I am researching my maternal great-grandparents and grandparents. My great-grandfather, George ORMROD, emigrated to the Ottawa Valley sometime after 1835 (the year he was married in Manchester) with his first wife, Ann OPENSHAW, and at least one child, Thomas, who was born in 1837. Ann died in Canada, but I don't know where or when. George married Jane BALLANCE who had emigrated to Marlborough Township in Carleton County. I found her name in the 1851 census for Marlborough Township with her parents John and Rachel BALLANCE. In the 1861 census for Montague Township in Lanark County, George and Jane ORMROD are listed with two children, the older one, Rachel, was 7 years old. My grandfather, John George, was 3 years old. George and Ann's youngest daughter, Mary, was also living with them. She was 15 and had been born in Canada. I have been unable to get a copy of the 1851 census for Montague Township although I have requested it through the Family History Library.

My grandfather, John George ORMROD, married Elizabeth MILLS, whose parents were James MILLS and Eliza STANLEY. I haven't been able to find a marriage date or place for them, but the MILLS family was living in Burritts Rapids in Leeds & Grenville County in 1881. My mother, Mary Elizabeth ORMROD, was born in Montague Township in 1881, the third child of John George and Elizabeth. The family moved to Smiths Falls before 1891 and to Sarnia about 1893. Elizabeth died there in 1900. John George married Margaret THOMPSON in Watford in 1904, and sometime between that date and 1911 they moved to Saskatchewan. My parents, Harry BOURKE and Mary ORMROD, were married in 1901 and came to St. Ignace, Michigan, the following year from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, where they had been living. My father was from Toronto and met my mother in Sarnia where he was working as a freight clerk for the Grand Trunk Railway.

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