Allan James Lockhart

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Stewart married Eleanor Josephine Robinson. Eleanor and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Senator
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Hugh married Pheobe Jane Preston. Pheobe was born in 1871; died in 1933; was buried in Elmmaville Cemetery, Emmaville, Lloydminster Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Hugh Lockhart
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Notes:

Died:
Perth Courier 1893. The Gazette reported that Hugh Lockhart, once a well known Almonte resident, died from the effects of a paralytic stroke on the 15th March at Yorktown, N.W.T. He was born in Paisley, Scotland 37 years ago, coming to Canada when he was 11 years old. He moved to Manitoba 14 years ago. His wife was Marion Fumerton.

Hugh married Marion Gemmill Fumerton on 6 Nov 1857 in Almonte, Lanark County, Canada West. Marion (daughter of David Fumerton and Jessie Findlay McGregor) was born on 28 May 1838 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Canada West; was christened on 24 Mar 1853 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 25 Jun 1911 in Rokeby, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in 1911 in Rosemount Cemetery, Yorkton Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

?b?Homesteading?/b?
Marion together with her family took part in homesteading the Northwest Territories as part of a large exudus of families from the Lanark County area of Ontario. These homesteaders banded together in loose family groups or "clans" with a similar history such as decendents Scottish setlers. In Marion and Hugh's case they made three attemtps to homestead in the Prairies with trips back to Ramsay Township between each attempt.

Marion and Hugh's first attempt to homestead in the 1870s was in an area that is close to the present town of Emerson, Manitoba. Their second attempt was near Pilot Mound, Manitoba which was done together with members of the Heatherington family from Ramsay Twp, Ontario. Then in 1882 Marion, Hugh and some of their children homesteaded in the Armstrong Lake area in the Northwest Territories. Initially they homesteaded together with Marion's sister Jane and her family and were later joined by Marion's youngest brother Duncan. At that time the railhead of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was at Whitewood and the family group had to 'trek' north to the area near the York Colony.

The orgiinal settlement at Armstrong Lake (Lakes) was renamed Rokeby when the CPR tracks on the northern spur line was extended from Saltcoats to Yorkton, NWT and the CPR arbitarily named the station Rokeby rather than the name of the settlement i.e. Armstrong Lake. (The present city of Yorkton is located just to the south of the old settlement of York Colony or Yorktown)

While Hugh was away serving with the militia, Marion was able to prove up the homestead which she named Rosemount and ran the farm when her husband returned home wounded. Initially Marion and her family lived in soddies but with time hauled logs in to build a log house. Then Marion was one of the first in Saskatchewan to order a prefabricated frame house from British Columbia that was shipped to Rokeby in a boxcar and assembled on the farm. This frame house is still in use as the family home.

Marion returned to Almonte, Ontario for the 1905 Reunion when many family members reunited for a short while.

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Married:
Married at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Almonte.
Marriage of Marion Gemmill Fumerton and Hugh Lockhart:
Almonte & Region, 1817 -1943, Protestant Marriages Vols. 1 & 2 1857
- Lockhart, Hugh & Marion Gemmill 06-11-1857, Almonte, St Andrews Presbyterian'