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From: "Helen Campbell Blair" <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Eldon (Ontario) Carmichaels
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:06:29 -0500
References: <002601c1b496$fd0a76a0$596cacce@hitachi>


Sandy

If you are still interested in Rev. McMurchy's christening register, try
here: http://www.tbaytel.net/bmartin/mcmurchy.htm

Transcription by Mary Crandall.

"Register of Baptisms by the Revd John McMurchy, Minister of the
Presbyterian Congregation, West Gwillumbury, Home District, U.C." Ontario
Archives microfilm G.S.6397.
This transcription covers the years 1842 to 1844. Only birth dates have been
included in the transcription, unless no birth date was given, in which case
the baptismal date is noted."
Covers West Gwillimbury, Nottawasaga, Erin, Mariposa, Eldon et al.
Busy fellow...
Cheerio
Helen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Toni Sinclair" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Eldon (Ontario) Carmichaels


> Sandy,
> The information I photocopied came from
> "The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/ Canada West - Colborne District,
> 1841-1857"
>
> The first list "Marriage and Baptismal Register of Rev'd John MacMurchie,
> Presbyterian Congretation West Gwillimbury Township, Home District"
> includes a lot of Eldon and Mariposa marriages.
>
> Baptisms for W. Gwillimbury doesn't show where the parents are from.
>
> However, I have a list (29 hand-written pages!)
> of "Canadian Presbyterian Church - Woodville - Baptisms", by Archie
Tolmie,
> a researcher in the area back in the 70s. If there is someone you want me
> to look for, please give me as much info as possible, and a little time
:-)
> and I'll try to find him/her in it.
>
> Toni
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandra J Carmichael <>
> To: <>
> Date: Saturday, 9 February 2002 16:33
> Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Eldon (Ontario) Carmichaels
>
>
> >Hi Toni,
> > Where does one find the marriage & baptism register for Rev. John
> McMurchy?
> >is it included in the Colborne District Marriage Register available
> >through Global genealogy? How about the marriage & baptism records
> >for Mariposa & Eldon townships in 1858-69 and 1869-73? I'm asking
> >because I bought the volumes for Newcastle District and Victoria
> >County and discovered when they arrived that they don't contain
> >records for Mariposa or Eldon.
> >regards, Sandy Carmichael
> >
> >
> >
> >>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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you
> >>are,
> >> > click here: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/surnames.htm
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> >
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