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AMBERY, John (Rev.), A. M. – Late Professor of Classics and
Logic in Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario – Died November 19,
1878 in London, England – He was a graduate of Brasenose
College, Oxford, England – (Obit.
78).
ANDERSON, David (The Right Rev.), D.D. - Bishop of Rupert's Land
(1849-64) – Born February 10, 1814 in London, England –
Died November 5, 1885 at Clifton Parsonage, Bristol, England –
He returned to England upon his resignation of his bishopric. –
(Obit. 85).
ANDERSON,
Geo. R. - Senior partner of the dry goods firm of Anderson, Billing &
Co., Halifax, Nova Scotia – Died in August, 1886 in London,
England – He was the eldest son of the late Hon. John H.
Anderson, senator. – (Obit.
86).
ANDERSON, Samuel (Major), C.M.G. (1877), R.E. – Inspector of
Submarine Defences, Eng., Surveyor on the North American Boundary
Commission – Born November 15, 1839 in London, England –
Died September 11, 1881 in Scotland – (Obit.
80-81).
ANDREWS, Henry Ogden, Q.C. (1867) – Died March 25, 1884 at
Leamington, England – He was called to the Bar of Lower Canada
in 1830. – (Obit.
84).
ARCHIBALD, Edward Mortimer, C.B. (1865), K.C.M.G. (1883) – Born
May 10, 1810 at Truro, Nova Scotia – Died February 8, 1884 at
Bristol, England – He studied law under his father, an eminent
Colonial jurist, and entered the British service as Registrar of the
Supreme Court of Newfoundland. – (Obit.
84).
BAKER, Godfrey Phipps – Postmaster of Ottawa – Born in
1822 at Shooter's Hill, Woolwich, England – Died March 16, 1882
at Ottawa, Ontario – (Obit.
82).
BARKER, Cephas (Rev.) – Born in 1818 at Chatham, England –
Died November 14, 1881, London, Ontario – Had been 44 years in
the service of the Bible Christian Church, labouring in England,
P.E.I. and Ontario. – (Obit.
80-81).
BARKER, Edward John – M.D., Registrar of the City of Kingston,
Ontario (1871) – Born December 31, 1799 in Islington, London,
England – Died April 27, 1884 at Pittsburgh, Ontario – He
emigrated to Kingston in 1832 – (Obit.
84).
BARLEE, Rev. George – Formerly Rector of East Chiltington,
Sussex, England – Died April 2, 1878. Peterboro', Ontario, aged
44 – (Obit. 78).
BARLOW, Robt. – Late chief draughtsman, Canadian Geological
Survey – Born February 18, 1813 at Margate, England –
Died February 17, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Canada
in 1854. Father of Mr. Scott Barlow, the present chief draughtsman of
the survey. – (Obit.
83).
BARRON,
Fredk. Wm., M.A. (1845) – Principal of Upper Canada College
(1843-56) – Born in 1806 in England – Died February 2,
1886 in Toronto, Ontario – He was of Irish Descent, the elder
branch of his family being said to be represented in the person of
Sir Hy. Winston Barron, of Wexford, Ireland. He sailed for Canada
about 1834. His only son, Mr. J. A. Barron, Barrister, is now M.P.
for North Victoria in the House of Commons. – (Obit.
86).
BAYFIELD,
Henry Wolsey (Admiral) – Born January 21, 1795 at Hull,
Yorkshire, England – Died February 10, 1885 at Charlottetown,
P.E.I – He was the scion of an ancient English family, of
Bayfield Hall, Norfolk. He resided for 14 years in the City of
Quebec, viz., form 1827 to 1841, when he removed to Charlottetown,
which continued to be his home until his death. He married in 1838
Fanny, only daughter of Gen. Chas. Wright. – (Obit.
85).
BECHER, Henry Corry Rowlet, Q.C. (1856) – Born in 1817 in
London, England – Died July 6, 1885 at Falmouth, England –
He came to Canada in 1835 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1841.
He was called to the Eng. Bar in 1882. – (Obit.
85).
BELL-SMITH, John – Painter – Born in 1810 in London,
England – Died December 30, 1883 in Toronto, Ontario –
Came to Canada in 1866. – (Obit.
83).
BENNETT, C. G. – An Englishman – Died March
5, 1885 in Montreal, Quebec aged 40 – Commits suicide in
Montreal in a fit of depression owing to being out of employment –
(JRO 85).
BENNETT, Preston – M.P.P. for Yale in the B.C. Assembly (1878)
– Born near London, England – Died August 11, 1882 at
Kamloops, British Columbia – Was an early immigrant to British
Columbia – (Obit.
82).
BENSON, W. Thos. – M.P. for South Grenville in House of Commons
(1882-5) – Born in 1828 at Parkside, Westmoreland, England –
Died June 8, 1885 at Cardinal, Ontario – (Obit.
85).
BETTRIDGE, Wm. (Rev.),
B.D. – Clergyman of the Church of England – Born August
30, 1791 in Warwickshire, England – Died November 21, 1879 at
Strathroy, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1834 – (Obit.
79).
BISHOP, Samuel L., M.D. –
Born in Dorsetshire, England – Died August, 1879, Bathurst, New
Brunswick. – (Obit. 79).
BLATCH,George – Registrar of Court of Vice-Admiralty, New
Brunswick (1867) – Born in 1808 in England – Died January
7, 1881 in St. John, New Brunswick – (Obit.
80-81).
BLINKHORN, Ann (Mrs.) - Native of Huntingdonshire, England –
Died August 29, 1883 at Victoria, British Columbia aged 80 –
Mrs. Blinkhorn, with her husband, since deceased, went to Victoria
about 50 years ago as the first white settlers on Vancouver Island,
independent of the H. B. Co.'s servants – (Obit.
84).
BORLASE, George Henry – Advocate – Born June 9, 1832 at
St. Keyne, Cornwall, England – Died August 6, 1883 at
Sherbrooke, Quebec – Drowned – Came to Canada in 1846. He
married the eldest daughter of the late Sir Edmund Cox, Bart. His
father was Rector at St. Keyne, Cornwall – (Obit.
83).
BOSWELL, Edward J.
(Rev.), D.C.L. – Clergyman of the Church of England –
Born in 1798 in England – Died August 26, 1879, Kingston,
Ontario – (Obit.
79).
BOSWELL, Wm. – M.A., M.D. – Born October 11, 1809 in
Dublin, Ireland – Died July 20, 1880, Norwood, London, England
– He took up his residence in Quebec in Nov., 1851, and there
continued to live up to within a short period of his death. –
(Obit. 80-81).
BOWELL, John – Born in England – Died October 16, 1883 at
Belleville, Ontario aged 84 – Father of the Hon. Mackenzie
Bowell, Minister of Customs – (Obit.
83).
BROWN, David M. (Lieut.), R. N. – Supt. of Lights, at Halifax,
N.S., Dept. of Marine & Fisheries – Born in Hampshire,
England – Died December 3, 1883 – Lost on board the
Dominion vessel Princess Louise, off Digby, Nova Scotia, in
the Bay of Fundy – (Obit.
83).
BROWN, Ebenezer – Late M.P.P. for New Westminster, B.C.
(1875-1882) – Born in England – Died June 5, 1883 at New
Westminster, British Columbia – He went to B.C. In 1859. –
(Obit. 83).
BURGIN, Mr. – a reputed English barrister –
Died January 19, 1878, L'Orignal, Ontario – Commits suicide
while laboring under temporary insanity – (JRO
78).
BURPEE,
Isaac (Hon.) – M.P. for St. John, N. B., in the House of
Commons, and long a prominent merchant in St. John – Born
November 28, 1825 at Sheffield, New Brunswick – Died March 1,
1885 in New York City, U.S.A. – He was descended from a
Huguenot family, that, driven out of France by religious persecution
about the year 1570, took refuge in England, and subsequently, in
1622 or thereabouts, emigrated to America, where they joined the
little colony of Puritans already formed at Massachusetts Bay. He
removed to St. John in 1848. – (Obit.
85).
BUTLAND, Richard Brooking – Philanthropist – Born July
13, 1831 at Plymouth, England – Died October 20, 1886 in
Toronto, Ontario – He was the youngest of a family of 3. He
came with his mother to Toronto at the age of 26. – (Obit.
86).
CAPREOL, Fredk. Chase – Businessman – Born
June 10, 1803 at Bishop Stoffard, Herefordshire, England – Died
October 12, 1886 in Toronto, Ontario, where he had resided since
1833. He first came to Canada in 1829 – (Obit.
86).
CARLISLE, Henry – Mayor of St. Catharines, Ont.
(1879-1881) – Born May 9, 1820 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England –
Died December 13, 1882 at St. Catharines, Ontario – (Obit.
82).
