Mary Dalgleish

1804 - 1879  (75 years)

• Name	Mary Dalgleish
  Born	4 Mar 1804	Yarrow, , Selkirk, Scotland   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1861	North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Church of Scotland
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-248852P
  Died	10 Oct 1879	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Buried	Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Person ID	I248852	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Robert Dalgleish,   b. 1773, Yarrow, , Selkirk, Scotland ,   d. 19 Aug 1834, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Elspeth Hogg,   b. 1774, Yarrow, , Selkirk, Scotland ,   d. 23 Aug 1834, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F11121	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  OBITUARY - Another old settler whose death we record today has passed away in the person of Mary Dalgliesh, sister of the Messrs. Dalgliesh, of Galt. The subject of our notice emigrated with several junior members of the family from the vale of Yarrow, Selkirkshire, Scotland, in the year 1833. Arriving in Canada with a younger sister, she stayed for a season in Montreal as a domestic in the mause of the Revd. Mr. Black, Minister of the Scotch Kirk. The following season she removed to Galt, and its neighbourhood, where she continued to make her home for the most part of her allotted time in the western world. Possessed of no ordinary vigor and being very skillful as a cook, she was quite an acquisition to our young country and successfully filled places where her skill was brought into activity - such as in the cookery department of Osgood Hall, Toronto, where at that period the young members of the bar lodged. As a later period she filed the position of house keeper to the late William Dickson, Esq., of Galt, for the period of thirteen years, or until that gentleman broke up housekeeping in order to visit Europe. In later years, as age began to tell upon her vigorous frame, she had to withdraw from filling situations where large demands were made upon the energies. The extraordinary industry that she ever manifested enabled her to do much for the help of others, and her liberality in this respect was to a fault. In bringing our notice to a close, we may say that she suffered for some time before her death very much, bearing it all with Christian fortitude. She was buried on Saturday in Galt Cemetery. Galt Reporter Oct 17 1879 pg 3

  
  

• Sources

  [S1778] Census - ON, Waterloo, North Dumfries - 1861, Div 7 Page 51. [S122] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Mount View CC#4495 Internet Link . In memory of/ Mary Dalgleish/ who died/ Oct 10th 1879/ aged 76 years/ Janet W. Gourlay/ wife of/ James Dalgleish/ died Aug 11th 1946/ aged 79 years [S2190] Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1864-1950. Mary Dalgliesh Gender:Female Birth Date:4 Mar 1804 Birth Place:, Yarrow, Selkirk, Scotland Baptism Place:, Yarrow, Selkirk, Scotland Father:Robert Dalgliesh Mother:Euphon Hogg FHL Film Number:1067929 Reference ID:2: 1896SW2

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 4 Mar 1804 - Yarrow, , Selkirk, Scotland Residence - Church of Scotland - 1861 - North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 10 Oct 1879 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth