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- Andrew Wallace - Prompt, posted 6 Sep 2011 by miskoka
Lanark County, in Upper Canada was first opened to settlement following the conclusion of the 1812 - 1814 war between Canada and the United States. Fearing that invasion from the south could take place again, the British government had decided to establish a number of military settlements in Upper Canada. This began about 1816. Later the settlement was opened to civilians, and it was then that the Lanark settlers began to make their plans to come.
The agreement with the settlers was that each head of the family (or male who was 19 or older) would receive 100 acres of land and a bonus (which was really a loan) of ten pounds sterling for each person in the family. The government would withhold two pounds per head in return for conveying the settlers to their destination. They would also receive tools and rations for the first year. On repayment of the loan, within ten years, the head of the family was to be given the deed to his farm. Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General of Canada, had made arrangements for the immigrants to settle in the townships of Dalhousie, Lanark and Ramsay in Lanark County.
And so, in 1820, Andrew, his wife, and most of their family left their home in the vicinity of Dumbarton, Scotland as Lanark Society Settlers, with the Anderston & Rutherglen Society, to became immigrants in Canada.
They sailed from Greenock in an old battleship, PROMPT, that had been sunk in the Napoleonic wars and later raised and used as a transport for immigrants. Storms and adverse winds made the voyage a tedious one of several weeks duration. There were 370 settlers on board the PROMPT which was under the command of Captain Joseph Nairn. There were several deaths among the settlers on board but, as well, babies were born. One child born during this voyage was a baby girl born to Janet Girdwood and her husband James Watson. The ships captain was given the honour of naming the baby and he decided she should be called after his mother, Grace. Thus the baby girl was named Grace Nairn Watson.
Alexander Callander, his wife Agnes Stirling and their family were immigrants on the same vessel and they too settled in Dalhousie Township on land just south of that taken by Andrew Wallace. James Muir, his wife Susan McMillan and their eight children, as members of the Lesmahagow Emigration Society were also on board. This later became the Pettapiece connection.
The ship PROMPT reached Quebec on September 4, 1820, a voyage of two months. The settlers went by steam ship to Montreal and then to Lachine. From there, they went to Prescott in Upper Canada in flat bottom boats (bateaux), a journey of about a week. From hence they trekked overland north for five days by wagon, over extremely poor trails, to the town of Perth.
The travellers saw primitive huts along the way which housed earlier settlers, little knowing that their homes would be the same. They were hard hit by mosquitoes and other insects unknown to them in Scotland, which caused additional hardship.
The settlers stayed at Perth until the end of September (some say October) when the government paid an installment of one-third of their bonus money. From Perth, the settlers travelled about twelve miles north, over an almost impassable road, crossing the Mississippi River on scows, to Lanark village where Colonel William Marshall, as Superintendant, had established a depot for the settlers.
The townships were each ten miles square with twelve concessions each, having twenty-seven lots of two hundred acres each. Each head of the family chose, by lot, the 100 acre farm that was to be their home and, since the concessions were marked with a stake driven into the ground, the settlers had to hire a guide to locate their lots.
Andrew Wallace settled on West Lot 19, Concession 1, Dalhousie Twp. They reached their new home late in December. The first shelters usually were meant to be only temporary as time was short before winter set in. They were erected quickly of logs, about twelve to sixteen feet square, and built "shanty-style" - that is the front wall of the house was built two or three feet higher than the back to allow a slope for the roof. The cracks between the logs of the walls were filled with a mixture of sticks, moss and clay, which over time became very hard. The first windows were usually square holes closed by a shutter at night or during inclement weather. The first chimneys were built on the outside, probably to render them safer from fire. The chimney contained the fireplace which was the only source of heating and cooking.
For 17 or 18 years these families remained in that district overcoming obstacles common in Canadian pioneering. When the forest was cleared away the soil was found to be rocky and not the best for farming. The petition of 1825 concerning the poor quality of the land was presented time after time by the settlers and finally Sir John Colbourne, Governor of Upper Canada, commissioned Col. MacMillan, now superintendant of Lanark, to make a full inventory of the lands in question. On December 31, 1834, in his report, he stated that most of the lands were unproductive, including:
James Muir. Here with family. Mostly rock and broken.
William Muir. Mr. and Mrs. and family here. Very broken, rocky, spots of good.
James Watson. Here with family. Lot worthless.
James Brooks. Brooks dead. Widow lives here. Broken, rocky lot.
Andrew Wallace. Here with family. Lot rough and rocky.
The Wallace and Callander families left Dalhousie for North Gower Township in Carleton County. Here the Wallace's settled on Lots 18 & 19, 3rd Concession, North Gower Twp. Part of this was Clergy Reserve land, for which they had to wait for some years before obtaining their title Deeds.
Andrew Wallace died at the home of his youngest son, Wm. Wallace about 1844. His remains were interred in Kars Presbyterian Cemetery, North Gower Township. His wife continued to live with her son Wm., who later moved to Perth County. She died on January 2nd, 1872 and her remains were interred in Royes Cemetery in the vicinity of Cromarty.
