               LANARK COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

                               JUNE 1995 - 5

The regular meeting of the Lanark County Genealogical Society was
held on Wednesday, June 7, 1995 in the library of Algonquin
College, Perth.

President Marilyn Snedden opened the business part of the meeting
at 8pm, welcomed all members and invited those attending for the
first time to introduce themselves and identify the families they
are researching.  Forty nine members were in attendance.  The
minutes were approved as printed.

Treasurer Helen Gillan reported a bank balance of $2139.09 on May
12, with deposits of $347.00 and expenditures of $162.00 for
stamps and QuickPrint and $35.00 for library purchases.  232
newsletters were sent out during the past month.  Moved by Helen
Gillan and seconded by Rob Allen that the report be accepted as
read. Motion passed.

The LCGS is indebted to Ed Wilson for indexing and the original
printing of Clayton United Cemetery and Pakenham St. Mark's
Cemetery, both of which are now available for sale.  A letter
will be sent out to Ed Wilson thanking him on behalf of the LCGS
for his assistance.

The financial position of the LCGS is not good if we are to
continue to print nine newsletter per year.  Discussion ensued as
to whether we reduce the number of newsletters or increase the
membership fee.  The general consensus at the meeting was that we
should not reduce the number of newsletters, but rather increase
the membership fee.  Moved by Mildred Livingston and seconded by
Irma Willoughby that a recommendation be forwarded to the annual
meeting (Dec 1995) that the annual dues be increased to $12.00.
[***ED.NOTE:  Please keep this in mind if you are sending in your
annual dues for 1996 before the Dec meeting].

There have been numerous requests for a listing of our library
holdings.  This is a twenty eight page listing, so we will
investigate the best way to provide this service.

Mildred Livingston advised that she has completed the Index to
Belden's Illustrated Atlas for Lanark County 1880, Renfrew County
1881.  [***ED.NOTE: Available from Mildred Livingston, St.
Lawrence Court, RR #1, Prescott, ON  K0E 1T0].  Mrs. Livingston
is presently working on the Rideau and Richmond Military which
includes some Bay of Quinte and Carleton Place Militia.

Louise Hope then gave an illustrated presentation on her research
of the Vital Statistics Records of Ontario, which proved to be of
great interest.  It is always nice to have Louise with us here in
Lanark County!
**Submitted by Lorne Hunt - Recording Secretary

                                  QUERIES

Robert Ward, 33662 5th Ave., Mission BC  V2V 1W9

McLAREN-  I am researching McLAREN's of Lot 1, Conc. 10, Beckwith
Twp.  I would appreciate any further information on the following
family members:
Colin McLAREN b.ca.1784 Scotland  d.1837 Beckwith
Christian McCOUAN b.ca.1784 Scotland  d.1859 Beckwith
Peter McLAREN b.ca.1812 Scotland  d.1858 Beckwith
Agnes MORRIS b.1822 Perth, Lanark  d. ?
Colin McLAREN b.1845 Beckwith  d.1901 Carleton Place
Isabella McLEAN b.1850  d.1933 Carleton Place
John McLAREN b.1847 Beckwith  d. ?
Christine McLAREN b.1851 Beckwith  d.1873 Drummond
Robert HUGHES b. ?  d. ?
Cathrine McLAREN b.1849 Beckwith  d.1873 Drummond
John HUGHES b. ?  d. ?
I am also interested in the history of the Perth Military
settlement and the allotment of land to settlers.  Is there
information on the emigration from Scotland in 1822 from the
western Perthshire region?
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Mrs. Alice Carmichael Stevenson, Box 36, Magrath AB  ToK 1J0

CALDWELL- CARMICHAEL-   I am looking for any information on my
great grandparents John and Mary Armstrong CALDWELL, both born in
Ireland - Longford, Ireland.   Did they have a son, Fraser,
before coming to Canada, who died as a tiny infant?  Yes, their
next son born in Canada was also named Fraser.  The other name I
am researching is Matthew CARMICHAEL and his wife Jane Caldwell
CARMICHAEL of Perth, Ont.  Their only son was named Fraser Knox
CARMICHAEL who was my father.  I would appreciate any information
available.
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Robert A. Campbell, 1875 Lauder Drive, Ottawa ON  K2A 1A9

I had several ancestors who came from Scotland to Lanark County
in the period c.1816-1822 - 3 CAMPBELLs, a BOWES, a BLAIR, and a
FORRESTER.  Some are buried in the Prestonvale Cemetery, Drummond
Twp., and most of the remainder are in Renfrew Co.

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Ronald R. Thompson, RR 2, Almonte ON  K0A 1A0

McDONALD- McPHAIL-  My father was James (Jim) THOMPSON, 1875-
1959, son of John THOMPSON, 1838-1935, and wife, nee Mary Jane
BAIN, 1850-1926.  Have understood her parents were Daniel BAIN,
who died Oct 26, 1862, aged 71, and Mary McPHAIL (both from
Argylleshire, Scotland).  Tombstones for Daniel and his brother,
Duncan, died July 27, 1860, aged 70 years, are conspicuously
lined up adjacent to the Auld Kirk, Ramsay, within bounds of the
8th line cemetery along county road #16.  The most discouraging
part is that there is no record of spouses or children of either
brother.  The only clue we have is hearsay that the parents died
when children were young.
Upon reviewing The Lanark Society Settlers / Carol Bennett, the
conclusion was that Mary McPHAIL was born perhaps prior to 1820
in Scotland.  Another sister of almost contemporary age is
mentioned but not named, nor if she reached maturity and if so,
marital status.  One might venture to guess her name to be
Catherine as her mother was Catherine McDONALD and Catherine
appears in subsequent generations.
In Clayton United Cemetery, there is a James F. ROBERTSON-
Margaret WATCHORN- Catherine McPHAIL monument with dates
approximately 1841-1927, 1846-1893 and 1861-1920, respectively. 
James F. was known as "Big" Jim ROBERTSON and he and his 1st wife
were parents of Ada, Mrs. James H. REILLY (later Mrs. Dan GUNN);
Margaret, Mrs. Robert REID; Mrs. Minnie JENSEN, and others, --
grandparents to Elmyre and the late Harvey REID.
Am at a loss to know if the 2nd Mrs. ROBERTSON was of the Blakeny
McPHAIL connection.  The name, Catherine, is indicative, but if
so, the way the dates work out, she would most likely be of a
younger generation than my THOMPSON grandmother, Mary Jane BAIN,
born 1850.  Realizing Grandmother would be only some 12 years of
age when her father died and not knowing the date of her mother's
demise, I wondered if it were possible the latter may have been
interred in the McDonald Cemetery, Ramsay Twp.  
Names I have heard associated with the BAINs were Donald, brother
to my grandmother; Johnie and Howard BAIN, possibly father and
son, settled near Prince Albert.  Duncan TAYLOR, Malcolm MANLEY,
and the PORTERFIELDs probably married Bain girls. 
My father and his seven siblings also mentioned having McDONALD
relatives at Lake Dore, Renfrew Co.  Might there be a connection
with the Blakeny McDONALDs?
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 Shirley Wright, 146, Hwy 29, RR 1, Frankville ON  K0E 1H0

WRIGHT-  Does anyone have information on the following people?
Died in Lanark, July 6, 1860 at her father's residence, Charlotte
Adelia, 3rd daughter of Philomen WRIGHT, aged 24 yrs, 7 months,
formerly of Hull.
In Lanark Village Cemetery: In memory of John WRIGHT, died Apr
22, 1881 aged 33 yrs., also his brother James, died April 13,
1878, aged 35 yrs., also James WRIGHT Sr., died July 24, 1879,
aged 69 yrs.
I am also looking for information on my grandmother Rose Joyce
WRIGHT, b.ca. 1897, daughter of James B. WRIGHT and Annie DUNN,
married on April 30, 1913 to David Henry DESJARDINS.
Still looking for information on Emma CRAINE, 1st wife of James
WRIGHT and for Robert DUNN, said to have been born in Scotland
ca.1827, married Jane SCOBIE, daughter of Alex SCOBIE and
Margaret McLELLAN.  They lived or bought Lot 19, Con. 8, Lanark
Co.



               Certa Cito's Gedcom Collection
                                                               Eric Knudsen

We have started a collection of gedcoms relating to Lanark
County. A gedcom (short for GEnealogy Data COMmunications) is a
specially formatted computer file of genealogical data that can
be generated by  all good genealogy programs (such as PAF,
Brother's Keeper, and Roots) for exchanging data - it is very
easy to import and export the information. One of the first
gedcoms we have received is Anna Joan Buxton's, which contains
well documented information on more than 12,000 individuals -
this is a very valuable resource for any Ontario researcher. I
have extracted a list of surnames mentioned in her gedcom - if
you are researching a surname listed below, you should consider
downloading the file BUXTON.ZIP from Certa Cito at (613) 264-9093
and (613) 264-8114. If you would like to add your gedcom to our
collection, please upload it to Certa Cito.  This will encourage
the sharing of information between researchers - and it is a lot
less work than making photocopies of your records! If you need
help in getting your software to generate a gedcom, or you don't
have a modem, please contact me at (613) 267-5985 (evenings) and
I will try to help. It is easy to control what information goes
into your gedcom - if you have notes you don't wish to make
public they can be excluded. We are interested in gedcoms that
mention people who have any connection with Canada, not just
Lanark County.

