries, 1936-66: E - K

Binder 49:       Aylmer & Area Obituaries, 1936-66: L & M

Binder 50:       Aylmer & Area Obituaries, 1936-1966: N - Q

Newspaper Clippings, continued:

Binder 51:       Aylmer & Area Obituaries, 1936-66: R & S

Binder 52:       Aylmer & Area Obituaries, 1936-66: T - V

Binder 52:       Aylmer & Area Obituaries, 1936-66, W - Z

Binder 53.1     Garton Scrapbook

MARRIAGE RECORDS (see also Church Records)

Box 7: Elgin County Marriages: 1853-1857; 1858-1869; 1869-1873

Box 8: District Marriage Registers

            London District (Vol. 1)

            London District (Vol. 2)

            Brock District

            Gore District

            Talbot District

            Western District

Box 9: Marriage Indexes 1869-1873 (for all of Ontario)

            Volume 1-4 ; Volume 4-10; Volume 11-16; Volume 17-21; Volume 22-26

            Volume 27-31

Binder 10:       Ontario Marriages 1869

Box 38:           County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869

Box 39:           County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869

Box 40:           County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869

CENSUS INDEXES

ELGIN COUNTY CENSUS:

Binder 19:       Aldborough Census

Binder 20:       Aldborough Census

Binder 21:       Bayham Census

Binder 22:       Bayham Census

Binder 23:       Bayham Census

Binder 24:       Dunwich Census

Binder 25:       Dunwich Census

Binder 26:       Malahide Census

Binder 27:       Malahide Census

Binder 28:       Malahide Census

Binder 29:       St. Thomas Census 1861-1871

Binder 30:       St. Thomas Census, 1891

Binder 31:       South Dorchester Census

Binder 32:       South Dorchester & Springfield Census

Binder 33:       Southwold Census

Binder 34:       Southwold Census

Binder 35:       Southwold & Port Stanley Census

Binder 36:       Yarmouth Census

Binder 37:       Yarmouth Census

1871 ONTARIO CENSUS INDEXES:

Box 41:           1871 Census Indexes

Box 42:           1871 Census Indexes

Box 43:           1871 Census Indexes

Box 44:           1871 Census Indexes

Box 45:           1871 Census Indexes

ELGIN COUNTY RESOURCES (GENERAL)

COUNTY COUNCIL RECORDS:

Box 54:           Elgin County Bylaws: Volumes 1 to 5

Box 55:           Elgin County Bylaws: Volumes 6 to 12

Box 56:           Reports to Council: Middlesex & Elgin (1842-1853)

                                    Volume 1: 1842 & 1843

                                    Volume 2: 1844

                                    Volume 3: 1845 & 1846

                                    Volume 4: 1847 & 1848

                                    Volume 5: 1849-1851

                                    Volume 6: 1852 & 1853

Box 57:           Reports to Council (1842-1859): Book 1; Book 2: Book 3: Book 4

Box 58:           Proceedings of Elgin County Council: 1852 - 1854; 1855 - 1857; 1858 - 1860

                        Port Stanley Council Minutes; 1966 - 1968

                        London District Quarter Session Minutes; 1813 - 1820

Box 59:           London District Quarter Session Minutes; 1830 - 1831; 1832 - 1833; 1838 - 1839

MALAHIDE TOWNSHIP FAMILIES

Box 76:           My Corner of Malahide

                         (Genealogies of Families Living on Concessions 1 through 4)

                        Volume 1: Concession 1

                        Volume 2: Concession 2

                        Volume 3: Concession 3

                        Volume 4: Concession 4

TOWNSHIP LAND PAPERS

Box 77:           Township Land Papers: Aldborough; Bayham; Dorchester; Dunwich; Malahide; Southwold; Yarmouth [these have also been posted on the website]

                        Southwold Twsp. Settlers

MISCELLANEOUS ELGIN OGS PUBLICATIONS:

Box 78:

            House of Industry Records (Vol. 1)

            House of Industry Records (Vol. 2)

            Wills & Probates

            Index to Sims History of Elgin

            General Register (Vol. 1)

            General Register (Vol. 2)

            General Register (Vol. 3)

Binder 79:       Deaths in Elgin (1869-1900) (extracted from Ontario Vital Statistics Index)

Binder 80:       Southwold Assessment Records, 1839, 1841, 1848, 1852, 1873

                        Yarmouth Assessment Records, 1856

                        Crown Patents of Aldborough & Dunwich

GENERAL ELGIN COUNTY HISTORY AND REFERENCE

Box 108: Elgin County

            Memories of St. Thomas & Elgin (2 volumes)

            A Polite Parallelism of St. Thomas

            Union Tweedsmuir History

            Daniel Rapelje’s Receipt Book

            Aldborough Township Patents

            Belmont Old Boy’s Reunion 1971

            Pioneer Days in Aldborough

            Tribute to Vienna

            Rodney

            S. Dorchester Voters’ List 1885

            Twilight Trains of St. Thomas

            Port Bruce circa 1930

            History of Port Burwell

            Brick Yards in Aldborough

            Town Book of Bayham, 1826-1848

            Historical Sketches of Port Stanley

            Mahlon Burwell

            Elgin Co. Board of Trade

            Selbourne History

            Immigrants to Aldborough, Dunwich & Southwold

            Armstrong’s 1872 Directory

Box 111:         Elgin County

            Elgin Manor

            St. Thomas Is Proud Of

            Scott-Sefton Negatives

            Canadian Industry in 1871

            Dear Old Shedden

            Southwold Remembers

            St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital

            Five Stakes (Talbotville)

Binder 112:     “Collections”

                        - Pay List of 37th Regiment, 1819

                        - Families Whose Homes were looted, 1814

                        - St. Thomas Troop of Cavalry, 1866-1870

                        - 1819 Talbot Militia

                        - Aldborough Assessment 1820

                        - Old English Cemetery, 1940

                        - Southwold Township

                        - U.S.S. # 24 Southwold & Yarmouth

                        - List of Wardens of Elgin County

                        - Agreement between Joshua Wardell & Joseph Hendershot

                        - Talbot Literary Society

Box 113:         Elgin County

            West Lorne Tweedsmuir History

            Eliza Lowry Murder

            Old Port Bruce (2 copies)

            Old Timers (Port Bruce)

            Mitchell & Graham Planing Mill

            Canada Southern Railway

            St. Thomas, the Railway City

            Canada Southern Railway Company

            1856 Yarmouth Assessment

            Botanical Association, 1899

            R. W. Johnson Columns

            Aylmer Fire Department

            Aylmer Iron Works

            Mahlon Burwell

            E. E. C. Kilmer, Botanist

            Talbot Settlement Bicentennial

ELGIN COUNTY CHURCH RECORDS & HISTORY

Box 72:           Places of Worship Records Inventory ( project listing each church in Elgin & what records are available for research)

                                    Aldborough

                                    Bayham

                                    Dunwich

                                    Malahide

                                    St. Thomas

                                    South Dorchester & Springfield

                                    Southwold

                                    Yarmouth

Box 81:           Church Records & History

                                    Caleb Burdick Register

                                    Church in the Valley

                                    Church in the Valley (1949)

                                    St. Thomas Church (1824- )

                                    Disciples of Christ Debate 1875

                                    Old St. Thomas Church

                                    New Sarum Baptist Marriages

Box 82:           Church History

                                    Plains Baptist (2 copies)

                                    Anglican

                                    United Church

                                    Baptist

                                    Presbyterian

                                    St. Hilda’s Anglican

Box 83:           Church History & Records

                                    Belmont United Church

                                    D. W. Rowland Marriages

                                    Families of Holy Angels

Box 84:           Church History

                                    Churches of North Yarmouth

                                    Why are there so many Denominations

                                    First United Church, St. Thomas

                                    London Diocese CWL Reports

                                    Rev. Andrews Marriages, 1840-1848 (Yarmouth)

                                    New Sarum Baptist history

                                    Knox Presbyterian, St. Thomas

                                    Lakeview Baptist

                                    Talbotville United Church

                                    Rodney United Church

                                    Plains Baptist Burials

                                    Plains Baptist 1990-1991

                                    Wallacetown United Church

                                    Frome United Church 150th

                                    Frome United Church

Binder 85:       Church Histories of Elgin County

Binder 86:       Church Histories of Elgin County

FUNERAL HOME RECORDS

Box 74:           Funeral Home Records

                                    P. R. Williams, 1911-1920

                                    P. R. Williams, 1921-1927

                                    P. R. Williams, 1928-1935

                                    Towers, 1909-1940

                                    McNeill, 1931-1947

                                    George Allen, Aylmer, 1920-1949

                                    Prevett Funeral Home, Shedden (1943-1949)

