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From: "George M. McCaig" <>
Subject: Warner & Beers History of Brant County 1883
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 08:31:53 -0400


Greetings all,
The Brant County, Ontario, list has a series of postings of
transcriptions made by Bill Bowman from the subject book.
These are thumbnail sketches of residents of the county at
that time. Where there are references to former Scottish
natives I have been copying them to SCOTLAND-GENWEB.
This one has references to both Ayrshire and Wigtownshire so
I am posting it to these lists also.
The Dumfries Township referred to is in Brant County. Hope
it helps someone in their searches

THOMAS MITCHELL, farmer, Township of South Dumfries, was
born in North
Dumfries Township, 12th April, 1840, and is the son of John
and Sarah
Mitchell, the former of whom has been a farmer all his days,
and a
native of Ayr, Scotland, having been born there, 12th
August, 1811. He
is still among the living, and resides on the farm he took
up in the
year of the Rebellion (1837). His wife, Sarah, was also born
in Scotland
in 1806. They emigrated to Canada - the father in 1834, and
the mother
in 1836-and were married in Galt, Waterloo County. Thomas
Mitchell, our
subject, was united in marriage, 26th December, 1865, with
Jennie
Torrance, a native of Wigtonshire, Scotland. She was born
7th Dec.,
1843, and is a daughter of Thomas Torrance, who came to
Canada in 1850,
and was drowned in the Grand River, in March 1852. Mr. and
Mrs. Mitchell
are members of the Presbyterian church, and have found in
their lifetime
that fortune's smile has fovoured them. When Mr. M., who
received a good
general and mathematical education, first entered the arena
of farm
life, he purchased 85 acres of improved land, the buildings
on which
were all put on after coming into his possession. He and his
sister
Ellen are the only two living representatives of his
father's name.

George M. McCaig,
Dwight, Ontario, Canada

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