And, if it's of any help, those ancestors in Ireland must have been Presbyterian. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Hart Anthony" <cushkaren@gwi.net> To: <Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [Sc-Ir] Ontario Irish/Ulster-Scots/Whatever > Just a bit more information about Irish Protestants in Ontario, this from > my own background: > > My grandfather's grandparents left northern Ireland in 1840, immediately > after marrying, to go to Canada. Here is what I know: > > Samuel Hart (b. abt. 1815, "north of Ireland, near Belfast, in Ulster", > poss. Co. Cavan, m. Rebecca Kelly from Co. Armagh March 15, 1840.) > Rebecca was the youngest of four girls: > Anna Bella Kelly (b. about 1800) > Jane Kelly > Mary Kelly > Rebecca Kelly > > (1) Anna Bella Kelly m. John Caughey (b. Callyshiel, Co. Armagh, d. > November 25, 1871, m. Anna Bella Kelly January 17, 1828 in Clare > Presbyterian Church (Co. Armagh?), Ireland.) > > (2) Jane Kelly m. David Jeffrey October 28, 1831, in the same church. > > (3) Mary Kelly m. James McHenry April 23, 1839, in the same church. > > (4) Rebecca Kelly m. Samuel Hart March 15, 1840, and they left > "immediately" for Canada. > I do not know what ship they traveled on, nor where they landed in Canada. > I do know they soon were living in Bishop's Mills, Oxford-on-Rideau > Township, Ontario, Canada. > > Rebecca Kelly's father was named James Kelly, but I do not know anything > about his siblings or his parents or where they lived. It is possible > that James Kelly had a brother John. James Kelly died between October 28, > 1831 and April 23, 1839, as he was present for his first two daughter's > weddings, but not for the last two. > > It is possible that Rebecca Kelly's mother was Jane ? but that is not > definite. > > I would love to know more about Samuel Hart (b. Ireland) and also about > the parents of Rebecca Kelly (b. Ireland), as well as previous generations > in Ireland. All of that is likely to be in Co. Cavan (family memories) or > possible Co. Armagh (since Rebecca Kelly's family church was there.) > > Last summer, my husband and I traveled to Bishop's Mills, Ontario, Canada, > and we found the log cabin that Samuel Hart and Rebecca Kelly built and > lived in. It is being lived in and loved by a family who is working on > making it look like it did when it was built. It still does look exactly > like that -- I mean they are restoring it where needed. Townspeople knew > it as the Hart cabin. We also found the Minish cabin (see more info below > if you are interested.) > > Following is the line from Samuel Hart and Rebecca Kelly who married in > Ireland. If it is more information than what you are interested in, just > skip it! > > In Canada, Samuel Hart and Rebecca Kelly Hart had 4 children: > James Hart b. 1843 > Martha Jane Hart b. 1844 > Samuel Hart, Jr. > Maurice Hart, b. December 25, 1850 > > Maurice Hart married a girl from the farm next door in Bishop's Mills: > Catherine Minish, poss. b. 1845, as her gravestone says "died March 26, > 1911, at the age of 66 years." We also found the Minish cabin, sure > enough, visible from the Hart cabin's back yard. > > Maurice Hart and Catherine Minish Hart had nine children, all born in > Canada: > (1) Samuel Hart (b. February 11, 1868, m. Mary Ellen Snowdon, had one > child Ruby Elizabeth Hart. Mary Ellen Snowdon died at the age of 97.) > (2) David Lorenzo Hart (b. March 28, 1870 d. March 12, 1908) > (3) Margaret Hart (b. December 20, 1872. Never married, d. February 12, > 1961) > (4) Ella Hart (b. July 13, 1875, m. ? Gibson, had two children Mansell > Gibson and Bernice Gibson, died September 03, 1959) > (5) Charles Merrill Hart (b. July 7, 1877, d. September 08, 1961) > (6) Eli Maurice (Morris) Hart (b. March 25, 1879, m. Carrie Bliss (b. > October 1885, d. 1975) August 02, 1905, had two children Merrill Bliss > Hart and Lauren Bliss Hart, d. > (7) Agnys ("Nancy") Hart (b. October 12, 1881, d. 1923) > (8) Elizabeth Ruby Hart (b. November 09, 1883 d. April 17, 1884 at the > age of 2 years and 5 months) > (9) Archibald "Albert" Arthur Hart (b. January 24, 1885, d. December 16, > 1953) > > Eli Maurice Hart moved to Hartford, Connecticut, lived in a boarding > house, and married the daughter of the owner of the boarding house. Her > name was Carrie Bliss (b. October 1885, d. 1975). They are my > grandparents. They had two sons. > > (1) Merrill Bliss Hart (b. August 19, 1920, m. Norma Grace Thomas (b. > 1915, d. 1972), had two children named Merrill and Lauren, and d. 1969. > > Merrill Bliss Hart and Norma Grace Thomas Hart had two children: > (a) Thomas George Hart, b. 1936, m. Inger from Sweden, lives in Sweden, > has three children: Stephen, Birgitta, and Karin, also grandchildren) > (b) Margaret Ruth Hart, b. March 18, 1943, had four children: William, > Merrill, Thomas, James), d. August 29, 1989) > > (2) Lauren Watson Hart (changed his name at the age of 21 to Lauren Bliss > Hart) (b. November 20, 1914, m. Ruth Margaret Kelley [this Kelley has an > e] (b. November 5, 1916, had three children named Karen, Steven, and > Jill), d. February 01, 1992) > > Lauren Bliss Hart and Ruth Margaret Hart had three children: > (a) Karen Ruth Hart (that's me! b. October 01, 1940, m. Gerald Jordan > Reese September 02, 1962, had two children Michael Todd Reese and Brian > Hart Reese, divorced 1975, remarried to Cushman Dodge Anthony 1976) > (b) Steven Merrill Hart (b. February 07, 1942, m. Carlotta Bethea, no > children) > (c) Mary Jill Hart, known as Jill Hart (b. November 24, 1945, m. Thomas > Johnson, had two children Tammy and Carrie) > > Karen Ruth Hart Reese and Gerald Jordan Reese had two children: > (a) Michael Todd Reese (b. October 13, 1964, lives in Hawaii, not married) > (b) Brian Hart Reese (b. September 5, 1965), lives in Virginia with > long-time girlfriend, has one child Jennifer Myita Hart Reese (b. August > 26, 1999) > > That's all for now. I would greatly appreciate any information on the > first named people in this story: Samuel Hart and Rebecca Kelly, who > married in Ireland. > > Karen Hart Anthony > Falmouth, Maine > USA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <RKMacmaster@aol.com> > To: <Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 4:52 PM > Subject: [Sc-Ir] Ontario Irish/Ulster-Scots/Whatever > > >> The new thread on Irish Protestants in Ontario is interesting and >> illuminating on the large migration from all parts of Ireland, not just >> Ulster. >> >> Bruce S. Elliott, Irish Migrants in the Canadas (Montreal: McGill >> University >> Press, 1988), 2nd edition, 2004, $32.95 US and Canada, tells this story, >> primarily through case studies of Protestant emigrants from North >> Tipperary to >> Ontario. This is an outstanding book, that I considered groundbreaking >> when I >> reviewed it in 1988 (and my review is still quoted in the publisher's >> blurb). >> The author is a trained genealogist who drew on genealogical records of >> many >> Ontario families. >> >> Donald Harmen Akenson, The Irish in Ontario, also from McGill, is another >> good book on the topic. Akenson has researched and written widely on >> both Ulster >> and rural Ontario. >> >> Richard >> >> >> > > > >