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From: "MAX SUTHERLAND" <>
Subject: Re: [ONT-LEEDS-GRENVILLE] Need everyone's help/knowledge....
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 22:27:20 -0500
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Lorna:

Bless you (and other genial and patient L-G listers) twice over. I only have
had William Thomas Janson in the 1851 Darling census (Lanark County), and
his letters to the government from there. He once wrote (in the early 1850s
from Darling) that he and his wife had 10 children, and your message
identifies the name of his wife and some of the kids. High mortality in that
family, it seems. He was actually born in London, England, and is ultimately
far more of a L-G teacher and resident than of Lanark. He's really one of
your own.

Stay tuned: if Larry Boswell agrees, I'll transcribe one of Janson's Harlem
letters for the 'list'.

You L-G folks have done a lot to make my day!!!

Max
(in yer frozen, windswept national capital, contemplating our manifold sins)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lorna Johnston" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [ONT-LEEDS-GRENVILLE] Need everyone's help/knowledge....


Hi;
I have found William T Janson in the 1871 census of Bastard Township on page
22 lines 49 & 50 and pagr 23 lines 1,2,374

William T Janson age 52 born Ontario Baptist Teacher living on Lot 15
Con. 5
his wife Margaret age 48
Margaret age 22
John H age 13
Elizabeth age 11
Isabella age 4

I looked in some of the cemeteries in the area and did not find any Janson
burials.

Lorna

----- Original Message -----
From: "MAX SUTHERLAND" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ONT-LEEDS-GRENVILLE] Need everyone's help/knowledge....


> Listers:
> One of those infamous 'senior moments' has struck again, with my memory
> betraying me. The name of that poor teacher wasn't "Hanson". It was
> "Janson". Guess I'll have to train myself always to consult my notes
before
> rushing to the keyboard.......my apologies.
>
> Max
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Heather Gray" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 4:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [ONT-LEEDS-GRENVILLE] Need everyone's help/knowledge....
>
>
> Hi Max,
> Yes, Harlem does still exist. I was there last summer and actually
> living just south of it. Very small place, literally. There wasn't much
> there, a cemetery, church, I think it was still there. I'm a bit
confused
> as I also have a couple of books on Leeds Co. and can't remember if it
was
> in there I saw the pic of the church or actually saw it.
> I plan on going back once the snow is gone and take some pictures. Did
a
> few at the cemetery but need more.
> I just took a quick look in the books I have to see if there was any
> reference to the family name Hanson. Sorry, no luck.
> Thank you for the link to the rebellion of 1837. I appreciate that
very
> much. Hopefully someone knows where I'd look for a list of the militia
of
> that time.
> Heather
>
> MAX SUTHERLAND <> wrote: Heather:
>
> No, it had nothing to do with the Irish. References of this sort in local
> histories and family histories invariably pertain to the turning out of
the
> militia during the Rebellion of 1837 (which in Upper Canada didn't result
in
> much danger east of Toronto).
>
> If you go to Google, call up "Canada pages" and type in "Rebellion of
1837",
> you'll find oodles of stuff on that event.
>
> I am interested, though, in the reference to "Harlem" in Bastard Township.
I
> can't find it on modern Ontario maps - sounds like one of those 'vanished
> villages'. Anyone on the list familiar with it? I ask because a fine but
> unfortunate retired teacher from Lanark County was last heard from about
> 1875, asking in a letter written from "Harlem, Ontario" for a pension, and
> attaching a doctor's certificate stating he'd been diagnosed with prostate
> cancer, poor fellow. I haven't found his burial place, and not even a
death
> registration. He was a "William Hanson", an English immigrant from the
> 1840s, but one with genuine teacher's college training. Anyone out there
> have suggestions about how to 'find' him?
>
> Max
> (Ottawa)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Heather Gray"
> To:
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 3:35 PM
> Subject: [ONT-LEEDS-GRENVILLE] Need everyone's help/knowledge....
>
>
> I am doing some work on the family "Gallagher" of Leeds Co. I recently
came
> across the following quotation:
> "As his name would indicate, he is of Irish descent, his father coming
to
> Canada in 1836, just in time to demonstrate his natural characteristic by
> joining the militia and taking a hand in the defence of his newly adopted
> country."
> My question(s):
> What militia would he have joined? (He settled immediately in Harlem,
> Bastard Twp.) Would there have been a reason for him to have to take "a
> hand in the defence of his newly adopted country."? The rebellion in
1837
> maybe? And if he did, if he was Irish, I'm right when I say that this
> rebellion had to do with the Irish? Or am I confused? I definetly need
> some guideance here.
> Can anyone help!
> Thank you so much for your time.
> Heather
>
>
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