Robert Gifford

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Robert Gifford
• _FSFTID: LDQX-19V
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDQX-19V
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1756, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland

Robert married Margaret Anderson on 3 Jul 1779 in Paisley (Abbey) Parish, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Margaret (daughter of John Anderson and Margaret Cochran) was born on 21 Feb 1760 in Kirkintullock, Dumbartonshire, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Christened:
Helen Gifford
Birth: Jan 21 1782
Christening: Jan 24 1782 Low Church, Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland
Residence: 1782 Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Father: Robert Gifford
Mother: Margaret Anderson

Helen married Robert McGill on 10 Dec 1805 in Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland. Robert was born about 1781 in Wigtownshire, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Agnes Gilfford
• Name: Agness Gifford
• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186518157
• _FGRAVE: 186518157
• _FSFTID: LDQX-1MH
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDQX-1MH
• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Common Ancestor
• _HASHTAG: Lanark Society Settler
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Notes:

It is verbal history but no records exist of twins being born to Robert and Agnes, some time between 1822 - 1824, as their first children born in Canada. But they died in infancy and were buried on the farm under an oak tree

Christened:
January 1784
Gifford, Agnas lawful daughter of Robert Gifford and Margaret Anderson born 12th and baptised 15th,

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Came to Lanark County between 1820 - 1822

Buried:
Plots B120 to B149 stone 292
James DUNCAN born June 12 1825 died Aug 5, 1909 (son of Robert Duncan and Agnes Gifford)
His wife Elizabeth LOCKHART born Apr 10, 1833 died Jan 19, 1905
Robert DUNCAN died Aug 9, 1847 His wife Agnes GIFFORD died June 10, 1870
John DUNCAN died 18 Oct 1844 (son of Robert Duncan and Agnes Gifford)
Elizabeth DUNCAN wife of Dr. T.R. PATERSON 1870 - 1953 (daughter of James Duncan and Elizabeth Lockhart)

Agnes married Robert Duncan on 27 Jun 1803 in Laigh Parish, Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland. Robert (son of Robert "Big Rab" Duncan and Jean Kerr) was born on 16 Oct 1778 in Isle of Bute, Argyll and Bute, Scotland; was christened on 18 Oct 1778 in Rothesay Parish, Isle of Bute, Scotland; died on 9 Aug 1847 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 11 Aug 1847 in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Armour on 15 Jan 1812 in Laigh Parish, Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland. John and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married John Mackie on 25 May 1823 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(Research):Possible marriage from Scotlands People

Surname GIFFORD
Forename ROBERT
Spouse Name SUSANNA LITSTER/FR121 (FR121)
Date10/09/1816
Parish Number001/
Ref10 112
Parish Bressay, Burra and Quarf

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Andrew McLellan. Andrew was born in 1802; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Margret Wilson on 5 Jun 1849 in Old Luce, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland. Margret died on 6 Oct 1906. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FSFTID: G33S-9T9
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G33S-9T9
• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Connection
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)
• Alt. Birth: 1806, Scotland; as reported on 1851 Canada East Census

Notes:

Research information provided by Nancy Dale Conroy as draft material from upcoming book.

WILLIAM HAMILTON (1788-1854)
Some family trees on ancestry suggest he arrived in Clarendon about 1821. In the second
Prendergast report, he has settled on Lot 15, Range 7 and has cleared 5 acres and part of the
road. This confirms to some extent that he was in the area at least a few years before the land
was allocated by Prendergast. As of 1833, he appears to have acquired another piece of land,
lot 14, Range 7. This is confirmed by the 1842 census as by then he has 300 acres of land.
From a couple of thin files at the Archives, the Gravelle notes suggest that he was born in 1787,
not 1788. It also says he comes from Glasgow and is a carpenter. Gravelle also says he is an
ex-soldier. In the 1842 Census, William is also identified as a carpenter, with a wife and six
children. They are Agnes, 1829, John, 1831, William 1835, Robert 1837, George 1838, James
1841. It appears that his next child, Jessie is born in 1845. The 1842 census also lists a Jennet
Hamilton, age 87, who is from Scotland; perhaps she is his mother.
While he and his wife are from Scotland, the children were all born in Canada. His wife is
Margaret Duncan (1804-1864) and she is from Paisley, Scotland. The Gravelle file suggests
she was born on April 17, 1806. As of the 1842 census he is farming on a 300 acre property.
He is growing lots of crops and also has considerable livestock, especially sheep. The family
worships with the Church of Scotland. In 1845 he has a daughter, Janet (Jessie) who marries
Samuel Horner on 28 June 1866. These are the parents of my grandmother, Janet (Jessie)
Horner. She marries Samuel Sherwood Dale in 1907. (Gravelle files say that the births of the
Hamiltons can be found in the Anglican baptism records.)
He may have left Scotland 19 May 1821 from Greenock, (Glasgow), Scotland, having been
sponsored by The Glasgow Trongate Society and sailing on the ship "David of London", (Capt
Gemmell, 364 settlers). The book, The Lanark Society Settlers, has a William Hamilton listed.
NOTE: There is a John Hamilton with a wife and either 4 or 6 children renting 30 acres of land
as of 1842. He says he has been in the country for 13 years and he and his wife come from
Ireland, with the children born in Canada. Presumably he arrived in the second wave of settlers;
it is not clear if he knew William Hamilton given that one came from Scotland and the other from
Ireland.

(Research):Margaret was oldest child of Agnes and Robert.

Birth:
SurnameDUNCAN
ForenameMARGARET
Parents/ Other DetailsROBERT DUNCAN/AGNES GIFFORD FR65 (FR65)
GenderF
Date20/04/1804
Parish Number573/3
Ref40 104
ParishPaisley Burgh or Low

ScotlandsPeople

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Margaret married William Hamilton about 1829. William (son of John Hamilton and Jannet McClymont) was born on 7 Apr 1788 in Kirkmichael, Ayrshire, Scotland; was christened on 9 Apr 1788 in Kirkmichael, Ayrshire, Scotland; died in 1854 in Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada; was buried in 1854 in Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Jane Duncan
• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185773021
• _FGRAVE: 185773021
• _FSFTID: G339-RZR
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G339-RZR
• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Connection
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Notes:

Birth:
SurnameDUNCAN
ForenameJEAN
Parents/ Other DetailsROBERT DUNCAN/AGNES GIFFORD FR268 (FR268)
GenderF
Date29/12/1805
Parish Number573/1
Ref10 415
ParishPaisley High Church

ScotlandsPeople

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Jean married John Slater on 22 May 1831 in Paisley (Abbey) Parish, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. John (son of James Slater and Mary Cochran) was born in 1803 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; was christened on 25 Dec 1803 in High Church Parish, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 16 Aug 1888 in Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in 1888 in Chesterfield United Cemetery, Chesterfield, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186517208
• _FGRAVE: 186517208
• _FSFTID: 9CV2-RWK
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9CV2-RWK
• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Common Ancestor
• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Connection
• _HASHTAG: Lanark Society Settler
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)
• _TODO: Open
• _TODO: Open

Notes:

Birth:
Christening:
Register of Births and Baptisms, Paisley Museum

Came to Canada from Scotland in 1821 with his parents.

In religion he was an ardent Presbyterian, in politics a Reformer. He never sought office but enjoyed the respect of a host of neighbours and acquaintances.

" One of the districts more substantial citizens. He lived quietly and industriously and never sought public office."

(Research): Robert Duncan member of Free Church

Crown Patent: SW 1/2 L 9 C 11, 19 Jan 1864.

(Medical):attending physician: Dr. Burns.
Informant: Wm. J. Duncan of Ramsay Township, farmer.
Registrar: Jas Caskey, Ramsay Township

Birth:
Register of Births and Baptisms, Paisley Museum
SurnameDUNCAN
ForenameROBERT
Parents/ Other DetailsROBERT DUNCAN/AGNES GIFFERD FR79 (FR79)
GenderM
Date24/03/1809
Parish Number573/3
Ref40 133
ParishPaisley Burgh or Low

ScotlandsPeople

Christened:
DUNCAN
ROBERT
ROBERT DUNCAN/AGNES GIFFERD FR79 (FR79)
M
24/03/1809
573/3
40 133
Paisley Burgh or Low

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Came to Lanark County between 1820 - 1822

Died:
1893, Friday March 31 Stone 698
The Almonte Gazette page 4

Another Old Settler at Rest
Again it becomes our duty to chronicle the demise of one of the hardy pioneers of this section - one who had his share of hardships incident to the vicissitudinary period in which this county was first settled - in the person of Mr Robert Duncan, of Ramsay, who passed away on Tuesday morning last, in his 86th year. His death was sudden, He arose as ussual, ate a hearty breakfast and died half an hour later, from heart failure it is suposed. For the last eight or ten years Mr Duncan had been subject to occasional weak spells; prior to that time he always enjoyed vigorous health. Deceased was born in Paisley, Scotland in January 1808. He came to Canada with his parents in 1821. They settled the same year on the 11th line of Ramsay, in which deceased lived continuously till his death., a period of over seventy years. Mr Duncan was twice married - first to Margaret Lockhart, by whom he had two children, Mrs James Caskey, of this town, and Mrs James Stirton, of Seatle, Washington and by his second wife Eliza McLinton, who survives him, seven children, all of whom are living, viz: Robert, David and Margaret, in Manitoba; James of Arnprior; Alex, in Detroit; William and Mary, on the homestead. In religion deceased was a Presbyterian, and in politics a Reformer. He never sought public office of any kind. He was a man of unswerving integrity, and enjoyed the respect of his neighbours and acquaintances; and a host of friends will receive the anouncement of his death with sincere sorrow. The remains will be interred in the eighth line cemetery this (Thursday) afternoon

Buried:
Plots C97 to C108 Stone #698
Robert Duncan Mar 28 1893 85 yrs. His wife Eliza McLinton Sep 3, 1908 84 years
George A Duncan infant son to Wm. & Mina Duncan
William J, Duncan 1857 - 1941. His wife Mina Simpson July 15, 1935 65 yrs.

