Thomas Robert Rowat

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 230404129
• _UID: B88258465B9B49A98DD414D8EE74EE227F2A

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/230404129

Buried:
also FGID #133625846. I believe both sites (Robert & Thomas) refer to the same person.

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 133625849
• _UID: D2A9F2156E48425DB4A2C76B299555FF7148

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133625849

William married Eliza McLean on 27 Aug 1847 in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Eliza (daughter of Thomas McLean and Janet Ritchie) was born on 31 Aug 1828 in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was christened on 7 May 1829 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 15 Feb 1887; was buried in Elmview Cemetery, Kars, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 133625850
• _UID: 3070E18CDEA84793A067863C4B94053A54D8
• alt Death: 15 Dec 1887

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133625850

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• FamilySearch ID: 2ZSS-PNW
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 97377187
• _UID: 82C10F1EBEFE4353B295638B880510A236BF

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https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/2ZSS-PNW

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97377187

John married Agnes Scott in 1814 in Waterside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Agnes (daughter of John Scott and Agnes Horn) was born on 26 Dec 1797 in Waterside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 31 Dec 1797 in Kirkintilloch Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; died in Oct 1826 in Burgess North Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 1AA75AB809464C99AA512E42402EE54F14FC

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Christened:
SCOTT
AGNES
JOHN SCOTT/AGNES HORN
F
31/12/1797
498/
20 347
Kirkintilloch

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 169670836
• Immigration: 1815
• _UID: 9C6480286F5A4CE1B92792F8394E1E883546

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Christened:
MCLEAN
THOMAS
THOMAS MCLEANNO NAME2
M
12/10/1800
821
30 / 209
DUMFRIES

First name(s)?tab?Thomas
Last name?tab?McLean
Birth year?tab?-
Baptism year?tab?1800
Baptism date?tab?12 Oct 1800
Place?tab?Dumfries
County?tab?Dumfriesshire
Country?tab?Scotland
Father's first name(s)?tab?Thomas
Father's last name?tab?McLean
Father Occupation?tab?Inn-Keeper
Page?tab?25
Archive Ref?tab?OPR 821/3
Year Range?tab?1774-1819
Item?tab?3
Record set?tab?Scotland, Parish Births & Baptisms 1564-1929
Category?tab?Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory?tab?Parish Baptisms
Collections from?tab?Great Britain, Scotland

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169670836

Thomas married Janet Ritchie on 27 Dec 1818 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Janet (daughter of John Ritchie and Janet Luke) was born on 24 Jul 1795 in Fintry Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland; died on 11 Dec 1855 in Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Old Burying Ground / Pioneer Cemetery, Craig Street, Perth, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 169670861
• _UID: D86CCF6FE96A4EC0AC9A6C27CDBD80E0A63B
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169670861

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Concessions 1 to 6

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Buried:
Inscription
in
memory of
Janet McLean
who died
(Dec) 11, 1855
aged 63 years

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• FamilySearch ID: GC4D-FSF
• Name: David Rowate
• Name: David Ruit
• _UID: D3C6BA9C62A548AB81C561C35D985682204E

Notes:

Christened:
ROWAT
DAVID
JOHN ROWAT/CHRISTIAN LANG
M
16/12/1751
498/
10 421
Kirkintilloch


FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GC4D-FSF

David married Mary Stirling about 1792 in Campsie Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Mary (daughter of William Stirling and Mary Hay) was born on 30 Sep 1765 in Clachan of Campsie, Stirlingshire, Scotland; was christened about 1765 in Clachan of Campsie, Stirlingshire, Scotland; died on 18 May 1859 in Waterside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LZNR-CRV
• Name: Mary Sterling
• _UID: ABC09EE460AF4B92AC63EC54E5A90B8748AA
• alt Death: 18 May 1859, Fenwick Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland

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FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZNR-CRV

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• _UID: 2D50C6BFEF5D40728265ABF9F9AEBCE1CFB5

John married Agnes Horn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: A8BD4BF1880F4CB78256D5DAC8D920098CF4

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• Occupation: inn keeper
• _UID: A49A5B1DFA2D4A9FB0A4FB3BC339B06B6762

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 52613388
• Name: John Ritchy
• _UID: A3D4EA00E0D4445EBF5B880A814F98956087

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FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52613388

Died:
Transcription of an excerpt of a typewritten account of the Ritchie family history in Ontario received from Mr. Lyndsey Ritchie of Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1949. Much of it appears to have been compiled by a Mrs. Jessie Hendry McLaren of Perth, Ontario in 1931.


History and Record of John Ritchie and his wife, Janet Luke, Fintry, Scotland and Perth, Ontario, and their children to the fourth generation. [Excerpt]


This brief record of the Ritchie family has been written to preserve for the present and future generations, the history of their ancestors. There may be errors and omissions, but it is, we believe, a fairly accurate record, and, as such, it is sent to members of the different branches of this family with the hope that it may prove interesting, and also that it will be preserved.


