Hi Stella, transcription comes from Stone, burial is difficult to get but where I can I do. Some Cemeteries have become very strict on info they give out, some will not even tell you if person buried there. Keep well El ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stella Stanger" <sstanger@sfu.ca> To: <ontario@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 2:26 PM Subject: Re: [ONTARIO] McDowell Help > Hi Ellen, Not researching - but a question. > When there is a Cemetery Transcript - The information comes only > from the Headstones/ Markers ? - or from the Internment book in the > Cemetery Office ? > > Years ago - even with a transcript - I have visited the Cemetery > office - and found other burials not shown. > > Some people do not place stones - because of the expense at the time > - or other circumstances interfere - -over time - forgotten. > > > > > > At 11:15 AM 24/02/2012, you wrote: >>Chris, went through my Manvers Twp Cemetery Transcriptions & only McDowell >>(no McDowde) is a John & Mary in Janetville, also a Georgina. >> >>Am at Library tomorrow & can search a little futher if you like >> >>Ellen >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Christopher Wilson" <ctwilson67@gmail.com> >>To: <ONTARIO@rootsweb.com> >>Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:14 PM >>Subject: [ONTARIO] McDowell Help >> >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm having a devil of a time finding anything on the following people: >> > >> > Robert McDowell and his wife Caroline or Catharine. >> > >> > The only recorded item I can currently find is for their son's marriage >> > record: >> > >> > Vol 10-Pg 91 Thomas McDOWDE, 28, farmer, Ireland, Manvers, s/o Robert & >> > Catharine, married Ellen McDOWDE, 19, Manvers, same, d/o John (no >> > mothers >> > name given), witn: Henry HEASLIP & Thomas BEALL both of Lindsay on >> > March >> > 18, 1870 at Lindsay >> > >> > Transcribers have variously transcribed McDowell as McDowde (as above) >> > or >> > even McDoude! That said, I have even tried to search through census >> > records by first name and still cannot find anything on either person. >> > We >> > believe that Robert was born in Ireland (likely Ulster or Bangor) >> > around >> > 1820 and that he perhaps died in Janetville in 1914. We don't have a >> > maiden last name for Caroline (or Catharine). I have searched in both >> > Durham County, where their son was married and in Simcoe County, where >> > their son settled after his marriage, and neither county has any record >> > of >> > a Robert (as I said, I tried searching just on the first name) with a >> > close enough last name and a close enough age for the census' of 1871, >> > 1881, 1891, 1901 and 1911. >> > >> > Their son Thomas' 1901 census, he indicated that he immigrated in 1861 >> > (although the 1911 census indicated that he immigrated in 1860). We do >> > know that he married his cousin, Ellen McDowell, and have plenty of >> > information on her and her family. >> > >> > Any thoughts/input would be appreciated! I'm sure I've missed >> > something >> > or overlooked something! >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > Chris Wilson (3X great grandson of Robert McDowell) >> > >> > *********** >> > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: >> > http://www.geneabloggers.com/ten-people-genealogists-follow-twitter/ >> > >> > Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at >> > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com 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://www.geneabloggers.com/ten-people-genealogists-follow-twitter/ >> >>Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at >>http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com 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://www.geneabloggers.com/ten-people-genealogists-follow-twitter/ > > Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >