David Arthur Mather

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• Name: Aurthur
• _UID: 7963A38E5BF441BA91FC4519078FDCA256FB

Family/Spouse: Mary E. Carnahan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lois Mather
2. Eileen Mather
3. Lorraine Mather

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• _UID: FE385A375FAD431B933842DCBEF2049D6BBE
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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Role: Household Member

George married Jessie Martha Anderson. Jessie was born about 1883; died on 25 Jun 1925. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Jessie Maude Anderson
• _UID: EF0C1398E7424DA79DFD77F370BA927E01DD

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 60371578
• _UID: 9BEFC912A601469BAEB4829BDD6A4E02035A
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: 29 Apr 1874, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter
• Census: 1881, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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Role: Household Member


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Role: Household Member


Died:
Death of Mr. David Mather.
Another gap has been made in the fast diminishing ranks of the old Middleville settlers. David Mather, aged 78 years, passed away to his long home Friday afternoon. He had not been well for years, and throughout the last three or four months had suffered almost continuously from a bad form of stomach trouble. Mr. David Mather was born on tha homestead at Middleville, but having a turn for carpentry followed that calling in his younger days. Two brothers, Robert and Matthew, of Bancroft, and one sister, Mrs. Wm. Somerville, are survivors of one of the best known and most respected families of the district. Mr. Mather married Isabella Gillies and two of a family George and Ida are left to mourn a devoted father. Deceased was a staunch supporter of the Reform party. In church matters he was Congregationalist. The funeral took place on Sunday at one o'clock to Middleville Congregational church and thence to cemetery.

The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada
05 Sep 1906, Wed ? Page 1

David married Isabella Gillies on 29 Apr 1874 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Isabella (daughter of George Gillies, Sr. and Mary Rodger) was born about 1844 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 3 Dec 1925 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Middleville, Lanark Highlands, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 60371735
• Name: Bella
• _UID: 2B175EF6A22A47C98B5BF0D1ED9E734A6130
• Census-Wife of Head: 1881, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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Census-Wife of Head:
Role: Wife of Head

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Married:
Name?tab?David Mather
Age?tab?39
Birth Year?tab?1835
Birth Place?tab?Lanark, Ontario
Marriage Date?tab?29/04/1874
Marriage Place?tab?Lanark Ontario Canada
Father?tab?John Marther
Mother?tab?Robina Lunam
Spouse?tab?Isabella Gillies

Name?tab?Isabella Gillies
Age?tab?29
Birth Year?tab?1845
Birth Place?tab?Lanark, Ontario
Marriage Date?tab?29/04/1874
Marriage Place?tab?Lanark Ontario Canada
Father?tab?George Gillies
Mother?tab?Mary Rudyer
Spouse?tab?David Mather

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• FamilySearch ID: LH6R-JS9
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 60369606
• _UID: 396E1AF7EF9A4833852641F52B92F452A083
• 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

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Native of Lauderdale, Scotland. Eldest son of John and Isobel.

John with wife and two daughters born in Scotland, came to Canada in 1820-22 on the ship Commerce as members of the Lanark Society Settlers. They landed in Quebec, traveled by river boat to Brockville, then overland to Perth where they drew lots for land allocations. In 1822, they settled at just south of Middleville, on W1/2 Lot 14 Concession 6 in Lanark Township, Lanark County.

John was a tradesman, a mason. He built both a stone house and a stone barn on the property and later worked with two other masons to build a new two story schoolhouse used from 1860s to 1970.
He was a member of the Masonic Lodge.

?u?From Introduction to Mather Genealogy?/u?
John Mather and Robena Lunan emigrated from Scotland as part ofthe Lanark Society
Settlers arOlmd 1820 -1822. They sailed on the ship "Commerce" which landed at
Quebec City and from there by riverboat on the St. Lawrence River to Brockville, from
Brockville overland to Perth which had been settled four years earlier in 1816 by
pensioners from the British army. Lots were drawn at Perth from where they went out
to the piece ofland allotted to them It is said they crossed the Clyde River on a log
near what is now Lanark village. John and Robena settled on 100 acres, the west half
of Lot 14, Concession 6, Lanark Township, Lanark County, which is just south ofthe
village of Middleville.
John and Robena were married in Oldhamstocks, East Lothian, Scotland, in November 1816. John was the oldest son of John Mather and his wife Isobel Gordon. Robena Lunan was the daughter ofThomas Lunan and his wife Margaret Ainslie ofBerwick County, Scotland. (John and Robena's tombstone in Middleville Greenwood Cemetery indicates they were natives ofLauderdale, Scotland.) They had two daughters born in Scotland who accompanied them to Canada, as well as seven additional children born in Canada for a family ofnine.
is said John actually settled on his farm in 1822 accompanied by two little girls. As his son John was born in 1822 it is probable that Robena stayed elsewhere until she had given birth.
John was a stone mason by trade and built a stone house and bam on his land and later helped two other stone masons build a new two-story stone school house, (8.S. No.6, Lanark -Middleville Public School) used from the 1860's to 1970. It is now a Museum in the village ofMiddleville.

