Author Topic: Currie family -- Mariposa Twp., Ontario.  (Read 1354 times)

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Re: Currie family -- Mariposa Twp., Ontario.
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 03 April 16 17:50 BST (UK) »
Not seeing them in Brock on the OFCA... also not seeing them in the Durham Region surnames list

http://www.durhamgen.com/Durham%20Surname%20Index.pdf

List of some cemeteries in Brock
http://townshipofbrock.ca/community-informationevents/municipal-cemeteries/
http://vitacollections.ca/ogscollections/results?gid=5909252

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Re: Currie family -- Mariposa Twp., Ontario.
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 03 April 16 18:33 BST (UK) »
If this A Currie on the County Atlas for Brock is your man, they the nearest town would be Cannington.  You might want to center you search for records in that area.

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/showrecord.php?PersonID=110043

http://www.brocklibraries.ca/

Perhaps a library could see if something could be found in the local papers about Alexander and Mary - maybe a note about an anniversary?  If they were married in the 1830s (as you have in your tree), they would have had their 50th anniversary in the 1880s... a write up might let you know who is who in the family??  You often find good family histories in milestone anniversary articles in local papers.... fingers crossed!!

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Re: Currie family -- Mariposa Twp., Ontario.
« Reply #11 on: Monday 06 June 16 06:40 BST (UK) »
The Reverend Archibald Currie was the Presbyterian minister to the congregation of "Brock, Reach and Mariposa" from about 1866 to 1888.
I don't know if he's one of yours or not.
He lived in the village of Sonya from 1873, where he bought a house.
Sonya is at the intersection of the 3 above-named townships.
I have a photo of him and a bit of info about his ministry there, but nothing about his family.
He was alive in 1902.

The Presbyterian cemetery which serves Sonya is the McNeil cemetery, which is on the 2nd concession of Brock two.  It is known locally as the Wick cemetery.

Send PM with your email address if you want the info on this fellow's career and photo.

Presbyterian Archives, in Toronto, would likely know more about him such as where he came from and where he was educated, which I do not know.  The photo says he had an M.A.

In addition, I can verify that most of the Scottish settler families in that immediate area came from Argyl.
ARMSTRONG - Castleton Scot; NB; Westminstr Twp
BARFIELD - Nailsea
BRAKE - Nailsea
BURIATTE
CANDY - M'sex, Deptford
CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
KREIN, Peter/Adam - Germany
LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER, MAXWELL - Ldn lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
WEST - Rochester & Maidstone
WILLIS - Wilts, Berks, Hants, London
WOODHOUSE - Bristol tobacconist, London
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