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From: "Toni Sinclair" <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Eldon (Ontario) Carmichaels
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:52:41 -0500


David,
Was this the right couple? or just a coincidence that the names are the same
(which DOES happen!)
"Home District" used to be a wide area around Toronto, before the population
was great enough to become a municipality of their own.
Victoria Co, was previously part of the Home Dist., Northumberland Dist.,
Durham and I think part of Peterborough District. When you are looking up
early records in Ontario, you might have to check all of these out!
Toni
-----Original Message-----
From: david lindsay <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, 6 February 2002 22:07
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Eldon (Ontario) Carmichaels


Thanks Toni. Like you I think 1831 may be early and Isabella may well have
been born on Islay. I am hunting there.

David Lindsay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toni Sinclair" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Eldon (Ontario) Carmichaels


> Hi David,
> A quick look through the Marriage and Baptismal Register of Rev. John
> McMurchy, (The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West - Colborne
> District 1841-1857) shows:
>
> "Robert Gillespie, of Brock twp, Home District, to Isabella Carmichael, of
> Eldon twp, Colborne dist., 6 Mar, 1849, by Rev MacMurchy. witnesses: John
> McDougal and Archibald Gillespie"
>
> Lucky hit! I think 1831 is a very early birth in Eldon township, but I
> could be wrong, or she might have been born enroute. There were a lot of
> Carmichaels in Eldon/Fenelon townships. I visited a cemetery near
> Woodville, Ontario (Eldon twp), and it seemed like half of the tomb stones
> read "......Carmichael, native of Islay."
>
> I hope you will enjoy being part of this list. I think it's the greatest!
> Cheers,
> Toni Sinclair,
> Niagara.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: david lindsay <>
> To: <>
> Date: Tuesday, 5 February 2002 14:07
> Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Eldon Carmichaels
>
>
> >
> >Hi everyone
> >
> >This is my debut on the list.
> >I am seeking help to find the family of Isabelle Carmichael, my great
> grandmother, wife of Robert Gillespie. Robert was born on Islay, a son of
> Donald Gillespie and Isabella McVickar. Isabelle C. was likely born about
> 1831 either in Eldon, Victoria county or on Islay. She was married in
1849,
> I believe in Eldon and died in 1858. She had brothers in the Eldon area as
I
> have letters to my grandfather from his Carmichael cousins.
> >
> >David Lindsay
> >Nanoose Bay B. C.
> >
> >
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> >
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