Robert married Margaret Lockhart in 1843 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Canada West. Margaret (daughter of William Lockhart and Elizabeth Barr) was born on 1 Aug 1824 in Irvine, North Aryrshire, Ayrshire and Arran, Scotland; was christened in Irvine, North Aryrshire, Ayrshire and Arran, Scotland; died in 1848 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Canada West. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Eliza Matilda McLinton on 8 Apr 1856 in Lanark County, Canada West. Eliza (daughter of William McLinton and Elizabeth) was born in 1826 in County Down, Northern Ireland; died on 3 Sep 1908 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 5 Sep 1908 in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FSFTID: MM7X-M8X
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MM7X-M8X
• _HASHTAG: Lanark Society Settler
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Notes:

Register of Births and Baptisms, Paisley Museum

Birth:
SurnameDUNCAN
ForenameALEXANDER
Parents/ Other DetailsROBERT DUNCAN/AGNES GIFFORD FR1186 (FR1186)
GenderM
Date08/12/1811
Parish Number559/
Ref30 429
ParishAbbey

ScotlandsPeople

_HASHTAG:
Came to Lanark County between 1820 - 1822

Alexander married Martha Lauchlan on 5 Dec 1840 in Paisley (Abbey) Parish, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Martha (daughter of Robert Lauchlan and Marion Muir) was born on 28 Jun 1811 in Eaglesham, Renfrewshire, Scotland; was christened on 14 Jul 1811 in Paisley (Abbey) Parish, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186518376
• _FGRAVE: 186518376
• _FSFTID: G33S-W2H
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G33S-W2H
• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Connection
• _HASHTAG: Lanark Society Settler
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)
• Mortgage: 5 Oct 1841, Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Canada West; for $2,400. received from David Gilmour on Lot 9 con10

Notes:

(Research):Register of Births and Baptisms, Paisley Museum

2 children

Birth:
SurnameDUNCAN
ForenameJOHN
Parents/ Other DetailsROBERT DUNCAN/AGNES GIFFARD FR1200 (FR1200)
GenderM
Date27/03/1814
Parish Number559/
Ref30 455
ParishAbbey

ScotlandsPeople

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Came to Lanark County between 1820 - 1822

Mortgage:
Although not proven this mortgage was likely for the building of a stone 2 storey farm house on lot 9 con10. The style and footprint of this stone house is very similar to that of the Duncan farmhouse built on lot 10 con 9. John was the second oldest son of Robert Duncan and Agnes Gifford. He married in 1838, bought the 200 acres of lot 9 Con 10 in 1839 and had a young family of two daughters. It is also believed that he worked closely with his father and older brother Robert to clear and crop the farmland they owed by this time. Unfortunately John died in October 1844 after his youngeres child, john Duncan was born in the spring of 1844. The cause of his death is not known but must of caused great upheaval with in the family. The is land record evidence that this farm was assumed by John Forgie althought there is record registering this sale on record. John Forgie sold the farm to a nephew Graham Gorgie for $2000. on 4 Jan 1853.

Buried:
Plots B120 to B149 stone 292
James DUNCAN born June 12 1825 died Aug 5, 1909 (son of Robert Duncan and Agnes Gifford)
His wife Elizabeth LOCKHART born Apr 10, 1833 died Jan 19, 1905
Robert DUNCAN died Aug 9, 1847 His wife Agnes GIFFORD died June 10, 1870
John DUNCAN died 18 Oct 1844 (son of Robert Duncan and Agnes Gifford)
Elizabeth DUNCAN wife of Dr. T.R. PATERSON 1870 - 1953 (daughter of James Duncan and Elizabeth Lockhart)

John married Mary Veitch Pittcairn Gemmill on 27 Nov 1838 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Canada West. Mary (daughter of James Gemmill and Susanah McDonald Simpson) was born on 5 Oct 1816 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; was christened on 24 Oct 1816 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 9 Nov 1891 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Nancy Duncan
• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204978777
• _FGRAVE: 204978777
• _FSFTID: LYDY-LT7
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LYDY-LT7
• _HASHTAG: Lanark Society Settler
• _STAT: Never Married
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)
• _TODO: Open
• _TODO: Open
• _TODO: Open

Notes:

(Research):Register of Births and Baptisms, Paisley Museum.
____________________________________________________________________________________

Memorial No. 383, Liber B. Ramsay, Folios 520 and 521
Purchase of property from Hugh W. Rea, merchant, 2 Mar 1864. for $800. village lot 3, south side of Mill St., with right of passage on lane
Agnes Duncan, spinster
Copy of Memorial in document file
____________________________________________________________________________________

15 Apr 1882 - Sale of property Lot #3, between Agnes Duncan, spinster, 'of the province of Manitoba' and Michael Dixon, town of Almonte, Butcher for $2000. and final payment of $600 on 15 May 1882.
____________________________________________________________________________________

Article by Mrs. Jas. Edmonds (Faces and Places?)
Nancy Duncan was the first milliner (dress maker) in the village of Almonte. The shop near where trinity church now stands (Dungarvan)

Info from death record: Presbyterian, dress maker,

Birth:
SurnameDUNCAN
ForenameAGNES
Parents/ Other DetailsROBERT DUNCAN/AGNES GIFFURD FR1218 (FR1218)
GenderF
Date19/02/1816
Parish Number559/
Ref30 492
ParishAbbey

ScotlandsPeople

_HASHTAG:
Came to Lanark County between 1820 - 1822

Buried:
Plots B120 to B149 Stone 291.
Agnes DUNCAN died Mar 18, 1877 age 59 yrs.

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FSFTID: M845-HMQ
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/M845-HMQ
• _HASHTAG: Lanark Society Settler
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Notes:

(Research):Register of Births and Baptisms, Paisley Museum differ birth 2 Sep 1818 baptism 16 Sep 1818.

Research question? Daniel,s birth and baptism is recorded in Scotland but he is not accounted for as coming with them to Canada. Did he die in Scotland before they left in 1821?

Birth:
Family Search indicated an alternate birth and baptism date: birth 04 Sep 1818 christening 19 Sep 1818

SurnameDUNCAN
ForenameDANIEL
Parents/ Other DetailsROBERT DUNCAN/AGNES GIFFORD FR1252 (FR1252)
GenderM
Date19/09/1818
Parish Number559/
Ref30 559
ParishAbbey

ScotlandsPeople

_HASHTAG:
Came to Lanark County between 1820 - 1822

Died:
Further research is required. May have died in Onondaga, operater of a sawmill, will probate 21 Feb 1859

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Elizabeth
• _FSFTID: K46R-ZNV
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K46R-ZNV
• _STAT: Never Married
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Notes:

Birth:
SurnameDUNCAN
ForenameELISABETH
Parents/ Other DetailsROBERT DUNCAN/AGNESS GIFFORD FR2002 (FR2002)
GenderF
Date10/09/1820
Parish Number559/
Ref60 23
ParishAbbey

ScotlandsPeople

Died:
There are no birth or death records for this set of twins but family folklore suggest that they were born and died in Ramsay Township on the newly established homestead and were buried under a Oak tree on the property. It is also possible that youngest daughter at the time of arriving in Canada Elisabeth, born in Scotland in 1820 and died as a young child is also buried in the same location. This was a common practise as there were no cemeteries established at this time.

Other Events and Attributes:

• _CSTAT: Twin
• _FSFTID: GJJC-4ZJ
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GJJC-4ZJ
• _STAT: Never Married

Notes:

Died:

There are no birth or death records for this set of twins but family folklore suggest that they were born and died in Ramsay Township on the newly established homestead and were buried under a Oak tree on the property. It is also possible that youngest daughter at the time of arriving in Canada Elisabeth, born in Scotland in 1820 and died as a young child is also buried in the same location. This was a common practise as there were no cemeteries established at this time.

Other Events and Attributes:

• _CSTAT: Twin
• _FSFTID: GJJC-H1F
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GJJC-H1F
• _STAT: Never Married

Notes:

Died:
There are no birth or death records for this set of twins but family folklore suggest that they were born and died in Ramsay Township on the newly established homestead and were buried under a Oak tree on the property. It is also possible that youngest daughter at the time of arriving in Canada Elisabeth, born in Scotland in 1820 and died as a young child is also buried in the same location. This was a common practise as there were no cemeteries established at this time.

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186518570
• _FGRAVE: 186518570
• _FSFTID: G33S-7JL
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G33S-7JL
• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Connection
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Notes:

From his obituary:
"Mr Duncan was of a retiring disposition and never sought public office of any kind, preferring the quiet of his own home. He was of a robust constitution, and even until not long ago he thought nothing of a tramp out to the farm and spending the day busily working about because he loved to work."

(Research):Crown Patent: NE 1/2 Lot 9 C 11 18 Jan 1864

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Died:
?b?Obit. - James Duncan?/b?
One of the very few remaining links between the past generation and the present was removed this (Thursday) morning when Mr. James Duncan was called away from the surroundings in which he had spent so long a life. The late Mr. Duncan was born on the homestead in Ramsay, now occupied by his youngest son, Mr Ed Duncan, His whole life was spent there until a little over five years ago, when he removed to Almonte, to spend with Mrs. Duncan in the declining years of their lives in the comfortable home he had provided. On March 25, 1854, he was married to Elizabeth Lockhart, who was born in Scotland and came to Canada with her parents when nine years of age. To Mr. and Mrs. Duncan eleven children were born; all of whom are still living. The sons are Robert at Pilot Mound; William, James, John and Albert at Regina; Hugh at Strathcona; Alexander Sidney on the McFarlene farm and Ed on the homestead; the daughters are Maggie (Mrs. Butchart) and Lizzie (Mrs. Dr. Paterson) in Almonte, and Aggie (Mrs. Holden) at Pilot Butte, Man. The first break in the family circle occurred four years ago when Mrs. Duncan passed away, and now Mr. Duncan makes the second. Mr. Duncan was of a retiring disposition and never sought public office of any kind, preferring the quiet of his own home. He was of a robust constitution, and even until not long ago he thought little of a tramp out to the farm and spending the day busily working about because he loved to work. The funeral has been delayed until Sunday afternoon to enable members of the family at a distance to attend. It will take place at 3 o'clock to the eighth line cemetery.

?b?Mr. Duncan's Funeral?/b?
The funeral of the late James Duncan took place from his home on Elgin street to the the Eighth Line Cemetery on Sunday afternoon, and was attended by a large concourse of people both from the town and township in which his long life had been spent. Two of his sons, James of Regina, and robert from Pilot mound, were among the cheif mourners. The pallbearers were three who were near neighbours of Mr. Duncan when he was on the farm - Messrs John Neilson, Graham Forgie and Donald Stewart, and three of his nearby town neighbours - Messrs HH Cole, S Young and John McFarlane. The funeral services were conducted by Rev C. H. Daly, of St. John's church, of which Mr. Duncan had been a member for many years. Among the floral tributes was a beautiful wreath from the family.

Buried:
Plots B120 to B149 stone 292
James DUNCAN born June 12 1825 died Aug 5, 1909 (son of Robert Duncan and Agnes Gifford)
His wife Elizabeth LOCKHART born Apr 10, 1833 died Jan 19, 1905
Robert DUNCAN died Aug 9, 1847 His wife Agnes GIFFORD died June 10, 1870
John DUNCAN died 18 Oct 1844 (son of Robert Duncan and Agnes Gifford)
Elizabeth DUNCAN wife of Dr. T.R. PATERSON 1870 - 1953 (daughter of James Duncan and Elizabeth Lockhart)

James married Elizabeth Lockhart on 31 Mar 1854 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of William Lockhart and Elizabeth Barr) was born on 14 Feb 1833 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; was christened on 2 Mar 1833 in Low Church, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 19 Jan 1905 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 21 Jan 1905 in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Elizabeth Duncan
• _FSFTID: G33S-QFQ
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G33S-QFQ
• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Connection
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Notes:

In Blythe, supported the family by doing home nursing. When the family arrived in Winnipeg Elizabeth and the girls Isabel, Kate and Mary were able to support the family. They bought a large house and took in borders. Maggie stayed home to help her mother until she married. They bought several pieces of property and one Mary went to live in as a new bride and lived in until her death - the house Ruby shared with her. When only Aunt Kate was left at home with her parents, they moved into a smaller house owned jointly by Mary, Kate and Belle. From this house Aunt Kate and Ruby came to us (Isabel Stewart's childhood home).
As a result of their experiences with alcoholism, the family became strongly prohibitionists.

(Research):Buried on her 86th birthday

Register of Births and Baptisms, Paisley Museum

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Elisabeth married James Stewart on 8 Sep 1855 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. James (son of James Stewart and Helen "Ellen" Brown) was born in 1825 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Canada West; died on 4 Sep 1909 in Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Galbraith on 30 Oct 1831 in High Church, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. John was born on 6 Feb 1811 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: James Kirkpatrick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FSFTID: LZNM-T9X
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZNM-T9X
• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Connection
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Notes:

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Agnes married John Corrigan on 7 Dec 1864 in Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada. John (son of Thomas Corrigan and Isabella Catherine Armstrong) was born in 1823 in Quebec, Canada; died on 23 Dec 1898 in Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 25 Dec 1898 in Shawville Cemetery, Shawville, Outaouais Region, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _FSFTID: LZNM-RBD
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZNM-RBD
• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Connection
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)
• Alt. Birth: 1830, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada; as recorded on his death certicicate

Notes:

(Research):Death certificate indicates occupation as carpenter, Married, Church of England. death date 7 Oct 1894.
Informant: his wife Susan Barnett Hamilton of Almonte.

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John married Susan Barnett on 19 Jan 1860. Susan (daughter of Moses Francis Barnett and Jane Tully) was born on 2 Aug 1840 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 16 Aug 1921 in Hull, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 18 Aug 1921 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/241667332
• _FGRAVE: 241667332
• _FSFTID: LZNM-RB6
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• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

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Robert married Anne Whelen in 1860. Anne (daughter of Edward Whelen and Mary A. Brownlee) was born on 12 Jul 1841 in Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada; died on 25 Apr 1922 in Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada; was buried in 1922 in Shawville Cemetery, Shawville, Outaouais Region, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _FSFTID: LZNM-RBX
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZNM-RBX
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

William married Sarah Taylor on 26 Feb 1868 in Grey County, Ontario, Canada. Sarah (daughter of Moses Taylor and Elizabeth Gosnell) was born on 31 Dec 1844 in Lac-Beauport, Quebec, Canada; died on 19 Oct 1919 in Singhampton, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215879157
• _FGRAVE: 215879157
• _FSFTID: G78Z-SPN
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G78Z-SPN
• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Connection
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)
• Alt. Birth: 1844; as indicated on his memorial stone as aged 66 years

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Died:
Name?tab?George Hamilton
Gender?tab?Male
Age?tab?66
Birth Date?tab? 1844
Birth Place?tab?Clarendon Township
Death Date?tab?29 Jul 1910
Death Place?tab?Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
Cause of Death?tab?Myocarditis

George married Margaret Emma Boyd on 1 May 1870. Margaret (daughter of Joseph Yeoman Boyd and Ann Horner) was born on 25 Feb 1850 in Quebec, Canada; died on 22 Aug 1914 in Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Merivale Public Cemetery, Merivale, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60619159
• _FGRAVE: 60619159
• _FSFTID: LHXY-1BV
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• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Connection
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

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James married Elizabeth "Eliza" Whelen on 17 May 1876 in Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of Edward Whelen and Mary A. Brownlee) was born on 10 Oct 1849 in Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada; died on 6 Feb 1922 in Saskatoon Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried on 8 Feb 1922 in Prospect Cemetery, Mankota, Assiniboia Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Janet McClemont Hamilton
• Name: Jenet Hanmilton
• Name: Jenie Hamilton
• _FSFTID: G33W-FV9
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• _HASHTAG: DNA - Paternal Connection
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

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Jessie married Samuel Horner on 28 Jun 1866 in Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada. Samuel (son of Samuel Horner and Margaret Cline) was born on 14 Jun 1838 in Chatham Township, Argerteuil, Quebec, Canada; died on 1 Jun 1904 in Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Jun 1904 in Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Agness Slater
• _FSFTID: 9WW3-ZRS
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9WW3-ZRS
• _STAT: Never Married

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• Name: Helen Slater
• Name: Maggie Slater
• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115276741
• _FGRAVE: 115276741
• _FSFTID: GM98-G8J
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GM98-G8J
• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Notes:

Buried:
Inscription
At Rest
Walter Scott
Died Jan. 14, 1911
Aged 84yr's, 8 mo's
His Wife
Helen Slater
Born July 27, 1841
Died Feb. 17, 1918

Margaret married Walter Scott on 1 Jul 1864 in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada. Walter (son of Charles Scott and Margaret Douglas) was born on 15 May 1826 in Roxburghshire, Scotland; died on 14 Jan 1911 in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in 1911 in Chesterfield United Cemetery, Chesterfield, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _FSFTID: LRXJ-85F
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• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

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Elizabeth married James Matier on 20 Nov 1863 in Chesterfield, Blandford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada. James (son of John R. Matier and Elizabeth Bowles) was born on 16 Jan 1832 in Grumlin, Antrim County, Ulster, Ireland; died on 6 May 1906; was buried in 1906 in Portage la Prairie, Portage la Prairie Census Division, Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _FSFTID: G33Z-LDJ
• _FSLINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G33Z-LDJ
• _STAT: Never Married

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• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/217594814
• _FGRAVE: 217594814
• _FSFTID: K8F3-MWS
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• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

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Died:
?b?JOHN SLATER DIES LATE FRIDAY?/b?
John Slater, 80. died late Friday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Miss Margaret Slater, 1021 East Adams Street. Mr. Slater was a native of Canada, but has been a resident of Muncie for the past six years. He was a mem ber of the Odd Fellows Lodge or more than 50 yaars and a life mem ber of the Fresbyterian Church. Surviving are two daughters. Miss Margaret Slater of Muncie and Miss Florence Slater of Regina. Sackatch-wan and a son, John Slater also of Regina. Funeral services are to be held at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon with Dr. John W. Nicely, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, in charge. Late Saturday evening the body is to be taken to Mr. Slaters former home, Guelph, Canada, for burial.

John married Annie Morrison on 15 Sep 1875 in Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Annie (daughter of James Mitchell Morrison and Florence McPherson) was born on 17 Mar 1844 in Scotland; died on 12 Aug 1906 in York County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/230031898
• _FGRAVE: 230031898
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• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Family/Spouse: Jennie. Jennie was born in 1854; died in Jun 1881; was buried in Blyth Union Cemetery, Blyth, Hullet Township. Huron County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Alice Amelia Carr on 20 Jul 1882 in East Wawanosh, Huron County, Ontario, Canada. Alice (daughter of William Carr and Mary Tindall) was born in 1856 in Hope Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada; died in 1936; was buried in Blyth Union Cemetery, Blyth, Hullet Township. Huron County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Eliza Duncan
• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122649700
• _FGRAVE: 122649700
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• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Notes:

Lived in Almonte, Ontario

In Winnipeg MB in 1941 when her brother Wm. J. Duncan died.

Occupation on 1871 census as dressmaker living in Almonte with sister Agnes also listed as a dressmaker.
Likely living and working with their spinster aunt, 50 year old Agnes Duncan in Almonte. Agnes born 1818 in Scotland and died in Almonte in 1877.

Birth:
Discrepency in Manitoba Death index 16 Nov 1846 current entry is 16 Nov 1845

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Died:
?b?MRS. ELIZABETH CASKEY?/b?
Mrs. Elizabeth (Duncan) Caskey, a resident of Winnipeg for 36 years, died Sunday In her 95th year. She was the widow of James Caskey, who died In 1907 and had resided with her daughters, Mrs. J. Coulter, of 1057 Logan Ave.
Born in 1846 in Almonte, Ont., Mrs. Caskey came west In 1905. She is survived by three daughters: Mrs. Coulter; Mrs. A. Taylor, Dryden. Ont., and Mrs. O. C. Feetham, Winnipeg; four sons: Andrew and James, Winnipeg; John, Bateman, Sask., and Robert, Kincaid. Sask.; also 26 grandchildren and five great - grandchildren. The funeral service will be held Tuesday at 1.30 p.m. in Mordue's funeral chapel, with burial In the family plot in Elmwood cemetery. Dr. G. A. Woodside will officiate.

Buried:
Plot: 14A-G0101

Elizabeth married James Caskey on 5 Oct 1871 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. James (son of Andrew Caskey and Jane Smith) was born on 1 Mar 1847 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 23 Feb 1906 in Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; was buried in 1906 in Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Aggie Duncan
• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81062411
• _FGRAVE: 81062411
• _FSFTID: LYDY-R52
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• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Notes:

(Research):Believed to have lived in Seattle later in life.

In 1900 Census - James Sterton & Agnes Duncan (age 53), in Spokane WA.
In 1910 census - James E. Sterton - Snohomish WA small community on Puget Sound)
In 1920 census - in Snohomish WA, born 1855

To Seattle, WA
no children

Buried:
Plot: IOOF D48

Agnes married James E. Stirton on 24 Dec 1886 in Derby, Roblin RM, Manitoba, Canada. James (son of John Stirton and Esther Ellis) was born on 7 May 1854 in Saugeen Township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada; died on 3 Apr 1938 in Monroe, Snohomish County, Washington State, United States; was buried on 5 Apr 1936 in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Monroe, Snohomish County, Washington State, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Robt Duncan
• _FGLINK: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98786444
• _FGRAVE: 98786444
• _FSFTID: LYDY-NMF
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• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)
• Location: 30 Jun 1906, Souris, Brandon Census Division, Manitoba, Canada; Section 19, Twp. 2, Range 14, West meridian, Cartwright

Notes:

?b?From Memories Along the Badger Revisited.
?/b?It is noted that this area was covered by large trees of mixed forest oak, elm etc. some several feet in circumference when the settlers first arrived. A fire went through the area some time after settlement and, combined with cearing and lumbering activities, removed this vegetation. The current vegetation is mature but not of the size reported.

1st mail delivery to Cartwright was 1882, earlier Clearwater, 16 miles away.

Present owner of Section is Ken Barkman (1979), Member of the Mennonite Church of God in Christ. Bought the farm from Earl Trembath. it was a treed property with a small amount of cultivated land. Strawberries and broilers.

(William) Bill and Flora (Sommerville) East (to Cartwright in 1905), lived on 29-3-14 for 22 years, then bought section 19-2-14, known as the Duncan Estate, a most beautiful farm, and lived there for 22 years. Son Murray farmed with them. They owned and raised standard bred race horses. In 1966 Bill and Flora retired to Killernay, MB.

Thomas Mowbray, born West Linton Scotland, came to Canada about 1906. Moved to Manitoba 1908 and worked for Bob Duncan for a short time.

?b?Visit to Cartwright and Property, October, 2009?/b?
The Badger River cuts deeply into the rolling prarie landscape at, and near, the Old Cartwright location and through the farm. A large portion of the Duncan section is occupied by river bed and the steep banks. Further north is a marked buffalo jump site where hunts were conducted.

On Robert's E 1/2 section, there is a deep V valley extending back from the river and we were told that the door to the 'cave' in the river bank was still there when Ken McKibbin was a young man. He is now in 80's but remembers the Duncans. In this V valley there is a quicksand swampy area that never freezes and into which farm animals (team of horses) have been lost. We walked along the river bank and up onto the hillside but the cave was in a location further from the river. The flat area along the river was the site of the Sunday School picnics. Robert's side of the river had more gradual access, David's opposite on the W1/2 of the section has very steep banks.

Robert's house, first one of small logs, was located on the SE corner of the property near Keith Barkman's house.

The Boundary Commission Trail (wagon wheel ruts) are still evident to the east of the road near the bridge on the hill behind the cairn for Old Cartwright.;;

In MB in 1893 when his father died.

(Research):From Letter from Art Thompson, Box 334, Cartwright, MB dated 16 Nov 1973.
Robert went to Manitoba in 1878 and in the spring of 1879 went to 'Old Cartwright' (a location which wasn't settled then - section 18-2-14 West of 1st meridian)

He squatted on section N 1/2 section of 19-2-14 W of which he later purchased the north half. Although Robert squatted on this section in 1879, he didn't register immediately and the official entry date was 8 May, 1883.

His first dwelling was on the banks of Badger Creek. In later years he lived on the southeast quarter of Sec 19-2-14 until he died which was Wednesday evening 13 October 1937. He was in ailing health for over a year and the immediate cause of death was pneumonia. Age at time of death 80 yrs, 8 mos, 15 days.

Robert remained single. He is buried in Cartwright cemetery but there is no marker for his grave. At the time of death he was survived by three brothers and three sisters - Alex, William and James, Mrs. GA Robertson, Mrs. Simpson and Mrs. L Caskey.
Mr. Duncan was a shy retiring man and took no active part in community affairs but was well liked and respected. Mr. Duncan was one of the earliest pioneer settlers in this area.

Notes from Memories along the Badger Revisited, 1985
First Cartwright settlers (Sutherlands [Andrew, SE 1/4 30-2-14 10 Jun 1879; and Mrs. Andrew forest tree claim, on SW 28-2-14], McKibbins [John P. NE 30-2-14], Duncans [Robert N 1/2 19-2-14, registered 8 May 1883] and Waughs [J C S 1/2 18-2-14, 20 Oct 1881]) arrived via the Boundry Commission Trail with teams of oxen, Red River carts and supplies. David Cochrane settled on SE 7-2-14 but is not noted as arriving at this time. (sourced from Dept of Lands and Natural Resources) The McKibbin [site of school] and Waugh sections [in river valley] became the site for Old Cartwright

Received his education and a degree in civil engineering in Ontario.

"He was a lover of nature, an honest man, and always willing to give a helping hand. He helped many settlers to build their first home, mostly of logs." He was a successful farmer and lived on his farm until his death in 1937. His brother Alex lived with him for a few years before going west to Penticton, BC.

Died:
Robert never married. His story is well told in the local history book "Memories Along the Badger Revisited" (1985) page 240-241. Robert's birthday is listed in his death registration (#1937-051112) with Manitoba Vital Statistics. His brother David Duncan is also buried in the Cartwright Cemetery.

Gravesite Details He died at age 81. Burial information obtained from Cartwright Cemetery Records transcribed in the local history book "Memories Along the Badger Continued" published in 2010.

Buried:
Plot 118 N1/2 purchased by Robert Duncan.
Burial information obtained from Cartwright Cemetery Records transcribed in the local history book "Memories Along the Badger Continued" published in 2010.

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• Name: Willie Duncan
• Name: Willy Duncan
• Name: Wm. Duncan
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• _TODO: Open

Notes:

On the homestead when his father Robert died in 1893.

(Medical): Blanch Hobbs (Wills) nursed William for a number of months before his death on 28 Jan 1941. He was bed ridden and in declining health for a number of months. Blanch was married to Robert Henry "Harry" Hobbs, they lived in Goulbourn Township.

Birth:
1911 census, Ramsay, ON

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Died:
?b?Mr William John Duncan?/b?
Ramsay lost one of its best known farmers on Tuesday, January 28th, 1941, in the death of Mr William John Duncan. he was in his 84th year and passed away on the farm, 11th line of Ramsay, where he was born and spent his long life.Mr Duncan was a son of the late Robert Duncan and his wife Elizabeth McLinton. In 1905 he was married to the former Mina Simpson of Goulbourn, who predeceased him in 1935. He is survived by two sons, James K. Duncan of Ashton and Robert J. on the homestead. There are also brothers and sisters, namely, James of Winnipeg; Alexander in Penticton, B.C.; Mrs James Caskey, Winnipeg; Mrs Geo Robertson, Penticton, B.C. and Mrs Kidd Simpson, Ashton. The late Mr Duncan was one of this district's most substantial citizens. He lived quietly and industriously and never sought public office. He was a member of Bethany United Church, Almonte. He was a good neighbour and will be greatly missed by a wide circle of friends. The funeral will be held from the family residence on Friday afternoon at 2:30 (Standard Time) to the Auld Kirk Cemetery.

Buried:
Range C, Plot 104

Buried in family plot together with:
Robert DUNCAN Mar 28, 1893 aged 85 yrs. His wife Eliza McLINTON Sep 3, 1908 aged 84 yrs.
George A. DUNCAN infant son of Wm and [Mina] Helen DUNCAN.
William J. DUNCAN 1857 - 1941. His wife Mina SIMPSON July 15, 1935 aged 65 yrs

William married Mina Helen Simpson on 24 Jan 1905 in Ashton, Goulbourn Township, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada. Mina (daughter of Joshua John Simpson and Eliza Kidd) was born on 30 Dec 1869 in Goulbourn Township, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada; died on 15 Jul 1935 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 17 Jul 1935 in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Maggie Duncan
• Name: Margaret Duncan
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• _FGRAVE: 149766182
• _FSFTID: G364-K9G
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• _TAG: Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)

Notes:

(Research):1881 Census lists her as living in at home in Ramsay Township, age 18 years.

Death verified by BC Vital Statistics
She was in:
MB in 1893 when father died.
Winnipeg in 1908 when mother died.
Penticton BC in 1941 when Wm J died.

?b?Obituary in the Penticton Herald 25 May 1944?/b? gives the following info:
Funeral from the Penticton Funeral Chapel and was conducted by Elder W. A. Clemenson fo the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Internment in Lakeview Cemetery. (Old section #466A - currently 2011, overgrown with a large lilac tree, small ground marker found - Maggie Robertson).
She had resided in Penticton since 1910, from Winnipeg where her husband had been a contractor.
Mourned by sons, Sgt. R.H. Robertson RCOC and J.C. Robertson of Vancouver, brothers James of Winnipeg and Alex of Penticton, three grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Pall bearers were Don and Paul Donesky and Jacob and William Vaselenko.

Not listed in the 1911 census for 'Yale & Cariboo District 14 (checked 41, 42, Peachland and Naramata.)

Died:
British Columbia Registration of Death 1944-09-643698
Born: Ontario
Daughter of Robert & Margaret Duncan (Eliza McLinton/Duncan), both born Ontario (Robert was born in Scotland)
Widow of Archibald George Robertson
Died: At home, Penticton, B.C.
Informant: R. H. Robertson - son
Burial: 22 May 1944, Lakeview Cemetery, Penticton, B.C.

Buried:
Plot: Old Section, 0446A

Margaret married Archibald George Robertson on 25 Oct 1893 in Louise, Lisgar RM, Manitoba, Canada. Archibald (son of John Frederick Robertson and Jane Price) was born on 3 Oct 1868 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 20 May 1932 in Penticton, Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District, British Columbia, Canada; was buried on 23 May 1932 in Lakeview Cemetery, Penticton, Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

In Arnprior ON when father died in 1893.
In Winnipeg in 1941 when Wm. J. died.

James married Wilhelmina Minnie Cecilia Watson on 27 Feb 1889 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Wilhelmina (daughter of John Watson and Isabella Izzy Boyd) was born on 31 Jul 1868 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Canada West; died on 20 Feb 1951 in Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census - Agricultural Schedule: 24 Jun 1906, Souris, Manitoba, Canada; Horses 20, Milk cows 14, Cattle 64, Hogs 23.

Notes:

David Duncan was one of early Sunday School Superintendent for United Church, and was Presbyterian Superintendent at time of union. Active in Presbyterian and United Churches and served on Board of Mangers and as an elder of each.
1883 Arrived in Cartwright . Taught at West Derby, Hazeldell, Cartwright.

1888 - 1889The first school in Badger School District #174 was built of logs in 1882 and measured 16 x 20 feet. David Duncan taught from 1888 to 1889.
1888 - The first school in Cartwright was built in 1888 and the first teacher was David Duncan at a salary of $35 per month. "Mr. Duncan was a splendid teacher and greatly loved by all his pupils. He had planned to study for the ministry and although he did one term in college was unable to complete his education."
1889 - Chesterville School District # 182 was formed in December 1884 and David Duncan taught in 1889.
1891 - 1893 Hazeldell School District #611 was formed in 1890. David Duncan was the teacher 1891-1893.
Bought farm in 1895 and married Hannah Wray.
1902 - Son of Scotland was organized 13 March 1902, David Duncan was Chief.
David Duncan, trustee for Cartwright Cemetery.
1903 - David Duncan is noted as a councillor of newly formed rural municipality of Roblin.
1910 Agricultural Society held first seed-grain fair and Robert and David Duncan were listed as winners.
1913 - The Cartwright Creamery - one of Cartwright's largest industries - initially financed through shares, was opened 28 May 1913, President, David Duncan.

Walter Laidlaw, born at Yair Lodge, Selkirk Cty, Scotland, 29 Jul 1876, came to Canada by steamship in spring 1904. Arrived in Cartwright in fall and worked for David Duncan for approximately seven years.

George Charles Richens. born 1879, arrived in Cartwright in 1891 from London England under the Dr. Barnardo's Immigration scheme. Worked for both David and Robert Duncan during his youth. Later with CNR. Son Lewis, married to Evelyn Fluker, lived on old David Duncan farm since 1934. George and wife Sarah Jane Pinkerton, retired to farm in 1944. Sold farm in 1946 after a heart attack.


In MB in 1893 when father died.

(Research):
Barry Wray: abwray@netscape.net says they went to Balder, MB from Lanark Cty. Mentioned Pemican Valley, Pilot Mound, La Riviere, St James Parish. (abt 2002)

Obituary in Cartwright Paper, 1937. (scanned)
Ill for period before death
Funeral from United Church to Cartwright cemetery. Rev. WA McKin presiding.

To Cartwright District in 1883 and taught in West Derby, Crystal River, Haseldell, Chesterville, Howard and Cartwright. Students included Bishop Richardson of NB and Robert Stead of Ottawa.
Served on municipal council before the formation of the municipality of Roblin. Purchased farm northwest of Cartwright in 1895, year of his marriage where he farmed until about 1932.

Was superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School, served on Bd of Managers and Elder in Presbyterian Church, later elder of the United Church

Survived by Robert - Cartwright, Alex and Mrs. Robertson - Penticton BC; William and Mrs. Simpson - Almonte; Jas. Duncan and Mrs Caskey of Winnipeg.

See Obituary 'David Duncan Passes to Well-Earned Reward'

One of his greatest pleasures was preparing for the annual Sunday School picnic which was always held on his grounds. "It was a fun day. Everone could have a boat ride on the river and pick the large yellow water lilies. There were games, races and plenty of food."

David died on his farm in 1936 and is buried in the Cartwright Cemetery.After David's death Hannah made her home with Robert Duncan on his farm until his death. She then lived with the William Chesneys for a few years. Later she lived with Mr. and Mrs. William Herd and died in 1942.

Died:
Taken from the Cartwright newspaper in the year 1937
David Duncan Passes to Well-Earned Reward.
One by one our pioneer settlers are departing this earth, and as they in turn go one less is left of the hardy pioneers who endured hardships such as we of today do not know, to blaze the trail for those to follow. On this occasion Cartwright community mourns the passing of one such of these as will be kindly remembered by a great many friends, in the person of Mr. David Duncan, who passed away early Tuesday morning, November 24th. in his 73rd. year, after several months of patient suffering. The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the United Church of Cartwright cemetery. Rev. W.A. McKim Young will be in charge.

Mr. Duncan was born in Almonte, Ont., on March 29th, 1864. In the year 1883 he came west to Cartwright district, and for a number of years followed the teaching profession, serving West Derby, Crystal River, Hazeldell, Chesterville, Howard and Cartwright. Not a few of the youth of that day under his tutorship are now filling important positions in the public life of the Dominion, two of whom we recall being, Bishop Richardson, of New Brunswick, and Robert Stead of Ottawa. For several terms in the early days Mr. Duncan served on the municipal council, before the formation of the present Municipality of Roblin. In 1895, the year of his marriage Mr. Duncan purchased a farm north-west of Cartwright, where he and Mrs. Duncan followed farming and made heir home until five years ago.

Prior to Union, Mr. Duncan, for many years, was Superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School and many men in our district today recall with deep satisfaction his leadership, and the example he set them still remains warm in their memories. They are better citizens as the result of their associations with him in their boyhood days. We no of no greater tribute that can be paid a man than that his christian life in generous measure was given in the interest of the boys and girls who were fortunate enough to be associated with him. For many years Mr. Duncan was active in church work, serving on the Board of Managers and an Elder in the Presbyterian Church and latterly as an Elder in the United Church.

Forty one years ago he was married to Hannah, eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Wray, who survives him, along with the following brothers and sisters, Robert Duncan, Cartwright, Alex Duncan and Mrs. A.G. Robertson, Penticton, B.C. William Duncan, Almonte, Ont., Mrs Kidd Simpson Ashton, Ont. Jas. Duncan and Mrs L. Caskey, of Winnipeg.

The sympathy of the community goes out to the bereaved family in their great loss.

Our Old S. S. Teacher
(By Eber G. Bradley - "Brandon Bard")

I have just read in a city newspaper
That came to me today
Of our dear old Sunday School teacher
Who has just passed away.

To some he was a good farmer
Careful tiller of the sod
But to me, our Sunday School Teacher
A man who walked with God.

He was never a shouting Christian
And neither was his wife
But you could see the love of God
As you watched their daily lives.

We loved him in the Sunday School
For his king and gentle ways
We admired him as a business man
As one who always pays.

With the neighbours and the hired help
He was always kind and fair
And though he has gone before us
We will meet him over there.

Our Teacher David Duncan

Buried:
Gravesite Details Died at age 72, Burial information obtained from Cartwright Cemetery Records transcribed in the local history book "Memories Along the Badger Continued" published in 2010.

David married Hannah Mary Elva Farr Wray on 20 Nov 1895 in Cartwright, Cartwright-Roblin, Pilot Mound Census Division, Manitoba, Canada. Hannah (daughter of John William Wray, Sr. and Emma Rachel Farr) was born on 12 Jul 1878 in Etobicoke, York County, Ontario, Canada; died on 22 Apr 1942 in Manitoba, Canada; was buried in Cartwright Cemetery, Cartwright, Pilot Mound Census Division, Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

On the homestead when father died in 1893

In Ashton, ON in 1941 when Wm. J. died.

(Research):notation of Methodist, Ashton

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Died:
SIMPSON, Mary Jane
At Ottawa, Ont on Wednesday, August 6, 1952. Mary Jane Duncann widow of J. Kidd Simpson of Ashton, Ont., aged 86. Resting at the Flemming Funneral Home, Lake Avenuue West, Carleton Place, where the funeral service will be held on Friday, August 6, at 3 p.m. Interment Dewar's Cemetery, Ashton.

Mary married John Kidd Simpson on 16 Jan 1895 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. John (son of Joshua John Simpson and Eliza Kidd) was born on 5 Nov 1863 in Ashton, Goulbourn Township, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada; died on 20 May 1940 in Ashton, Goulbourn Township, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 22 May 1940 in Dewar Cemetery, Beckwith Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Alex Duncan
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Notes:

(Research):1881 Canada Census, Ramsay Township, Alexander is listed as beign 12 years old.

In Detroit when his father died in 1893.

In New York at time of Mother's death 1908.

In Penticton, BC in 1941 when Wm. J. died.

?u?letter from Jos. G Harris, Curator, RN Atkinson Museum, 785 Main St. Penticton BC, V2A 5E3 14 Aug 1980

?/u?"A Duncan, ranching" is in the 1936 British Columbia Directory, Jubilee Edition.

?u?From Art Thompson, Box 334 Cartwright MB letter dated 16 Nov 1973.?/u?

"Another brother, Alexander, lived for a short period of time on Robert's farm where he had a cave dug in the bank of the Badger Creek. I visited the spot some years ago but it had fallen in and hardly recognizable"

Death date from BC Vital statistics, Reg. 1949-09-0024606, microfilm #B13200, GSU 2032570
Family History Library Film 1375869.

Not listed in the 1911 census for 'Yale & Cariboo District 14 (checked 41, 42, Peachland and Naramata).

Could not find a marked grave in area indicated by cemetery records. Nearby is a marker for ?u?John Gray Duncan?/u? who passed away in the Penticton hospital on 5 Jan 1949. In his obituary, it is indicated that he was born in Scotland, lived in Penticton area for 38 years, died at age 85, and was survived by 1 brother, 2 sisters in England.

From Memoires of James Alvin Duncan youngest son of James Sidney Duncan an older brother of Alexander Duncan's
Alexander articled in Law and left Almonte for New York. Little is really known of his activities and events there. But Alexander became stone deaf and returned to his elder brother Robert at Cartwright, Manitoba in 1914. He remained there for some few years and then left for Penticton, B.C. Little was heard from him after he left. He died and was buried there, the actual date unknown but believed to be the in early fifties. Alexander never married.

Buried:
Site F4 Grave 7, no grave stone.

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Death:
Role: Obituary: family

Died:
The remains of the late Mrs W E Barnett, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs Turner, at Montreal on Thursday,July 11th, aged 80 years, were brought to Almonte on Saturday morning for interment in the Presbyterian cemetery here. The late Mrs Barnett was Miss Agnes Duncan, and was born in Almonte, where she spent her whole life except the past three years during which she had been with her daughter in Montreal, until death from paralysis came to her after only a few days illness. The deceased was married sixty-two years ago to Mr Wm E Barnett, who died about eleven years ago. To them ten children were born, all of whom are still living, but those in the distant west were unable to be present at the funeral. Those present were Mr and Mrs Squair, Mr and Mrs Turner of Montreal, Mrs Lech of Peterboro, Mrs McMurtry of Ottawa, and Mr V.A. Barnett of Toronto. Other members of the family are Messrs W.E. Barnett of Stettler, Alta, Welland W. Barnett and L.S. Barnett of Delroy, Alta, and Mrs E.J. Lundy of Portage la Prairie.

Buried:
Section 6: Stone 2484 pg 18, 119

Agnes DUNCAN died Jul 11, 1918 aged 80 yrs
wife of of William E. BARNETT who died 26 May, 1907 aged 74 yrs (buried in St Paul's Cemetery)

Agnes married William Edward Barnett on 26 Feb 1858 in Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. William (son of Moses Francis Barnett and Jane Tully) was born on 6 Dec 1834 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 26 May 1907 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 29 May 1907 in St. Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery, Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Research):Discrepancies to by sorted out from Susana (Duncan) McGregor's obit.
She is reffered to as Catherine rather than Susana as wife of Walter Lawson. Perhaps this is a second give name but have no evidence of this.
She is mentioned as daughter of Duncan McGregor but is actually a step daughter of him. She is the daughter of John Duncan and Mary Gemmill. Mary married Duncan McGregor after John Duncan died in 1844.
The obit mentions three siblings. Agnes (Mrs W Barnett) of Arnprior (verified) but also Mrs J.R. McMunn and Duncan McGregor of California are probably 1/2 siblings but unverified.

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Died:
?b?SUSANNAH DUNCAN LAWSON?/b?
An old resident of Almonte passed away at Quyon on New Year's day in the person of Catherine McGregor, wife of Mr Walter Lawson, at the age of 61 years. the deceased lady was for many years a resident of Almonte and Ramsay, leaving here for quyon about eight years ago. her death was not totally unexpected, as she had been ailing for a number of years, although not confined to bed. Mrs Lawson was a daughter of Mr. Duncan McGregor and was born in Ramsay. Mrs W Barnett, Arnprior, and Mrs J.R. McMunn are sisters of the deceased. Mr Duncan McGregor, California, is a brother. the funeral took place on Saturday from Quyon to the eighth line cemetery, via Pakenham, and was accompanied by a large number of sorrowing friends and acquaintances from both places. quite a number drove out from Almonte and joined the cortege as it neared the cemetery thus showing their respect for an esteemed friend, and their sympathy for the bereaved ones.
[Name on STONE; Susana DUNCAN?]

Buried:
Plots 90 to B119 Stone 265
Walter LAWSON died May 11, 1907 aged 66 yrs His wife Susana DUNCAN died Jan 1, 1903 aged 61 yrs
Andrew LAWSON died Nov 4, 1866 aged 4 yrs
Cynthia LAWSON wife of J.B. McMURTRY died Apr22, 1936 aged 66 yrs

Susannah married Walter Lawson on 10 Jan 1862 in Almonte, Lanark County, Canada West. Walter (son of Andrew Lawson and Mary Jane Robertson) was born on 7 Oct 1839 in Lombardy, Leeds County, Upper Canada; died on 11 May 1907 in Quyon, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada; was buried in 1907 in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Janette Letts before 1879. Janette (daughter of George Knight Letts and Ann Turnbull) was born on 15 Aug 1847 in Hull, Quebec, Canada; died on 7 Jun 1920; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Sault Sainte Marie, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Eliza about 1871. Eliza was born in 1843; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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ROBERT DUNCAN