CARRIS,
Thos. – Born in Manchester, England – Died November 25,
1885 in Victoria, B.C. aged 102 – (DL
85).
CARTER, James (Hon. Sir), Kt. – Late Chief-Justice
of the Province of New Brunswick – Born in 1805 – Died
March 9, 1878 in England – He was the son of the late James
Carter, Esq., of Portsmouth, England. He married in 1852, Margaret
Spencer, daughter of the Venerable Archdeacon Coster, of New
Brunswick. She died in 1866. Sir James spent the latter part of his
life in England, at his seat Stratfield House, Mortimer, Berkshire –
(Obit. 78).
CHAPMAN, Henry Saml. (Hon.) – Late a Judge in New
Zealand – Born July 21, 1803 at Kennington, Surrey, England –
Died December 27, 1881, Dunedin, New Zealand – He came to
Canada in 1823. He returned in England several years later, and left
for the antipodes shortly after he was called to the English Bar in
1840. – (Obit. 80-81).
CHAPMAN, Wm. – Late Commr of the Trust and Loan
Co. of Canada – Died April 8, 1886 at Clifton, Bristol, England
– (Obit. 86).
CLAY, Edwin (Rev.) – M.D., Dominion Immigration Agent at
Halifax, Nova Scotia – Born in 1822 in Lincolnshire, England –
Died March 14, 1884 in Halifax, Nova Scotia – He came to P.E.I.
with his father, who was an army surgeon. He married a daughter of
the late Hon. H. G. Pineo, M.L.C. at Pugwash, Nova Scotia. –
(Obit. 84).
CLEMENT, Edwin (Rev., Methodist) – Born in 1819 in
England – Died April 4, 1885 at Parkdale, Toronto, Ontario –
(Obit. 85).
COCKBURN, James (Hon.), Q.C. (1863) – Speaker of
the House of Commons of Canada (1867-74) – Born February 13,
1819 at Berwick-on-Tweed, England – Died August 14, 1883 in
Ottawa, Ontario – Came to Canada early in life. – (Obit.
83).
COFFIN, William Foster (Lieutenant-Colonel) –
Commissioner of Ordnance and Admiralty Land for the Dominion –
Born November 5, 1808 at Bath, England – Died January 28, 1878,
Aux Ecluses, Ottawa, Ontario – He accompanied his father, a
Major in the army, to Quebec in 1813. He returned to England in 1815.
He returned to Canada in 1830. In a paper, read by him in 1872, he
says : 'My grandfather, my father and two uncles were all
present at Quebec during the siege.' He was married at Boston to one
of the two daughters of Deputy Commissary General Clarke, who was
nearly related to the late Lord Lyndhurst. The other daughter became
the wife of the Honorable Charles Richard Ogden, at one time
Attorney-General of Lower Canada. – (Obit.
78).
CORBETT, Augustus Patrick Myers (Surgeon Major) –
M.D., late Surgeon P.C.O. Rifle Brigade – Died March 25, 1880
at Gosport, England – He was the eldest son of the late Sheriff
Corbett, of Kingston, Ontario – (Obit.
80-81).
CORBY, Henry – ex-M.P.P for East Hastings in the Ont. Assembly
– Born at Hanwell, England – Died October 25, 1881,
Belleville, Ontario – (Obit.
80-81, see p. 402).
COSTER, N. Allan (Rev.) – Clergyman of the Church
of England – Born in 1798 at Newbury, Berkshire, England –
Died February 4, 1879, Richibucto, New Brunswick – (Obit.
79).
CRAMP, John Mockett (Rev.), D.D. – Baptist
clergyman – Born at St. Peters, Isle of Thanet, England –
Died December 6, 1881, Wolfville, Nova Scotia – He came to
Canada in 1844. – (Obit.
80-81).
CRAMP, Thomas – Head of the extensive firm of
David Torrance & son, and President of the Corn Exchange,
Montreal – Born in 1827 in London, England – Died
February 18, 1885 in Montreal, Quebec – He was the eldest son
of the late Rev. Dr. Cramp, of Acadia College, Nova Scotia, whom he
accompanied to Montreal about March, 1845. – (Obit.
85).
CREIGHTON, John (Hon.), Q.C. – President of the
Legislative Council of Nova Scotia – Born in 1794 in Nova
Scotia – Died March 16, 1878 at Lunenburgh, Nova Scotia –
Mr. Creighton's grandfather was the first named in the Lunenburg
grant; he came from Glastonbury, England, to Nova Scotia in 1749 –
(Obit. 78).
CROFT, Henry H., D.C.L. (1850), F.C.S. – Born in
1820 in England – Died March 1, 1883, San Diego, Texas –
Died at the residence of his son, Ranch les Hermanilas –
Came to Canada early in life –
(Obit. 83).
CROMPTON, Thos. (Rev., Meth.) – Born in 1817 at
Bury, Lancashire, England – Died April 24, 1886 at Hamilton,
Ontario – He came to Canada in 1854. – (Obit.
86).
CUDLIP, John W. – Inspector of Customs (1874) –
Died November 22, 1885 at St. John, New Brunswick – Died by
accident – He was of good English family, and the son of a
naval officer who served with distinction with Nelson at Trafalgar,
and was also present at the siege of Washington. – (Obit.
85).
CUMBERLAND, Fred. Wm. (Lieut. Col.), C.E. –
Managing Director of the Northern Railway Company of Canada –
Born April 10, 1821 in London, England – Died August 5, 1881 in
Toronto, Ontario – He came to Canada in September, 1847. A
memorial of Col. C., consisting of a bronze bust executed under
commission from the Northern Railway employees, was unveiled at
Allandale, Ontario, in December, 1881. – (Obit.
80-81).
DALY,
John Corry Wilson – a first pioneer of Stratford, Ontario –
Born March 24, 1796 in Liverpool, England – Died April 1, 1878,
Stratford, Ontario – He was thrice married, and had but two
children – by his firs wife – Mrs. A. B. Orr, born at
Cooperstown, New York, USA, and Mr. Thos. Mayne Daly, the well known
Canadian politician, (now Mayor of Stratford), born in Hamilton –
(Obit. 78).
DAVENPORT, Frances Georgina (Mrs.) (née Sewell) –
Died December 7, 1885 at Balham, England – Daughter of the late
Hon. Chief Justice Sewell, of Quebec, and widow of Major Trevor
Davenport, of the 1st Royals – (Obit.
85).
DAVIES, Judah Philip – Auctioneer and commission merchant –
Born in London, England – Died September 20, 1879, Victoria,
British Columbia aged 58 – Went to California in 1849, and to
B.C. in 1863 – (Obit.
79).
DAVISON, James – Manager of the Royal Canadian
Insurance Co. – Native of Bedford, England – Died
December 25, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec, aged 69 – (Obit.
83).
DAVISON, John (Rev., Primitive Methodist) – Born
November 23 1799 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England – Died March 1,
1884 in Toronto, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1847. –
(Obit. 84).
DAY, Charles Dewey (Hon.), LL.D., D.C.L. –
President and Chancellor of McGill University (Montreal, Quebec) –
Born about 1806 at Bennington, Vermont – Died January 31, 1884
in England – He was the son of the late Ithamer H. Day, Esq.,
and accompanied his father to Montreal in 1812. – (Obit.
84).
De SOLA, Alex. Abraham, – LL.D. (1858) (Jewish) –
Born September 18, 1827 in London, England – Died June 5, 1882
at New York – He came to Montreal in 1847, in response to a
call from the Portuguese Hebrew congregation of that city, the
incumbency of which he continued to hold until his death. His body
was brought to Montreal for burial. – (Obit.
82).
DICKENS, Francis Jeffrey – Late Sub-Inspector in the N. W.
Mounted Police (1874-86) – Born January 15, 1845 – Died
June 11, 1886 at Moline, Illinois, U.S.A. - He was the 2nd
son of the distinguished English novelist. – (Obit.
86).
DOANE, J. Homer – An old pioneer of B.C. – Born in 1812
at Barrington, Nova Scotia – Died December 15, 1882 in London,
England – Settled in British Columbia in 1858, having
previously lived in California. – (Obit.
83).
DOMVILLE, James Wm. (Lieut.-Genl.), Royal Artillery –
Born August 2, 1817 at Greenwich, England – Died November 19,
1883 Kingshurst, Rothesay, New Brunswick – Died at his son's
residence. He was of royal descent. He came to Canada in 1875 and
settled in New Brunswick – (Obit.
83).
DOYLE, Chas. Hastings, K.C.M.G. (1868) –
Lieut.-Governor of New Brunswick (1866-67; Lieut.-Governor of Nova
Scotia (1867-70) – Born in 1804 – Died in March, 1883 in
London, England – (Obit. 83).
DREW, Andrew (Admiral), R. N. – Flag officer on
reserved half pay – Born in 1792 – Died December 18, 1878
in England – (Obit. 78).
DUDGEON, Adam Black – Late mayor of Collingwood,
Ontario – Born June 10, 1824 at Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) –
Died August 28, 1886 at Collingwood, Ontario – He emigrated to
America about 1850. First lived at New York and Buffalo, N.Y.,
U.S.A., but removed to Collingwood about 1856. – (Obit.
86).
DUFF, Archibald (Rev.), D.D. (Congregational) –
Born April 23, 1810 in the Gallowgate, Aberdeen, Scotland –
Died November 10, 1883 at Putney, England – Died while on a
visit to England. He came to Canada in 1832, returned to Scotland in
1836, returned to Canada in 1856 and settled in Sherbrooke, Quebec. –
(Obit. 83).
DUMBRILLE,
Elizabeth (Mrs.) – Born in England – Died August 23, 1884
in Toronto, Ontario aged 99 – (DL
84).
DUNKIN, Christopher (Hon.),
D.C.L. – Puisné Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec –
Born in 1812 in London, England – Died January 6, 1881,
Lakeside, Knowlton, Quebec – He came to Canada when young. –
(Obit. 80-81).
DUNSFORD, James Wicks – ex-M.P.P. for (the County
of) Victoria (Ontario) in Can. Assembly, 1861-67 – Born 1814 in
England – (Died in 1882) – Came to Canada in 1837 –
(Obit. 82).
DUTTON, Joseph E. – Commander of the Allan Line
steamship Sardinian – Born in 1828 in Liverpool, England
– Died July 6, 1884 in Montreal, Quebec – When a boy ran
away to sea. – (Obit. 84).
DYDE, John (Col.) C.M.G. (1875), A.D.C. to the Queen
(1879) – Born March 24, 1796 at Altona, Schleswig-Holstein,
Prussia (today in Germany) – Died March 5, 1886 in Montreal,
Quebec – Died suddenly – He was the son of the late Robt
Dyde, Esq., merchant, of London, who came to Canada in 1813. –
(Obit. 86).
ELLIOTT, Adam (Rev.) – Missionary of the Anglican
Church to the Six Nation Indians, Ontario – Born in 1802 in
England – Died June 4, 1878, Tuscarora Parsonage, Grand River
Reserve, Ontario – (Obit.
78).
ELLIOTT, John (Rev., Meth.) – Born October 17,
1824 in Cumberland, England – Died January 31, 1885 at Ayr,
Ontario – He came to this country with his parents when young.
His father dying when he was at the age of 20, the cares of a farm
with brothers and sisters devolved upon him. Or his sons, one, Rev.
R. J., is pastor at Caledonia, Ontario; another, G. M., is Collector
of Customs at Napanee, Ontario; and another, J. G., is city editor of
the Kingston Whig. – (Obit.
85).
EMERSON, G., of Ramsgate, England – Died November
7, 1885, Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan, U.S.A. – Lost in
the wreck of the iron steamship Algoma. – (JRO
85).
ENGLAND, Poole Vallancey (Gen.) - An English Soldier – Born in
1787 in Kingston, Ontario – Died November 6, 1884 at Dover,
England – Entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich at the
age of 17. – (Obit.
84).
EVANS (Mrs. Hellmuth) – Died May 21, 1884 at Birkenhead,
England – Wife of the Rev. Dr. Hellmuth, late Bishop of Huron
(Ontario). She was a daughter of the late Genl. Thos. Evans, C.B. –
(Obit. 84).
EVANS, Hy. Sugden, F.C.S. – Chief Analyst for the
Dominion (1884-86) – Born in 1830 in London, England –
Died February 24, 1886 in New York. – (Obit.
86).
FALCONER, Thomas, F.G.S., F.R.G.S. – Late a County
Court Judge in England – Died August 28, 1882 at Bath, England
– In 1850 was selected as the arbitrator to determine the
boundaries between Canada and New Brunswick – (Obit.
82).
FAUQUIER, Frederick D. (Rt. Rev.), D.C.L. –
Missionary Bishop of Algoma, Ontario – Born in 1817 in England
– Died December 7, 1881 in Toronto, Ontario – Left an
ofphan at an early age he was adopted by an aunt. He came out to
Canada when a young man. – (Obit.
80-81).
FERGUSSON, Robt. Colquhoun – Governor of the Union
Bank of London, England – Born in April, 1824 in Edinburgh,
Scotland – Died October 11, 1883 at Cornwall Gardens, London,
England – He was the 7th son of the late Hon. Adam
Fergusson, M.L.C. of Canada and a brother of the late Hon.
Fergusson-Blair, a member of Sir John Macdonald's Govt. In 1867. –
(Obit. 83).
FIELDE, Frederick (Capt.) – Late 88th
Regt. of Foot – Born January 31, 1797 at Plymouth, England –
Died in July, 1883 on his farm, Waterdown, Ontario – Emigrated
to Canada in 1836. – (Obit.
83).
FLETCHER, Col. Henry Charles, C.M.G. – Late
Governor General's Secretary, Canada – Died early part of
September, 1879 in England aged 46 – (Obit.
79).
FLINTOFT, James – Sheriff of the County of
Lambton, Ontario – Born in Yorkshire, England – Died July
1, 1878, Lambton, Ontario aged 74 – Came to Canada about 1816.
He held the office of Sheriff of Lambton for 20 years, retiring in
1872, and being succeeded by his son – (Obit.
78).
FOREST, Chas. (Rev.), M.A. – Rector of Williamsburgh and Rural
Dean of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (Church of England) –
Born in 1823 in London, England – Died December 24, 1881,
Morrisburg, Ontario – (Obit.
80-81).
FORNERET, Cuthbert Augustus William (Capt.) – A
retired officer of the British army – Born in 1794 in England –
Died May 19, 1884 in Montreal, Quebec – He came of an
essentially military race, his ancestors for centuries back having
been soldiers. His father is Maj. Forneret, 60th Rifles. –
(Obit. 84).
FORREST, Alfred Guy (Lt.-Col.), P.L.S. – Born
April 8, 1828 in London, England – Died November 1, 1885 in
Ottawa, Ontario – He was married to the eldest daughter of Mr.
A. J. Russell, C.E., of Ottawa – (Obit.
85).
FORREST, Edmund Wm. (Capt.) – Late of Hon. E. I.
Co.'s service – Born in London, England – Died July 4,
1880, Hull, Quebec – (Obit.
80-81).
FULLER, Thos. Brock (The Right Revd.), D.C.L., D.D. –
Lord Bishop of Niagara (1875) – Born July 16, 1810 in Kingston,
Ontario – Died December 16, 1884 at his residence, Bishophurst,
Hamilton, Ontario – He was the only son of Mahor Thos. R.
Fuller, of H. M.'s 41st Regt. of Foot, by Miss England, a
cousin of the late Genl. Sir Richard England, K.C.B. He was also a
lineal descendant, on the parternal side, of Dr. Thos. Fuller, the
celebrated English divine of the 17th century. He had the
misfortune to be deprived of both his parents while very young, and
was adopted by his aunt, Mrs. Leeming, of Chippewa. He married in
1835, Cynthia, eldest daughter of the late Col. Saml. Street, of
Niagara Falls, and sister of the late T. C. Street, Esq., M.P. –
(Obit. 84).
GALES, Thos. (Rev., Baptist) – Temperance reformer
– Born in 1841 at Wells, Norfolk, England – Died October
24, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Canada in 1860 –
(Obit. 83).
GAMBLE (Lady Macaulay) – Died July 17, 1883 at
Sparkford Hall, Somerset, England, aged 80 – Relict of Hon. Sir
James Buchanan Macaulay, C.B., formerly Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas in Upper Canada – She was the daughter of Dr. John
Gamble. – (Obit. 83).
GANE, Wm. Law – Litterateur – Born in
1815 at Harwich, England – Died September 27, 1879 in Ottawa,
Ontario – He came to Canada in 1860 and settled in the Township
of Lowe, Quebec – (Obit. 79).
GILLESBY, Wm. – Collector of Customs at Dundas,
Ontario (1871-86) – Born November 24, 1824 at Little Corby,
England – Died April 18, 1886 at Hamilton, Ontario – He
came to Canada when quite young. – (Obit.
86).
GLOVER, John Hawley (His Excellency Sir), G.C.M.G. (1874) –
Governor of Newfoundland (1876-81 and 1883-85) – Born in 1829 –
Died September 30, 1885 in England – (Obit.
85).
GODFREY, Wm. Minns (Rev.), B.A., – Rector of
Clementsport, Nova Scotia – Born in 1813 in England –
Died in 1880 ou 1881 – (Obit.
80-81).
GOODERHAM, James – Miller – Born December
29, 1825 in Norfolk, England – Died May 11, 1879 in Toronto,
Ontario – Railway accident – He was the second son of Wm.
Gooderham, Esq., the senior partner of the well-known firm of
Gooderham & Worts, Toronto, and a brother of William Gooderham,
now President of the Nipissing Railway – (Obit.
79).
GOODERHAM, Wm. – President and one of the founders
of the Bank of Toronto – Born August 29, 1790 at Scole,
Norfolk, England – Died August 20, 1881 in Toronto, Ontario –
He came to Toronto in 1832 and entered into partnership there with
his brother-in-law, the late Mr. Jas. Worts, who died in 1834. In
1845 he was joined by Mr. J. G. Worts, the son of his old partner. –
(Obit. 80-81).
GOODMAN, H. R., – M.D. – Born August 21,
1799 at Eastbourne, Sussex, England – Died March 1, 1879,
Parkhill, Ontario – Dr. Goodman came originally to Canada in
1812, and did garrison duty at Quebec during the war with the U. S.
that followed. He returned to England to study medicine, did practice
for 10 years, at the en of which time he returned to Canada and made
it his home – (Obit. 79).
GREENE, Thomas (Rev.) – Bible Christian Minister –
Died November 15, 1878, Clinton, Ontario aged 78 – He labored
fifteen years as an itinerent minister in England, and for the last
thiry-four years in Ontario – (Obit.
78).
GREENSHIELDS, David J. – Head of the mercantile
firm of Samuel Greenshields, Son & Co., Montreal – Born
1826 at Glasgow, Scotland – Died December 4, 1882 in London,
England – (Obit. 82).
HALL, Vice Admiral Robert, C.B., – Navel Secy. To
the Admiralty – Born July 5, 1817 at Kingston, Ontario –
Died June 11, 1882 in London, England – (Obit.
82).
HALLEN, Rev. George, B.A. (Ch. of Eng.) – Born in
1794 in England – Died September 3, 1882 in Penetanguishene,
Ontario – Came to Canada in 1835 – (Obit.
82).
HALY, William O'Grady (General Sir), K.C.B. –
Commander of Her Majesty's forces in B. N. A. – Born in 1811 –
Died March 19, 1878, Bellevue House, Halifax, Nova Scotia –
Gout of the stomach – He was the son of the late Aylmer Haly,
esq., J. P. of Wadhurst Castle, Sussex, England. He married in 1839,
Hariette Craven, daughter of Hamilton Hebden, Esq., J. P., of Ely
Grange, Frant, Sussex – (Obit.
78).
HARRINGTON, Thomas Douglsa – Late Deputy
Receiver-General of Canada (1858-78) – Born June 7, 1808 at
Windsor, England – Died January 13, 1882 at Prescott, Ontario –
Came to Canada in 1832. He was accorded a Masonic funeral, his
remains being interred in the old Blue Church Burial ground at
Augusta, Ontario – (Obit.
82).
HARRIS, Joseph Hemington (Rev.), D.D. – Late
Principal of Upper Canada College, Toronto – Died June 29, 1881
in England aged 81 – He came to Canada in 1829 and returned to
England in 1837. – (Obit.
80-81).
HARRIS, Samuel (Rev., C. of E.) – Born in 1799 in
Suffolk, England – Died November 2, 1884 at Simcoe, Ontario –
He came to Canada in 1839. – (Obit.
84).
HARRIS, Thomas – High Sheriff of Vancouver Island, B.C. (1876),
first Mayor of Victoria, B.C. – Born in 1816 in Hertfordshire,
England – Died December 4, 1884 in Victoria, British Columbia –
(Obit. 84).
HAWKINS, Thos, M.R.C.S. (Eng.) – Born August 1807
in London, England – Died January 16, 1886 at Port Stanley,
Ontario – He came to Canada in 1834. – (Obit.
86).
HEATH, Edmund – M.P.P. for Pontiac in Can.
Assembly (1857-61); M.P. for same constituency in House of Commons
(1867-72) – Born September 13, 1813 in Bristol, England –
Died January 21, 1883 in Clarendon, Quebec – (Obit.
83).
HEDLEY, Wm. – Representative in the Maritime
Provinces of Dun, Wiman & Co. – Born November 29, 1833 at
Oban, Argyll, Scotland – Died June 19, 1885 at Halifax, Nova
Scotia – He was the son of Mr. Jno. W. Hedley, of
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, and came to Canada with his grandparents
in 1845. – (Obit. 85).
HEFFERNAN, William Owen (Hon.), M.L.C., of Nova Scotia –
Born in 1796 in Guysborough, Nova Scotia – Died April 3, 1878 –
He was the son of Assistant-Surgeon D. Heffernan, of the Royal Navy;
and a grandson of Major Wheaton, of the British Army. He married
Lucretia, second daughter of Isaac Wylde, Esq., of Lancashire,
England – (Obit. 78).
HELLMUTH (Mrs.) (née Evans) – Died May 21, 1884
at Birkenhead, England – Wife of the Rev. Dr. Hellmuth, late
Bishop of Huron (Ontario). She was a daughter of the late Genl. Thos.
Evans, C.B. – (Obit.
84).
HEU de BOURCK, Wm. Harvey (Rev., Congregational) –
Born in 1803 in London, England – Died August 17, 1883 at Cap
Rouge, Quebec, near Quebec City – He emigrated to Canada around
1845. – (Obit. 83).
HOBSON, Robt. – Sheriff of Welland, Ontario (1856)
– Born in 1805 at Appleby, England – Died August 16,
1881, Welland, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1818 –
(Obit. 80-81).
HODDER, Edward Mulberry – M.D., F.R.C.S (Eng.) –
Born December 10, 1810 at Sandgate, Kent, England – Died
February 20, 1878 in Toronto, Ontario – He was the son of Capt.
Hodder, R. N. He came to Canada around 1838. He was married to a
daughter of Captain Tench, H. M. 87th Royal Irish
Fusiliers. Besides his widow, he leaves a large family of sons and
daughters to mourn his loss – (Obit.
78).
HODGES, James, C.E. – Engineer of the contractors
in the construction of the Victoria Bridge at Montreal, Quebec –
Born April 6, 1814 at Quennborough, Kent, England – Died May
28, 1879, Penny-Hill, Bagshot, Surrey, England – (Obit.
79).
HOOPER, Angus Cameron – Member of the firm Wm. Dow
& Co., Brewers, of Montreal – Native of Sussex, England –
Died December 4, 1884 in Montreal, Quebec, aged 58 – He came to
Canada about 1854 – (Obit.
84).
HOOPER, Rev. William (Bible Christian) – Died March 1, 1882 at
Exeter, Ontario – He entered the ministry in 1840, in England,
and, in 1845, was sent as a missionary to America. He had been
Presdt. of the B.C. Conference on several occasions – (Obit.
82).
HOWELL, James (Rev.) – Late Secy. of the Can.
Congregational Indian Missionary Society – Born in 1809 in
Hampshire, England – Died November 5, 1881 in Toronto, Ontario
– Came to America in 1854, and subsequently removed to Canada.
– (Obit. 80-81).
IBBOTSON, Henry John, B.C.L. – Deputy Recorder of
Montreal (1883) – Born in 1818 in London, England – Died
February 4, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – He was a son of the late
Capt. Hy. Ibbotson, of H. M.'s 103rd Regt. of Foot. –
(Obit. 83).
ISBISTER, Alex. Kennedy, M. A., LL.B. – Formerly a
factor in the Hudson's Bay Co. – Died May 28, 1883 in England
aged 61. – (Obit. 83).
JACKSON, George – Ex-M.P. – Born in Dec 1809
in Hutton, Yorkshire, England – Died March 6, 1885 at Durham,
Ontario where he had resided since 1848 – He came to in 1844. –
(Obit. 85).
JACQUES, Jno. – of the late firm of Jacques &
Hay, manufacturing cabinet makers – Born in 1805 in Cumberland,
England – Died February 14, 1886 in Toronto, Ontario – He
came to Toronto in 1831. About the year 1871, he retired with a
handsome fortune, the whole of which he bequeathed to his surviving
child, Mrs. Jno. Stuart, of Hamilton. – (Obit.
86).
JAMES, John Collinson, C.E. – Chief Engineer and
Supt. of Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, western
division (1882) – Born in December 1846 at Otterbourne,
Northumberland, England – Died February 27, 1883 in Winnipeg,
Manitoba – He came to Canada in 1866. – (Obit.
83).
JUDAH, Henry Hague, Q.C. (1854) – Born April 28,
1808 in London, England – Died February 10, 1882 at his
residence, Le Bocage, Montreal, Quebec – He came to
Canada in early life – (Obit.
83).
KEELER, Joseph – M.P. for East Northumberland, Ont., in the
House of Commons – Born May 24, 1824 at Colborne, Ontario –
Died January 21, 1881, Ottawa, Ontario – Died in attendance on
his Parliamentary duties – Of English descent, his family, for
two generations, were Canadians. – (Obit.
80-81).
KENNEDY, Andrew (Rev.) (Presbyterian) – Born
August 12, 1789 at Leadhills, Lancashire, England – Died May
19, 1882 at London, Ontario – Came to Canada in 1847 –
(Obit. 82).
KENNEDY, Wm. Nassau (Lieut.-Col.) – Commanding
90th Winnipeg Rifles – Born April 27, 1839 at
Darlington, Ontario – Died May 3, 1885 in London, England,
returning to Canada from Egypt – Died of small-pox – His
remains were accorded the hounours of a military funeral. The Queen
bestowed a pension of £50 per annum on the widow, and an
allowance of £12 per annum to each of the children of the
deceased officer – He went to Winnipeg in 1870. – (Obit.
85).
KING, Thomas Davies – Litterateur –
Born in 1819 in Bristol, England – Died November 8, 1884 in
Montreal, Quebec – He came to Montreal in 1858 as a
meteorologist. – (Obit. 84).
KNIGHT, Col. Alfred – Late Town Major of Quebec
(1838-68) – Born September 19, 1793 at Woodbridge, Suffolk,
England – Died August 17, 1882 at Quebec City – He
married in Feb., 1829, a daughter of Capt. Wm. French. He emigrated
to Canada in 1834. One of his sons is Mr. A. F. A. Knight, the
well-known merchant of Quebec – (Obit.
82).
LAUDER, Abram Wm. - M.P.P. in the Ontario Assembly for South, and
subsequently for East Grey (1867-84) – Born in 1834 at
Bewcastle, Cumberland, England – Died February 20, 1884 at his
residence ''Ardnacloich,'' Toronto, Ontario – His son, W. Waugh
Lauder, is well known as an accomplished pianist.. – (Obit.
84).
LAWTON, W. G. – Merchant – Native of
Wakefield, Yorkshire, England – Died November 21, 1879 in St.
John, New Brunswick aged 73 – Came to St. John aroud 1834 –
(Obit. 79).
LEACH, Wm. Turnbull (The Venerable), D.C.L. (1849),
LL.D. (1857) – Archdeacon of Montreal (1865) – Born in
March, 1805 at Berwick-upon-Tweed – Died October 13, 1886 in
Montreal, Quebec – (Obit.
86).
LIDSTONE, James Spencer – Publisher – Died
in November, 1884 in London, England – A former resident of
Ottawa, Ontario – (Obit. 84).
LISTER, James – M.D. – Died March 23, 1878,
Belleville, Ontario aged 65 – He was a son of the Capt. Lister,
of Her Majesty's Coast Guard, Barnstaple, Devon, England –
(Obit. 78).
LITTLE, Robert – Inspector of Schools for Halton,
Ontario (1871) – Born February 7, 1835 at Woolwich, England –
Died in April, 1885 at Acton, Ontario – (Obit.
85).
LITTLE, William Carruthers – M.P. for South Simcoe
in House of Commons – Born in England – Died December 31,
1881, Allandale, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1847. –
(Obit. 80-81).
LUNN, Wm. (Hon.) – Treasurer, Protestant Bd. of
School Commrs., Montreal – Born July 18, 1796 at Devenport,
England – Died June 19, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec – He
came to Canada in 1819 – (Obit.
86).
MACARTNEY, Geo (Capt.) – Formerly of H.M.'s 100th
Regt. of Foot – Died November 29, 1886 in London, England aged
69 – (Obit. 86).
MACAULAY (Lady) (née Gamble) – Died July
17, 1883 at Sparkford Hall, Somerset, England, aged 80 – Relict
of Hon. Sir James Buchanan Macaulay, C.B., formerly Chief Justice of
the Common Pleas in Upper Canada – She was the daughter of Dr.
John Gamble. – (Obit. 83).
MANN, Frederick – An Englishman who had only been
in this country a few months – Died October 12, 1883 at
L'Orignal, Ontario aged about 18 – Hanged for the murder of Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Cook, their daughter Emma Cook and their son George.
He had pleaded guilty on September 17, 1883. – (JRO
83).
MARROTT, Frederick – Journalist – Born July
16, 1805 at Enfield, England – Died in December 1884 at San
Francisco, California, U.S.A. – In 1856 he founded the News
Letter in British Columbia, and in 1858, the Vancouver
Gazette. – (Obit. 84).
MARSDEN, Wm. – M.D. (1830), M.A. (1868) –
Born February 18, 1807 at Bolton, Lancashire, England –
December 16, 1885 in Quebec City – He came to Canada with his
parents in 1812, their vessel, an American brig, being captured on
the wat by an English frigate. – (Obit.
85).
MASSIAH, Christopher Wm. – Journalist –
Native of Briston, England – Died October 2, 1885 in Montreal,
Quebec – He came to Canada about 1870 – Died from
small-pox – (Obit. 85).
MATTHEWS, Matthew Henry (Rev.) – Presdt. of the
Primitive Methodist Conference – Born in 1841 in Wiltshire,
England – Died December 28, 1881, Yorkville, Ontario –
Born in humble circumstances, he came to Canada in 1858. –
(Obit. 80-81).
METCALFE, Jas. – M.P. for East York in the House
of Commons (1867-78) – Born in 1821 in England – Died
September 13, 1886 in Toronto, Ontario – Died suddenly –
He had resided at one time in one of the Australian colonies. –
(Obit. 86).
MICHEL, John (Field Marshal, the Rt. Hon Sir), G.C.B. –
Born in 1804 – Died May 24, 1886 in England – Was
Commander of H. M's. Regular forces in Canada, for some years, and
while fulfilling the duties of that position became Administrator of
the Govt., 1865-66 – (Obit.
86).
MONTIZAMBERT, Charles Nathaniel – Registrar of the Co. of
Quebec (1845) – Born October 26, 1810 in Quebec City –
Died April 1, 1885 in Quebec City – He was a descendant of
Pierre Boucher, an early French settler of New France, who camew to
this country ith his father in 1635, and was afterwards ennobled by
Louis XIV of France. He married in 1843 Helen Elizabeth Terrot,
youngest daughter of the late Hon. Matthew Bell, formerly of
Northumberland, England, and lattery of Three Rivers, Quebec. –
(Obit. 85).
MOODIE, Susanna (Mrs.) – Canadian authoress –
Born December 6, 1803 in England – Died April 8, 1885 in
Toronto, Ontario – She was the 6th daughter of Thos.
Strickland Esq., of Reydon Hall, Suffolk, England, an a sister of
Miss Agnes Strickland and Mrs. C. P. Traill, both of whom have
achieved distinction in the world of letters. In 1831 she married
Lieut. J. W. D. Moodie, of the 21st Fusiliers, and in the
following year they emigrated to Canada. Mr. Moodie, her husband,
became sheriff of Hastings, Ontario, and died in 1869 at Belleville,
Ontario, where he was buried. In accordance with the often expressed
wish of the deceased lady, her remains were interred beside those of
her husband. – (Obit. 85).
MORRIS, John Spry – Late Commissioner of Crown
Lands, Nova Scotia – Died April 21, 1881, St. Leonards-on-Sea,
England – (Obit. 80-81).
MORRIS, Livingston Edward – Joint Prothonotary,
Dist. of St. Francis (1855) – Born October 16, 1822 at Watford,
England – Died July 14, 1884 at ''Beaumont'', Sherbrooke,
Quebec – He was the youngest son of the late Lt.-Col. Wm.
Morris, formerly of H. M.'s 97th Foot, came to Can., with
his parents, in 1835. – (Obit.
85).
MOUNTAIN, Armine Wale (Rev.) – Vicar of St.
Mary's, Stoney Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England – Born in
1823 in Quebec City – Died January 31, 1885 at Stoney
Stratford, Budkinghamshire, England – He was the eldest son of
the late Bishop G. J. Mountain, of Quebec. He removed to England in
1869. His remains were brought to Quebec and laid by the side of his
revered father in the beautiful cemetery of Mount Hermon. He was a
grand son of the late Bishop Mountain, first Anglican Bishop of
Canada. – (Obit. 85).
MOUNTAIN, Matthew George – Merchant of Quebec –
Born October 31, 1816 in Quebec City of English parentage –
Died July 22, 1883 in Quebec City – (Obit.
83).
NESBITT, John James – Shipbuilder – Born in
1802 in England – Died June 26, 1882 in Quebec City where he
had lived for 66 years – (Obit.
82).
NICOL, Wm. Bulmer – M.D., Prof. of Materia Medica
in Univ. of Toronto (1842-56) – Born November 11, 1812 at
Stockwell, Middlesex, England – December 24, 1886 in Toronto,
Ontario, where he had resided since 1842 – He came to Canada in
1836. He married in 1839, Maria Alves, eldest daughter of the late
Dr. Hy. Boys, Bursar of the Toronto University who held high rank in
the army during the Peninsula war. – (Obit.
