Dirleton, East Lothian

Parish Registers - Dirleton, Haddingtonshire (East Lothian)

1796, 19th March - Charlotte COCKBURN, daughter of Charles COCKBURN, Taylor in West Fenton and Alison MORTON was born 11th March, baptized the 19th of the same month - Witnesses: James Cockburn, G. Smith, Wm Graham, SC (clerk?)
Above - Parish Register Entry

' John FORSYTH and Charlotte COCKBURN both of this parish gave their names for proclamation 18 October 1828 and were duly proclaimed and married 25 October 1828'

1830, January 1 - James, son of John FORSYTH, Labourer in Fenton and his wife Charlotte COCKBURN was born this day and baptized publickly p. 114
1831, April 13 - Alison, daughter of John Forsyth, Labourer in Fenton and his wife Charlotte Cockburn was born this day and baptized publickly - p. 123

1833, April 14 - Charles, son of John Forsyth, Labourer in W. Fenton and his wife Charlotte Cockburn was born this day and baptized publickly p. 137

1835, May 17 - John, son of John Forsyth, hind and Charlotte Cockburn born this day and baptized publickly (no page number)

(ABOVE - Research of LDS records by SLB )

*1837, December 16th - Robert born in West Fenton

*Robert's birth / baptism record was either lost or he was never baptised, as on August 13, 1854 when he was 17, a note was made in the Parish records that Hugh Goodlet (the husband of Robert's maternal aunt) appeared before the Kirk Session of Dirleton and made an affidavit that Robert was born in Dirleton.

Church of Scotland, Dirleton
(Click on the title to see the website from which the photo and information below were taken)

'Dirleton is situated about 2 miles west of North Berwick, just off the A198 on the B1345. The village, which has a population of around 700 people, is one of the most picturesque villages in Scotland. It is centered on a large, flat village green, with all the main visitor attractions within short walking distance. The village dates from the early 16th century.

The Church of Scotland Parish Church was built in 1612. In 1836 the tower was decorated with gothic style pinnacles. The Church is located down a short lane at the western end of the green. '

Haddington, East Lothian

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Photo of St. Mary's Haddington, East Lothian where James Forsyth and Helen Scott are apparently buried
http://www.visiteastlothian.org/home.asp

Two photos of the Tyne River in Haddington

McNee Monuments

Stephenson Memorial Cemetery
280 Muskoka Road 10
Port Sydney, Stephenson Township
Muskoka District



James McNee, husband of Alison Forsyth

Alison Forsyth, Mrs. James McNee

James, Son of James McNee and Alison Forsyth

John, son of James McNee and Alison Forsyth

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Their daughter, Ellen, probably died in Michigan.

Their daughter Charlotte died in California and is buried

Acacia Memorial Park (Masonic)801 Scenic Drive, Modesto, CA 95350, 209-522-0452.

Hamilton, Charlotte R. - 1873 - Jan 10,1947 - TR 20 GR 153

"In Loving Memory of_____" - Plot owner Bertha Klaus

Mary and Emma Forsyth

Mary Forsyth (Mrs. Harry Mortimer) and Emma Forsyth (Mrs. Tom Peacock)

Mortimer Monuments

St. James Cemetery, Mortimer Point, Township of Muskoka Lakes

Charlotte R. C. McNee Hamilton 1873-1947

On August 1st, 1928, Charlotte R.C. Hamilton, a Grad. Nurse, crossed the Canadian-American border from Canada to Port Huron, Michigan. The hand-written document was prepared in Toronto, and may have been an application for permanent residence in the US.

The record of the border crossing provides the following information. Charlotte was 55 years old, was 5 feet 5 inches tall with grey hair and blue eyes. She was born in Falkenburg, Ontario about 1873 (January 15, 1873). Her last permanent address was Moosejaw, Saskatchewan. The form included this wording, "Seen $6,000.00," probably to prove that she was able to support herself. Another question asked who had purchased her ticket; she had paid for it herself.

Charlotte was travelling to Modesto, California to join Bertha Klaus at 1739 Almond Street, and had been living in the US from 1923 to 1928, the current year and was a permanent US resident. (Modesto is in the interior of California east of San Franscisco. It is in the county of Stanislaus.)

We know that Charlotte lived with her parents and then with her brother and widowed father until her marriage at 41 years of age on June 14, 1916 to William Joseph Hamilton of Watt Township, son of Edward Hamilton and Sarah Taylor.

