Helen Gourley

1785 - 1844  (59 years)

• Name	Helen Gourley
  Birth	1785	Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
  Christening	13 Mar 1785	Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland   [1]
  	GOURLY HELEN JOHN GOURLY/ F 13/03/1785 627 10 / 148 CAMBUSLANG
  Gender	Female
  FamilySearch ID	KK1B-9MM
  	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KK1B-9MM
  Immigration-Witness	13 Apr 1821	Canada   [2]
  	from Cambuslang Scotland on George Canning, sailing 13 April with wife, two sons and three daughters
  	Role: Witness Name:?tab?Robert Mason Marital status:?tab?woman age 35; male children ages 5 mo., 6.5; female children ages 5, 9, 10.5 Year of Record:?tab?1821 Comments:?tab?List of Combustang families admitted on the Government grant as settlers in Upper Canada on the ship 'George Canning' Reference:?tab?Transcribed from (film of) original documents held in the collection of the National Archives of Canada [Ottawa]: MG 11, Colonial Office 42, vol. 159, page 507, list 1.1 Source/Event:?tab?Lists of Scottish families admitted on the Government grant as settlers in Upper Canada on the Ship 'George Canning'. Glasgow, April 13, 1821; 11 lists dated April 13, 1821, signed by Robert Lamond, Sect. to the Committee on Emigration for Scotland. Mason, Robert Emigrated from Scotland, with his wife, two sons and three daughters, to Canada on the George Canning. Received a land grant in Lanark, Upper Canada, 4 Aug 1821. (POA)
  Immigration-Witness	13 Apr 1821	Canada   [2]
  	from Cambuslang Scotland on George Canning, sailing 13 April with wife, two sons and three daughters
  	Role: Witness Name:?tab?Robert Mason Marital status:?tab?woman age 35; male children ages 5 mo., 6.5; female children ages 5, 9, 10.5 Year of Record:?tab?1821 Comments:?tab?List of Combustang families admitted on the Government grant as settlers in Upper Canada on the ship 'George Canning' Reference:?tab?Transcribed from (film of) original documents held in the collection of the National Archives of Canada [Ottawa]: MG 11, Colonial Office 42, vol. 159, page 507, list 1.1 Source/Event:?tab?Lists of Scottish families admitted on the Government grant as settlers in Upper Canada on the Ship 'George Canning'. Glasgow, April 13, 1821; 11 lists dated April 13, 1821, signed by Robert Lamond, Sect. to the Committee on Emigration for Scotland. Mason, Robert Emigrated from Scotland, with his wife, two sons and three daughters, to Canada on the George Canning. Received a land grant in Lanark, Upper Canada, 4 Aug 1821. (POA)
  Name	Helen Gourlay
  Name	Helen Gourley
  _UID	8862795DD5E44C56A50CBB56C6CACF96D291
  Death	8 Apr 1844	Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Died At Lanark, on the 8th inst., Mrs. Helen Mason, wife of Mr. Robert Mason, Teacher, formerly of Cambrislang, near Glasgow, Scotland in the 60th year of her age. The Perth Courier, Perth, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, Tuesday, April 9, 1844, page 3.
  Notes	(Research):PRO CO 42/189/ ff 512/69 George Canning, Potter (Master), Greenock to Quebec, 14 April 1821 Cambuslang Society John Miller (4 people) William Gourley (5 peole) Glasgow Canadain James Miller (5 people) William Miller (7 people) Andrew Miller (1 person) Glasgow Sr. Wrights Andrew Blair (4 people) 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. & 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.
  Person ID	I1449	Lanark County Origins | This is my paternal Lineage, my 2 great grandmother's Lineage (paternal)
  Last Modified	26 May 2023

  
  

