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Removed from Perth to Chesley, Ontario, in 1871, entering into general retail business with his brother; later operated Chesley Creamery and a lumber camp on Bruce Peninsula; in 1906 moved to Saskatchewan where he engaged in retail business in Breslayor and Edam in that Province; was active in municipal affairs throughout his business life. | HALLIDAY Robert (I37)
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Actually son of Paula Kavanaugh | BAGGERMAN Thomas (I504)
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Address in 1886 was 631 Athlone, St. Louis, MO | Family (F130)
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Address in 1886 was 631 Athlone, St. Louis, MO | WIGMAN Dina (I435)
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Arrived in New York from Holland 22 July 1856 on ship S.Caroline. | Family (F17)
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Attended Acadia College and Boston Conservatory of Music. Quite unusual around 1890, as parents just had a small farm on South Bar - Cape Breton and had six children.
Macilla was a gifted pianist and artist. She was engaged to Capt. John Meech. He went to sea for a year, during which time she married his brother, William.
Macilla died of pneumonia about 1897 when Vivian was two years old. | RICHARDSON Marcella M (I144)
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Born at Dumcrieff to George Halliday and Mary Hastie, and baptized by the minister of Moffat Parish on March 11, 1745; died at Berryscaur, May 5, 1778.
He married Jean Dinwiddie (also spelled Jane Dinwoodie), who was born in 1741 and died at Dumfries in February, 1819.
John Halliday followed his father's trade of dyer and wauk-miller, living at Berryscaur. In 1778 an epidemic of some kind struck Hutton Parish with fatal results for many of its citizens, of whom John Halliday was one. He died on May 5, 1778, age 33 years, being buried in the parish churchyard where a stone stands to the memory of himself and his wife
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Capt. John Albert Meech was born on 14 Dec 1859 in Newfoundland. He died on 13 Jun 1931 in Brookfield, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia from stroke and was buried in Jun 1931 in Western Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.
John Albert was the captain of various vessels. He related to family members that he sailed around Cape Horn twenty-one times and that he was one of the first to sail through the Panama Canal. He also provided a picture of a five-masted schooner, 'Grace A. Martin', which he claims to have sailed. His tales have yet to be verified. Information on the ship 'Grace A. Martin' was obtained from the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine. The only captain mentioned in relation to the ship was her first master, Wm. F. Harding. The ship foundered in a winter gale 30 miles south of Matincus Island, Me., in January 1914. John Albert lived for a time in Maine where the ship was built and sailed, so it is possible that he could have been her master at one time.
Some time after suffering from a stroke, John Albert returned to Nova Scotia and spent the rest of his life living with his half sisters, Jennie in Brookfield and Winifred in South Bar. He passed away while living with Jennie. His body was brought to Maryland by his brother-in-law Angus MacLeod (Eliza's son).
John married Annie Dorothy Carsen on 30 Apr 1890 in Baltimore, Maryland. Annie was born on 11 Dec 1870 in Baltimore, Maryland. She died on 07 Jun 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland and was buried on 10 Jun 1925 in Western Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.
Surname also seen spelled Corson
http://www.jscook.net/meech.htm | MEECH John Albert (I205)
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Chesley was bright as a silver dollar. He put himself through McGill in medicine, and then practiced in Somerville, Massachusetts for many years. He was a fine doctor, kind and good. He was like a father to me, and his wife, Eleanor—well, words cannot tell how much I loved her. She was beautiful, talented, and good. She treated me like a daughter, and always kept telling me how much she loved me. To my dying day, I shall never forget her. When I trained at the Somerville Hospital, Chesley and Eleanor's house was my home. She died a few months after he died, in 1944. | RICHARDSON Chesley Alvah Clarence (I204)
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Contracted scarlet fever, went deaf, and became a teacher for the deaf in Oklahoma. | BAGGERMAN Yetta Severson (I68)
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Contracted typhus while traveling back from Holland. Died during train trip in Johnson, Pennsylvania. Buried in Madison Co, Ill | BAGGERMAN Jan (John) (I63)
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Entered banking in Chesley, becoming a bank manager at age twenty-two. Took up accounting and removed to the United States where he practiced his profession in New York, Boston, St. Louis, and Quincy, IL, with marked success. | HALLIDAY William Norman (I14)
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Ernest lived most of his life in Saskatchewan, Canada. He married, but his wife died in childbirth. He was a successful business man. His one son was killed in the First World War. When I was real young, my brother and I looked forward to his visits to us when he came to Sydney. I remember he always gave us a quarter to spend. Years later, he met my children—was especially taken with Betty. He died in 1944 and left me some money. | RICHARDSON Earnest Alton (I202)
