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Re: Catin or Caton Willis in Ramsay, Ontario
« Reply #18 on: Monday 06 April 20 13:31 BST (UK) »

Willis Family Burying Site, Lanark County, Ontario.  (George and Jane Willis)

http://geneofun.on.ca/names/photo/252392

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Re: Catin or Caton Willis in Ramsay, Ontario
« Reply #19 on: Monday 06 April 20 13:35 BST (UK) »

William Willis 1799 County Wexford Ireland - married Esther Leach - 1820 - Montague Township, Lanark County, Ontario.

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Re: Catin or Caton Willis in Ramsay, Ontario
« Reply #20 on: Monday 06 April 20 14:50 BST (UK) »
The William Willis you mentioned above is my 2nd GGF and he immigrated from Wexford, Ireland to Beckwith, Ontario 1819-1820. Since the other Willis's I have mentioned in previous posts all immigrated around the same time from the same place to the same place, I feel they all must be related but I keep ending up against a brick wall as to how they are related.

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Re: Catin or Caton Willis in Ramsay, Ontario
« Reply #21 on: Monday 06 April 20 15:17 BST (UK) »
I am pretty sure that Thomas Willis b. 1778 is related as I have 3 DNA matches to him.


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Re: Catin or Caton Willis in Ramsay, Ontario
« Reply #22 on: Tuesday 07 April 20 00:50 BST (UK) »
In these times of isolation ...
Likewise here. :)

So, I Googled "Willis family, Wexford, Ireland" and found some old posts, apparently yours based on the user names. At one time you were looking for an article by Professor Bruce Elliott entitled "Emigration from South Leinster to Eastern Upper Canada" in Kevin Whelan, ed. Wexford: History and Society (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1987)

If you haven't found the book yet, have you tried using worldcat.org to locate a copy?
This is the link if you type in "Lanark, Ontario" at the main search page.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/wexford-history-and-society/oclc/17360529

I typed in my home USA zip code, and found a number of colleges in New England that have the book. Also the New England Historic and Genealogical Society in Boston has a copy. They will do a lookup for $, if and when this virus ever goes away. (They are currently closed.)

And do you have this resource? I haven't needed C of I registers yet, so I'm not too familar with it, but it looks thorough. I understand though that, unfortunately, most of their registers perished in the 1922 Records House fire in Dublin.

List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers
A Colour-coded Resource Accounting For What Survives; Where It Is;
& With Additional Information of Copies, Transcripts and Online Indexes
January 2020

https://www.ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/registers/ParishRegisters/PARISHREGISTERS.pdf

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Re: Catin or Caton Willis in Ramsay, Ontario
« Reply #23 on: Monday 07 February 22 15:04 GMT (UK) »
Hello,
I am still researching Caton Willis. I understand that I can look up land records for him in Ramsay, Ontario on Familysearch. I am hoping that someone might be able to help me obtain the records. He settled as a young man on Concession 8, Lot 2W, Ramsay, Ontario, Canada when the township opened. Thank you in advance.
Karen