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Hello Diane:
Thank you very much for responding to my posting! I would be most interested in
exchanging all of the information I have on the family (see below) of Thomas Calder &
Catherine McNabb. Please contact me directly at the email address below! Thanks again!
John
email: calderjb(a)golden.net
Family #45:
1-? Thomas Calder
Born: December 22, 1793 (requires verification).
Isle of Islay, Argyllshire, Scotland.
Christened on December 22, 1793 in Kildalton, Islay, Argyllshire, Scotland
(requires verification).
His birth in Islay, Scotland is confirmed in the book "They Came To
Mara".
Died: February 9, 1882.
Mara Township, Ontario County, Ontario.
Buried at: Gamebridge Cemetery, Mara Township, Simcoe County, Ontario.
Headstone Inscription: In / Memory Of / Thos. Calder / Died Feb. 9, 1882 / Aged 89 Years.
/
And Of His Wife / Catharine / Died April 7, 1879 / Aged 77 Years.
back: CALDER (old section, row 2, plot 8)
Married to: Catharine McNabb.
Profession: - Apparently recorded in the Militia Nominal Rolls for Thorah & Eldon in
March / 1829.
- Farmer in the 1851 census, and on his Death Registration.
Place of Residence: - United States Of America from about 1824 to about 1826.
- Canada on the birthdate of his son Andrew, in about the year 1829.
- Purchased Lot 8, Con. 2, Mara Township in the year 1862.
- Mara Township, Ontario County in the 1881 census. He is recorded as being a widower
and
is residing in the home of his son, Duncan.
Immigration Record: Based on the birth dates of his children he and his family arrived in
Canada
between the years 1826 to 1829.
Notes: - His religious denomination is Presbyterian in the 1851 census, and on his Death
Reg'n.
Documentation: - Province of Ontario Death Registration # 012988 / 82.
Ontario Census Returns - 1851 - Ontario County, Enumeration Dist. 8, Mara Twp., Page 20,
Line 12.
- 1881 - Ontario North, District 133, Sub District G, Mara Twp., Division 1, Page 27,
Line (?).
Men of Upper Canada: Militia Nominal Rolls, 1828 - 1829; ISBN: 0-7779-0188-9. (requires
verification).
"They Came To Mara" ... Pioneers of Mara Township Circa 1829 - 1900, published
by the Corporation
of the Township of Mara, 1993, pages 110 & 111.
Catharine McNabb Wife
Christened: June 3, 1803 (requires verification).
Kildalton, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire, Scotland.
Died: April 6, 1879.
Mara Township, Ontario County, Ontario.
Buried at: Gamebridge Cemetery (Knox Presbyterian Church yard), Gamebridge, Simcoe Cnty,
Ont.
Headstone Inscription: See her husband Thomas's headstone inscription.
Parents: John McNabb, and Janet Leitch.
Documentation: - Province of Ontario Death Registration # 010356 / 79.
Ontario Census Returns - 1851 - Ontario County, Enumeration Dist. 8, Mara Twp., Page 20,
Line 13.
Children of Thomas Calder and Catharine McNabb:
2-1 Donald Calder
2-2 Duncan Calder
2-3 Andrew Calder
2-4 Thomas Calder
2-5 Mary Calder
2-6 Catherine Calder
2-7 Margaret Calder
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