There were quite a few CAmerons from Scotland settled in Lanark county
Ontario. my husband is ggg grandson of Thomas CAmeron and Agnes Hill who
came from Paisley and Govan parish Scotland in 1821 to sherbrooke township
with the Lanarkshire settlers..
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From: Landmann-Cameron <landmanncameron(a)sympatico.ca>
To: CAMERON-L(a)rootsweb.com <CAMERON-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Monday, October 02, 2000 7:46 PM
Subject: [CAMERON] Brick Walls in Ontario
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
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