TALBOT TIMES

Newsletter of the

ELGIN COUNTY BRANCH

ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

BOX 20060, ST. THOMAS, ON N5P 4H4

ISSN 0827-2816

VOLUME XVIV ISSUE TWO JUNE 2000

Extracts of Genealogical information

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Township Land Papers

The Township Papers can best be described as a miscellaneous collection of documents relating to early transactions and correspondence to the lots of land in each township. These papers are an important source of information to the family historian since these files pre-date information found in Land Registry Office records.

These documents have been arranged by lot and concession and are the papers that have survived and are not necessarily a complete record of all business that may have transpired. The type and amount of information contained will vary for each lot, and not every lot has a file.

The Publications Committee of our branch has created an index to these township papers, which will benefit researchers trying to obtain information about the earliest records of their ancestors’ land dealings. Without an index, the researcher must know the lot and concession to find reference to the person they are looking for. The indexes will also record names of people that may never have obtained title to the lot and therefore one would not normally search that particular record. Names of people who witnessed documents have also been indexed since that record is valuable in placing a person in a particular place at a certain time period, and provides the family historian with a signature. These extractions and indexes are now completed and available for sale.

There are many types of information found in the Township Papers. A large part of the files are correspondence from people wishing to purchase or lease a particular lot, enclosing payments for purchase or rent, disputes over title of a lot, and stating their claims for military service or United Empire Loyalist rights. Some of the correspondence from persons wishing to purchase is very brief, while others went into great detail of when they arrived in the province, the size of their family, and where they immigrated from. A large percentage of the documents include assignments of title or rights to the property from one person to another. These transfers often occurred before a patent was issued for the lot and therefore will not be found in the records of the Land Registry Office for that property.

Below is an example of the type of information one can find in the Township Papers. It is a letter from James Merrill regarding his claim to a lot in Malahide township, which he apparently lost possession of following the 1837 Rebellion when he was forced to flee to the United States.

Aug. 10, 1852

To the Hon. John Rolph, M. Of Parliament of Canada:

Pardon me for taking the liberty to ask your opinion if I could obtain any relief from or through the Canada Legislator for a friend. I suffered at the hands of the Kings College but now by a new name and in hopes of new and better principles, I am about to ask your opinion if it would be worthwhile for me to petition to the Parliament. The case if briefly this: in 1832 I took a lease of the south half of lot No. 34 in the first concession of Malahide from a Sidney McDorman, who had just got a lease from the Kings College for the whole lot for 21 years with the privileges of buying at any time within the 21 years. I took it in as state of nature and laid out in 1832, 33 and 34, about twelve thousand dollars. I built a sawmill, grist mill and cleared 80 acres of land. Built a large barn, sheds and two good frame houses, one for myself, and the other for a miller. I paid the rent to McDorman and he to the College until the winter of 1838 at this time I had to flee on account of the Rebellion and left all I had in the hands of my political enemies of whom John Burwell was chief. I returned again in the winter of 1847 and I have no need to draw a picture of what state of things I found my property and family for you can judge yourself.

I also had built a new schooner on the lake called the Sir Robert Peel that cost six thousand dollars and owned her and put her in a friends hands. But John Burwell soon [?] [illegible] it took her as being the property of a Rebel and to make it a sure thing of it, obtained from one of his [illegible] a complaint that she had violated the revenue laws and so I also lost her. As soon as I returned I was seen by my blood thirsty enemies not satisfied with my property I was put in London jail and there kept until March, at which time I had a judgement against me on a bond that I had signed that which proved[?] of a particular matter, then I was let out and had to take the [illegible] for two years and then I was persecuted and hunted until I was used up and discouraged. But to return to the College, I had got at liberty in 1843 and returned to pick up the remains of the work. At this time Sidney McDorman wished to give up the lease and to pay his rent and he could do so by the College taking me and acknowledge me their tenant and look to me for the rent. I wrote them that I would pay up the back rent and buy before the 21 years is up myself, they [?] sold to McDorman his rent me a pretended letter during [?] me for back rent and instructing me how to proceed.

