John,   If you could make your way to either the Land Registry Office for Simcoe County or the Provincial Archives in Toronto and look at the Abstract Index for Concession 10 Lot 2 Essa Township you would find out how they acquired the lot.  The index will list all the activity on the lot from the time it was patented by the Crown to the most current date that is available.  At both locations the index will be on microfilm that you can freely access.  As well, at both locations there are staff that can help you.  The benefit of going to the source, is the other documents that go hand in hand with the land records.  If you're lucky, sometimes there are more interesting comments and documents (ie wills) noted on the index.  It's worth the treck.   PS. There is an excellent book "A Guide to Ontario Land Registry Records" out out by the Ontario Genealogical Society in 1994 that explains the process and documents well.  Also, the May 2007 issue of SCAN, the quarterly publication of the Simcoe County Branch of the Ontario Genealogial Society explained these land documents as they pertain to Simcoe County.  It's on the shelves at both the Barrie Public Library and the North York Public Library.    Hope this helps, Nancy   --- On Sun, 8/9/09, John Ausman <[email protected]> wrote: From: John Ausman <[email protected]> Subject: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Essa Township To: [email protected] Received: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 1:55 PM Hello folks: I just joined this list and am wondering if anyone is familiar with early pioneers in Essa. I am researching the (Alexander, then John) Stewart family that settled on Concession 10 Lot 2.   Would anyone know when that area was first settled? I found no land petitions for a Stewart in Essa Twp in the Land records at the National Archives. Does this mean that at some point people just bought land without petitioning the colonial govermnment for it?   John ***************** Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

When I visited cemeteries in Duluth and Superior, the records at the cemetery office had extra information -- who was responsible for the burial at a minimum. I'd have been bewildered by two stones for one ancestress, but the records showed she had a leg buried long before she died. If I can visit Ontario, will cemetery records be available? What sort of information will they have? Where are newspaper archives kept to look for obits? Besides land patents and wills, are there other sources? If I have a week, and have ancestors from Sunnidale in Simcoe, Chicauagousy and Albion in Peel, and Zorra in Oxford, can I hope to research them all? > Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 15:20:26 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Essa Township > > John, > > If you could make your way to either the Land Registry Office for Simcoe County or the Provincial Archives in Toronto and look at the Abstract Index for Concession 10 Lot 2 Essa Township you would find out how they acquired the lot. The index will list all the activity on the lot from the time it was patented by the Crown to the most current date that is available. At both locations the index will be on microfilm that you can freely access. As well, at both locations there are staff that can help you. The benefit of going to the source, is the other documents that go hand in hand with the land records. If you're lucky, sometimes there are more interesting comments and documents (ie wills) noted on the index. It's worth the treck. > > PS. There is an excellent book "A Guide to Ontario Land Registry Records" out out by the Ontario Genealogical Society in 1994 that explains the process and documents well. Also, the May 2007 issue of SCAN, the quarterly publication of the Simcoe County Branch of the Ontario Genealogial Society explained these land documents as they pertain to Simcoe County. It's on the shelves at both the Barrie Public Library and the North York Public Library. > > Hope this helps, > Nancy > > > --- On Sun, 8/9/09, John Ausman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: John Ausman <[email protected]> > Subject: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Essa Township > To: [email protected] > Received: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 1:55 PM > > > Hello folks: I just joined this list and am wondering if anyone is familiar with early pioneers in Essa. I am researching the (Alexander, then John) Stewart family that settled on Concession 10 Lot 2. > > Would anyone know when that area was first settled? I found no land petitions for a Stewart in Essa Twp in the Land records at the National Archives. Does this mean that at some point people just bought land without petitioning the colonial govermnment for it? > > John > ***************** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy > > Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ***************** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy > > Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=PID23384::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:NF_BR_sync:082009