Alexander Walker Beattie

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-21120
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian Canada
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer Son
• Occupation: 1911, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1920, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer

Alexander married Elizabeth Burns Nesbitt 29 Dec 1920, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Nesbitt and Jane Eliza Eccles) was born Mar 1880, , Monaghan Co., Ireland; died Oct 1951; was buried , Blair Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Alexander married Rebecca Nesbitt 1 Jan 1917, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada. Rebecca (daughter of Thomas Nesbitt and Jane Eliza Eccles) was born 31 Aug 1881, Monaghan Co., Ireland; died 12 Sep 1917, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blair Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Interesting: pioneer, story
• Name: Frank Beattie
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-52728
• Occupation: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farm Labourer
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Occupation: 1873, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1878, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; waggon maker
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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BEATTIE, FRANCIS WALKER

Member of Old Puslinch Township Family Passes

Was Born Eight Miles South of Guelph in 1850 - Parents Were Pioneers

A native of Puslinch, a resident of the Blair district for over sixty years, quietly, at his home, on Wednesday at about 6 p.m., [March 29, 1933], in his 84th year. He had been in declining health for the past year. He had always taken a keen interest in the village of Blair. The eldest son of William Beattie and Isabelle Walker, who came to this country from Scotland, he was born in 1850 on the east side of the Brock Road in Puslinch, some eight miles south of Guelph. The family lived on different farms throughout Puslinch until Mr. Beattie was 20 years old, when his father purchased a farm in the Dickie Settlement. The village of Blair was then known as Shinglebridge, later Carlisle, which soon changed to Blair. Until the age of 25, Mr. Beattie was engaged in work on the farm. In 1875, he married Janet, daughter of Alexander Fleming and Jeannie Cockburn, pioneer settlers of Puslinch Township and settled on a farm on the outskirts of Blair. A considerable part of the land was then uncleared. With a team of horses and a yoke of oxen, he cleared the fields of stumps, using them to make fences, one or two of which are still giving service. About 1895, he turned his attentions to the development of a celery farm, building greenhouses and employing a large staff of men, his products soon becoming famous throughout the district. In 1912, he retired from farming, an avocation he had followed all his life except for a time, when he worked as a wagonmaker in the wagon shop in Blair, which at the time employed thirteen hands. He always took a keen interest in all moral questions and in religion was a faithful Presbyterian. For over forty years, he had been interested in the welfare of the Blair Union Sunday School and served for some nineteen years as the teacher of the Bible Class. Mr. Beattie was the only remaining member of his family who still resided in Ontario, the others being in California, with the exception of one sister, who lives in Vancouver. He is survived by his widow, Janet Fleming and children: Jean, Lillian and Jessie, at home; Mrs. Victor Peterson of Hamilton; William of Preston; and Alexander of Blair. Many paid tribute to one of Blair's grand old men at the funeral which was held from his residence on Sat., Apr. 1 at 2: 30 to Blair Cemetery. Rev. M. Geiger of St. Paul's United Church and Rev. Walter Patterson of Knox Presbyterian Church officiated. There were many floral tributes. Pallbearers: Aaron Hilborn of Galt; Joseph Hilborn of Preston; R. H. Dickson, E. T. Grasett, J. Bradley and Mr. McEwen of Blair.

Francis married Janet "Jessie" "Cissie" Fleming 3 Mar 1875, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada. Janet (daughter of Alexander "Sandy" Fleming and Jeannie Cockburn) was born 13 Dec 1854, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 23 Aug 1945, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blair Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Janet "Jessie" "Cissie" Beattie
• Name: Jessie Fleming
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-52729
• Residence: 1875, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian Canada
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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BEATTIE, JANET (Nee Fleming)

A well-known resident of the Blair district, at her home, "Willow Bank", at 10: 45 on Thursday morning, August 23, 1945, in her 91st year. Relict of Francis Walker Beattie. She had been sick for a month. Born in Puslinch Township, she resided there until sixty-eight years ago, when she made her home in Blair, forming a large circle of friends in the district. She was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church in Preston. Her husband predeceased her in 1933. Private funeral services were held at her home on Sat., Aug. 25, with interment in Blair Cemetery. Rev. H. G. Cleghorn officiated. Pallbearers: Alex Dixon, William Dixon and Francis Beattie of Hamilton; Alex Flaming of Kitchener; John Cockburn of Guelph; and Ernest Cockburn of Puslinch. Surviving are four daughters, Jean and Lily, at Blair; Jessie at Hamilton; Edith of Ayr; two sons, William of Preston; Alex of Blair; one sister, Mrs. George Dixon of Hamilton; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Kindly omit flowers.


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Known as Cissie, per daughter Jessie Louise Beattie, or Jessie, per Margery Dixon (and several cenuses)

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-33959
• Immigration: 1834, , Canada
• Residence: 1844, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Residence: 1879, North Dumfries Concession 12 Lot 31, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian Canada

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Death of a Former Resident of Puslinch

Word was sent to Mr. Stirton, Postmaster of the death of William Beattie of West Dumfries, early Thursday morning, in his 69th year. He will be remembered by the older residents of Guelph and Puslinch as the eldest son of Francis Beattie, who settled in Puslinch in the year 1835. After he grew up, he farmed for a good many years in Puslinch and about twenty years ago, moved to Waterloo County, where he continued farming. He had been failing for some time but last Saturday, he was seized with paralysis, which gradually spread all over the body. He was of a quiet, kindly disposition, scrupulously honest and honourable in all his dealings and was held in the highest respect by all who knew him. He leaves a widow and nine children all of whom were present at his death except one daughter and two sons. One of his sons, Rev. Andrew Beattie is a Presbyterian minister in New York City. Mr. Beattie was buried on Saturday.

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Died, In North Dumfries, on Thursday, 7th inst., at 12.30 o'clock a.m., William Beattie, Sr., Aged 68 Years, 10 Months and 16 Days. The Funeral Will take place on Saturday, June 9th, at 10 a.m., from his late residence, Lot 31, 12th Concession, to Mount View Cemetery, Galt. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend. N. Dumfries, June 7th, 1888.

City of Cambridge Archives Funeral Card Collection

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Death of Mr. William Beattie, of Dickie Settlement

This old and respected resident of this vicinity died yesterday (Thursday) morning, after a short illness. Mr. Beattie came from Scotland in 1834, and after spending some time in the employ of the Messrs. Ferrie, at Doon, took up a farm in Puslinch, on which he resided for some years. He then removed to another farm, which he purchased near Kossuth, leaving which, he purchased the farm on which he died, and on which he has resided for nineteen years. Mr. Beattie was in his 60th year. He leaves a widow and ten children, eight sons and two daughters, viz. - Francis, farmer, near Blair; John, agent of the Ingersoll Manufacturing Company; William, farmer, town-line, Waterloo; Revd. Andrew Beattie, Pastor of Church of Sea and Land, New York City; Robert, of Lakeport, California; Hugh, residing on the homestead; David, teacher, Crosshill; Mrs. James Kersell, Santa Clara, Cal.; and Mrs. Isaac Clemens, of Newton, Mornington Township.

Mr. Beattie has been in rather poor health for some time. On Friday last he attended the funeral of Mr. Thos. Marshall's daughter, the exertion and exposure, it is supposed, bringing on an attack of paralysis, under which he sank. His funeral will take place on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, to Mount View Cemetery.

Galt Reporter Jun 8 1888 pg 1

William married Isabella Walker 22 Nov 1844, , Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada. Isabella (daughter of John Walker and Isabella Murray) was born 25 Feb 1824, Oxnam, , Roxburgh, Scotland; died 26 Sep 1891, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried 27 Sep 1891, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Isabella Beattie
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-33960
• Immigration: 13 Jul 1841, New York City, New York, USA.
• Residence: 1844, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian Canada
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Concession 12 Lot 31, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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DEATH Of MRS. WM. BEATTIE, SR.

This lady, to whose serious illness reference was made in the last issue of the REFORMER, passed away on Saturday morning last. Deceased was a very old resident of Waterloo township and was for many years a consistent member of the Presbyterian church at Doon. She was the widow of the late Mr. Wm. Beattie, Sr., who died in June 1888 and has resided on the homestead ever since the death of her late husband. There are left to mourn the loss of a kind and affectionate mother, a family of eight sons and two daughters; Francis, who is farming near Blair, William merchant, Roseville, John, agent for P. E. Shantz, Preston, Andrew Presbyterian missionary in China, Robert Lakeport, Cal., Murray Santa Clara, Cal., Hugh on the homestead, David, medical student, Toronto, Mrs. Jas. Kersell, Santa Clara, Cal. and Mrs. Isaac Clemens, Newton, township of Mornington. All the the members of the family, we believe, were able to reach home before their mother's death. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon, to Mount View Cemetery and was very largely attended.

