Mr. Merriman was the grandson of Mr. Joel Merriman who, with his wife and three children (one a babe in arms), came to Canada from Meriden [New Haven], Connecticut on horseback in 1797 and settled in Cramahe Township on the property received from the Crown through Isaiah Hall. Joel Merriman was the great-great-grandson of Lieut. Nathaniel Merriman who was born in England in 1613 and who came to America with the Plough Company of Puritans in 1632. He was one of the founders of Wallingford, Connecticut. His father (George) was the son of Gregory Merriman, one of the three brothers (son of Thomas Merriman) who lived in the county of Oxford England in the middle years of the 16th century. One of the three sons, John, became ancestors of (1) John Merriman, a captain in the Commonwealth army of Oliver Cromwell [1618-1670]; (2) John Merriman [1771-1852], medical attendant of H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent and H.R.H. the Princess Victoria (afterwards Queen Victoria) (3) Nathanial Merriman [1809-1882], [third] Bishop of Grahamstown, South Africa, and (4) the Hon. F.H. [probably John Xavier] Merriman [1841-1926] Premier of Cape Colony [South Africa]. On his maternal side Mr. Merriman was descended from Robert Livingston [1654-1728], first Lord of Livingston Manor, Albany, N.Y., and through him from James, fourth Baron Livingston in the peerage of Scotland. The Baron Livingston was in turn descended from Levingins, a Saxon nobleman who accompanied Edgar Atheling and his mother and sisters from Northumbria to Scotland in 1067 where Edgar’s sister Margaret became the bride of King Malcolm Caenmore. One of the Livingstons (Thurstanua, son of Levingins) witnessed the foundation of Holyrood House; a second witnessed a charter of Malcolm, Earl of Lennox in 1260; third was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field [1513]; a fourth accompanied King David into England in 1346 and was knighted under the Royal Standard and taken prisoner at the Battle of Durham; a fifth was chieftain of King Robert II of Scotland, the first of the Stuart Kings; a sixth was Regent of Scotland during the minority of King James II (of Scotland); a seventh the fifth Lord of Livingston [Alexander Livingston, 1500-1553] father the 4th Baron Livingston, ancestor of the Livingstons of New York state, was Guardian of Mary Queen of Scots; an eighth was one of the four Maries [Mary 1541-1579], maids of honour to that unfortunate Queen [Mary, Queen of Scots]; a ninth [the Rev. John Livingstone, 1603-1672] was banished to Holland in 1663 because of his Erasmanism; a tenth, the son of the last named and first of the family to go to America, who was given by royal charter of King George, a big domain: 169,300 acres in extent in New York State where Mr. Merriman’s maternal grandmother was born; and an eleventh signed the Declaration of Independence; a twelfth married General Richard Montgomery, who was later killed while attempting to take Quebec; a thirteenth swore in the first President of the United States and afterwards became United States Ambassador to the court of Napoleon. In the eighteenth century [1716], the head of the Scotland branch of the family, the Earl of Linlithgow and Callendar, was attainted of high treason for complicity in the Jacobite Rebellion and his title and vast estates were forfeited to the Crown. In 1746, another member of the family, the Earl of Kilmarnock [William Boyd, 4th Earl, 1705-1746], was beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for fidelity to the Jacobite and Stuart Causes. A third member of the family [Robert Spencer, born at Althorp 1629, died 1694], the 1st Viscount Teviot, is buried in Westminster Abbey. Mr. Merriman is survived by his widow, three children: Mr. Vinton R. Merriman of Belleville, Mrs. Richard R. Harte of Hamilton and Mrs. Jerram B. Connell of St. Kitt’s British West Indies. Also survived by five sisters: Mrs. M.K. Lockwood of Brighton, Mrs. John McColl of Brighton, Mrs. John Hamilton of Kingston, Mrs. John Black of Stirling, and Mrs. G.H. Smith of Los Angeles, California.