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LAMBS OF THE LOWER OTTAWA

1623-1936

2001

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Index of Names .................................................................................... ,. 141

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NORTH SEA

Map of Scotland showing the Lands of Cowal and the Vale of Menteith,

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INTRODUCTION

In the 19605 when the Lamb home on Carling Avenue in Ottawa was sold, my
brother, Bill, saved several boxes of old photos and family documents. These roused his
curiosity about the family and he began to gather other information about the Lamb family.
Along the way he met and exchanged family information with several Lamb cousins
including, Percy Campbell, then living in Sunderland, Ontario; Gladys Ferguson, a
descendant of James Lamb (1828-1914) and Sarah Baker; and Leone Robertson, a
descendant of William Lamb and Margaret Gordon,

About this time, Bill wrote to the Scottish Ancestry Research Society (SARS), of
Edinburgh, Scotland, requesting them to search the records in Scotland for the family of
James Lamb (1778-1855) who lived near Thomhill, in Perthshire, and came to Canada in
1831. SARS found a James Lamb born in 1776 at McOrriston/Mackaurostoune, in the
Parish of Kilmadock, the son of John Lamb and Mary McArthur. Although the date of
Jamesâ€™ birth differed from our information in Canada, we accepted the SARS report that
his parents were John Lamb and Mary McArthur. About 1970, Bill published a summary of
his ï¬ndings which he called, James lamb and His Canadian Clan.

More recently I read the SARS report again and wondered why there were no
daughters called Mary among the children of James Lamb and Elizabeth McFarlane.
According to the almost sacred tradition in Scotland of naming their children, the second
daughter should have been named aï¬er her paternal grandmother. James and Elizabeth
Lambâ€™s second daughter was named Helen, not Mary, I decided to order the microï¬lm
copies of the original Old Parochial Registers (OPRs) for the parishes around Thomhill,
Kilmadock, Kincardine and Port of Menteith.

The OPRs begin in the 17th century and almost immediately I found Lamb families
in the Parish of Kilmadock; then a family of Lambs living at Bridge End of Goodie. In the
next generation, this family appeared to have moved to Borland in Ruskie, in the adjoining
Parish of Port of Menteith. Here was the baptismal record of a James Lamb born in 1778,
the son of John Lamb and Helen Burn. The date was right and the grandmother's name
was Helen!

In Scotland, a person's name not only told his/her family or clan but what position that
person held within the family,

The naming of children nearly always followed a simple and almost sacred nile:

- The eldest son was named for his patemal grandfather; the second son for
his maternal grandfather and the third son for his father.

- The eldest daughter was named for her maternal grandmother; the second
daughter for her paternal grandmother and the third daughter for her
mother,

Over time, this custom led to nicknames, which in turn oï¬en became proper names
in the next generation, Helen might become Ellen, Nell or Ella; Elizabeth, Eliza, Lizzie,
Beth or Betty; Margaret usually was called Maggie and Mary, Minnie. Among the sons,
William became Will, Willie, Bill or Billie/Billy; James might be Jamesie, Jim or Jimmy.
While this custom of naming in Scottish families, has largely died out, it was very
important in earlier generations.

The family surname might be a well-known clan name such as Campbell,

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McFarlane or Stewart/Drummond, During the years of clan strife and massacres, and the
Jacobite Rebellions of 1715 and 1745, many took safe surnames such as Lamb, Black,
Brown or White; others took the name of the river or community where they found refuge.

These safe names account for many of the septs of the various clans or great
families. Our Lambs in Perthshire lived in Stewart or Drummond country, yet they brought
the story of the Campbell massacre of the Lamonts in 1646 with them to Canada in 1831.
It was told to succeeding generations as late as 1935, Oral history may take many twists
and turns, but truth is at the heart of it.

As well as family oral history, we also had three letters li'om Scotland mentioning
family members and their relationship to Canadian Lambs. These names and relationships
conï¬rm that our Lamb family descends ï¬om the Lambs living at Borland in Ruskie. This
research lies behind the Lamb family story in Scotland described in Part I - LAMBS
ALONG THE FORTH,

Many cousins shared their family information that helped shape the Canadian story
in Part II - LAMBS ALONG THE OTTAWA. More recently Elizabeth Waymann, a
descendant of Helen Lamb and John S. Edwards, contributed much of the Edwards family
story. Alvin Gallagher and Norman Macoy provided the Gallagher and Pdnervaen-
Gervan-Macoy genealogies, which added more detail to this family history. Other
contributors and sources of information will be found listed in the bibliography. To all I
offer my thanks.

Most of all, I want to express my appreciation to my husband, John, who has
encouraged me again and again, and brought the ï¬nished product out of his computer,

Helen Lamb Shearman

Oakville, Ontario
2001

s 1 a a a a a 1 a
ABBREVIATIONS

b. In Scotland, refers to date of baptism in Old Parish Registers (OPRs).
In Canada, refers to date of birth in Family Bibles or other family records.

in Date of marriage d. Date of death. 0. or abt, ; about.

Twp. : Township. Co. : County.

U.C. or Upper Canada became C W. or Canada West in 1840 and Ontario in 1867.
LC. or Lower Canada became CE. or Canada East in 1840 and Quebec in 1867.

A name following a slash, as in William/Willie or Mary/Minnie, was the name usually
used for that person.

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PART I - SCOTLAND

LAMBS ALONG THE FORTH

EARLY CONNECTIONS: The Lumonts of Cowal.

1n the 6th century, the western Highlands of Scotland, which reach southward to the
northern shore of the Firth of Clyde, were settled by Celts from the northern part of Ulster,
called Dalriada. These early inhabitants of the peninsulas and islands of Kintyre, Jura,
Arran, Bute, and Cowal, were known as "Clann â€˜ic Fhearchair)â€ or
Macâ€™eracharfMacKerracher. They claimed descent from the Great House of O'Neil, kings
of Ulster in earlier times,

The name of Lamont appears to date from the middle of the 13th century when
Lauman, a grandson of Fhearchair, was named in a charter granting lands in Kilmun and
Kilï¬nnan to the monks of Paisley In time the name Lauman became Lamont, the accent on

the ï¬rst syllable.
William F. Skene in his book The Highlanders of Scotland says of the Lamont Clan:

There is one peculiarity connected With the Lamond: (Lamonts). that
although by no means a powerful clan, their genealogy can be proved by
charters (legal records), at a time when most other Highland families are
obliged to have recourse to the uncertain lights of tradition and the
genealogies of their sennachies (oral history) ., ..

The antiquity of the Lamonts could not protect them from encroachment by the
powerful Campbells of Argle to the north. Gradually over several centuries, the Lamont
lands were reduced to the lower part of the Cowal peninsula,

When Robert the Steward/Stewart became King Robert II in 1371, one of his ï¬rst
acts was to make 3 Campbell the hereditary keeper of the royal castle at Dunoon, From
that time on, the Campbells used every opportunity to increase their lands in Cowal.

From Lamont to Lamb.

In a letter published in the Inventory of Lamont Papers, 1231-1897, the Laird of
Lamont, Archibald Lamont of that Ilk, writing in 1699 to his kinsman, Bourdon/Burden of
Feddal, in the parish of Ardoch) Perthshire, recounts an incident which saw the Lamonts
lose more of their territory when King Robert 111 (13904406), who had succeeded his
father as king, conï¬scated some of the Lamont lands and gave them to the Campbells.

In the year 1400 when Robert 111 and his court were living at Rothesay Castle on
the island of Bute, three young lairds of the court crossed the kyles or narrows of Bute to
the Lamont territory of Cowal to hunt. On leaving they tried to take several young
Lamont women with them. Hearing of this treachery, the Laird of Lamont sent four of his
sons to rescue the women. In the ensuing ï¬ght, the lairds from Bute were killed. The
Lamont sons were forced to ï¬‚ee for their lives and change their names to conceal their
identity.

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Leï¬ - The Lamont clan badge. The motto,
Ne parents nec spemas means
Nerther spare nor dispose.

Below - A sketch ofthe memorial at Dunoon
commemorating the massacre of
the Lamonts in 1646

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The eldest son ï¬‚ed to Perthshire, seeking the protection of the Earl ofPearth/Perth
and taking the name of Bourdon/Burden, eventually obtaining land in Feddal, in Penhshire.
The second son took the name of Lamb as being nearest his own of Lamont, The third son
went to Paisley, in Ayrshire, where the abbot of Paisley gave him a small piece of land.
The youngest son became the originator of the McToumors/ McTumers of Luss, a small
glen on the west side of Loch Lomond, About two centuries later, families by the name of
Lamb are found in the earliest records of the Parish of Kilmadock, some thirteen miles
south-west ofFeddal.

A Massacre Remembered

During the Civil War in Scotland (1642-49), the Campbells harried the Lamonts,
sacking and burning the home of the Lamont chief, Toward Castle, in early 1646. Later
that year, the Campbells called the Lamonts to a peace talk at Dunoon. It was agreed that
the negotiators on both sides would come unarmed. Two hundred Lamonts including
thirty-six of the clanâ€™s specia] gentlemen, those who were closely related to the chief, came
without weapons of any kind. The Campbells arrived heavily armed and began
slaughtering the Lamonts, ï¬rst by hanging the special gentlemen on a tree, then burying all
two hundred of the Lamonts in a pit, some still alive. This dreadful massacre shook all of
Scotland,

Finally in 1661, the Marquis of Argyll, chief of the Campbell clan, was executed for
his part in the Lamont massacre and other crimes. The lands in Cowal taken by the
Campbells were returned to the Lamonts. By this time most of those of the Lamont clan
who were left aï¬‚er the massacre, had scattered, many seeking safety in Ayrshire, To
protect themselves from the vindictiveness of the Campbells, most adopted concealing or
safe names, such as Black, Brown or White

In 1906, the Clan Lamont Society of Scotland, erected a memorial at Dunoon
commemorating the massacre of the Lamonts in 1646. Perhaps the publicity connected
with this event reached Canada and brought back ancient memories to the Lambs at
Lochaber Bay

Back In The [Wists Of Time.