The Dumfries Reformer 1 Oct 1891 pg 1

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Died, In North Dumfries, on Saturday, Sept. 26th, at 11.15 o'clock A.M., Isabella Walker, Widow of the late Wm. Beattie, Sr., Aged 67 years, 6 months and 30 days. The Funeral Will take place on Sunday, 27th inst., at 2 o'clock p.m., from her late residence, Lot 31, 12th Concession, to Mount View Cemetery, Galt. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend. N.Dumfries, 26th Sept., 1891.

Funeral Card

Immigration:
Departure Liverpool, England, Arrival New Yor, New York

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-52737

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"In 1834, Alexander Fleming, a young boy of eight years, known familiarly as Sandy, emigrated with his widowed mother, Lillias (nee Gregor), his two younger brothers, John and James, and his Gregor grandparents, Peter and Margaret, with their family of seven. In one record, Sandy also mentions his half sister who also came. (Perhaps his father was a widower with one child, when Lillias married him.) They sailed on the ?Alfred of Alloway?, which carried eight Scottish families on board. The voyage took nine weeks and three days. They were short of water, and the food was mostly fat pork and black bread, with one bowl of oatmeal porridge in the morning."


A Walk Through Yesterday: Memoirs of Jessie L. Beattie by Jessie L. Beattie, 1976

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FLEMING, ALEXANDER

At the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Beattie of Blair, on Wednesday, August 25, 1926, in his 101^st year. Former resident of Puslinch. He was in his usual good health and in process of all his faculties, until a few days previous to his death. Mr. Fleming was born in Edinburgh and came to this country with his mother, when he was 8 years of age. They settled in Morriston but it was not long after their arrival that his mother died and Sandy, cast on his own resources, went to work for a farmer in the neighbourhood. Here he learned in the school of hard work, that splendid characteristic which helped him all through life, namely, self reliance. In the course of time, he bought a bush farm situated on the tenth concession, about three miles from Aberfoyle. After many years of hard work, the farm was finally cleared. The old log house in which he first lived is still standing, reminiscent of the days of his early struggles and the scene of his first home joys. A beautiful home now stands on the old farm, a monument to his industry and progressiveness. Survived by three daughters, Mrs. Frank Beattie of Blair; Mrs. Hugh Reid of Galt; Mrs. George Dixon of Hamilton; and one son, Alexander on the old homestead. Funeral was held at the home of his daughter in Blair on Sat. , Aug. 28 at 1 and interment took place in Crown Cemetery. Rev. Buchanan Carey of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Guelph conducted the service. Five grandsons and one great-grandson acted as pallbearers.

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Alexander — Jeannie Cockburn. Jeannie was born Abt 1824, Of, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Jeannie Fleming
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-52738

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-167584
• Immigration: 1834, , Canada
• Residence: 1861, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada

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BEATTIE, FRANCIS Sudden Death in Puslinch

An old and much respected resident of Puslinch, very suddenly, on Thursday, October 8, 1868. He attended to his cattle in the morning and was then apparently in his ordinary health. But on coming into the house, he fell senseless on the floor and never rallied but died about midnight. It is believed that the cause was a paralytic stroke. He had been a resident of Puslinch for about thirty years.

-Information from the transcription of Crown Cemetery: Aged 71 years. Husband of Ann Andison, who died Nov. 21(?) 1873, aged 73.


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Francis — Ann Andison. Ann was born Abt 1800; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Ann Beattie
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-167588
• Residence: 1861, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-33654
• Residence: 1822, Oxnam, , Roxburgh, Scotland
• Immigration: 13 Jul 1841, New York City, New York, USA.
• Occupation: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian

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In Waterloo after a severe illness, which he bore with Christian fortitude, Mr. John Walker, aged 72 years and 10 months, The deceased was a native of Roxburghshire, Scotland, and emigrated with his family to Canada in the year 1841, and has lived in Waterloo for nearly 20 years, he was universally beloved by all his friends and neighbours around.

Galt Reporter Jul 12 1861 pg 3

Immigration:
Departure Liverpool, England, Arrival New Yor, New York

John married Isabella Murray 3 Jun 1815, Oxnam, , Roxburgh, Scotland. Isabella was born 1793, , Scotland; died 3 Jan 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Ayr Cemetery, Ayr, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Isabella Walker
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-33655
• Immigration: 13 Jul 1841, New York City, New York, USA.

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Immigration:
Departure Liverpool, England, Arrival New Yor, New York

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-133987

John married Lillias Steil Gregor 5 Sep 1825, St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Lillias was born 1804; died Abt 1834, Morriston, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Lillias Steil Fleming
• Name: Lillias Steil Linn
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-115982
• Residence: 1834, Mid Calder, , Midlothian, Scotland