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Canada / Re: Adam PRITTIE - Nenagh Co TIP to Ontario
« on: Friday 17 July 09 02:27 BST (UK) »
My wife's family is all descended from George Thomas PRETTY, born Chicago, IL to Thomas Alexander PRETTIE. Their name is spelled PRETTIE on George's birth certificate, George changed it after his father died and he joined the US Merchant Marine. Thomas has a brother, Adam (born 3-17-1874 Ottawa, son of John and Margaret (Manning?) PRETTIE died 12-23-1932) both are named as steamfitters on the 1910 US Federal census for Chicago, Cook County, IL. My wife's cousins and I strongly believe there is a family tie to Adam and Mary PRETTIE of Drummond.
Adam was a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, that is how he came to be part of the 1819 Richmond Settlement. See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~crossroads/barry/99th_regiment.html for some excellent military and Canadian colonial history. Adam was a private, that is how he came to have 100 acres. This link (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onlanark/Land_Property/landgrt6.htm) has a specific additional land grant of 58 acres for him bringing him to 158 acres total.
Adam Prettie, emigrant, Drummond, C7, whole of Lot 27?, 58 acres, and C5, whole of Lot 27, 100 acres, total 158 acres, located Oct. 14, 1819, settling duties performed.
I continue to hope to help my in-laws to find their roots in Canada and perhaps Ireland so I will be looking in on this thread from time to time to see what else I can contribute to this discussion and just maybe learn the connection of Adam and Thomas' parents John and Margaret to the right Ontario Prettie family!
Adam was a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, that is how he came to be part of the 1819 Richmond Settlement. See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~crossroads/barry/99th_regiment.html for some excellent military and Canadian colonial history. Adam was a private, that is how he came to have 100 acres. This link (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onlanark/Land_Property/landgrt6.htm) has a specific additional land grant of 58 acres for him bringing him to 158 acres total.
Adam Prettie, emigrant, Drummond, C7, whole of Lot 27?, 58 acres, and C5, whole of Lot 27, 100 acres, total 158 acres, located Oct. 14, 1819, settling duties performed.
I continue to hope to help my in-laws to find their roots in Canada and perhaps Ireland so I will be looking in on this thread from time to time to see what else I can contribute to this discussion and just maybe learn the connection of Adam and Thomas' parents John and Margaret to the right Ontario Prettie family!