Abbott Abby Abel Abrahams Abrams Abyea Acker Ackerman Ackers Acton Adair
Adams Adset Adsit Aharan Aide Ainsley Ainsworth Akers Akey Albright
Aldridge Alexander Alford Alhfield Allan Allen Allison Allore Allred Allyn
Alquire Altdorf Althouse Althouser Aman Amery Ames Amiot Amon Amy
Anderson Andrews Andriessen Angel Angus Anstry Antcliffe Apgar Appleby
Arbuckle Archer Arents Argue Armager Armitage Armstrong Arnold Ash
Ashbey Ashby Ashfield Ashford Asselstine Asseltine Atkey Atwell Auger
Aulthouse Austin Ayer Aylesworth Aylsworth Ayotte Babcock Badgely
Badgley Bailey Baker Bakker Baldwin Ball Ballantine Ballard Bancker Banker
Bankert Bannon Bardahl Barefoot Barents Barfknecht Barker Barlow Barnard
Barnes Barnett Barnhart Barnum Barragher Bartlett Bartley Barton Bartoo
Bascom Bateman Bates Bathgate Batten Bauman Baumann Bayes Beaman
Bearding Beattie Beauchamp Beauschene Beausoleil Beavis Bebee Beckel
Becket Bedford Bedient Bedlake Beeman Bell Bellamy Bellinger Benac
Benedict Benn Bennett Benor Benson Bentley Berdon Bernard Bernent
Bernier Bernshaw Berry Best Bethoc Bettys Bevin Bidlack Bigg Biggs Bigham
Bijsterveld Billen Billing Billings Bingham Bird Birmingham Birney Bishop
Black Blackburn Blair Blakely Blanchard Blathewick Blathwick Blessing Bliss
Bliven Blodgett Bloford Bloomer Boeckhaut Boeckhout Bogart Bolen Boleyn
Bolte Bolton Bongard Bonisteel Bonnell Bonter Boomhour Boone Bordon
Bosch Boswell Bourne Bower Bowers Bowine Bowker Bowman Bowne Box Boyd
Boyington Boyle Boylston Bozun Brabrook Bracton Bradford Bradley
Bradshaw Bradt Brandt Branscombe Branton Bray Breen Brent Bresie Brewer
Brewster Brickman Bridger Bridges Briggs Brill Brinckerhoff Brinson Brisco
Britton Broadfoot Bronson Brook Brooks Brother Brown Browne Brownjohn
Brownson Bruly Brundage Brunk Brunner-Buhr Brunton Bryant Buchanan
Buchont Buck Buckley Buffam Bull Bullen Bulpit Bulsen Bulyea Burbank
Burdett Burger Burgess Burhans Burk Burkholder Burlingham Burmeister
Burnham Burris Burrowes Burt Burton Busatto Bush Butler Buxton Buys
Cade Cadeau Cadwell Cady Cain Calder Calvert Cameron Campbell Campline
Campney Canfield Canrike Cappell Capron Carkhuff Carley Carlisle Carloman
Carman Carnahan Carr Carroll Carruthers Carscallen Carson Carter
Cartwright Case Casey Casler Casselman Cassidy Cassie Cassin Caswell
Caughey Caverly Chamberlain Chambers Champion Chaplin Chapman Chard
Charney Chase Chaworth Cheapley Cheesborough Cheeseboro Cheshire
Cheslik Child Chilton Chinnick Chipman Chisholm Chiuminato Christianson
Christie Christopher Christy Church Churchill Clancy Clapp Clapp-Spencer
Clark Clarke Clay Clements Cleveland Cloyce Cluett Cluson Clute Clyde
Cochran Cockrane Coe Coffet Coggleshall Coke Colby Cole Coleman
Coleman-Ivens Coles Coley Collier Collins Colquhoun Comet Comings
Comstock Conaghy Conger Conklin Conley Conn Connelly Conrad Conradt
Consaul Consitt Contine Conway Cook Cooke Cool Coole Cooley Coombs Coon
Cooney Cooper Coppinger Corbet Corigan Cornelis Cornell Cornells Cottain
Cotter Cotton Countryman Courneyea Cournyea Courteney Courtland
Courtney Cousins Coutts Covert Coward Cowell Cowl Cox Cracklin Cracknell
Craddock Craig Cramer Cranckheit Crawford Creamer Crego Creighton Cronk
Cronkheit Cronkhite Cronkright Crosby Cross Crouchback Crouse Crouter
Crozier Culver Cummings Cunningham Curlett Currie Curry Curtis Curtiss
Cutler Cutt Cuyper D'artois Dafoe Dale Dana Dancose Danforth Danvers
Darling Darrow Davidson Davis Davol Davy Dawson Day Dayman De Besford De
Bogart De Clare De Clermont De Clifford De Dagsbourg De Duston De Felton
De Grey De Hainaut De Harley De Lange De Mille De Montdidier De Pinto De
Roucy De Rowton De Rullos De Thorndon De Valognes De Vries De Water Dean
Deats Decker Declair Defaul Defoe Degraaf Degroff Deiken Delamater
Delange Delereasa Deline Delong Demill Demille Deming Demorest Dempsey
Denholme Dennis Denton Deo Derlaw Derrick Derusha Deshane Desjardenis
Desmond Detlor Deuel Devanney Devendorff Devine Devolin Devotion Dewey
Deyo Diamond Dick Dickenson Dickerson Dickow Dickson Diefendorf
Diefendorff Dievendorf Dievendorff Dingman Dinishore Disbrow Dodge Doe
Dolsen Donald Donan Donovan Dop Dopking Dorland Doty Dowdswell Dowling
Downing Doxsee Drader Drake Dreader Dresch Drewry Drumgoole Duemo Duff
Dulmage Dulyea Dumprope Duncan Dunham Dunlap Dunlop Dunn Dunwoody Dupre
Dusenberry Dusenbury Dutcher Dybkar Dyer Dymant Dyre Earl Earle Early
Eastland Easton Eaton Ebbet Eckel Eddy Edmunds Edsall Edward Edwards
Egan Ehle Eldgyth Eleanor Elfleda Elford Elfrida Elgiva Eliza Eliza Ellerbeck
Ellett Elliott Ellis Elson Elstone Elswart Elswith Elsworth Elwill Elyea
Embury Emerson Emery Emigh Emond Emory Erkenbeck Eros Esmond Estey Ettig
Evans Everitt Evjue Eysaman Eyton Failing Fairbridge Falckenberg Falwell
Fana-- Fanning Fargey Farquarhson Farrell Farrington Fassett Faul
Faulkner Fauver Faye Fell Fennell Ferebye Ferguson Fettiplace Fiddler
Field Fielding Fields Finch Finkle Finnigan Fisher Fitzalan Fitzpatrick
Flaglar Flagler Flavelling Flegelaer Fleming Fletcher Flint Florin Flower
Floyd Floyde Foot Forbes Forbush Ford Forget Forman Forshee Forsyth
Forsythe Fortescue Fosgate Foster Fournier Fowell Fowler Fox Fraine
Fralick Frame Francis Franklin Franks Frans Franz Fraser Frederick
Fredrick Free Freeman Freer Freligh French Frink Froehlich Froelich Frost
Frouts Fuller Gaffield Gainforth Galbreath Gale Gamble Ganton Gardie
Gardner Garland Garnsey Garrett Garrison Gatherest Gay Gee Geelan Geer
Geldard Genung George German Germond Gerow Getman Gevaert Gibb Gibbons
Gibbs Gibson Giddy Giffard Gifford Gilbert Gildersleeve Gill Gillan Gillet
Gilmer Gilmore Gilomme Gilroy Glenn Glynn Goddard Godfrey Goff Gold Golden
Goldsmith Goodfellow Goodrich Gordon Gorsline Goth Gould Grabus Graham
Granger Grant Grass Gratton Graves Gray Graydon Great Greely Green
Greenhorne Greensmith Greenwood Gregory Greive Griffen Grifo Griggs
Grills Grimes Griswold Grooms Grossan Grossel Grosvenor Guay Guernsey
Gully Gurnice Gurnsey Gust Guyatte Gyde Haffer Hagerman Haggerman
Haggith Haig Haight Hailstone Hainaut Hainaut Haines Hale Haley
Halfknights Hall Hallenbeck Halloway Halstead Hamblett Hambly Hambuch
Hamilton Hamlin Hammer Hammond Hanchet Hanchett Hancock Handy Hanford
Hanna Hannah Hannemann Hanner Hanson Harden Hardenbergh Harder Harding
Harker Harmon Harquail Harris Harrison Hart Hasbays Hasbrouck Hatch
Hathaway Hattan Hauch Haughton Haviland Hawken Hawton Hay Hayden Hayes
Hays Hayter Hazard Hazelton Hazzlett Heagle Hearns Heath Hedwig Hedwiga
Hegadon Hegadorn Hegeman Heling Helm Helmer Helms Henderson Hendricks
Hendrickse Hendry Henley Hennesey Hennessey Henry Herbert Heristal
Herman Herrington Herstone Herving Hesbain Hess Hewitt Hickbie Hicks
Hicksbee Hiding Higginbotham Higgins Hill Hilleger Hilleker Hilton Hinder
Hinds Hitchcock Hitchins Hoag Hodgin Hodgins Hodgson Hoffman Hogle Holcomb
Holgate Holgrave Holland Hollenback Hollis Holly Holman Holmes Hoo Hope
Hopkins Horne Horrigan Horten Horton Houck Hough Houlten House Hovey
Howard Howe Howell Howes Howland Hubble Hubbs Hubel Huble Hudgin Hudson
Huested Huff Huffman Hughes Hughston Hulbert Hulett Hull Hummer Humphrey
Humphries Hunt Hunter Hunting Hurlbert Hurst Hutchison Hutton Huxley
Huyberts Huyck Huyse Hyatt Ireland Irish Irving Isabell Ives Jackson
Jacobs Jaine Jaines James Jamys Jans Janson Jansz Jarvis Jaworski Jaynes
Jefferies Jenkins Jenks Jensen Jesse Jeuriaens Jewell Jinney Johnson
Johnston Johnstone Jones Jorwerth Joslin Jossy Joyce Juby Juchum Judith
Jukes Kasaboski Katchepah Katchepaw Kayes Kayler Kearney Kearns Keating
Keech Keene Keese Kellar Keller Kellerer Kelley Kelly Kemble Kemp Kenas
Kendall Kennedy Kenney Kent Keough Kermer Kerruish Kerve Ketcheson
Ketchum Kettel Kew Keys Keyser Kidney Killan Kimmerly Kimmett Kinch
Kindergan King King-Donovan Kingdon Kinge Kingsbury Kip Kirk Kirkham
Kirkpatrick Kitte Kline Klotz Knight Knowles Knowlin Knox Knutson Kolfage
