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From: "thomas rodgers" <>
Subject: Daniel Wilson b. 1835
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:27:45 -0400


My greatest Irish brickwall is Daniel Wilson. I only know that he was from Ireland. This is what I know about him:

He was born in Ireland in 1835 and migrated to Canada in 1847 and settled in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada in the same year. By the 1861 census, he is in Picton, Prince Edward County. There isn't any 1851 census for Picton. He dies there in 1922. I have his obituary, death certificate, and will. No information about where in Ireland he came from is listed in those documents. The death certificate(informant being his grandson) only lists father's name as Mr. Wilson. Picton is the largest town in Prince Edward County and Daniel's occupation is listed as blacksmith or grocer in the various censuses. Around 1854 he marries Mary Ann Jenkins and they have the following children: Samuel George, born in 1855; James, born in 1857; Alexander, born in 1860; Annie, born in 1862; and Emma(called Alice Maud), born in 1871. They were Presbyterians all their lives. Family traditions says that Daniel came from Ireland at the age of 12 and his mother died at sea.

I have recently come of couple of documents that may shed a little light on where Daniel came from and who his parents were. On the website for the National Archives of Canada, there is a database for burials at Grosse-Ile. In the database, there is Mary Wilson, age 54, buried June 5,1847. She is married to Samuel Wilson and they are from the county of Armagh. They sailed on the bark Achilles and the witnesses to the burial are John Wilson and Hans Boggs Hawthorn . The other information I discovered was on the website for the Hawthorn Family of Canada. John Hawthorne ,54,was on the same ship and was also buried at Grosse-Ile at the same time. Quoting from the web page, he was a minister among the convenanters of the parish of Toughgilly(sp?), county Armagh. His son, Huchison, age 18 months, also died. Could Mary and Samuel be Daniel's parents based on family tradition and Irish naming patterns that Daniel would have named his eldest son after his father? Any help!
would be appreciated.

Tom

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