Robert Duncan was born near Almonte Ontario, December 7, 1854. His parents, James and Elizabeth Duncan, had a family of eight boys and three girls. Robert was the eldest.
As money was scarce Robert was obliged to leave home in his early teens to make his way in the world. Equipped with a team of horses and a sleigh he found work in logging camps along the Petawawa and Mississippi Rivers. Wages were a dollar a day. In the spring of each year he came back to help his father with the farm work. He would go back to the "shanty" as the camps were called, for the winter months.
In the spring of 1878 he and some other young fellows decided to go West. They left Almonte on May 5th and travelled by train and boat to Emerson and finally to Winnipeg. They worked there for the summer. He told of getting his wagon, with a load, stuck in the Red River mud of what is now main street. The load was removed from the wagon but even then the wagon had to be taken apart to free itself. Having met some men who had been farther west, Robert decided on their advice to go too. The result was that he filed on a parcel of land the west half of 12-3-12. This land was owned and operated in recent years by his only son James Hamilton Duncan until his death, November 1972 in Pilot Mound. Robert then went back to Ontario logging camps for the winter.
In the spring of 1879 James Duncan gave his eldest son, Robert a team of horses, a wagon and provisions for the trip west. Again he went to Emerson and then drove west along the Boundart Commission Trail to his homestead near Pilot Mound. This 100-mile trek was completed on May 29. Some grain was planted and a log house was built that summer. The remains of this pioneer dwelling exist on the present farm-site. This log house is a very special one. In 1879 there was not a minister or a church in which to conduct divine services. A meeting was held in Robert Duncan's log house to organize the first Sunday School. The next year, 1880, a meeting was held there to organize the Goudney School district. Until then the community was identified only by their post office, Preston, about three miles west of the present town of Pilot Mound.
In 1880 Robert Duncan and William Butchart (who was later to marry Robert's sister, Margaret Jane) bought a horse powered threshing machine. They threshed most of the grain in the settlement that fall and winter as this was one of the first threshing machines in the area. In those days the harvested grain was stacked, pending threshing operations so that work on the land could continue until freeze-up.
Robert Duncan returned home in the spring of 1881, returning to Pilot Mound in June with his bride, Ellen MacPherson Hamilton. The young bride could hardly visualize the ruggedness of the new country she was coming to, in comparison with the relatively gently and settled Ottawa Valley countryside which had been her home from birth. On the last leg of their trip from Emerson to the homestead, the young couple enjoyed the warm hospitality of the Mennonite homes as they passed through their communities. At last they reached the end of the hundred miles and arrived in the Goudney District. That summer the grass was so tall that even the cows seemed lost. When Ellen opened her kitchen door she could hear the cows mooing and running towards her but all she could see above the tall grass was their heads and tails.
"Bear stories are always interesting, especially when they have the added interest of being true. One day when Robert was harvesting a field of oats with his three-horse binder he saw a bear coming towards him. At the same time a neighborhood "character" an old chap who loved to hunt and fish, and who dropped in frequently to visit the Duncans arrived on the scene. Unfortunately his gun was not powerful enough to reach the bear from his distance. Robert unhitched one of the three horses and mounted it. Horse and rider pressed the attack but the Duncan mount was a colt that had never been ridden and he ran wild. However, the battle continued with added force and finally the bear, exhausted, lay still on the ground to be dispatched at close range by the itinerant hunter.
In the early 1900's a Mr Dearlove needed power for his newly-constructed brick yard north of town. He contacted Robert Duncan for the use of his steam engine which had replaced horsepower on the Duncan farm. It might be noted that the Duncan's second home succeeding the beloved log shack, was a spacious dwelling made of red brick from the Dearlove yard.
It is no exaggeration to say that Robert Duncan was an active leader in the community endeavors. Before 1905 when the Statute Labor Law was in effect, he was a path master. This meant that he was to see to it that roads and trails were kept passable in his section of the township. In later years he served as a councillor in the Rural Municipality of Louise and President of the Pilot Mound Agricultural Society. During his tenure with that Society he promoted the formation of a Board of Lady Directors. It proved to be a valuable innovation.
He was also a devoted church goer, serving as Sunday School superintendent and elder on the Presbyterian Church Session and following church union in 1925 he served with the United Church Session until his death in 1943.
His wife Ellen had many talents and interests. She was renowned for baking and butter-making. Her baking skills were such that local merchants would have her test newly arrived flour shipments. She could tell them how many loaves could be made from a hundredweight.
In 1911 she won a sweepstake prize for her butter making at the Winnipeg Exhibition, also first prize for a tub of butter at the Chicago Fair. She encouraged boys and girls in furthering farming skills, a work now done by the famous 4-H Clubs. She held sewing and cooking classes in the local school (after 4:00 PM.)
She was a member of the Ladies Agricultural Society her husband founded, a Charter member of the Women's Institute, Life member of the Red Cross and life Member of the Women's Missionary Society. Robert and Ellen Duncan turned the farm over to Their only son Jim in 1930, retiring to Pilot Mound. Mrs Duncan passed away in 1937, her husband in 1943. Both of them had been truly public-spirited and contributed enormously to the economic and cultural health of the community they had seen grow from pioneer days.
In the United Church at Pilot Mound are two beautiful candelabra, presented by members of the family in memory of their parents. These are fitting memorials to two who had shed the light of life on many a pathway.

Robert married Ellen McPherson Hamilton on 10 Jun 1881 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Ellen (daughter of Gavin McPherson Hamilton and Margaret J. Neilson) was born on 21 Sep 1859 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 1 Jan 1937 in Pilot Mound, Pilot Mound Census Division, Manitoba, Canada; was buried in 1937 in Greenwood Cemetery, Pilot Mound, Pilot Mound Census Division, Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
Plot: 134 - Row 2-10 - South-East of Soldiers Plot- Just East of 3rd St. & 4th Ave., 14th. Row

William married Mary G. Grassick in 1890 in Yellow Grass, Weyburn Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. Mary (daughter of George Grassick and Anne Jane Bell) was born on 13 Jul 1870 in Nichol Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada; died in 1960 in Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in 1960 in Regina Cemetery, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James MacKenzie Duncan-his life story

To Mr. Duncan the history of Regina from practically its beginning to the present relates scenes almost as familiar to him as the chapters of his own life story. He was one of the early settlers of thirty years ago, saw service during the rebellion of 1885, and for many years has held a prominent position in business affairs and public service.

James MacKenzie Duncan was born in Lanark county, Ontario, in 1859. His parents were James and Elizabeth (Lockhart) Duncan, the former a native of Ramsay Twp. Lanark County, Ontario and the latter of Paisley, Scotland.

At the Almonte high school Mr. Duncan finished his education and in 1882 came west and located at the little settlement of Regina, which had barely started on its progress towards metropalitan importance. He was a farmer in this vicinity for a couple of years. With the breaking out of the rebellion he joined the North West Mounted Police, and was with the force throughout the period of hostilities. At the engagement with Chief Poundmaker at Cut Knife Creek his horse was shot from under him, but otherwise he came out of the battle without injury to himself.

For more than fifteen years after the rebellion Mr. Duncan was a merchant at Regina, a business which he followed until 1902. In that year he was appointed sheriff of Western Assiniboia, and gave a fine measure of efficient service to this office for several years. Since that time he has had an office in Regina and has handled a large amount of real estate sales in this city and vicinity.

At McGregor, Manitoba, in 1888, Mr. Duncan married Miss Sarah L. Winter, formerly of Brandon. They have one daughter, named Kathleen. Mr. Duncan affilites with the Canadian Order of Forresters and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, is a member of the Assiniboia Club, and his chuch is the Presbyterian. Among other business interests he has investments and other connections with several of the local companies. He was alderman of the city during 1895-1896. He was a member of the board of works in 1895 when the city held its first territorial exhibition, and was instrumental in securing the grounds now used for this annual event. Wherever he could, he has given his help toward advancing his home city in prosperity and upbuilding, and it is with no small patriotic pride that he regards the resources of the present capital and metropolis.

(Research):Info from Carol Bennett Book The Lanark Society Settlers pg. 151
In 1878 James M. Duncan went West, first to Manitoba and then to Regina in 1882. At the time of the Riel Rebellion in 1885 he served as transport driver with the government troops. While doing this work he was captured and held hostage by Chief Poundmaker, one of Riel's allies. Despite this unpromising introduction to the West James decided to remain there. When Saskatchewan became a province in 1905 he became Sheriff of the Regina District. He died in 1937.

Died:
J. M. Duncan, 1885 Veteran Dies at 78
Transport driver had horse shot by Indians at Cut Knife Creek

J. M. Duncan who led a romantic life as homesteader, Indian fighter on the plains in the early days died in Regina on Friday night.
Born in Almonte, Ontario, October 14th. 1859. Mr. Duncan who had been ill in hospital, only four days, was 78 years of age.

In Cutknife Battle
One of the early settlers in the Regina District, he served as transport driver in the Riel Rebellion and had one of his horses shot in the battle of Cut Knife Creek. He himself was taken prisoner by the Indian Chief Poundmaker and held hostage for nearly two weeks

Mr. Duncan settled in the West in the spring of 1882 taking up a homestead south of Regina. As the new century dawned, he operated buisiness in Regina, conducted a real estate agency for some time and also served as sheriff. He was sheriff of the Regina judicial district when the province of Saskatchewan was formed in 1905.

Business in Regina
Since that time he had been intersed in several lines of business in the city, His chief interest being in the Caxton Press Limited which he served as director and secretery-treasurer for 25 years.

In 1887 he married Miss Jeffie Winters of Brandon, Man., who survives him. An only daughter Kathleen died several years ago.
Mr. Duncan is also survived by five brothers, Robert J. of Pilot Mound, Mam, William H. John and Albert of Regina and Edwin H. of Almonte, Ont. and also two sisters, Mrs. T. R. Paterson of Almonte and Mrs Benjamin Holden of Brant, Alberta.

Funeral service will be held in Knox United church at 2 p.m. Monday and burial will be in Regina Cemetery.

James married Sarah Louise "Jeffie" Winters in Jan 1888 in Brandon, Brandon Census Division, Manitoba, Canada. Sarah was born on 21 May 1856 in Ontario, Canada; died on 9 Feb 1941 in Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in 1941 in Regina Cemetery, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Research):Margaret J. Duncan

Margaret J. Duncan was born February 23,1863 in Ramsay Township, Lot 10 Concession 11 near Almonte Ontario. She was the daughter of James and Elizabeth (Lockhart) Duncan. Margaret married William Butchart and journeyed to Manitoba, with her husband. They farmed near Pilot Mound, Manitoba. Margaret and William had three children one daughter Mona, two sons Cecil and Harvey. Margaret's husband died when Mona was only twenty-two, following William's death the family moved to Regina, Saskatchewan.

Her daughter Mona was well known in Regina musical circles died at age thirty-five. Margaret Butchart had been a member of the Carmichael Church, Regina for twenty years. She is buried in the Regina Cemetery.

In 1905 when her mother died she is noted as living in Almonte.

Margaret married William Butchart on 14 Feb 1890 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. William (son of William H. Butchart and Agnes Mary Russell) was born in May 1863 in Grey County, Ontario, Canada; died on 15 Nov 1900 in Pilot Mound, Louise RM, Manitoba, Canada; was buried in 1900 in Greenwood Cemetery, Pilot Mound, Pilot Mound Census Division, Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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JOHN DUNCAN

John Duncan son of James and Elizabeth (Lockhart) Duncan was born on April 19th 1865 in Ramsay Township Lot 10 Concession 11, near Almonte Ontario. John married Jessie Steele of Ramsay in 1903. They had four children all born in Regina, Saskatchewan, James (Jim), Mary ,Johnston and Willis.

In Regina when mother died in 1905.

Memories of My Father John Duncan by his oldest son Jim.

In his earlier days on his parents farm, he helped with various chores and farm work. During the winters as he reached his late teens he went to the bush to haul logs with a team of horses. He commented about a spring when returning home there was a track on the snow over the ice on the river; the track on the snow started to rot in the spring thaw and one of the horses broke through the ice and was nearly lost. I failed to pay the attention I should have of his earlier days.
He arrived in Regina in 1890 and here filed on a homestead. Farming at that time on the Regina plains was about as primitive as the early days in Ontario except the land was very flat, few trees or stones to clear. As other Homesteaders of that time he broke his land with a hand plough, which was single share controlled by two curved handles at the back for the operator to gage the depth he wanted. The plough was hauled by horses, the reins secured around his waist so his hands were free to guide the plough. Two acres a day was a good days work; homesteaders often hired out to do breaking for others pay ranging from five to ten cents an acre.
In later years I always admired his adapt way of handling and binding the loose stalks of grain. The grain having been cut with a sythe and bound together to make a sheaf. This was before binders and threshing mills. Father talked of threshing grain in the winter, the engine from which they got the power and the separator having to be hauled by horses. Our house was small but it had a big kitchen, large enough to feed a threshing crew of twenty men. The farmers had a "Beef Ring" each farmer provided a beef animal in rotation and in rotation they accepted their turn at each cut of beef. The butcher was another farmer who got a free ride in that he didn't have to provide a beef.
In February of 1912 our mother died and my father's sister came and looked after us for some years. For the first twenty-one years of my life father saw a great deal of me and I of him, seemed to me that my father and all his brothers were mild mannered men who were able to accept their setbacks and proceed as though nothing much had happened to dampen their optimism.
Johnston my brother who had remained on the farm with our father took over the farm when father retired.