Kort Kotchapaw Kotchepaw Kramer Kreider Kreilock Krembs Kring Kugel
Kumler Kuno Kuntz Kuppe Kuykendall Kynge Laenen Lafrombush Laidley Laing
Laird Lake Lamberts Lamont Lamphire Landen Landers Landon Landt Lane
Langdon Langley Langston Lansing Lapp Larabee Latchford Latendrisse
Latimer Latta Latzumeare Lauck Laux Law Lawlor Lawrence Lawson Lazier
Le Baron Le Breton Le Strange Leach Leader Leavitt Leblanc Leclaire
Ledwell Lee Leendirtsen Lees Leffingwell Legge Leggitt Leick Leland Lent
Leon Lepre Lerch Leslie Leverich Lewis Licup Liddell Lightener Lillie Lilly
Lindabeck Lindebecker Lindibecker Lindsay Linn Linnabecker Lipe Little
Littlewood Livingstone Lloyd Lobdell Lockwood Lodge Logan Long Loomis
Lootman Lord Lorra Lorraine Losee Losey Lothaire Lott Loucks Lough
Lounsberry Louw Lovatt Love Low Lowrie Lowry Loyse Loyst Lt Lucas
Ludlow Lumbard Luwis Luyster Lynch Lynn Lyon Lyons Maccallum Macgillies
Macintyre Mack Mackenzie Macleod Macmillan Macmullen Macneil Macpherson
Macumber Maika Maines Maitland Malchow Mallahan Malmains Maltravers
Mander Mann Mannen Manning Manthorpe Mantier? Many Mapes March Marcotte
Margaret Markey Marks Marsh Marshall Martin Marvin Mashetto Mason
Masters Mastin Mather Mathis Matilda Matteson Maxam Maxwell May Maybee
Mcadam Mcadams Mcarthur Mcbratney Mccabe Mccane Mccann Mccarter
Mccarthy Mccaw Mcclellan Mccoll Mccomb Mcconkey Mcconnell Mccormack
Mccormick Mccrum Mccue Mcculloch Mccullough Mccumber Mccutcheon Mcdonald
Mcfalda Mcfarlane Mcfaul Mcgee Mcginn Mcginnis Mcgirr Mcgowan Mcgregor
Mcguin Mchenry Mcimoyle Mcinroy Mckay Mckecknie Mckee Mckelvie Mckenna
Mckenzie Mckeown Mckinnon Mckittrick Mcknight Mclean Mclennan Mcleod
Mcmanus Mcmullen Mcniven Mcnutt Mcquoid Mctaggart Mcwilliams Mead Meader
Meadows Mechtilde Meiklejohn Meindl Melburn Melville Mencey Menzies
Merckel Merriam Merrick Merrill Merritt Metcalf Metler Meyer Meyers
Middleton Midlaer Mikel Miles Milgen Miller Mills Milner Milsap Minaker
Mircale Misch Misner Mitcham Mitchell Moe Moersch Moleyns Monroe
Montgomery Moon Mooney Moore Moran Morden Morey Morford Morgan Morrison
Morrow Morton Moses Mosher Mosier Mott Mouck Mousseau Mowbray Moxom
Moyer Mudd Muir Mulford Mulvey Mumby Mundell Munger Munro Munroe Murdock
Murdoff Murphy Murray Muton Nappin Nash Neal Near Neilson Nelson Nethery
Newcombe? Newell Newl Newman Newton Nichol Nichols Nicholson Nickerson
Nickson Nightingale Nisbitt Nixon Noad Nobes Noble Norries North Norton
Norveis Noxon Nugent Nurse O'brien O'dell O'hara O'neara O'neil O'rourke
Oake Oakley Obadiah Cooper. Odare Odell Oderkirk of Offen Ogden Ohmich Old
Olde Oley Oliver Olson Oosterhoudt Oravkin Orbok Orr Orser Osborn Osborne
Osbourne Osterhout Ostrander Ostrom Ould Outwater Overacker Owens
Packer Paddock Page Paine Palen Palmateer Palmer Palmes Palmetier Papen
Pardon Parfit Parke Parker Parkin Parlee Parliament Parport Parsons
Patman Patrick Patterson Pattison Payson Peace Peake Pearsall Pearsoll
Pearson Peck Peele Pegg Pelow Pember Percy Perkins Perlee Perrin Perry
Pertski Peters Peterson Pethick Pettefer Pettifer Pettit Pew Phare Clark.
Phelps Philaber Philips Phillips Piat Pickle Pieper Pier Pierce Pimpton
Pinckney Pine Pink Plantagenet Platt Plemon Plews Ploeg Plumber Poitou
Pollock Pollum Polmateer Pomeroy Pool Pope Port Porte Porter Portt
Posforth Post Potter Potts Poure Powell Poxley Presley Preston Prevost
Price Price-Parke Prince Pringle Prior Proctor Profet Prout Puente Pulver
Purdy Pury Putnam Quackenbush Quartz Quatremain Quimby Raaflaur Rabbie
Radford Ramsay Randall Rands Rankin Rannie Ranous Rapp Rappelye Rasbach
Rashotte Ratcliffe Rawn Ray Raycroft Raynor Reade Reading Reafersol
Reath Redburg Redden Reddick Reddy Redland Redner Reed Reeder Reeds
Reeves Regan Regata Reid Reiffenberg Reilly Remington Rendell Reynolds
Riapos Richard Richards Richardson Ricks Riddick Rightmeyer Rikley Ring
Robbins Roberts Robertson Robinson Roblin Rockwood Rodgers Roe Roebuck
