Notes:

Died of tuberculosis.

Died:
of tuberculosis

Notes:

Arthur Dawson was president of Canadian Cottons; president of Belding-Corticelli, a silk manufacturer, and Dominion Woollens. He was also a director of the Bank of Montreal. His companies no longer exist. He was president of the Montreal Board of Trade.

(Medical):
He presumably died of a myocardial infarction. He had one previous heart attack.

Died:
Died in his sleep on the Montreal-Toronto train

Arthur married Mary Agnes LeRossignol on 30 Jun 1893 in Toronto, ON, Canada. Mary (daughter of Peter LeRossignol and Mary Gillespie) was born on 21 Jul 1872 in Quebec City, QC, Canada; died on 4 Feb 1958 in Montreal, QC, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(Medical):
She was severely demented for the last eight years or so, presumably with Alzheimer?s disease.

Birth:
Place not recorded. Levis?

Notes:

The following obituary for Richard Dawson (7), probably published on January 12, 1909, in The Montreal Gazette, is believed to have been written by his son, A.O. Dawson:
The funeral for the late Mr. Richard Dawson was held to-day (sic) from St. James Methodist Church. The service was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Young, pastor of the Church, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Graham, educational secretary of the Methodist Church, and former pastor, and the Rev. T.A. Halpenny, pastor of the Sherbrooke Street Methodist Church, also a former pastor. Mr. Dawson was born on January 7, 1826, in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. He came to this country with his parents at the age of six months. They settled near Bathurst on the Bay of Chaleur, naming the place in which they settled after their home town, New Bandon. In his young manhood he served as book-keeper (sic) in a large general store in Bathurst, later returning to manage his father's farm. Valuable grindstone being discovered near the homestead, he organized a company for its development, and carried on this industry for many years. To carry the products of the quarry to the markets in the United States, he built a vessel from native timber, but, unfortunately, this vessel was lost in a terrific gale, after having made but very few trips. In addition to supervising his farm and quarries, he acted as the chief magistrate of the district, and earned an envied reputation for his just judgement. He was also a leading spirit in the church of his choice, and for many years his home was the social and religious centre of the community, and headquarters of the clergy of all denominations. The severity of the north shore climate, together with advancing years, induced him to sell the farm and move to Campbellton, N.B., and later to Florida. Here he started an orange grove, which he ran for several years. In 1885 he returned to the homeland, and settled in Montreal, where he has since resided. His earnest and devoted Christian life will long continue to exert a helpful influence upon those who knew him. He is survived by his widow, three daughters, Mrs. (Rev.) S.B. Gregg, North Chatham, N.Y.; Mrs. W.C. Breedlove, Montreal; Mrs. Jennie D. Balcom, Montreal; and three sons, Dr. W.J.G. Dawson, Eldridge, Cal.; the Rev. G.F. Dawson, Chatham, N.B.; and A.O. Dawson, of the D. Morrice Company Ltd., Montreal. His nephew, Mr. D.C. Dawson, of the Western Union Telegraph Co., St. John, N.B., attended the funeral, together with a large number of personal Montreal friends.

--Other Fields
Birth: Quality: 1

Richard married Mary Lockhart in Summer 1848. Mary was born in 1828 in Woodstock, NB, Canada; died in 1914. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Peter was the owner and captain of a fishing schooner trading between Jersey and Gasp?. He sold his ship at Qu?bec and opened a dry goods store, first in Qu?bec City and later in L?vis, QC.

De Jersey ? Qu?bec vers 1855.

Peter married Mary Gillespie on 24 May 1862. Mary (daughter of James Gillespie and Mary Orr Jamieson) was born on 30 Apr 1840 in Little River, QC, Canada; died on 17 Dec 1935 in Westmount, QC, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Richard and Martha had a total of nine children. Martha: Two sisters of Martha Morgan married. One husband was Roland Bateman and the other was Robert Eddy. The New Brunswick Courier, St. John, dated June 29, 1839, stated that Martha Morgan died of paralysis at her residence near Bathurst, Gloucester County, on Saturday evening. (June 29, 1839, fell on a Saturday; therefore it is assumed that Martha died the previous Saturday, June 22, 1839.) Martha and Richard Dawson emigrated to New Bandon, NB, in 1826.

