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Vincent Douglass

Male 1790 - 1877  (87 years)


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  • Name Vincent Douglass 
    Born 1790  , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    Race black 
    Name Vincent Douglas 
    Occupation 1851  Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Farmer 
    Residence 1851  Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Baptist 
    Occupation 1861  Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Farmer 
    Residence 1861  Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Baptist 
    Residence 1861  Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Lot 24 Con 14 
    Occupation 1871  Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Farmer 
    Residence 1871  Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    F.W. Baptist 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-292829 
    Died 26 Oct 1877  Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Buried African Cemetery, Peel Twp., Wellington, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I292829  Generations
    Last Modified 6 Apr 2024 

    Family Martha,   b. 1795, , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Apr 1897, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 102 years) 
    Children 
     1. Charles Douglas,   b. 1828, , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Jan 1912, Collingwood, Nottawasaga Twp., Simcoe Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
     2. Marie Douglas,   b. 1833, , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 18 years)
     3. Vincent Douglas,   b. 1835, , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 16 years)
     4. Agnes Douglas,   b. 1837, , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Albert Douglass,   b. CALC 1 Nov 1845, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 May 1913, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 67 years)
    Last Modified 7 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F263178  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Vincent Douglass had been born about 1791 or 1797. He and his wife, Martha, and their children, Charles, Maria, Vincent Jr. and Agnes, had been born into slavery in Virginia. Sometime after the birth of Agnes in 1838, the Douglass family escaped and fled to Canada. In 1843 the family lived on fifty acres on lot 21, concession 14, in Wellesley Township, where another son, Albert, was born the following year. The Douglass family later moved to a farm on lot 14, concession 2, in Peel Township.

      On October 26,1877, Vincent Douglass died of unknown causes. The terms of his will stated that after all debts and funeral expenses had been paid, his beloved wife Martha was to receive $50 and the use of their home and furnishings. His son, Albert, inherited the family farm with the condition that he support his mother until her death, which occurred on April 3, 1897. Two other sons, Charles and Thomas, each received $25.

      Albert Douglass married Mary Ann Lee on August 11,1870, in Peel Township. The Reverend Samuel H. Brown performed the ceremony, witnessed by Henry Frances and Mary Ann Stewart. Mary Ann Lee Douglass had been born in Brantford on June 15, 1850. Her father, William Barnard Lee, had been born in Niagara-on-the-Lake in 1812 and was the son of Peter Lee, who had served in the Corps of Colour during the War of 1812. Her mother, Eleanor Jane Smith, was from County Cork, Ireland. When Mary Ann Lee was just a young girl, her parents divorced. Her father moved to Artemesia Township in Grey County where he married Roselia Adams and they had one son, William Bernard Lee, Jr

      Albert and Mary Ann Douglass had twenty-one children, but only seven survived to adulthood. The children were: George L.; Albert Harvey; Aubrey; Oscar Raymond; Olive Estella, Cora Winnie and Hector Wendall. Mary Ann Douglass died March 14,1912, of chronic bronchitis and what her doctor described as a general breakdown in health. Her husband died May 19, 1913, of appendicitis. They are buried in the Peel Township AME / BME cemetery beside their daughter, Cora Winnie. After the death of Albert and Mary Ann Douglass, the family farm was sold with the proceeds being equally divided among their children, who by then had migrated to the United States or other areas of Canada.

      Charles Douglass, the oldest son of Vincent and Martha Douglass, in 1861 lived in Artemesia Township, Grey County, with his wife, Mary. However, by 1871 he was a widower and had returned to his parents' home with his two daughters, Margaret and Levina. Douglass married his second wife, Isabella Johnston, and the couple had at least one child, Albert. Just two days before Christmas in 1879, Douglass became a widower for the second time when his wife Isabella died. By 1901, Douglass had returned to Grey County where he lived near Collingwood with his daughter Effie, his son-in-law, George Cooper and their twelve-year-old son, Edward. His son, Albert, also lived in Grey County and on December 28,1904, he married Elizabeth Morton in the Owen Sound Methodist Church. Charles Douglass died in Collingwood at age 78 on January 14,1912. Many of his descendants still live in Grey County today.

      The Queen's Bush Settlement: Black Pioneers 1839-1865

      by Linda Brown-Kubisch ublished February 20th 2004 by Natural Heritage

  • Sources 
    1. [S269] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wellesley Twp. - 1871, p 44.

    2. [S242] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wellesley Twp. - 1851, Div. 2 Page 12.

    3. [S855] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wellesley Twp. - 1861, Sect. 14 Page 94.

    4. [S2828] Cemetery - ON, Wellington, Peel - Africian Cemetery Wellington County Branchm Ontario Ancestors.
      In memory of/ VINCENT DOUGLASS/ Who died/ Oct. 26, 1877/ Aged 86 years.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1790 - , Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 1851 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Baptist - 1851 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 1861 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Baptist - 1861 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Lot 24 Con 14 - 1861 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 1871 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - F.W. Baptist - 1871 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 26 Oct 1877 - Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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