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Canadian Census sub schedules

Canadian Census sub schedules

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 2:50PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Thompson
Can someone tell me if there is a way to find more percisely where a person lived in the early Canadian censuses. I thought the sub schedules provided this info but I can't remember how to access them.
Specifically, I'm trying to determine where Rich'd and Martha Thompson were living in the 1881 census. The census shows they were in Petersborough East but that's it. I think they were close to Haliburton (Dysart township?) but I'm not certain.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dan Harvey
Snohomish, Washington

Re: Canadian Census sub schedules

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 4:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
You have to use the Archives Canada website

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1881/Pages/ontario.aspx

Hope it is what you need.

Ginette

Re: Canadian Census sub schedules

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 5:07PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Thompson
Thank you, Ginette,
I see they lived in sub-district K, which included townships Dudley and Dysart and Harcourt. I was hoping to get a bit more defined but maybe they didn't bother with that.

Dan

Re: Richard THOMPSON of Dysart Township, Ontario

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 8:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 21 Jul 2015 12:52PM GMT
Surnames: THOMPSON, WALLIS
From the book, Fragments of a dream : pioneering in Dysart Township and Haliburton Village -

"... The second family were the Thompsons. Richard and Martha were a middle-aged couple with four teenagers, Joshua, John, James and Jane. They settled on Lot 5, Concession V, and in the early years Richard worked on the Stewart farm ...

In the twenty-two years that he lived in Dysart, Richard Thompson succeeded in clearing only nineteen acres. In 1885 the whole family moved away and did not return."

Search for Thompson - see pages 46, 51, 255 and 288
http://www.nosracines.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=4527


Peterborough Co, 1879 Marriages

9261-80 (Peterborough Co): Stephen WALLIS, 24, yeoman, Mariposa twp., Dysart, s/o William & Malinda, married Mary Ann THOMPSON, 18, England, Dysart, d/o Richard & Martha, witn: James ORR & Jane Ann THOMPSON, both of Dysart, 17 Dec 1879 at lot 5, con 5 of Dysart twp.
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maryc/peter79.htm

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https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-159391-651443-19?...


http://www.dysartetal.ca/

See the Official Plan maps in red on the right. I'm not sure which area they were in, and each one probably has a Lot 5, Con V.
http://www.dysartetal.ca/portfolio-view/planning/


Here is one Lot 5, Con V. It's a beautiful area with lakes, trees and rocks - but not very good farmland.

http://gis.haliburtoncounty.ca/HCWEB/Flexcomm/?center=718584...

Re: Richard THOMAS of Dysart Township, Ontario

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 9:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Thompson
Excellent! Thanks so much. I knew about the marriages but that was about it. Also, thanks for the concession map; that helps.
From researching the area I got a sense of the beauty and hope to take a trip through the area some time.
BTW, Richard and Martha Thompson moved to Saskatchewan and ultimately settle in Indian Head. I'm actually researching one of their daughter, Eliza Lavenia, who I believe is my g-g-grandmother. She married Hugh John McMillan around 1885. There is no information on her in the Thompson (or McMillan) family trees I've looked at but some of the records I have found sure have me convinced there is a likely fit. So far I haven't found their, Eliza and Hugh's, married record but I'm still looking to confirm my conclusion.
Dan

Re: Richard THOMPSON of Dysart Township, Ontario

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 9:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 21 Jul 2015 12:50PM GMT
Surnames: THOMPSON, RODGERS, ROGERS
There is an Elisa born 1868 in this tree. Where do you think they got married?

http://mikiandmatt.com/family/individual.php?pid=I159&ge...


Do a Thompson (and married names) search in this Indian Head book, and see page 704 - "Dick was named after his grandfather Richard, who emigrated with his wife Margaret Rodgers to Upper Canada in 1860 from their native Yorkshire, England. Their son Joshua was the eldest of eleven children ..."
http://www.nosracines.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=2617

Re: Richard THOMAS of Dysart Township, Ontario

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 11:39PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Thompson, McMillan
You're good. You found the right family and several of the main sources of information I have used in my research. Unfortunately, I have never been able to contact the orginated of the Thompson family tree, Matt Thompson, you sighted even by contacting other Thompson family members. Matt's tree is probably the best one I've run into.

I also had the Anglican Church Archives in Regina, SK look for a marriage record for Eliza Thompson and Hugh McMillan but nothing was found.

From online SK vital records (http://genealogy.ehealthsask.ca/vsgs_srch.aspx), the third child of Eliza and Hugh's children, Hugh "Wilfred" McMillan,, was born in Saskatchewan on 12 Oct 1895 (registration #1835). Eliza is shown as Eliza Nevina Thompson, which should be 'L'evina although I've seen the middle name spelled in various ways. I haven't yet requested the birth record.

The MicMillans moved ot Devil's Lake, North Dakota shortly after Wilfred was born. Eliza died in Devils Lake in 1906 from tonsillitis. Hugh remarried several more time and is shown in the 1921 census living in Saskatchewan with his third wife, Sarah. Hugh had a sister, Elizabeth "Betsy" McIntosh, living in Kindersly, SK at that time. After 1921 no one knows what happened to Hugh McMillan. Sarah moved to Everett, WA (nearby where I live) to be near Wilfred McMillan and his family but the only thing she ever said about Hugh was that he had died. No one really knows if this is the truth. Most say he was in the bootlegging trade. It's an on going mystery.

Dan
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