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From: "thomas rodgers" <>
Subject: Re: [ARMAGH] Daniel Wilson b. 1835
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 18:16:02 -0400
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Brenda,
Thank you for your e-mail. From the National Archives of Canada for the
burials at Grosse Ile, I found only three burials for the bark Achilles and
they I have already mentioned in my original e-mail. I have never found a
passenger list for the bark Achilles(400+ passengers). I have searched for
the marriage record for them without success. They belonged to St. Andrew's
church of Picton, which has been existence since 1833; but they had a fire
in 1949, which destroyed all records. The Presbyterian archives of Canada
found no record of their marriage.

Tom


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brenda Pilson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ARMAGH] Daniel Wilson b. 1835


> Hi
> Just a couple of suggestions if you haven't already tried them. You
> know the name of the ship so have you checked the passenger list. Also
> have you searched for the marriage c1854.
> Regards
> Brenda
>
> thomas rodgers <> wrote:
> 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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