It seems that between 1916 and 1923, Charlotte studied to be a nurse and also lived in Moosejaw, presumably with her husband.

Charlotte gave her next-of-kin as John McNee, Utterson. Her brother, John was five years older than she was, and Utterson was probably the address of the McNee land which was north of Falkenburg. John was married to Jessie Mina Grant, a school teacher in about 1912. John and Charlotte's father died in 1917.

Charlotte's full name was Charlotte Robina Cockburn (McNee) Hamilton. She appears in the 1930 census for Modesto City, California. She was 57 years old and widowed at that time, and her work was 'Special nurse - general duty.' Charlotte died January 10th, 1947 in Stanislaus, California.

It is not known if Bertha Klaus was a friend or an employer; however, the cemetery plot in which Charlotte was buried was owned by Bertha Klaus. (See July / 2010 post)

John Forsyth, Toronto 1853

I was searching records today and found a note of a John Forsyth who was a teamster in Toronto in 1853. Will investigate this further.


1853, p. 9, 210, John Forsyth (no age) Teamster
Owner of dwelling-John Ritchey
St. Andrew's Ward, Boulton St, Both Sides, City

To see the record, click on the title above.


Original: City of Toronto Archives, City of Toronto Tax Assessment Rolls, Reference: Fonds 200, Series 612, St. Andrew's Ward, 1853, Pg: 9, Sequence Number: 210

Index: Web Site: OntarioRoots.com (http://www.OntarioRoots.com), Transcription of City of Toronto Tax Assessment Rolls, St. Andrew's Ward, 1853, Pg: 9, Sequence Number: 210, Viewed on 11/1/2009 7:24:13 PM

Parkersville, Stephenson Twp, Muskoka

The school and the church are on the left side of the photo. On the right side, there is a boarding house which used to board lumbermen. It would seem that their work was done by the time this photo was taken.

This is a photo of the Parkersville Mill. The church is behind. I'm not sure what the 'pole' is in the middle. Seems to be a flaw in the photo. The boarding house (?) is different from the first photo.

The Forsyths attended church in Parkersville which is on the road between the second and third concessions of Stephenson Township. It would have been about a two mile journey from the thirteenth concession of Macaulay. The Forsyth children attended school here as well.

Currently, Parkersville is a left turn off Highway #11 and is located at the railway tracks. The other approach is north on District Road #4. It is a right turn at Beatrice and then several miles to where the railway intersects with the road.

Forsyth Land Documents

1871 Census - Agricultural Information

Muskoka District / Macaulay Township
Reference: C10023 - Roll 136
Enumerated by W. Kirk, April, 1871

p. 41 Entry 158
Forsyth, John........M....... 64, B. Scotland, Presbyterian, Farmer,
Forsyth, Charlotte....... F.........74, B. Scotland, Presbyterian

CONCESSION XII, LOT 9 (19-41 - page number and ?)
Tenant, 100 acres, 10 acres improved, 4 acres pasture, 400 bushels turnips,
1 house, 2 barns or stables, no animals

p. 42 Entry 161
Forsyth, John...............M.....34, B. Scotland, Presbyterian, Farmer
Forsyth, Mary..............F......30, B. Scotland (sic), Presbyterian, English descent
Forsyth, Charlotte.......F.........8, B. Ontario
Forsyth, Diana..............F........6, B. Ontario
Forsyth, Sarah Jane....F.........4, B. Ontario
Forsyth, John Thomas....M....2, B. Ontario
Forsyth, William Charles..M.. 11 mo....b. April

CONCESSION XIII, Lot 9 (10-42 - page number and ?)
Owner, 200 acres, 20 acres improved, 4 acres pasture
2 barns / stables, 3 cars/wagons/sleds, 1 plough
2 oxen, 3 milch cows, 4 sheep, 3 other horned cattle
2 sheep killed or sold for slaughter or export, 250 lbs butter
30 lbs of wool, 12 yards homemade cloth / flannel

1 acre wheat (12 bushels), 10 bushels barley, 100 bushels oats,
25 bushels rye, 15 bushels peas, 1 bushel corn
2 acres potatoes (250 bushels), 8 acres hay (10___?)

Map of Macaulay Township

Click on the title above for further history of the settlement of Muskoka.

History of Falkenburg / Falkenburg Station
"The Muskoka Road was built to North Falls (Bracebridge) in 1861. The survey of the Muskoka Road north of Bracebridge was done in 1860 and the road was built from Bracebridge to the north boundary of Stephenson Township in 1863. The settlers came as the road opened. The continuation of the road to Huntsville was not complete until 1871."

"In 1863 a post office opened (in Falkenburg). There were several hotels, a blacksmith shop, an Anglican Church and a school. In 1885, the railway reached Bracebridge and in 1886 it was extended to Utterson, in Stephenson Township, and on to Huntsville......The Northern and Pacific Junction railway......built its station two miles south, where a new village, Falkenburg Station, grew up. It became the center of the area and Falkenburg became a ghost town."

"There were 2 post offices only a few miles apart at one time. Falkenburg closed in 1894 (with the death of Mathias Moore), and the post office of Falkenburg Station remained opened until January 1, 1970."

Falkenburg Post Office was on Concession X, Lot 2/3, as shown on the 1878 Atlas of Muskoka District. This was the land of Mathias Moore, and it was not Free Grant land and therefore located between 1861-68. This lot is shown in red. Falkenburg Union Cemetery is located on Concession IX, Lot 2 and is also shown in orange. The SS No. 3 Macaulay School was built on Lot 4 of Concession XI in 1870 and is shown in green.

See the article below for more information.
http://www.ghosttownpix.com/ontario/towns/falkenbu.html

Forsyth and Forsyth related land is shown in yellow on the map.
To drive to the XIIIth Concession of Macaulay, turn right onto the Moore Rd (off No. 4 north of the Cemetery) and then immediately left onto the Little Rd. It is a rough dirt road which goes for about a mile and a half.)

Based on Map by MITIG Forestry Services Ltd, Huntsville. Ontario
Click on the map to enlarge it. There is no Lot 1 in Macaulay Township.

CONCESSION 11

Lot-Acres-Locatee-Location Date

5 100 Thomas Egglefield 25th November, 1870

6 100 William Inch 31st August, 1869

7 100 George H. Appleby 5th October, 1868

8 100 Jacob R. Tabor 3rd September, 1869

9 100 Louis Olimer 6th December, 1871 (1878 Atlas shows John Forsyth on this lot . Could this be an error on the map?)

10 100 David Yearley 29th October, 1872

11 101 Elon Olimer 20th June, 1873

CONCESSION 12

Lot-Acres-Locatee-Location Date

2 120 Thomas Quintten 8th September, 1869

3 100 Thomas Quintten 27th January, 1871

7 100 Samuel Loughead 5th June, 1869

8 100 Samuel Loughead 16th October, 1869

9 100 John Forsyth, Sr. tenant in 1871 Census (John Jr's land) but I have no corresponding land record.

10 105 John Forsyth, Jr. 20th July, 1869 This was Free Grant land which the railway went through in 1885. The Forsyths boarded railway workers.

11 101 William Jones 14th May, 1870

12 101 William Jones 14th May, 1870

CONCESSION 13

Lot-Acres-Locatee-Location Date

2 112 William D. Meggison 21st February, 1870

3 100 William D. Meggison 14th August, 1872

4 100 Michael Shaffer 17th September, 1869

5 100 Michael Shaffer 17th September, 1869

6 --- James McNee (Not on this list therefore located between 1861-68 and not Freegrant)

7 --- John Clarke (Not on this list therefore located between 1861-68 and not Freegrant)

8 100 John Clark 13th February, 1872

9 100 John Forsyth (Not on this list -Located between 1861-68 - Purchase - Deeded 1873)

10 103 John Jones 12th July, 1872

(The above is taken from http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wjmartin/macaulay.htm with land purchased between 1861 and 1868 added.)

Photos of Jessie Forsyth 1885-1965

Peacock monument at Kirk Cemetery, Macaulay Twp, Muskoka

1960 - age 75 - Jessie Peacock at the Peacock Family Reunion in Orillia

ca 1905, about age 20 - Jessie Forsyth, probably before marriage

ca. 1900 - about age 15 - A detail of Jessie Forsyth from a photo with Emma and George, her siblings taken before 1905 when George died and before her marriage

ca 1895 - about age 10 - Jessie Forsyth

ca 1890 - about age 5 - Jessie Forsyth, daughter of John and Mary of Macaulay Township