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From: Adel <>
Subject: [UPP-CAN] Hooton, Jackson, Haines, Mitchell, Peeler, Cameron
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 12:15:04 -0700

Looking for any information on these families of Upper Canada who
settled near Lake Ontario in the Toronto - Etobicoke- areas where they
were granted land.
William Hooton (c1740-1808) was a retired soldier from the 14th of Foot
and the Queen's Rangers (or 1st American Regiment) and early applicant
for land in Etobicoke Tp. on the Humber River. His wife was Mary
-allegedly a Whitney (a family who also settled in the Humber Valley).
It appears the Hooton family came from Bedfordshire in England where
there are two baptism records in Bedford Town. Registrations of
marriages of his three daughters are at St. James Church in early Town
of York: Margaret Hooton to Isaac Mitchell in 1803 ( Isaac Mitchell
joined the 14th Regiment of Foot in 1786 and in the Queen's Rangers at
least from1792 then discharged 5 March 1798). Isaac died shortly after
his son John was born since his wife married another soldier, John
Peeler born in Lower Canada in 1811.

About 1801 Mary Hooton married Henry Jackson b c1752 allegedly in
Nottinghamshire (served in the English Reg. 40th of Foot), and later
operated the Peacock Tavern near the present west Toronto Junction. His
large family seems to have moved to the area of Markham and Uxbridge.
Charles Cameron from Kilmonivaig, Inverness (served in the 26th of Foot)
married Sarah Houghton/Hooton in 1808 and took up a land grant in
Toronto Tp. near Erindale and several of his large family moved to the
Acton area of Halton Co. It is very likely that Charles Cameron had at
least two sisters at York one, Mary, married John Berry in 1802 and
settled in Etobicoke Tp., as did Ann who married Philip Haines in 1808.

Thanks, Adel McKay

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