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Fergus(s)on DNA Project

Drummond Twp., Lanark Co., Ontario, CA

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It was not until May 1819 that Captain John Ferguson, Resident Agent of Indian Affairs in behalf of George III signed a treaty with the chiefs of the Mississauga Nation, purchasing for a price of £642 10s in goods at the Montreal price the lands running northwest from the rear of the Johnstown District to the Ottawa River.
[Beckwith : Irish and Scottish Identities in a Canadian Community, Lockwood, Glenn J., 1991, Carleton Place, Ontario: Township of Beckwith, p. 14]
Another Scot who particularly distinguished himself at Chateauguay (1813) was Captain (George) Fergusson, of the Canadian Fencibles, posted on De Salaberry's right.
[The Scot in British North America. Vol II, p. 379

Drummond Township

Balderson, Fergusons Falls, Innisville, Town of Perth, Prestonvale, Richardson

Fergusons Falls

Originally known as Millford, Fergusons Falls was renamed in honor of the early settler Captain Ferguson when a post office was established there. This was the closest village to the Stafford farm and would have been a source for supplies, postal services, blacksmith services, social activities, and later St. Patrick's Church. Thomas McCaffrey was the first settler coming in 1815. McCaffrey was apparently a close friend of Tobias Stafford and Betsy (McGarry) Stafford. Thomas was one of the witnesses to their marriage ceremony in St. John's Church in Perth. He also signed his name as witness to one of Tobias' later land transactions, and was present at the baptisms of some of the Stafford children. Other early Ferguson Falls residents were John and Patrick Quinn, Patrick and Martin Doyle, James Carberry, James Power and William Scanlon. Two Stafford girls married into the Quinn family. The Hollinger family was also among the first settlers. By 1857, Ferguson Falls was booming. John Doyle was the Innkeeper, James McCaffrey was listed in the business directory as a Wagon Maker, John & M. McCaffrey were the local Blacksmiths. John Stafford, Tobias Stafford and Elizabeth McGarry's son was the area Shoemaker, and would later open a shoe store in Almonte, then in Perth. There was also a sawmill and a grist mill owned by Robert Blair and a hotel owned by Charles Hollinger.

Cemeteries

Craig St. Cemetery (Old Burying Ground) Perth, Ontario

This cemetery was the 1st cemetery in Lanark County when settlement started in 1821. Rev. William Bell requested from the Military, who were in charge of settlement, that a 4 acre cemetery be established with 1/2 for Presbyterian settlers and the balance split between the Roman Cathic and Anglican.
[Keith Thompson, 2008]

Prestonvale

Census

Census Online: Lanark Co., Ontario

1851/2 Census

1851 [Linda Murtsell, 2008]

1918 Directory

Church Records

Church of Scotland. Parish Church of Glasgow (Lanarkshire)

Granny's Genealogy Gardens

Immigration

John Fergusson II came to Canada when he was 21 and for a time kept the Waterloo Hotel in the town of Perth. Then he bought a farm in Montague township, about 5miles north of Smith's Falls, not far from "Numegate" [Numogate]. The house was founded on a rock. In fact, the whole farm was. The cellar was blasted out of solid rock and on this was build a frame building which was painted barn red. It looks just the same today (1947). Around it were planted apple trees and lilacs and here he brought his bride, Margaret Fergusson, who lived a Fergusson's Falls near the town of Perth. Margaret Fergusson was the daughter of Craigdarrock Fergusson. This was about the year 1839.
[Laura Maude Fergusson Raeburn-Gibson, 1959]

Ships

Family Trees

Land

Township Papers

Newspapers

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The History of Freemasonry in Canada From Its Introduction in 1749; Compiled and Written from Official Records and from Mss. Covering the Period 1749-1858, in the Possession of the Author By John Ross Robertson

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Contested Will of Peter Ferguson



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