Scots In Nova Scotia

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Scots in Nova Scotia, Canada:

"In the country districts successive immigrations both from the Highlands and Lowlands, chiefly Dumfries, added to the population. Amongst the leading men of the former were Martin McDonald, Alexander McKenzie, Archibald Cameron.... . Later a number of McKinnons, Macleans, McQuarries, McMillans, and Mclntoshes make their appearance." [Source]

George Frederick Root

George Frederick Root, born 23 March 1871 in Buffalo, New York, to Samuel Root and Margaret (Cameron) Root.  Margaret was the daughter of Donald and Nancy (Monroe) Cameron of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. [Source]

Census 1875

Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States

Samuel Root Father M 36

Margaret Root Wife F 34

George Root Son M 4

Settlers Of The 84th Regiment

An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America ..., By John Patterson MacLean

"At the conclusion of the war grants of land were given to the officers and men... .  The men of Major Small's battalion went to Nova Scotia...a number settled on East River."

"The settlers of East Branch or River of the 84th on the East side were Donald Cameron a native of Urquhart Scotland served eight years possessed one hundred and fifty acres his son Duncan served two years as a drummer boy in the regiment." Alexander Cameron one hundred acres... .Finlay Cameron four hundred. Samuel Cameron one hundred acres."

"On the west side of the same river...Samuel Cameron three hundred acres."

"...James Cameron 84th regiment three hundred acres...".

Mederich Cameron

Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution ..., Volume 1,  By Lorenzo Sabine:

CAMERON MEDERICH Of New York. His son Mederich, who was a Whig, fled from school, and joined the army as a drummer. The father followed the youth to camp, and succeeded in obtaining his release. At the peace, Mr. Cameron went to Shelburne, Nova Scotia. He owned three houses in the city of New York, two of which he demolished at leaving, and transported the bricks of which they were built to Shelburne, to serve in the construction of a new dwelling there. He died at Liverpool, Nova Scotia, during the war of 1812, at the age of ninety-eight. Two children survived him. The son above mentioned went to Nova Scotia with his father, but returned to New York.

Dr. Edwin Cameron

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United States of America Declaration of Intention

Residing: Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia

Occupation: Physician

Born: Tatangouche, Canada

DOB: 6 September 1899

Married 3 April 1926

Place: Halifax, Canada

She (Wife) Born 30 June 1900

Three Children: Jean Isabel Marie; Donald Chisholm; Anna

Name Edwin Cameron

Census 1940

Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia

Last Place of Residence Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia

Edwin Cameron Head M 40 Canada

Molly Cameron Wife  F 39 Canada

Jean Cameron Daughter F 12 Kentucky

Donald Cameron Son M 10 Kentucky

Ann Cameron Daughter F 8 West Virginia

Dr. Cameron moved to Delaware (per daughter Ann):

 "In 1945,my father, Dr. Edwin Cameron purchased the house at 22 South Main Street.  We had relocated from West Virginia so that Dad could take the position as Delaware's Public Health Physician." 

Edwin Cameron died in Kentucky in 1967.

Excerpts of the obituary published on April 10, 1967 in The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware:

Dr. Edwin Cameron, 67, a former executive secretary of the Delaware State Board of Health, died Thursday in Clay City, Ky.... . For two years after leaving Delaware, Dr. Cameron served the Connecticut health department. Before taking the Kentucky post he had a tour of service in India for the World Health Organization, spent a year in Syria working for the U.S. State Department and practiced for a time in West Virginia. 

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Molly Cameron; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Dowd of Seaford and Mrs. Ann Burke of Camden; a son, Dr. Donald Cameron, Wilmington, and 13 grandchildren. 

Edwin was the son of Laughlin and Maud Cameron.

James Cameron Of Walworth County

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Daniel Cameron #3181957

Records from the Library and Archives of Canada include Veterans Death Cards: First World War and the microfilm where they can be found.  When Veterans Affairs was notified of the death of a First World War veteran, a death card was created... .

Daniel Cameron

Date of Death: 29 May 1933

Image #522

Thomas J. Cameron, Father

54 Linden Street, Reading, Mass., USA

Daniel Cameron, #3181957, was found in the Soldiers of the First World War [Canada] database:

Daniel was born January 10, 1887, in Stellarton, N.S.; his father was living in Stellarton, too, in 1918.

George Inglis Cameron

Records from the Library and Archives of Canada include Veterans Death Cards: First World War and the microfilm where they can be found.