For help and information we would thank Mr. Robert Ritchie of Edmonton, Alberta; Mr. W. W. Kemp of Forest; Mr. S. H. F. Kemp of Toronto; Dr. H. B. Anderson of Toronto; Mrs. Crawford of Sarnia; Mr. James McLean of Renfrew County; and Dr. J. W. Jory of St. Catherines, Ontario. The compiling of this record has been a great pleasure, and we regret that more time could not have been spent in its preparation.


From old pages and records we find that in the year 1784, John Ritchie, Jr., son of John Ritchie of Dalry Mills, Scotland, was apprenticed to Henry Hannah, smith, of Lennie Park, for the term of four years, "for the learning of, and serving him in the business and craft as a smith." John Ritchie's brother, James, "taking burden upon himself for his said brother as cautioner." The record says that he served his term of apprenticeship faithfully and honestly.


Four years later, in the year 1792 he married Janet Luke, their home being in the beautiful little village of Fintry, nestled on the South side of the Campia Hills, about midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow. There he worked in a factory, and was in charge of the machinery. Some fine specimens of his work are still in possession of his grandsons and their sons.


It was toward the end of the Napoleonic wars, when hard times in the old country induced many families to improve their fortunes by emigration to the United States or Canada, that John Ritchie of Fintry, Scotland, with his wife and family of eight children sailed from Greenock, in June, 1815 for Virginia, in order to re-establish themselves in the new world.


The war of 1812-1815, in which the Americans had joined with the French against the Motherland was just drawing to a close. In order to escape French privateers on watch for British shipping, the sailing ship with the Ritchie family turned Northward, for the St. Lawrence. The County of Lanark, in upper Canada was just then being opened for the settlement of a large immigration of soldiers and civilians from Lanarkshire, in Scotland, and the Ritchie family made Lanark County their destination, and located a tract of land seven miles from the future county town of Perth. The Lanark settlement soon became well established and prosperous. In fact, the most successful emigration in the early history of the province.


About seven miles South from Perth the Ritchie homestead was situated; the grant being one hundred acres of land. John, the eldest son, also received a grant of one hundred acres, adjoining his father's land. The first years in the new land were ones of hardship, but the Ritchies appear to have been clever and resourceful.


The second son, Robert, went with his young wife (Margaret Hume) to Peterboro county, obtaining a grant of four hundred acres of land. Here they prospered, and established saw and grist mills, as well as engaging in farming.


The youngest son, William, stayed on the homestead, which he extended to three hundred acres. He also went into the lumbering business, and at one time owned extensive timber limits. The house, built by his mother, (with later additions) still stands as a fine old mansion, and is now owned and occupied by a descendent of the Ritchie family. The saw mill passed into other hands, but is again in operation on a small scale.


There is no record of the death of John Ritchie. We learn that he was a man of quiet and retiring nature, but evidently capable and clever. His wife, Janet Luke, was a woman of fine and commanding appearance, dignified, wise, and most capable. She lived a number of years after the death of her husband, at the old home, having attained the age of 84 years.


These men and women, good, noble, and industrious, as many of them were, have, with their descendants, taken no small part in the making of Canada. For it is the good citizens and true patriots who make a Country Great.


Compiled in 1931 by Jessie Hendry McLaren ? (Mrs. P. S. McLaren)

R. R. #2, Perth, Ontario.

Comment by L. K. Ritchie ? grandson of Peter Ritchie ? No. V [Peter Ritchie was a son of Robert and Margaret (Hume) Ritchie.]


This seems to be a very fine piece of work, and it's value will increase more and more as time passes, and records are harder to reach, and memories fade and fail. These folks who have given of their time and effort to set this record up are definitely entitled to the most hearty thanks of all the descendants of John Ritchie and Janet Luke. I have collected, developed and compiled ? with the very generous help of some of my "cousins", both Ritchie and Kidd ? quite a bit of genealogy connected with the second son, Robert, who was my great grandfather, and it has been a most interesting work. There are some noticeable "differences" between the various recordings, but I know of no way to now determine the accuracy of any one item over another, and so have recorded the seemingly most 'probable' version ? subject to correction.


4618 Pillsbury Ave., Minneapolis, 9, Minn.

John married Janet Luke on 2 Sep 1792 in East Kilbride Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Janet was born about 1773 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland; died in Jan 1856 in Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Old Burying Ground / Pioneer Cemetery, Craig Street, Perth, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 52613407
• _UID: 1D82D1C696BF468FACE5A4C788EE58153FF7
• Religion: 1843, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; joined Perth Baptist Church

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FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52613407

Died:
church records

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Married:
RITCHIE
JOHN
JANET LUKE/FR563 (FR563)
02/09/1792
643/
20 237
East Kilbride