Hi John: Welcome to the Simcoe List. The entries for Stewart's on the 1861 census (for Essa) includes 20 names. They are all found on the same page that Doreen mentioned. These are the John and Alexander's listed. Alexander, age 12; John A, age 10; John W W, age 37; John A. S., age 6 and Alexander, age 85 (his wife, Ann, is also listed). On the 1861 census, John, age 10 and Alexander, age 12 are listed with Andrew and Annabella. There are Wills available for both John and Alexander when they died in 1925 and 1914 respectively. Both died in the town of Thornton and Alexander's place of birth is given as Tecumseth. There are no Stewart's listed on the 'Settlers Before 1837' ('A History of Simcoe County, by Andrew F. Hunter') list for Essa but there is an Alex Stewart in Tecumseh on Concession 6, Lot 19. On the 1871 census for Essa Township, John W W (found on the same page as Andrew and family in 1861) is found with his wife, children and Ann, age 94. Hope this is of some help. Regards, Lynne. > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:55:12 -0700 (PDT) > From: John Ausman <[email protected]> > Subject: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Essa Township > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > 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 > _________________________________________________________________ More storage. Better anti-spam and antivirus protection. Hotmail makes it simple. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671357
I have an Alexander Stewart of Tecumseth (b.1845 d. 1876). Married Elizabeth Ann Ausman in Tecumseth 1875-She later married William McDermott. In both marriage and death resistry Alexander's father is listed as Garred Stewart of Tecumseth. One source says Alexander was born in Ireland the other in Ontario. Not sure of the geography of where Essa is in relation to Tecumseth but maybe you can use the info.. good luck. Carolyn --- On Mon, 8/10/09, Lynne Kemp <[email protected]> wrote: From: Lynne Kemp <[email protected]> Subject: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Stewart Family To: "Simcoe Mailing List" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 9:52 AM Hi John: Welcome to the Simcoe List. The entries for Stewart's on the 1861 census (for Essa) includes 20 names. They are all found on the same page that Doreen mentioned. These are the John and Alexander's listed. Alexander, age 12; John A, age 10; John W W, age 37; John A. S., age 6 and Alexander, age 85 (his wife, Ann, is also listed). On the 1861 census, John, age 10 and Alexander, age 12 are listed with Andrew and Annabella. There are Wills available for both John and Alexander when they died in 1925 and 1914 respectively. Both died in the town of Thornton and Alexander's place of birth is given as Tecumseth. There are no Stewart's listed on the 'Settlers Before 1837' ('A History of Simcoe County, by Andrew F. Hunter') list for Essa but there is an Alex Stewart in Tecumseh on Concession 6, Lot 19. On the 1871 census for Essa Township, John W W (found on the same page as Andrew and family in 1861) is found with his wife, children and Ann, age 94. Hope this is of some help. Regards, Lynne. > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:55:12 -0700 (PDT) > From: John Ausman <[email protected]> > Subject: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Essa Township > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > 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 > _________________________________________________________________ More storage. Better anti-spam and antivirus protection. Hotmail makes it simple. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671357 ***************** 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