Uriah Doughty and his voyage to Canada with his wife Alice & Joseph Preston

[Tom Piper]

Uriah, the tenth child, of Richard & Elizabeth Doughty nee Holt,  born January 4 1820, in Broughton by Brigg in Lincolnshire, England & married Alice Preston on 16th October 1843,  and  had a daughter Alice born 1 August 1847 & then a son, John born 14 January,  1849, then came to Canada with her father Joseph Preston, a widower after 1851, but before 6 December 1855, when their son Richard was born at Walpole, Haldimand, Ontario, Canada. They spent a short time in the Toronto area then moved to the Jarvis district. Uriah and his wife and family rented a house of the fifth block of the 5th Concession of Walpole owned by a MacDonald across the road from the farm owned now by Gordon Mitchell. The building is gone and for years the land uncultivated but a deep hole which was a root cellar could be seen for some time.
I haven’t been able to discover the date Uriah & his wife & her father Joseph Preston came to Canada. He may have sailed from Kingston-upon Hull.

[*Sandra*]

Sadly there are no comprehensive lists of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to 1865. Until that year, shipping companies were not required by the government to keep their passenger
manifests.

They appear to be on the 1851 UK census and two of the boys born in Ontario - Richard 1855 and William 1856- so immigration between 30 March 1851 and 1855 
Notice 1901 canadian census gives 5 December 1846 for the birth of Richard. obviously the year is incorrect but perhaps the date of 5 December 1855 would be correct 
1911 census gives Dec 1855


https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/immigrants-before-1865/Pages/search.aspx

https://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/immigration/index.shtml

Sandra

[polarbear]

Assuming I have found the correct John, a John Doughty gives 1852 as his immigration year in the 1901 census, although there is really no way to know how accurate the date is.

PB

[Tom Piper]

Sandra

Thanks for a such a quick reply. 
I have blog about my Doughty relatives who went to Canada & USA entitled The Doughty family:The American & Canadian Connections

It could be searched for if you wanted to look at it by going on Google to Uriah Doughty Ontario blogspot

Tom

[*Sandra*]

Thank you Tom. Just noticed an ancestry tree with photographs of Uriah, Mary and Richard, John and William Doughty - its always lovely to put a face to a name - what a little treasure trove   

Sandra

[Tom Piper]

PB 
These are some of the details of this John Doughty:
John Doughty
1849–1910
BIRTH 14 JAN 1849 • Broughton by Brigg, Lincolnshire, England
DEATH 23 SEPT 1910 • Barton Twp, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada
1st cousin 4x removed

He married a Jane Arnott prior to 1874 though I haven't got their marriage date and then between them had 7 children, Charles Henry Doughty born 29 March, 1874 at Walpole Haldimand, Arnot William 9 February 1876 in Walpole, Haldimand, then John Stanley Doughty born and died in 1880.

Then Uriah Doughty born 7 January 1881, who died in 1923 in Ontario somewhere.

Tom

[*Sandra*]

The Leader-Post Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada  5 Jul 1923, Thu  -   Page 5

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41740775/uriah_doughty/

Sandra

[Tom Piper]

Yes Sandra I have some  photographs of my family tree of the Doughty family in Canada. Fortunately when I was researching my Doughty tree in Canada, I used Rootschat, and received a reply from someone who sent me some photographs of the Doughty family gravestones in Jarvis & Nanticoke Union Cemetery.  I then did some more research using the Brantford Library and found a researcher in and was invited to Jarvis for a Doughty Family reunion so I travelled from England to Canada and visited them.

Uriah Doughty had other members of his family who emigrated to USA & Canada-I have done a lot of work on his brother Charles who lived in New Lots, Brooklyn, USA. In 2019, I went to Brooklyn, and found the gravestone of Charles Doughty. I have used the Online "Brooklyn Eagle" for lots of research.

Tom

[Tom Piper]

Sandra,

I like that newspaper entry, that's very useful; I use a British Newspaper Archive here in England.

PB yes that 1901 Census entry on Family Search is as you say:

Name:   John Doughty
Event Type:   Census
Event Date:   31 Mar 1901
Event Place:   Norfolk (south/sud), Ontario, Canada
Gender:   Male
Age:   52
Marital Status:   Married
Nationality:   Canadian
Ethnicity:   Eng
Religion:   Methodist
Relationship to Head of Household (Original):   Head
Birth Year (Estimated):   1849
Birthplace:   England
Immigration Year:   1852

So that's a clue now as to when Uriah and his family came to Canada.

Tom