Paul Conover

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Douglas married Maria Eldorado Victoria "Dora" Smith. Maria (daughter of Dr. William Edward Smith and Grace Olivia Young) was born on 4 Jul 1896 in Belmont Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
at Rockdale, home of William Edward Young and Maria Campion, grandparents

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• Occupation: Michigan, United States; Degree in medicine and surgery, Michigan College of Surgery
• Occupation: Ordained Minister of Methodist Church
• _UID: 2F0022BF58C54E11AF0727509B944F94CB38
• Occupation: Abt Sep 1896, China; Missionary Methodist Church

William married Grace Olivia Young on 1 May 1895 in Belmont Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada. Grace (daughter of William Edward Young and Maria Campion) was born on 21 Sep 1869 in Belmont Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada; died about Jul 1922 in Toronto (York), Toronto Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Research):6 daughters and one son

Birth:
at Rockdale, home of William Edward Young and Maria Campion

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Married:
at Rockdale, home of William Edward Young and Maria Campion

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 102649637
• Occupation: Marmora Twp, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; Merchant, General Store and Mill
• Occupation: Shoemaker
• Religion: Canada Methodist
• _UID: E75CA487209240879ACA0A653E8915FD93F1
• Residence: 1856, Belmont Twp, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada; C2 L17

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Moved in 1856 to Belmont Township Concession 2 Lot 17, taking up 500 acres - eventually increased to 1000 acres - called Rockdale. His property was cut out of primal woods on the Crow River were he built and ran a sawmill. He was prominent in municipal affairs and served on council for nine years. He was also a faithful Methodist.

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Residence:
Moved from Marmora to Rockdale in 1857; some notes suggest 1854..

The original parcel of land 'Rockdale' was 500 acres but he owned 1000 acres at the time of his death. It was cut out of primal woods on the Crow River where William built and ran a sawmill.


Died:
?i?From the History of the County of Peterborough

?/i?William Edward Young, deceased, was born in Perth County (actually Perth, Lanark County), Ontario in 1824. He was of Scotch and English parentage, his people living for some time in Ireland before coming to this country. They came to Canada at an early day and settled in Perth County (actually Perth, Lanark County, Ontario). Mr. Young started in life as a shoemaker, but afterwards carried on a general store and mill at Marmora Village, which he gave up and came to Belmont Township in 1856, settling on lot 17, concession 2, where the family still live. He owned at his death about 1,000 acres of land, his original amount being about 500 acres. He married in 1851, Maria Campion, of Marmora Township, who, with three sons and seven daughters survive him. Mr. Young was proinent in the municipal affairs of the township, and was about nine years in the Council. He was a faithful and consistent member of the Canada Methodist Church. He died in 1878.

(handwritten note: Son of Daniel Young and Mary Ann who moved from Perth to Stirling about 1835. Daniel had a shoe making store at Perth. Mary Ann's father, Wm. Edward Tully may live somewhere there although Mrs. Robert Sargeant mentioned he may have gone to Newcastle or Bowmanville. He died in 1845).

Daniel T. Young, son of the above, was born in Hastings County, Ontario, in 1853, and at the age of eighteen months his people settled in this township. He lived with the family at the homestead till the spring of 1883, When he exchanged his right in the old place for 300 acres on lot 14, concession 8, to which he soon after moved, and where he now resides. He married, in 1882, Mary J. Aunger, of Blairton, daughter of John L. Aunger, of Blairton, an Englishman by birth.

William married Maria Campion on 1 Oct 1851 in Marmora Twp, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. Maria (daughter of William Campion and Mary Potts) was born on 5 Feb 1828 in Marmora Twp, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; died about Oct 1915 in Toronto (York), Toronto Municipality, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Rockdale Cemetery, Belmont, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 102647587
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