Peter Pentland

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-63004
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Not Given
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Income
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-63002
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Retired Farmer
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

Robert — Isabella Fletcher. Isabella was born 16 Jan 1819, , Scotland; died 29 Nov 1904, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Sheffield Cemetery, Sheffield, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Isabella Pentland
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-63001
• Immigration: 1841
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-53091

Notes:

The Pentland family all moved into the settlement in the spring of 1837. They were nine in number. The father, mother, four sons, John, James, Peter and Robert, and three daughters. Their location was Lot 24, in Concession 8, and Lot 21, Concession 9, to which was afterward added the north-east quarter of Lot 23, in the 8th Concession. The mother died in the fall of 1838, the first death in the settlement. She was buried in the north part of the old burying ground on a part of the farm now owned by Thos. McQueen. Her husband was laid beside her about fifteen years after, and John the eldest son, was laid beside them in 1871. James and his three sisters still live on the old homestead. Peter married Miss E. McDonald, and moved onto his allotment, the north half of Lot 21, Concession 9. He sold out to Andrew Valens several years ago and is now living in the County of Perth. Robert married a Miss Fletcher and took the 50 acres of Lot 23 and south part of Lot 21, and after several years of success on the farm, he sold a few years ago to one David Patterson, and retired on full pay to the town of Galt, Patterson still occupies his farm, and Andrew Valens is still on the place purchased from Peter Pentland. The place now occupied by Samuel Gilbert was the first location of the McDonald family. On account of a neck of the big swamp cutting the place in two, the sons, Robert and Wallace, purchased the south half of the same lot and of 27, and moved southwards, and the first location was sold in 1850 to Samuel Gilbert, grandfather of the present Samuel. Wallace left the settlement about the end of 1863 and moved to Rockton, where he still lives and is so well known that no farther notice of him is required from me. He has since sold the old farm to one Jared Marcy, and Robert having died about four years ago, and their parents many years since, and Malcom having moved to the County of Huron, where he still resides, the McDonald family has not at present any representative in the old settlement. The lot that Jas. Mitchell first located on turned out to be not very good, and owing to a change being made in the lines of which I notice hereafter, Mr. M. took up another lot by the north half of Lot 32, Concession 9, on which the youngest son, William, is now living, and his mother with him. The two men, Robert Smith and A. Rowan, whom I have noticed, seemed to think it cold comfort to keep bachelors hall, for they pulled up stakes and left for good in or about the year 1838.

The pioneers of Beverly: a series of sketches" by John A. Cornell With Supplementary Articles On The Municipal History By Wallace Mcdonald, Esq. Educational Matters By Robert Mcqueen, Esq. J. H. Smith, Esq., P. S. I. The Agricultural Society By David Bell, Esq., 1889

Peter — Eleanor Unthank. Eleanor was born 1781; died 15 Oct 1838; was buried , Sheffield Cemetery, Sheffield, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Eleanor Pentland
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-82813