Some three hundred years later and half a world away, this massacre was recalled
by Lambs in Canada.

It was a sunny Sunday aï¬ernoon in June 1935, when the Walter Lamb family of
Ottawa were visiting their cousins, Dorothy Lamb and her nephews Percy and Jamie
Campbell, who still lived on and worked the original Lamb farm on the Ottawa River at
Lochaber Bay, Quebec. The farmhouse sat on a ridge about ï¬‚ï¬y feet above the river A
glassed-in porch on the front of the house gave a panoramic View of the river and the
rolling farmland on the Ontario shore Here in the porch Dorothy Lamb was relating
stories of the early days on the farm to the visitors. Suddenly her eyes took on a far away
look and she said, "Way back in the mists of time in Scotland, the Campbells massacred
the Lambs. Since that time the Lambs had no dealings with the Campbells. But,â€ she
continued, â€˜ivhen the Lambs came to Canada, there were Campbells on the next farm.â€

â€œThen a Lamb man-led a Campbell,â€ referring to her older sister, Margaret, who
had married Percy and Jamie's father, Hugh Campbell. â€œAnd someday a Campbell will

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The Town of Stirling in 1700,

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inherit the Lamb property. "

One of the children present never forgot this story. The Lambs massacred! How
could that be?

Fifty years later in 1985, the documented account of the 1646 massacre of the
Lamonts, of which the Lambs are a sept, was found in Scotland in the Inventoiy of Lamont
Papers, 1231-1897. The massacre described by Dorothy Lamb did occur â€œback in the
mists of time in Scotland.â€

Stirling: the Key to the Kingdom

The narrowest part of Scotland, sometimes called its waist, lies between the Firth of
Clyde on the west and the Firth of Forth on the east. As the estuary of the Firth of Forth
narrows, the River Forth meanders across the wide tidal ï¬‚ats in great loops, From a
distance the low hills on both shores seem to join together against the hazy blue backdrop
of the Highland mountains Nearer to the hills, the great fortress-crowned rock of Stirling
rises out of the river's levels.

During the Middle Ages, Stirling was the Key to the Kingdom, for whoever held
Stirling, controlled all of Scotland. A great loop of the Forth, which separated the
Highlands from the Lowlands, surrounded Stirling on three sides forming a natural moat.
Only an easily defended, narrow, mile-long causeway joined Stirling to the north shore and
the Highlands, making Stirling an impregnable fortress.

Westwards, beyond Stirling, for some twenty-five miles, stretched another natural
defence: an impassable ï¬ve-mile wide bog or moss along the River Forth, from Stirling to
the foothills of Ben Lomond.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the palace within Stirling Castle was the favoured
residence of the Stewart kings and, for a time, of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1567), A
magniï¬cent Great Hall was added to the palace by James IV (1488-1513). In 1501, he
also built and endowed 3 Chapel Royal, where Mary, Queen of Scots was baptized and
crowned in 1543. Both Mary, and later James V], spent many of their childhood years
within the secure walls of the castle.

The Stewart kings were patrons of the arts and invited musicians, writers and poets
to attend court at Stirling. They also staged jousts and toumaments in the castle grounds,
inviting competitors from Denmark, England and France, The castle architecture and the
poetic output of the time, comprise some of Scotland's ï¬nest cultural heritage,

During these years the Scottish Parliament also met within the walls of the castle
The representatives gathered in the large hall, one hundred and twenty feet in length and
loï¬y in height, richly decorated, in Parliament House. For a time Stirling was the capital of
Scotland. Outside the castle walls, a town developed on a short, steep slope on the south
side of the rock.

Alter the Union of Crowns in 1603 when James VI of Scotland became James I of
the United Kingdom, royal visits to Stirling were rare. Stirling again became just a stategic
link between the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland.

The Varied Realms of F air Menteith
West of Stirling lay the Vale ofMenteith, more poetically called â€œthe varied realms
of fair Menteith.â€ To some, the view resembles a giant bowl tipping southwards where a

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low chain of hills form the southern edge, 0n the west and north, part of the Highlands
rim the wide valley, among them the peaks of Ben Lomond (3129 feet), Ben Ledi (2875
feet) and Ben Vorlich (3224 feet) can be seen, The hills, rocky on the heights, were
covered with grassland and heather, and at lower levels along the rivers, fertile carseland.
Across the ï¬‚oor of the valley stretched the thirty mile long moss covering an ancient arm
of the North Sea, through which meandered the River Forth ï¬‚owing from its source on the
east side of Ben Lomond.

The Forth has three main tributaries About a mile upstream from Stirling, a
modest river, Allan Water, ï¬‚ows southwest from the Ochil Hills through Strathallan to join
the Forth.

In the Highlands to the north, the largest and longest tributary, the River Teith, has
two sources, Loch Voil and Loch Katrine, whose outlet streams meet above the town of
Callander. Rushing past the town of Donne, the Teith parallels the Forth for several miles
before emptying into it.

The land north of the Forth is well watered with many springs and lochs, large and
small. The largest is the Lake of Menteith, a loch of ancient fame, Water from the Lake of
Menteith ï¬‚ows southeasterly through Goodie Water and into the Forth about six miles
west of the Teith.

The Lands of Menteith

The feudal system was introduced into Scotland in the twelï¬h century, in which all
the land was held in the name of the King and expressed as being held "of the Crown." The
King could lease or feu large tracts of his Kingdom to various relatives, court favourites
who were oï¬‚en titled lairds or clan chiefs, and to the Roman Catholic church and various
church orders, They in turn divided the land into smaller parcels which they leased to their
kith and kin, who divided the land again and leased it to others, who repeated the process.
These layers of ownership of leased land can be shown as a triangle in which the many at
the bottom supported the few at the top by the payment of the feu or rent.

At ï¬rst the feu was made in kind, such as a given quantity of oats or barley, cattle
or sheep, payable at a stated time of year. This was usually at Martinmas in November,
when the crops were in and the cattle were sold. In later times, payment was made in
silver coin, the parcels of land oï¬en being described by the annual feu, as the nine-merk
land of Boquhapple. Payment was also made in service. It might be providing work at
certain times of year, such as harvest time, or answering the call to arms. All men were
required to arm themselves and respond when summoned by the laird. This system led to a
strong sense of obligation to those in power at the top and provided a sense of security to
those without power at the bottom.

About this same time, the land outside the towns such as Edinburgh, Perth and
Stirling, was divided into earldoms. The vale of Menteith was the major part of the
Earldom of Menteith. A Stewart or someone married to a Stewart carried the title of Earl
of Menteith. A large part of the land in Menteith was held by the Roman Catholic church,
who leased their church lands or kirklands for farming. The Drummonds, related to the
Stewarts through marriage, were the Earls of Perth. They also held land in Menteith,

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The Changing Church

By the 6th century, Celtic missionaries from the Christian church on Iona, an island
off the west coast of Scotland, had reached the varied realms of fair Menteith, then part of
the Pictish Kingdom of Fortriu, These missionaries included Hug, Docus and Lolan who
with their followers built small churches, called cills or kils, of turf and local stone. The
Celts much preferred outdoor worship on a hillside, under a tree or by a burn. Bible
stories and prayers were recited and retold orally and passed from person to person and
generation to generation in Gaelic. These missionaries left a heritage of the Christian faith
and placenames such as Kilmahug, Kilmadock and Boquhapple, to remind succeeding
generations of the chapels they built and the places they lived,

In 1058, Malcolm Canmore came to the throne of Scotland as Malcolm III.
Eleven years later he married Margaret Atheling of the royal family of Hungary who was a
devout Roman Catholic. The Celtic Church was not to her liking. Queen Margaret
abhorred worship in the outdoors and disliked the way in which the sacrament of holy
communion was dispensed.

When Queen Margaret could not reform the Celtic Church, she built a great stone
church, Dunfermline Abbey, next to the royal palace, There she installed Roman Catholic
priests from England and altered large grants of land to Roman Catholic orders to come to
Scotland. The Celtic Church, a church of the people, could not compete with such royal
power and the royal treasury. The church in Scotland became Roman Catholic

In the 16th and 17th centuries, following the Protestant Reformation, The Church
of Scotland, which was Presbyterian, divided the country into presbyteries These were
subâ€”divided into local parishes, centered around the parish church On the north side of the
Forth, the southern boundary of Perthshire, there are three Church of Scotland parishes,
Kilmadock, Kincardine, and Port of Menteith. Together, these parishes form a large
triangle, Kilmadock on the north, Kincardine on the south, and Port of Menteith on the
west, meeting near the Village of Thomhill.

7712 Parish of Kilmadock

The parish takes its name from Docus, one of the early Celtic Christian
missionaries, who settled, at least for a time, on the shore of the River Teith where it is
joined by Annat Bum. With the term of endearment, ma. preï¬xed to his name, the church
he founded here was known as Cill ma Docus, or in later years Kilmadock. St. Docus
probably died about 570 AD,

In the 13th century, a Roman Catholic monastery was built on this site and likely
came under the jurisdiction or the Prior of Inchmahome. Aï¬er the Reformation, this
became the parish church and burial ground of the Church of Scotland. In 1756 a new
parish church was built several miles downstream in the town of Doune.

Doune, centered on an old market cross, was for many years famous for the
manufacture of pistols, introduced in 1645 by Robert Caddell, In the 18th century, six
annual fairs or markets were held at Doune on the term days of Martinmas, Yoole,
Candlemas, Whitsunday, Lammas and Michaelmas. The largest markets were at
Michaelmas (September 29th) and Martinmas (November 11th) when cattle from miles
around were bought and sold.

The parish itself is roughly triangular in shape, the base on the south bordering the

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parishes of Kincardine and Port of Menteith for about 8 miles at a height of some 50 feet
above sea level. The sides, each 9 miles long, rise gradually to the height of land on Uam
Var, at 2181 feet. In spite of its upward slope, almost all the land was good for farming or
grazing cattle and easily accessible.