When Veterans Affairs was notified of the death of a First World War veteran, a death card was created... .

George Inglis Cameron

#223197

Date of Death: 9-9-59

564

Next of Kin: Mrs. Rose Enman [or Erman], Sister

28 N. Albert Street, New Glasgow, Pictou Co., N.S.

George was enumerated in the 1891 N.S. census with his father, James Cameron, mother, Catherine, brother, Ewen, grandmother Christine Cameron, and uncle, Malcolm Cameron.

Found here in the 1901 Census.

Item Number: 1100612

Surname: Cameron

Given Name(s): E George [DOB 18 Sep 1888]

Age: 12

Province: Nova Scotia

District Name: Pictou

Sub-District Name: Garden of Eden

More information from George Cameron's 1915 Attestation Papers:

He was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia

Date of Birth: 18 September 1888

Mother: Mrs. Catherine Cameron of Pictou

Miss Jean Cameron Of Berea College

Newspaper extracts from the Tri-Counties Genealogy and History by Joyce M. Tice:

Newspaper Clippings  July 12, 1912  -  Sylvania [Pennsylvania]

Miss Jean Cameron, of Berea College, Berea, Ky., stopped over for a day or two and spent the 4th with her brother, *Rev. A. G. Cameron.  She is on her way to Nova Scotia where she expects to spend her summer vacation.

United States Census, 1900

Columbia Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania

*Head Alex Cameron M 46  Nova Scotia

Wife Jennie H Cameron F 33  New York

Son  Hugh A Cameron M 10  Pennsylvania 

Son Neil A Cameron M 8  Pennsylvania

Son Donald H Cameron M 4  Pennsylvania

Name: Jean Cameron

Event Type: Census

Event Year: 1910

Event Place:  Berea, Madison, Kentucky

Gender: Female

Marital Status: Single

Birth Year (Estimated): 1861

Birthplace: Canada English

Immigration Year: 1885

Father's Birthplace: Canada English

Mother's Birthplace: Canada English

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

Jean Cameron F 49 Canada English

Katherine Bowersox Roomer F 40 Pennsylvania

Mary E Welsh Roomer F 47 Massachusetts

Kate Coddington Roomer F 40 Indiana

Leanar E Orr Roomer F 44 Ohio

Emma Haagan Roomer F 47 Pennsylvania

Absalom L Golden Roomer M 36 Kentucky

Margaret Golden Roomer F 35 Kentucky

Canada Census, 1881

Head of Household Name: Angus Cameron

Forks St-Mary, Guysborough, Nova Scotia

Angus Cameron M 59y Nova Scotia

Catharine E Cameron F 59y Nova Scotia

*Alex George Cameron M 26y Nova Scotia

A ... Jane Cameron F 24y Nova Scotia

Angus Hugh Cameron M 23y Nova Scotia

David N Cameron M 19y Nova Scotia

Catharine E Cameron F 16y Nova Scotia

Sarah M Cameron F 14y Nova Scotia

Daniel G McIntosh M 5y Nova Scotia

Jean is listed as a surviving sibling living in Detroit in her sister Mary Ann's 1936 obituary.  Is she not the correct Jean?  Or was her date of death 1938, not 1928?  Perhaps Jean was a deceased sibling and the obituary was wrong or wrongly transcribed. Or is there another explanation?

Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921-1952
Name:   Jean Cameron
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 24 Aug 1928
Event Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
Gender: Female
Age: 72
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 28 Jan 1856
Birthplace: Newtown, Nova Scotia
Birth Year (Estimated): 1856
Father's Name: Angus Cameron
Mother's Name: Eliza Catherine Gunn

Gray/Cameron Marriage

An article from the San Francisco Call 26 August 1891:

A BIT OF ROMANCE.

The Granddaughter of Sir Charles Tupper Elopes

Quite a romance attaches to the marriage of Christian Hamilton Gray of Abbeywood. Kent, England, and Miss Sophie Tupper Cameron, daughter of Major-General Cameron [and Emma Tupper Cameron], commandant of Royal Military College, and granddaughter of Sir Charles Tupper, which occurred on Friday last in St. Paul's Church, says a Kingston special to the New York Herald. A lawyer, clergyman and two cabmen were the only witnesses. Miss Cameron some time ago met Mr. Gray in England, where he was a civil engineer. He was young and wealthy, but the Major-General objected to his becoming the husband of his daughter, and Miss Cameron was forthwith brought home to Canada. But the ocean that divided the continents could not separate their love.  Mr. Gray soon took ship for Canada and began arrangements for the marriage. Last Friday Miss Cameron quietly left her home and came downtown, where a cabman met her. A block away Mr. Gray was picked up and the two drove to the church where, Rev. W. Johnson united them in marriage. Mr. Gray settled a large annuity upon his bride. Mr. and Mrs. Gray are at the Hotel ___. Major-General Cameron has been notified of their marriage, but whether the stern parent has relented or not cannot be learned. Mr. Gray is about 30 years of age, refined and educated. He refuses to state his arrangements for the future. His father is interested in electric lights in Kent.

Sophia's sister was Nancie Tupper Cameron.

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Charles Gordon Cameron

Records from the Library and Archives of Canada include Veterans Death Cards: First World War and the microfilm where they can be found.

Charles G. Cameron

#3034700

Rank: Private

Date of Death: 22 May 1939

Died At: East Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Wife: Mrs. Rose A. Cameron

9 Cross Street, East Boston, MA

Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden, Mass.

Grave 76 & 77  East, Row 56 S.

Image# 512

From the Canadian Attestation Papers for Charles Gordon Cameron in 1918:

Born: Fredericton, N.S. on 17 May 1897
Single
Teamster
Mother: Julia Cameron of East Boston

This one?:
Name: Charles Cameron
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1930
Event Place: Boston (Districts 1-250), Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Son-in-law
Birth Year (Estimated): 1898
Birthplace: Canada
Immigration Year: 1899
Father's Birthplace: Canada
Mother's Birthplace: Canada
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Domenic Incrovato Head M 50 Italy
Anna Incrovato Wife F 55 Italy
Silvester Incrovato Son M 32 Italy
Tony Incrovato Son M 26 Massachusetts
James Incrovato Son M 20 Massachusetts
Frank Incrovato Son M 16 Massachusetts
Helen Incrovato Daughter F 13 Massachusetts
Charles Cameron Son-in-law M 32 Canada
Rose Cameron Daughter F 27 Massachusetts

Name: Charles Cameron
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1900
Event Place: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Gender: Male
Age: 3
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
Birth Date: May 1897
Birthplace: Canada (Ir)
Immigration Year: 1898
Father's Birthplace: Canada (Ir)
Mother's Birthplace: Canada (Ir)
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Julia Cameron Head F 31 Canada (Ir)
William Cameron Son M 9 Canada (Ir)
Albin Cameron Son F 6 Canada (Ir)
Mary Cameron Daughter F 4 Canada (Ir)
Charles Cameron Son M 3 Canada (Ir)
Margaret Carland Sister F 36 Canada (Ir)
Thomas B Carland Nephew M 15 New York
Jane Sullivan Mother F 68 Ireland
Hugh Sullivan Brother M 32 Canada (Ir)

Sarah Margaret (Cameron) Waterbury

Sarah Margaret Cameron, was the daughter of Angus and Catherine Eliza (Gunn) Cameron, who married Stephen Dwight Waterbury, son of Alva and Hannah (Northrup) Waterbury [Waterbury family in the 1875 NY Census].