Roeloefse Roelofse Rogers Rollins Roof Rorabeck Rose Rosebush Roseman
Rosenburg Rosiers Ross Rossler Row Rowe Rowland Roy Rsught Rubertus
Ruburtus Rude Rudiman Ruger Rull Rumrill Runa Runnalls Runyan Runyon
Rupert Rupnow Rush Rushnell Russell Rutgers Ruthven Rutledge Ruttan
Rutter Ryan Ryer Sackett Sadler Sage Sager Salmon Saltern Sampson Samson
Samwell Sande Sandford Santucci Sararas Sargant Sargent Sasonberry
Saunders Savage Sayres Scarborough Scea Schermerhorn Schlieffer
Schneeman Schneider Schoonmaker Schram Schuck Schumaker Schut Scott
Seaborne Seager Searle Searles Secord Sedore See Seeley Seeley? Seely
Seeney Selden Sellers Selley Sellick Selwood Session Severis Sexbury
Sexsmith Sexton Seyfer Seymour Shackelford Shaddock Shandella Shane
Shannon Sharlon Sharmon Sharp Sharpe Shatford Shaw Sheilds Sheldon
Sheldrick Sheppard Sherman Shermerhorn Shetler Shewman Shibley Shillar
Shirley Shorey Shortt Shuell Shultz Shuman Sicker Siitonen Sills Simkins
Simmons Simms Simonds Simons Simonton Simple Simpson Simson Sine Sipe
Siple Skelton Skinner Skodis Sleet Sloan Sloat Sluyter Smack Smade Smales
Small Smet? Smith Smythe Snider Snook Snowdon Snyder Soanes Sommer Soule
Southard Spafford Sparks Sparling Spears Spence Spencer Spine Spooner
Springstead Sproule Sprung Squires St Leger St Omer St. Charles St.
Hillaire St. Pierre Stafford Stager Stanley Stanley-Sarga Nt Stapely
Stapleton Stapley Staring Steel Steele Steenburgh Stephenson Sterling
Stevens Stevenson Stewart Stickle Stickney Stiever Stiles Stillman
Stillwell Stinson Stockdale Stocking Stokes Stonard Stone Stonor Storm
Storms Storring Story Stoughton Stout Stover Stranahan Strang Stratton
Strechleigh Strong Sturges Sturgess Summers Surraw? Sutherland Sutter
Suttle Sutton Swabia Swartout Swartz Sweeney Sweet Sweetman Swetman
Switzer Sykes Symonds Tabb Taft Talbot Talcott Talmadge Tamblyn Tandy
Tannahill Tanner Tapley Tasken Taylor Teal Tedman Telford Telganhoff
Templeton Teneyck Terrill Terwilliger Teunis Theidlindis Theunissen Thomas
Thompsett Thompson Thomson Thornton Thrasher Throckmorton Thurlow
Thyssen Tice Tilden Tillotson Tilney Titus Tivy Todd Tomlin Tomlinson
Tompkins Toms Tonilitz Torrance Towar Town Towne Townley Townsend
Treadway Tremble Tremeer Trevan Trimble Tripp Trites Trotter Troy Truax
Trudeau Truelove Trumble Trumbull Trumpour Truscott Tryon Tucker Tufts
Tulloch Tully Turner Tyas Tyler Tyndall Tytsoort Ubelin Ue Uel Underhill
Underwood Uniake Unknown Valantine Vallee Van Van Alstine Van Beyningen
Van Blaircom Van Blaricom Van Buren Van Cleaf Van Cott Van Dusen Van Duyn
Van Duzer Van Dyke Van Garden Van Gelder Van Horn Van Huyse Van Kirk Van
Kleek Van Luven Van Naerden Van Ness Van Noortstrand Van Pelt Van Schaick
Van Tassel Van Vlack Van Vleckeren Van Vlekkeren Van Volkenburg Van Waert
Van Wart Van Wert Van Wie Van Wyck Vanalstyne Vanamburgh Vandenburgh
Vanderberg Vanderburgh Vandervoort Vandusen Vantassell Vantine
Vanvolkenburg Vardy Varty Vaughan Vaughn Veal Vermilye Verney Verrall
Vilett Villers Vincent Vitanyi Voack Von Braunschweig Von Egisheim Voules
Waddy Wadenen Wagar Wager Waggoner Waite Waite-? Wake Walker Wallace
Walmsley Walrath Walt Walter Walton Wannamaker Ward Warner Wartman Water
Waterman Watkinson Watson Watt Wattam Wauchope Way Weaver Webster Weed
Weeks Wees Weese Weile Weiser Weiss Welch Weldridge Weller Wellington
Wellman Wells Welsman Wemp Wentworth Werring Wescott West Westbrook
Westfall Weston Weyser Whalen Wheeler Whipple White Whiteley Whitlock
Whitney Whittle Whoose Wickens Wieler Wiggins Wight Wijnhart Wilbur Wilcox
Wiley Wilkes Wilkinson Williams Willneff Wilmot Wilson Wilton Wiltshire Wiltsie
Windover Windsor Wing Winne Winter Wiseman Wisner Wiss Witter Wodzak
Wolcott Wold Wolgraeff Wood Woodbeck Woodcock Woodmansey Woodrow Woods
Woodward Woolley Woon Worden Worthen Worthy Wright Wybrow Wychingham
Wynn Wynslow Wyser Wysser Yandt Yeomans Yetters York Yorke Youmans
Young Youngs Zavitz Zimmer Zywicki