The Parish ofKr'ncardine

Oï¬en referred to as Kincardineâ€”by-Doune or KincardineÂ»in-Menteith to distinguish
it from other Kincardines in Scotland, this parish lies between the southern border of
Kilmadock and the River Forth, and extends for about ten miles ï¬om the Teith to the
eastern border of the Parish of the Port of Menteith, Here, St. Lolan, another Celtic
missionary, built a chapel in the 6th or 7th century. Lolan's bell, a relic of the Celtic church
was known to exist as late as 1935. A new parish church was built about 1716 by the
Drummonds of the Blair-Drummond Estate.

Half the land in the parish was good farmland or carseland. The other half lay
under the moss or marsh covering the land on either side of the F orth, The mosses had
varying depths; two to three feet near the edges and as much as ï¬ï¬een feet near the center,
It also had different names depending on the estate of which it was a part. The moss
nearest to Stirling was called Drip Moss, and to its west, BlairÂ»Drummond Moss.

During the reign of the Stewart kings in the 16th century, at least two estates were
raised into baronies. The Barony of Drummond, later the Blair-Drummond Estate, was
held by the Earl ofPerth, The Barony of Boquhapple, on the westem border of the parish,
was granted to the Earl of Menteith. Both these baronies were forfeited after the Jacobite
Rebellion of 1745.

The Parish of the Part 0fMenteith

The heart of the ancient Earldom of Menteith was the Parish of the Port of
Menteith which lies to the west of the Parishes of Kilmadock and Kincardine, The Lake of
Menteith, almost in the center of the parish, is like a shallow saucer set among gentle hills,
unlike most lochs in Scotland which have rocky shores. This may have been the reason the
Loch of Inchmahome became the Lake of Menteith in Victorian times. The lake, almost
oval in shape, contained several islands; the largest being the Island of Inchmahome. This
was the early site of a Celtic chapel and, in the 12th century, a Roman Catholic monastery,
famed in the 16th century as a safe haven for Mary, Queen of Scots.

On the north-eastem shore of the lake was a small group of cottages and a pier
where boats were kept to reach the islands, called the Port of Menteith. This became the
site of a new church and manse of the Church of Scotland aï¬‚er the Reformation. The
surrounding hills are a mixture of fertile farmland and swampy places. Much of the parish
is covered by Flanders Moss, a vast area of some twenty square miles.

The land on the eastern border of the parish was once the Barony of Ruskie, held
by the Earl of Menteith, Although the Barony was abolished aï¬er the Jacobite Rebellion
of 1745, the area still carries the name of Ruskie.

Life in The Vale ofMenter'th
The writers of The Statistical Account of Scotland in the various parishes of the
Vale of Menteith provide an account of everyday life around the end of the 18th century.

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The writer for the Parish of Kilmadock says it in these words.

While the Grampion mountains protect it (the vale) from the nipping
frosts of the north, it is ï¬nely exposed to the Atlantic breeze and the heat
of the sun Being situated in the centre of the kingdom, the climate is
mild and free of those rains that drench the western coast, and the
piercing winds that blow incessantly on the inhabitants of the eastern
borders Hence, in this parish, there are few diseases, The inhabitants
enjoy a clear healthful atmosphere, and live to a good old agew. the
only fatal diseases are, the small-pox among the children, and fevers and
consumptions among the middle aged,â€œ

In this district a simplicity of manners, peculiar to rural felicity, has
for a long time, prevailed . .4

Most of the people spoke a mixture of English and Scotch, sometimes called Broad
Scotch. A dialect of northem English, Broad Scotch was used by Robert Burns and Sir
Walter Scott in their stories, poems and songs. One of Burnâ€™s most familiar songs still
sung today is Auld Lang Syne, The people living in the northern area generally spoke
Gaelic,

The Statistical Account of Scotland continues,

The houses are much improved of late. The tenants now begin to
perceive the advantage of good houses and of living separate from their
cattle. Owing to the want of enclosures yences) the black cattle make but
a poor ï¬gure at the Donne markets The whole cattle, young and old, kept
on the parish are about 2243 If we reckon the inhabitants to be near
2800, and the horses, 570, there is about one horse for every fifth soul,
which is a serious concern to the nation

The produce, like the soil, is various, viz. wheat, rye, oats, barley,
beans, peas,, clover, ryeâ€”grass, and ï¬‚are The soil is also friendly to all
kinds of roots, particularly the potato and turnip, which grow in great
abundance and perfection.

John Ramsay (1736-1814) of Ochtertyre, an estate in Kincardine Parish, adjacent to
Blair Drummond Moss, was an 18th century diarist. He wrote that on the farms in the vale
of Menteith, â€œwhere the chief dependence was upon com (oats, barley and wheat), each
tenant had commonly a ploughgate.â€ A ploughgate was about forty Scots acres equal to
ï¬ï¬y Imperial or English acres

Ramsay goes on to describe the life of the tenant farmers living near his estate. The
Lambs and McFarlanes were among these.

In this corner, and in most of the carses, the tenantsâ€™ houses were
mostly built with foil or divot (sods), which in a few years had the
appearance of a wall of clay, Yet, when properly thatched, they were
warmer and freer from damp than what was built of stone and clay,

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Within my own remembrance the farmhouses of the Muir were all built
with fail, the last of them being pulled down only a few years ago. The
chief objection to this mode of building was its uncovering so much
ground It accorded, however, with the inclination our tenants showed to
save upon every article. The same simplicity and parsimony appeared in
other things, stable-doors being made of wattles (wooden stakes interlaced
with twigs and branches), and there were seldom any locks upon the barn
doors,

The most rigid economy appeared in the dress and domestic expenses
of tenants The clothes of the family, and even of the servants, male and
female, were for the most part spun and dyed at home; and thus, though
hardly anything was made for sale, the wifeâ€™s thrift in a numerous
household turned to excellent account, as it saved her husband from going
to market for a variety of necessaries. In the last age, the mast substantial
farmers seldom had anything better than a coat of grey or black kelt
(woolen homespun cloth), spun by their wives, Twice or thrice in a
lifetime, perhaps, they had occasion to buy a greatcoat of English cloth
(waterproof cloth), as what was homespun would not keep out rain. Harn
(coarse homespun) shirts were commonly worn, though upon holidays the
country beaus appeared with linen necks and sleeves. Among no set of
people was female vanity ever conï¬ned within narrower limits; even
marriage apparel being mostly manufactured in the family, and their ordi-
nary wear being only a few degrees coarser and plainer. The gowns of
women, old and young, were made by country tailors, who never thought
of changing or inflammg the fashions. In point of equipage they were
equally primitive, few of the topping tenants having either boots or saddles
fifty years ago. It was the custom for them and their wives to ride upon
sods, over which, on occasions of ceremony, a plaid or bit of carpet was
spread.

And now of the food of our tenants, which they ate in a truly primitive
manner, at the same table with their servants. Oatmeal-pottage (thick
soup) was once esteemed a luxury among that set of people, bearmeal
being generally used Pease or bear (barley) bread was a capital article
with them, wheat-loaves being now more common in farmersâ€™ houses. than
oat-cakes were formerly In times of scarcity recourse was had to inferior
kinds, which are now happily forgotten - viz, grey meal â€” ie., a species
compounded of oatmeal and mill-dust; others made use of egger meal,
consisting of equal portions of oat, pease, and bear meal, The latter took
its rise from the beggars (weeds) mixing different kinds in the same bag.
T 0 some palates it is said not to have been unpleasant.

In every family water-kail (hail broth) was a standing dish, being made
without flesh (meat), of greens and grolls - i,e., oats stripped of the husks
in the mill. Without it they did not think they could dine to purpose. If
tradition may be believed the country people of old ate very little animal
food, except perhaps a few old ewes that would not sell, and were likely to

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die through the winter.... But for the last sixty years almost every tenant in
tolerable circumstances killed either one or two.

When there was no ï¬‚esh, kitchen (other food) of one kind or other was
given after the [rail - that is, either butter, cheese, eggs, herrings, and
sometimes raw onions, which were annually imported from F landers. To
supper they had sowens, or ï¬‚ummery (thickened cereal), a Cheap and
healthy dish. In summer their drink consisted of whey or butter-milk, and
in spring a little milk. But hardly any ale was brewed, except an
extraordinary occasions. Indeed, the chief beverage of our country people
has always been the pure element (water). Upon the whole, it may safely
be aï¬‚irmed that there hardly ever was a set of people who lived more
poorly and penuriously, yet they were in general well pleased with their
lot, Whatever might be their grievances, the meanness of their food and
raiment seldom gave them a momentâ€™s disquietude.

In a farm kitchen of this period most of the dishes were of wood, possibly some of
pewter, a few of earthenware. One or two knives were used for cutting meat for the entire
household. Forks were scarce. Food was generally eaten with the ï¬ngers. Horn spoons,
called cutties, moulded from melted cattle horn, were used for such foods as pottage,
water-kail and sowen.

John Ramsay of Ochtertyre continues with his observations of his neighbourâ€™s
system of ï¬nances.

Such were the labourers of the ground, and such their situation in
former times, so far as we can collect from the conversation of the aged
They appear to have been warmly devoted to the persons of their masters,
and entirely subservient to them in everything where their own purse was
not aï¬‚ected, Though by no means deï¬cient in industry which would make
a speedy return, they laid their account that any extraordinary exertion or
outlay on their part would, in the long-run, redound as much to their
masterâ€™s proï¬t as their own, and they had no mind to work for him. They
therefore had a system of their own, founded on long experience, and
suited to small capitals and tacks (assets i.e. cattle and land leases) for
nineteen years, From this they were unwilling to deviate, unless for some
self-evident advantage: and with all its defects, it is not easy to ï¬gure one
by which the same quantity of grain could be raised for the same money.

