Regarding Alice
Hamilton daughter of Wiliam
Hamilton and Agnes
Morgan, I looked up the farm entry from the
Hibbert Township History Book printed in 1996, (submitter unknown)
In the spring of 1849, two brothers, William and Francis
Hamilton, from Dalhousie Townsip in Lanark County, came to
Hibbert. Will leased this lot (Lot 8, Con 10) and Francis Lot 7. They built a cabin on William's lot and lived here together for a time. Will married first, before a
Fullarton church congregation had been organized. Thus, a minister from
London came to
Hibbert to marry him and Nancy
Morgan. They raised
Devon Cattle.
They had no family and when Will died in middle age in 1879 he willed his farm to his nephew Francis Roger
Hamilton, known as Red Frank. William's widow lived in part of the house, her inheritance was $200 a year. If she left the farm which she did later, it was to be $250 a year.
Looking at the 1861 census, the marriage year is wrtten in for William
Hamilton and
Agness as 1856, and "Allic" age is 5 yr. In the 1871 census Alice's age is 14. I could not read the 1881 census as the copy is too faint.
The cemetery inscription from
Roys Cemetery
Fullarton township for Agnes
Hamilton is as follows
HAMILTON/Agnes/wife of Wm. HAMILTON/died Feb 11, 1908/ aged 75 yrs. 10 mos./In memory of William HAMILTON/who died/ Aug 9, 1880/aged 56 yrs. 5ms. 20 ds./
This may indicate that William Hamiton was not buried along with his wife. A Presbyterian Cemetery was on a half acre of Lot 11, Conc 11, before the church was relocated to the village of
Cromarty, and today only a monument to the original
Hamilton ancestor remains standing. Possibly Alice and William
Hamilton were buried here.
From the
Hibbert History of 1996
(From Scotch broth and
Irish Stew ... A History of
Hibbert Townsihp 1846-1996)
A log church was built here in 1852, on land donated by Francis
Hamilton and the congregation built a stone church in
Cromarty in the 1860's. It is estimated that there are 30 unmarked graves there, and there is no plan for the pioneer cemetery.
Do you have any evidence that Alice lived after her father William's death?
Heather
Burrow(I grew up on the farm where the pioneer cemetery is, but not related to the
Hamilton family)
Agnes
Gardiner born abt. 1833 in Canada, married to John S. Gardiner born abt. 1825 in
Scotland,
in the
Iowa 1885 census for
Tama County, locality
Lincoln.
Living with them were James
Gardiner age 21 and Robert
Gardiner age 16, both born in Canada
