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    1. Glenarm Cemetery
    2. John Conley
    3. At the Lindsay Registry office I found a rather convulted group of entries for the Glenarm Ontario Cemetary, where many former family members from Islay Scotland are buried. There is, in my family history the story that Donald Spence of Islay Scotland and later Islay Ontario donated the land. The entries do show he owned the 1/4 acre lot, purchased from Donald McFadden, who had bought it from Hugh McKinnon. The original purchase price was 15 pounds. After Donald Spence owned it it was later sold for 375 dollars. I don't know about the 'donation' perhaps the monies were returned to the church. Later entries for this lot on which the cemetary sits at the present time appear to be trustees of the cemetary. I did not have the time or funds to copy everything. The good news for researchers wanting to check out documents in the Registry office in Lindsay is that they are still using books with the original hand written entries, unlike much of the urban area of the province which has computerized the information. In the event you have not searched in Ontario Registry Offices you need to find the township, then the lot and concession number in a book. That book has entries such as Donald Spence et ux (means and wife) discharge of instrument xxxxx where that is a previous line, perhaps a loan or other 'instrument'. You can take down that number and then have the copy of the deed, will, or document brought from the archive. You can copy pages at a cost. If you look at the book for say Concession 1 Lot 20 Fenelon Township (the cemetary) you pay $8.00 to look at the book. Plus more for documents. I was in a hurry and did look in 3 books and I guess the surprise I registered caused the clerk to say "You only looked at 1 book right....shake your head up and down now....that will be 8$. " Too bad I was in such a rush, but it was a surprise trip as my Mother needed to visit her sister at the last minute so I drove. I can confirm something I saw here before, and have some video showing it, but the fellow who lives on Lot 17 Conc 2 where Donald Spence setteled is the last 'non' amish farm for some area around the Islay Road. I did see teams of horses in fields, and it was a bright spring day. I'll see what pictures I have when they come back and will try to post the list and find a home for the short video showing the Glenearm Church, the cemetary and the Islay Road. John Conley Great Great Great Grandson of Donald Spence the Distiller at Lossit Farm and his wife Anne Hay Storrie (Storey) the daughter of the Exice Man of Islay.

    05/16/2006 04:22:45