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George James, of Winnipeg

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  1. 1.  George James, of Winnipeg was born in 1869 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (son of Robert James and Jane "Jean" Cumming); and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • _UID: 25D8F22249CF41B99D3AE6F033D3AAA02015
    • Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

    Notes:

    Census-Household Member:
    Role: Household Member


    Census-Household Member:
    Role: Household Member


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Robert James was born in 1823 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (son of Robert A. James and Margaret Niblo); died on 3 Mar 1893 in Hopetown, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Address: Address:
      Robert James
      Hopetown, ON
      CAN
    • _UID: 414762DC95C4402F81D6F53B8EAD6BD18CFD
    • Census: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Census: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Census: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Occupation: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Census: 1881, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Census: 1891, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

    Notes:

    Lanark Society Settler
    Brother and sister married brother and sister
    Charles McFadden has Robert James family bible
    Robert James, the Society settler was a church elder at St Andrew's in the Lanark Settlement.

    Died:
    Name:?tab?Robert James
    Gender:?tab?Male
    Age:?tab?70
    Birth Date:?tab?abt 1824
    Birth Place:?tab?Lks, Ontario
    Death Date:?tab?3 Mar 1894
    Death Place:?tab?Lanark, Ontario, Canada
    Religion:?tab?Presbyterian
    Cause of Death:?tab?Progessine Paralysis

    Robert married Jane "Jean" Cumming on 21 Feb 1845 in Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Jane (daughter of Archibald Cumming and Helen "Ellen" Hay) was born in 1820 in Eastwood Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 17 Dec 1820 in Eastwood Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 24 Dec 1905 in Hopetown, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Jane "Jean" Cumming was born in 1820 in Eastwood Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 17 Dec 1820 in Eastwood Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland (daughter of Archibald Cumming and Helen "Ellen" Hay); died on 24 Dec 1905 in Hopetown, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • _UID: F5A2F659A80F490F907C359D773ADC78D89A
    • Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Census-Household Member: 1891, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

    Notes:

    Christened:
    CUMMIN
    JEAN
    ARCHIBALD CUMMIN/HELEN HAY FR738 (FR738)
    F
    17/12/1820
    562/
    40 7
    Eastwood

    Census-Household Member:
    Role: Household Member


    Census-Household Member:
    Role: Household Member


    Census-Household Member:
    Role: Household Member


    Census-Household Member:
    Role: Household Member


    Census-Household Member:
    Role: Household Member


    Died:
    From "The Lanark Era": Issue DEC 27, 1905

    Death at Hopetown, Saturday, Dec 24th, Jean Cumming, widow of the late Robert James, age 85 yrs. & 3 days.

    She was born in Glasgow,Scotland in 1820, & went with her parents to the United States when six years old.

    Three years later, they returned to settle in Canada. She married Robert James in 1845. Her husband died 12 years

    ago. They had a family of 13 children, all of whom survive; Robert & David, of Southwyn, Manitoba; Archibald, of

    Toronto; John L, of Lanark; William, Hopetown; George, Winnipeg; Mrs W H Graham, Dugald, Manitoba; Maggie &

    Mrs. Robert Kay, Central Falls, Rhode Island; Mrs W H Trenham,Utica, NY; Mrs. W H Baird, Dalhousie; Mrs. J G Lawson

    Middleville; & mrs John Paul, Watsons Corners. Burial in Hopetown Cemetery.

    Notes:

    Married:
    witnesses: Robert James and John Cumming

    Children:
    1. Robert James, of Southwyn MB was born on 8 May 1846 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 3 Apr 1915; was buried in Hopetown Cemetery, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
    2. Archibald James, of Toronto ON was born in 1847 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; and died.
    3. Ellen James was born in 1848 in Ontario, Canada; and died.
    4. Margaret James, of Central Falls RI was born in 1851 in Ontario, Canada; and died.
    5. Mary James was born in 1854 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; and died.
    6. Elisabeth James was born in 1854 in Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died in 1936; was buried in Hopetown Cemetery, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
    7. Jane "Jennie" James, of Middleville was born in 1857 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died in 1930; was buried in Hopetown Cemetery, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
    8. Catherine James was born in 1858; and died.
    9. David James, of Southwyn MB was born in 1861 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; and died.
    10. John L. James, of Lanark ON was born in 1863; and died.
    11. William James, of Hopetown ON was born on 3 Aug 1863 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 30 Oct 1944; was buried in Prestonvale Cemetery, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
    12. Jessie Ann James was born in 1867 in Watson's Corners, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died in 1954; was buried in Hopetown Cemetery, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
    13. 1. George James, of Winnipeg was born in 1869 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; and died.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Robert A. James was born in 1786; died in 1854.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Occupation: tailor
    • _UID: A0226BE36C9A45ABB7D882BC5C1ACAA4B710
    • Immigration: 1820; from Cambuslang, on Commerce, Coverdale, Master,

    Robert married Margaret Niblo on 25 May 1806 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Margaret was born in 1788 in Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Margaret Niblo was born in 1788 in Scotland; and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • _UID: 93876C2112A84F4B809462A514A638BEC678
    • Immigration-Witness: 1820; from Cambuslang, on Commerce, Coverdale, Master,

    Notes:

    Christened:
    NIBLO
    AGNES
    JOHN NIBLO/MARGARET MCCULLOCH FR112 (FR112)
    F
    05/05/1787
    899/
    10 135
    Stranraer

    Immigration-Witness:
    Role: Witness

    Notes:

    Married:
    JAMES
    ROBERT
    MARGARET NIBLO/FR3113 (FR3113)
    25/05/1806
    644/1
    280 44
    Glasgow

    Children:
    1. Johanna James
    2. Elizabeth James was born in 1810 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died about 1848 in Kitley Twp, Leeds & Grenville County, Ontario, Canada.
    3. Margaret James was born on 16 Apr 1814 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died in 1898.
    4. Catherine James was born in 1816; and died.
    5. William James was born in 1817; and died.
    6. John James was born in 1820; and died.
    7. 2. Robert James was born in 1823 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 3 Mar 1893 in Hopetown, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
    8. Jane James was born in 1827 in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; and died.

  3. 6.  Archibald Cumming was born in 1785 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 30 Nov 1785 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (son of Archbald Cumming and Margaret Johnston); died on 23 Mar 1871 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FamilySearch ID: MF6K-QC7
    • _UID: 7546A8F21F57434BB6F6E4D2F40650F3F8A7
    • Occupation: 1820, Scotland; labourer
    • Residence: 1820, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Concession 4 Lot 15 West
    • Immigration: 5 Aug 1820, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; on Commerce, N. Cloverdale, Master; Bridgeton Canadian Emigration Society
    • Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Census: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Residence: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Stone House

    Notes:

    (Research):Name:?tab?Archibd. Cumming
    Age:?tab?35
    Birth Year:?tab?abt 1785
    Arrival Year:?tab?1820
    Arrival Place:?tab?Quebec, Canada
    Primary Immigrant:?tab?Cumming, Archibd
    Source Publication Code:?tab?1640.16
    Annotation:?tab?Date and place of petition for indulgence of passage or date of emigration with intended destination. Includes passengers on board the Commerce, 1820, from Greenock, Scotland, to Quebec, Canada. Also provides occupation, former residence, and county. Extr
    Source Bibliography:?tab?DODS, CONSTANCE E. "A Selection of Lists from British Military Records, Series 'C' (Vol. 625)." In Families: Ontario Genealogical Society, vol. 25:2 (May 1986), pp. 95-104.

    Birth:
    also alt:
    Name:?tab?Archibald Cuming
    Gender:?tab?Male
    Birth Date:?tab?30 Nov 1785
    Birth Place:?tab?Glasgow,Lanark,Scotland
    Father:?tab?Archibald Cuming
    Mother:?tab?Margaret Johnston
    FHL Film Number:?tab?1041382, 0102913, 1041382, 0908248

    Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

    Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

    Christened:
    CUMING
    ARCHIBALD
    ARCHIBALD CUMING/MARGARET JOHNSTON FR1360 (FR1360)
    M
    30/11/1785
    644/1
    170 431
    Glasgow

    FamilySearch ID:
    https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MF6K-QC7

    Residence:
    c. Bennett: Con 3 Lot15

    Col Marshall's 1834 Report
    Here with family; better lot; some clay land; cold

    Another Archibald Cumming settled on Lanark Con 5 Lot 20 in 1820; lot is vacant; Cumming died in the USA; lot worthless

    A third Archibald Cumming arrived in 1821; settled on Con 4 L15W; 100 acres (seems to be still there)