Binder 75:       Funeral Home Records

                        - Evenden Funeral Home

                        - Modeinger Funeral Home

                        - Ostrander Funeral Home

                        - P. R. Williams Funeral Home, 1893-1910

ELGIN COUNTY SCHOOLS

Box 109:         School Histories

                                    Southwold School Sections

                                    Payne’s Mills

                                    The Collegian

                                    S.S. #24 Southwold & S.S. #25 Yarmouth

                                    Springfield

                                    S.S. #7 Southwold

                                    Port Burwell

                                    S.S. # 3 Southwold

                                    Wellington Street School

                                    Alma College

                                    Alma College Index

                                    S. S. # 8 Frome

Binder 110:     Barnum’s Gully School History

MIDDLESEX COUNTY RECORDS

Box 63:           Middlesex County

                                    Resources

                                    London Twp. Pioneers

                                    Historical Sketches of Westminster

                                    North Dorchester 1867-1967

                                    Marriages & Baptisms 1848-1858

                                    Marriages Volume 1 (1869-1872)

                                    Marriages Volume 2 (1869-1872)

                                    Carlisle List

Box 64:           Middlesex Census 1861

                                    Adelaide; Caradoc; Delaware; East Williams; Ekfrid;

                                    Lobo; London Twp (2 volumes)

Box 65:           Middlesex Census 1861

                                    London (2 volumes); Metcalfe; Mosa; North Dorchester; Strathroy;

                                    Westminster (2 volumes); West Nissouri; West Williams

Box 66:           Middlesex Cemeteries

                                    Mosa Township

                                    North Dorchester Township

OXFORD COUNTY RECORDS

Box 67:           Oxford County

                                    1812-1825 Assessment

                                    Dereham Census 1861

                                    Dereham Census 1871

                                    Dereham Census 1881

                                    Dereham Census 1891

                                    Tillsonburg Census 1881

                                    Tillsonburg Census 1891

                                    Crown Land Register

Box 68:           Oxford County

                                    History of Norwich

                                    Ingersoll Marriages (Presbyterian)

                                    Ingersoll Marriages 1854-1870

                                    Ingersoll Deaths 1837-1908

                                    Surrogate Court 1859-1868

                                    Methodist Churches

                                    Inns & Taverns

                                    Records of Churches

                                    Cemeteries/Churches Guide

Box 69:           Oxford County

                                    Dereham Township Cemeteries

                                    Tillsonburg Cemeteries

                                    Ingersoll Cemetery

Binder 70:       Oxford Newspaper indexes

NORFOLK / HALDIMAND COUNTY RECORDS

Box 71:           Norfolk County

                                    Houghton Cemeteries

                                    Middleton Cemeteries

                                    Port Dover Deaths 1889-1910

                                    Port Dover Marriages 1889-1901

                                    Vittoria Bicentennial Index

                                    Land Patents 1795-1883

                                    Surrogate Court 1859-1900

                                    Norfolk Obituaries 1870-1875

                                    St. John’s Church Woodhouse

Box 102:         Norfolk County

                                    Port Dover Birth, Marriage & Death

                                    Port Dover Birth & Marriage, 1889-1901

                                    Newspaper Records Prior to 1860

                                    1901 Simcoe Census

                                    Norfolk Marriages, 1795-1870

                                    N. Walsingham Tweedsmuir Index

Box 103:         Norfolk & Haldimand County

                                    Historical Highlights

                                    Marriages, 1830-1870

                                    Long Point Settlers

                                    Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms 1842-1877

                                    1879 Walsingham Voters’ List

                                    Sketches of Norfolk, 1857

                                    Windham Settlers

                                    The Men of Norfolk

                                    Tracing Ancestors in Norfolk

                                    The Cabinet Makers of Norfolk

                                    History of Winham Education

                                    1805 Census

                                    Haldimand 1906 Directory

                                    Haldimand Marriages, 1803-1836

                                    Haldimand Newspapers

KENT COUNTY RECORDS

Box 104:         Kent County

                                    Orford Township Census

                                    Orford Township Cemeteries

Box 105:         Kent County

                                    Marriages 1857-1869 (2 volumes)

                                    Surrogate Court Kent & Essex, 1859-1900

                                    Tracing Ancestors in Kent (2 volumes)

