Mystery of the Grieving Patton Heiress

[dollylee]

I am glad I could help with the Canadian part karenlee...it's pretty hard when you don't have access to the records but you sure came a long way with using IGI.

I did a search for Coates & Clark and found they had joined up with a company called Patons & Baldwin which operated out of Paisley Row, Renfrewshire.  I then did a search for 1841 Census in Renfrewshire... I found what looks like  them but.....it says he was born in Scotland?

1841 Scotland Census
Civil Parish:  Paisley Row, Renfrewshire
Address:  Gawze Street

John Beaton 30 b. abt. 1811 Scotland Occ. Tourneyman Tailor
Janet Beaton 20 b. abt 1821 Scotland
George Beaton 1 b. abt. 1840 Renfrewshire, Scotland
Margaret Paton 50 b. abt. 1791 Scotland

What do you think?

dollylee

[karenlee]

Looks good to me dolly...what with him a tailor and all. Wonder if George is the son who died of scarlet fever on the way over? Wonder if his death was registered in Canada, or if there is a burial record for him.   Where's Margaret too??

I don't tend to take too much notice of details on the 1841........ usually not accurate anyway.

Your doing a great job...

Karenlee

[Lumber-Jack]

Thanks Karenlee , Dollylee and Ruskie,  All your hard work has given me a lot to go on. I went to the Ontario Cemeteries website and was able to download pictures and records for Pine Grove Cemetery , Cemetery Road at St Fillan's Road C10 L20 Beckwith  Township Lanark County Ontario for:

John Beaton 1861-1955 and wife Amelia Thurlow 1865-1922

John Edward Beaton 1914-1998 and his wife Helen E.E. McDiarmid ( there are lots of these McDiarmids in this region hence I guess the middle name for Howard Mac in my first post and so Howard Thurlow, son of Jon and Amelia, may have had an additional name or there is another Howard too! I wonder whether John Edward and Helen had a son called Howard McDiarmid Beaton)

William Lorne Moffatt 1897?-194? and Elizabeth Beaton 18?8- 1958? (dates are quite obliterated.

I am still looking for the graves of John Beaton and Janet Paton.

The hit by Dollylee on Patons and Baldwin,  and the Beaton's and  Margaret Paton in the 1841 Scotland census is an excellent lead....George may well be the unfortunate child to look for in Canadian records. I suspect that John was born on the Cape during his father's travels but the enumerator just kept the record simple but false.

I would love to contact Darlene Jones.....who probably has researched most of this.

Now I have to cut the grass.......talk later. Best wishes, Lumber-Jack

[KarenM]

HI there,

Have you checked the deaths a Grosse Isle for the little boy?

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/grosse-ile-immigration/001053-100.01-e.php

Karen

[KarenM]

Marriage Reg. for..

George W. Beaton
Residence when married:  Darling, Ontario
Age:  31
Place of birth:  Glasgow, Scotland
Bachelor
Occupation:  Farmer
Parents:  John & Janet Beaton

Isabella Riddle
Age:  29
Residence when married:  Ramsey
Place of birth:  Ramsay
Spinster
Parents:  John & Margaret Riddle

Witnessess:  George Gunn & Elizabeth Beaton, Darling, Ontario
Date of Marriage:  August 18, 1871, Ramsay, Ontario
County of Lanark


K

[Lumber-Jack]

Thanks very much KarenM, the Grosse Isle registers only give a Mary Paton 1839 on the Bark Venture hospitalised o6/02 died 06/16. I will have to go to the Archives to look up the actual record and memorial which may mention next of kin. Could this be Janet's sister also catching the scarlet fever? No Beaton's or babies so far.  And I just saw your next post so George is not the baby.There is always the chance that the family memory was faulty and the reality was that Janet cared for her sick sister.....but I am not going there yet because John and Janet had been married long enough to have had a child at time of sailing, and the rest of the record on the charcoal has so far proved to be correct! Best wishes, Lumber-Jack

[liverpool annie]

It's also possible that they had a second child they called George ! happens quite often in families when the first child died ! 

Annie

[KarenM]

Very true Annie.  I had that happen in my family.


Karen

[Lumber-Jack]

Thanks Karen and Annie, I appreciate having received all the childrens marriage info and the suggestion that George may have been named to the second child. Lumber-Jack