    Immigration:
    sailed from Greenock 21 Jun with 402 settlers

    Census-Household Member:
    Role: Household Member


    Census-Household Member:
    Role: Household Member

    Archibald married Helen "Ellen" Hay on 20 Jun 1817 in Abbey Parish, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Helen (daughter of James Hay and Jean Hood) was born in 1786 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 27 Jan 1786 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died about 1857 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Helen "Ellen" Hay was born in 1786 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 27 Jan 1786 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (daughter of James Hay and Jean Hood); died about 1857 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • _UID: B9B5A593832F431F8D1CF39961D6AB946551
    • Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

    Notes:

    Christened:
    HAY
    HELEN
    JAMES HAY/JEAN HOOD FR1367 (FR1367)
    F
    27/01/1786
    644/1
    170 441
    Glasgow

    Census-Household Member:
    Role: Household Member

    Notes:

    Married:
    CUMMING
    ARCHBALD
    HELEN KAY/EASTWOOD FR1732 (FR1732)
    20/06/1817
    559/
    40 642
    Abbey

    First name(s)?tab?Archbald
    Last name?tab?Cumming
    Marriage year?tab?1817
    Marriage date?tab?20 Jun 1817
    Marriage place?tab?Abbey Paisley,Renfrew,Scotland
    Spouse's first name(s)?tab?Helen Kay
    Spouse's last name?tab?Eastwood
    Place?tab?Abbey Paisley
    County?tab?Renfrewshire
    Country?tab?Scotland
    Record set?tab?Scotland Marriages 1561-1910
    Category?tab?Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
    Subcategory?tab?Parish Marriages
    Collections from?tab?Scotland, United Kingdom
    Index (c) IRI. Used by permission of FamilySearch Intl

    Children:
    1. David Cumming was born in 1818; and died.
    2. 3. Jane "Jean" Cumming was born in 1820 in Eastwood Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 17 Dec 1820 in Eastwood Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 24 Dec 1905 in Hopetown, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
    3. Elizabeth Cumming was born on 20 Jul 1829 in New York, United States; died on 9 Dec 1904 in New Haven Twp, Gratiot County, Michigan, United States; was buried in New Haven Township Cemetery, New Haven Center, Gratiot County, Michigan, United States.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Archbald Cumming

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • _UID: 2F26CB24A6B64F53A235850BC43479A4BECD

    Archbald married Margaret Johnston on 1 Nov 1780 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Johnston and Margaret Christie) was born in 1757 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 10 Aug 1757 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 13.  Margaret Johnston was born in 1757 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 10 Aug 1757 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (daughter of Thomas Johnston and Margaret Christie); and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • _UID: 9139891E78054D668128ABD384D7A508D002

    Notes:

    Christened:
    JOHNSTON
    MARGARET
    THOMAS JOHNSTON/MARGARET CHRISTIE FR292 (FR292)
    F
    10/08/1757
    644/1
    130 41
    Glasgow

    Children:
    1. Jean Cumming was born in 1781 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 5 Sep 1781 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.
    2. Janet Cumming was born in 1784 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 22 Nov 1784 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.
    3. 6. Archibald Cumming was born in 1785 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 30 Nov 1785 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 23 Mar 1871 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
    4. William Cumming was born in 1790 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 27 Feb 1790 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.
    5. Margaret Cumming was born in 1793 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 16 Jan 1793 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.
    6. Jean Cumming was born in 1794 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 14 Mar 1794 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.
    7. Margaret Cumming was born in 1794 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 16 Mar 1794 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.
    8. Margaret Cumming was born in 1795 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 20 Jun 1795 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.

  3. 14.  James Hay

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • _UID: 1DBDDBD5503F487786A95639E04464B5D3DB

    James married Jean Hood. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 15.  Jean Hood

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • _UID: BF12ED03A10E40728BF2D1C47E480C8C92E7

    Children:
    1. William Hay was born in 1767 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 3 Dec 1767 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.
    2. James Hay was born in 1769 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 22 Sep 1769 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.
    3. John Hay was born in 1772 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 1 Jan 1772 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.
    4. Jonathan Hay was born in 1773 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 13 Feb 1773 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.
    5. John Hay was born in 1775 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 11 Feb 1775 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.
    6. Janet Hay was born in 1777 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 16 May 1777 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died.
    7. 7. Helen "Ellen" Hay was born in 1786 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 27 Jan 1786 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died about 1857 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.



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