                                    Biographical Index

                                    Pioneer Sketches

Binder 106:     Kent County Cemeteries

NIAGARA AREA RECORDS

Box 87:           Niagara Region

                                    E. Flamborough Marriages 1806-1859

                                    Dr. W. G. Reive Collection

                                    Rev. Black Marriages 1828-1842

                                    Beaverdam & Smith Cemetery; Shaver Cemetery

                                    Welland Methodist Church marriages

Box 88:           Niagara Region

                                    Index to W. G. Reive Collection

                                    Deaths & Burials

                                    Niagara Papers, 1816-1830; 1833-1854

Box 89:           Niagara / Hamilton

                                    Hamilton Evening Times, 1859-1869

                                    Niagara Methodist Baptisms, 1849-1886 (Volumes 1 & 2)

                                    Pioneer Inns

                                    Lincoln County Probates, 1794-1813

                                    Dr. W. G. Reive Cemeteries

Binder 90:       Cemeteries: Ancaster, Barton, & Hamilton (A-R)

Binder 91:       Cemeteries: Hamilton (R-Z), Mt. Hamilton, White Chapel, Woodland (A-K)

Binder 92:       Cemeteries: Woodland (K-Z)

Binder 93:       Cemeteries: Beverly, Binbrook, Flamborough West, Glanford, Saltfleet

MILITARY / UNITED EMPIRE LOYALIST RECORDS

Binder 60:       United Empire Loyalists

Binder 61:       United Empire Loyalists

Binder 62:       United Empire Loyalists

Box 94:           United Empire Loyalists

                                    The Loyalists of Ontario

                                    The Old U.E.L. List

                                    Loyalists of the American Revolution

Box 95:           United Empire Loyalists

                                    Revolutionary Census of New Jersey

                                    Loyalists in North Carolina

                                    Loyalists of the American Revolution

Box 96:           United Empire Loyalists

                                    Loyalists of Massachusets

                                    Loyalist Lists 1775-1783

                                    Loyalist List - Niagara

                                    New Loyalist Index

                                    Rolls of Provincial Corps

                                    Loyalist Lists

                                    As She Began

                                    Butler’s Rangers

                                    Loyalists of New Jersey

                                    Loyalists of Eastern Twsps of Quebec

                                    U.E.L. Association Transactions, 1901-1902

                                    U.E.L. Association Transactions, 1914-1916

                                    Pension & War Service Records

                                    Suffolk Co. New Jersey Census 1776

Binder 97:       Index to New York Regiments

Binder 98:       Colonial History of New York 1887, Book 1

Binder 99:       Colonial History of New York 1887, Book 2

Box 100:         North & South Carolina Marriage Records (2 volumes; published 1981 & 1987)

                        Early Settlers of Maryland

                        New Hampshire Gazette, 1765-1800

                        German Military Settlers in Canada

                        Ontarian Families

Box 101:         War of 1812 / 1837 Rebellion

                                    Land Claims Certificates, 1812-1814

                                    British Aliens in U.S., 1812

                                    Veterans of 1812

                                    Rebellion Losses in Upper Canada

                                    Rebels Arrested in Upper Canada, 1837-38

PASSENGER & IMMIGRATION RECORDS

Box 123:         Passenger & Immigration

                                    “Mary & John” 1630

                                    Scottish Emigrants, Vol. 2, 3 & 4

                                    McCabe List

                                    Peter Robinson Settlement

                                    Emigrants to Pennsylvania

                                    Passengers to Canada, 1817-1849

GENEALOGICAL REFERENCE (GENERAL)

Box 107:         Genealogy Reference

                                    Counties & Municipalities

                                    Doing Genealogy

                                    Tools of the Trade (2 volumes)

                                    Standards of Evidence

                                    Archival Conservation (2 volumes)

                                    Here Be Dragons (2 volumes)

                                    Genetics & Genealogy

                                    Genealogical Collections in Ontario

Box 114:         Genealogical Reference

                                    Indian Affairs Records (1st Edition)

                                    Indian Affairs Records (2nd Edition)