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Graduated from Chesley Continuation School with a scholarship at the University of Toronto; following graduation entered upon mission work in Northern Ontario and Bible Society work in the Caribbean area; later did missionary work in California and Mexico. | HALLIDAY Robert (I39)
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Graduated from Washington University and St. Louis University's School of Law. Served in US Navy for two years during WW II. Acted as labor relations lawyer in St. Louis, MO and Boise, ID. Then private practice in St. Louis, MO. Then moved to Washington, DC as assistant administrator for the senator from Idaho. | HALLIDAY Norman Seward (I17)
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Graduated from Washington University in St. Louis | HALLIDAY Elizabeth Josephine (I16)
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Graduated from Yale University in economics and accounting, becoming a Certified Public Accountant. Served 5 years in the American Army with rank of captain. Engaged in accountancy in positions in New York, Seattle, and Los Angeles. In 1954 moved to Boise, Idaho where he was a comptroller of a large lumber corporation (Boise Cascade). | HALLIDAY William Robert (I13)
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He was a member of parliament from Cape Breton for several years. He had something to do with the pilots in Sydney Harbor. | RICHARDSON Arthur Remington (I203)
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http://www.jscook.net/sutherland.htm | SUTHERLAND William Ross (I317)
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Immigrated in 1856, age 19 | BAGGERMAN Gerrit (Garret) (I431)
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In 1815 Mary came to Canada with her parents. At the age of eighty she gave an account to the local newspaper (Almonte, Ont.) of her emigration to Canada and of the settlement of the family on the Scotch Line near Perth. In this she said that when her father and his family reached what was to be his future home he and his neighbours put up a "shanty", while her mother "sat down at the foot of a big basswood tree" along with her eight children, one of whom was but a few weeks old. In this pioneer settle¬ment Mary grew up. Her formal education was received in her father's school on the Line, her religious training in a Calvinist household and First Presbyterian Church in Perth. This strict discipline had a marked and continuing effect upon her life.
In 1827 at the age of seventeen Mary married Archibald Fraser and removed to his farm a mile or two up the Line. There four sons and four daughters were born to them. In 1845 her husband was killed in an accident with the first power-driven threshing machine to be used on the Line. Mary was left to raise a family whose ages ranged from 17 years to 3 months. "With that indomitable perseverance characteristic of Scotch women" - so wrote the local newspaper - "she kept her family together. On the evening of the funeral of her late husband, Mrs. Fraser handed her eldest son the Bible and asked him to take his father's place". After the family had established themselves in various places, Mary left the farm in her son James' care, building herself another smaller house on one corner of the homestead. There her father lived with her for the last eight years of his life.
About 1870 Mary removed to Perth where she resided for some years, then to Almonte, Ontario, where she lived with her daughter Jessie and finally to Spencerville, Ontario, where her death took place in 1904.
Mary Holliday Fraser (and she retained the spelling used by her father) was a woman of strong character. This was made evident when at the age of 35 she undertook the problems of a frontier farm and a family of eight children unaided, and with considerable success. Grandchildren who had known her retained memories of incidents which do much to reveal her basic attitude to life. They were usually rooted in her religious faith, the stern Calvinism of the "Cameronian" discipline. A few such may be told.
Her choice of Almonte as a place of residence was influenced largely by the fact that in that village there was an active congregation of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. As she became hard of hearing in her later years that church provided her with a seat specially placed immediately below the pulpit, that she might miss no part of the sermon. The "Sabbath" was observed in strict fashion. No beds were made that day, no meals cooked. When settlers on the Scotch Line might be in Perth it was customary for them to collect any mail for neighbours. Frequently such mail would be distributed on a Sunday following the Saturday visit to town. If a letter for Mary Fraser was so distributed it was put up on the clock-shelf, unopened until Monday morning. Her church disapproved of the use of hymns in public worship. When Mary lived in Spencerville, where the Presbyterian Church used hymns, she went with the family but refused to join in the service of praise and even to carry a hymn book. She approved of the criticism made by her Almonte minister of a hymn by Joseph Addison which concludes,
"For, 0!, eternity's too short
To utter all Thy praise";
He showed how false the doctrine in a hymn can be by slamming a hymn book shut and declaring "Eternity is long enough for anything".
Her interpretation of religious truth influenced her attitude towards more "secular" elements in life, especially the newer procedures of the younger generations. When her grandchildren who lived with her in Almonte showed an interest in the new feminine fashion of the bustle, her comment was, "If you had been born with a hump you wouldna like it". A story is told of how Mary once visited in Chesley, where her sisters Jane and Janet were living. Her younger relatives there wished to have a photograph of her. She is said to have refused to have it taken on the grounds that it was "making an image", and the picture had to be taken by stealth. This story bears the mark of confusion of persons, in which Mary may have been confused with her sister Jane.
No photograph of the latter is known to exist, while one of Mary, obviously a posed picture, does. If the Chesley story was correct, Mary must have changed her theological view at a later date.
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In 1907 moved to Pampa, TX | Family (F132)
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In July, 1827, she was married to Thomas Dobie by the Rev. William Bell of First Presbyterian Church, Perth. According to Mr. Bell her marriage to Dobie was bitterly opposed by her father. Mr. Bell's "Journal" records the event: "On a day in July, Thomas Dobie and Jean (sic) Holliday, two of my parishioners, came to be married. The bride's father was absent, as he pretended to be displeased with the match, though there was no apparent reason why he should be so. I was sorry for the poor bride, thus to be discountenanced by her nearest relatives at a time when she stood in need of every encouragement. She cried all the time of the ceremony and I believe solely for this cause. For some months after, too, I occasionally saw her in tears in the church, her father and mother having passed her in the street without speaking. This was not only unreasonable, but cruel, for the match was an equal one, and the young man was not only sober and industrious, but pious".
Apparently the Dobies continued to reside in the Perth area for some years, where Jane is said to have taught school for a brief period. Their son John attended his grandfather's school on the Scotch Line at one time. Later the family moved to the Spencerville area where they lived east of that town on a site which became and is still known as Dobie's Corners. Still later the family, its older members nearing maturity, moved westward to Williamsford, Grey County, where Jane's sister Janet and her husband A.S. Elliot had pioneered near Williamsford and Chesley. One son, Francis, remained .at Dobie's Corners where his descendants still live. The other members of the family went with their parents to the newer Huron Tract.
The Dobies remained staunch Presbyterians, Jane herself and several descendants giving their allegiance to the strict Calvinist beliefs practised by her father, John Holliday. On the occasion of her death in Chesley, an obituary summed up her life in these words: "She saw Perth grow from a single government store (of 1816) to a thriving town, and bore her share of all the hardships incident to the first settlers. She was a strict Presbyterian, and died in the firm belief of salvation through the merits of her Saviour".
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James Halliday was born to John Halliday and Margaret Johnstone at Boreland, Hutton Parish, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, being baptized there on January 29, 1814. He died on October 3, 1909, at Perth, Ontario, with burial in Elmwood Cemetery at that place.
At the age of eighteen months he was taken to Canada to settle on the Scotch Line near Perth, Ontario. There he attended the elementary school taught by his father.
On January 29, 1839, he married Janet Allan, a daughter of Francis Allan who had been one of the pioneers on the Scotch Line. A family of twelve was born to the union, two of whom died in infancy. Janet Allan died in 159( at the age of seventy. Subsequently James married twice, to Elizabeth Crawford on March 13, 1891, and upon her death to Sarah Ann Turner on December 8, 1899.
James continued to farm throughout his active life, living on his father's homestead. He bought the homestead in 1846, paying his father £330 for the freehold. In 1876 he sold the farm to James Armour for $5,600. The plot of land in which his parents and two siblings were buried was "reserved” from the sale, and right of access to it by members of the Halliday family was guaranteed in perpetuity. In the same year he retired to Perth where he resided until his death.
He took an active interest in municipal affairs, being Reeve of North Burgess for a number of years and the Township's representative on the County Council. His obituary in the Perth Courier stated: "In politics he was a Conservative and in religion a Presbyterian". This religious affiliation must have existed in four different Perth congregations. From 1817 to 1830, it was First Presbyterian from 1830 to 1836, St. Andrew's Church of Scotland; from 1836 to 1845, Reformed Presbyterian (Cameronian). In 1845 Knox Church was established in Perth, a congregation of the Free Presbyterian Church, and James became a charter member of it. He was a member of its Board of Management until a few years before his death and the teacher of the congregation's Bible Class for many years.
