Helen Amelia Brown

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• _UID: DE45C594FB89421C82D8AB402E7C829E6D74

Helen married Arthur Morris Stewart on 4 Jan 1883 in Crookston, Polk County, Minnesota, United States. Arthur (son of Uziel Stewart and Helen M. Brown) was born on 30 Aug 1858; died on 2 Feb 1894. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Aura Maude Stewart was born on 10 Oct 1883; died on 1 Jun 1961.
2. Fred Stewart was born on 16 Jun 1885; died on 2 Sep 1847.
3. Ruth Stewart was born on 18 Nov 1887; died in 1941 in Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, United States.
4. Carleton M. Stewart, Sr. was born on 17 Nov 1891; died on 24 Dec 1962.
5. Arthur Stewart was born on 20 Aug 1893; died on 12 Apr 1975.

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• _UID: C4A38B5E04F5471887D6FCCF1FCE8781C5FC
• Travel - Arrival: 1848, Rygate, Maine, United States

Notes:

Travel - Arrival:
In 1848, when 18, went to US with cousin Peter who went on to Australia. John worked at Rygate, Maine, then spent two years in Canada, then to Andover, Massachusetts.
In1852 to the California Gold Rush, saving $1000, went back to Andover and then on to Perth where he worked for sister Mary's husband Henry Leckie.
In 1860, John and his wife Isabella Ritchie moved to Glasgow, Minnesota.

John married Isabella Ritchie on 22 Mar 1857. Isabella (daughter of William M. Ritchie and Isobel Pollock) was born on 15 Jan 1838; died on 16 Jan 1876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 3F01572B204646A9B2234F92D89ACE68758A
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: Bef 1857, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Worked in Mary Brown's millinery shop

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

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• _UID: 4453A7ADA53C4A288FF67509C10BE6FEF1B0

James married Amelia Tate. Amelia (daughter of Tate) died in 1863 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 6FB265E06EF74CEBB4DF6AE0F9CE6E142817

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 45435250
• Location: Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Concession 1
• _UID: 8C6936825145435083F36CB59B05F5A3A57C
• Religion: 25 Dec 1842, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; joined Perth Baptist Church
• Census: 1851, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1861, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Religion: 26 Mar 1865, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Suspended for marriage with Mrs. Campbell. Perth Baptist Church
• Religion: 18 Oct 1868, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Reinstated to Perth Baptist Church

Notes:

(Research):?i?Ships List 1816-1820; National Archives of Canada MG9, D8-27, Vol. 1, Microfilm Reel #C-4651 prepared by Christine Spencer
?/i?William Ritchie, Brig Victtoria under Captain William Bowness, sailed 5 Jun 1819 from Belfast Ireland, arriving Quebec 17 July 1819, 273 settlers. William settled 1819, Drummond C11 NE14.

Christened:
First name(s)?tab?William
Last name?tab?Ritchie
Gender?tab?Male
Birth year?tab?1805
Birth place?tab?-
Baptism year?tab?1805
Baptism date?tab?04 Aug 1805
Baptism place?tab?FINTRY, STIRLING, SCOTLAND
Father's first name(s)?tab?John
Father's last name?tab?Ritchie
Mother's first name(s)?tab?Janet
Mother's last name?tab?Luke
Residence?tab?Fintry, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Place?tab?Fintry
County?tab?Stirlingshire
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



FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45435250

William married Isobel Pollock on 22 Mar 1837 in Ontario, Canada. Isobel (daughter of James Pollock and Isobel Sinclair) was born in 1808 in Neilston Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland; was christened on 2 Oct 1808 in Neilston Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 15 Jan 1838 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Isabella Pollock
• _UID: 54212A26087F4640806E01CB717A5FA379CC
• Immigration-Witness: 1821, Ramsay Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; from Renfrewshire Scotland with Springbank Emigration Society on David of London, David Ruthven president, with wife and four children
• Location-Witness: 1821, Ramsay Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Cocession 7 Lo19E

Notes:

(Research):Isabella or Margaret?

Christened:
POLLOCK
ISOBEL
JAMES POLLOCK/ISOBEL SINCLAIR FR510 (FR510)
F
02/10/1808
572/
20 317
Neilston

Name: Isobel Pollock
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 2 Oct 1808
Event Place: Neilston, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Event Place (Original): Neilston, Renfrew, Scotland
Gender: Female
Father's Name: James Pollock
Mother's Name: Isobel Sinclair

Other information in the record of Isobel Pollock
Name: Isobel Pollock
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 2 Oct 1808
Event Place: Neilston, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Event Place (Original): Neilston, Renfrew, Scotland
Gender: Female
Father's Name: James Pollock
Mother's Name: Isobel Sinclair

GS Film Number: 1041281
Digital Folder Number: 7
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C11572-4
System Origin: ODM

Citing this Record
"Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQW5-PW1 : 11 February 2020), Isobel Sinclair in entry for Isobel Pollock, 1808.


Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness
children

Location-Witness:
Role: Witness

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: C81FE1D2DCEC440EB85630C3B30BB4486F89

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: B7E4FFD3A65445DE9AA9C70BF44E1A2E29C5

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

Died:
church records

Notes:

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 2C4D50CD1AB7400EA29687C68DCCBE7FD0E4
• Census: 1851, Nepean Twp, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Census:
Name: James Pollock
Event Date: 1851
Event Place: Nepean, Carleton County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada
Province: Canada West (Ontario)
Sub-District: Nepean
Sub-District Number: 31
District: Carleton County
District Number: 4
Residence Place: Nepean, Carleton County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada
Gender: Male
Gender: Male
Age: 81
Age: 81
Birth Date: 1770
Birth Year (Estimated): 1770
Birthplace: Scotland
Affiliate Film Number: C_11716
Affiliate Image Identifier: e094-e002345245

Page: 15
Line Number: 17

Citing this Record
"Canada Census, 1851," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWR1-79F : 3 August 2016), James Pollock, Nepean, Carleton County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada; citing p. 15, line 17; Library and Archives Canada film number C_11716, Public Archives, Ontario.

James married Isobel Sinclair on 8 Jan 1797 in Middle Church, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Isobel was born in 1777 in Paisley Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: EC9C98A847D94B41862502C9BCB4D1FC2770

Notes:

Married:
First name(s)?tab?Isobell
Last name?tab?Sinclair
Marriage year?tab?1797
Marriage date?tab?08 Jan 1797
Marriage place?tab?Middle Church,Paisley,Renfrew,Scotland
Spouse's first name(s)?tab?James
Spouse's last name?tab?Pollock
Place?tab?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