  Father	Living
  Family ID	F948	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	John Gourlie, Sr.,   b. Abt 1746, of Cambuslang, Lanark, Scotland d. 25 Apr 1813, Scotland (Age ~ 67 years)
  Mother	Jean Anderson,   b. Abt 1750, of Cambuslang, Lanark, Scotland d. 31 Aug 1827 (Age ~ 77 years)
  Marriage	9 Apr 1770	Glasgow (Cathcart), Glasgow City, Scotland
  Family ID	F479	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Robert Mason,   b. 1781, Cambuslang, Cambuslang Parish, South Lanark, Lanark, Scotland d. 1852, Lanark Highlands (Lanark), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	20 Nov 1808	Glasgow (Barony), Glasgow City, Scotland
  	MASON ROBERT HELEN GOURLAY/FR1890 (FR1890) 20/11/1808 622/ 70 317 Barony
  Marriage Banns	2 Dec 1808	Cambuslang, Cambuslang Parish, South Lanark, Lanark, Scotland   [4, 5]
  	MASON ROBERT HELEN GOURLAY/FR1890 (FR1890) 20/11/1808 622/ 70 317 Barony MASON ROBERT HELEN GOURLIE/FR185 (FR185) 02/12/1808 627/ 10 303 Cambuslang First name(s)     Helen Last name     Gourlie Marriage year     1808 Marriage date     02 Dec 1808 Marriage place     Cambuslang,Lanark,Scotland Spouse's first name(s)     Robert Spouse's last name     Mason Place     Cambuslang County     Lanarkshire Country     Scotland Record set     Scotland Marriages 1561-1910 Category     Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory     Parish Marriages Collections from     Scotland, United Kingdom Index (c) IRI. Used by permission of FamilySearch Intl
  Children	1. James Mason,   b. 24 Dec 1809, Old Monkland or Coatbridge Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 14 Sep 1810 (Age 0 years)   2. Jean "Jane" Mason,   b. 18 Dec 1810, Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 23 Jun 1896, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 85 years) + 3. Elizabeth Mason,   b. 24 Jan 1812, Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 11 Jan 1850, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 37 years)   4. John Mason,   b. 27 Oct 1813, Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown + 5. Helen "Ellen" Mason,   b. 18 Apr 1816, Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 4 Jul 1891, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 75 years)   6. James Mason,   b. 28 Jun 1820, Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 21 Dec 1847 (Age 27 years) + 7. Robertson Mason,   b. 25 Dec 1823, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 26 Mar 1901, Parry Sound, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada (Age 77 years) + 8. Janet Mason,   b. 29 Jul 1825   d. Aft 2 Aug 1852 (Age 27 years) + 9. Margaret Mason,   b. 2 Oct 1827, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. Bef 1881, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F474	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1785 - Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland Christening - 13 Mar 1785 - Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland Marriage - 20 Nov 1808 - Glasgow (Barony), Glasgow City, Scotland Marriage Banns - 2 Dec 1808 - Cambuslang, Cambuslang Parish, South Lanark, Lanark, Scotland Immigration-Witness - from Cambuslang Scotland on George Canning, sailing 13 April with wife, two sons and three daughters - 13 Apr 1821 - Canada Immigration-Witness - from Cambuslang Scotland on George Canning, sailing 13 April with wife, two sons and three daughters - 13 Apr 1821 - Canada Death - 8 Apr 1844 - Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S6] St. Andrews (Lanark, ON, CAN), Ontario, Index, Lanark County, St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Lanark, accessed 26 May 2023), Helen Gourliy; Cambuslang Parish, Lanarkshire. (Reliability: 3). [S681] BBC, England, BBC, History, British Civil Wars, Timeline, ((http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/civilwars_timeline_noflash.shtml : 2014)), accessed 10 Apr 2020), Robert Mason family; Original data: Records of Immigrants to Canada. (Reliability: 3). [S28] Ancestry.com, USA, Minnesota, Marriage Index, 1849-1950, ((ancestry.ca)), "Death," 16 Apr 1844. (Reliability: 3). At Lanark, 8th instance, Mrs. Helen Mason, wife of Mr. Robert Mason, teacher, formerly of Cambuslang, near Glasgow Scotland, in her 60th year. [S15] (Scotland), ScotlandsPeople, Banns & Marriages, OPR and other Churches, (National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon. ScotlandsPeople . /www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.), "Church registers - Old Parish Registers Banns and marriages," Robert Mason & Helen Gourlie marriage; accessed 2 Aug 2019 (Reliability: 3). [S48] Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910 (MH & FS), ((https://www.myheritage.com)), accessed 8 Aug 2019), Robert Mason & Helen Gourlie marriage; "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTYH-J4M : 10 February 2018), Robert Mason and Helen Gourlie, 02 Dec 1808; citing Cambuslang,Lanark,Scotland, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,042,966, 102,890. (Reliability: 3).