Mystery of the Grieving Patton Heiress

[KarenM]

On the 1901 Census Janet lists her date of birth as Sept. 20, 1820, widow born Scotland, but it dosn't give her year of immigration.  She is living with Henry Beaton, age 22, born Scotland and Elizabeth Lindsay, widow, born Ontario March 20, 1852. 

Janet is listed as Henry's mother in the census.

I can't find it on www.automatedgenealogy.com , but they are living in Lanark North, Darling Twp., District No. 80

K

[KarenM]

Here's George and family on the 1911, he lists his birthdate as June 1939

His year of immigration is hard to read, looks like 1890, but could be a really bad 4 


http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=97473

[mjl]

G'day All,

I received a message via Genes Reunited from Lumber Jack about a Janet Paton.  I am the great great grand daughter of a Janet Paton born in 1799 in Alva.  I spent several weeks in Scotland researching this line of my family in 2005.   

A few things that may help you - the Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire Patons have no connection to the Alva & Tillicoultry Patons back to around 1700 that I could find. 

Patons were the biggest Mill owners of the Alva /Tillicoultry/Alloa area and my family are on the poor relation side of the family - our connection is in the early 1700's  which was before the Industrial Revolution when all the woollen manufacture was done as a cottage industry, my Janet's father was actually a distillery worker near Alva and his father was a "feuar" or small landholder/farmer of Tillicoultry. The Alva and Tillicoultry Patons are my family.  It was the Alloa line that became the Mill owners.

As far as I can recall there weren't any missing heiresses to the Paton fortune as far as my research went with them.

Your Janet Paton would have migrated under her own name of Janet Paton not Janet Beaton because Scottish women retained their own name all their lives - it was only after statutory registrations started under English Law that bureaucrats started using the English practise  of giving women their husbands name.  My Janet Paton's parents grave stone of 1828 in the Old Alva Cemetery lists Anne MCGregor and her  husband John Paton The Old Parish Records show baptisms with the full names of parents eg "Janet Paton, lawful daughter of John Paton and Anne McGregor spouses" or variations of this.

I'll have a look at my notes and records over the weekend and see if I can find a connection to the Janet Paton you are trying to trace with my family, however because of the Scottish naming pattern, which my family followed rigorously there are several Janet Patons in my records. 

Hope this may be of some use to you in your search.

Marg
Australia

[Lumber-Jack]

Hi Folks, It's been quite a day!
 Darlene in B.C. has emailed me ( thanks Karen) and she descends from Margaret , one of Janet and John's 12 children ( though not all survived infancy). She has promised to provide all she knows on the Beaton and Paton lines and I have taken her up on this and will report back to this thread. I know no more yet!!!
Thanks Marg for that useful info on Scottish naming and the evolution of the wollen industry in Alva/Tilicoutry/Aloa. The lack of connection between the Renfrewshire/Lanarkshire Patons and those of Alva/Tilicoultry gives me hope that our Janet Paton may have an Aloa connection. Is that a fair summise? I look forward to what you might discover in your records. How far did you research the Aloa Paton's? I wonder whether Janet, while not a "major'' heiress, may have been cited in one of the wills I identified on this thread. Darlene may have some news for us yet on this. Did you ever go through these wills? I am still inclined to keep following the trail as set out on the back of the original charcoal.
If 1842 is the date if immigration ( see George Beaton record) we have no candidates for the dead son. Janet may not have declared him dead for fear of having him forcibly buried at sea and even carried him through "customs". My guess is to look for a baby Paton/Beaton in a Scots Presbyterian cemetary at point of landing.....Halifax/Quebec City.
The  Auld Kirk Book I mentioned in my previous listing also contains comprehensive obituaries....I will be hunting out a copy if I can find one.
And I now have to put all this research into a Gedcom file! Lots of work thanks to you all. Perhaps I will wait a couple of days and see whether Darlene has a Gedcom already! Best wishes, Lumber-Jack

[forthefamily]

Hello...I hope you don't mind if I bookmark so I can keep up with your research. So interesting...

mab

[Lumber-Jack]

Welcome Mab! Lumber-Jack

[forthefamily]

Thank you .

[liverpool annie]

Sounds like you're existing on adrenalin Jack !! 

How exciting this all is ! .... I agree with you - wait and see what is available before you start getting it all up together !! and the best of it is ... it's not even your family !!

You've caught "the bug " - ( I'm sorry to say !! ) .... join the rest of us !! 

Annie 

[waiteohman]

Hello

There is also a son Stephen Beaton born about 1846 in Ontario.  Immigration would be before his birth (date from marriage record) and after George ABT 1841.

Stephen BEATON, 23, farmer born Ramsay ABT 1846, residence Darling, son of John BEATON & Janet PATTON married Jane LINDSAY, 31, born Pakenham, residence Admaston, daughter of John LINDSAY & Elizabeth LEECH, witnesses James POTTER & Ellen LAMONT of Admaston, married 29 Oct 1869 at Admaston in Renfrew County by Rev. William Creighton, Presbyterian

George is listed as born Glasgow ABT 1841 on his marriage record to Isabella Riddle.

Linda