foxton cotton farm/mill.

[deafkat]

I think more likely meant left there 63 or 53 years

if he died in 1912 then 63 years  - he left America in 1849 at 18 years old or  53 years  - 1859 so its really 63 years if he was married  after 1854 in Australia.

if I confuse you sorry and made your head swirled smiles.  hope you find more out..
cheers Kathleen.x

[KarenM]

There seems to be a few cotton mils in the Stormont, Leeds area of Ontario.  So maybe that William you found JJ in 1851 in Elisabethtown might be worth following through?

Karen

[deafkat]

Hi Karen.. thanks for your message ... I would like to find it but I cant do it as I dont live in Canada and I have tried to search on google for the farm... its havent been able to get the one I want to find of the Foxton farm...

this is why I put on here to see if anyone would find it or know about it.... cheers from Kathleen. 

[J.J.]

Well, they'd had to have gotten busy and had a bunch of sons, then if it was sons who got the family business, as I just looked at it more objectively and there's all older sisters! Haha...
  Boy, having the 1851 has only helped one person so far...rather frustrating odds, I'd say! Of course many we are searching for may have been mistranscribed...not sure how sensitive the database is...
  But then that's the fun of it I suppose...

it would surely help if we had a bit more to go on....we have a name and an approximate age....and an elusive family business... If the Foxton's were of substantial wealth I think we'd have found a bit more on them...

Do you have any other family whom you might contact who could shed more light on these Foxtons?  J.J.

[deafkat]

Hi JJ thanks for your message ... well no I dont have any Foxton boys family in Australia... that came from George Foxton but may still be in other areas 

if I know who or where William Foxton the father of George then
I can work out... all Iknow was what I gave on line

I will try and find out ... and get back to you... ok in the mean time if you all can check around smiles... thanks from Kathleen.x

[J.J.]

Well, we are learning some history here, anyway...
Chambly & Sherbrooke / Lower Canada (Quebec)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007932

Hastings had a cotton factory very early
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings,_Ontario

Cornwall / Stormont / DUNDAS: Around 1850 the largest building in the town of Dundas Ontario was the "cotton mill" http://www.oldengine.org/members/billd/Chapman1.asp
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ca-on-co.html


Later century
Kingston: 
 http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/lobby/8775/history.htm
Craven cotton Mills, Holmedale, near Brantford
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onbrant/biobford2.htm
next century but adding anyway
Empire Cotton Mills in Welland:
http://www.welland.library.on.ca/industry/Factory%20Pages/Empire%20Cotton.htm

[deafkat]

Hi JJ  I think I am learning more everyday with little things ... and my family history and genealogy...

I think I learn more today than I was at school internet is wonderful homework to have ....

I will look into the site you gave me... cheers  Kathleen.

[J.J.]

Well, then.... here's some homework...The 1851 isn't complete....But if you put in only the surname Foxton, there aren't a lot of results and most of them seem to be in Leeds, and Elizabethtown.
http://content.ancestry.ca/iexec/default.aspx?htx=List&dbid=1061&o_iid=27113&o_lid=27113&o_it=27113

Many of those cotton mills are within close proximity, I think...so starting in Leeds might not be such a bad idea...This site covers all those areas, apparently...

http://web.ripnet.com/~gchs/

I'm sure there are more links for this area, but I don't have any myself... J.J.

[deafkat]

Hi JJ  thanks for the urls and I will study more and it a BIG homework smiles.   cheers from Kathleen.x