Ontario Look Ups

[Erato]

Is there any possibility of Ontario birth records in the 1840s?

Erato

[ggperry]

No sorry. Births start at 1869.

[KarenM]

Ontario Birth registration starts at 1869, but prior to that you can find parish registers, do you have any idea where in Ontario?

Karen

[Erato]

Is there any hope for Amherst Island?

[KarenM]

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~theislands/index.html

Have you checked out that link?

What names are you looking for?

Karen

[Erato]

Yes, I'm familiar with the site but couldn't find what I needed.  Have they updated recently?

The names I am looking for are:

Mary A. Ennis    abt 1842
John S. Ennis    abt 1843
Hugh Ennis       abt 1846

and also possibly:

Thomas Ennis    abt 1838
Elizabeth Ennis  abt 1839
William Ennis      abt 1840
George E. Ennis  abt 1847

All are the children of John and Mary (McGee) Ennis.



Erato

[KarenM]

HI Erato,

There is a death registration for Hugh Ennis born c1841 with John Ennis as his father.  It says Hugh Ennis place of birth is Ireland 

Karen

[KarenM]

Do you have the family on the 1851 Ontario Census?

Karen

[Erato]

Thanks for checking.

I don't know about this Hugh.  My Hugh Ennis was born in 1846 at Amherst Island.  He was my g grandfather and he died in 1933 in Marquette County, Wisconsin.  Possibly there was an earlier son named Hugh born in Ireland before they went to Canada, but I have never found any other information to suggest this.  

I don't know exactly when they got to Canada.  The children Thomas and Elizabeth give Ireland as their birthplace in census records; William is sometimes listed with birthplace in Ireland, sometimes Canada; Mary, John and Hugh are always listed as born in Canada;  George (and all later children) always in Wisconsin, though George's supposed birth year (1847) is before the family's move to Wisconsin (1848-9).

Erato