                                    First Nations Genealogy

                                    Genealogy In Ontario - Searching the Records

                                    Ontario Place Names

                                    Canadian Gazetteer, 1846

                                    Canadian Railway Records, Volume 1

                                    Canadian Railway Records, Volume 2

Box 114a:       Genealogical Reference

                        - The Beginner’s Guide to Genealogy

                        - Index to OGS Families

                        - Townships of the Province of Ontario

                        - Index to Overseas Deaths, Vols 1 & 2

                        - Upper Canada Naturalization Records

                        - Using Forms in Genealogy

                        - Genealogy, Geography & Maps

Box 120:         Genealogical Reference

                                    1851 Ontario Directory

                                    Lambton County Resources

                                    History of Lambton County

                                    African Hope Renewed

                                    Inventory of Ontario Cemeteries

                                    Pioneers of the Don

                                    Methodist Baptisms outside Ontario

                                    Canada Company Books, 1843-1847

                                    Ontario Soda Water Manufacturers

                                    Ontario Photographers, 1851-1900

                                    Ontario Photographers, 1901-1925

                                    Municipal Records in Ontario

                                    Local Histories of Municipalities

Box 121:         Jewish Records

                                    Jews in Ontario, 1851-1901

                                    Jews in NB, NS & PEI, 1861-1901

                                    Jews in Quebec, 1861-1901

                                    Jews in Newfoundland, 1921,1935,1945

Binder 122:     Miscellaneous Newspapers

                        - Brockville, Kent County, Halton County, Niagara area, Strathroy, York

Box 131:         The Ontario Register

                                    Volume 1 (Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4)

                                    Volume 2

                                    Volume 3

                                    Volume 4 (Numbers 1, 2 & 3)

                                    Volume 5

Box 132:         The Ontario Register

                                    Volume 6

                                    Volume 7

Box 133:         OGS Strays Project

                                    Volumes 1 to 7

                                    Maiden Name Index

                                    British Strays, Volume 1 & 2

                                    Settlement Names

CHURCH NEWSPAPERS & CHURCH RECORDS OUTSIDE ELGIN

Box 115:         Church Records Outside Elgin

                                    Christ Church Delaware, 1834-1851

                                    Index to Christian Observer

                                    History of Seventh Day Adventist

                                    United Church Archives Guide

                                    Quaker Journal, 1998 & 2001

                                    Society of Friends Archives List

                                    Dundas Mission Register, 1840-1853

                                    Father Gordon’s Register, 1830-1833

Box 116:         Christian Messenger (Baptist Church Newspaper)

                                    Volumes 1 to 20

                                    The Canadian Baptist

 Box 117:         Methodist Newspapers

                                    Christian Guardian, 1836-1850

                                    Christian Guardian, 1851-1860

                                    Christian Guardian, 1861-1870

Box 118:         Methodist Newspapers

                                    Christian Advocate, 1858-1872

                                    Christian Advocate, 1873-1884

                                    Christian Guardian, 1873-1880

Box 119:         Methodist Newspapers

                                    Methodist Newspapers, 1830-1857

                                    More Methodist Newspapers, 1858-1872

                                    More Methodist Newspapers, 1873-1884

IRELAND

Box 124:         Ireland

                        Irish At Home & Abroad (Volumes 1 to 6; 20 issues)

                        A Genealogical Guide to Ireland

Box 125:         Ireland

                                    Surnames of Ireland

                                    Carndonagh

                                    Church of Ireland Records

                                    Handbook of Irish Genealogy

                                    Tracing Donegal Ancestors

                                    The Talbots of Malahide

                                    Tracing Your Irish Ancestors

Box 126:         Ireland

                                    Irish Records

                                    Handbook on Irish Genealogy

                                    Northern Ireland Church Records

                                    Book of Irish Surnames

ENGLAND

Box 127:         England

                                    Gazetteer of Britain

                                    Genealogical Gazetteer of England

                                    Downton Village

Binder 128:     British Research

ATLANTIC CANADA

Box 129:         Atlantic Canada

                                    Genealogical Handbook

                                    History of Kings County, Nova Scotia

Box 130:         New Brunswick / Nova Scotia

                                    New Brunswick Vitals, 1816-1823

                                    New Brunswick Vitals, 1824-1828

                                    Yarmouth, NS Vitals, 1762-1811

                                    Nova Scotia Vitals, 1769-1812

                                    Nova Scotia Vitals, 1813-1822

                                    Nova Scotia Vitals, 1823-1828

                                    Nova Scotia Vitals, 1829-1834

MICHIGAN

Box 86.1         Sanilac County Michigan

                        - 1870 Census (Vol. 1 & 2)

                        - Marriage Index, 1913 - 1916

                        - Marriage Index, 1917-1920

                        - Death Records, 1889 - 1893

Box 134:         Michigan

                                    History of Sanilac County

                                    Sanilac County 1850 Census

                                    Sanilac County Marriages 1849-1912

                                    Sanilac County Marriages, 1870-1879

                                    Sanilac County Marriages, 1880-1885

                                    Sanilac County Marriages, 1913-1916

                                    Ontario Residents in Michigan

Box 135:         Michigan

                                    Michigan 1870 Census (Volumes 1 to 4)