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                             NEW LCGS MEMBERS

#429      GIBSON, Robert  12740 Legacy Rd., San Diego CA                    
92131-3512  USA

#430      CAMERON, Mrs. Nancy  1 Rogers Rd., Apt 3, Perth ON               
K7H 1N9

#431      FORD, Shirley O.M.  1903-2008 Fullerton Ave.,     
          North Vancouver BC  V7P 3G7

#432      DEACHMAN, Jim  479 Cole Ave., Ottawa ON  K2A 2B1

#433      McLEAN, Mrs. Norma J.  15 Deanewood Cres., Etobicoke ON          
M9B 3A9

#434      ANDREWS, Karen  Box 38, Sioux Narrows ON  P0X 1N0

#435      PARKHURST, Mary-Ellen  G Box 137, RR 4, Brighton ON
          K0K 1H0
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LCGS member Neil A. Armstrong of 779 Sugar Cane Lane, Port Orange FL can
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If anyone else has an e-mail address, perhaps we could include them in our
future issues.
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On behalf of the LCGS, we wish to express our condolences to the family of
Mrs. Myrtle Wilson of Lanark Lodge, Perth on her recent death.

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                             LCGS PUBLICATIONS

St. Mark's Anglican Cemetery, Pakenham Township
50 pages+ of headstone recordings and index.

Clayton United Cemetery
50 pages+ of cemetery recordings and index.
Cost for both publications is $10.00 ($8.00 if published at a meeting).

Contact Marion Cavanagh, RR 1, Pakenham ON  K0A 2X0  (613) 256-1666.

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The library collection of the Lanark County Genealogical Society is housed
at the Smiths Falls Public Library.  Their hours of operation are:         
     Mon - Thurs:  1pm - 5:30pm, 7pm - 9pm
                         Friday:  10am - 5pm
                         Saturday:  10am - 4:30pm
                         Sunday:  Closed

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Please submit all correspondence to:

                    LANARK COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
                                PO BOX 512
                             PERTH ON  K7H 3K4

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The July meeting of the LCGS will be held on Wednesday, July 5, 1995 at 8pm
at the Victoria School Museum, 267 Edmund St., Carleton Place.  Our guest
speaker will be John Fowler on photograph restoration and conservation.

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The August meeting of the LCGS will be held on Wednesday, Aug 2, 1995 at
8pm at the Middleville Museum.  Claudia Smith of the Middleville Museum
Board will give a talk on some of the new displays and will give us a tour of
the museum.

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***PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL NOT BE ISSUING A NEWSLETTER FOR THE MONTH
OF JULY - WE WILL RESUME WITH THE AUGUST ISSUE PRIOR TO THE SEPTEMBER
LCGS MEETING.  WISHING EVERYONE A SAFE AND HAPPY VACATION!

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Jean McGill sent along the following article from the Almonte Gazette April
1887:  
A healthy neighbourhood:  Within the compass of a mile on the 9th line of
Pakenham reside old settlers whose combined ages total 828 years.
Mr. James WADDELL, age 91 (came to Canada c.1832 from Lanarkshire,
Scotland).
Mr. and Mrs. Walter WOOD, age 87 and 78, respectively, from Lanarkshire.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex LINDSAY, age 82 and 80, respectively.
Mr. and Mrs. John LINDSAY, also from Lanarkshire, c.1821.
Mr. LINDSAY - 86 and his wife - 82.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. CLARK, same age - 82.  Came from County Sligo, Ireland in
1832.
Mrs. McMUNN from the same county in 1828.  She is 78.
(Footnote:  Mrs. WOOD died before the issue was printed).

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                            ADDRESS CORRECTION

In the May 1995 issue of the LCGS newsletter, in the article by Charles
Dobie, we gave the incorrect address
for Anna Buxton.  The correct address should read  Anna Buxton, 406 -925
Esquimault rd., Victoria BC V9A 3M7.  Our apologies for any incovenience!






                   ONTARIO VITAL STATISTICS REGISTRATION


In Ontario, registration of births, marriages and deaths with the Registrar
General of Ontario commenced July 1, 1869, exactly two years after
Confederation.  Events were to be registered with a local Registrar within
a year.  The local Registrar was required to send a copy of registrations
to the Registrar General every six months.  It is known that many events
were not registered in the first years and as late as 1900 probably 10% or
more were still not being registered.  Registrations were accepted by the
local Registrar within the second year after the event.  An examination of
the district register for York Township, York County indicates that the
assessor obtained information about births that had not previously been
registered when he was travelling around the township.  Don't we wish that
more assessors had been so diligent!  Many births and some marriages were
registered many years after the event and these delayed registrations
took a different form and required an affidavit be given by someone
knowledgeable about the event.  Some of these delayed registrations are
among the records transferred to the archives and some are still with the
Registrar General's office in Thunder Bay.

A few years ago, the Registrar General made the decision to turn some of
the early records in his office over to the Archives of Ontario. The
Archives made an arrangement with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
Day Saints (LDS) to microfilm these records and only the microfilm is
available to researchers.  The microfilm is available at the Archives of
Ontario, at your local library through interloan from the Archives of
Ontario and through LDS Family History Centres.  Microfilm of the indexes is
also available at several local libraries who have purchased them.
Currently the indexes are available for purchase through the Archives of
Ontario.  At the present time, births to 1898, marriages to 1913, and deaths
to 1923 are available.  A further year of records is at the Archives
awaiting microfilming later this year.  An additional year of records is
released annually.

