Hugh Robertson Scott

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138922433
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-69824
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1927, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; clerk

Hugh married Margaret Boyd MacGregor 17 Sep 1927, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada. Margaret (daughter of Robert Boyd MacGregor and Mary Jane Supple) was born 12 Aug 1904, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 27 Oct 1989, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 30 Oct 1989, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-60326
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; U. Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1898, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Button Maker
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Pattern Maker, Pattern Shop
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Adam married Helen "Nellie" Cowan 9 Jun 1898, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Helen (daughter of William Cowan and Agnes Dunn, daughter of William Cowan and Agnes Turnbull Dunn) was born 4 Jul 1869, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1957; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Helen "Nellie" Scott
• Name: Nellie Cowan
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-60327
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Ch. of Scotland
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Occupation: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Dressmaker
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-65766
• Residence: 1865, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1870, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; carpenter
• Occupation: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; U. Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Pattern Maker

William married Susan Gunn 19 Jun 1865, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Susan (daughter of Elspeth "Elsie" Rainey, daughter of Alexander Gunn and Elspeth "Elsie" Rainey) was born 27 May 1842, Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland; died 31 May 1914, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Susan Gunn
• Name: Susan Scott
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-65767
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Residence: 1865, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; U. Presbyterian
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185295926
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-74594
• Immigration: 1823
• Residence: 1864, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1869, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Ch. of Scotland
• Occupation: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Retired: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1901, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer

William married Agnes Turnbull Dunn 14 Apr 1864, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Agnes (daughter of Adam Dunn and Helen Pringle) was born 19 May 1833, Minto, , Roxburgh, Scotland; was christened 15 Jun 1834, Minto, , Roxburgh, Scotland; died 22 Dec 1905, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185295949
• Name: Agnes Turnbull Cowan
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-74596
• Immigration: 1857, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Ch. of Scotland
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Notes:

Died In North Dumfries, on Friday, December 22, 1905, at 11 o'clock P.M., Agnes Turnbull Dunn Wife of William Cowan Aged 73 Years The Funeral Will take place on Monday afternoon, at 3 o'clock from her late residence, West River Road, to Mount View Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation.

Funeral Card

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-252791
• Occupation: 1851, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; inn keeper
• Occupation: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?isstone Miller
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland

Notes:

"The Sir William Wallace Hotel", built on the site of Willard Cleaners probably about 1845 by Adam Scott was operated by him until 1858, by James Burns, 1859-60; then as a Temperance House again by Mr. Scott till 1873, and by James Murphy Sr., in 1864.


Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

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Dreadful Accident from Lightning at New Hope

It falls this week to our lot as public journalists to record one of the most awful, sudden and frightful catastrophes, by which in the twinkling of an eye, unthinking mortals are occasionally hurried off the busy scene of human life, which we recollect as happening in our immediate neighbourhood. On Sunday last, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and when the heavy thunder storm which visited this quarter on that day, was raging at its height, just as three men, Frederick Long, Henry Barnhart and a German known as the "Little Waggoner" were in the act of leaving the stoop of the tavern in the Village of New Hope, kept by Mr. Adam Scott, a terrific flash of lightning struck the party and felled them all instantaneously to the earth.

Melancholy to relate, Long was found to have been killed on the spot, his shirt and skin across the breast being most severely burned and singed and part of his clothes rent and torn into shreds by the fearful, yet incomprehensible violence of the electric shock. Barnhart was discovered to have been struck completely blind and has remained so ever since, besides being otherwise severely stunned, burned and injured. The other person, who seems only to be known by the cognomen of the "Little Waggoner" (being a wagon maker in New Hope), was only slightly affected in the foot, in which, however, he experienced a strange, yet painful sensation. Dr. Ebert and Mr. Klotz soon arrived from Preston, but all attempts at reviving Long were tried in vain. Barnhart, who is a brewer in Preston, has since been conveyed home, but notwithstanding every attention medical and otherwise, the poor fellow enjoys little hope of recovering his eyesight, if indeed, his life be spared as he now lies in a precarious condition. Long was 24 years of age, and son-in-law of old Mr. Barnhart and head cooper to Mr. Hespeler, of Preston and had lately been employed at Mr. H's Mills at New Hope. He leaves a wife and child to lament his untimely end, and the bereavement of a kind husband and fond father.

At the time and place where the lightning struck, an extremely strong, sulphurous and suffocating smell pervaded the surrounding atmosphere and even clung to the bodies of the killed and injured, so much so that for some time there was great difficulty in breathing in the vicinity of the spot where the dire calamity occurred.

The Niagara Chronicle of 8 Aug 1850
Picked up and reprinted from The Dumfries Reformer, Galt Ont

Adam — Ellen. Ellen was born 1816, , Ireland; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Ellen Scott
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-252792
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-121920
• Residence: 1842, Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland
• Occupation: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian

Alexander — Elspeth "Elsie" Rainey. Elspeth was born 11 Apr 1807, , Scotland; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Rainey
• Name: Elsie Rainy
• Name: Elspeth "Elsie" Gunn
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-65772
• Residence: 1842, Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland
• Immigration: 1850, , Canada
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; English Church
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91089595
• Residence: 187 West River Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-30834
• Immigration: 1829, , Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Many of the principal settlers of Dumfries came in about 1830. We learn from Mr. William Cowan, River Road, that the following well-known Dumfries families all sailed in the "Argus" of Workington, England, on the 3rd June, 1829: those of Francis Hogg, Walter Cowan, James Cowan, George Barrie and Hector Rennelson. The voyage was only nine weeks and two days!


Reminiscences of the Early History of Galt and the Settlement of Dumfries in the Province of Ontario, by James Young

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A-1-12 Walter Cowan: The Last Will and Testament of Walter Cowan of the Township of Dumfries, Yeoman…

…In the first place I desire my Executors hereinafter named to pay satisfy and discharge all ny just and lawful debts, funeral exdpenses and testamentary expenses and the expense of proving this my will as soon as conveniently may be after my decease. I give and devise unto my son William, all that my farm whereon I now reside, situate and being in the vicinity of the Village of Galt, containing 146 acres, or thereabouts, to have and to hold the same to him, my said son William, his heirs and assigns for ever, subject nevertheless to a certain debt due to the representatives of the late Honorable Robert Dickson in respect to part of the said farm, that is in respect of sixty eight acres and one rood thereof - and also subjected as hereinafter mentioned. I give and bequeath unto my son James the sum of five pounds which I desire my said Executors to pay within the period of one year from after my decease. I likewise give and bequeath unto my daughter Jane Scott, the sum of sixty pounds which I direct my said Executor to pay unto her at the expiration of three years after my decease. I likewise give and bequeath unto her one half of all the bedding and bed clothes I possess. And I also, and concerning all the rest residue and remainder of my estate and effects not hereinbefore disposed of, I give and bequeath the same unto my said son William, to and for his own use and benefit. I do hereby charge the said Legacies of five pounds and sixty pounds before mentioned upon my said farm and it is my will that in case my said son William shall default in the payment of same or of either of them, it shall be lawful for my said son James and my daughter Jane Scott, or which ever of them shall remain unsatisfied into and upon the said farm, to enter and the same to have hold retain and enjoy by and out of the rents and profits to arise or result therefrom payment and satisfaction shall be made in regard of the said legacy or legacies ad the case may be and all costs and charges that may be incurred in respect thereof. I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said son William to be the sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament…

Witnesses R. Robertson and A. Ainslie
Will dated 29 January 1848
Will proved and insinuated 15 August 1853
No inventory rendered at the time, but stated to amount over £100/- and under £200/-


Wills of Waterloo County Register A 1853-1871, transcribed by Frances Hoffman

Walter — Agnes Willison. Agnes was born CA 1778, of, Yarrow, , Selkirk, Scotland; died 1853, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Pioneer Pergola Cemetery, St. Andrew's Park, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91090743
• Name: Agnes Cowan
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-32050

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• Birth: Lilliesleaf, , Roxburgh, Scotland
• Residence: Boosemill, Roxborough, Scotland
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-30833
• Residence: 1818, Makerston, Roxburghshire, Scotland

Adam married Helen Pringle 5 Dec 1818, Makerston, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Helen was born 1795, of, Minto, , Roxburgh, Scotland; died 11 Feb 1872, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213917982
• Name: Helen Dunn
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-32073
• Residence: 1818, Makerston, Roxburghshire, Scotland