Notes from Greg Bishop give widely different dates but are obviously referring to the same person
Birth 1779
Death 13 Dec 1867 Gloucester County, NB
Burial Stonehaven Cemetery
Occupation Farmer
Moved to New Bandon, NB, near Bathurst, NB, in 1826. Richard and Martha had a total of nine children. Richard's gravestone dates his death as December 13 1869, at the age of 90.

Gordon Allison gives death as 22 June 1839 in Bathurst.

1829??? Richard Dawson, Moneen. Father held land at Moneen for 25 yrs, had a large family and emigrated to America to provide for part of them. At the time of emigration, the farm was in ? arrears, he left it to Richard and John Dawson ? the latter cleared up his part of tall demands. Richard has paid ?31.9.6 since his father left and John has paid ?51. Richard is now in arrears, having lost his crop last year and had a horse stolen. Has always been an improving tenant. Is asking for time to pay and not to be dispossessed. (http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/bandon_devonshire_estate_tenants_letters.htm)

Snippets from estate correspondence (http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/bandon_devonshire_estate_correspondence_snippets.htm)
28th Apr 1826 -Had toured the area and found that 'the poverty and ?? is truly appalling'.
?4th May 1826 - 557 families ? 2462 individuals in want and unemployed
402 families ? 1862 individuals may be relieved by affording them work of any kind which they are willing to accept
The remainder 155 families ? 600 individuals are totally destitute and incapacitated by sickness, bodily infirmity and age.
?470 has been collected for relief.
Work to be offered to those of the 1st class? At 6d or 8d per day and provide meal to be distributed twice a week to those incapable of work at the rate of 1 quart at each delivery for each adult and 1 pint for each child.
He expects to be able to manage for some time but will require the fund to continue.
?15th Apr 1826 - Met with Mr Newman, he 'gave me a very melancholy description of the destitute state in which many of these poor people are, weavers as well as others, the principal causes to the constant sickness which prevailed amongst that class, the entire of the late winter.'
He (Popham) agrees that all requiring it should be relieved as Paupers and not as belonging to any class of tradesmen Weavers or others but as Paupers alone ?it is a very nice and dangerous thing to interfere with the manufacturers and their workmen, in fact that noe of us are aware of the dangerous tendency, the supporting by subscription persons in combination and those very present bringing distress to their own doors by their own misconduct? ?the more private the thing is done, the more beneficial?

Birth:
reference NB Courier

Christened:
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sharonmh/Cork.Registers/Kilbrogan%20P144%20011.htm

Richard married Martha Morgan in 1808. Martha (daughter of James Morgan and Mary Good) was born in 1787 in Bandon, Co. Cork, Ireland; died on 22 Jun 1839 in New Bandon, Gloucester Co., NB. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Richard and Martha had a total of nine children. Martha: Two sisters of Martha Morgan married. One husband was Roland Bateman and the other was Robert Eddy. The New Brunswick Courier, St. John, dated June 29, 1839, stated that Martha Morgan died of paralysis at her residence near Bathurst, Gloucester County, on Saturday evening. (June 29, 1839, fell on a Saturday; therefore it is assumed that Martha died the previous Saturday, June 22, 1839.) Martha and Richard Dawson emigrated to New Bandon, NB, in 1826.

Greg Bishop gives same birth date and slightly different date of death.
Birth 1787 County Cork, Ireland
Death 22 Jul 1839 Bathurst, Gloucester Co, New Brunswick
Two sisters of Martha Morgan married. One husband was Roland Bateman and the other was Robert Eddy. The New Brunswick Courier, St. John, dated June 29, 1839, stated that Martha Morgan died of paralysis at her residence near Bathurst, Gloucester County, on Saturday evening. (June 29, 1839, fell on a Saturday; therefore it is assumed that Martha died the previous Saturday, June 22, 1839.) Martha and Richard Dawson emigrated to New Bandon, NB, in 1826.

Additional note by Greg Bishop

Died:
see note

Notes:

Lived in Jersey

Edouard + Elizabeth Esnouf. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

James and Mary moved to Qu?bec in 1837. They settled at Little River, Qu?bec, on a farm that was just visible north of Qu?bec City. They lived there for the rest of their lives. James was a "Scotch-English-Irishman" and a staunch Presbyterian. ("Memories of My Early Life" by Mary Gillespie Henderson)

Information below is from http://www.gillespieancestors.com/

James Gillespie, born in Scarnageeragh, County Monaghan, Ireland, April 20, 1810, was the son of John Gillespie and Sarah Woods Gillespie, his second wife. John Gillespie, a farmer and a weaver, whose father came from Glasgow, Scotland, was well-known in the county and was instrumental in raising a company of volunteers for Lord Charlemont in the Rebellion of 1798. Born in 1780, John Gillespie lived to the great age of 100.

