Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Adam Scott Cameron's Will


New York Probate Records...New York Wills 1877-1878...:


251-446 [Image 258]
19 October 1877
Last Will and Testament
Adam Scott Cameron, late of the County of New York (John Matthews, Executor)
Engineer, of 320 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, New York, but now temporarily residing in Grey Abbott, in the County of Down, Ireland...

Wife: Julia Elizabeth, whom I have known since infancy...
Son: Walter Scott Cameron
Two brothers: James Cameron and Hugh Scott Cameron
Three sisters: Mary Ann, the wife of James Milliken, Jane, the wife of the Reverend William Hall, Elizabeth, the wife of John A. Hall
In His Employment: Ferdinand O. Hagen, Joseph A. Kinney, Alexander MacDuff, Thomas A. Dyson, Robert Harris and Patrick Callahan (the latter being known in the works as "Pete" Callahan)

Also mentioned: Benjamin R. Palmer, Esquire, and Samuel Riker
" "  Jas.S. Dorman, U.S. Counsel, Belfast, Ireland, R. Jeffrey, Grey Abbey, Co. Down, Ireland, Minister of the Presbyterian Church, Caroline M. Sewell, widow, No. 320 Lex. Ave., New York, temporarily at Grey Abbey, Ireland




Sunday, December 16, 2018

The Dignity Of A Baronet



Source

"The dignity of a Baronet of Great Britain and Ireland, granted to Ewen Cameron, of Fassifern and Callart, in the county of Argyll, and of Arthurstone, in the county of Angus, Esq. and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten."

Friday, December 8, 2017

James Cameron, Husband Of Margaret Stuart


Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)
Microform: c-2202


Petition 368 (f)
8 December 1843
Petitioner: John Stuart
6th Concession
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...Donald Stuart served one year as a private in the 77th Regiment....and died in the service, his ant (sic) Margaret Stuart and her husband James Cameron served in the 77th Regiment a few years as a private, his ant Mary Stuart and her husband William Willson...Alexander Stuart, druggist, Kingston, Jamaica...

Petitioner's mother was a native of Kinsail, Ireland
"  " father (John Stuart) was a native of Grampian Hills, Perthshire, Scotland
" " was a native of Market Harbour, England, where he was baptized March 1783
Petitioner was a billeted militia ma


Note: Cross-posted at Detour Through History blog


Monday, December 23, 2013

Bridget Cameron's Death Record


Schedule C--Deaths

County of Lambton       Division...: Plympton

Name and Surname of Deceased:  Bridget Cameron
When Died:  December 23rd  1894
Male or Female:  Female
Age:  81 Years
Farmer's Wife
Where Born:  Ireland
Cause...and Duration of Illness:  Inflamation of Lungs/10 days
Informant:  A. McKay, Undertaker
#008631
Registered: January 4, 1895
Religion:  Baptist
Registrar:  William Douglas