In the fall of 1843 I feeling too [illegible] to being the world anew in Canada and poor I [illegible] and located here in Milan where I still remain and left what effects I had there in the hands of friends for my benefit and so it remained until 1845 at this time a Charles Chute one of my political enemies liking [?] that where he wished to enjoy Noboths [?] Vinyard he took on this large improvement, horses, barns, mills, and he went to the College, offered them the back rent if they would sell it to him, the college it was no sooner offered then done to the great astonishment of himself and all the neighbors, he Chute is now Lord [?] of the Vinyard.

Sir I would feel for ever grateful if you could [illegible] to me any relief as the form of Government is altered in Canada and altogether changed, I should now like to return for it is still my home. I was raised on Talbot Street at Catfish creek and am the son of William Merrill, whose family you will very well recollect.

Your obedient servant, James Merrill

N.B. Doctor Boyer

in answer to my complaint justified the College on the grounds of a release from Sidney McDorman that he gave to Charles Chute three years ago after he had released to me and had bought his half and the College wrote to me they would look to me instead of McDorman. And also said my matter of complaint would be laid before the council not asking my attendance. I then wrote from Port Burwell to know the result of that council and I received the answer here within enclosed.

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In Memory of

The Elgin County Branch of the Ontario Genealogy Society would like to extend condolences to the family of Maxwell F. “Max” Doan (OGS #8296) who died Sunday, May 28, 2000. Born April 9, 1919 in St. Thomas, son of the late Hugo Doan and Alice Mitchell, he lived in the community most of his life. Max was a retired high school teacher who had served overseas during the Second World War with the Royal Canadian Artillery and with the 7th Field Regiment, RCA (M) London after the war. He was the author of The Doan Families of Southwestern Ontario and historian of the Southwestern Ontario Chapter of the Doan(e) Family Association of America.

I received word from Charlie Nagy of Westbank, B.C., that his wife Margaret Nagy, passed away on May 13 , 2000. Margaret had been a longtime member of our branch and had spent time with Lloyd and I on most of her trips east to do research. Margaret had been working on the life of Nancy Elliott Edison for some time but has not quite completed her work. Margaret had been very active with the genealogical societies to which she had belonged both in B.C. and in Ontario. She always kept close contact with us ever since we delivered books to her home in 1986. Both Charlie and Margaret had been a joy to spend time with. Norma Smith

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THE AYLMER EXPRESSS MARCH 1, 1934

AN OLD RESIDENT

MALAHIDE’S GRAND OLD MAN --

SAMUEL STALEY

It should be considered very fine for a person to live 70 or 80 years, and be a keen observer during that period, retaining all his faculties, but when one reaches ten more, and yet in good health, alert both mentally and physically, it is something worth even boasting about.

Malahide’s Grand Old Man, Samuel Staley, scores in the latter, as on Wednesday of last week, with a number of relatives and friends, in his beautiful home in the Gore between the 7th and 8th concession, he celebrated his 90th birthday. He was born on the townline in Malahide, about a mile west of Springfield, and thus has spent his four score and ten in the township of his birth.

The Staleys came from New York state, near Albany. For a time some of his father’s brothers and other relatives lived on Grand Island in the Niagara River. Some of the brothers went to Markham, and one to Talbot Street west of Aylmer. Sam’s father and mother were on a visit to the Aylmer brother, when he fell in with Father Pettys, a travelling preacher, then living on the farm now occupied by Orland Wall. Father Pettys, needing some family on the farm to look after the work, bargained successfully with Peter. Peter Staley, wife and two children arrived at the Pettys farm on the 21st of February, and that night Samuel was born.

Sometime later, this Staley family moved in east of Glencolin, where the Chambers family had been for some time, and finally settled, taking up land.

Samuel and his elder brother, John M., occupied the place where Gordon Staley now lives, and their sister, Rebecca, kept house for them for a few years. By the time Sam was 25 years he and a Miss Chambers had decided that the bonds of matrimony were the only road to true happiness. They were duly married, and the next day Samuel with his oxen and an old truck, drove his bride to the farm on which he has since resided. Some five years ago, his beloved partner in the joys and worries of pioneer life, passed to the Great Beyond . No children were there to bless this union, however they kept on the young side of life by always having a nephew or two with them.

About the time of Mrs. Staley’s death, his sister, Rebecca, who had also married into the Chambers family, and had spent a number of years in the vicinity of Alvinston, returned a widow, and has since most effectively managed the household, although she is well past the four score.

There being much fine pine in the vicinity of the Chambers-Staley Corners, the sawmill and the shingle mill flourished. To operate the shingle mill, a Robert Willis was engaged. This young man and two of his brothers married three of Sam’s sisters. The Robert Willis referred to was the father of Robert Willis, of Springfield.

The day of the celebration brought together a number of his nephews and nieces and other friends, about 50, and while all enjoyed themselves and ate heartily of the bounteous spread, none were more pleased than “Uncle” Sam himself.

Samuel Staley and his sister, Mrs. Rebecca Chambers are the only ones left of a large family.

After the dinner, or feast rather, all repaired to the large front room where Samuel delighted all with the humorous stories of by-gone days in the woods. Among those present was one, Mrs. Ralph Chambers, now 88, who had taught in the school of that section 70 odd years ago. She readily vouched for the various reminiscence.

It is indeed a rare thing to find even among men, half the age, those who can depict events as clearly and as delightfully as can Uncle Sam. If we were to put into print all his remarks, we feel that too much space for one issue, would be taken. Sam knows Malahide and Aylmer, as no other living man knows it and more too, he can tell about them and the early settlers. May he enjoy with his friends, many more such occasions. "

The Aylmer Express September 8, 1938

OLD MALAHIDE MILL RAZED -

Hill’s Mill at Luton, Was Built Nearly 100 Years Ago

An interesting Malahide landmark, Hill’s Mill, one (sic) south of Luton, is being dismantled. This mill was erected about 1840 and was one of the early water-power mills. Three brothers, Richard, Ambrose and Elias Hill, were responsible for its erection, coming from Bertie Township, Haldimand County. Their father was Charles Hill, whose family were United Empire Loyalists from New Jersey.

Charles Hill had a woollen mill on Silver Creek, and was the father of six sons and four daughters. His other three sons were Jesse, who followed the trade of a potter; Charles, who engaged in the lumber business in Cleveland; and Walter, who lived in Muskegon, Michigan. His four daughters were Mrs. Thomas Locker, wife of the first reeve of Malahide; Mrs. Jesse P. Ball, of Vienna; Mrs. Walter E. Murray, of Aylmer, and Anna Hill, who never married.

Of the three milling brothers, Richard finally became a farmer; Elias went to St. Thomas as a grist miller, and Ambrose was left with the old mill, and was succeeded in its operation by his son, Eugene Hill, who carried on the business until the time of this death, some few years ago.

About two years ago Dr. P.S. Dobson, of Alma College, purchased the property for a summer home. The dam is being repaired and the pond will be restored to its original height."

ORIGIN OF ITS NAME: EARLY SETTLERS -- ORIGINS & REASONS

The territory know as the County of Elgin comprises of eleven municipalities; the townships of Aldborough, Dunwich, Southwold, Yarmouth, Malahide, Bayham and South Dorchester and the incorporated villages of Vienna and Port Stanley; town of Aylmer and the city of St. Thomas.

It consists of a belt of land on the northern shore of Lake Erie, about 60 miles in length by twelve to sixteen miles in breadth.

It has a history reaching further back than the history of its municipalities, since municipal institutions in Upper Canada (now Ontario) only date from the era of Lord Sydenham, 1841.

In the latter part of the eighteenth century (1786-1788) the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland had two youthful aides-decamp, one of whom was destined to play an important part on the battlefields of Europe, and the other in the settlement of the forests of Western Canada. The first was Arthur Wellesley (Lord Wellington) the hero of a hundred fights, who never lost an English gun; the other Thomas Talbot, born at the ancient baronial Castle of Malahide, in the County of Dublin, Ireland, in the year 1771.

