Beatrice Evelyn "Bea" McMurtry

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• Name: Beatrice Evelyn "Bea" Barrie
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-207071
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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BARRIE, Beatrice Evelyn (nee McMurtry)

At Freeport Hospital Health are Village, on Saturday, Feb. 9, 1991, In her 85th year. Beloved wife of the late Ernest George Barrie. Dear step-mother of Marjorie Cruickshank of Kitchener, Douglas Barrie and his wife Talma of Waterloo and their families. Also survived by her dear nieces, Barbara (Mrs. William R. Lawler) of Collingwood and Mary (Mrs. Val Richardson) of Toronto and their families. She was predeceased by two sisters, Helen (Mrs. George J. Aitkin) and Edna (Mrs. Allen Hutchison). Born in Galt, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McMurtry, she attended Galt collegiate institute and MacDonald Hall in Guelph. She was a former member of the Silver Star Society, the IODE, Galt Country Club and Knox's, Galt Presbyterian Church. There will be no visitation. Cremation has taken place. A service of remembrance will be held in the chapel of Coutts and Son Funeral Home, 96 St. Andrews St., Cambridge, on Monday, Feb. 18, 1991, (one week from today) at 2 p.m., Rev. Linda Ewing officiating. Entombment of the cremated remains will take place in Mount View Mausoleum.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 11 Feb 1991 pg A11

Beatrice — Colonel Ernest George Barrie. Ernest (son of Reeve George Redpath Barrie and Mary Carrick) was born 6 Oct 1893, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 10 Jul 1894, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 21 Oct 1989, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: W. J. McMurtry
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-65582
• Business: 1890, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Store - shelf, builders's hardware, paints,oils, glass, etc.
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Machinist
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Retail, Hardware Store
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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W.J. McMurtry

General Hardware, Stoves and Tinware, south Main Street. Phenomenal has been the rapid rise of this business. Opening up business in 1885 Mr. McMurtry has forged his way to the front. He also controls an extensive hardware business in St. Thomas. The additional trade in bicycles here and St. Thomas adds materially to the popularity of this house.

Jubilee Souvenir of Galt, 1897

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W. J. McMurtry\emdash Galt


William J. McMurtry, one of Galt's veteran retailers, is dead, after an illness extendrng over seven years. He was born in Bowmanville 63 years ago and came to Galt 37 years ago. He had lived there ever since, conducting a, hardware business on Main Street, all that time. He was one of the best known men in his line of business in Ontario„ having at one time operated five stores; two in Galt two in St. Thomas, and one in London. A widow and three daughters survive.

Mr. McMurtry was a brother of Mr. T. J. McMurtry and Mrs. Robt. Collacott, Bowmanville, the former attended the funeral. Before leaving this town he was employed in the hardware store of Lee & Edsall.

The Canadian Statesman 6 Apr 1922

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William married Jessie Dickie Carrick Nov 1889. Jessie (daughter of William Carrick and Janet "Jessie" Dickie) was born 12 Apr 1869, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 29 Feb 1964. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Jessie Dickie McMurtry
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-65583
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian North America
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-233480

Samuel — Emaline Jenkins. Emaline was born CA 1829, , England; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Emaline McMurtry
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-233509

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195611704
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-72419
• Residence: 1849, Dumfries Township, Gore District, Ontario
• Occupation: 1851, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Residence: 1851, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1858, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Land: 1861, North Dumfries Concession 07 Lot 09, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian
• Directory: 1864, North Dumfries Concession 07 Lot 03, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Retired Farmer
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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Died, At his residence, "Broomfield Farm," North Dumfries, this (Friday) afternoon, at half past one o'clock, William Carrick, Aged 71 Years, 7 Months and 16 Days. Funeral, On Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, from his late residence to Mount View Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend. North Dumfries, September 18th, 1891.

Funeral Card

William married Janet "Jessie" Dickie 15 Feb 1849, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Janet (daughter of William Dickie and Jane McHoul) was born CALC 7 Jul 1830, Ayr, Scotland; died 7 Oct 1870, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Janet "Jessie" Carrick
• Name: Jessie Dickie
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-72420
• Residence: 1849, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1851, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian

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On Friday, 7th Oct., the wife of Mr. Wm. Carrick, farmer, aged 40 years and ? months.

Galt Reporter Oct 14 1870 pg 3

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-134930
• Occupation: 1851, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1851, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian

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Shade acted as Mr. Dickson's agent and attorney, and as soon as it became known in the Niagara district and other settled parts of the Province, that lands could be had on easy terms, a few straggling settlers made their way to the locality, and some returned to take up their abode. Scarcely any persons came in during the fall of 1816, and for several years afterwards, the progress made was not very promising. Report puts down the number of families in the township in 1817 as thirty-eight, com-prising in all one hundred arid sixty-three souls, and the whole of the farm stock as less than the number of animals now to be found on a single place. From a Government source, we find that in 1818 the estimate was only thirty-eight settlers, and sixty-three persons in all.

These statements are doubtless not far astray, but the latter estimate is probably below rather than above the mark, for, besides a few settlers who early took up land in the St. George neighbourhood, a small colony, chiefly from Genesee County, New York State, had located in the bush between Galt and the present village of Branchton, as early as 1817. Among these were Messrs. Donald Fraser, Thomas McBean, William Mackenzie,* John Buchanan, Robert Carrick, Alexander Harvie, Daniel McArthur and Dugald McColl, whose descendants, in several instances, still continue to hold and cultivate the lands then taken up.

*Donald Fraser, Thomas McBean and William Mackenzie walked all the way from Genesee Co., New York State, to Dumfries, during May, 1817. Mackenzie had assisted Mr. Marlett in surveying near Galt during the previous fall, and piloted the way. While on the road near Hamilton, the elder Dickson and his son William passed them on horseback. They knew Mackenzie, and informed the travellers that they could get Articles of Agreement immediately for any lands they might select, as they were then taking up these necessary documents. After arrival, Fraser, McBean and Mackenzie soon selected farms, and received the Articles therefor, which are said to have been the first three ever given by Mr. Dickson for any part of his Dumfries lands.


Reminiscences of the Early History of Galt and the Settlement of Dumfries in the Province of Ontario, by James Young, 1880 Toronto: Hunter, Rose pg 33

Robert — Jane Harvie. Jane (daughter of Alexander Harvie and Mary Cameron) was born CALC 4 Jul 1784, , Scotland; died 9 Jun 1871; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Jane Carrick
• Name: Jean Harvie
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-135348
• Residence: 1851, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lot 8 Con 7
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-143535
• Residence: 1817, Mauchline, , Ayr, Scotland

William married Jane McHoul 28 Dec 1808, Mauchline, , Ayr, Scotland. Jane was born 20 Mar 1789, Tarbolton, , Ayr, Scotland; died 20 Apr 1854, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Jane Dickie
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-143538
• Residence: 1817, Mauchline, , Ayr, Scotland

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DICKIE, JEAN (Nee Mahoul(?))

At the Township of Puslinch, in the County of Wellington, on the 20^th April 1854. Wife of William Dickie. Formerly of the parish of Mouchline in the County of Ayr, Scotland.

A Celebration of Lives Obituaries of Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario Vol 1, Anna Jackson & Marjorie Clark
Used with kind permission of Marjorie Clark