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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: Tom Piper on Sunday 05 January 20 17:35 GMT (UK)
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Uriah, the tenth child, of Richard & Elizabeth Doughty nee Holt, born January 4 1820, in Broughton by Brigg in Lincolnshire, England & married Alice Preston on 16th October 1843, and had a daughter Alice born 1 August 1847 & then a son, John born 14 January, 1849, then came to Canada with her father Joseph Preston, a widower after 1851, but before 6 December 1855, when their son Richard was born at Walpole, Haldimand, Ontario, Canada. They spent a short time in the Toronto area then moved to the Jarvis district. Uriah and his wife and family rented a house of the fifth block of the 5th Concession of Walpole owned by a MacDonald across the road from the farm owned now by Gordon Mitchell. The building is gone and for years the land uncultivated but a deep hole which was a root cellar could be seen for some time.
I haven’t been able to discover the date Uriah & his wife & her father Joseph Preston came to Canada. He may have sailed from Kingston-upon Hull.
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Sadly there are no comprehensive lists of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to 1865. Until that year, shipping companies were not required by the government to keep their passenger
manifests.
They appear to be on the 1851 UK census and two of the boys born in Ontario - Richard 1855 and William 1856- so immigration between 30 March 1851 and 1855 ???
Notice 1901 canadian census gives 5 December 1846 for the birth of Richard. obviously the year is incorrect but perhaps the date of 5 December 1855 would be correct ???
1911 census gives Dec 1855
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/immigrants-before-1865/Pages/search.aspx
https://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/immigration/index.shtml
Sandra
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Assuming I have found the correct John, a John Doughty gives 1852 as his immigration year in the 1901 census, although there is really no way to know how accurate the date is.
PB
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Sandra
Thanks for a such a quick reply.
I have blog about my Doughty relatives who went to Canada & USA entitled The Doughty family:The American & Canadian Connections
It could be searched for if you wanted to look at it by going on Google to Uriah Doughty Ontario blogspot
Tom
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Thank you Tom. Just noticed an ancestry tree with photographs of Uriah, Mary and Richard, John and William Doughty - its always lovely to put a face to a name - what a little treasure trove :)
Sandra
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PB
These are some of the details of this John Doughty:
John Doughty
1849–1910
BIRTH 14 JAN 1849 • Broughton by Brigg, Lincolnshire, England
DEATH 23 SEPT 1910 • Barton Twp, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada
1st cousin 4x removed
He married a Jane Arnott prior to 1874 though I haven't got their marriage date and then between them had 7 children, Charles Henry Doughty born 29 March, 1874 at Walpole Haldimand, Arnot William 9 February 1876 in Walpole, Haldimand, then John Stanley Doughty born and died in 1880.
Then Uriah Doughty born 7 January 1881, who died in 1923 in Ontario somewhere.
Tom
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The Leader-Post Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 5 Jul 1923, Thu - Page 5
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41740775/uriah_doughty/
Sandra
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Yes Sandra I have some photographs of my family tree of the Doughty family in Canada. Fortunately when I was researching my Doughty tree in Canada, I used Rootschat, and received a reply from someone who sent me some photographs of the Doughty family gravestones in Jarvis & Nanticoke Union Cemetery. I then did some more research using the Brantford Library and found a researcher in and was invited to Jarvis for a Doughty Family reunion so I travelled from England to Canada and visited them.
Uriah Doughty had other members of his family who emigrated to USA & Canada-I have done a lot of work on his brother Charles who lived in New Lots, Brooklyn, USA. In 2019, I went to Brooklyn, and found the gravestone of Charles Doughty. I have used the Online "Brooklyn Eagle" for lots of research.
Tom
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Sandra,
I like that newspaper entry, that's very useful; I use a British Newspaper Archive here in England.
PB yes that 1901 Census entry on Family Search is as you say:
Name: John Doughty
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 31 Mar 1901
Event Place: Norfolk (south/sud), Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Marital Status: Married
Nationality: Canadian
Ethnicity: Eng
Religion: Methodist
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1849
Birthplace: England
Immigration Year: 1852
So that's a clue now as to when Uriah and his family came to Canada.
Tom
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Tom
Uriah's farm was on the 1st concession aka Rainham Road east of the village of Nanticoke on the north side. John Lindsay's farm was across the road to the south.
Mitchell (he's still living) didn't arrive in Walpole until much, much later, their farm was north of Nanticoke on country road 55 between the 3rd and 4th concession. It has long been sold and they moved to the 5th Concession. His daughter is my immediate neighbor.