Their aversion to enterprise and innovation was fortiï¬ed by a principle
which pervaded every part of their conduct - viz., the desire of saving and
hoarding. Indeed, no set of men ever followed more invariably old Cato's
rule, of being "vendaces non emaces" [sellers not buyers].

It is astonishing what sums of money the tenants of the last age had out
at interest with the gentlemen of the country, They and the burghers were
of old the moneyed men, who supplied the demands of the nobility and
gentry that were engaged in any expensive pursuit.

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The Farmtoun of Thomhill

In his book, A History of The Scottish People, [530-1830, T, C. Smout writes that
during this period, eight out of every ten Scots lived on the land and were dependent on
their farm's productivity for their livelihood. Farms varied in shape and size fomiing a
crazy-quilt pattern across the countryside. Usually two to four related families worked a
farm together as joint tenants with various arrangements for performing the necessary
tasks. Here, tradition was the rule.

Farms were not fenced Roads were merely centuries-old tracks wandering across
the land avoiding swampy places and thickets of gorse and broom. Consequently there
were few villages. Where land was arable a few farm houses clustered together could
become known as a farmtoun This seems to be the origin of Thomhill, a cluster of houses
on the eastern edge of the Barony of Boquhapple held by the Stewarts of Menteith and the
western border of lands held by Robert Norie,

Thomhill is the place our Lamb families in Canada called home, even though in
Scotland they lived on farms a mile or two east, west or south of Thomhill. The
conï¬guration of the Church of Scotland parishes in the area of Thomhill places the Lambs
in the three parishes of Kilmadock, Kincardine and Port of Menteith, yet all within a short
distance of Thomhill.

Parish Records in the 17th Century

The Old Parochial Registers (OPRs) of the Church of Scotland are the records of
baptisms and marriages performed in the local parish, These registers were kept by the
minister or the session clerk, the latter oï¬en the local school teacher. The OPRs that have
survived the centuries are now in the Scottish Record Ofï¬ce in Edinburgh. They are
available on microï¬lm in Canada.

The earliest records are found in the Parish of Kilmadock beginning in 1623; in the
Parish of Kincardine in 1691; and in the Parish of the Port of Menteith in 1697. The
amount of information in each entry varies. In the baptismal records of the early 17th
century only the names of the father and child were given. Later the name of the mother
and sometimes the place of residence and the names of witnesses, were included, making it
easier to connect families. Marriages oï¬en took place in late December alter the harvest
was over but not registered until January of the following year. If the bride and groom
lived in different parishes, the marriage was usually registered in both parishes at different
times providing two dates, a week, a month, or even a year apart.

These early records were handwritten; the writing difï¬cult to read today. Some
pages or parts of pages are missing. It was not compulsory to register vital statistics in
Scotland until 1855 and in times of stress or war many entries were never made.

Spelling has changed over time. In the 17th century, Lamb was spelled as Lambe
and John as Johne. Both Janet and Margaret had many variations in spelling. Place names,
too, changed. At different times McOrriston was spelled, McOrristoune and
Mackaurostoune.

In spite of these difï¬culties, it is significant that there were Lamb families living near
Thomhill as early as 1623. In that year on the thirteenth day of December, the marriage of
Finlay Lamb and Marion Chalmer was registered in the Parish of Kilmadock Their son,
Finlay, was baptized in 1630 and their daughter, Margat or Margrat, in 1633 In 1648,

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Margrat, age ï¬fteen, married John Belch,

At ï¬rst glance there seems little connection between the entries in the 17th century,
but from a generational point of View of twenty or thirty years, there is a John Lamb,
indicated by numbers in squared brackets, living in the Parish of Kilmadock. Aï¬er 1679
the name William occurs regularly through the 18th and into the 19th century.

Johne [1]l Lambe, probany born before 1623, appears in the parish records in the
1640s as the father of four children, The youngest, John [2], married Margaret Douglasse,
possibly as early as 1670. By tradition their ï¬rst son would have been named John [3] for
his paternal grandfather, John [1],

John [2] Lambe and Margaret Douglasse also had sons named William [1], baptized
in 1679, and Alexander, baptized in 1684. The names John and William keep recurring in
each generation through the centuries.

Parish Records in the 18th Century.

This century was a time of stress and distress in Scotland. The Jacobite Rebellion
of 1715 brought disruption to those living in the vale of Menteith, both the Jacobite and
English armies travelling by foot across the countryside. The last battle was fought on
November 13, 1715 on Sheriff Muir, about eight miles east of Thomhill,

Although the battles were farther away during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the
Jacobite army moved south mostly through Stirling Later, both armies marched northward
before the ï¬nal massacre at Culloden in 1746. The alter-math of the rebellion brought
drastic new laws to all of Scotland, These disruptions alone cannot account for the fact
that there are no records of any Lamb children baptized in the Parish of Kilmadock
between 1735 and 1772 One sentence in the account of the Parish of Kilmadock in the
New Statistical Account of Scotland published in 1844 may explain the absence of any
records. Without giving a date, it states that in the past, one volume of the parish registers
was bumed in a ï¬re in the local schoolhouse

In this century there are two Lamb family groups; one living at McOrriston, the
other, ï¬rst at Bridge End of Goodie, both in the Parish of Kilmadock, and later at Borland
in Ruskie, in the Parish of Port of Menteith. All these farm estates are within a two mile
radius of Thornhill.

Lamb: of McOrriston, Parish of Kilmadock, 1693-1786.

Obviously, there are gaps in the records of baptisms and marriages among these
Lamb families. Most often there is a record of marriage but no record of baptism of the
bride or groom. In some records the name of the witness adds a clue to family connections.
The words, probably, and possibly, have been used to suggest names where records are
lacking. The one common thread is that all these Lambs lived at McOrriston and were most
certainly related.

McOrriston was a farm estate about a mile south-east of Thomhill. In 1693, John
[3] Lamb and his wife, Janet Paton, lived at McOrriston, when the baptism of four of their

â€˜ Numbers in square brackets refer to similar numbers in relevant charts, eg, Johne [1]
refers to Johne [l] Lambe, in Chart #1, Lambs of McOrriston, Kilmadock Parish. p, 20.

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Chart #1 â€” Lambs of Mc0rristan, Kilmadack Parish

1 Johne [l] Lambe b: Abt. 1620
. +Unknnwn
...... ,. 2 JonetLambe b: 1642
. 2 Robert Lambe b: 1645
. 2 Helen Lambs b: 1647
. 2 Johne[2]Lambe b: 1650
+Margaret Douglasse m: Abt. 1670
3 Johne [3] Lamb b: Abt. 1670
+Janet Paton
. 4 John [4] Lamb bâ€˜ Abt, 1691
. +Agnes Christie b: 1696 m: 1722
5 Elizabeth Lamb
+JamesMa1jorybanks b: 1728 m: 1757
......... .. 6 James Marjorybanks b: 1760
5 James Lamb b: 1726
+Mary Douny b: 1726 m: 1751
6 John [5] Lamb
+Mary McAnhur m: 1773
, 7 John [6] Lamb b: 1774
. 7 James Lamb b: 1776
. .......... .. 7 MaryLamb b: 1779
6 James Lamb
+Mary Symers m: 1780
. 7 AnnLamb b: 1781
7 Mary Lamb b: 1782
7 Mary Lamb b: 1784
. 7 Isobell Lamb b: 1786
4 James Lamb b: Abt. 1692
+Ann/AnnaDuncan m: 1714

4 David Lamb b; 1693
4 Elezebeth Lamb b: 1695
4 MaryLamb b: 1703
. .. 4 Cristian Lamb b: 1706
,1 3 William[1]Lamb b: 1679

+Unknown
4 William [2] Lamb" b: Abt. 1700
+Ann/Anna Lockhan b: 1705 m: Abt. 1725
. 3 Alexander Lamb b: 1684

* For descendants of William [2] Lamb, see Chart #2, p, 22

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children, were recorded, David, in 1693, Elezebeth in 1695, Mary in 1703 and Cristian in
1706, James Paton, of Ballinton, a farm just south of McOrriston, was a witness at some
of the baptisms and was probably the father of Janet. There are no other records of these
children,

The marriage of James Lamb and Ann/Anna Duncan was recorded in 1714,
Possibly James was an older son of John3 Lamb and Janet Paton, named for his matemal
grandfather, James Paton, following the traditional naming pattern. There are no known
children.

Another older son of John [3] Lamb and Janet Paton, likely was named John [4] for
his patemal grandfather, John [2] Lambe. John [4] Lamb married Agnes Christie in 1722
and lived at McOrriston.

A son, James was born to John [4] Lamb and Agnes Christie and baptized in 1726.
He married Mary Douny in 1751. James Lamb and Mary Douny appear to have had at
least two sons, John [5] and James.

John [5] Lamb married Mary McArthur in 1773. They had three children, John [6]
baptized in 1774; James in 1776 and Mary in 1779. James Lamb married Mary Symers in
1780 Their four daughters were Ann baptized in 1781, Mary in 1782, Mary in 1784 and
Isobel] in 1786. These families at McOrriston disappear from the records of the Parish of
Kilmadock after 1786,

Lambs Living at Bridge End of Goodie, Parish of Kilmadock, c. 1 735.

No early maps of the area around Thornhill identify a place called Bridge End of
Goodie. However, the Bridge of Goodie, which probably replaced an ancient ford, crossed
Goodie Water a short distance south of McOrriston. As there were no roads through this
area in the early 18th century other than bare tracks, a farm at either end of the bridge was
likely called Bridge End of Goodie

William [2] Lamb bom about 1700, probably was the son of William [1] Lamb, hp.
1679, Records show that William [2] Lamb and his wife, Ann/Anna Lockhart, the
daughter of Thomas Lockhart and Mam'on Kirkwood, had a son, Thomas, baptized in
1835, Probably Janet Lamb, who married George McQueen in 1760 and John Lamb, who
married Helen Burn in 1772, also belonged to this family.

Lambs afBorIand in Mskie, Parish of The Part anenteith, c. 1 760â€”1840.

