Dear Coon,
Thank you very much for your response. Your family is not connected to ours, that I know of (although if we go back far enough, who knows?). Our Henry, son of Margaret, was born in 1879 in Ireland, which was four years after your Ellen, and therefore can not possibly be her father. New research indicates that our Henry who was born in 1879 in County Donegal Ireland, probably died there unmarried and without children.
However, I think I can assist you a little. First, there is a notable Culbert family in Huron, Ontario that descends from James Culbert and Rebecca Porte. Henry can not be their son (their son, Henry, was born 1857), but possibly a brother to James or some other relation.
Secondly, there is a marriage record on file for Henry Culbert who married Margaret Wall on 23 Jan 1862, both at the age of 24, in Bruce County, Ontario. This certainly seems to be your Henry and Margaret Culbert. Furthermore, the marriage record shows the parents of Henry as being John and Mary Culbert and the parents of Margaret as being Moses and Ellen Wall. From the date of the marriage and their age, we can estimate that both Henry and Margaret were born around 1838.
Following this information - In the Canadian 1881 census in Huron, Bruce County, Ontario:
Henry Culbert Married, male, Irish ETHNICITY (do not confuse this with being his nationality), Age 44 (thus born around 1837), Born in Ireland, Farmer, Church of England.
Margaret Culbert married, female, Irish ethnicity, Age 40, born in Ontario, Church of England.
John Silas Culbert, male, irish, 15, Ontario, CoE.
Joseph Henry Culbert, male, irish, 16, Ontario, CoE.
William E. Culbert, male, irish, 14, Ontario, CoE.
Mary M. Culbert, female irish, 11, Ontario, CoE.
Thomas E. Culbert, male, irish, 9, Ontario, CoE.
ELLEN REBECCA, female, irish, 6, Ontario, CoE. <-- here is your Ellen Rebecca Culbert.
There is also in Huron, Bruce County in 1881 census:
Moses Walls, married, Male, Irish, 70, born in Ireland, farmer, CoE.
Ellen Walls, married, female, Irish, 70, bornin Ireland, farmer, CoE.
AND, on top of this, there is a marriage record in Modreeny, Tipperary, Ireland for Moses Wall who married Ellen Greene in July 1831.
AND, there is a record for John Culbert and his wife, Mary Ward, living in Modreeny Parish, County Tipperary, Ireland, on 27 Dec 1828 their son, Robert Culbert, was christened at the Burntwood Church there. According to an unknown source (and therefore unreliable) this John Culbert was born between 1802-1808 and married Mary Ward at about 1828 (this is probably a guess based on the idea that their oldest known child was christened in 1828). There is also some indication that this John and Mary Ward Culbert immigrated to Biddulph, and that this MAY be them:
1881 Canadian Census, Biddulph:
John Culbert, married, male, irish, 74, born in Ireland, farmer, CoE.
Mary Culbert, married, female, irish, 70, born in Ireland, CoE
Richard Culbert, married, male, irish, 28, born in Ontario, Farmer, CoE
Jane Culbert, married (probably Richard's wife), irish, 22, born in Ontario, CoE.
Mary Ann Culbert, single, irish, 23, born in Ontario, CoE.
Huldia M. Culbert, female, irish, 2 months old, born in Ontario, CoE.
William Dobbs, male, irish, 60, born in Ireland, Retired Farmer, CoE.
(The ages indicate that this Robert was not their son, but possibly a grandson. It is very unusual for women to give birth after the age of 40.)
The LDS has listed as the children of John Culbert and Mary Ward the following (unreliable):
Robert Culbert b. 1828 County Tipperary
Henry Culbert b. 1838 Carleton, Ontario (this is your Henry)
William Culbert b. 1841 Biddulph
Rebecca Culbert b. 1843 Biddulph
Thomas Culbert b. 1845 Biddulph
Joseph Culbert b. 1848 Biddulph
Richard Culbert b. 1851 Biddulph
Mary Anne Culbert b. 1857 Biddulph
(Obviously there is room here for Eliza who was born 1829/1830 and James who was born around 1821-1823).
There is a record of Thomas Culbert, 23, of Biddulph son of John and Mary Culbert, marrying Letitia Dempster, 24, of Adelaide, daughter of Robert and Eliza Dempster. Witnesses: Joseph Culbert of Biddulph and Elizabeth Dempster of Adelaide on 06 Dec 1870 in Biddulph.