Upon his death in 1909, his obituary in the local paper, after recording events in his life, summed up his character in the words, "He was a man of common-sense ideas, practical in everything and his opinion was always sought for and valued''.
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John went to Holland against Nellie's wishes. Contacted typhoid fever on the way home and died in Penn. train station. Nillie lived with brother Henry Hoekstra in Madison Co. in 1880. | Family (F16)
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Learned his father's trade of dyer and wauk-miller; educated at Hutton Parish school, Boreland; appointed parish schoolmaster in 1796, "demitted" in 1798; practised his trade in Berryscaur until 1803 when he was re-appointed parish schoolmaster, residing thereafter in Boreland; resigned in May, 1815, to emigrate to Canada; there he settled near Perth, Ont., being schoolmaster to the Scotch Line settlers for over forty years. | HALLIDAY John (I123)
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MacKINNON, Ann Frances (ne Meech)
Died peacefully, at age 80, on July 6, 2002,
surrounded by her family, at St. Martha' Regional
Hospital in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, of complications
fromParkinson's Disease. She was a woman of great
faith and deep spirituality, grace, integrity and courage.
Born in 1921 in Charlottetown, P.E.I., she was
the daughter of Dr. Lloyd R. and Mary Meech.
Raised in North Sydney, N.S., she graduated from
Mt. St. Vincent Academy and College in 1941
as a dietitian. Married to Dr. Kenneth J.C. MacKinnon
in 1945, the couple moved to Montral in 1948
where they resided for over 30 years and raised
their nine children. They lived in Nairobi, Kenya
for 3 years, then returned to Nova Scotia and
spent 10 years in Halifax. They retired to Antigonish in 1991.
She is survived by her devoted husband;
daughters Sheilagh (William Hudon) of Denver, CO
and Southside Harbour, N.S., JoAnn
(Christopher Murphy) of Halifax,
Mairi (Sasha Manaas) of Montral,
Dr. Susan (Bruce Tucker) of Highland Park, N.J.,
Dr. Laura (George Cawkwell) of Chesterton, IN
and Kathryn of Halifax; sons Dr. David (Geraldine)
of Piermont, NY, and Kenneth (Laura Santini) of
Montreal; daughter-in-law Diane of St. Andrew's, N.S.;
23 grandchildren, 2 step-grandchildren and
2 great-granddaughters. She is also survived by
brothers Martin of Ottawa, Frank of Halifax and
sisters Inez (William Bishop) of Arlington, TX,
and Sophie (Richard O'Dell) of Skaneateles, N.Y. | MEECH Ann Frances (I298)
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Moved from Grand Rapids, MI to East St. Louis, IL in 1866.
Lived in Madison County, IL in 1880.
Salesman for Baggerman Bros in St. Louis, MO.
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Mrs. Mary Josephine Meech from North Sydney, Nova Scotia, was selected 1970 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother. During the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on November 11, 1970, she laid a wreath at the base of the National War Memorial on behalf of all mothers who have lost a child in military service to Canada.
On April 13, 1942, her son, Flight Sergeant William Ian Meech, was killed while on duty with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
On February 19, 1944, another of her sons, Pilot Officer Lloyd Remington Joseph Meech, was killed also while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Mrs. Meech, née Macdonald, was born in 1897. She married Lloyd Remington Meech. Together, they had four children--William, Lloyd, John and Garth. She died in 1975. | MCDONALD Mary Josephine (I293)
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My (Vivian Meech's) stepmother was good to us. She was one of a large, well-to-do family, and they all loved Lloyd and me and were so good to us. All my memories of my life with my stepmother are happy. | SHEAN Mary J (I146)
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removed to Western Canada in 1906 and entered commercial life, engaging in the farm machinery business and cattle sales; later established a general store business, retiring to live in Battleford, Sask. | Family (F23)
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She married a Mr. Gordon. He died real young, so she kept house for her father and mother. | RICHARDSON Laura B (I201)
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The spelling of her name is as given by her daughter, Vivian Meech Halliday. Spellings from other sources include Miscella, Marcella. Macilla was the first cousin of her husband's stepmother, Amelia Sutherland Meech.
http://www.jscook.net/meech.htm | RICHARDSON Marcella M (I144)
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unmarried
After elementary education in Chesley High School, took business and secretarial training in western Canada; employed in Canadian Bank of Commerce, where she became private secretary to executives in the Bank's headquarters in Toronto, Ontario.