Name: Margaret Waterbury

Event Type: Census  1900

 Ridgeway Township, Orleans, New York

Age: 34

Marital Status: Married

Number of Living Children: 3

Years Married: 7

Birth Date: Jul 1866

Birthplace: Nova Scotia

Marriage Year (Estimated): 1893

Father's Birthplace: Nova Scotia

Mother's Birthplace: Nova Scotia

Mother of how many children: 3

Household  Role Gender Age Birthplace

Stephen D Waterbury Head  M 40 New York

Margaret Waterbury Wife F  34 Nova Scotia

Catherine Waterbury  Daughter F 6 Pennsylvania

Harriett E Waterbury Daughter F 0  New York

Jean M Waterbury Daughter F 0 New York

Lean [Jean] Cameron Sister-in-law F  44  Nova Scotia

Edna Parada Servant F 17 Poland

1905 Census - Ridgeway, Orleans County, New York

Name: Margaret C Waterbury

Residence Place: Ridgeway, Orleans, New York

Age: 38

Birth Year (Estimated): 1867

Birthplace: Nova Scotia

Relationship to Head of Household: Wife

1920 Census

Detroit Ward 18, Wayne, Michigan

Age: 53

Can Read: Yes

Can Write: Yes

Birthplace: Nova Scotia Canada

Father's Birthplace: Nova Scotia Canada

Mother's Birthplace: Nova Scotia Canada

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

Reverend S D Waterbury Head M 59 New York

Margaret Waterbury Wife F 53 Nova Scotia Canada

Catharine Waterbury Daughter F 25 Pennsylvania

Jean Waterbury Daughter F 19 New York

Source - Ca 1919

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Name: Margaret C Waterbury

Event Type: Census

Event Year: 1930

Detroit (Districts 0251-0500), Wayne, Michigan

Age: 63

Marital Status: Widowed

Race: White

Relationship to Head of Household: Head

Birthplace: Canada

Immigration Year: 1893

Father's Birthplace: Canada

Mother's Birthplace: Canada

Margaret C Waterbury Head F 63 Canada

Catherine E Waterbury Daughter F 34 Pennsylvania

Harriet K Jollyman Boarder F 16 Canada

Margaret Waterbury

Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921-1952

birth:  27 July 1866 New Town, Nova Scotia

death: 21 June 1934 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan

father: Angus Cameron

mother: Catherine Gunn

Mary Anne (Cameron) Gunn

As seen in the message board, CAN-NS-OBITS-L Archives:

[Partial] OBIT ... - 1936

There passed away on July 3, 1936, at East River St. Mary's, one of the most respected and beloved citizens in the person of Mrs. Mary Anne Gunn, widow of the late James Gunn, at the age of 67 years. She was the daughter of "Squire" Angus Cameron of Newtown, and lived all her years in this valley.

She is survived by one son, Chester, in whose family she lived and who tenderly cared for her in her illness, also three brothers, Dave of Newtown; Rev. A. G. Cameron of Sylvania, PA; Rev. A. H. Cameron of Pasadena and two sisters, Mrs. [Sarah Margaret] Waterbury and Jean of Detroit.

Canada, Marriages, 1661-1949
Name: James Gunn
Birth Date: 1845
Birthplace: E. Riv. St. Marys
Spouse's Name: Mary Ann Cameron
Spouse's Birth Date: 1858
Spouse's Birthplace: E. Riv. St. Marys
Event Date: 21 Nov 1878
Event Place: E. Riv. St. Marys, Pictou, Nova Scotia
Father's Name: Angus
Mother's Name: Mary
Spouse's Father's Name: Angus
Spouse's Mother's Name: Cath.


The family as they were enumerated in the 1901 Census of Canada:

Subdistrict: Garden of Eden, PICTOU, NOVA SCOTIA

District Number: 38

Subdistrict Number: n

1911 Census of Canada
Nova Scotia / Pictou / 13 East River St. Marys poll district / page 1

Gunn James M Head M Aug 1846 64
Gunn Mary F Wife M Jul 1859 51
Gunn Chester M Son S Jan 1883 28
Gunn Frannis ? F Daughter S May 1889 21
Gunn Leena M F Daughter S Jul 1901 9

Reuben Lively's Wife, Mrs. Cameron

Report of the Bureau of Archives for the Province of Ontario, Part 2:

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Evidence on the Claim of Reuben Lively, late of 96 District, S. Carolina:
....250 acres of Land in 96 District.  He got it by his wife.  He married in 1780.  Her name was Cameron.  His wife is in Nova Scotia.

Lucy Cameron Of Cape Breton

Taken from the Nova Scotia petitions 1769-1799 ~ Cape Breton Island petitions 1787-1843 records online:

1811
Cameron, Lucy
Petition to Nepean: Petitioner has lived in Cape Breton for 25 years. Many years before she was married to John Cameron, a lieutenant in the Orange Rangers, who abandoned his wife and large family. Petitioner has since supported herself and family without public aid. She asks a lease of a lot at Cow Bay which her husband held under licence from Pres. Matthews. Note: complied with.

Lucy may be Lucy (Godfrey) Cameron.

Baptisms Of Archibald And Martha Ann Cameron's Children

Found in Microfilm # 857998 (British) (Certificates of birth, baptisms, marriage and death......Author: Great Britain. War Office)

Parish of St. Paul, Halifax, Nova Scotia.....

1815

June 5

Ann Darby, born 11 Dec 1812, child of Archibald and Martha Ann Cameron

1818

Sept. 16

Margaret Jane, 5th child of Archibald & Martha Ann Cameron, born 13 Dec 1817

1823

August 20

Amelia Caroline, 6th -- of Archibald & Martha Ann Cameron, born April 20, 1923

Parish of Saint George.....