Also: Joseph Culbert, 26, farmer, born in Biddulph, son of John and Mary Culbert married Elizabeth Dempster, 26, born in Adelaide, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Dempster. Witnesses: James DAGG (this is the son of Richard Dagg and Eliza Culbert) and Mary Ann Culbert, both of Lucan. Marriage: 26 Sept 1876 in Adelaide. (This indicates a connection between John and Mary Culbert and Eliza Culbert Dagg.)
There is also a record for another John Culbert and his wife, Honor Whelan living in Modreeny Parish, County Tipperary, Ireland on 03 July 1831 as their son John Culbert Jr., was christened in Lougham Church there. There is also a marriage record for this John Culbert (Sr.) marrying Honor Whelan on 03 March 1829 in the same church. Also according to this marriage record he was born about 1805.
Other things that may be helpful:
There is a marriage record for Henry and Margaret's son, William Edward Culbert, age 28, farmder born Huron twp, son of Henry and Margaret Culbert married Rachel Harris, 23, born in Kinloss, daughter of Henry and Mary Harris. Witness James Harris (prob. brother of Rachel) and Nellie Culbert (prob. sister of William) both of Holyrood, on 04 March 1896 (marriage date) in Holyrood (marriage place).
Another marriage record for their other son:
Thomas Ezra Culbert, 34, farmer, born in Huron twp in Bruce County, son of Henry Culbert and Mary Wall (or Watt), married to Sarah Ann Berry, 32, born in Brant, daughter of Henry Berry and Elizabeth Tanner. Witness: Robert Patterson of Bentinch and Fanny Berry of Brant, on 01 Nove 1905 in Brant twp.
Another of Henry and Margaret's children marriage record:
Jas. (James) Needham, 29, yeoman, born Kincardine, son of Samuel and Mary Needham, married Mary Marilla Culbert, 21, born in Huron twp, daughter of Henry and Margaret Culbert. Witnesses: Joseph H. Culbert of Huron and Annie M. Collins of Kincardine. Marriage: 29 January 1890 at the residence of the bride's father.
And Another:
John Silas Culbert, 25, farmer, born in Huron twp, son of Henry and Margaret Culbert, married Elizabeth Needham, 25, born in Kincardine twp, daughter of Samuel and Mary Needham. Witnesses: Joseph Culbert of Huron twp and Isabella Needham of Kincardine twp. Marriage 11 April 1888 at St. John's Church, Bervie.
Another marriage record in Bruce County:
Samuel Culbert, 24, born in Ashfield, son of Thomas Culbert and Jane Martin, to Rachel McLeod, 19, Huron Twp in Lucknow Co., daughter of Murdoch McLeod and Ann Buchannan, witness WH Revitt and Ellen Revitt, on March 1887 in Lucknow. (It is interesting to note here, that James Culbert and Rebecca Porte lived in Ashfield, Huron County. And this further indicates that there may be some sort of link between Henry, James and Thomas.)
According to a birth record Samuel Culbert son of Thomas Culbert and Jane Martin was born 10 March 1862 in Ashfield, Huron County, Ontario.
According to a family tree found in the LDS database (and thus not terribly reliable), Thomas Culbert who married Jane Martin was born 20 March 1804 in Ireland. According to another tree, Thomas Culbert who married Jane Martin was born 1821 in Belfast. (Census records has his birth year as being anything between 1804 to 1824. The census is notorious as getting ages wrong more than any other information.)
Another child of Thomas and Jane Martin Culbert: Abraham Culbert b. 02 Sep 1857 in Ashfield.
Also James Culbert son of Thomas and Jane Martin Culbert, born 20 Jan 1846 in Ireland. Indicating that Thomas and Jane Martin Culbert immigrated sometime between 1846 and 1857.
This family tree of Thomas Culbert and Jane Martin seems very well documented. And it does appear that this family moves to Lucknow, Bruce County, Ontario, where Henry Culbert and Margaret Wall (Watt) are living.
