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THE CANADIAN STATESMA24, BOWMANVILLE. THUR.SDAY, JULY 19th, 1934 PAGE NINU *Historic Cartwright Familles* The Emerson Family Many of Cartwright Township's wild but neyer did our people any Most promnent families can trace hai m. Our friends had had som their lineal descent to Matthew Em- strange experiences about this tîrme, erson and Ann Gardmner who came' many things occurred to cause JOY to Canada from England in 1817. and somietimes sorrow, which we will Today in the township are many never know anything about as that grandsons and grand-daughters and littie heroic conipany have ail pass- great grandsons and great grand- ed away. They were six weeks in de.ughters of these Canadjan pion- making the voyage but they f înally eers. got to Quebec and had to seli their Some weeks before his death in boat for very little. From there they 1902 James Emerson, a son of Mat- went on to Kingston. The money thew Emerson, commenced a written they had when leaving England was record of the family history which the most of it gonte, and we need not however he did flot complete before wonder when we think of what they his death. Many years later, J. passed through. My father and mo- Murray Emerscn, his son, took up ther lived in Kingston for two years; the Pen his father had laid dlown ail had good health and were happy. nearly 25 years before andi carried Two of rny uncles, James Gardiner on this history, which was published and Francis, settled in Kingston and in 1926. succeeded well. sorne of their famil- While the entire history covers ies are living there still. The orig- more than is actually Cartwright inal Gardîner family were John. history, but because of its connection Joseph, William. Matthew, James, with so many of the Township's Francis: two sisters--Fanny, who f amilies, we publish it in full. tayed in England and married a Mr. Many will take pride in the fact that Walton, and Ann who married Mat- they are descended through the thew Emuerson. 1 was born in the centuries f rom the famous King Ro- Village of Bath, west of Kingston, bert Bruce of Scotland, as the tale on the 29th of August, 1818. In the following will relate. course of time my f ather took up The following is what I, James land in the Township of Cavan, in Emerson, can remember and what I the County of Durham, near where have heard concerning the history Millbrook is now. his land was Lot 0f my father's and mother's people: 'No. 14 on the 6th Concession. He My father and mother came f rom moved on to it in the Summer of Weredale in the County of Durham, 1820. On this place ail the family Engand. My fathers name was younger than 1 were born. There Matthew .Emerson and my mother's were no railroads for steamboats atj maicien name was Ann Gardiner. that time. My father and brother1 My father aa farmer and he John walkecl and drove the stock. vçorked in the lead minesin the win- My mother and my sister Mary and ter. The lead ore there was mixed brother Matthew, and I, being the wth silver; he was doing very well. baby, came by stage to Port Hopej About this time a great many people and f rom there in a wvagon over were leaving their homnes in England roads almost impassable. But we and going to Canada. My mother's arrived safely and in a short time father and mother and some of their my father got a log house built; het family had concluded to try their could flot get any lumber; he split1 fortune in Canada, and my father long shingles for the roof and pine1 andi mother agreed to go with them. slabs for the floors; he was veryk Tlhey then had three children-John, handy' and a good man with the axet Mary, Matthew. They lef t England and f ixed things up good. He chop- early in the Summrer of 1817. They ped and cleared some land and sow- sailed f romn Sunderland; the weath- ed some grain and planted potatoes.c er was stormny and became s0 ter- At that tâme the settler had to go ta rific that the ship was wrecked Port Hope for flour, pork, groceriest th Okny sands. The and all other provision. The peoplei aogthe Opeeyer il sv did flot clear their land very fast,t but ofthe s fprop erty asavery about four or f ive acres each year.t great, and they had to wait a long Aispseoona there as ay grin toÉ time to get another ship going todsoe fteha toaeito Canada, and f inally they did and to Port Hope; they drew it with oxenc ineet very storrny weather once and were two days getting away a3 more. They were nrecked on the small load. Many of theni succeed-N banks of Newfoundland, but there ed n' ecuin happy homes for r were no lives lost. Then they were themiselves and families, others got up against it, they could flot get an- discouraged and left for other plac- other ship, so my f ather and uncle I es; while some got the ague and ath- agred o urcasea arge boat. ers fever and a number of them died. They succeeded in getting a fine oneTepol a a ot otHp the French called a Bateau, in this for a doctor and therefore could not they packed ail they had left, and be attended to as they should. started on their long voyage up the The first grist mili and saw rnull gulf of the St. Lawrence and up the was built by James Deyell, in Mill- river to the City of Quebec. Some brook. T'he first minister. Rev. Jos- times they sailed and then they eph Thompson, was sent out to wouid have to row. They landed Canada by a wealthy Engflsh gentie- every night on the bank of the river, man, and paid a good salary as long started a fire and spent the night as as he lived, to work as a Church of best they could. Some tumes they Enigland Missionary; he preached in suffered f rom the ramn and cald, at my father's bouse and other places others for want of food. The set- until be got his cburch bult-bis Pf14-rs along the river lived mostly on church waa built on Lot No. 12 on 4fish. At one time our people had to the lOth Concession-at that* place live three days on a few peas, could my father and mother and grand- not get anything else but f ish. Some father and grandmother were bur- places the f ish were corded along led; he baptized my brother Thomas the banks of the river like wood, the and me. The first Methodist Min- dogs and hogs and even the cows ate ister was Moses Blackstock. and the thexu. Methodists preached for years in my The people were French, could not Uncie Mattbew Gardiner's bouse. talk much English, but were kind One of his girls, Mary, was christen- and generous. Time passed so slow- ed by Eider Case and Fanny by Eg- ly the voyage was long. One day erton Ryerson, or vice versa, I can- while saiiing at a good speed, al l ot jusi be sure. This Mr. RLyerson trymng to cheer up and take fresh was" the f ounder of our Present courage. the boat struckashr Schcol System. The first Presbyter- sna ftimer hic brke a shol 'an Min~Ster was Rev. James Doug- in the boat. the water came rushing bisthen PrtabytriaCn cesurchad in; they got to the bank of the river bito o 4 r ocsin n as f ast as they could, and found the Methodist on the 9th Conces- their boat badly damaged. They sion. The f irst doctor was Dr. Hut- had no means to repair it. and did cheson, who did not stay long and not know what to do. Triey were moved te Peterboro: after him came informed that there was a Priest liv- Dr. Wbeeler who settled in Millbrook ing near and that they had better and lived there until he died. About go and see hlm, he might do some- f ive years after this other doctors thingfor hem.came in. Two more Grist Mills and thingfor hem.a number o! Saw Milîs were buiît* My father and uncle Joseph Gar- Merchants got stores erected, the diner went, and the Priest was very Credit System practised did much kind and generous. They told bixu harm, some of! the settiers lost their o! their circumstances and of what land by it; Blacksrniths' shops were had happened to their boat. He at built, and also Taverns. The public once sent a man for his carpenter to h ouses were needecl in some places, corne and bring his tools, the man but flot the whlskey and they causect was soon there and he was told ta a great deal a! drainklng and misery, take his tools and such things as made drunkards. ruined young men he might need and go to the river and brought sufferlng and want in- and repair the boat which was dam- to many homes. About this tuie, aged and niake a good job o! it. 1825, the people would have whiskey This was done and when they wentattirlgngbeadwenhy to pay the Priest he would not take but their giboes and barns. whic anything, and said that it was a was o! ten the cause o! strife andi great pleasure te him to do any- quarrelling. My father buiit a log thing he could for them. of course barn and other buildings. they were very grateful. They then IMraEmsoon f m packed their goods into the boat and whoMrrayEersbone, son o! en- started with renewed courage onwhwreteabeilno e- their voyage to Quebec. The Indians deavour to carry on what my father were camped on the banks o! the intWnded to do, for shortly ater river in great numbers, they were writing the hiistory so far hie died, ________________________and was buried on the tenth day o! _______________________ May, 1902, in the burying ground INFANT'Sthat he andi one Mr. Clark cleareti INFANT'Sout o! the prineval forest on a hilll p . ** * £ overlooking the north shore o! the gel 13 beautiful Lake Scugog, on the f arm Corrected! by Robert Swain, to bury Frequent movementa are neaýrlY al- year 1842. It is known as the Shlloh ays due to an irritation in the buyn-ron ( aidafter a little intetins se upby ernintîg ble hitindChch bot aie the grandfather of Dr. Chown whc was Superintendent o! the Methoti- ist Church throughout Canada for s0 rnany years bemng piaced in this position after the death o! the form- er Superintendent, Dr. Carmen, and who is now Chairman a! ail Comn- mittees o! The Unitedi Church o! Canada; also o! the Medical and Dental Clark brothers o! Lindsay, and, no doubt, there are a great many relations and friends f rom this branch not known to me. Min Gar- tiner, my father's mother, was the sister; ber husband was Matthew Emerson and the olive plants that in the course o! tume came to sur- round the table ini that home wge: John, Mary, Mattbew, James, inia Ann, Margery, Nanny anti Thomas. From this famiiy came a very nuin- erous company of relations. Fcirst-- Mary Emerson married, Robert Sut- ton, hence this uine o! Sutton rela- tions; Susan Sutton, a daugbter o! this couple, marrieti John Swain, hence this line o! Swain relations; Matthew married Mary Ann Crozier, and Julia Min married John Croz- ier. therefore this lne o! Crozier f riends: James married Mary Hay, thus the Hay friencts: Margery mar- rieti William Swain, hence this uine o! Swain relatives; Nanny married William Nelson. thus the Nelson re- latives; Thomas married «Margaret Montgomery, thus this line a! rela- tives. Ail the Gardiner, Lyrtie, Ayers anti Todd group o!f friends in Cavan andi surrounding country are des- cendants of the brothers o! mny grantimother, this saineMin Gar- diner. I trust that I shail be forgiven if 1 refer to aur relatives on my mc>- tber's side. Sir William Wallace and King Robert Bruce a! Scotland marrieti two sisters, daugbters O! Andrew Murray. We believe. f romn our study, that f rom, this uine o! Murrays one Lady Elsie Murray feul in lave with one o! the brave Scot- tish soidiers then statianed iIn Edin- burgh Castie. whose naine was John Hay. anti this romance endei' with them. being married. This couple was mny grand.fatber and grand- mother. bence my name Murray. Some tume a! ter this there arase trouble in Ireiand and this soldier who was an Offilcer in the Army waa sent with a company o! soldiers to raueil the rebeliion; wb.iie there he wvas given a beautiful cottage on the banks o! the Boyne to live in and in that cottage my mother was born, bhey cailed ber Mary. AS ter the trouble was settIedti tey returnedti t Scotiand, and were stationed in Ed- .nburgh Castie; there two more children were born, Francis and Jennie. About this time the cry "Go West, Young Man, Go West!" w as ringing througbout Scotianti as well j something chat imeans Cn4sbge:sliu uooie - Roady for Immediite DliIvery Mester Six frmm Standard Six front Ne loY'tR OeL-Eprices on tii G M A C pln ROY NICRKOLSý BOWMANVILLE AND COURTICE . .youi or b. satisffod with any olh.r low.priced car PAGE NINB as England with the resuit that this'thew settieti on Scugog Island, rais- gie lives ini Lintisay and is Mrs D. couple with their littie cbildren ed a large faxniiy, only two o! whom Weldon. her home is very near that rcrosseti the ocean te Canada and are now living. Matthew is retired ofa Mrs. Graham andi