Borland, a farm on the large estate of Ruskie, was a little more than a mile west of
Thomhill. It is here that George McQueen and his wife, Janet Lamb, lived after their
marriage in 1760 and where their six children were born; John baptized in 1761, William in
1764, Elizabeth in 1766, Christian in 1770, Mary in 1772 and Peter in 1774.

In 1768, Thomas Lamb, son of William Lamb and Ann Lockhart, married Mary
Marjorybanks, of Boquhapple, in the Parish of Kincardine. They also lived at Borland
where their six children born, Mary baptized in 1768, William in 1770, James in 1771, Ann
in 1773, Catharine in 1774, and John2 in 1776 who married Jean MCGibbon in 1808

2 See Letters from Scotland, p. 23,

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Chart #2 - Lambs 0f Bridge End of Goodie and Barland in Ruskie.

1 William [2] Lamb b: Abt, 1700 in Bridge End of Goodie, Kilmadock Parish
: +Ann/Anna Lockhan b: 1705 m: Abt. 1725

2 Janet Lamb b; Abt. 1730

. +George McQueen b: in Borland in Ruskie, Port of Mentieth Parish m: 1760
. 3 John McQueen b: 1761

. 3 William McQueen b: 1764

. 3 Elizabeth McQueen b: 1766

. 3 Christian McQueen b: 1770

. 3 Mary McQueen b: 1772

. 3 Peter McQueen b: 1774

2 Thomas Lamb b: 1735

+Mary Marjorybanks b: 1734 m. 1768

3 MaryLamb b; 1768

3 William Lamb b: 1770
. 3 James Lamb b: 1771
3 AnnLamb b: 1773
3 Catharine Lamb b: 1774
3 John Lambâ€œ b: 1776
+Jean McGibbonâ€œ b: 1785 m: 1808
2 John Lamb b: Abt. 1740
1111 .: +Helen Burn m: 1772
3 Agnes Lamb b: 1772
3 William [3] Lamb b: 1774
+Catharine Drummond m: 1797
. 4 John Lamb" b: 1799
,. Hanet McQueen m: 1824
V 4 James Lamb b: 1801
, 4 William Lamb b: 1804
. 4 Thomas Lamb b: 1806
r 4 Robert Lamb b: 1808
V 4 JanetLamb b, 1810
3 Elizabeth Lamb b: 1776
+Robe11 Hall b: 1776 m: 1798
. 4 George Hall b: 1800
. 4 Helen Hall b: 1802
, 4 JohnHall b: 1304
. 4 Jennet Hall b: 1806
. 3 James LambM b: 1778 in Ruskie, Parish of Port of Menteith
....................... ., +Elizabeth McFarlane b: 1773 in Parish of Kjlmadock m: 1809

* For references to John Lamb (1). 1776), Jean McGibbon) and
John Lamb (b: 1799) see "Leiters from Scotland" opposite.
" For descendants of James Lamb (b. 1778) see Chart #3,
p 117

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John Lamb married Helen Bum in 1772, Their four children were born at Borland
in Ruskie. A daughter, Agnes, was baptized in 1772. There are no other records of Agnes.

William Lamb, baptized in 1774, married Catharine Drummond. of the Parish of
Kincardine, in 1797. They farmed at Borland in Ruskie. Their seven children were
Elizabeth, baptized in 1798; John, in 1799', James, in 1801; William, in 1804; Thomas, in
1806; Robert, in 1808; and Janet in 1810.

Elizabeth, baptized in 1776, married Robert Hall in 1798. They continued to live at
Borland in Ruskie, Their children were George, baptized in 1800; Helen, in 1802; John, in
1804; and Jennet, in 1806.

James Lamb (1778-1855) married Elizabeth McFarlane (1783-1853) of Mid Frew
in 1809.3

Letters from Scotland.

Three letters written to Lambs in Canada in later times and still in existence,
mention family relationships and friends back home in Scotland, The earliest letter was
written by D. Ferguson, West Wood Lane, on Blair Drummond Moss dated March 28,
1832 and sent to John Lamb (1809-1895) at Hawkesbury Mills, Upper Canada Ferguson
wrote, "I saw your cousin John Lamb. This appears to refer to John Lamb, bp, 1799, a
son of William Lamb and Catharine Drummond. A later sentence read, "The Drummonds
has their respects to you and would put you in mind that your time is out in coming to see
us." After sending his familyâ€™s "best respects to your father and mother. " He closed with
the words, "Yours affectionately, D, Ferguson."

The second letter to John Lamb at Hawkesbury Mills, Upper Canada, was written
March 25, 1841 by Alexander Marshall, minister of the Congregational Church in Stirling.
His news is mostly of the Congregational Church, its members and friends. Towards the
end he writes, "You will have heard of the death of Daniel Ferguson, your old neighbour at
the Latchet.â€ The latchet is a term referring to a loop, an apt description for a loop on the
Forth, close to West Wood Lane.

The third letter was addressed to James Lamb (1778-1855) at Lochaber Bay,
Canada East. The writer, John V.E. Johnstone, was a contemporary of James Lamb, if not
a relation. There is no date but a partial postmark reads, aber, 184... , C.E., indicating it
was received at the Lochaber Post Oï¬ce, Canada East, in the 1840s. John Johnstone
refers to previous correspondence and sending newspapers from Scotland. Although parts
of the letter are missing along its original folds, it mentions Jean (McGibbon) and her
husband (John Lamb, hp, 1776) and Mary, probably their daughter, and her husband,
intending to visit Uncle John in America. Jean's brother, John McGibbon, emigrated to
Canada in 1817 and settled on the Island of Montreal. Another sentence reï¬‚ects the
changing times, â€œArch. McFarlane left the Frew last Martinmass and is now at Newhouse
near Hutchinsons. He kept his farm as long as he could, but the rents in the Frew are not
what they were once, and if the price of grain continues at the present rate, I fear there will
be many more changes in this country." Arch. McFarlane was probably a cousin of
Elizabeth McFarlane.

3 SeeA New Beginning, p, 30 and Chart #3, p 117
23

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The McFarlanes.

Another family living in the Parish of Kilmadock close to the Bridge of Goodie
were the McFarlanes of Mid F rew, The history of the Clan McFarlane goes back to the
13th century when Gilchrist, a son of the Earl of Lennox, obtained a charter to the lands of
Arrochar, which lie to the west of Loch Lomond. From Gilchrist's grandson, Parlan or
Farlan, the clan took its name, McFarlane,

The lands of Arrochar included Loch Sloy/Sloidh, a small loch between Loch
Lomond and Loch Long. The name Loch Sloy became the clan's battle cry.

Involved in many clan wars during the 16th and 17th centuries, the McFarlanes
were proscribed, being deprived of both their land and the use of their clan name. The
prescription was ï¬tted in the 18th century and many resumed the name McFarlane. Others
kept the surnames they had adopted during the years of proscription. This accounts for the
many septs of the McFarlane Clan.

During these troublous times, some McFarlanes moved to Perthshire where their
descendants are found in the parishes of fair Menteith. The earliest records of McFarlanes
are in the Parish of Kilmadock when Archibald, son of Walter Farlan, was baptized in
1623. A second son, Dugall, was baptized in 1627. In the early 17th century, the spelling
Farlan was used. Later, Farlan became McFarlan; then McFarlane by the 18th century,

Lamb - McFarlane Marriages, 1686â€”1800.

In the late 17th century, Walter McFarlane, of Kilmadock Parish, married
Jonet/Janet Lamb. The baptism of three of their children are recorded: Helen baptized in
1686, Walter in 1689 and a second son, Walter in 1694.

About sixty years later, William McFarlane, of the Parish of the Port of Menteith,
married another Janet Lamb, Two of their children were baptized: William in 1761 and an
unnamed son in 1763.

In 1791, Duncan McFarlane, of Kincardine Parish, married Ann Lamb, of the Port
of Menteith Parish. Ann, baptized in 1773, was the daughter of Thomas Lamb and Mary
Marjorybanks, of Borland in Ruskie, Duncan and Ann's ï¬ve children were: Ann baptized
in 1792, Duncan in 1793, John in 1796, Janet in 1799 and Betty in 1800.

The McFarlanes of Mid Frew.

There were several farms along the narrow strip of land between Goodie Water and
the edge of the moss covering the Forth, including Easter Frew, Mid Frew and Wester
Frew. It was thought this area, called the Fords of Frew on an early map, was the site of
several ancient fords before the moss covered them. Here the moss itself was not very
deep, providing a sort of underwater causeway across to the south side. Even so, these
crossings could only be used in late summer and fall when the water levels were at their
lowest. Men and animals were roped together for safety. This risky crossing was favoured
by the McGregor clan who knew the route and used it when taking their cattle to market.

Mid Frew on the south side of the Bridge of Goodie was the home of John
McFarlane and his wife, Elizabeth Stewart, who were married in 1781. No earlier records
of their baptisms were found in the Parish of Kilmadock, Their six children, all born at Mid
Frew, were baptized in the Parish of Kilmadock: John in 1782, Elizabeth in 1783, Agnes in
1786, Kathrirre in 1788, John in 1790 and Margaret in 1792.

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Elizabeth grew up at Mid Frew and married James Lamb, of Falkirk, in 1809.â€˜

Troublaus Times.

When war broke out between Britain and France in 1793, many Scottish lairds
responded to the call of the government in London by offering to raise corps of fencibles to
protect Scotland against a possible French invasion. At least two regiments were mustered
at Stirling Castle in 1794. These regiments were to serve anywhere in Scotland and only to
leave the country if there was an invasion in the southern part of the United Kingdom

Some tenants deliberately reï¬ised to send their sons and openly criticized recruiting
methods such as bribery. Many who protested were threatened with cancellation of their
farm leases,

For those who did enlist, all did not go well. Sent to such places as Aberdeen,
Perth, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Fort George, they found that many of the oï¬‚icers spoke
only English and many of the men spoke only Gaelic. There were misunderstandings about
pay arrangements and what was expected of the men. This led to a growing contempt for
the English oï¬icers. In July of 1794, riots broke out among the fencibles, After more such
incidents and a long trial, one fencible was shot and six others were transported for life,
some to the West Indies and some to Canada.

The year 1797 began quietly enough, In July, a new Militia Act was proposed by
the government in London, conscripting six thousand men between the ages of nineteen
and twenty-three. The men were to be chosen by ballot from baptismal entries in the
church records in every parish.

The reaction to the news of the Militia Act was sudden and furious It began in the
Lowlands where an English regiment was brought in to quell the rioters. Several were
killed. Soon Highlanders, who were expected to accept conscription without protest, were
in revolt too. A number of lairds were besieged in their own houses by the tenants of their
estates. The riots spread through Perthshire from the east coast to the Highlands. A troop
of Highland soldiers was brought in to ï¬nd the ringleaders of the riots, They searched the
hills and found some who were tried and found guilty. It was a great blow to Scottish pride
that other Scots would suppress their own people, but the military presence had its effect,

The aim of the rioters was to burn the parish records from which a list of males
baptized between 1774 and 1778 could be compiled. In this time period, two Lambs were
baptized in the Parish of Kilmadock, John and James, sons of John Lamb and Mary
McArthur, ochOrriston, and three Lambs in the Parish of the Port of Menteith, John, son
of Thomas Lamb and Mary Marjorybanks, and William and James, sons of John Lamb and
Helen Bum, all of Borland in Ruskie. It is not known if any of these young men were
conscripted to serve as fencibles.

Still the lairds did not seem to realize that clan society had gone forever and that
underneath most of their tenants now held a hatred for compulsory military service and a
deep resentment over increasing rents and taxes. These feelings simmered through most of
the summer. When the Militia Act was again imposed, it met with little resistance.

â€˜ SeeA New Beginning, p. 30 and Chart #3, p. 117

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Religious Ferment

In the Scottish church, too, there was upheaval. In the late 17905, small
independent groups gathered which challenged the dominant state Church of Scotland. A
strong religious revival developed largely associated with two brothers, Robert and James
Haldane, Fellowship groups, calling themselves Congregationalists, oï¬‚en referred to as
Independents, gathered and built chapels, then larger churches, Some made walking tours
of the Highlands and Islands, bringing the Christian Gospel to all who would listen, in both
Gaelic and English. Opposition from the lairds and the ofï¬cial Church of Scotland
(Presbyterian) was strong. Some who supported the Congregational movement lost their
leases; some who preached were imprisoned on false charges. In spite of opposition the
movement grew.

An Agricultural Revolution.

Change came slowly to the self-sustaining agrarian society in Scotland. The
traditional age-old ï¬eld system of farming in narrow, curved rigs prevailed, boundary
stones separating one holding from another. The land remained undrained, unlimed and
under productive.

Aï¬er the Act of Union in 1707 uniting Scotland and England, Scottish
parliamentary representatives had to spend time in London, attending to affairs of state.
There they met English farmer politicians and learned of new trends in farming, practiced in
England, Some of these Scottish politicians adopted these new trends on their own lands in
Scotland.

Basic to all these new ideas, called the Enclosure Movement, was a better method
of land use by improving drainage, clearing stones and brush from the ï¬elds and fencing
the open or common pasture land so that there could be a rotation of crops. These lairds
oï¬‚â€˜ered longer leases to their tenants and assisted in building new fences, often of stones
cleared from the ï¬elds, and new farm buildings. Prizes were offered for the best farm
animals and farm produce. Sons of the most progressive farmers were sent to England to
learn new methods of husbandry. From a self-sustaining farm system of agriculture,
Scotland was slowly and gradually moving to a market economy where the farms would
provide food for the new towns being built to house the workers of the industrial
revolution. The lairds behind the agricultural revolution were called â€œthe Improvers.â€

An Improver at Blair Drummond

One of these was Henry Home, Lord Kames, whose wife, Agatha Drummond had
inherited the Blair Drummond Estate in 1766. Lord Kames, a judge of the Court of
Session, was over seventy years of age, when he took up residence at Blair Drummond. A
man of wide interests, Lord Kames had already given much time and attention to improving
the Home Estates in Berwiekshire. He was also a writer on many subjects. His character
and disposition is expressed in this inscription on an obelisk he erected on the Blair
Drummond Estate,

F or his neighbours as well as himself Was this obelisk erected by Hemy Home.
Graft Benevolence on Self-Love, T he fruit Will be delicious.

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Sketch of 1792 shows the sunkm road cut through the Blair
Drummond Moss. The moss houses were formed by placing
a roof of timber on the pea bog and digging out the mterior.
As the moss dned out, it shrank forming strong walls.

A Model of the Great Wheel at Torr, now in \he museum at Blair Drummond

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Learning that some 1500 acres of the estate lay under the moss, he tumed his
attention to ways of draining it. Workmen were employed to carry out various
experiments, It was found that with a sufï¬cient stream of water, the moss could be cut
into small pieces, washed away into the Forth and ï¬‚oated to the ocean, exposing the rich
alluvial clay on the bottom, which would provide fertile farmland. A source of water was
found at a corn mill at Torr which used water from the River Teith, Lord Karnes purchased
the mill and diverted the water across the carseland through a channel to the moss, Then
he advertised for tenants, offering them a lease of eight acres for thirty-eight years and
supplies to build a house, There would be no rent for seven years if they would agree to
remove the moss and clear the land. Local people looked askance at the proposal,
However, Lord Kames found tenants in the Highland parishes to the north of the vale of
Menteith, Within a year the ï¬rst crops had been produced.

When Lord Kames died in 1783 at the age of 86, about twenty-nine tenants were
living on four hundred acres of cleared mossland Lord Kames was succeeded by his son,
George Home Drununond, who continued the project of clearing the moss. Some eleven
hundred acres still lay under the deepest part of the moss. This would need a more
powerï¬Jl way ofwashing the moss into the Forth

The Great Wheel at Torr.

A millwright and inventor, George Meikle, was commissioned to design and build a
water wheel which would liï¬‚ six tons of water every minute, powered by the same water,
Called the Great Wheel, it was made of wood, with the dimensions of 28 feet in diameter
and 10 feet in width, Lined with eighty buckets attached around the whole inner
circumference, it made about four revolutions a minute raising the water 17 feet above the
surface of the stream that turned the wheel The water was discharged into a trough from
which it ï¬‚owed, partly in pipes and partly through an open aqueduct 1754 yards in length,
into reservoirs on the Moss, This meant that water was always available to wash the
loosened moss into the Forth Beginning in 1787, the Great Wheel operated day and night,
year round, until 1839, when it was no longer needed, a total of 52 years As each new
area of the moss was opened, roads were cut through to give farmers access to their 10
acre lots

The settlement on the Moss continued to grow The Census of 1811 reports a
population of 886, made up of 186 families, living on fertile farmland which forty years
earlier had been a desolate bog Over the years there were many visitors who came to see
and study this remarkable invention, the Great Wheel at Torr

An Improver at Falkirk.

This community, six miles southeast of Stirling near the south shore of the Firth of
Forth, grew around one of the forts along the Antonine Wall built during the Roman
occupation of Scotland in the ï¬rst century In the sixth or seventh century it is believed
Celtic missionaries built a small church near the fort. Over time and through translations of
Latin, English and Gaelic records, the church became known as the Faw Kirk, hence
Falkirk.

In the 17th century, the land around Falkirk was part of the Barony of Callendar,
held by the Earl of Callendar It was one of the forfeited estates following the Jacobite

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Rebellion of 1745, In 1780, another Improver, William Forbes, purchased the estate, An
enthusiast of the Enclosure Movement, Forbes began to transform the Callendar Estate into
model farm and woodlot acreages, renting the land to tenant farmers who would follow the
new methods of fanning. The land was to be limed for two years, then planted to grass for
pasture. Land overrun by heath and broom was to be ploughed ï¬ve times, before sown
with grass, Within twenty years, the countryside underwent a transformation Everywhere
there were straightened rigs, fences, hedgerows and drainage ditches, replacing the open
fields that for a thousand years had been the accepted face of farming, Pasture land was
now drained, limed and fertilized. New breeds of cattle and sheep were introduced.

Crop rotation was also followed. The standard rotation in the Falkirk area in 1800
consisted of "in general six parts: First the ground is fallowed; secondly it is sown with
wheat; thirdly with beans and pease; fourtth with barley; ï¬ï¬hly it produces a crop of grass
for hay, the seeds of which had been sown the preceding year with the barley; and sixtth it
is sown with oats."

In 1809, James Lamb was living at Falkirk, perhaps on a farm on the Callendar
Estate, when he married Elizabeth McFarlane, of Mid Frew in the Parish of Kilmadock.

A New Beginning.

For James Lamb and Elizabeth McFarlane the year 1809 began with the
proclamation of their intention to marry. The entry in the parochial register of the Parish of
Kilmadock reads:

January 1st 1809. The said day James Lamb, in the Parish afFal/rt'rk
and Elisabeth Mcfarlan (sic) In this parish, declared their purpose of
marriage and were married the 201}: January,

The proclamation was also entered in the parochial register of the Parish of F alkirk,

January 8th 1809, James Lamb in this parish and Elizabeth
Maefarlarte (sic) in the parish of Kilmadock,

In Scottish tradition at that time, the wedding was probably held at the home of the
brideâ€˜s family, When family and friends had gathered, the parish minister arrived to conduct
the marriage service. This was followed by a feast for all and much merriment. The bride
and groom left for their home in Falkirk.

A Move to The Mass.

