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I managed a marathon in the Toronto Reference Library today.
First, the good news. Yes, of course there are indexes of many of the
"lists" of Ontario citizens, including the 1851 census. There are many:
church records, township records, family trees, Loyalist land grant records,
newspaper notices, and combinations of all of the above.
And guess what? The bad news: no suitable Dougalds for me, no suitable John
J.'s for Dean Cameron, not a good Hugh (or Frank or Martha) for Marlene, and
no one for Anne McPhee either. In the case of John J. Cameron, of course
there were dozens of possible plain Johns, but they were the uninformative
"living" entries and not much to go on. I met many of them several times,
at their births, marriages and deaths, brothers and sisters. So even though
the records are sometimes said to be incomplete, I think our people just
were not there. We will have to look elsewhere for these Scottish-Camerons
who eventually emigrated to the American West.. However, I have also
ordered a CD-ROM (indexed) of various Ontario records from Global Genealogy,
and I'll let you know if it has any leads.
A few interesting bits of knowledge. I didn't know that Ewen and Hugh were
interchangeable names for Gaelic speakers. There are many ship's lists from
Scotland to Canada extant, but first you have to know which ship to search.
At times half of Scottish emigrants to Ontario were Catholic - I thought
that they were mostly Presbyterians. There was an area near Cornwall Ontario
so full of Camerons it was called Camerontown.
Ann Cameron
My great great grandfather farmed Sunnyhall, in Lundie (I don't know if he
owned it), at least from the 1850s to the 1880s. Does anybody have any
knowledge of him and his family?
Best,
John SR
Greetings,
I'm descended in part from James Cameron who worked Sunnyhall Farm in the
parish of Lundie and Fowlis (Angus) in the 1870s and 1880s (his daughter
Charlotte was one of my great grandmothers). Does anybody out there have
information on this line?
Best,
John Storm Roberts