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- List of immigrants indebted to His Majesty's Government 24 Oct, 1829
Robert Mason is listed on Lanark Con 2 L 9W
1834 Rankins Report Lanark Twp Con2 Lot 9W
His farm is described as a small clearing, broken, stoney, rocky. Robert Mason teacher in school in Lanark.
1836 Petition by Lanark Society Settlers
Robert Mason, Lanark C2 L9E
1861 Personal Census, Township of Lanark, Canada West, District 19, Film# C1042
Robert Mason, Yeoman, C of S., b. Scotland, Age nb 80
Jane Mason, C of S., b. Scotland, Age nb 50
Describe by C. McPherson as 'first militant Presbyterian Church elder along with Robert Affleck Sr.
- (Research):Notes From Robert Mason's Early Records
Wrote a letter to James Gourley and one to James Mason dated 29 Aug 1821 and 11 Dec 1821
Robert Mason's wach was made by George Edward, London, numbered 26426
Taught school from 1821 - 24 dec 1849
Robert Mason, Cambuslang, Canning, 1821, Lanark Con 2 Lot 9, later Lanark Village
wife Helen Gourlie, married 1808, died 1844.
Children James 1809-1810, Jean 1810-1812, Elisabeth m. Thomas Miller. d. 1850, John 1813, Helen 1816-1891 m. George Miller, James 1820, 1823 Robertson m. Sarah Ann McDonald, 1825 Jean (Janet) may have died in 1848, 1827 Margaret m. Peter Miller.
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William Gourlie (Gourley) (5 people) (Con 8 Lot 19) was also part of the Cambuslang Society, weaver.
wife Elizabeth, 2 sons
One son George m. Christina Hall, Lanark, 1844, children William 1845, Christina 1847, Francis Hall, 1849, died 9 mos. and Mary Jane Johnston, circa 1850, moved to Wilberforce Township, Eaganville area, Renfrew, tanner, farmer, Jane Robson 1851 m. Robertson Reeves, George J. m. Margaret Reid of Gratton, 5 children, harness maker, Elizabeth 1856, James 1860 married Mary Acton, Town Councillor, later went to Winnipeg & John Clark 1863, 8+ children, merchants and undertakers, Esther 1862 m. J. D. McNab, Mary Victoria 1866 m. ? McIntyre from Mink Lake, Dr. Thomas A. m Isabel Halliday, 7 children, practiced in Killaloe, wnet ot Cayuga where his cousin George Reeves was living, Edwin Adam 1870, d 1882, Alexander, b?, m. Mary Christina Anderson in 1896.
Second son may have been William, married to Jane. Appears in Mississippi Methodist circuit, son Thomas G. b 1832, bap. Rev. Anson Green, Carleton Place; Philander Smith G. This family not in the 1842 or 1851 Census for Beckwith but may have been in Ramsay (census missing). Gourlays from County Tyrone, Ireland in Carleton County
and a daughter under 12 years in 1821.
William appears to have gone to the USA circa 1824, probably to work on a canal but returned to Canada and went to Elizabethtown (Brockville). He died there circa 1830. Elizabeth Gourlie married John Sproule in 1834 and they had two children.
1861 Personal Census, Township of Lanark, Canada West, District 19, Film# C1042
Robert Mason, Yeoman, C of S., b. Scotland, Age nb 80
Jane Mason, C of S., b. Scotland, Age nb 50
Robert Mason, Cambuslang, Canning, 1821, Lanark Con 2 Lot 9, later Lanark Village
wife Helen Gourlie, married 1808, died 1844.
Children James 1809-1810, Jean 1810-1812, Elisabeth m. Thomas Miller. d. 1850, John 1813, Helen 1816-1891 m. George Miller, James 1820, 1823 Robertson m. Sarah Ann McDonald, 1825 Jean (Janet) may have died in 1848, 1827, Margaret m. Peter Miller.
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William Gourlie (Gourley) (5 people) (Con 8 Lot 19) was also part of the Cambuslang Society, weaver.
wife Elizabeth, 2 sons
One son George m. Christina Hall, Lanark, 1844, children William 1845, Christina 1847, Francis Hall, 1849, died 9 mos. and Mary Jane Johnston, circa 1850, moved to Wilberforce Township, Eaganville area, Renfrew, tanner, farmer, Jane Robson 1851 m. Robertson Reeves, George J. m. Margaret Reid of Gratton, 5 children, harness maker, Elizabeth 1856, James 1860 married Mary Acton, Town Councillor, later went to Winnipeg & John Clark 1863, 8+ children, merchants and undertakers, Esther 1862 m. J. D. McNab, Mary Victoria 1866 m. ? McIntyre from Mink Lake, Dr. Thomas A. m Isabel Halliday, 7 children, practiced in Killaloe, wnet ot Cayuga where his cousin George Reeves was living, Edwin Adam 1870, d 1882, Alexander, b?, m. Mary Christina Anderson in 1896.
Second son may have been William, married to Jane. Appears in Mississippi Methodist circuit, son Thomas G. b 1832, bap. Rev. Anson Green, Carleton Place; Philander Smith G. This family not in the 1842 or 1851 Census for Beckwith but may have been in Ramsay (census missing). Gourlays from County Tyrone, Ireland in Carleton County
and a daughter under 12 years in 1821.
William appears to have gone to the USA circa 1824, probably to work on a canal but returned to Canada and went to Elizabethtown (Brockville). He died there circa 1830. Elizabeth Gourlie married John Sproule in 1834 and they had two children.
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