Box 136:         Michigan

                                    Michigan 1870 Census (Volumes 5 to 9)

GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTERS

Binder 18:       Talbot Times (Elgin OGS Newsletter), 1982-1998

Box 137:         Ontario Genealogical Society - “Families”

                                    Volume 15: 1976

                                    Volume 16: 1977

                                    Volume 17: 1978

                                    Volume 18: 1979

Box 138:         Ontario Genealogical Society - “Families”

                                    Volume 19: 1980

                                    Volume 20: 1981

                                    Volume 21 -22: 1982 & 1983

Later issues of “Families” are found on top of the black four-drawer filing cabinet.

Newsletters of all the branches of the Ontario Genealogical Society are found in the black four-drawer filing cabinet. Newsletters of societies in Atlantic Canada and the Canadian West are also on file. The collection consists of issues dating back five years.

FAMILY HISTORIES

The Family History collection of Elgin OGS has been integrated with family histories belonging to the St. Thomas Public Library, and can be found in the glass cabinets and the open shelves below.

A separate collection of unpublished family material has been filed in the black three-drawer lateral filing cabinet, labeled “Family Files”

The collection has been arranged more or less alphabetically by surname of the principal family listed on the history.

Family histories that were bound, either hardcover or softcover, with a title on the spine; or histories in binders, were NOT put in “boxes”, so these may be slightly out of alphabetical order with the ones IN boxes.

Below is an alphabetical list of the family histories on the shelves as of October 2006. For a cross reference of other surnames which might appear in the title, the researcher is advised to consult the current copy of “Discovering Your Roots in Elgin”, which can be consulted on the Elgin OGS website: www.elginogs.ca or in printed format in the George Thorman Room.

There are 25 boxes labeled “FH 1" through “FH 25". The corresponding box number will appear following the name of the family history. If there is no box number given, it means that particular family history is either hardcover, softbound, or in a binder.

FAMILY HISTORIES

Addy [FH 1]

Aitken [FH 1]

Ancestry from A to Z - Amos, Zoll, & Related Families

Anger, Gilbert (journal) [FH 1]

Annett - Genealogy & Brief History of the Descendents of the late Robert Annett [FH 1]

Annett, Robert [FH 1]

Auckland [FH 1]

Austin / Goff [FH 1]

Avery [FH 2]

Axford Family History

Axfords from Devonshire [FH 2]

The Bainards of Westminster , 1834-1984

Baker, William [FH 2]

The Family of Levi Baldwin [FH 2]

Barclays of Pickering [FH 2]

Beaman [FH 2]

The Beaupre Descendents [FH 2]

Lineage Chart of Betty Marie Bellows

Black / Brown (8 volumes) [FH 3]

Blakey Family [FH 2]

Bobier (Note: several other families included)

Bradt House, Schenectady [FH 2]

Brown, Samuel [FH 4]

Browne Records [FH 4]

Buchner - Boughner Genealogy

Descendants of Josiah Bull, Jr.

Butler - Ellis - McKoy Family [FH 4]

William Henry Butterwick, [FH 4]

Corporal Hugh Campbell Family History, 1760-1835 [FH 4]

John & Jane Campbell and Descendents, [FH 4]

Campbell, Neil [FH 5]

Descendents of William Carr 1800-1970 [FH 5]

Robert’s Bairns (Don Carroll) 1984 (2 copies)

Carroll [FH 5]

Carson, Taylor families [FH 5]

Casey Family Tree

The Caseys of the Strand, Co. Westmeath, Ireland to U.S., 1780

Caswell Family [FH 5]

Chalmers, John [FH 5]

Chapman Family [FH 5]

Charlton Family of Elgin County [FH 5]

Chase Family [FH 6]

Myth & Reality - The Chisholm Family in Elgin County, 1819-1835 [FH 6]

The Clayton Family, Descendents of Lyman Clayton & Sarah Palmer [FH 6]

Mabinogi an Clem (Fred Hedley Barker Climo & Percy Lloyd Climo)

Clunas [FH 6]

Cole, Thomas [FH 6]

Calling all Condons [FH 6]

Condon of Invermay [FH 6]

Copeland [FH 6]

 Descendents of Jesse & Polly (Chase) Corless ( and volume with update)

