John King

1813 - 1843  (~ 31 years)

• Name	John King
  Born	Between 1812 and 1813	, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Military	1843	, Quebec, Canada   [2]
  	Bombardier in the Royal Artillery
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-132907P
  Died	9 May 1843	Montreal, Ile De Montreal, Quebec   [1, 3]
  Buried	11 May 1843	, Quebec, Canada
  Person ID	I132907	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Family	Christina McDougall,   b. 1821, Glasgow, , Lanark, Scotland ,   d. Nov 1900, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 79 years)
  Children	1. John King,   b. 15 Sep 1843, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 30 Aug 1916, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 72 years)
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  Family ID	F34477	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  possible burial. John King Bombardier in the Royal Artillery, aged twenty Nine years, Died on the Ninth, and was buried on the Eleventh Day of May in the year of our Lord, one Thousand, Eight Hundred and Forty Three. Quebec Garnison, P. Q. Registres photographiles aug Greffe de Quebec - Ancestry.com ______________________ John King Senior was no rebel; he was a soldier of the Crown. Born in Aberdeenshire, he had been educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and had joined an immensely respectable regiment: the Royal Horse Artillery. During the 1837 Rebellion, he was stationed as a bombardier at Kingston, where he defended the interests of the Crown, Governor Sir Francis Bond Head and the Family Compact against the likes of William Lyon Mackenzie. The elder John King married another Scots emigre, Christina McDougall, but he died before their son was born in 1843. For a while, Christina King ran a boarding house in Toronto (Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, who headed the United Canada's first Reform government in 1848, alongside Robert Baldwin, was said to be one of her lodgers). But finding it increasingly difficult to raise her son John on her own, Christina left Toronto and moved in with her brother and sister, Dougall and Flora McDougall. Mrs. King, The Life & Times of ISABEL MACKENZIE KING, by Charlotte Gray pg 65

  
  

• Sources

  [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162389344. [S839] Church Records - Quebec - Drouin Collection 1621-1967, Quebec Garnison, P. Q. Registres photographiles aug Greffe de Quebec. [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 39.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Between 1812 and 1813 - , Aberdeenshire, Scotland Military - Bombardier in the Royal Artillery - 1843 - , Quebec, Canada Died - 9 May 1843 - Montreal, Ile de Montreal, Quebec Buried - 11 May 1843 - , Quebec, Canada  = Link to Google Earth