Margaret Paris

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• Name: Margaret Lee
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-132609

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Lee. - George. Watchmaker, Stow & Margaret eldest Daughter of James Paris, Schoolm. there; gave up their names, to be preclaimed in order to Marriage, 21st Oct: 1826. Caution for him James Dickson; Postmaster - for her, James Paris her Father; and being duly proclaimed they were married at Edinburgh; on Tuesday the 31st of the same month, by the Rev Dr. Lee.

LEE GEORGE (Old Parish Registers Marriages 699/ 50 174 Stow) Page 174 of 374 31/10/1826 Crown copyright, National Records of Scotland Image was generated at 18 December 2022 14:29

Margaret married Esquire George Lee 31 Oct 1826, Stow, Midlothian, Scotland. George (son of John Lees and Isabella Paterson) was born 1803, , Scotland; died 8 Apr 1866, Owen Sound, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Greenwood Cemetery, Owen Sound, Grey Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Turnbull
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-132610
• Immigration: 1834, , Canada
• Immigration: 1836, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1852, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Ch. of Scotland
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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In Memoriam Entered into rest at Galt, on Tuesday, November 7th, 1911 Mary Lee Wife of Robert Turnbull Interred in Mount View Cemetery, Galt, on Wednesday, November 8th, 1911

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Mary married Robert Turnbull 30 Jun 1856, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Robert (son of Robert Turnbull and Christian Ker "Christie" Scott) was born 15 Feb 1822, , Scotland; died 28 Nov 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Business: Lee Arms Manufacturing Company
• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14787898
• Interesting: invention, life story, business
• Residence: 60 Grand Avenue North, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-66189
• Residence: 1836, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; gunmaker and inventor of typewriter

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James Paris Lee was born in Hawick, Scotland on August 9, 1831, the son of nine children of George Lee and Margaret Paris. The family emigrated to Galt in 1836 where George, a skilled watchmaker and jeweller, set up a business at the north west corner of Water and Main. The family home was a rough cast frame building on Melville St. which was later demolished to make room for the Central Presbyterian Church Sunday School building. James Lee learned the trade of watchmaking and was interested in mechanisms but his great passion was firearms. It was a passion that nearly cost him his life when he was still quite young and that left him with a permanent limp when he accidentally shot himself in the heel. Mr. Lee left Galt when he was nineteen and in about 1852 married Caroline Chrysler with whom he had two children. She died in London, England in 1888. Mr. Lee moved to the United States just prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1860 and it was there that he developed the idea of the quick firing rifle. While experimenting with a forty shot repeating rifle, Mr. Lee invented a method of turning the old and popular Springfield rifle into a breechloader, an adaptation soon adopted by the U.S. Cavalry. It was not until 1878 that the Lee magazine rifle, capable of firing 30 shots per minute was perfected. The weapon was adopted first by the American Navy and then by China. In 1888, the British Army approved the Lee-Metford rifle for extensive field tests. The rifle combined Mr. Lee's quick firing design with a barrel rifling method developed by Col. Metford. When the rifling in the gun proved inadequate, the British Army went back to the old Enfield rifling method and approved the Lee-Enfield for general use for its forces throughout the world. Although Mr. Lee never benefited financially to any great degree from his inventions, he was remarkably prolific and is said to have produced more guns and gun parts than any other inventor up to that time. He is also credited by one source with the development of the first keyboard used on a rudimentary Remington typewriter. Mr. Lee returned to Galt in 1899 where he lived until returning to the United States to live out his final days with his son. He died on February 24, 1904 in New Haven, Connecticut.

Cambridge Mosaic, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge

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Mr. James Paris Lee, tho inventor of the Lee-Metford rifle and of many other im provements in small arms, has just died at New Haven, Conn, in his 74th year. Ho was born at Hawick, whence his parents emigrated to Galt, in the province of Ontario. After completing his education there he removed in 1851 to the neighbouring town of Chatham, whore he started business as a watchmaker. In 1860 he took charge of a gun factory at Milwaukee, and it was there than his career as an inventor began. Mr. Motford, tho distinguished amateur marks man, who helped him to develop his ideas, died in 1899. Herr Mannlicher, the inventor of another great rifle, died only a few weeks ago.

The Maitland Daily Mercury, NSW Sat 23 Apr 1904 Page 3

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• Invention: Gun - Rifle
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-132613
• Residence: 1852, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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In Loving Memory Died At Wallaceburg, on Wednesday Oct. 30th, 1907, John Lee aged 74 years, 4 months. The Funeral The funeral will take place from his late residence, on Friday afternoon, Nov. 1st, at 2.30 o'clock. Service at the house. Interment at Wallaceburg Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation.

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Invention:
John Lee was a Scottish-Canadian - Canadian inventor and arms designer, best known for co- inventing a prototype bolt action rifle with his brother James Paris Lee. The rifle they made led to the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series of rifles.

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• Name: Isabella D. "Isabel" Corbet
• Name: Isabella D. "Isabel" Taber
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-75014
• Residence: 1852, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1854, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1859, Owen Sound, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Owen Sound, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada

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Died: Death of Mrs. George Corbet: The many friends of Mrs. Geo. Corbet, formerly of Owen Sound, will be deeply grieved to hear of her death, which occurred Wednesday morning at Detroit, Mich., where she was on a visit. Mrs. Corbet, whose maiden name was Isabella Lee, was born in Hawickshire, Scotland, seventy-five years ago. She was first married to George Taber, who died at sea, and in 1858 she married George Corbet, and came to Owen Sound, where she resided until six years ago, when she resided until six years ago, when she removed to Duluth, Minn. A little over a year ago, being in bad health, she went to North Carolina, where she remained for about twelve months. While visiting in Detroit she was ill for some time but was thought to be recovering when she suddenly became worse and death quickly followed. She leaves four sons, George L. Taber, of Wyandotte, Mich.; Charles L. Taber, of Tottenville, N. J.; William C. Corbet, Owen Sound; Thomas S. Corbet, Detroit, Mich., and three daughters, Mrs. Douglas D. Brown, Detroit; Mrs. George W. Dawson, Ayr, and Miss Florence, Duluth, Minn. The late Mr. Corbet died twenty-three years ago. She leaves also three sisters, Mrs. Robert Turnbull, London, Ont., and Mrs. David Whitehead, Oil Springs, Ont., and Mrs. John Scagel, Sarnia. The funeral takes place today on the arrival of the C. P. R. train at 1:05, interment being made in Greenwood cemetery.

Owen Sound Sun Friday, April 21st, 1911

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In Loving Memory In Memoriam Died - In Detroit, Mich., on April 19, 1911, Isabel Lee, widow of the late George Corbet of Owen Sound, Ont., in her 77th year. Interred at Owen Sound on April 21, 1911.

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Isabella married George Corbet 16 Nov 1858, Owen Sound, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada. George was born 25 Jan 1808, , Scotland; died 25 Mar 1888, Owen Sound, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Greenwood Cemetery, Owen Sound, Grey Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

Isabella married George H. Taber 8 Jun 1854, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. George was born CA 1824, Of, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario; died Bef 1858, Atlantic Ocean. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Margaret Paris Turnbull
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-338998
• Residence: 1852, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1859, Owen Sound, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada

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Mrs. John Turnbull

The death occurred early Saturday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. C. Hutton of Paris, of Mrs. John Turnbull, in her 93rd year. She was the daughter of George P. Lee of Galt. Until seized with a slight stroke a week ago, Mrs. Turnbull had enjoyed good health and retained all her faculties. She had lived a retired life during the past few years. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. C. C. Hutton of Paris and Miss Tena Turnbull of Toronto, five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, and her cousins, the Lees of Oakwood farm. The funeral took place Monday afternoon from her daughter's home in Paris to the Ayr Cemetery.

The Ayr News Oct 17 1929 pg 1

Margaret married John Scott Turnbull 29 Sep 1859, Owen Sound, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada. John (son of Robert Turnbull and Christian Ker "Christie" Scott) was born 1826, , Scotland; died 5 Oct 1900, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 7 Oct 1900, Ayr Cemetery, Ayr, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-132611
• Residence: 1852, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-132614
• Residence: 1852, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Name: Jessie Whitehead
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-132612

Jessie married David Whitehead 10 Feb 1869, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. David (son of William Whitehead and Ellen Dickson) was born 1846, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-213068
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Ch. of Scotland
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-251519
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Ch. of Scotland

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-67070
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Ch. of Scotland
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Name: Eleanor Dawson
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-195123
• Residence: 1911, Ayr, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Eleanor — George Watson Dawson. George was born 17 Dec 1850, , Ontario, Canada; died 23 Aug 1940, Brantford, Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Avondale Cemetery, Stratford, Perth Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-120227
• Residence: 1861, Owen Sound, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Tottenville, , New Jersey, USA

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-132908
• Residence: 1911, Wyandotte, Houghton, Michigan, United States

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• Name: Isabel Turnbull
• Name: Margaret Isabel Hutton
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-338996

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PARIS - Mrs. Margaret Hutton, widow of Cremer Hutton passed away Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mr. Charles Geddes, Paris, in her 86th year, following a lengthy illness. Born at Richwood, Mr Hutton had lived in the vicinity of Paris for the last 30 years. She was a member of St. Paul's United Church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Frank Flack (Isabel), Harley; Mrs Violet Peart, Brantford, and Mrs. Charles Geddes (Dora) R.R. 2, Paris; one son, Wyn. Paris; one sister, Mrs. Christin Turnbull, Toronto; also sever grandchildren and six great grandchildren. One son, Jack predeceased her last year. Mrs Hutton is resting at the Cummings Funeral Home, where service will be conducted Monday afternoon by Rev. J. T Heslop. Interment will be in the Ayr Cemetery.

The Expositor 02 Jul 1949, Sat Page 7

Margaret married Cremer Hutton 9 Sep 1891, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. Cremer was born 1864, Norfolk Co., England; died 6 Nov 1908, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Caledonia Cemetery, Caledonia, Haldimand Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]