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Canada / Re: Duncan CAMERON and Janet CHISHOLM Pictou NS 1820`s
« on: Monday 29 June 20 00:16 BST (UK)  »
WOW!  How fabulous is that!  I double-checked and it was not the Eastern Chronicle but rather the Pictou Advocate which noted his death.  Jennie was his sister, and she died 20 April 1888, age 64.  Their mother, Jennie Chisholm Cameron died 18 Nov 1884, age 85. Hope the attachment is there...

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Canada / Re: Duncan CAMERON and Janet CHISHOLM Pictou NS 1820`s
« on: Sunday 28 June 20 16:22 BST (UK)  »
A problem arose with the UEL application and so this week I have dug out my files on this family, trying to help.  Of course there's new material always being added to internet sources!  I found a reference in the local New Glasgow paper, the Easter Chronicle, 27 Nov 1896 to the death in Mangalore "on the 22nd inst" of Donald Chisholm Cameron, age 69.  Did your Donald die in Australia? 

Deb

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Canada / Re: Duncan CAMERON and Janet CHISHOLM Pictou NS 1820`s
« on: Thursday 06 June 19 03:31 BST (UK)  »
Today I was in Halifax and stopped by the Archives to look up the court records for a property settlement in which Hugh Fraser and his wife Jessie seem to have brought suit against her mother and siblings for a division of property in 1865.  On the plan agreed upon, the others are noted simply as the heirs of Duncan Cameron, but the Judgement Book lists Jessie Cameron [I suspect this is a transcribing error and should read 'Jennie'], Mary Cameron, Angus Cameron, Daniel Cameron and John Cameron.  Don't know if Angus and John are other siblings of Daniel and Jessie or not.  Back down the rabbit hole! 

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Canada / Re: Duncan CAMERON and Janet CHISHOLM Pictou NS 1820`s
« on: Saturday 01 June 19 15:42 BST (UK)  »
I looked again at the deed in which Daniel Cameron licenced victualler of township of Broadford, county of Dalhousie and colony of Victoria, signed over property in Pictou County NS to his mother Jane - this was recorded in Nova Scotia in January 1874, but he signed a document appointing his attorney in NS in October 1872.  This was witnessed by John Whittle and Verney Lovett Cameron [who is this?], and on this document Daniel is listed as a licenced publican.  Then John Whittle had his own credentials verified by the mayor of Melbourne, Orlando Fenwick. 

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Canada / Re: Duncan CAMERON and Janet CHISHOLM Pictou NS 1820`s
« on: Tuesday 28 May 19 21:34 BST (UK)  »
I suspect that Daniel and Donald are the same person - I think that Duncan was the son of Alexander & wife Elizabeth Cameron, and that Alexander was possibly the son of Donald Cameron originally from Glen Urquhart Inverness Shire, Scotland.  This Donald and his brothers and sons and sons-in-law were pressed into the British army from their immigrant ship when they arrived at New York in 1775 - they joined the Loyal Highland Emigrants, which became the 84th Regt of Foot.  So the whole bunch of them were Loyalists.

Did your Donald leave any papers from the 1870s - family letters, family bible, anything nice like that?

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Canada / Re: Duncan CAMERON and Janet CHISHOLM Pictou NS 1820`s
« on: Tuesday 28 May 19 20:19 BST (UK)  »
OK!  I tried to reply but not sure where it went - I've been trying to help someone in British Columbia [I'm in NS] who is a descendant of daughter Jessie and who is looking to find a United Empire Loyalist ancestor, so I've been trying to link Duncan to the UELs of the 84th who settled up the East River of Pictou.  The records of that area are pretty non-existent as you have likely discovered. 
Here is what I have for their children:

Jessie, born c. 1824, married Hugh Fraser
Mary B., born c. 1825, married John Lank
William, born c. 1828, died 18 January 1845 age 16 - son of Duncan and Jennie Cameron - from his gravestone in Riverton
Daniel - no dates except that his father gave him and a brother Archibald land in 1844
and Daniel signed over his land to his mother Jane in 1870 when he was living in Broadford Australia, near Melbourne
I've found no info at all on Archibald - still have to have another go at the probate records.
Jennie died 27 Nov 1884, according to her fairly modern gravestone.
Tried to attach a photo, but maybe I should take the tutorial!

Deb

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Canada / Re: Duncan CAMERON and Janet CHISHOLM Pictou NS 1820`s
« on: Monday 27 May 19 01:07 BST (UK)  »
Are you still looking for Duncan and Jennie/Jane?  I believe their son Daniel went to Australia - he was in Broadford near Melbourne in 1880 - a licenced victualler.  I'm helping a descendant of their daughter Jessie track her family.  Duncan and Jennie lived at 'the Forks', East River Pictou County.

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