Conï¬‚icting evidence surrounds the birth of their ï¬rst child, a son named John, John
Lamb's family Bible in Canada records his birth as October 1, 1809 at Falkirk, His baptism
is recorded in the register of the Parish of Kineardine,

8th October 1809, John, son to James Lamb and Elisabeth Mcfarlane
(sic), Drip,

Drip, one of the cleared mosses east of Blair Drummond Moss, is given as the

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residence of the family, Yet John Lamb's gravestone in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa,
Canada, states that he was born November 9th, 1809 at Falkirk, Scotland A daughter,
Elisabeth, was baptized, August 2nd, 1811, when the family was still living on Drip Moss.
Elisabeth did not emigrate to Canada and it is believed she died young in Scotland.

A letter of recommendation brought to Canada by James Lamb written in 1831 by
Alexander Blackadder, a Land Valuator arid surveyor of Stirling states:

That James Lamb, the Bearer hereof was one of my form Servants and
with his wife and family resided on my farm from Martinmass (November
llth) 1812 to Martinmass 1815, after which time I had no occasion for
any such servants, During that period I have every reason to think he
served me faithfully, soberly, and peaceably, and himself and his family
very industrious and frugal

During this period, James Lamb and Elizabeth McFarlane had a daughter, Helen,
baptized on the 15th of August, 1813, and a son, William, baptized on the 6th of August,
1815. Both children were bom at Moss Farm on Blair Drummond Moss in the Parish of
Kincardine. Blackadder's letter continues,

Since the latter period (Martinmass 1815) I know that he farmed a
portion of the ground on his own Account from my knowing him
intimately and also his family for upwards of Eighteen years past 1 can
honestly recommend them as worthy of every conï¬dence and as able to
practise agricultural operations as practised in the best cultivated
districts of Scotland

This statement seems to indicate that James Lamb had been able to purchase a lease
for his own farm on Blair Drummond Moss in 1815, probably on West Wood Lane near his
old neighbour on the Latchet, Daniel Ferguson, Here, four children were born: Ann,
baptized on the 6th of August 1817; Margaret, the 19th of October 1820; Janet, the 6th of
April 1824; and James on the 26th of August 1828.

Sahool Days.

The Drummonds had built a school on Blair Drummond Moss for the Moss
children. The school-teacher taught in both Gaelic and English, so that the children were
bilingual. Oral family history tells of William Lamb attending school at Bridge of Allan, a
town on the east side of Allan Water about two miles north of Stirling. In later years,
William Lamb renewed a friendship with John Ferguson who settled in Osgoode Township,
U C. and who had also attended the same school.

The eldest son, John, must have been impressed by the Great Wheel at Torr, so
close to his home on the Moss. About age 14, he was apprenticed to a millwn'ght, a
relatively new trade, which usually took seven years. In that time he would learn the
architectural and mechanical skills to design and plan not only water wheels but also mill
buildings, dams and other mill machinery.

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Life on The Moss

In the New Statistical Account of Scotland, published shortly aï¬er the Lambs had
emigrated to Canada, Rev. Christopher Tait, of the Parish of Kincardine, wrote about the
people of the Moss. He included one of the few accounts of the women living on the farms.

A mixture of the Scotch and English language is spoken by the original
inhabitants of this parish and Gaelic and English by the moss population
who settled here from the commencement of the moss improvement.

They are a sober, industrious, contented, enterprising and successful
people and generally unexceptional in their moral and religious character.

The number of farmers, cottars and farm-servants, exclusive of the
moss, is 110, and the number of such labourers in the moss, is 110

Although the able-bodied portion of the population are employed in
field labour, yet such as are conï¬ned to their houses during the winter
season, are employed in thrashing grain, feeding cattle, and keeping in
order every thing connected with their farming establishments.

The females, in particular, are occupied in needlework, knitting
stockings, spinning ï¬‚ax and wool, making coarse kinds of dresses for
themselves and their families; in carrying eggs, fowls, butter and cheese to
the market; and in bringing in return, things necessary for domestic use
The system of small wheel spinning and hand-loom weaving, which used to
prevail in this parish as in other parts of Scotland, has been superseded by
machinery in the cotton and woolen marrufactories

Much time is spent during a great portion of the year in carting peats
and produce to various places. The sale of pears was formerly carried on
by all the moss people, and engaged much of their time and attention, and
was found to be so proï¬table that in some years Individuals have been
known to realize from it as much as 40Â£ Sterling

the colony (on the Moss) increased in prosperity until they became
in many instances so independent in their circumstances, as to become

farmers on a larger scale.

Sound: on the Moss.

Aside from the usual sounds of people and the cattle, horses, hens, pigs and cats,
the latter kept to reduce vemiin such as the mice and rats that lived in the moss, two other
sounds were remembered later by emigrants to Canada,

Every so often when the sluice gates opened, a great swish of water was heard
sweeping along the channels from the Great Wheel at Torr, some two miles away. The
power of the water washed the loosened moss, vegetation and peat down the channels to
the Forth and out to sea,

The other sound remembered came from the heights of the Rock of Stirling. It was
the pealing of the church bells waï¬ing across the valley, telling the time in a musical way.

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Membership Certiï¬cate in the Congregational Church in Stirling
for James Lamb and his wife - 1831. . _ I
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Congregationalists in Stirling.

In August of 1804, eleven people in Stirling. who had been meeting for fellowship
and prayer as early as 1797, opened a church based on Congregational principles: freedom
to interpret the truth of the Bible under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, openness and
tolerance towards others with different, distinctive beliefs, and local responsibility for
church organization and property. The Congregationalists differed chieï¬‚y from the Church
of Scotland over the form of church government. Congregationalists wanted a church
governed by local members free from the power and authority exercised through the
Church of Scotland presbyteries and local church sessions, the latter composed of the
minister and a few niling elders, elected for life. Even the Congregationalists had their
differences. In 1808, in a split over infant or adult baptism, some congregations became
Baptist.

It is not known when James Lamb and Elizabeth McFarlane became members of the
Congregational Church in Stirling. A Certiï¬cate of Church Membership, signed by the
minister, Rev. Alex, Marshall, and dated 22nd of March 1831, says:

They have been long members of the Congregational Church here,
under my care. They have conducted themselves with uniform propriety, to
the entire satisfaction of the Church, who all join with me in regretting their
departure. They are cordially recommended to the fellowship of any
Christian Church wherever Providence may cast their lot.

This certiï¬cate was found in James Lamb's Bible which was brought to Canada in
1831.

A Voice from the Wilderness.

The wilderness was Clarence Township on the Ottawa River in Upper Canada. The
voice was that of John Edwards, born in Morayshire, Scotland in 1779. While apprenticing
as a ship's carpenter in Leith, he attended a service in an Independent church in nearby
Edinburgh where James Haldane was the minister. Edwards was convened to the
Independent (Congegational) cause and became a lay preacher on Sundays. Aï¬er the split
in 1808, Edwards became a Baptist.

In 1819, with his wife and three sons, he sailed for Upper Canada where he found
work in the naval yards at Kingston In 1823, the Edwards family accompanied by three
other families settled on land at Fox's Point in Clarence Township on the south shore of the
Ottawa River. The four families were all ardent Baptists and founding members of the ï¬rst
Baptist church in the Ottawa Valley. Whenever he could, John Edwards was in his canoe
travelling up and down the Ottawa River or following blazed trails through the forest to
meet new settlers oï¬en holding services in their homes. The need seemed overwhelming.

In fall of 1829 Edwards decided to return to England and Scotland to seek help
from the churches there. From the time of his arrival he received a warm reception
wherever he went On March 22, 1830, Edwards met with a group of churchmen in
Edinburgh, including James Haldane. Using the biblical story in the book of Acts, chapter
16, verse 9, where the man from Macedonia asks Paul to "come over and help us,"
Edwards told of the need for ministers and lay people to bring the Christian faith to the

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Skilled Spinners and Weavers

Three generations of Scottish women preparing the wool for weaving; the
daughter carding the wool, the mother spinning the carded wool into yarn,
the grandmother winding the yam into skeins for washing before weaving.
Most Scottish country women learned these skills at an early age. This
spinning wheel is almost identical to the spinning wheel made in Stirling and
brought to Canada by Elizabeth MeFarlane in 1831. Today her spinning
wheel is in the possession of a Lamb-Peel descendant living in Phoenix,

Arizona.

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settlers in Canada. He speciï¬cally asked the group to help him ï¬nd two ministers, either
Baptist or Independent (Congregationalist) who would come to Canada, one to work with
Baptist people in Montreal; the other who could speak both Gaelic and English to serve the
Scots settled in Glengarry County.

After some discussion, the group agreed to form a committee â€œfor the purpose of
cooperating with friends in other parts throughout Britain, with a view of procuring
suitable persons for the work, and of raising the necessary funds. "

In April 1830, John Edwards sailed for Canada, accompanied by two Baptist
ministers, Rev. John Gilmour, of Aberdeen, who became minister of First Baptist Church in
Montreal, and Rev. William Fraser, of InvemessÂ«shire, who served the Baptist Church in
Glengarry County for many years.

Changes Everywhere

The early part of the 19th century was a time of social and economic change in
Scotland, With the establishment of more and more industry in the towns and cities, the
population was leaving the farms for work in the mills and factories. Although the moss
farms were very productive, the price of farm produce was low and could not support an
increasing population. Emigration was one solution many considered.

In 1830, Duncan King, his wife, Kathrine McNaughton, and their ï¬ve children,
Margaret, John and his wife, Elisabeth Taylor, Elisabeth, Peter and Robert, who were
neighbours of the Lambs on Blair Drummond Moss, emigrated to Clarence Twp. in Upper
Canada,

Perhaps James Lamb heard John Edwardâ€™s invitation to "come over and help us. "
Within a year, James Lamb and his family had made plans to emigrate to Upper Canada.
The farm had to be sold. John Lamb's apprenticeship was not quite ï¬nished. Arrangements
had to be made, â€œcosting a tidy sum of moneyâ€™ as his niece, Dorothy Lamb, once reported,
so he could leave Scotland with the family, Papers from Alexander Marshall, the minister
of the Congregational Church, and from Alexander Blackadder, a former employer, were
gathered. Household and farm equipment was packed and goodbyes were said.