?u?From Somerville-Mather Clan History 1947
?/u?John erected a stone house and stone barn on the property. The barn was destroyed by a cyclone and replaced by a wooden structure. This in turn was destroyed by fire in the spring of 1934, and a new barn erected in early summer. The house also suffered in a second cyclone that passed over the property and took a portion of the house in its wake. The other portion remains to mark the ancestral home of these sturdy pioneers.

Birth:
MATHER
JOHN
JOHN MATHER/ISOBEL GORDON FR349 (FR349)
M
22/03/1795
748/
20 203
Lauder

First name(s)?tab?John
Last name?tab?Mather
Gender?tab?Male
Birth year?tab?1795
Birth place?tab?-
Baptism year?tab?1795
Baptism date?tab?22 Mar 1795
Baptism place?tab?LAUDER, BERWICK, SCOTLAND
Father's first name(s)?tab?John
Father's last name?tab?Mather
Mother's first name(s)?tab?Isobel
Mother's last name?tab?Gordon
Residence?tab?Lauder, Berwickshire, Scotland
Place?tab?Lauder
County?tab?Berwickshire
Country?tab?Scotland
Record set?tab?Scotland Births & Baptisms 1564-1950
Category?tab?Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory?tab?Parish Baptisms
Collections from?tab?Scotland, United Kingdom
Index (c) IRI. Used by permission of FamilySearch Intl

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LH6R-JS9

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60369606

Died:
John Mather ( Mathers) married Robina Lunam on 18 Nov 1816 in Scotland.They had the following children:Mrs John(Jane)Blackburn 1819-1878,Mrs Quintin(Isabella)Peacock 1821-1902,John 1822-?,Mrs William(Agnes)Somerville 1829-1906,Mrs George(Christina)Aitkman 1827/1831-1898,Robert 1832-1922,David 1835-1905,Henry 1837-? & Mathew 1842-1909

John married Robena Lunham on 18 Nov 1816 in Oldhamstocks, East Lothian, Scotland. Robena (daughter of Thomas Lunham and Margaret Ainslie) was born in 1795 in Berwickshire, Scotland; died on 11 Jan 1873 in Middleville, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Middleville, Lanark Highlands, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LH21-F37
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 60370092
• Name: Robeana
• Name: Robena Lunam
• Name: Robena Lunan
• _UID: 4A17D2F2986344B3BFEAF15ADF4E9B936608
• Census-Wife of Head: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Wife of Head: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• alt Death: 11 Feb 1873; Bill Mather notes

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Native of Berwickshire, Scotland
Death also noted as 11 Feb 1873.

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https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LH21-F37

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60370092

Census-Wife of Head:
Role: Wife of Head


Census-Wife of Head:
Role: Wife of Head


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Role: Household Member


Died:
Robina Lunam was married to John Mather on 18 Nov 1816 in Scotland and they sailed to Qubec,Canada from Glasgow with their two oldest daughters.They had the following children Mrs John(Jane)Blackburn 1819-1878,Mrs Quinton(Isabella)Peacock 1821-1902,John 1822-?,Mrs William(Agnes) Somerville 1829- 1906,Mrs George(Chrisina)Aitkman 1827-1898,Robert 1832-1922,David 1835-1905,Henry 1837-? & Mathew 1842-1909.

Bill Mather gives death as 11 Feb 1873

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Married:
First name(s)?tab?John
Last name?tab?Mather
Marriage year?tab?1816
Marriage date?tab?18 Nov 1816
Marriage place?tab?Oldhamstocks,East Lothian,Scotland
Spouse's first name(s)?tab?Robinea
Spouse's last name?tab?Lunnam
Place?tab?Oldhamstocks
County?tab?Haddingtonshire (East Lothian)
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

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 210199738
• _UID: 7E4D34F50F6E463B8743910E013F335C2A25
• Immigration-Witness: 1821, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Unassisted settler; David of London

Notes:

John Gillies who took Senator Peter McLaren, married to Sophia Elizabeth Lees, into partnership.

Christened:
GILLIES
GEORGE
JAMES GILLIES/HELEN STARK FR1385 (FR1385)
M
20/11/1814
483
60 / 193
KILSYTH

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Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness

George married Mary Rodger in 1842. Mary (daughter of James Rodger and Isabella Lunam) was born on 13 Nov 1825 in Edinburgh Parish, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Scotland; died on 10 Mar 1888 in Braeside, McNab Township, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Middleville, Lanark Highlands, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 210199834
• _UID: 4CB3235F939F48A68EB5977571301459FE64

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