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Peter Pentland
1778 - 1852 (74 years)-
Name Peter Pentland Born 1778 , England 
[1] Gender Male FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208755471 Eby ID Number Waterloo-53091 Died 11 Sep 1852 , Ontario, Canada [1] Buried Sheffield Cemetery, Sheffield, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada [1] Person ID I53091 Generations Last Modified 7 Nov 2024
Family Eleanor Unthank, b. 1781, d. 15 Oct 1838 (Age 57 years) Children 1. Peter Pentland, b. 10 Dec 1812, , Northumberland, England , d. 16 Mar 1889, Elma Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada (Age 76 years)2. Robert Pentland, b. CALC 12 Sep 1818, , England , d. 8 Feb 1897, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (Age ~ 78 years)Last Modified 12 Nov 2024 Family ID F22226 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - The Pentland family all moved into the settlement in the spring of 1837. They were nine in number. The father, mother, four sons, John, James, Peter and Robert, and three daughters. Their location was Lot 24, in Concession 8, and Lot 21, Concession 9, to which was afterward added the north-east quarter of Lot 23, in the 8th Concession. The mother died in the fall of 1838, the first death in the settlement. She was buried in the north part of the old burying ground on a part of the farm now owned by Thos. McQueen. Her husband was laid beside her about fifteen years after, and John the eldest son, was laid beside them in 1871. James and his three sisters still live on the old homestead. Peter married Miss E. McDonald, and moved onto his allotment, the north half of Lot 21, Concession 9. He sold out to Andrew Valens several years ago and is now living in the County of Perth. Robert married a Miss Fletcher and took the 50 acres of Lot 23 and south part of Lot 21, and after several years of success on the farm, he sold a few years ago to one David Patterson, and retired on full pay to the town of Galt, Patterson still occupies his farm, and Andrew Valens is still on the place purchased from Peter Pentland. The place now occupied by Samuel Gilbert was the first location of the McDonald family. On account of a neck of the big swamp cutting the place in two, the sons, Robert and Wallace, purchased the south half of the same lot and of 27, and moved southwards, and the first location was sold in 1850 to Samuel Gilbert, grandfather of the present Samuel. Wallace left the settlement about the end of 1863 and moved to Rockton, where he still lives and is so well known that no farther notice of him is required from me. He has since sold the old farm to one Jared Marcy, and Robert having died about four years ago, and their parents many years since, and Malcom having moved to the County of Huron, where he still resides, the McDonald family has not at present any representative in the old settlement. The lot that Jas. Mitchell first located on turned out to be not very good, and owing to a change being made in the lines of which I notice hereafter, Mr. M. took up another lot by the north half of Lot 32, Concession 9, on which the youngest son, William, is now living, and his mother with him. The two men, Robert Smith and A. Rowan, whom I have noticed, seemed to think it cold comfort to keep bachelors hall, for they pulled up stakes and left for good in or about the year 1838.
The pioneers of Beverly: a series of sketches" by John A. Cornell With Supplementary Articles On The Municipal History By Wallace Mcdonald, Esq. Educational Matters By Robert Mcqueen, Esq. J. H. Smith, Esq., P. S. I. The Agricultural Society By David Bell, Esq., 1889
- The Pentland family all moved into the settlement in the spring of 1837. They were nine in number. The father, mother, four sons, John, James, Peter and Robert, and three daughters. Their location was Lot 24, in Concession 8, and Lot 21, Concession 9, to which was afterward added the north-east quarter of Lot 23, in the 8th Concession. The mother died in the fall of 1838, the first death in the settlement. She was buried in the north part of the old burying ground on a part of the farm now owned by Thos. McQueen. Her husband was laid beside her about fifteen years after, and John the eldest son, was laid beside them in 1871. James and his three sisters still live on the old homestead. Peter married Miss E. McDonald, and moved onto his allotment, the north half of Lot 21, Concession 9. He sold out to Andrew Valens several years ago and is now living in the County of Perth. Robert married a Miss Fletcher and took the 50 acres of Lot 23 and south part of Lot 21, and after several years of success on the farm, he sold a few years ago to one David Patterson, and retired on full pay to the town of Galt, Patterson still occupies his farm, and Andrew Valens is still on the place purchased from Peter Pentland. The place now occupied by Samuel Gilbert was the first location of the McDonald family. On account of a neck of the big swamp cutting the place in two, the sons, Robert and Wallace, purchased the south half of the same lot and of 27, and moved southwards, and the first location was sold in 1850 to Samuel Gilbert, grandfather of the present Samuel. Wallace left the settlement about the end of 1863 and moved to Rockton, where he still lives and is so well known that no farther notice of him is required from me. He has since sold the old farm to one Jared Marcy, and Robert having died about four years ago, and their parents many years since, and Malcom having moved to the County of Huron, where he still resides, the McDonald family has not at present any representative in the old settlement. The lot that Jas. Mitchell first located on turned out to be not very good, and owing to a change being made in the lines of which I notice hereafter, Mr. M. took up another lot by the north half of Lot 32, Concession 9, on which the youngest son, William, is now living, and his mother with him. The two men, Robert Smith and A. Rowan, whom I have noticed, seemed to think it cold comfort to keep bachelors hall, for they pulled up stakes and left for good in or about the year 1838.
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Sources - [S1452] Cemetery - ON, Wentworth, Beverly - Sheffield United Cemetery.
Side 1: James Pentland, died 24 Dec. 1893, in his 84 Yr / Jane Pentland, died 15 June 1893, Aged 85 Years / Peter Pentland, Died 11 Sept. 1852, Aged 74 Years, his wife Eleanor Unthank, died Oct. 15 1838, Aged 56 Years /
Side 2: Robert Pentland, died 8 Feb. 1897, Aged 78 yrs 4 Mos 27 dys, his wife Isabella Fletcher, died Nov. 29 1904, in her 86 Year
Side 3: their dau. Janet Pentland, died Oct. 5 1915, in her 65 Yr / their son Peter Pentland, died July 11 1917, in his 66 Yr /
Side 4: Eleanor Pentland, died 17 June 1891, in her 79 Year, of Berwickshire Eng. / Isabella Pentland, died 22 Dec. 1893, in her 73 Yr / John Pentland, died Oct. 19 1871, Aged 66 Years.
- [S1452] Cemetery - ON, Wentworth, Beverly - Sheffield United Cemetery.
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Event Map 
Born - 1778 - , England 
Died - 11 Sep 1852 - , Ontario, Canada 
Buried - - Sheffield Cemetery, Sheffield, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada = Link to Google Earth
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