Just north of Mitchells there were 2 Doughty farms one across the road from each other on County Road 55. I suspect these are the ones they are referring to. The farmhouse on the east side was taken down in the 1960's after it had been abandon for years. When Uriah was around these farms were Henning on the west and Cullen on the east.
https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/Countyatlas/Images/Maps/TownshipMaps/hald-m-walpole.jpg The top of the map is actually West. Nanticoke is the pink top left look down from there you will see her farm.
Google maps. To the East of Jarvis at the lights go south on County Road 55 until the 4th concession. Immediately south on the right is a Doughty and across the road where the trees are is where other farm was which was torn down. Then go south past the 3rd and across the railway tracks, the farm on the right was Mitchell's.
Is it possible they lived at the hotel in Balmoral when they arrived in the area was owned by a McDonald. The only other McDonald was Abel and his brother who were on the 7th Concession north of Jarvis but I don't think they arrived in the area until after the Doughty's.
Don
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This may be of interest to you................
Obituary notice for Mabel Jane nee Skewes Bryant - daughter of Richard Skewes and Marion Elizabeth Doughty (Marion daughter of John Doughty and Jane Arnott)
The Ottawa Citizen Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 9 Mar 2002, Sat - Page 39
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41786325/mabel_nee_skewes_bryant/
Sandra
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Hi Don
Referring to those maps was interesting to find a farm equipment supplier called Doughty & Williamson on Talbot SE just quite close to County 55 or Nanticoke Road.
Thanks for that newspaper article Sandra-makes me glad I have re-joined Rootschat again.
It's going to take quite a while to take it all in.
It turns out that 5 of these Doughty children came to USA & Canada, Charles Doughty apparently went to Wisconsin first of all and then ended up in Brooklyn. When Charles Doughty died in March 1890, there was a Surrogate Notice published in the Brooklyn Eagle which states where Uriah's children were:
SURROGATE'S NOTICES
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK-To Martha Smith, residing in he city of Brooklyn, Kings County: Thomas Doughty, residing at Norwich, Chenango County, New York:
John Doughty, Richard Doughty and William Doughty residing at Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada:
Tom
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When Charles Doughty died in March 1890, there was a Surrogate Notice published in the Brooklyn Eagle which states where Uriah's children were:
SURROGATE'S NOTICES
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK-To Martha Smith, residing in he city of Brooklyn, Kings County: Thomas Doughty, residing at Norwich, Chenango County, New York:
John Doughty, Richard Doughty and William Doughty residing at Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada:
Tom
New York, Kings County Estate Files:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7L2-SNB
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Well this will is very interesting to read, thanks very much. I remember how I many years ago when I first started researching Doughty Family History in USA I employed a researcher to go to the Arcihives in Brooklyn and obtain a the will of Charles Doughty. When all the time I too could have gone to family Search and looked at the will of Charles Doughty there.
Thanks
Tom
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Interesting read Tom - its great to see old photos - Charles looked quite a small man, :)
http://whereareweallnow.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-doughty-familythe-american-canadian.html
Sandra
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Just in case you don't have it - obituary for Richard Arnott Doughty.
The Jarvis Record - Ontario - 22 January 1959
Sandra
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Fantastic, that is Sandra, is this Jarvis Record a free newspaper to look up for other Doughty persons.
I love using using newspaper entries as you learn so much from them that you wouldn't be able to learn if you didn't know much about them.
I use it all the time in Britain
Glad to see that you have found my blog on the Doughty Family in Canada & USA. Yes it seems that Charles Doughty was a bit of a dwarf, as that article in the Brooklyn Eagle about him being accused of assaulting a lady-she called him a little devil.
I was very pleased to find his gravestone in Cypress Hills cemetery in Brooklyn last year whilst my wife & I were visiting our son who lives in Brooklyn. Sometime I want to visit the church that Charles did a lot of work for.
Tom
Tom
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Have you seen these..........
The Brooklyn Citizen Brooklyn, New York 27 Oct 1889, Sun - Page 15
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35049280/charles_uriah_doughty_died_1889/
The Sun New York, New York 25 Dec 1889, Wed - Page 2
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35048899/charles_doughty_died/
Brooklyn TImes - 28 Dec 1889, Sat - Page 2
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35049204/charles_j_doughty_death_funeral/
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York 24 Dec 1889, Tue - Page 4
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35049102/charles_doughty_died/
Sandra
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Not sure if you would find anything in these - Jarvis Record Archives
https://hip.haldimandcounty.ca/jarvisarchives/
https://ja.haldimandcounty.on.ca/History%20of%20the%20Jarvis%20Record.pdf
Sandra
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Thanks Sandra, I have only used the Brooklyn Eagle.
Tom