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Upon graduation from Quincy High School received appointment to US Naval Academy, graduating in 1958. Served with US Navy until 1962, retiring as lieutenant, to take graduate studies at Harvard University. | HALLIDAY John Meech (I18)
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Wallace, the eldest, was the first mayor of Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. He was reelected eight times. He was a staunch Baptist, but when the people of Sydney wanted to send the nuns who taught school there out of Sydney he was their salvation. He was married to the nicest woman it has ever been my good fortune to know and love. They had four children—all real smart and, best of all, good. | RICHARDSON Wallace (I200)
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Was brought up on a farm in South Bar. Worked for the Canadian Pacific Railroad as a engineer, a prestigious, wall paid position at that time.
Married Macilla and had two children, Lloyd and Vivian. After Macillas's death he married Mary Shean (a warm, wonderful woman) and moved to N. Sydney where they built a beautiful home with 18 rooms.
Grandma (Vivian) loved him dearly and spoke of him often.
He was over six feet tall. | MEECH William Henry (I143)
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William Meech (John) was born in 1828 in Bagber, Dorset, England. He died on 15 Apr 1889 in South Bar, Nova Scotia and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, South Bar, Nova Scotia.
William was employed as Fisherman in Harbor Britain, Newfoundland. He was employed as Farmer about 1868 - 1889 in South Bar, Nova Scotia. He signed a will on 12 Jan 1889.
Nothing is yet known of William's life in England. A possible family has been found in parish records but no
definite connections have been made. William's parents were John and Jane Meech (from his 1868 marriage records). A John Meech married a Jane English in St. Mary's Church, Wooton Glanville, Dorset, England in 1804 and had 7 children baptized at the same church, one of them a son William baptized on 25 Feb 1827. The birth date of 1828 determined for William in this file was calculated from his age in various records. The approximated year of birth is close enough to the baptismal record to be a possible match, however nothing has been proven.
William first shows up in 1856 in Gaultois, Newfoundland, where he appears on a list of subscribers to the Newfoundland School Society. He is also mentioned in the "Journal of the House of Assembly of Newfounland Third Session of the Sixth General Assembly St. John's Newfoundland" E.D. Shea, Printer MDCCCLVII. In July of 1856 a Revenue report indicated that the Sub-collector for the Customs House in Gaultois, Newfoundland, required more men to aid in protection of the revenue. At this time he had already appointed William Meech as Constable with a wage of 12 pounds per annum.
The next of record of William is his marriage to Elizabeth Long on 12 July 1857 in Gaultois as seen in his
marriage record. They had four children (3 survived). Sometime around 1867, William and the children came to
Nova Scotia. William purchased 60 acres of land at auction in 1867. This property was located along the shore of Sydney Harbour in South Bar, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The home was in existence until it was destroyed by fire on 19 Dec 1997.
William remarried in 1868 (Amelia Sutherland) and had six more children. According to his marriage records,
William was a widower, his last residence was Harbor Britain (present day Harbor Breton) and he was a fisherman. The fact that he was involved in the fishery and lived both in Gaultois and Harbor Britain leads to the possibility that he was an employee of Newman a & Company which operated out of both places. Again nothing has been found to substantiate this.
William left a will. It reads as follows (note there was no punctuation in the original):
"I William Meech of South Bar Sydney Cape Breton Nova Scotia Dominion of Canada Do make my last Will and Testament as follows
To my Son Michael Meech I bequeath all my property real and personal except three acres called the Lime Kiln field My will is that my Wife Amelia Meech as Dowry shall receive a good support from Michael Meech during her natural life also her children Jane.. Mary.. Eliza.. and Winnifred I also require of Michael my son that he provide his mother with two rooms for herself and children, also two cows and two sheep which must be fed and taken care of by Michael my son I also will that if any of the girls marry the [sic] shall have a cow or heifer given them at the time of Marriage by Michael their brother
To my Son William I bequeath that portion of my property called the Lime Kiln field being on the eastern side of the Queen's highway containing three acres more or less be it also understood that I have no wish that you would sell or make over said field called the Lime Kiln field to any person outside the family To my Son John should he ever return? (hard to make out) my will is that he will receive a cow
To my Son Samuel when he is old enough I intend he shall get a good trade he must go to school until he arrives at a proper age
Signed on the 12 January 1889 by William Meech, witnessed by Samuel Richardson, Arthur R. Richardson and John Alfred Richardson.
http://www.jscook.net/meech.htm | MEECH William E (I156)
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William Meech (John) was born in 1828 in Bagber, Dorset, England. He died on 15 Apr 1889 in South Bar, Nova Scotia and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, South Bar, Nova Scotia.
William was employed as Fisherman in Harbor Britain, Newfoundland. He was employed as Farmer about 1868 - 1889 in South Bar, Nova Scotia. He signed a will on 12 Jan 1889.
Nothing is yet known of William's life in England. A possible family has been found in parish records but no
definite connections have been made. William's parents were John and Jane Meech (from his 1868 marriage records). A John Meech married a Jane English in St. Mary's Church, Wooton Glanville, Dorset, England in 1804 and had 7 children baptized at the same church, one of them a son William baptized on 25 Feb 1827. The birth date of 1828 determined for William in this file was calculated from his age in various records. The approximated year of birth is close enough to the baptismal record to be a possible match, however nothing has been proven.
William first shows up in 1856 in Gaultois, Newfoundland, where he appears on a list of subscribers to the Newfoundland School Society. He is also mentioned in the "Journal of the House of Assembly of Newfounland Third Session of the Sixth General Assembly St. John's Newfoundland" E.D. Shea, Printer MDCCCLVII. In July of 1856 a Revenue report indicated that the Sub-collector for the Customs House in Gaultois, Newfoundland, required more men to aid in protection of the revenue. At this time he had already appointed William Meech as Constable with a wage of 12 pounds per annum.
The next of record of William is his marriage to Elizabeth Long on 12 July 1857 in Gaultois as seen in his
marriage record. They had four children (3 survived). Sometime around 1867, William and the children came to
Nova Scotia. William purchased 60 acres of land at auction in 1867. This property was located along the shore of Sydney Harbour in South Bar, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The home was in existence until it was destroyed by fire on 19 Dec 1997.
William remarried in 1868 (Amelia Sutherland) and had six more children. According to his marriage records,
William was a widower, his last residence was Harbor Britain (present day Harbor Breton) and he was a fisherman. The fact that he was involved in the fishery and lived both in Gaultois and Harbor Britain leads to the possibility that he was an employee of Newman & Company which operated out of both places. Again nothing has been found to substantiate this.
William left a will. It reads as follows (note there was no punctuation in the original):
"I William Meech of South Bar Sydney Cape Breton Nova Scotia Dominion of Canada Do make my last Will and Testament as follows
To my Son Michael Meech I bequeath all my property real and personal except three acres called the Lime Kiln field My will is that my Wife Amelia Meech as Dowry shall receive a good support from Michael Meech during her natural life also her children Jane.. Mary.. Eliza.. and Winnifred I also require of Michael my son that he provide his mother with two rooms for herself and children, also two cows and two sheep which must be fed and taken care of by Michael my son I also will that if any of the girls marry the [sic] shall have a cow or heifer given them at the time of Marriage by Michael their brother
To my Son William I bequeath that portion of my property called the Lime Kiln field being on the eastern side of the Queen's highway containing three acres more or less be it also understood that I have no wish that you would sell or make over said field called the Lime Kiln field to any person outside the family To my Son John should he ever return? (hard to make out) my will is that he will receive a cow
To my Son Samuel when he is old enough I intend he shall get a good trade he must go to school until he arrives at a proper age
Signed on the 12 January 1889 by William Meech, witnessed by Samuel Richardson, Arthur R. Richardson and John Alfred Richardson. | MEECH William E (I156)
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William Meech, came to St. John's Newfoundland for a company in his home town of Dorset, England. He was born in Dorset. I had his bank statement and several papers telling about him, but I loaned them to someone and don't have them now. He married in Canada and bought a farm on the Sydney River. He paid $700.00 for the farm, which was a lot in those days. One may see the deed in Sydney. He had three sons—John, William (my father) and Mike. His wife died, and he married Amelia Sutherland of Stewiacke, Nova Scotia. She was a niece of Grandfather Richardson, which is how she met the little Englishman, Meech. | Family (F45)
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Win's husband Donald was a first cousin of her sister Eliza's husband, Angus.
http://www.jscook.net/meech.htm | MEECH Winnifred (I313)
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