1838 - 1928 (90 years)
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Name |
James Douglas |
Birth |
1838 |
Christening |
Apr 1838 |
Farr, Sutherland, Scotland |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
12 Feb 1928 |
Canada |
Person ID |
I103065 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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Notes |
- Said to have been born in Inverness in 1838
Came to Ontario, Canada about 1840
In 1851 .. they are found in the Fredricksburg County, Ontario census
death notice from the Alvinston Ontario newspaper .. Feb 22 1928 .......
LATE JAMES DOUGLAS
ON Sunday Feb 12 death claimed another of the early pioneers of Brooke (township) , passed away in the person of James Douglas, in his 90th year, after many years as an invalid at his home.
The late Mr Douglas was born in Inverneess Sutherlandshire Scotland in the year 1838. In the year 1839, with his parents he came to Canada and settled in Kingston, a few years later taking up a farm on the Bay of Quinte, where he walked several miles to school. They lived there several years then moving to London (ontario) where his elder brothers kept a butcher shop. ..... he also served 3 and a half years in the American Civil war ...( as a Canadian, he was in the civil war) etc etc.
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