Children of ANDREW WALLACE and ELLEN FULTON are:
i. JEAN2 WALLACE, b. January 07, 1802, Scotland; d. June 26, 1892, North Gower Twp., Carleton Co., Ontario.
ii. ROBERT WALLACE, b. Abt. 1803, Scotland; d. July 02, 1830, Dalhousie Twp., Lanark Co., Ontario.
iii. JAMES WALLACE, b. Abt. 1804, Scotland; d. April 1850, North Gower Twp., Carleton Co., Ontario.
iv. HUGH WALLACE, b. 1808, Scotland; d. April 07, 1844, North Gower Twp., Carleton Co., Ontario.
v. JOHN WALLACE, b. 1810, Scotland; d. January 19, 1873, North Gower Twp., Carleton Co., Ontario.
vi. ANDREW WALLACE, b. Abt. 1812, Scotland; d. Abt. 1832, Dalhousie Twp., Lanark Co., Ontario. Notes for ANDREW WALLACE: Killed in young manhood while felling a tree while he was engaged in clearing the land. His remains were laid in the same plot as his brother Robert in Dalhousie.
vii. MARGARET WALLACE, b. 1814, Scotland; d. 1857, North Gower Twp., Carleton Co., Ontario.
viii. HELEN"ELLEN" WALLACE, b. May 25, 1817, Rutherglen, Scotland; d. 1863, Australia.
ix. DAVID WALLACE, b. December 05, 1819, Rutherglen, Scotland.
x. JANET WALLACE, b. March 06, 1822, Dalhousie Twp., Lanark Co., Ontario.
xi. WILLIAM WALLACE, b. 1825, Dalhousie Twp., Lanark Co., Ontario; d. 1904.
- (Research):Andrew Wallace & Ellen Fulton, posted 22 May 2014 by Liz Richardsen
Andrew Wallace (died about 1844) and his wife Ellen Fulton (1785-1872) were natives of Scotland. About 1820, with their family of 3 children, they left their home in the vicinity of Dumbarton, Scotland, (Stirling??) as emigrants for Canada.
They trekked down to Glasglow but due to bad weather, they had to wait for a boat. They made camp on the river bank of Greenock. During the wait, the youngest child died and they buried him ont he banks of the river. They sailed from Greenock in an old battle ship that had been sunk, it was said, during the Napoleonic Wars and later raised and used as a transport for emigrants. Storms and adverse winds made the voyage a tedious one of several weeks duration. Ellen Fulton was pregnant and due to those rough seas, lost the baby.
They left this vessel at Quebec (instead of Montreal, again due to poor weather) and came up the St. Lawrence River in batteaux, as far as Prescott. From hence they trekked overland to Perth and into Dalhousie Township, Lanark County, where they settled on land bought from the Government. The family reached this their new home late in December.
Andrew Wallace died at the home of his youngest son, William Wallace, about 1844. His remains awere interred in the Presbyterian Cemetary at Kars, North Gower Township. His wife continued to reside with her son, William, who later moved to Perth County. She died January 2nd, 1872, and her remins were interred in Toy's Cemetary in the vicinity of Cromarty.
Taking Andrew Wallace and his wife Ellen Fulton as the first generation for this side of the family tree, their family is the second generation, and so far as known as follows:
1. Jean Wallace born January 7th, 1802; married Feb 5th, 1819 to James Brown, native of Rutherglen, Scotland; died June 6th, 1892. This couple did not come to Canada until 1829.
2. Robert Wallace married Elizabeth Callander. He was regarded as the strong man among the Wallace's but received injury lifting the key-stone for a chimney. He lived for a few years after this but never recovered his strength. He died probably around 1832 and his remains were buried in a plot on his father's farm in Dalhousie.
3. James Wallace (1804-1850) married Janet Graham. He came to North Gower with the other members of the family and settled on the east half of Lot 18, concession 3.
4. Hugh Wallace (1807-1844) married Isabella Callander. He settled on the west half of Lot 19, concession 3.
5. John Wallace (1810-1873) married first Jane Muir, second Margaret Tierney, third Mary Montgomery. He settled on the west half of Lot 18, concession 3, North Gower Township.
6. Andrew Wallace was killed in young manhood, by the branch of a tree falling on him while he was engaged in clearing the land. His remains were laid in the same plot as those of his brother, Robert.
7. Margaret Wallace (1814-1857) married William Callander. They too settled in North Gower Township coming about the same time as the Wallace family.
8. Ellen Wallace (1818-1863) married John Craig of Dalhousie. About 1852 John Craig went to Southern Australia and decided to settle there. In 1854 his wife and family joined him. Her descendants remained as settlers in Australia.
9.William Wallace (1825-1904) married Lilias I. Park. He settled on the east half of Lot 19, concession 3 North Gower Township. In the autumn of 1863 he sold this property to his nephew Robert S. Wallace and moved to the vicinity of Cromarty, Perth County and later he moved to Marquette, Michigan, USA.
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Abt 1780 - Abt 1844 (~ 64 years)
