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Who are the parents of John Chisholm who was born about 1785 in Scotland? He
married Barbara Young June 02, 1811 in Borthwick, M-Lothian, Scotland. John
immigrated about 1820 from Leith, Midlothian, Scotland to Montreal, Quebec,
Canada. John died July 13, 1830 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Barbara died June
11, 1845 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada also. John and Barbara had 10 children.
Gloria J. Studdard
I found this and thought I would pass it along in hope it will help someone
with their Chisholm genealogy.
[From "History of the Town of Antigonish", Part Two - Genealogical]
CHISHOLM, "Salt Springs"
It does not appear possible to say to a certainty what the name of the
progenitor, in Antigonish, of the "Salt Springs" Chisholms was. No descendant has
been found who could give his name, and no record has been discovered to show
what his name was, but it is generally believed to have been John Chisholm, and
he must have had a brother, Alexander, who came to the Salt Springs at or
about the same time that he did. Two deeds are on the Registry of Deeds from
Alexander Chisholm, West River, dated 1814, one Kenneth Chisholm and one to
Alexander McAdam, but neither was signed by a wife, which would make it appear that
Alexander was not married. In a letter from John Chisholm, son of the pioneer,
written at Salt Springs, December 16, 1849, he said: "my uncle Alexander
died." Presuming the name of the pioneer to have been John, he will be referred to
as John 1st, while his son John will be known as John 2nd.
JOHN CHISHOLM, 1st, and presumably his wife, came to Nova Scotia in 1784, and
settled at Salt Springs, County of Sydney (later Antigonish). Early family
records may he came from Loch Ness, Scotland, and his wife from Lochaber, while
the cover of an old family Bible has a memorandum on it that "William Chisholm
(referring to a son of John 1st.,) was born at Urquhart, (on Loch Ness)
County of Inverness, North Britain, in 1781."
The children of John Chisholm, 1st and wife, were:
John, m. Mary Livingstone;
William, m. Mary Cameron;
Betsey, m. Joseph Baxter;
Kenneth, m., 1st, Nancy MacDonald, 2nd, Mary McPhee;
Mary, m. Alexander MacAdam;
Jennie, m. Kenneth MacDonald, moved to Wisconsin.
JOHN CHISHOLM, 2nd, m. Mary Livingstone; their children were:
Jennie, b. March 15, 1798;
Katherine, b. March 5, 1799, m. George Pushee;
John, b. April 27, 1801, d. when about 15 years old;
Isabella, b. April 27, 1803, m. Duncan Cameron (as his 2nd wife);
William, who kept a store at Lochaber;
Alexander, b. September 23, 1808, m. Catherine Sinclair; he owned the
Burnside farm, and after selling it moved to St. Mary's, Guysborough County, and
later to Minnesota;
Roderick, b. October 10, 1809;
Angus, b. Jany. 27, 1811, m. Ann McKay, moved to Minnesota;
Mary, b. Nov. 4, 1813, m. Aug. 3, 1842, John Cameron, son of Duncan Cameron
who married her sister Isabella who was called "Auntie-Grandma", because she
was aunt to Mary's children, being the wife of the father of Mary's husband;
they moved to Minnesota and she d. July 5, 1890;
Duncan, b. Aug 24, 1816, died sometime between 1886 and 1849.
John Chisholm, 2nd, had a checkered career.
At one time he owned a great deal of land; in 1820 he deeded a piece to his
son Rory, in 1825 he deeded a piece to his son Alexander, (the Burnside Farm),
and in 1836 he he deeded his farm to his two youngest sons, Angus and Duncan,
and in a letter he wrote in 1858 he said that this farm could then be sold for
fifteen or sixteen hundred pounds.
Some of his descendants say he went to Eastport, Maine in 1839; he was
evidently in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, in 1847, with his son Angus and wife, for in a
letter from John Cameron, his son-in-law, to his father, Duncan Cameron at
Beaver Dam, dated August 18, 1847, he said: "Best respects to you all, and to
Angus and wife, and not forgetting Father-in-law." The descendants in Antigonish
say he walked from Minnesota back to Salt Springs, bringing in his pockets
wheat which was sown in Antigonish; as the Camerons only moved from Wisconsin to
Minnesota in 1854, he must have been away from Nova Scotia many years.
He wrote a letter from Salt Springs, July 20, 1858, to his two daughters and
their husbands, addressing the letter to Duncan Cameron, Rushford, Fillmore
County, Minnesota, U.S., and in that letter told that he was living alone, in
poverty, but being supplied with food.
Gloria J. Studdard