The Corneille History and Family Tree , 1932 [FH 6]

Cornish Genealogy [FH 6]

Craig and Allied Families [FH 6]

Crawford Family

Dale, Jacob [FH 7]

Davis

Dixon, Woodhouse Twsp., Norfolk Co. [FH 6]

Titus Doan, 1727-1803, Cousins & Descendents in Ontario

Doane & Doan

Family Genealogy of Robert Down

The Dryden Family 1296-1989

Descendents of Theophilus Dunning [FH 7]

Nathan Fellowes Dupuis [FH 7]

Eagles Families of N. America [FH 7]

Edie, Charles

Edison, John [FH 7]

Edmunds & Baird Families [FH 7]

Ellis Family [FH 7]

Index to Ellis Genealogy [FH 7]

Ermatinger

Ewanick Family Tree [FH 8]

The Fairbrother Family [FH 8]

The Name and Family of Fairchild [FH 8]

Farquhar Family Tree [FH 8]

Duncan Ferguson of Yarmouth, His Times & Descendents;  website: www.fergusonyarmouth.com

Duncan & Ivor Ferguson [FH 8]

Ferns [FH 8]

The Firby Connection

Ancestors & Descendents of David Foster (1758-1821), Williamstown, Massachussetts

A History of the Canadian Fulkersons [FH 8]

Galloway Family History [FH 8]

Henry William Gilbert [FH 8]

Isaac Gilbert, Woodhouse: His Descendents

A Gilbert Family Genealogy

Gloin, McTaggart Family Bible records [FH 9]

Gloyn [FH 9]

The Gordons of Goulbourn, The Lowrys of Huntely & Fitzroy [FH 9]

The Old Gow Farm, 1832 [FH 9]

The Dunwich Grahams [FH 9]

Haight Genealogy [FH 9]

Thomas Hamilton, Town of York Pioneer, Some Ancestors & Descendents [FH 9]

The Hamiltons of the First Permanent Settlement in Maine

Hankinson [FH 9]

Tales of the Hares

Ely Harris & Lucretia Ransom

William Hatch [FH 9]

Descendents of William Henry Darius Hathaway [FH 10] (2 different versions)

Descendants of Daniel Hazen, UEL [FH 10]

Heidt Family Tree [FH 10]

Hepburn

Hodgins - Kindred Forever

Hofstee - Spiering [FH 10]

Holt/Pratt letters [FH 10]

The Horton Family History [FH 10]

A Genealogy of the Hosack Family [FH 10]

The How/Howe Book, 1808-1988 [FH 11]

How [FH 11]

The Hunter Families [FH 11]

The Hunter Family [FH 11]

The Genealogy of the Hydorn, Nelson, York, etc. [FH 11]

The Johnstons of Malahide [FH 11]

Kellestine/ Gough [FH 11]

Kennedy Family [FH 12]

Kilbourne Quest [FH 12]

George Kilmer [FH 12]

King

Kinsman - Keiller [FH 12]

Kulp [FH 12]

The Lackor Family

Lampman

The Richard Lanning Family of Ontario and some of their American Relatives

Legg [FH 12]

Leverton Family [FH 12]

History of the Lindsay Family [FH 12]

The Lucas Connection [FH 12]

Records of the Lumleys

Lyle - Edmonston [FH 12]

Lynn - Lamont [FH 12]

Mabie [FH 13]

MacFarlane [FH 13]

MacPherson [FH 13]

It Started in England (Marshall) [FH 13]

The William Ellis Malpass, Alice Ann Round Family [FH 13]

Mandeville (3 binders)

Mason [FH 13]

Sources in McCall Genealogy [FH 13]

Loyalist Hugh McCall [FH 13]

McCall & Related Families

McCallum [FH 14]

Origin of the McCanns [FH 14]

Genealogy of Henry McCuaig & Janet (Jessie) Calder [FH 14]

Descendents of Richard McCurdy [FH 14]

Descendents of Samuel McCurdy [FH 14]

McCormick Family [FH 14]

Middlesex Roots: The Ancestors of Clara McCandless & Morley Thomas [FH 14]

Middlesex Roots: (McCandless - Thomas) [FH 14]

Sources in McColl Genealogy, Book 1

Sources in McColl Genealogy, Book 2

Origin of the Surname McGuinness [FH 15]

McIntyre, Samuel

McLachlin/McLarty

McLarty (Neil McLarty, Nancy Patterson)

