Look-ups

The people listed below are offering to look up information for those in need of it. Do you have access to reference materials of use to those researching Lanark County or Eastern Ontario? Please volunteer to do lookups! Just email the Webmaster the details of what you are willing to do. If the volume of requests becomes too great for you, let me know and I'll remove your listing.

PIONEER ROMAN CATHOLIC FAMILIES INVENTORY

Updated September 4, 2006

The Roman Catholic Pioneer Families (RCPF) database was established in 1996. Currently, details on over 21,000 persons linked to 1116 pioneer families are stored in this inventory.

The database primarily covers Roman Catholic pioneer families that settled, during the period 1800-1925, in the townships of Fitzroy & Huntley in Carleton County; and Darling, Pakenham & Ramsay in the northern part of Lanark County. It also includes many descendants who moved and settled elsewhere in Canada and the U.S.A. Persons of other religious persuasions who married into these pioneer families are also registered in the inventory.

The principal surnames listed in the system include: Abram (Abraham); Armand; Beautron/Major; Bolton; Brown; Bulloch; Burke; Cannon; Carabine; Carroll; Cardinal; Carter; Charlebois; Closs (Close); Coady; Colton; Colvin; Corkery; Costello; Curran; Currie (Curry); Curtin; Davis; Delaney; Denis (Dennie); Devine; Dowdall; Doyle; Dutrissac/Dutrizac; Fay; Finner; Finucane; Flynn; Foley; Forrest; Foy; Frawley; Gallipeau; Galvin; Garreau; Grace; Hall; Headrick; Herrick; Hunt; Kealey; Kelly; Kennedy; Killeen; Killoran; Lalonde; Larocque (LaRocque); Leahy; Leaney; Lesage; Letang; Levi (Leavy); Lindsay; Lunney; Madden; Majeau; Majore; Maley; Malone; Manion (Mannion); Mantil (Mantle); Meehan; Moloughney; Mooney; Moran; Moynihan; Murray; McAuliffe; McCabe; McDermott; McGarry; McIntyre; McWatty; Nagle; Nugent; O’Brien; O’Connell; O’Connor; O’Heare (O’Hare); O’Keefe; O’Neill; Price; Quigley; Quinn; Regan; Rocheleau (Rushleau); Rooney; Ruddy (Reddy); Ryan; Sample (Sampel); Scissons; Scott; Sherlock; Slattery; Smith; Stafford; Stanton; Sullivan; Teevens; Tims; Vaughan; Verroneau dit Denis; Wade; and Whelan.

Details extracted from or provided by the following sources are being used to enhance the information stored in the database: Canada Census reports; Belden atlases; parish records of baptisms, marriages, and burials; clergy diaries; cemetery monument inscriptions; newspaper articles, death notices and obituaries; parish anniversary publications; land registration records; local history books; published family histories; and information supplied by individual family researchers. The source(s) for each type of data are recorded and stored with the family information. The names of researchers working on the same family lines are noted and, with their permission, will be released.

Persons who wish to know if the inventory contains data relevant to their particular research activities should contact the database administrator:

by Mail:
             Mr. D. W. (Don) Kelly,
             271 Jamieson Street,
             Almonte, ON.
             K0A 1A0.

by E-mail: d.p.kelly@trytel.com

by Telephone: 613-256-1433.

In the request for look-up, an enquirer must clearly indicate how he/she is related to the person(s) about whom information is being sought. The easiest way to meet this requirement is to include, within the request, the direct ancestral line viz. the names of parents, grandparents, great- grandparents, etc. The full maiden name of female spouses should be given when known. It would also be very helpful to state in which township the pioneer family resided.

IMPORTANT, requests that do not provide the outlined information may not be answered.

There will be no charge for checking the database to see if an individual is registered, however, a stamped self-addressed reply envelope must be supplied with any enquiry submitted through the mail. E-mail type requests are preferred.

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THE McCABE LIST

In 1829 a petition was circulated among the Irish settlers of the Ottawa Valley. The 635 signers of the petition declared that they were doing quite well in Canada (this was to quell rumours that settlers were starving) and if the signer had relatives, he could recommend them for future Crown assisted emigration. I would be happy to look up names of Irishmen for people, if they seriously think they were in the area around that time.
Rita Meistrell -- email: PVMeistrel@aol.com

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ANGLICAN CHURCH RECORDS :
DIOCESE OF OTTAWA,
DIOCESE OF TORONTO

This information was taken from recent messages on the EONTGEN-L conference, and updates from LCGS website users (updated Feb. 29, 2000).

OTTAWA DIOCESE:
The Ottawa Diocese covers counties adjacent to the Ottawa River, plus Stormont, Dundas and Glengary, Lanark -- and a chunk of Western Quebec. Baptism, marriage and burial records are computer indexed.
Contact address:
Archives,
Anglican Diocese of Ottawa,
71 Bronson Ave.,
Ottawa, ON, Canada. K1R 6G6
(613) 232-7124 ext. 234
Email: archives@ottawa.anglican.ca.
With any luck there will soon be a web site for general information, including a listing of the years for which information is available for each parish.
TORONTO DIOCESE:
Contact address:
Mrs. Mary-Anne Nicholls,
Diocese of Toronto Synod Office,
135 Adelaide Street East,
Toronto, ON, Canada. M5C 1L8.
Email: manicholls@toronto.anglican.ca.

The price information below is from the Archives brochure: There is no charge for the use of index volumes and finding aids, including the computer index to parish registers (when used on-site).

Charges for other services are:
Access to Parish Registers for Personal Research - $2.00 per volume
Research by Archives Staff - $5.00 for initial search, $20.00 per additional hour
Certified copies of certificates of baptism, Confirmation, or Marriage - $15.00 each
Reproduction of photographs or architectural drawings - Commercial rate plus $2.00
Photocopying of Parish Records - Not permitted.

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HISTORY OF
THE MUNICIPALITY OF LOUISE, MB.

The Municipality of Louise in Manitoba contains the towns of Pilot Mound, Crystal City, Cleawater, Purves, Snowflake and Wood Bay. The people of the district have just published a new book on the early settlers in that area. It was largely settled by emigrants from Lanark so maybe our members would be interested in information contained in it. There are about five hundred pages of individual family histories, besides the regular history of the area. The cost of a copy of this book is in the $70.00 range and it is available at either the Municipal Office at Pilot Mound or Crystal City. The cemeteries are all listed with the burial dates in all them and the Greenwood cemetery at Pilot Mound gives the age or birth date as well as the burial date. I'd be willing to do lookups (preferably by email) for anyone as long as I don't go into an overload situation. Please contact: Hugh C. Masson, hcmasson@jam21.net

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LANARK COUNTY CENSUS RECORDS

This item added June 21, 2000.

Dec 2003

I would like to volunteer to do lookups for Lanark County, specifically census records. If you would be kind enough to include me on the volunteer look up list on the LCGS web site I would be happy to respond to inquiries for folks looking for their ancestors in Lanark County.

No blanket surname searches. Please provide surname/first name, Census year(s), Township(s) of interest
1842 Census --	Lanark County, All Townships
1851 Census --	Lanark County, All Townships
1861 Census --	Lanark County, All Townships
1871 Census --	Lanark County, All Townships
1881 Census --	Lanark County, All Townships
1891 Census --	Lanark County, All Townships
Please contact Lynne Rooney at rooney@muskoka.com

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