In accordance with custom among nobleman’s sons in Great Britain young Talbot was early provided with a Colonel’s commission, and was with the 24

 

th Regiment at Quebec in 1790 and 1791, became attached to the suite of General John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada.

THE WAR OF 1812

In 1887 there were over forty veterans of the war living in the county. Their ages ranged from seventy-seven to one hundred and five years.

Socrates Hunter, Port Bruce, the oldest 105.

George Yocum, Bayham

John Tompson Doan, Yarmouth

Ransom Dexter, St. Thomas

Omesimus Bradley, Malahide

George Caughell, Yarmouth

Philo Troos, Southwold

Samuel Howie, Bayham

Mathew House, Malahide

Jean St. Etienne, St. Thomas

Henry Stringer, St. Thomas

Peter McConnell, Aldborough

Daniel McAfee, St. Thomas

Thomas House, Bayham

David Kemp, Bayham

Hugh Aharon, Southwodl

Jacob Berdan, Bayham

Benjamin Wilson, Southwold

John Couse, Yarmouth

Joseph Vancise, Malahide

Samuel Harper, Malahide

Sidney McDiarmid, Bayham

Thomas McDiarmid, Bayham

Robert Dakins, Bayham

Thaddeus Ostrander, Malahide

Horatio Nelson Franklin, Malahide

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REUNION and FAMILY PICNIC

97

th ANNUAL MISENER / MISNER REUNION

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 2000

WELLANDPORT COMMUNITY CENTRE, WELLANDPORT, ONTARIO

Family History at 10 am. ch at 12:30

Pot Luck Lun

Crafts and games for the Children

Donna Kemp: smokeyhollow@sympatico.ca

Pat & Ted Baker: patted@idirect.com

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ONTARIO FIRST MOTORIST VEHICLE LICENSE FORMS - 1903 - 1904

(Friends of the Archives of Ontario Newsletter, Dec. 199, Courtesy Marie Rhodes)

Published in Hamilton Branch, May 2000, Compiled by Jane MacNamara - Licensee’s name, post office and licence No.-

See Microfilm MS261 ------ The following are Southwestern Ontario Extractions.

Andrews, E. St. Mary’s 130

Atkinson, T.R. Simcoe 94

Austin, Chas. A. 120

Barard, C.E. London 153

Bernard, C.E. London 113

Blain, E.B, MD Forest 205

Bowman, C.W. Ingersoll 146

Cockshutt, H. Brantford 180

Cornell, C.W., MD Chatham 196

Crawford, A.M. Wingham 236

Cronyn, V. London 136

Darch, F.J. London 113

Doherty, Thomas Sarnia 180, 202

Duffield, James C. London 147

Durnford Isabella C. Sarnia 84

Ellis, C.W. St. Thomas 228

Ellis, Calvin W. St. Thomas 153

Hayes, A.M. Sarnia 125

Holmes, Kingsley, Chatham 348

Karr, G.S. (Mayor) Beamsville 100

McCrackin, T.F. London 130

McMartin, John, London 240

Marshall, D., Aylmer 101

Maxwell, D.A. Watford 28

Mehan, J.J. Watford 109

Moore, Monte Sarnia 162

Nairn, J.J. Aylmer 159

O’Keefe, J. T. Chatham 198

Payne, Wm., London 78

Prout, Rich’d Forest 151

Pulling, William J. Windsor 156

Reid, Thos. Walkerville 90

Robinson, Alby, Woodstock 187

Rumsey C.S. St. Mary’s 122

Simpson, D. Ridgetown 219

Sinborn, Edwin, London 138

Sovereen, S.M. Simcoe 123

Stephen, Chas. Windsor 149

Tisdale, J.P. Clinton 243 128

Wenino, Paul, Sarnia 150

Wescott, B.G. Leamington 154

Whitaker, Richard Sarnia 126

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CRINAN, Elgin County

O.L. Fuller’s, Counties of Elgin and Norfolk Directory for 1865 & 1866, Blackburn’s City, Steam Press, Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario

A small post village, situated abut 2-1/2 miles from the River Thames, in the Township of Aldborough, and County of Elgin. It is distant from St. Thomas, the County Town, 30 miles, and contains a population of about 35.