Died:
?b?John Duncan Pioneer succumbs
?/b?John Duncan, 87, a retired farmer of the south Regina district near Rowatt died Sunday in a Regina hospital. Funeral arrange ments by Speers will be announced Later.
Mr. Duncan was born at Almonte, Ont. and came to Regina in 1890. He. filed on a homestead on the south Regina plains and has lived there since.
In 1912 (1903 correction) he returned to Almonte and marrled Jessie Steel, who died in 1912. In 1917 (1916 correction) he married Jessie Adams, Vancouver, who predeceased him in 1925.
Surviving Mr. Duncan are three sons, Willis, 2140 Wascana street, James S. of Montreal and Vancouver, a C.P.R. official, Johnston is on the farm, one daughter Miss Mary E. of Vancouver, and six grandchildren.
Also surviving is a brother, Albert Duncan, operator of Duncan's Drug store, and two sisters, Mrs. T. A. Paterson of Almonte, Ont., and Mrs. Ben Holden, Calgary.
Mr. Duncan was predeceased by three brothers, Edward at Almonte in 1951, James former sheriff of Regina, who died in 1339, and William, H. Duncan, who died in Regina in 1948.
John Duncan was one of the founders of Sherwood Presbyterian church, now United church, and was an official in that congre gation for many years.

Buried:
Plot: 141 - Row 2-12 - Just North-East of Soldiers Plot, Just East of 3rd St. & 4th. Ave., 4th. Row

John married Jessie Mary Adams on 21 Oct 1916 in Vancouver, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. Jessie was born on 13 Sep 1871 in Kemptville, Leeds & Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada; died in 1925; was buried in Regina Cemetery, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Jessie I. Steele on 30 Jul 1903 in Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Jessie (daughter of John Steele and Mary Johnston) was born on 18 Jun 1870 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 26 Feb 1912 in Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in Regina Cemetery, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

(Research):Was in Strathcona when his mother died in 1905.

Hugh Duncan had a house built at Strathcona in 1912 at 60 Main Street were the family lived and raised their family, his duaghter later lived there and raised a family until her husbands death in 1972. The house was puechased by the city of Edmonton as a heritage property and became the Foundation House in 1978. the address of the property now known as 8520 - 104 Street.

Occupation Druggist

Died:
Obituary
Mr. Hugh Duncan
Mr. Hugh Duncan, 8520-104th. St., Edmonton, Alta., passed away at his home, Friday, June 28, at the age of 69 years. One of a family of 11, Mr. Duncan was born on the 11th. line of Ramsay, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Duncan and served his druggist's apprenticeship with Mr. M. Patterson of Almonte. He worked in Perth in the drug store of the late Chas. Bower and Dr. Frank Hanna.
About 30 years ago he went west and established his own drug business which he had conducted successfully ever since.
Surviving are his wife, the former Clara Lendrum of Vankleek Hill, two sons, Edgar and Brock; one daughter, Mrs. N. Cruickshank, all of Edmonton; two sisters, Mrs. T. R. Paterson, Almonte, and Mrs. Holden of Brant, Alta.; four brothers in Regina, William, James, John and Albert; one brother Edmund in Ramsay and Robert of Pilot Mound, Man.
The funeral service was held on Tuesday afternoon, July 2nd. at 2:30 o'clock at the Knox United Church, Edmonton, Alta. Rev. George Macdonald officiated and interment was made in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Hugh married Clara Louise Lendrum on 5 Feb 1896 in Hawkesbury, Prescott County, Ontario, Canada. Clara (daughter of Robert Watt Lendrum and Ella Louisa Brock) was born on 15 Aug 1868 in Vankleek Hill, Ontario, Canada; died on 23 Jul 1942 in Edmonton, Edmonton Census Division, Alberta, Canada; was buried on 25 Jul 1942 in Mount Pleasant Municipal Cemetery, Edmonton, Edmonton Census Division, Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Alex Duncan
• Name: Alexander Sidney Duncan
• Name: Sid Alexander Duncan
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Notes:

ALEXANDER SIDNEY DUNCAN
Sidney was the sixth son of James and Elizabeth (Lockhart) Duncan. He was born September 2,1868 in Ramsay Township, Lot 10 Concession 11.

A. Sidney married Emily Bennett in 1896 to whom two children were born James Bennett and Margaret Alberta. On October 20,1909 at age 40 Emily (Bennett) Duncan died, and on January 9th 1911 A. Sidney Duncan married Mary A. Watchorn the former Mary A. Finlayson. One son was born to this marriage Albert Finlayson Duncan.

A. Sidney Duncan farmed on the tenth line of Ramsay Township not far from his fathers farm. A devoted member of the Almonte Presbyterian Church he took a keen interest in the affairs of the church.

He joined in the municipal affairs of Ramsay Township and was a faithful member of the Orange Lodge.

Alexander Sidney Duncan at age 54 died in Ramsay on Thursday March 1st 1923 and is buried in the Auld Kirk Cemetery.

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Buried:
Plots B480 to B509 Stone 531 pg 29

Alexander Sidney Duncan died March 1, 1923 age 54 yrs.
His wife Emily Bennett died Oct 20, 1909 age 40 yrs.

Alexander married Emily Alberta Ruth Bennett on 21 Oct 1896 in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Emily (daughter of David Albert Bennett and Mary Ann Cunningham) was born on 8 Feb 1869 in Rosetta, Lanark Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 20 Oct 1909 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Oct 1909 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Mary Amelia Jane "Minnie" Finlayson on 9 Jan 1911 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of William Finlayson and Amelia Cunningham) was born on 10 Aug 1880 in Lanark Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 17 Jan 1952 in Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 19 Jan 1952 in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Elizabeth Duncan Paterson 1870-1953

Elizabeth Duncan was born on April 7, 1870 on the 11th. line of Ramsay Township to James Duncan (12 June 1825 to 5 August 1909) and Elizabeth Lockhart (10 April 1833 to19 Jan 1905) who were married by Rev. J. K. Smith.
In 1903 she and her mother and father moved to Elgin Street, Almonte, to a home built by her father, for his retirement.
Elizabeth Lockhart Duncan died there on 19 January 1905, aged 71 years. James Duncan died there 5 August 1909.
Elizabeth Duncan married Dr. Thomas Robertson Paterson, D.D.S., L.D.S., D.D.C.,. on 23rd. January 1907 and they lived in the Elgin street house until his death on 23rd. June 1946, in his 79th. year and her death on 21st. August 1953, aged 84.
Elizabeth was a pianist and an Honorary Life Member of St. John,s Presbyterian women's Missionary Society and a charter member of the Rosamond Memorial Hospital, Alexandra Club. She was also an Honorary member of the North Lanark agricultural Society.
Dr. Paterson was an elder of St. John's Church, a member of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Sons of Scotland and the Independent Order of Forresters, a bowler and a curler.
He had served on the the Town Council and the Board of Education.
He delivered papers on the care of teeth to Teacher's Associations and conducted the first survey of Lanark county children's teeth to report to the Ontario Government in 1920.
They had two sons; William born 5th. October 1909 and Clarence, born 7th. September 1915. Both were school principals, presidents of their Teachers' Institutes; Past Masters of their respective Masonic Lodges, and Life Members of the Ancient and Accepted Scotish Rite of Freemasonry.

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Died:
1953, Thursday August 27, The Almonte Gazette page 8

?b?Mrs T.R. Paterson?/b?
Mrs Elizabeth Paterson, widow of Dr. T.R. Paterson, a resident of the Almonte District all her life, died in Kingston General Hospital on Friday. She was in her 84th year. Daughter of the late Mr and Mrs James Duncan, Mrs Paterson was born on the 11th line of Ramsay Township. She moved to Almonte 50 years ago and had resided there the remainder of her life. She was married in Carleton Place to Dr Paterson in 1909. Her husband died in 1946. A member of Almonte Presbyterian Church, she was active in church organizations, Mrs Paterson was an honourary life member of the Women's Missionary Society, a charter member of the Alexandra Club and an honourary director of the North Lanark Agricultural Society. Surviving are two sons, William G.D. Paterson and T.H. Clarence Paterson, both of Kingston; one brother, Albert Duncan of Regina, Sask; a sister, Mrs Ben Holden (Aggie), of Calgary, Alta, and four grandchildren. The funeral was held on Sunday afternoon from the Comba Funeral Home to the Presbyterian Church where a service was conducted by the pastor, Rev Jas M. Ritchie, Interment was in the Auld Kirk Cemetery. The pallbearers were nephews of the deceased: Kenneth, Robert, Morden, Gordon, Hugh and Albert Duncan.

Buried:
Plots B120 to B149 Stone 292 pg 17
James DUNCAN born June 12 1825 died Aug 5, 1909 (son of Robert Duncan and Agnes Gifford)
His wife Elizabeth LOCKHART born Apr 10, 1833 died Jan 19, 1905
Robert DUNCAN died Aug 9, 1847 His wife Agnes GIFFORD died June 10, 1870
John DUNCAN died 18 Oct 1844 (son of Robert Duncan and Agnes Gifford)
Elizabeth DUNCAN wife of Dr. T.R. PATERSON 1870 - 1953 (daughter of James Duncan and Elizabeth Lockhart)

Elizabeth married Dr. Thomas Robertson Paterson, LDS, DDS, DDC. on 23 Jan 1907 in Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Thomas (son of William Paterson and Margaret Paterson) was born on 31 Aug 1867 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 23 Jun 1946 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 25 Jun 1946 in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

AGNES DUNCAN

Agnes the daughter of James Duncan and Elizabeth Lockhart was born September 14th 1872 in Ramsay Township Lot 10, Concession 11. Agnes was married in Almonte, Ontario in 1899 to Ben Holden. Agnes and her husband travelled to Western Canada the same year of their marriage and settled in Glenboro, Manitoba. They later moved to Brant Alberta where they farmed until 1943 when they retired and moved to Calgary, Alberta.
In 1905 when her mother died she is noted as from Pilot Butte, Ass.

The following is taken from a Calgary paper:

"OSTOGENARIAN ARTIST
This is a Saturday for coincidence, I journeyed up the North Hill Friday to see Mrs. Agnes (Duncan) Holden, who still enjoys a fair reputation as an artist despite her age -86yrs. While we were chatting she turned to me and suddenly announced she had been in the Regina cyclone of 1912.
Agnes is better known here for her work with paints, although that reputation can go back 60 years ago to Almonte, Ontario - a farm community outside Ottawa. I'm not a judge of art but the best illustration I saw in the Holden home was a winter landscape that was done in 1899. Mrs Agnes Holden grew up on the farm and came from a large family. When she married she had seven daughters.
On the day of the tornado (June 30,1912) she had four children but they were away from the main path of the storm.
Funny thing about this interesting lady -- she is in despair of her immediate family because she insists upon living alone (since her husband's death in 1954) but she brings up an interesting philosophical point. She claims that she enjoys her housework and still has time every day to go shopping and see the downtown sights.
She has been very cute with the paintings. Already she has given away 22 scenes to children and grandchildren. Secretly hoping to come up with another artist, I suppose. However I notice the 1899 landscape still hangs in the living room and I unhesitatingly place it as good professional work."

