Christina Henderson Mowat

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-135340
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Name: A. H. Mowat
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119812
• Occupation: 1852, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; merchant
• Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Clerk
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; FC
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Insurance Agent
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Notes:

King Street, Kitchener

Cedar to Albert Street.

At the corner Enoch Ziegler's carriage factory, a good-sized and well-known shop which continued for many years.

A brick building, one story and a half, lengthwise with King Street, occupied by Yost Stroh as shoemaker shop and dwelling. Later this was made into a two story building.

Next an open space,

A two story frame building, crowned with a bell tower, with a boiler house and engine in the rear. The bell is said to have been cracked on a New Year's night by too violent ringing. In any event its sound was impaired. The building as a factory was at one time operated by Cornell & Bowman. It changed tenants from time to time and occasionally was idle. In 1867 Henry Strieker used it as a woolen mill and William Simpson used it at one time. The building was unpainted. It was eventually destroyed by fire.

Another factory building with gable toward King Street and a one story veranda in front.

A two story brick dwelling, well back from the street, occupied by A. H. Mowat, general agent and Deputy Clerk, He was the father of Jim Mowat, known as Moses Oates and, as a weather prophet, active on the Toronto Globe for some years. Jim Mowat was a school mate of Jacob Stroh at the Central School. He published almanacs and was known throughout the province.


REMINISCENCES OF BERLIN (NOW KITCHENER) By JACOB STROH Contributed by Joseph M. Snyder.

Part I. Settlement - Early Villagers and Buildings, Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1930

Alexander — Barbara Campbell Cairncross. Barbara (daughter of Rev. James Cairncross and Hannah Hedley McKay) was born 27 Jul 1823, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland; was christened 1 Sep 1823, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland; died 11 May 1902, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Barbara Campbell Mowat
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119813
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; FC
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Occupation: minister
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119817
• Residence: 1823, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland

Notes:

Ordained by the Original Secessionist Church in Birsay, Orkney 1819 (James, having problems surviving on his church stipend of 70 Pounds annually, demitted his charge in 1842 and emigrated in 1845 to Wisconsin, USA.) He was ordained in 1819 in Birsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK.8 minister of the Original Secessionist Church

James married Hannah Hedley McKay on 28 Sep 1822 in Birsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK. Hannah Hedley was born in 1795 in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, was christened on 8 Nov 1795 in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, and died after 1851 in Ontario, Canada. They had six children: Barbara Campbell, John, Robert, James Edmund, Helen Elizabeth and Edmund Alphemy.

Family of James Cairncross, born circa 1791, Orkney, Scotland.. (2019). Home.freeuk.com. Retrieved 16 August 2019, from https://home.freeuk.com/iancx/F-T-4.html

Occupation:
Presbyterian Church

James — Hannah Hedley McKay. Hannah was born 1795; died 3 Sep 1868, Shakespeare, Perth County, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Hannah Hedley Cairncross
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-129754
• Residence: 1823, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland