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Lancashire / Re: emigration to Canada
« on: Friday 02 December 05 01:06 GMT (UK) »
I checked the '71 records and could only find this:
Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario Index)
TAYLOR , SAMUEL
Sex: Male
Age: 68
Birthplace: ENGLAND
Religion: Presbyterian
Origin: ENGLISH
Occupation: Farmer ( F )
District: ESSEX ( 001 )
Sub-district: Tilbury West ( N )
Division: 1
Page: 23
Microfilm reel: C-9890
Reference: RG31 — Statistics Canada
Here's an excerpt from the local news paper:
The following was written of Samuel Taylor in a local paper shortly after his death in 1893:
"SAMUEL TAYLOR'S SPIRIT TAKES FLIGHT"
In 1842 he moved his family from Detroit to the homestead, and for six years he sailed the lakes during the season of navigation, bringing home in the fall his summer wages to assist in supporting his family until the farm was ready to cultivate. He was a hard-working man, sober, honest, charitable and saving.
Mr. Taylor took delight in telling the story of the time when he came into the woods to pick out a lot, together with a man by the name of Thomas Thompson. The latter advised the former to take the north corner of the Middle Road and he would take the south, stating that one or the other would live to see a village spring up in the vicinity. Mr. Thompson did not live to see it, having died many years ago; but Mr. Taylor lived to see a part of his farm divided into village lots; hence he was known to all as the father of Comber.
Family records indicate that SAMUEL donated the land for schools and two churches. One of the churches was the Anglican Church of Ascension, which opened for worship in 1888 with REV. T.H. BROWN. It is due to his many contributions to the area that TAYLOR AVENUE exists even today.
In 1890 Comber was erected as a Police Village. Dissolved in 1998
SAMUEL TAYLOR died at his residence on MIDDLE ROAD, Friday, March 10, 1893. Services were held at the Church of Ascension. He was laid to rest at the St. Georges Anglican Cemetery on North Middle Road.
I was married in that church 15 years ago today.
I am one of his direct descendants and his emigration is the last piece of the puzzle.
Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario Index)
TAYLOR , SAMUEL
Sex: Male
Age: 68
Birthplace: ENGLAND
Religion: Presbyterian
Origin: ENGLISH
Occupation: Farmer ( F )
District: ESSEX ( 001 )
Sub-district: Tilbury West ( N )
Division: 1
Page: 23
Microfilm reel: C-9890
Reference: RG31 — Statistics Canada
Here's an excerpt from the local news paper:
The following was written of Samuel Taylor in a local paper shortly after his death in 1893:
"SAMUEL TAYLOR'S SPIRIT TAKES FLIGHT"
In 1842 he moved his family from Detroit to the homestead, and for six years he sailed the lakes during the season of navigation, bringing home in the fall his summer wages to assist in supporting his family until the farm was ready to cultivate. He was a hard-working man, sober, honest, charitable and saving.
Mr. Taylor took delight in telling the story of the time when he came into the woods to pick out a lot, together with a man by the name of Thomas Thompson. The latter advised the former to take the north corner of the Middle Road and he would take the south, stating that one or the other would live to see a village spring up in the vicinity. Mr. Thompson did not live to see it, having died many years ago; but Mr. Taylor lived to see a part of his farm divided into village lots; hence he was known to all as the father of Comber.
Family records indicate that SAMUEL donated the land for schools and two churches. One of the churches was the Anglican Church of Ascension, which opened for worship in 1888 with REV. T.H. BROWN. It is due to his many contributions to the area that TAYLOR AVENUE exists even today.
In 1890 Comber was erected as a Police Village. Dissolved in 1998
SAMUEL TAYLOR died at his residence on MIDDLE ROAD, Friday, March 10, 1893. Services were held at the Church of Ascension. He was laid to rest at the St. Georges Anglican Cemetery on North Middle Road.
I was married in that church 15 years ago today.
I am one of his direct descendants and his emigration is the last piece of the puzzle.