86).
ORTON, Henry – M.D. (1857) – Born December
1833 at the Manor House, Belston, near Nottingham, England –
Died March 24, 1882 at Ancaster, Ontario – Died injuries 8
weeks after a horseback riding accident – His father, after
whom he was named, and 3 of his brothers, Surgeon Major T. J. Orton
(on the staff in India), Dr. G. T. Orton, M.P. for Centre Wellington
in the House of Commons, and Dr. Richd. Orton, of Guelph, Ontario,
are all eminent members of the medical profession, and we understand
that for several generations every male member of the family (which
is an old Leicestershire one) have been medical men. He was buried
with Masonic honours – (Obit.
82).
PALMER, Arthur (Venerable), D.C.L. – Archdeacon of
Toronto – Died May 4, 1881, Dublin, Ireland aged 75 – He
came to Canada in 1832. Owing to ill-health he left Canada for
England in 1870 and, for a time held a small living in Cumberland,
which, however, owing to continued ill-health he was forced to
relinguish in 1879. He took up his residence in Dublin where he died.
– (Obit. 80-81).
PALSGRAVE, Chas. Theodore – For many years the
proprietor of the Montreal Type Foundry – Born in 1799 in
England – Died December 23, 1881 in Montreal, Quebec –
(Obit. 80-81).
PARKER, Hy. – Police Magistrate for Oxford,
Ontario, and President of the Agricultural and Arts Association of
Ontario – Born in 1831 near Peterboro', Ontario, of English
parentage – Died December 3, 1886 at Woodstock, Ontario –
(Obit. 86).
PENNY, Edward Goff (Hon.) – Senator – Born
May 15, 1820 at Hornsey, London, England – Died October 11,
1881 in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Canada in 1844. He
married in 1857, Eleanor E., daughter of Oliver Smith, Esq., of
Montreal, who followed him to the grave December 11, 1881. –
(Obit. 80-81).
PENTON, Frederick Walter Long – Chief of Police,
Montreal – Englishman by birth – Died April 1, 1879 in
Montreal, Quebec aged 53 – He came to Canada in 1832 –
(Obit. 79).
PHILBRIOK, Cornelius Jas., F.R.C.S. (1850), Eng., M.D
(1853) – Born in 1815 at Colchester, England – Died
December 2, 1885 at North Toronto, Ontario – (Obit.
85).
PHILLIPS, John – ex-M.P. – Born June 16,
1810 in Westmoreland, England – Died October 28, 1878,
Dalhousie, New Brunswick – (Obit.
78).
PRENTICE, Edward Alex – Stockbroker – Born
in 1832 in Edinburgh, Scotland – Died November 17, 1886 at his
residence, 16 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London, England –
His remains were interred at Hastings, after undergoing cremation at
Woking. He was of Scotch and Danish extraction, his father being
descended from the noble Danish family of De Breton. He came to
Canada in 1854. He returned to Britain about 1876. He married in 1856
Eweretta Auldjo, grand-daughter of the Hon. John Richardson, M.E.C.
of L.C., by whom he had 3 children, two of whom, a son and daughter,
survive. – (Obit. 86).
PRICE, James Hervet (Hon.) – ex-M.P.P. (1841-51) –
Born in 1797 in Cumberland, England – Died July 13, 1882 at
Shirley, near Southampton, England – He was descended from an
old Cumberland family. He came to Canada in 1828. He returned to
England in 1851 – (Obit. 82).
PRINCE, Wm. Stratton – Registrar of South
Wellingon, Ont. – Born about 1825 in England – Died
November 15, 1881, Guelph, Ontario – He was a son of the late
Col. (afterwards Judge) Prince – (Obit.
80-81).
PUNSHON, Wm. Moy (Rev.), LL.D. – Late Presdt. of
the Wesleyan Methodist Conference in Can. – Born in 1824 at
Doncaster, England – Died April 14, 1881, Brixton, London,
England – He came to Canada in 1868 and returned to England in
1873. – (Obit. 80-81).
QUINN,
J., of England (newly arrived) – Passenger – Died
September 14, 1882, Georgian Bay, Ontario – Lost in the wreck
of the steamer Asia
– (JRO 82).
RACEY, Thos. – Registrar of Halton, Ontario (1846)
– Born December 24, 1791 in Bath, England – Died March
21, 1881, Milton, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1805. –
(Obit. 80-81).
RAMSAY, Robt. – M.D. (1861) – Born March 21,
1841 in London, England – Died January 4, 1886 in Toronto,
Ontario – Died suddenly – He came to Canada in early life
with his father, the late Rev. Canon Ramsay. – (Obit.
86).
RATTRAY, William J., B.A. – A well-known literary
man – Born about 1835 in London, England – Died September
19 in Toronto, Ontario – He was the son of the late Mr. Alex.
Rattray, who, coming to Canada, established himsel in trade in
Toronto in 1848. He is the author of The Scot in British North
America, 4 vols. – (Obit.
83).
READ John Chas. Edward Crewe (Lt.-Col.) – Brigade
Major 8th Dist., V.M. (1882) – Born July 26, 1823 in
Cheshire, England – Died April 5, 1884 in St. John, New
Brunswick – He was the 3rd son of John Offley
Crewe-Read, esq., of Llandinam Hall, County Montgomery, by his wife
Charlotte, daughter of Sir Willoughby Lake, K.C.B. He married in 1851
in Nova Scotia, Henrietta, daughter of Hon. P. H. Clarke, M.L.C. of
Cape Breton – (Obit. 84).
REYNOLDS, Thomas – President of the St. Lawrence
and Ottawa Railway – Born in 1811 in Scotland – Died June
29, 1880 in London, England – (Obit.
80-81).
RHODES, Henry (Hon.) – Merchant – Born in 1824 in London,
England – Died November 8, 1878, Victoria, B.C. –
Previous to going to Victoria (in 1859), he was prominently
identified with the commerce of the Sandwich Islands, where he
arrived in 1845 – (Obit.
78).
RIDGWAY, F.C.S. – Journalist – Born in 1830
in Lancashire, England – Died May 1, 1881 in Ottawa, Ontario –
(Obit. 80-81).
RIDOUT, Joseph D. – Retired Merchant – Born
June 9, 1809 in Bristol, England – Died June 4, 1884 in
Toronto, Ontario – He settled in Toronto in 1830, and two years
afterwards, entered into partnership with his brother Geo. Percival
(afterwards M.P. for Toronto) as hardware merchants. – (Obit.
84).
RING, Zebedee – Merchant of St. John, New
Brunswick Born about 1807 near Sheffield, New Brunswick – Died
April, 1878, Liverpool, England – He was the descendant of old
U. E. Loyalist, who proceeded from New York to New Brunswick towards
the close of the American Revolution – (Obit.
78).
RIORDAN, John – Paper manufacturer – Born in
1834 in the city of Limerick, Ireland – Died September 20, 1884
at St. Leonards-on-Sea, England – His remains were brought to
Toronto, Ontario for interment. He left home quite young for the
U.S.A., but subsequently removed to Canada. – (Obit.
84).
ROBINSON, Charles – ex-Warden of the Co. of
Ontario, Ont. – Born March 3, 1812 in London, England –
Died September 15, 1883 at Beaverton, Ontario – He came to
Canada in 1832. – (Obit. 83).
ROEBUCK, John Arthur (Right Hon.), Q.C. – M. P.
(Great Britain) – Born in 1801 at Madras, India – Died
November 30, 1879 in London, England – Mr. Roebuck's father
died in India, where he had held an appointment, and his widow
returned to England with her six sons. In 1808 she married Mr. John
Simpson (father of Mr. C. B. Simpson, the present Collector of
Customs at Montreal); and in 1814, Mr. Simpson and his wife and four
of her sons, including John Arthur, came to Canada, and took up their
residence in Augusta, Ontario. They removed to Quebec City in 1820
and to Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec in 1822. In 1824, John Arthur proceeded
to England, where he lived, up to the time of his death. –
(Obit. 79).
ROGERS, Chas. J. – He had been a member of the
London, England police force – Died January 28, 1885 at
Victoria, British Columbia – Executed for the murder of Wm.
Sterry on November 4, 1884 – (JRO
84, JRO 85).
ROGERS, R. Vashon (Rev., C. of E.), M.A. – Born in
1802 in Bristol, England – Died August 20, 1886 at Kingston,
Ontario – He came to Canada about 1836 – (Obit.
86).
ROLLS, Charles – M.D. (1834) – Born in 1809
at Weymouth, England – Died June 26, 1884 in Toronto, Ontario –
(Obit. 84).
ROSCOE, Francis James – Businessman – Born in 1831 in
Liverpool, England – Died December 20, 1878, Victoria, British
Columbia – He was a grandson of Mr. William Roscoe, the
celebrated author and biographer, who represented Liverpool for some
time in the British House of Commons – (Obit.
78).
ROSE, Charlotte (Lady) (née Temple) – Died
December 3, 1883 at Queen's Gate, London, England – Wife of the
Hon. Sir John Rose, Bart., G.C.M.G., formerly Minister of Finance of
Canada, to whom she was married in June, 1843. She was a daughter of
the late Robt. Emmet Temple, Esq., of Rutland, Vermont, U.S.A. –
(Obit. 83).
ROSWELL, Francis Wm, C.B. (1879), C.M.G. (1880) –
Born July 11, 1838 in England – Died September 4, 1885 in
England – After the death of his brother-in-law, Mr. Wm. Dixon,
chief Supt. of Emigration for the Dominion in England, he, by request
of the Canadian Government, took over the duties of the office. He wa
a nephew of mr. Hy. Roswell, of Toronto, Ontario. – (Obit.
85).
RUNDLE,
Jas. – Born in England – Died August 10, 1884 at
Darlington, Ontario aged 96 – (DL
84).
RYE, Francis – Barrister of Ontario (1876) –
Born in 1848 at Chelsea, England – Died December 21, 1884 at
Ventnor, Isle of Wight – He came to Canada in 1873, with his
sister, the philanthropic Miss Rye. – (Obit.
84).
SACHE, Wm. – Stock broker – Englishman by
birth – Died January 26, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec, over 60
years of age – (Obit. 83).
SCOTT,
H. M., of England (newly arrived) – Passenger – Died
September 14, 1882, Georgian Bay, Ontario – Lost in the wreck
of the steamer Asia
– (JRO 82).
SCOTT, Thomas – M.P.P. for North Grey in the
Ontario Assembly (1867-75) – Born in Nottingham, England –
Died September 17, 1883 at Owen Sound, Ontario – (Obit.
83).
SCOTT, Wm. Edward – M.D. (1844), Professor of
Anatomy, McGill University, Montreal – Native of London,
England – Died May 24, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec – He came
to Montreal at an early age. – (Obit.
83).
SCOVIL, Wm. (Rev.), M.A. (1834), Ph.D. (1872) –
Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick –
Died February 27, 1886 at Brighton, England, where he had latterly
resided, aged 70 – (Obit.
86).
SEWELL, Frances Georgina (Mrs. Davenport) – Died
December 7, 1885 at Balham, England – Daughter of the late Hon.
Chief Justice Sewell, of Quebec, and widow of Major Trevor Davenport,
of the 1st Royals – (Obit.
85).
SEWELL, Hy. Doyle (Rev.), M.A. – Vicar of Hedcorn,
Kent, England (1850-86) – Died March 19, 1886 at Headcorn,
Kent, England, aged 80 – He was the fourth son of the late
Chief Justice Sewell of Lower Canada. – (Obit.
86).
SEYMOUR, Benjamin (Hon.) – Senator – Born in
1806 in Fredericksburg, Ontario – Died March 23, 1880, Port
Hope, Ontario – Son of an English gentleman, who settled in
Fredericksburg about 1793. – (Obit.
80-81).
SHEARD, Joseph – Mayor of the City of Toronto
(1870-71) – Born in 1813 at Hornsey, Yorkshire, England –
Died August 30, 1883 in Toronto, Ontario – He came to Canada in
1833. – (Obit. 83).
SHEWELL, Edward – Retired officer – Born in
1788 at Ickleford, England – Died February 11, 1879, Napanee,
Ontario – He came to Canada after the Rebellion – (Obit.
79).
SIMCOE, Philip Francis, J.P. – Died October 12,
1885 at Penheale, Cornwall, England aged 51 – Fourth son of the
late Rev. H. A. Simcoe, and grandson of the late Lieut.-Genl. John
Graves Simcoe, first Governor of Upper Canada – (Obit.
85).
SIMPSON, John (Hon.) – Assistant Auditor-General
of Canada – Born December 27, 1807 at Helmsley, Blackmoor,
Yorkshire, England – Died September 19, 1878, Ottawa, Canada –
He came to Canada about 1835 – (Obit.
78).
SKEAD, James (Hon.) – Senator (1867) – Born
January 31, 1816 near Moresby Hall, Cumberland, England – Died
July 5, 1884 in Ottawa, Ontario – (Obit.
84).
SKINNER, Henry – M.D. (1862) – Died
September 14, 1885 at Kingston, Ontario – Fromerly of
Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England – (Obit.
85).
SMITH, Bennett – An extensive ship builder –
Died January 11, 1886 at Windsor, Nova Scotia aged 77 – His
grand father came to Nova Scotia form England in 1773. The deceased
with 3 brothers formed a ship building company – (Obit.
86).
SMITH, Robert (Hon.) – Puisné Judge of the
Court of Queen's Bench for Manitoba (1884-85) – Born in 1837 at
Loweswater, Cumberland, England – Died January 19, 1885 at
Winnipeg, Manitoba – His death was caused by consumption. –
(Obit. 85).
SPRAGGE, John Godfrey (Hon.) – Chief Justice of
Ontario and President of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Ontario –
Born September 16, 1806 at New Cross, Surrey, England – Died
April 20, 1884 in Toronto, Ontario – He was the eldest son of
the late Mr. Joseph Spragge, who emigrated with his family to
Toronto. He married Catherine Rosamond, daughter of Dr. Alex. Thom,
Staff Surgeon and Medical Supdt. of Military Settlements on the
Rideau. This lady survived her husband only a few days, dying at
Toronto on April 24, 1884. – (Obit.
84).
STEAD, Matthew – Architect – Born in 1808 at
Ludlow, Shropshire, England – Died October 10, 1879 in St.
John, New Brunswick – (Obit.
79).
STERRY, Wm. – Guard in the British Columbia
Penitentiary at New Westminster – Native of Birmingham, England
– Died November 4, 1884 at New Westminster, British Columbia –
Shot and killed by another guard named C. J. Rogers, who had been a
member of the London, England police force. Rogers is found guilty of
wilful murder and sentenced to be hanged on January 18, 1885. –
(JRO 84).
STRATFORD, William H. – Business man – Born
September 12, 1808 at Sheerness, England – Died December 26,
1884 at Brantford, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1831. One of
his sons has presented a hospital to the City of Brantford. He was a
son of Dr. Jno. Stratford, who came to Canada in 1833. – (Obit.
84).
STRONG, Samuel Spratt (Rev.), D.D., D.C.L. (Church of
Eng.) – Borin February 27, 1801 in Dorsetshire, England –
Died October 6, 1880 in Toronto, Ontario – He came to Canada in
1835. He was the father of Hon. S. H. Strong, of the Supreme Court of
Canada. – (Obit. 80-81).
STUART, Robt. Chas. Wm. (Lieut.-Col) – Chief clerk
of the Governor-Genl. Secry's Office, Ottawa (1882-83) – Born
in 1826 – Died January 21, 1883 in Ottawa, Ontario – He
was the second son of the late Sir Simeon H. Stuart, 5th
Bart., of Hartley, Mauduit, Hampshire. – (Obit.
83).
STURDEE, Hy. Parker – Lloyds Surveyor at St. John,
N.B. – Born in 1808 in Devonshire, England – Died August
13, 1880 in St. John, New Brunswick – (Obit.
80-81).
SULLY, Richard – Businessman, writer – Born
in Nottingham, England – Died September 23, 1879, London,
Ontario aged 80 – (Obit. 79).
TANDY, George James – Mechanical Inspector of the
Intercolonial and Canadian Pacific Railways – Born December 29,
1821 at Handsworth, near Birmingham, England – Died September
26, 1879, Moncton, New Brunswick – He came to Canada in 1862 –
(Obit. 79).
TANDY, William – Journalist – Born in
England – Died January 3, 1882 at Kingston, Ontario aged 41 –
(Obit. 82).
TATE, George – Proprietor of Tate's Dry Docks,
Montreal – Born in 1808 in Yorkshire, England – Died
January 5, 1885 in Montreal, Quebec – His mother was a niece of
Wilberforce, the philanthropist. He came to Canada in 1824. –
(Obit. 85).
TAYLOR, John Fennings – Deputy Clerk and 1st
Clerk Assistant of the Senate – Born March 14, 1817 in London,
England – Died May 4, 1882 at Old Point Comfort, Virginia,
U.S.A., whither he had gone for the benefit of his health –
Came to Canada in 1836. A memorial window has been placed in St.
Alban's Church, Ottawa, Ontario – (Obit.
82).
TAYLOR, Thos. – Paper manufacturer – Born
about 1813 in Staffordshire, England – Died April 21, 1880 in
Toronto, Ontario – Came to America with his parents, who took
up their residence near Albany, N.Y., in 1821; removed to York (now
Toronto) in 1825. The deceased and his brother retired from their
manufacturing business, Thos. Taylor & Bro., in 1880 in favour of
their nephews and sons. – (Obit.