1827

June 10

Maria Matilda, daughter of Archibald & Martha Ann Cameron, was baptized in the Parish of Saint George ,June the 10th 1827

Martha Ann Cameron's Petition

Found in Microfilm # 857998 (British) (Certificates of birth, baptisms, marriage and death, : with wills, administrations, statements of services and personal papers of officers and their families...alphabetically arranged, 1776-1881, plus eight bundles of similar certificates, 1755-1908. (W.O. 42/1-51)
Author: Great Britain. War Office)

To The Right Honorable The Secretary At War

The Petition of Martha Ann Cameron of Halifax in the County of Halifax and Province of Nova Scotia, Widow of Archibald Cameron late a Lieutenant in the King's Carolina Rangers commanded by Lieut. Col. Browne

Most humbly showith, that your petitioner's late husband Archibald Cameron served his Majesty as a Volunteer in the Revolutionary War in America & that in the Year 1780 his Excellency Sir Henry Clinton Commander in Chief of his Majestys Forces in America was pleased to grant him a commission to serve as Lieutenant in the Kings Carolina Rangers commanded by Lieut Col. Browne - in which capacity he served his Majesty until the Year of the Peace in 1783 (being a period of three years & upwards) when the Regiment was reduced at Halifax Nova Scotia on the 8th Day of November 1783, from which date your Petitioner's late husband continued to receive half-pay as a Lieut. in His Majestys Service -- That your petitioner was married to her late husband Archibald Cameron at Country Harbour in the County of Halifax and Province of Nova Scotia on the sixteenth Day of Dec. 1807.  That your petitioners late husband died in the parish of Saint George in the Town of Halifax on the 3rd Day of March 1828 - leaving your petitioner a Widow with a young & helpless family of seven children (the eldest nineteen & the youngest only three years of age) That your petitioner with a young family of seven children are in consequence of the death of the late Archibald Cameron deprived of the means of support & left in very destitute circumstances.

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that you will be pleased to take the present state of herself & helpless family into your favourable consideration & grant her the usual pension of the Widows of deceased officers of her late husband's rank, and such pension from the Compassionate Fund for her orphan family as your Lordship in your charitable consideration of their destitute circumstances may think fit to bestow -- And your Petitioner as is duty bound will ever pray -- 

Martha Ann Cameron

Halifax  March the 24th, 1828

Birthdates Of Archibald Cameron's Children

A record found in Microfilm FHL# 857998 (British):

Birthdates of the children of Lieutenant Archibald and Martha Ann Cameron.  Lieutenant Cameron was a member of the King's Carolina Rangers.

Mary, born November 25, 1808

Anne, born December 11, 1812

Alexander, born November 27, 1815

Margaret Jane, born December 13, 1817

Archibald, born October 20, 1820

Amelia Caroline, born April 20, 1823

Maria Matilda, born August 4, 1826

Martha Ann Cameron's Widow's Petition

Found in Microfilm # 857998 (British) (Certificates of birth, baptisms, marriage and death, : with wills, administrations, statements of services and personal papers of officers and their families...alphabetically arranged, 1776-1881, plus eight bundles of similar certificates, 1755-1908. (W.O. 42/1-51)
Author: Great Britain. War Office)

Names of children listed (truncated)
....Amelia, Maria, Mary, Alex,....

Halifax, Nova Scotia
March 31st, 1828

My Lord,

I have the honor to transmit herewith the Memorial and several corroborant documents of Martha Ann Cameron, widow of the late Lieutenant Archibald Cameron of the King's Carolina Rangers, who died here on the 3rd instant on Half-Pay of that Corps.--

Mrs. Cameron solicits the Pension of the Widows of Officers of her deceased husband's rank, and an allowance from the Compassionate List for her seven orphan children.--She is a woman of very respectable character and is left in circumstances of such pecuniary distress.--It appears by the enclosures that they are sufficient to establish the validity of her marriage in this Province,--that her husband served three years as a commissioned officer on Full Pay,--that he was placed upon Half Pay by reduction,__ and that he died subsequently to the 24th June 1806;__.  I trust therefore they may be deemed sufficient to induce your Lordship to accede to her application.--

I have the honor to be My Lord Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,
James ____

The Right Honorable The Secretary at War