The information supplied in the records varies.  Over the years the forms
used and the questions asked have changed.  The answers to the questions
asked are sometimes unknown to the informant and sometimes incorrect.  My
own father's birthdate was incorrect.  His father apparently gave his
wife's birth date (Feb 14) instead of his son's (Feb 12).  In other cases the
local registrar did not hear the name correctly. My mother-in-law's name
was Mildred Eileen, but the registrar apparently heard Mildred Irene.  I
have found numerous examples of information which is in the district
register which is not found in the provincial register.  Did the local
register simply not put all the information in the duplicate register or is
there another explanation? In one case, in Renfrew, we have the registrar's
note in marriage registrations "Rev. Campbell appears to give the mothers'
maiden names and I have sometimes included them."  How frustrating, since in
this case, Rev. Campbell's registers do not appear to have survived.  There
is probably no way we can determine which information was incorrect
because the informant deliberately lied.  

In the past, genealogists were able to purchase genealogical abstracts of
the records.  Clerks unfamiliar with older handwriting and local names may
have made mistakes in transcribing the information. In one case of which I
had personal experience, the clerk copied some of the information from the
adjacent column.  I puzzled for many years over the fact that my great-
great-grandmother had apparently died in Bertie Township, Lincoln Co. when
she lived, died according to her newspaper obituary and was buried in the
Town of Renfrew, Renfrew Co.  Examination of the microfilmed record allowed
me to discover that this was indeed an error and how this error was made. 
We find many examples in the microfilmed records of corrections which were
made many years later.

BIRTHS
The name of the child, the date and place of birth and the names of the
parents, as well as the father's rank or occupation was always asked for. 
If the informant is one of the parents or a close relative then all of this
information may be considered primary evidence.  That is evidence made at
the time of the event by the person(s) directly involved in the event. 
Additional information that will appear in later years includes the address
(1906), the marital status of the parents (1908), the ages and birthplace of
parents as well as the number of children born to the mother (1920).  From
1908-1934, with the exception of 1920-1925, the date and place of the
parents' marriage was asked.  From 1908-1915, the names of any former
husbands of the wife and date of husband's death if the mother is a widow
were also asked.  I have found a number of registrations in which a notation
has been added "died in Sask 19xx".

MARRIAGES
Information that has always been asked included the names, parents' names,
clergyman and witnesses.  Except for the period of 1906-1948, the
birthplace of the parties was also asked for. Additional information
requested in 1949 includes the birthplace of parents of the parties, the
racial origin of the parties and witnesses and the address of the
officiating clergyman.  Of this information only the names of the parties
and witnesses and the date of the marriage are primary information.
Information about parents is secondary information.  In an era when many
married woman were always referred to as Mrs. Doe or when many mothers
were unknown to their children because they died during or shortly after
childbirth, the first name of the mother may not be known to her own
children.  In other families this information, although secondary, is very
reliable.  We must also question whether each of the individuals involved
gave the parent information personally, or if one party gave the
information for both. Mother's maiden names and parents' birthplaces may be
quite suspect in many cases.

DEATHS
Information that has always been asked includes the name, age and
occupation of deceased, date of death, cause of death, duration of the
illness and name of physician.  Except for the period 1914-1919, the place
of birth has been asked for.  Additional information and the year first
requested includes:  permanent residence (1898 excluding 1914-1943),
marital status (1906), birth date (1909), birthplace of parents (1909
excluding 1914-1919), the place of burial and relationship of the informant
(1920).  Information that was once requested but is no longer asked
includes:  religion (1869-1909), racial origin (1909 excluding 1914-1919 and
ending in 1974), length of residence in Ont (1920-1974), duration of
employment (1920-1929 and 1944-1974), last and former occupation (1920-
1925).  Only the date of death and information about cause certified by the
doctor are primary information.  In most cases the name of the deceased is
very reliable, although it is possible that informants may not know the
correct name of those who were known most of their lives by a nickname. My
own mother's name is Doris and she signs herself that way on legal
documents, but since before her marriage she has been called Sally. Most of
her friends and I suspect some of her relatives don't know her real name. 
Other information about the deceased is also hearsay and information
about the deceased's parents can be quite unreliable.  I have the death
certificates for three brothers and a sister, one of whom is my great-
grandfather, all of whom were born, lived and died in that part of Ontario
between Pembroke and Belleville.  Only one give completely correct
information about the parents and it is the only one which does not ask for
the parents' birthplaces.  My own grandfather's has only one item of the
four correct and that is his father's birthplace.  The informant could not
even give his grandmother's name although she had been living with the
family when she died.

INDEXES
Before you can access the information you will need to consult the indexes. 
The most readily available indexes are the computer generated one
prepared by the Office of the Registrar General. These provide the name,
date and place of the event, registration number and year of registration. 
It is the registration number, together with the year of registration that
is the clue needed to find the certificate.  If the seven digit number begins
with anything other than a 0 it means that the event was registered after
the year in which it occurred.  The numbering system starts all over again
each year.  For delayed registrations that start with a "5" or a "9" you will
need to know the year of the event to find the certificate.  The indexes
have been filmed on 16mm microfilm.  If your reader does not have expanded
magnification, be sure to supply yourself with a magnifying glass.



prepared by Louise I Hope for Lanark County Genealogical Society, June
1995


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