80-81).
TEMPLE, Charlotte (Lady Rose) – Died December 3,
1883 at Queen's Gate, London, England – Wife of the Hon. Sir
John Rose, Bart., G.C.M.G., formerly Minister of Finance of Canada,
to whom she was married in June, 1843. She was a daughter of the late
Robt. Emmet Temple, Esq., of Rutland, Vermont, U.S.A. – (Obit.
83).
TERROUX, Chas. A., N.P. – Deputy prothonotary of
the Superior Court at Montreal – Native of London, England –
Died October 14, 1884 at Montreal, Quebec, aged 75 – (Obit.
84).
THOMPSON, Saml. – Journalist – Born in 1810
in London, England – Died July 8, 1886 in Toronto, Ontario –
He came to Canada in 1833. – (Obit.
86).
THOMSON, Samuel R. Q.C., – Born about 1824 in New Brunswick –
Died November 19, 1880 in London, England – Of Irish descent,
he was the son of Rev. S. Thomson, Rector of St. Stephen, N.B. –
(Obit. 80-81).
THURGAR, John Vennor – Retired merchant –
Born in 1797 in Yorkshire, England – Died March 1, 1880 in St.
John, New Brunswick where he had carried on business for 57 years. –
(Obit. 80-81).
TOPLIS, Wm. – Journalist – Born in 1837 at
Matlock, Derbyshire, England – Died April 11, 1883 in Montreal,
Quebec. He came to Canada about 1865. – (Obit.
83).
TURNER, Eliza Mary (Mrs. Vankoughnet) – Died
March 28, 1879, Chudleigh, Devon – Relict of the late Hon. P.
M. Vankoughnet, Chancellor of Upper Canada. She was the youngest
daughter of the late Col. C. B. Turner, K. H. – (Obit.
79).
VANKOUGHNET, Eliza Mary (Mrs.) (nee Turner) – Died
March 28, 1879, Chudleigh, Devon – Relict of the late Hon. P.
M. Vankoughnet, Chancellor of Upper Canada. She was the youngest
daughter of the late Col. C. B. Turner, K. H. – (Obit.
79).
VAUX, Thos. – Late Accountant to the House of
Commons – Born June 18, 1797 at Wisbeach, Cambridge, England –
Februaty 25, 1880, Ottawa, Ontario – He came to Canada in 1817.
– (Obit. 80-81).
VENNOR, Henry George, F.G.S. (1870) – Born in 1841
in Montreal, Quebec – Died June 8, 1884 at his residence, ''The
Towers'', in Montreal, Quebec – His father, an Englishman, was
a member of the firm of Budden & Vennor, hardware merchants,
having establishments in Quebec and Liverpool. – (Obit.
84).
Von IFFLAND, Wm. Anthony Forster (Lieut.) – Royal
Artillery – Born October 23, 1863 at Portneuf, Quebec –
Died February 26, 1885 at Plymouth, Devonshire, England – Died
from a severe cold that developed into acute consumption – He
was the son of the Rev. A. A. Von Iffland, M.A., Rector of St.
Michael's Ch., Quebec – (Obit.
85).
Von KOERBER, Elise (Madame) – For some years
employed in promoting emigration from the continent of Europe to
Canada – Died in April 1884 in London, England aged 46 –
Died suddenly – Wife of the late Baron W. von Koerber, for many
years a draughtsman in the Crown Lands Dept. of Canada – (Obit.
84).
WALKEM, Charles – Late of the civil branch, Royal Engineers –
Born January 12, 1805 near Saltash, Cornwall, England – Died
August 17, 1883 in Kingston, Ontario – He came to Canada in
1847. Of his 7 sons, the eldest George A., was for some years Premier
of British Columbia, while another, Richard T., is a Q.C. –
(Obit. 83).
WELDON, John Wesley (Hon.) – Puisné Judge
of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick (1865-85) – Born June 11,
1805 in New Brunswick – Died February 11, 1885 at Fredericton,
New Brunswick – He was of English descent, his grandfather
having emigrate from England in 1764. He was twice married, fistly to
the daughter of the late Hon. Justice Upham, and some years after her
demise, to Susan, the eldest daughter of the late Hon. Jusstice
Halibruton, of Nova Scotia (''Sam Slick''). Mr. C. W. Weldon,
Q.C., M.P., is a son by the first marriage. – (Addenda
85, see p. 447).
WETHEY, Henry Coffin Windeat – Barrister –
Born at Exeter, England – Died May, 1878 in Toronto, Ontario –
(Obit. 78).
WHITAKER, George (Rev.), M.A. – Late Provost of
Trinity College, Toronto (1851-1881) – Died August 28, 1882 in
England aged 72 – Returned to England in 1881 – (Obit.
82).
WILKES,
Hy. (Rev. Cong.), M.A. (1833), D.D. (1850), LL.D. (1870) – Born
June 21, 1805 in Birmingham, England – Died November 17, 1886
in Montreal, Quebec – He came to Canada with his family in
1820. He was married four times. – (Obit.
86).
WILLIAMS of KARS, William Fenwick (Genrl. Sir), Bart,
G.C.B., D.C.L. – Lieut.-Governor of Nova Scotia (1865-69) –
Born December 4, 1801 at Annapolis, Nova Scotia – Died July 26,
1883 in London, England – He was the descendant of a loyalist
family of New York, which emigrated ot Nova Scotia, in 1783, on the
conclusion of the war of the American Revolution. His father, Colonel
Thos. Williams of the Royal Artillery, died in 1807. He (Col. Thomas
Williams) married Maria, daughter of Capt. Thos. Walker, and left a
family consisting of 5 daughters and 2 sons. of these the elder,
Lieut. Thos. G. T. Williams, entered the Royal Artillery. –
(Obit. 83).
WILLS (Mrs.) – Born in England – Died August
2, 1880 in Co. Perth, Ontario aged 100 – Death from longevity –
(DL 80-81).
WOOD, John (Rev.), M.A. – Vicar of St. Matthews,
Luton, Bedfordshire, England, (Anglican) – Born April 12, 1836
in Walpole, Ontario – Died November 22, 1883 in Toronto,
Ontario – In 1864 he visited England where a curacy was offered
him and accepted in the ch. In which his grandfather had preaches
before him, at Ripley, Derbyshire. – (Obit.
83).
WOOD, Marshall – Sculptor – Born in England
– Died in July 1882 in England – (Obit.
82).
WOOD, Robt. – Insurance agent – Born in 1812
in London, England – Died December 15, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec
– (Obit. 86).
WOODMAN, Edward Septimus (Rev., Church of Eng.) –
Born in 1829 at Marlborough, Wiltshire, England – Died March
13, 1880 at Westfield, New Brunswick – (Obit.
80-81).
WOODS (Mr.) – Born in Norfolk, England –
Died September, 1880, Copley, Ontario aged 102 – Death from
longevity – (DL 80-81).
WORKMAN, William – Merchant and banker, Mayor of
Montreal from 1868 to 1870 – Born in 1806 near Lisburn, Ireland
– Died February 23, 1878 in Montreal, Quebec – He was the
descendant of an old English family, his ancestors from the time of
Cromwell having resided in Ireland. He came to Canada and settled in
Montreal in May, 1829, ten years later than his brother Benjamin. His
parents settled on a farm in the vicinity of New Glasgow –
(Obit. 78).
WORTS, James Gooderham – President of the Bank of
Toronto – Born June 4, 1818 at Yarmouth, Norfolk, England –
Died June 20, 1882 in Toronto, Ontario – He accompanied his
father to Canada in 1831, and shortly after his death, in 1834, took
part in the milling business established by Mr. Worts, senior –
(Obit. 82).
WRIGHT, William – Ship-builder and owner, lived in
New Brunswick – Born February 18, 1810 in Dumfriesshire,
Scotland – Died February 17, 1878, Liverpool, England –
Died from the effects of the extraction of an affected eye –
His father was English ; his mother Scotch. He came to St. John (New
Brunswick) in boyhood with his father, Mr. George Wright, and other
members of his family. Later, a younger brother, named Richard, came
out – (Obit. 78).
YARWOOD, C. St. George – Late Colector of Customs
at Chippewa – Englishman by birth – Died July 30, 1884 at
Belleville, Ontario aged 63 – (Obit.
84).
YATES, Horatio – M.D. (1842) – Born in 1822
at Otsego, New York, U.S.A. – Died March 11, 1882 at Kingston,
Ontario – He came to Kingston, Ontario when 12 years of age. He
is the son of the late Dr. Wm. Yates, of Otsego County, New York, and
formerly of Sapperton, Derbyshire, England – (Obit.
82).
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