By his first marriage, John Gillespie had two daughters and a son. The two daughters married brothers of the name Greer and immigrated to the United States; the son remained in Ireland. By his second marriage, he had 3 sons - Robert, James and Alexander, and one daughter, Sarah, who married John Smith. All of these immigrated to Canada, but Alexander contracted typhoid on the ship and died in the hospital in Quebec.

James Gillespie, who was employed on the estate of Lord Beresford, "Primate of all Ireland," was married in Lisnadill Church on December 31, 1835, to Mary Jamieson (b. 3-3-1814), one of
four daughters of Arthur Jamieson and Mary Orr, who had a farm about five miles from Armagh. She had a good voice and sang in the choir of Lisnadill Church, her father being precentor.

James Gillespie and his young wife came to Quebec in 1837. For a time he managed the farm of George Henderson at Little River, four miles from the city. This farm later became the Hossack farm. He soon rented the place, and lived there for about eight years. Here, four children were born - Eliza Jane, Mary, John and Sarah. In 1845, he rented the Hamilton farm, directly north of Scott's Bridge, and in this home were born James, George Arthur Stewart and Margaret. It was here that Eliza Jane was married, in the year 1857, to Alexander Buchanan.

In 1860, James Gillespie bought a farm nearby from Mr. Prendergast, which the family still owned, according to family records, as late as 1965. Mary was married to Peter LeRossignol there in 1862; Sarah to Alexander Gillespie (her cousin) in 1867, and Margaret to James Jack in 1876. The house was an old-fashioned, French-Canadian type, with a steep roof and sloping eaves. Fronted by the St. Charles River, the house had farmland extending almost two miles back towards Charlesbourg.

Two photos exist of Gillespie family homes in Little River. There is a discrepancy in records as
to whether the house at left is actually the Hossack house or the Prendergast house. Click on photo to see a similar house captioned by Mary Gillespie LeRossignol-Henderson, in her book, "Memories of My Early Life," as being her "birth-place." However, Mary Henderson's written description of the Prendergast house matches the architecture of the houses in both photos. When James Gillespie arrived in Quebec in 1837, he became affiliated with St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, where he was an active member and an elder for 35 years, during the long ministry of Dr. John Cook. He organized the first Sunday school in Quebec, and for a time, served as its superintendent at the Cameron Church in St. Roch. Greatly interested in education, he secured the services of a teacher from Ireland, Mrs. Story, and gave her the use of a cottage on the farm, in which she lived and where school was held. The dairy business that they ran on the farm supplied the Officers' Mess in Quebec with butter, all made into quarter pound prints with a thistle stamp.

After their children were married, with the exception of Agnes and Margaret, James and Mary Gillespie stayed on the farm for several years, until it was bought by their son, James Gillespie II. They rented an adjacent farm, where they lived until Mary Orr Jamieson Gillespie died on 2-25-1880. About 2 years after this, James Gillespie married a cousin, Mrs. McRoberts, n?e Woods, at Lucan, Ontario, and lived there for several years - and later at Park Hill. When his wife became too frail to keep house, she made her home with a daughter and James Gillespie lived with the Rev. and Mrs. James Henderson until his death on 10-8-1899. His body was taken to Quebec and buried in the family lot in Mount Hermon Cemetery.

James married Mary Orr Jamieson on 31 Dec 1835 in Lisnadill Church, Armagh. Mary (daughter of Arthur Jamieson and Mary Orr) was born on 3 Mar 1814; died on 25 Feb 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her brothers John and William James Jamieson came to Quebec. John worked for James Gillespie for a time and then went to West Winchester where he bought a farm. She was a very busy woman with a large family and a large dairy to look after. She had a good deal of musical ability which was inherited by some of her children and grandchildren. She was a pretty woman in her youth with good features and beautiful fair hair with a reddish tinge. But an attack of malaria caused it to darken and grow thin and when not more than fifty-five she began to wear a cap of white muslin at home and black lace with mauve ribbon bows when she went out for tea.