Agnes and Ben Holden marked their golden wedding anniversary September 1949 with all seven daughters present.

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Died:
HOLDEN--November 22nd, Mrs. Agnes Holden, aged 88 years, of 753 Alexander Crescent. Born Almonte, Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. Holden lived in the Brant District from 1915 until coming to Calgary in 1945. She was a member of the North Hill United Church and the W.M.S.

Her husband, Benjamin, predeceased her in November 1954 in Calgary. She is survived by seven daughters, Mrs. J. (Beth) Williams, Ensign, Alberta, Mrs. R. (Agnes) Neff, Walnut Creek, California, Mrs. A. (Muriel) MacKenzie, Mrs. G. (Jean) Millar and Mrs. G. (Lois) Campbell, Calgary, Mrs. G. (Ruth) Hamilton, Brant, Alta., Mrs. D. (Bertha) Renwick, Regina. 16 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren.

Excerpt from The Calgary Herald, November 23, 1960, page 35
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Alberta Death Reg. #8581

Buried:
Plot: Section Y

Agnes married Benjamin "Ben" Holden on 4 Sep 1899 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Benjamin (son of James Holden and Sarah Elizabeth Service) was born on 20 Sep 1871 in Singhampton, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada; died on 23 Nov 1954 in Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada; was buried in Union Cemetery, Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

ALBERT DUNCAN

Numbered among the successful business men of Regina is Albert
Duncan, druggist and agriculturist. He was born on a farm in the province of Ontario, on the 20th of April, 1874, a son of James and Elizabeth (Lockhart) Duncan, extended mention of whom may be found in the sketch of his brother W. H. Duncan appearing elsewhere in this work.
Albert Duncan attended the Ramsay public school and the Almonte High school. Subsequently he enrolled in the Ontario College of Pharmacy and was graduated from that institution in 1899. He served as apprenticeship under a brother at Vankleek Hill and remained there for three years. Subsequently he moved to Merrickville, Ontario and there opened a small drug store, which he conducted with success for a period of four years. On the 7th of May, 1903 he came to Regina and together with W. M. Rea he opened a drug store in a little shack near the old town hall. They remained in those quarters a few months and then moved to the Strathcona block, on Scarth street. In 1905 they sold out to the Regina Pharmacy and for two years thereafter Mr. Duncan was out of business. At the termination of that time he established a drug store independently and has since conducted this enterprise. He owns his business building of two stories and his store is modern in every way. In addition to a general line of drugs he carries a full line of pianos and victrolas. He devotes a great deal of his time and attention to the store and at the same time is interested in farming, owning a fine farm in the southeast part of the province, which he continues to develop and improve. Mr. Duncan has been successful in his undertakings and well merits the position accorded him among the representative business men of the city and district.
On the 18th of August, 1903, Mr. Duncan was married to Miss Jennie Jakes of Merrickville, Ontario and to them two children were born: Kenneth, who died at age of five years; and James Albert, nine years of age. Mrs Duncan passed away on the 20th of May, 1915. She was a woman of much culture and refinement and was prominent in the club and social circles of this city. She was a member of and a zealous worker in the Knox Presbyterian church, and her death brought deep sorrow to her family and many Friend.
Mr. Duncan is a member of the Knox Presbyterian church. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the United Order of Canadians. In the community interests he takes an active and helpful part, supporting the various measures that have for their objects the welfare and advancement of the city and district.

In Regina when mother died in 1905.

Died:
Pioneer druggist succumbs at 85, Pioneer Regina druggist.
Albert Duncan, 85, of 3047 Quinn Drive, died at his home Monday after a lengthy illness. Funeral service will be held Thursday at 2 p m. In First Presbyterian church with R. M. Shields officiating. Burial will be in the family plot at Regina Cemetery. Bom at Almonte, Ont., Mr. Duncan served his drug apprenticeship under his brother Hugh, at Vankleek Hill. Ont. He graduated from the Ontario College of Pharmacy in 1899 and opened a small drug store in Merrickville, Ont. In 1903, Mr. Duncan married the late Jennie Jakes of Merrickville and later the same year came west to Regina. He opened his first drugstore In a shack on Scarth street in partnership with W. M. Rea. A few months later it was moved into the Strathcona block. In 1907, Mr. Duncan bought the Medical Hall building, 1747 Scarth street, and operated a store there until 1939. He built the Duncan block In 1919 at the comer of Albert street and Dewdney avenue and opened another store, still maintained by his son, James A. Duncan. Mr. Duncan, owner of the gravel pit at Pilot Butte, supplied all the sand and gravel in the construction of the Legislative buildings. HONORED In 1957, he was honored by the anniversary of the founding of the Pharmacentical Assocoation, Always interested in agriculture, Mr. Duncan made frequent trips to his farms at Fillmore and Stoughton. , Mr. Duncan was a .member of First Presbyterian church. He is predeceased by six brothers, five of .whom were also pioneers In western Canada. Robert was an early farmer at Pilot Mound, Man.; William was one of the founders of the Beaver Lumber Co., Regina; James was city Caxton Press representative; Hugh operated a drug store in Edmonton; John homesteaded at Stoughton and his younger brother, Edward, remained in Almonte. Mr. Duncan was also predeceased by his wife in 1915 and a son, Kenneth.in 1911. He is survived by one son, James Albert, 3047 Quinn drive; one daughter, Mrs. T. H. Wood, 3002 Albert street; one sister, Mrs. Agnes Holden, Calgary, and two grandchildren.

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The Leader-Post
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
11 Aug 1959, Tue ? Page 3


Buried:
Plot: 141 - Row 2-11 - Just North-East of Soldiers Plot, Just East of 3rd St. & 4th. Ave., 4th. Row

Albert married Jennie Estelle Brooks Jakes on 18 Aug 1903 in Merrickville, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada. Jennie (daughter of Samuel Jakes and Sarah Chester) was born on 6 Aug 1874 in Merrickville, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada; died on 21 May 1915 in Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in Regina Cemetery, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Ed Duncan
• Name: Edward Duncan
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Notes:

Born and lived on Lot 10 Con 11 Ramsay Twp until 1945 when he moved to Carleton Place, ON

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Died:
1951, Thursday December 20, The Almonte Gazette page 6
Edmund Harvey Duncan
The death of Edmund Harvey Duncan occurred in an Ottawa hospital on December 13 in his 74th year. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the Alan R. Barker Funeral Home to St Andrew's Presbyterian Church where the service was conducted by Rev T. DeCourcy Rayner, Assisted by Rev Gordon Taylor. Interment was made in the Auld Kirk Cemetery, Almonte. He was born January 20, 1878, on the 11th line of Ramsay, son of the late James Duncan and Elizabeth Lockhart. The youngest in a family of 11, he leaves two brothers. Albert, Regina, and Jack Vancouver; two sisters, Elizabeth, Mrs T.R. Paterson, Almonte, and Aggie, Mrs Ben Holden, Calgary, Alta. Five brothers predeceased him, Robert, James, William, Hugh and Sidney, also a sister, Margaret. Mr Duncan was married to the former Beatrice Miller, of Ramsay, on December 29, 1903. The couple had a family of eight sons and three daughters: Mabel, Mrs W.J. Taber, Toronto; Harold died in 1935; Muriel, Mrs W.L. Redden, Kingston; Allan died in October, 1949; Morden, at home; Rae, Mrs A.D. Lytle, Arnprior; William, Niagara Falls; Kenneth, Ramsay; Gordon and Hugh, Ramsay. Flying Officer Robert Duncan was killed on active service in January, 1944. Mr Duncan was born and raised on the farm on the 11th line and resided on the homestead until 1945, when he retired to Carleton Place. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, Almonte, and an elder of that church for several years. He was also a member of the board of managers and representing elder when he moved to Carleton Place. he attended St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Carleton Place, from 1945 and became an elder. The pallbearers were Albert Duncan, William Paterson, Clarence Paterson, Robert Duncan, James Duncan and Ross Craig.

Edmund married Beatrice Fedora Miller on 29 Dec 1903 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Beatrice (daughter of David Miller and Elizabeth Henderson) was born on 4 May 1881 in Almonte, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 29 May 1969 in Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 31 May 1969 in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

(Research):Residence when married - Blyth, ON
Witnesses: Gad Glasgow, Clinton and N. Matheson, Clinton, Rev. A Stewart officiated
Died at 33 years, in delicate health for some time, went to Scotland in summer of 1889, discovered after she arrive that she was pregnant and stayed until after the baby was born - a daughter Rose, who also had TB and did not live long.

Agnes married David Greig on 2 Jun 1880 in Clinton, Huron County, Ontario, Canada. David (son of James Greig and Jane Russell) was born on 12 Mar 1847 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 16 May 1847 in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire Scotland; died on 27 Apr 1925 in Provost, Wainwright Census Division, Alberta, Canada; was buried in 1925 in Provost Cemetery, Provost, Wainwright Census Division, Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Ellen Strewart
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• Alt. Birth: 1861, Ontario, Canada; as recorded on 1906 Canada Census
• Alt. Birth: 7 Feb 1861, Ontario, Canada; as recorded in 1901 Canada Census

Notes:

(Research):Residence: Dufferin Ave., Winnipeg

Three sons who worked for CNR, all served in WW1, believed to have lived in Winnipeg

Helen married Robert Scott on 24 May 1892 in Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Robert was born on 29 Nov 1852 in Ontario, Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

(Medical):Two infants sons that did not survive; a step daughter
Regina, SK

Margaret married SGT. William Charles Maguire on 5 Jan 1898 in Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. William (son of John Maguire and Mary Jane Webster) was born on 24 Nov 1866 in Toronto, York County, Ontario, Canada; died on 5 Dec 1952 in Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in Regina Cemetery, Regina, Regina Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: James D. Stewart
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Notes:

(Medical):Vancouver

Family/Spouse: Sarah. Sarah and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

(Medical):William Ave, (Winnipeg?)
died at age 91

Mary married John Keys on 12 May 1897 in Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. John (son of Hugh Keys and Mary Armstrong) was born on 28 Mar 1862 in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 10 Oct 1931 in Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Catherine Stewart
• Name: Kate Stewart
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• _STAT: Never Married
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Notes:

(Research):When 16 was sent to look after Rose Greig (before) after death of Agnes Stewart Greig; later living with parents in Winnipeg; after death of Isabel Stewart lived with Kathleen English's family until her father remarried; described as a 'honey', well liked. Took niece Ruby, daughter of James under her wing after the death of her parents.

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• Name: Belle Stewart
• Name: Isabel May Stewart
• Name: Isabella Stewart
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Notes:

(Research):Port Rouge
Taken out of school because of a heart mumour, persuaded the town tailor, a family friend, to teach her to sew. Mary and Kate joined her when they also left school.

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Isabella married Homer Addison English on 22 Aug 1898 in Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Homer (son of John English and Mary Seney) was born in Dec 1869 in Parkhill, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada; died on 23 Dec 1952 in Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

(Medical):note indicates that he died at age 21 'killed'