McCall, Donald, boot & shoe maker

McCall, Dugal, farmer

McCallum, Angus, farmer

McIntyre, Duncan, postmaster & tailor

McLean, Archibald, farmer

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County Pupils at St. Thomas Collegiate Institute for the year 1896

SOUTHWOLD

Sherwood Hill

Ada Hendershott

Walter Cale

James Munro

Jennie Allison

Ida Silcox

Martin Chapman

Alfred Hicks

Austin McLean

Wm. Rogers

Frank Thompson

Maggie Cattanach

Ethel Potticari

Charles Barber

Frank Daugharty

Herber Futcher

Ethelberta Jelly

Pearl Gilbert

Annie Lyle

May Sutherland

Alex. Baldwin

Ernest Best

Fergus McDiarmid

Whitson Moore

Edwin Turville

Amy Allison

Bertha Bennett

Elsie Davis

Anna Dodd

Wm. Cron

James Davis

John Johnston

Lila Spackman

Isabella McGugan

Edith McCorkell

George Meek

James Sutherland

Alison Sutherland

Bertha Burwell

Bruce Burwell

Arthur Walker

Jessie Whitton

YARMOUTH

John McBain

Silas Ridley

Thomas Allan

Jennie Allan

Ethel Bailey

Stella Moore

Percy Haight

Versa Gloin

Mary McBanes

Estella Sanders

Farquhard Campbell

John Green

Ethel Hair

Wm. Ferguson

Percy Mathison

Bertha Axford

Annie Davidson

Libbie Mills

Ethel Smale

Harry Cross

Thomas Dadson

Clyde Dunbar

Douglas Ewin

Percy Newcombe

Vernon Oill

Bertha Bailey

Mary Buck

Flora Buchanan

Edith Knight

Isima Smale

Ada Walker

William Leslie

Maude Sanders

Mabel Smith

Thurza Schooley

Etoile Saywell

Ralph Green

Frank McBrayne

Elmer Smith

Maggie Blewett

Marion Ryckman

Neil Munro

Blanche Smale

Burt Vail

ALDBOROUGH

Mary McColl

Erwin King

Henry King

DUNWICH

Etta Clarke

Duncan Cameron

PORT STANLEY

Neil Thomas

Ernest Payne Signed St. Thomas. A. Quance January 28, 1897

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GLEAMINGS FROM EXCHANGE NEWSLETTERS IN OUR LIBRARY

The N.S. Genealogist, Spring 2000

International Club of Boston - Passenger Lists Jan 1881 - Jan 1919

National Archives of Canada -Ships arriving Halifax & North Sydney, Nov 1906-Aug 1919.

Lambton Lifeline, March 2000

- Lambton Room News:

A list of Michigan Marriages - some give only Canada or Canada West (Ontario) as their residence. Check it out!

Extractions from Lambton Lifeline where Elgin County addresses are stated:

Wm. McAllister and Eliza Mary Kirk, both of Port Stanley, married Oct. 30, 1861

Duncan Campbell, 26, Dorchester & Lephonfretta Simpkins, 21, of Virnna (Vienna? Varna?) C.W. married September 2, 1862.

Thomas Fitzsimmons, 23, and Mary Jane Rolin, both of St. Thomas, married July 26, 1864

John White 24, and Catherine M. Worden, 20, both of Bayham, C.W., married September 11, 1864.

Albert Early, 23, of Canada West and Mary June Liscocel of Malahide, married June 18, 1864

Joshua Van Wagonen, 30, & Adeline Harris, 18, both of Malahide, C.W., married May 26, 1863

John Worsley, 21, of Toronto, and Elizabeth Copp, 18 of St. Thomas married January 12, 1866

Alexander Kennedy, 21, of Williams, C.W. and Betsey McDugal, 19, of Port Stanley married Feb. 13, 1866

Adolphus Haight & Jane Evans, both of Canada West, married October 5, 1858.

McLean, James, farmer

McKenzie, Donald, teacher, Common School

McKinnon, Neil Rev., Presbyterian

Stalker, Duncan, farmer

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The Aylmer Express, September 28, 1939

SPRINGFIELD

- Sunday Was Decoration Day -

Last Sunday afternoon, a decoration service was held at the Springfield cemetery at 3 o’clock. A number of the band were present and led in the singing of the hymns. The oration was delivered by ex-Warden Gordon Newell, the subject being, “The Pioneer Builders”. It was a masterly address, and further dealt particularly on the purchase of the present grounds from Daniel Kinsey, the deed for which was drawn in 1871, by Mr. McKay, father of Elgin’s veteran clerk, K.W. McKay, and the first burials. In the very early days, deaths were not as frequent as in the present time, and a place for burial had to be decided on, cemetery or no cemetery. George Shively died in 1855 and was buried near what is now the cemetery, and Joseph Kinsey in 1866, was placed to rest near that of George Shively. Also Catharine Shively, a granddaughter of George Shively, who died in 1858, was placed near her grandfather’s resting place. Following the formation of a cemetery board and the securing of a definite place for burial, the remains of these three were removed to the new cemetery proper. This cemetery is the only piece of land in this vicinity that shows gravel, which is the reason it was selected. Mr. Newell told much about the pioneers in this vicinity and was greatly complimented by those present, especially by George A. Johnson, of Prescott, a native of this district and born within a half mile of the cemetery about 75 years ago. Among those present from a distance were, from St. Thomas, Mrs. Cook and daughter, Mrs. Oliver, Mrs. W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Stirton, Mr. and Mrs. H. Grant, Mrs. D. Douglas and son, Hugh; from London, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Newell; from Detroit, Earl Vincent; f rom Windsor, Mrs. Clara Ferris; from Tillsonburg, Miss Jessie Turner, and from Hagersville, Mr. and Mrs. Elgin O. Awde. Besides these, many were present from Aylmer and surrounding places.

The graves were decorated with flowers and the whole presented a beautiful appearance. Especially those from a distance were loud in their praises of the board in erecting a new steel fence along the front."

SPRINGFIELD

O.L. Fuller’s, Counties of Elgin and Norfolk Directory for 1865 & 1866, Blackburn’s City, Steam Press, Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario

A post village in the Township of Dorchester and Malahide, and County of Elgin. It is distant from St. Thomas the County Town, 18 miles; and contains a population of about 125.

Alfred, K. H., physician

Anderson, David

Armstrong, Thomas, tailor

Burgess, S. H., blacksmith and hose shoer

Cronk, A. shingle factory and grist mill,

Dickhout, Richard, grocer

Fanning, E. & W., cabinetmakers

Fleckenstine, George, waggon maker

Foy, John, boot and shoe maker

Graves, W. H, general merchant and postmaster

Hutton, John, blacksmith and horse shoer

Ingles, John, wheelright

Johnson, Joseph, blac smith and hose shoer

Kinsey, David, carpenter and joiner

McEwen, Lyman, general merchant

McIntosh, James, general merchant

McLeod, James, hotel keeper

Palmer, Gilbert, boot and shoe maker

Platt, John, boot and shoe maker

Roseburgh, William, tinsmith Elgin Co. O.G.S. and O.G.S. Membership information is available at the meetings or by

contacting the Chairperson or Membership Co-ordinator

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QUERIES

DOAN

- Israel B. d 25 Feb. 1878 in N. Norwich Twp., Oxford County, ae 57. Born Yarmouth Twp, Elgin Co., Ontario. Presbyterian. Sailor. Who were parents and siblings?