Mrs. Bruce, in I Z r c o ssettIed in Millbrook where they kept ' in Toronto. His family made gooti. the homes o! these three sisters the B Lusinesfle t r .store for years. Mary married my Willie, as we cail hlm. is a consuit- writer spentis many happy evenings. Ir 1 ather, Jennie married Henry Gar- ing physician in a town west o! James and Robert resitie near Val- .diner, thus we are relatetitd h Minneapclis; Waldo is one of a f irm entia where they are ever active withLE A EGardiners on both aides o! the bus.o! prosperaus merchants in Tor- those of their chiltiren in beiping E A 1FacsmarrietiE}len Babty; thus onto; whîle the girls are mostly ail the Master in the liSe o! the Cburch, th lie o! Babty frientis that reside school teachers. The other is Thom- James being chqir leader for years. M. G. -V. GOULU, B-4- LLBt. arounti Peterborough. Our relatives as wbo is retired in Saskatoon in Now the place where father antidritr oiieNtr sare so nuinerous that last summer. the West. uncie Thomas settied became the Britr oiioNtr the suninier o! 1925, when on a visit James anti Thomas moved across I f amous Shiloh neighbourhood that Phone 351 bbrough the West I went to see m> Lake Scugog anti settieti on farms bas a very warm place in so manly Royal Bank Building, Bowmanville rbrother John anti famiiy in North near each other on the north shore hearts for here were the homes Dakota, anti brother Thomas F. anti o! the Lake, where they raiseti their wbere the large familles o! the fol- W. a. STRIKE cousin T. G. Emerson, Central But- f antlies, a number o! their chiltiren lowing were raiseti: Farrella, John Barrister, Soligitor, Notar te, Saskatchewan, antiail up the line are stili living. Those o! Thomas- Swain, Syiiskies, Barkleys, Taylors, Solicitor for Bank o! Montreal o! cities. Winnipeg, Regina, Moose- Matthew in Manitoba, Elspetb in Robert Swain, John Bruce, Joseph Money to Loan. Phone 91 jaw, Rosetown, Calgary, BanS!, Ini- Detroit, Mahala anti Zilla in Van- Jordan. William Swain, Isaac Smale, Bowmanviile, Ontario nis! ail, Edmonton, Saskatoon, then couver, anti Thomas G., whom I father o! Newton Smaie o! Lind- te, Millwood, here 1 met my cousin, have aiready mentioneti, anti James say), Thomas Emerson, Richard L. C. MASON, B. A. W. E. Swain anti fam.lly, anti spent a o! Lindsay, John dieti two years ago, Suggitt, Andrew Glenney, Robert most pleasant weekenti with tbem; Sara Washington, bis widow. lives Parkin, James Emerson-mastly ail Barrister - Solicitor then I also visited Carman. In ai- in Oakwood with bher mother anti of these families worshlppet iun tbe Notary Public - Etc. most ail these places I was the wel- because o! ber cheery anti optimistic Little Brown Church in tbe Vale- Law in ail its branches. cometi guest in homes that belong ta spirit is a f avourite o! ail. Dear Olti Shiiob. Across Star's Bay Office limetiately east of Royal this Une o! relatives, anti if I hati Those o! James-Elspeth, wha were the famillies o! Charles and Theatre. gone to Vancouver I wouiti bave met was the wif e o! W. R. Swain of Val- James NayIor, also Stars anti a nuxn- Phones: Office 688; Home 553. a number mo~re. I aIso met a lot of entia, where they lived retireti for a ber f ram Wasbburn Island-Earls, our olti neighbors anti a group of number of years, went to a better Washburns. Wellingtons, who alsa DENTAL Malcoixus, my wlfe's relations. I lantiat August a! ter living a beau- caiied Shioh their cburch home. I was twa montbs away anti was with tif ul life o! love anti service for Goti love ta think o! the time when we DR. J. C. DEVITT relatives ail the time an.y when anti her f amily; John anti Thomas I shah ail gather on the banks o! the Asitn:D.EW.Sso travelling from place ta place, have spoken af; Frank is on the aid River o! Life anti converse together Asitn:D.EW.Sso Such is l! e, anti we can see bow bomesteati with bis gooti wiSe who of olti Shiloh day6 anti anniversar- Graduate o! Royal Dental College, the descendants o! that ship's comp- was Jennie Hoar. they have the aid îes, etc., etc. This large group o! Tor'onto. OffIce: Jury Jubilee BIdg. any have been entieavoring the abey home in fine shape anti ail lit up friends were mostly Methodists anti Bowmanville. Office