McLean, Duncan [FH 15]

The McQuiggans [FH 15]

The McQuiggan History, 1939 [FH 15]

Meadows [FH 15]

Messecar

Descendents of Robert Millman 1808-1878 [FH 15]

The Descendents of Robert & Maria Millman [FH 15]

History Of the Misener Family

A History of the Monteiths

 

Moore, John (1781-1998) [FH 15]

Moorehouse

Descendents of Malcom Munro & Mary McNeill [FH 15]

Neef (Part 1 and 2) [FH 16]

Nelles

Nethercott [FH 16]

A Nevills Genealogy [FH 16]

Newell Family History (Senator Henry Newell, 1931) [FH 16]

Newell - Whitcroft Family [FH 16]

Nolles [FH 16]

O’Dochartaigh North America, 1981 Yearbook

Origin of the O’Dohertys [FH 17]

Origin of the O’Kellys [FH 17]

Origin of the O’Neills [FH 17]

Origin of the O’Reillys [FH 17]

Origin of the O’Rourkes [FH 17]

Ostrander [FH 17]

Otterbein

Mayflower to Malahide (Ancestors of Mary Barlow Park) [FH 17]

John & Nancy Parker [FH 17]

Patersons of North Yarmouth [FH 17]

Patten, William Henry (Journal) [FH 17]

Thomas Pearce Farm History [FH 18]

Penhale Genealogy [FH 18]

Plowman [FH 18]

And in the New World - The Pole Family

The Porters [FH 18]

Prong [FH 18]

Daniel Rapelje Receipt Book [FH 18]

The Life and Times of Jabel Robinson

Rock [FH 18]

Russell [FH 19]

Andrew Russell - Hannah Bateman Family [FH 19]

My Yarmouth Reflections - Isaac Ryckman [FH 19]

Sanders

Seely Family [FH 19]

Seward

Shaws of Shedden

Sherk [FH 19]

Silcox Saga [FH 19]

History of Silverthorn Family

Silverthorn (Volume 4, Nos. 1 to 17; 19) [FH 21]

A Goodly Heritage ( Simpson) [FH 19]

Sivyer family [FH 19]

Slack - Cullen [FH 19]

Slaght Family History [FH 20]

Cornelius Barentse Slecht [FH 20]

Small, Edmond [FH 20]

Descendents of Samuel John Smith & Sarah Curtis Smith

Soper [FH 20]

Lawrence Spore of Bayham Township [FH 20]

Lawrence Spore of Bayham Township [BINDER]

The Family of Zenas Squire Spore [FH 20]

Stearns & Killmasters [FH 20]

Steel

Steel, William

Stewart, William [FH 22]

The Stock Family

Stokes, Charles William (Diary) [FH 20]

Some Descendents of John Stilwell, UEL [FH 22]

Sweetacres (McKenney & Sweet families) [FH 22]

Swift Family Chart [FH 22]

Two Gaelic Soldiers (Bruce Taylor)

Ancestors of Maudie Loverne Taylor [FH 22]

Roger and Abigail (Ufford) Terrill and Some DescendentS

Thomas [FH 22]

John Tisdale (1614 -1675)

Trebarfoote - A Cornish Family (Thomas Barfett) [FH 22]

The Tufford Tree [FH 22]

Van der Duim [FH 23]

Vanbuskirk Line of Descent [FH 23]

Vanpatten [FH 23]

Vanpatter family [FH 23]

Vanpatter [FH 23]

Ward- Munder-Varnum-Martin [FH 23]

The Webster History [FH 23]

Welch (2 binders)

Welter [FH 24]

Whitcroft [FH 24]

White [FH 24]

Whitesell [FH 24]

The Widneners in America [FH 24]

Widner [FH 24]

Willer

Descendents in Canada and US of Benjamin & Sarah Willson

Pioneer History of the Willson Family [FH 25]

Willer Soundex

Williams, Richard [FH 25]

Willits

Wilson History [FH 25]

Wilson History [FH 25] (Note: different from above)

The Winans Family - Descendents of John Winans, Holland [FH 25]

Winchester/Lane: A New Brunswick Family’s History [FH 25]

Descendents of John Wismer & Agnes Honsberger, Lincoln Co. [FH 25]

Woodruff Family [FH 25]

The Woodward Family Album

The Woolley Family of Elgin, Oxford & Norfolk Ontario

Some of the Wyatts [FH 25]

The Yeager Family Album (R. Robert Mutrie),