There is also a marriage record for an Eliza Culbert b. around 1829 in Tipperary, Ireland, who married Richard Dagg 21 March 1848 in Bruce County, Ontario. (Note that James Culbert born around 1824 and Rebecca Porte are also from Tipperary.) Richard Dagg was living in Biddulph and Eliza was living in Kincardine at the time. Richard was born 1818 also in Tipperary. (It is also interesting to note the James and Rebecca Poris Culbert, as well as Richard and Eliza Culbert Dagg were not only all from County Tipperary, but also from the same parish of Modreeny.)
This marriage record seems to back up the claim a little bit:
Robert Wellington Dagg, 38, born in Rudolph Twp of Kincardine, Laborer, son of Richard Dagg and Eliza Culbert, married Annie McLeod, 34, born in Ripley, daughter of Donald and Katherine McLeod. Witnesses: William Wall of Kincardine and Annie McLeod of Ripley. Marriage: 23 February 1903 at Ripley. (This makes it compelling that Eliza Culbert Dagg *may be* the sister of Henry Culbert and/or James Culbert - notice the names: McLeod, Wall, Culbert.)
Also: James Dagg, 38, carpenter in Biddulph twp in Kincardine son of Richard Dagg and Eliza Culbert married Sarah Ann Langstaff on 14 March 1900 at Clinton in Huron County. (Back and forth between Bruce county and Huron County).
This is also very interesting - On 12 May 1866 in Kincardine twp, Thomas Cenguingard(?), 27, born in England and currently living in the US, married Flore Mathieson, 22, born in Cape Breton and living in Kincardine twp, daughter of Murdoch and Ann Mathieson. Witness: JOHN CULBERT JR of Kincardine. (It is possible that this John Culbert Jr. is brother to Henry, who claims his father's name was John on his marriage record, and who is about the right age to be John Jr.'s brother.)
and this is compelling: 1851 Canadian census, Biddulph, Bruce County:
William Culbert, Farmer, born in Ireland, CoE, 25, male, married.
Margaret Culbert, born in Ireland, CoE, 20, female, married.
(There is an unreliable source that says this William Culbert was born around 1827 in Modreeny Parish, County Tipperary.)
There is also this marriage record, which is... interesting:
William Culbert, 34, widower, farmer, born in Ireland living in Biddulph, son of William and Margaret Culbert, married Ann Simpson, 27, Huntly PQ, McGillivray, daughter of William and Catharine Simpson. Witness: bride's parents both of McGillivray. Marriage: 25 Dec 1872 Trinity Church, Ailsa Craig.
Also (unreliable) Mary Jane Culbert b. 1832 married William Hodgins around 1855 in Bruce County, Ontario.
More about James Culbert and Rebecca Portis - according to various sources (unknown reliability) James and Rebecca emigrated from County Tipperary in 1864. There is a marriage record for them in Modreeny Parish, Tipperary, Ireland for 01 Apr 1839 (Rebeeca Porte). According to Karen Snow (unknown reliability) Thomas Culbert and Jane Martin emigrated from Belfast, Country Antrim, Ireland sometime between 1845 and 1848. Furthermore, she says that this Thomas Culbert was the son of Thomas Culbert and Jane Neill.
The following Culberts are listed in the index of a book called "Toils, Tears, Triumph - History of Kincardine Township" (Kincardine is in Bruce County, Ontario) - David, Duane, Edith, Edna, Eliza, Elizabeth, Glen, Jane, Joan, John, Joseph, Lilly, Madeline, Mary, Nancy, Roy and William. These names appear to be a combination of Thomas and Jane Martin's children, as well as Henry and Margaret Wall's children.
From all of this, it LOOKS as though James Culbert who married Rebecca Portis, Eliza Culbert who married Robert Dagg, Henry Culbert who married Margaret Wall, William Culbert who married an unknown Margaret, and John Culbert Jr., appear to be related somehow. They are all from Modreeny Parish, County Tipperary, Ireland, they all emigrated from there around the same time, they were all born around the same time and they all arrived at the same destination. But you will need to do more research to be certain. As to whether or not Thomas Culbert who married Jane Martin is connected... it seems unlikely, though there is always a possibility. You would need to research this more as well.
I can't stress this enough - DO NOT TAKE THIS AS FACT. Just use this as a starting point for your research, as an indication of where you can look for the facts. But do not take them as facts themselves. You need to verify. I hope it helps.