houra 9 a.,m. the commandi: "Be fruit! ul, ant i wth Delco iights, bath bouse anti wberever they settled became belp- to 6 p. m. tiaily except Sunday. multiply, and replenish the eartb," barn; anti Murray, the one who is fui in Christian service. It is saiti Phon'e 90. House phone 283. ha ha. Naw this accaunt would not endeavouring to leave tUis History that over twenty boys of this achool X-Ray Equlpment in Office. be compIete if we faileti to refer ta o! Our People for aur f rientis a! ter became Superintendents a! other anather illustriaus uine o! relatives. he bas crosseti the Great Divide. schools. One William Brown be- FUNERAL DIRECTOR Whiie this !amiiy o! Emersons were Now the chiltiren o! the aisters: came fat anly this but member o!f ______________ quite young the father dieti: then, f irst, Mary who marrieti Robert Sut: Parliament for Manitoba. in course o! time the widow. this ton, as far as I know her famiiy Now if I took up every family FUNERAL DIREOTORS same Ann Gardiner who by this have ail followed ber across the mnint eeat olwt hi Service, any hour, any day Lime was getting famous, when we river; those o! Julia Anti, wbo mar- individuai history I waulti bo a!ter F. F. MORRIS CO. think a! ber descendants. marrieti a rieti John Crozier, this family moveti writing a book, as Pat woulti say, Mr.Tayora wdowr wo aso atite he ouny o Esex ntisetiedanti indeet i t is quite a story as it is. Mo6prn Motor Equlpment Mr. aylr, wiowe wh alo hd totheCouty f EsexandsetledAmbulance anti Invali Car a !amiiy. Wben the boys grew Up near Essex Centre, a number o! ber 1 now close, trustiiig that you ail Cail Phone 10 or 34, a &on o! Mr. Taylor, whase name waa chiltiren are living there yet: those may naw be able to trace your hist- Assat 7 William, wth four o! the Emerson o! Nannie, wbo marrieci William ory back to that beroic ship's camp- Assat 7 brothers -John. Matthew, James Nelson anti !inally settieti in Mani- any who le!t Weredale un Engianti BOWMANVILLE anti Thomas-movedte t Cartwright. toba, I believe ail are gone except if 1817. This William Taylor settieti an a lot Terressa who is now Mrs. Robson; The gooti that I have done, this day. NORTHCUTT & SMITH o! landi just west anti north o! those o! Margery who marrieti Wil- IO! tbougbt or deeti. that -still, Complete Funeral Service Blackstock, then knawn as Tooiey's liam Swain. Millwarood, Mlivngtoba. when 1 am gone,Moe Eulen -Am iae Corners; it was an Ai !arm; be mar- E. Swain o! ilod aioa Shaîl long, long years go singing Mode.rG.nortutpet - AubrySlanc rieti a Miss Webe. they were pros- whom we have already referredti t, on anti on, W .Nrhut-Abe mt perous anti raised a large famiiy. anti Annie who marrieti Thomas Like some sweet fountain by the Phone Days 58 One o! the boys. Mison, was Reeve Graham o! Cavan; also Jennie who dusty way; Nlghts, Suntiays or HoIldays o! the Township for many years, marrieti William Bruce o! Valentia, Perhaps it was the word that God Phone 523 or 276 anti was known far anti ide as a the families a! these two sisters anti would bave me say,Rear great barseman; Uis favourites were brother are quite numerous anti are Iî cannot tell. ear Clydesciaies for wb.lcb at Pairs he ail in gooti positions throughout aur Yours in Christ.R.PAW 0N carrieti off many reti tickets; bis son country. Margery, their mother, James a.nd J. Murray Emerson B.01 AND S E N O Fred owns the bomesteati at pres-idieti early in life anti in course a!fSoiesBsewnANDby GOdE EaIR SIthN ent; thus camtes in this branch o! time Mr. Swain marrieti again, a Male chne.n PrGcea rsonaie.i f rientia. The Emerson brothers liv- Miss Jane McNeai. Prom this un- Neariy ail chiltiren are subject ta King Street East. Bowmanvllle eti in Cartwright a numbor o! years. ion there are a number o! chiltren- worms, anti many are born wlth Opposite Garton's Bus Station 9-ti but f!inaiiy settieti in homes o! their Martha. James. Hannab, Margrette them. Svare them su!!erlng by us- owri. John Emerson who neyer anti Robrt-Martha anti Hlannah ing Mother Graves' Worm Exter- It's a lot botter Vo drive yourseif marrieti, dieti about this time. Mat- bave joineti the great malority, Mag- minator, an excellent remetiy. , than te be driven by another.