Rev. John Caven

Abt 1800 -

• Name	John Caven
  Prefix	Rev.
  Born	Abt 1800	of, Kirkcolm, , Wigtown, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1830	Kirkcolm, , Wigtown, Scotland   [1]
  Residence	1847	North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Occupation	1853	North Dumfries Concession 07 Lot 01, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	superintendent of common schools
  	Jan 10 1853.'97Moved by Mr Buchanan, seconded by Mr Robert Cranston, That Mr John Caven be local superintendent of common Sehools for the Township of North Dumfries, for the present Ye,ar.'97Carried:
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-51964
  Died	Saint Marys, Blanshard Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I51964	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Mary Milroy,   b. Abt 1800, of, Kirkcolm, , Wigtown, Scotland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Rev. William Reid Caven,   b. 26 Dec 1830, Kirkcolm, , Wigtown, Scotland ,   d. 1 Dec 1904, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 73 years)
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F23143	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  THE REV. WILLIAM CAVEN, D.D., PRINCIPAL OF KNOX COLLEGE, TORONTO. Principal Caven was born in the parish of Kirkcolm, Wigtonshire, Scotland, on the 26th of December, 1830. His ancestors on both sides had been settled in that neighbourhood for centuries, and several of them figure conspicuously in the local annals. They were in their day strenuous supporters of the Solemn League and Covenant, and the names of some of them are enshrined on the roll of the "Wigton Martyrs." One of the most cherished traditions of the family on the mother's side relates how one of them, for refusing to abjure his faith, suffered grievous bodily mutilation at the hands of the dragoons of "Bloody Claverse"-known to history as John Graham, Viscount Dundee. A less accurately authenticated tradition identifies Margaret Wilson, who suffered martyrdom in 1685, along with Margaret Maclachlan,10 as a member of the family from which Principal Caven's mother is descended. His father was the late Mr. John Caven, a sound scholar and a very worthy man, who was by profession a school teacher. The late Mr. Caven was a member of the United Secession Church, which, by its union, in 1840, with the "Relief" Church, as it was called, formed the United Presbyterian Church-an organization which still retains a separate corporate existence in Scotland and the United States, though it has long since lost it in Canada and some of the other colonies, owing to successive unions between it and other Presbyterian bodies. Not being a member of the Established Church of Scotland, Mr. Caven was in those days ineligible for the position of a parish schoolmaster, but he had no difficulty in obtaining pupils, and enjoyed a creditable reputation alike as a sound scholar and a successful instructor. He emigrated from Wigtonshire to Canada in the summer of 1847, and for a short time took up his abode near Galt, Ontario, in the township of North Dumfries. After a time he removed to the neighbourhood of St. Mary's, where he continued to reside down to the time of his death a few months since. He resumed his labours in the work of education after his arrival in Canada, first as a teacher, and afterwards as a school superintendent, and was greatly beloved for his amiability and uprightness of character.... The Canadian Portrait Gallery. by John Charles Dent, Assisted By A Staff Of Contributors. Vol II. Toronto: Published By John B. Magurn. 1880.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1609] Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C11887-4 , System Origin: Scotland-VR , GS Film number: 1068037 , Reference ID: - 2:18FW3LV. William Caven chr. 13 Jan 1831 Kirkcolm, Wigtown, Scotland, b. 26 Dec 1830, s/o John Caven & Mary Milroy [S2193] Journal of the Proceeding & By-laws of the Municipal Council of the County of Waterloo.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Abt 1800 - of, Kirkcolm, , Wigtown, Scotland Residence - 1830 - Kirkcolm, , Wigtown, Scotland Residence - 1847 - North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - superintendent of common schools - 1853 - North Dumfries Concession 07 Lot 01, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - - Saint Marys, Blanshard Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth