Margaret Douglas

1790 - 1879  (89 years)

• Name	Margaret Douglas
  Born	1790	, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Immigration	1834	, Canada   [3]
  Name	Margaret Douglass
  Name	Margaret Scott
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-10389
  Died	9 Feb 1879	Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada   [1, 2, 3]
  	Cause: Paralysis 3 years
  Buried	Chesterfield United Cemetery, Chesterfield, Oxford Co., Ontario   [2]
  Person ID	I10389	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Charles Scott,   b. 1784, , Roxburghshire, Scotland ,   d. 29 Oct 1845, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 61 years)
  Children	1. Scott,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Dr. John Scott,   b. 25 Jan 1814, Lilliesleaf, , Roxburgh, Scotland ,   d. 21 Dec 1856, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 42 years)   3. Andrew Scott,   b. 2 Jan 1823, Lilliesleaf, , Roxburgh, Scotland ,   d. 9 Feb 1893  (Age 70 years)   4. Jessie Scott,   b. 12 Jul 1824, , Roxburghshire, Scotland ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Scott,   b. Abt 1830,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F25712	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Margaret Douglass Scott - In the township of Blenheim, on Saturday, the 9th inst., at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. Robert Patton, near Plattsville, Margaret Douglass, relict of the late Charles Scott and mother of Mr. Andrew Scott, of Galt, and of the late Dr. John Scott, of Berlin, aged 88 years. Deceased was a native of Roxboroughshire, Scotland, and with her husband and family came to Galt in 1834, the dread year of the cholera. Dr. John Scott, her son, was then a young man of about twenty-one, perhaps barely licensed as a Doctor, and the services he rendered the panic stricken people of this little hamlet of Galt in those days, will never be forgotten by those who yet live and were witnesses of his efforts. "Strang's" church, of those days was just finished, and the temporary seats, hewed logs, were removed and the church turned into a hospital and there young Scott, with a few whose courage had not failed them, administered to those who were stricken, fighting the dread disease until its end and final disappearance. In the fall of 1834, the family removed to the section in Blenheim where the deceased continued to reside until her death. At that time it was an unbroken wilderness, and looking at it now, a perfect garden, with substantial homesteads, and every comfort of life, one fails far in realizing the courage of the early settlers in entering it, or the patience and endurance they evinced in the life they had chosen. Mr. Scott, Sr., died in 1845, and the family having become somewhat broken up, Dr. Scott having begun the practice of his profession in Berlin, and Mr. Andrew Scott, of Galt, having gone to Mr. John Gartshore's Foundry, in Dundas to learn the trade of a millwright, the other members of the family carried on the farm for a time, Mrs. Scott ultimately taking up her residence with her son-in-law, Mr. Robert Patton, with whom she resided up to the time of her death. Rev'd. Mr. Robinson, of Chesterfield, conducted the funeral services, and in the course of his remarks adverted to the features of the family life, and adding his testimony to the record left by it. Galt Reporter - 14 Feb 1879, page 3

  
  

• Sources

  [S1338] News - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Galt Reporter (1846-1973), Obituary of Margaret Douglass - Scott - 14 Feb 1879, Page 3. [S3231] Find A Grave, (2019). Findagrave.com. Retrieved 12 May 2019, from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184929326/margaret-scott. [S1338] News - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Galt Reporter (1846-1973), Death of Mrs. Robert Patton - Feb 14 pg 3.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1790 - , Roxburghshire, Scotland Immigration - 1834 - , Canada Died - Cause: Paralysis 3 years - 9 Feb 1879 - Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada Buried - - Chesterfield United Cemetery, Chesterfield, Oxford Co., Ontario  = Link to Google Earth