 1814 - 1909 (95 years)
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| Name |
HALLIDAY James |
| Born |
29 Jan 1814 |
Boreland, Hutton Parish, Dumfriesshire, Scotland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Moved |
Abt 1815 |
Perth, Ontario |
| At the age of eighteen months he was taken to Canada to settle on the Scotch Line near Perth, Ontario. |
| Died |
3 Oct 1909 |
Perth, Ontario, Canada |
| Person ID |
I44 |
Baggerman Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
9 Jul 2016 |
| Father |
HALLIDAY John, b. 25 Apr 1778, Berryscaur, Hutton And Corrie, Dumfries, Scotland , d. 21 Mar 1870, Bathurst, Lanark, Ontario, Canada (Age 91 years) |
| Mother |
JOHNSTONE Margaret, b. 14 Jan 1782, Berryscaur, Hutton Parish, Scotland , d. 29 Jul 1860, Bathurst, Lanark, Ontario, Canada (Age 78 years) |
| Family ID |
F34 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
ALLEN Janet, b. Abt 1815, Ontario, Canada , d. 1890, Perth, Lanark, Ont. (Age 75 years) |
| Married |
29 Jan 1839 |
| Children |
| | 1. HALLIDAY John, b. 29 Jan 1840, Perth, Ontario, Canada , d. Apr 1840, Perth, Ontario, Canada (Age 0 years) |
| | 2. HALLIDAY John, b. 3 Mar 1841, Perth, Ontario, Canada , d. 21 Jan 1895, Vassar, MI (Age 53 years) |
| | 3. HALLIDAY Francis, b. 17 Mar 1843, Perth, Ontario, Canada , d. 27 Jul 1926, Portland, OR (Age 83 years) |
| | 4. HALLIDAY James, b. 3 Apr 1845, Perth, Ontario, Canada , d. 11 Apr 1921, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Age 76 years) |
| + | 5. HALLIDAY Robert, b. 19 May 1847, Perth, Ontario, Canada , d. 21 Feb 1919, Edam, Saskatchewan, Canada (Age 71 years) |
| | 6. ARTHUR Janet, b. 2 Mar 1849, Perth, Ontario, Canada , d. d 4 Jun 1919, Perth, Ontario, Canada (Age 70 years) |
| | 7. HALLIDAY (SOMMERVILLE) Margaret, b. 7 Feb 1852, Perth, Ontario, Canada , d. 21 Nov 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Age 77 years) |
| | 8. HALLIDAY Isabella, b. 10 Mar 1854, Perth, Ontario, Canada , d. 29 May 1857, Perth, Ontario, Canada (Age 3 years) |
| | 9. HALLIDAY (DOLAN) Victoria, b. 8 May 1856, Perth, Ontario, Canada , d. 16 Apr 1922, Perth, Ontario, Canada (Age 65 years) |
| | 10. HALLIDAY William, b. 3 Sep 1858, Perth, Ontario, Canada , d. 2 Nov 1937, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Age 79 years) |
| | 11. HALLIDAY Matthew, b. 11 Apr 1861, Perth, Ontario, Canada , d. 19 Nov 1926, Chesley, Ontario, Canada (Age 65 years) |
| | 12. HALLIDAY Jean, b. 4 Jun 1864, Perth, Ontario, Canada , d. 8 Apr 1948, London, Ontario, Canada (Age 83 years) |
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| Last Modified |
5 May 2016 |
| Family ID |
F11 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- 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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