Marjorie Doan WELLAR, E:mail - Wellar@hotmail.com

WHITE / VAN BUSKIRK / MORGAN

- William Joshua WHITE b ca 1827 England (?) An attorney in St. Thomas, ON ca 1850-1900, mar Sarah Elisabeth VAN BUSKIRK, b 1830, London,ON. Dau of Henry VAN BUSKIRK and Ruth MORGAN, Sarah d St. Thomas, 1910. Couple had at least 9 children: Thomas b ca 1848; Caroline, b 1851; Eva, b ca 1853; Alice b ca 1855; William b ca 1857; Charles b ca 1859; Fanny, b ca 1861, Edith Augusta, b c 1864 and Frederick Van Buskirk, b c 1868. Wish to know when Wm. immigrated and from which part of England, also date of death. Any info on his ch & extended fam welcome.

Diana QUESNEL, E:mail - dquesnel1@aol.com

BAKER / ABELL -

Looking for birth date or documentation for Daniel W. BAKER. B ca 1855, s/o George E. and Anna (ABELL) BAKER. Fam lvd in Malahide Twp re 1861 census. Daniel listed as age 4 . George & Anna bd Burdick cem. Daniel appears in July 6 1870 Us census listed as age 15. Birth date 1855 - 1857.

Joy STEWART,

BEAMAN / BUCHNER / CARTWRIGHT

- Beaman ancestors settled in Bayham Twp, Elgin Co., ca 1850 . John A. BEAMAN. Dorothy Maria BEAMAN mar Ezra CARTWRIGHT, all three bd in Claus Cem., Also have Sarah BUCHNER ,marr to Henry BEAMAN, both bd in Eden Cem., Elgin Co.

Gerald BEAMAN, E:mail - beaman@golden.net

TITCHNER

- Looking for HENRY WILLIAM TITCHNER’s death between 1915-1919. Lived 48 St. George St. St. Thomas, Wife MARY ANN KIDD

Yvonne McIntyre,

KENEDY / KENNEDY / McCORQUODALE / FERGUSON / McTAVISH -

Searching siblings Catherine (m - McCORQUODALE), William, Janet (m - FERGUSON) and Donald (m - McTAVISH) - came from Scotland to Elgin Co ca 1840. Donald bd St. Thomas, the others in Kilmartin/Stewart cem. Seek info on their roots in Scotland as well a history and desc in Canada.

Don KENNEDY E:mail - kenned@compusmart.ab.ca

HOOVER / YAGER

- David Leaman HOOVER, s/o David & Elizabeth (YAGER?) marr Charlotte D. _____ ca 1864. What is her maiden name? Marra date? Known ch: b in N. Dorchester Twp., Middlesex Co and Yarmouth Twp., Elgin Co - Esther ca 1865, Ruben, Martha, David Riley 1876 - 77, Mary, & James Franklin 1880. Lvd in Yarmouth 1881. Where 1891.

ROY / ROSZEL -

Charles ROY b ca 1806, s/o Stephen and Lydia (ROY)ROSZELL & wife of Orpah (Orpha?) Mvd to Bayham Twp, Elgin Co. from Erin Twp between 1852 & 1861. Farmed part of Lot 15, Con 4, Bayham. Appear in both 1861 and 1971 census. Did they die in Bayham before 1881? Info to

Heather BEED

ROBINS / GILMORE

- Christopher ROBINS b Thorold ca 1817 - family from PA? Mar Sarah Ann GILMORE, b 12 Aug 1822 in Pelham, d & bd in Aylmer Cem, Elgin Co., Where was Christopher bd? Could be Brant or Norfolk Co., ca 1871 - 72. Parents not known , neither are siblings. Christopher received land from a John Robins is only clue we have.

A. Ruth ROBERTSON and Glenda FENLON,

McKILLOP / LANG

- Wish for marriage date of John D. McKILLOP 1826 - 1904 - lvd Con 7 Lot 14 Dunwich, Elgin CO.,marr Janet LANG 1845 - 1921, from Howick, Quebec. Both Presbyterian. First ch was Annie b 1870.

Shirley WILSON

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