Farewell

Among their personal belongings were Elizabethâ€™s small spinning wheel made in
Stirling and James Lamb's Bible, a large leather bound volume, On the inside front cover of
his Bible, James had written these words, which must have had a personal meaning for him
"Ferwell Hymn. Ferwell my dear breathren the time is at hand that we must be "
These words are part of the ï¬rst verse of a wellÂ»known 19th century hymn, titled The
Farewell Hymn. It speaks with tenderness about leaving home and ï¬iends in the old
country, and also with an abiding trust in divine providence and hope for reunion, if not in
this life, in the life beyond death,

Farewell my dear brethren, the time is at hand,
When we must be parted from this social band;
Our several engagements now call us away,
Our parting Ilr need/ill and we must obey.

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Farewell my dear brethren, farewell for a while,
We may all meet again, if kind Providence smile;
But when we are parted and scattered abroad,
We â€™11 pray for each other, and wrestle with God

It was an emotional time when family and friends gathered to say farewell and many
may have wished that they could change their minds. The words of this hymn express the
faith that though parted they can pray for each other and meet again in the aï¬erlife.

Another personal item found in James' Bible was a folded paper cut out to form a
geometric design, perhaps made by one of the children The paper has a watermark
indicating its manufacture in 1826.

In late March or early April of 1831, James Lamb and Elizabeth McFarlane and
their seven children, John, 21 years old; Helen, 17', William, 15; Ann, 13', Margaret, 10;
Janet, 7; and James, almost 3 years old, sailed for Montreal and Upper Canada.

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PART II - CANADA

LAMBS OF THE LOWER OTTAWA

MONTREAL T0 LOCHABER BA Y: Search for a New Home.

In June of 1831, James Lamb and his family arrived in Montreal, Lower Canada,
after a nine weeks voyage from Scotland by sailing ship, Montreal on the eastern side of
the Island of Montreal, was a town clustered around its harbour, with a population of about
40,000 souls, In the 1820's the harbour had been improved and the channel deepened to
allow larger ships to dock.

The month of June in Canada brought the heat of summer and with it hordes of ï¬‚ies
and mosquitoes, believed to be the cause of most summer diseases. Many emigrants, who
had escaped various ailments on their Atlantic crossing, thought it wise to move through
Montreal and on to their ï¬nal destination as quickly as possible; the majority going to
Upper Canada by way of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario.

The St. Lawrence River Route

By 1831, rear or side wheel paddle steamers travelled the smooth water sections of
the St. Lawrence River and stage coaches carried passengers around the rapids sections on
portage roads. This meant ï¬ve changes from steamer to stage between Montreal and
Prescott, Upper Canada. From Montreal it was 9 miles by stage to Lachine; then 24 miles
by steamer to Cascades; 16 miles by stage to Coteau du Lac; 30 miles by steamer to
Cornwall in Upper Canada; 12 miles by stage to Dickinson's Landing and ï¬nally 58 miles by
steamer to Prescott; a total distance of 149 miles which took about 30 hours travelling
time

Durham boats also operated on the St. Lawrence River, They were ï¬‚atÂ»bottomed
barges eighty to ninety feet in length with a nine or ten foot beam, rounded at the bow with
a cargo capacity of thirty to forty tons. Sometimes pulled by cars, pushed by poles or
propelled by sails, these boats were slow travellers. There was little space for passengers
and crew; the only coverings in wet weather were tarpaulins. At the foot of rapids the
cargo had to be off-loaded and the boat tracked or pulled up the rapids, then the cargo
reloaded at the head of the rapids. By 1830 Durham boats were used almost exclusively for
cargo, olt times towed along in smooth water by the steamers

In Early Lochaber Bay. Dorothy Lamb wrote that aï¬‚er landing in Montreal, â€œJames
Lamb loaded his family on Saturday in canoes or boats and sent them on ahead up the St.
Lawrence intending to settle in Upper Canada.â€ It seems more likely that the family
travelled up the St Lawrence River by stage and steamer, possibly their belongings
following by Durham boat. Leaving Montreal on Saturday, the family would arrive in
Prescott on Sunday aï¬emoon.

Prescott, situated at the head of the rapids on the St. Lawrence River, became a
busy port for transhipping goods from river boats to larger vessels plying the upper river
and Lake Ontario. This area was settled by United Empire Loyalists aï¬‚er 1800. Here
Elizabeth and their family waited for James Lamb to arrive.

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A Surprise

Meanwhile, in Montreal, on Sunday morning, James Lamb made his way to First
Baptist Church on St. Helen Street, to attend Sunday worship, The minister was Rev. John
Gilmour, formerly of Aberdeen, who had come to Canada a year earlier accompanying John
Edwards as far as Montreal.

After the service, James Lamb inquired of Mr. Gilmour how to ï¬nd John Edwards
in Upper Canada and learned to his surprise that there were two river-roads to Upper
Canada, the St. Lawrence River on which his family were travelling and the Ottawa River
where John Edwards lived.

Although Dorothy Lamb wrote that James Lamb "started on foot along the shores
of the St, Lawrence and caught up to his family at Prescott," he probably took the faster
route, by stage and steamer. In less than two days, James Lamb would meet his family in
Prescott.

New Travel Plans

From Prescott there were two possible routes to Clarence Twp. The first was to
return down the St. Lawrence River to Lachine and take another steamer up the Ottawa
River about 40 miles to Carillon, then by stage to Grenville, a distance of 12 miles and
ï¬nally by steamer to Whitcombeâ€™s Wharf, L,C., across the river from John Edwardsâ€™ home
in Clarence Twp, U,C

The alternate route was across country, northward through the sparsely settled
forest, to Kemptville, at that time merely a cluster of mills and dwellings, near the south
branch of the Rideau River, then down the Rideau by canoe to Bytown.

It was decided that Elizabeth and the six youngest children would return to Lachine
and travel up the Ottawa River to Whitcombeâ€™s Wharf. James and their eldest son, John,
would take the shorter route northward through the forest to the Rideau River and Bytown
with Indian guides.

The distance from Prescott to Kemptville was some thirty miles, a two-day walk
through the forest following a blazed trail. From Kemptville it was a short distance to the
Rideau River where the Royal Engineers of the British Army under Col. John By, had been
building dams and canal locks for ï¬ve years to provide a navigable alternative to the St.
Lawrence River between Bytown and Kingston The Rideau Canal, almost completed in
1831, opened to trafï¬c a year later.

It was a relatively easy trip by canoe from Kemptville to Bytown, taking six to eight
hours with tluee short portages. The ï¬rst was at Long Island where a dam and three locks
had been built. The second went around a low dam and a single lock at Black Rapids. The
last portage was at the Prince of Wales Falls, more commonly known as Hog's Back Falls.

Below the locks at Hogâ€˜s Baclg the canal continued separately from the river,
cutting across ï¬‚at swampy land to a beaver pond, later called Dow's Lake, the source of
Sleighâ€™s Creek which ï¬‚owed northward to the Ottawa River. Here, eight locks lowered the
water into Sleigh's Bay, later renamed Entrance Bay, separating Upper Bytown from
Lower Bytown.

From Hogâ€™s Back the Rideau River ï¬‚owed gently to its mouth between Lower
Bytown and the newly laid-out village of New Edinburgh. There a large island divided the
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from the Ottawa River below. The French gave these waterfalls their name, the Rideau or
Curtain Falls.

New Edinburgh
About 1830, Thomas McKay, a masonry contractor for the Rideau Canal, acquired

1000 acres of land on the east side of the Rideau River where it entered the Ottawa. He
named his new community, New Edinburgh

Born in Perth, Scotland in 1772, McKay became a master stonemason and came
with his family to Montreal in 1817 where he joined with John Redpath to build the
masonry work on the Lachine Canal. In 1826, Col. John By sent for McKay and Redpath
to supervise the masonry work on the Rideau Canal,

About the time James Lamb and his son, John, arrived in Bytown in 1831, McKay
was building a sawmill on his land along the Rideau River. Here John, now twenty-one
years old and trained as a millwright, was offered employment and decided to remain in
New Edinburgh.

Down the Ottawa

Leaving John at New Edinburgh, James Lamb followed a road west along the top
of the cliffs overlooking the Ottawa River, in later times called Sussex Drive, to Nepean
Point, Here a path led down the cliff to the steamer landing on Entrance Bay. The steamer
made daily trips down river to Grenville and back. As the steamer made its way out into
the channel, up-river the mighty falls of the Chaudiere could be seen. To the south of the
great falls, several islands separated smaller waterfalls. Toward the north, a much greater
volume of water lept with a roar of thunder over a rocky arc-shaped ledge into a chuming
cauldron below, giving it the name, the Chaudiere or kettle.

Moving out into the current of the river, it was smooth water all the way to
Grenville. The steamer passed below the cliffs where the Rideau Falls disappeared into the
Ottawa River, Downstream almost opposite Rideau Falls, the Gatineau River, rising some
two hundred miles to the north entered the Ottawa through a low marshy delta,

Eastward, the south shore of the Ottawa became a high clay bank with some rocky
outcrops near Cumberland and Rockland. The north shore is ï¬‚atter with ponds and
marshes along the shoreline. On the north side of the channel, a number of low sandy
islands constantly change their shape with the river current.

About sixteen miles east of the Gatineau delta, the LiÃ©vre River enters the Ottawa
from the north, followed a few miles further east by the smaller Riviere Blanche, wending
its way through the marsh bordering the north shore. Just east of the Blanche, the steamer
stopped at Whitcombeâ€™s Wharf. Across the river on the south shore was Foxâ€™s Point and
Clarence Twp, Upper Canada, the home of John Edwards, Finally James Lamb had found
the man who was â€œthe voice from the wildemess.â€

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Yet another disappointment was waiting for James Lamb, There was no land

available in Clarence Twp, However, Neil Campbell, a member of the Baptist Church in
Clarence who had settled across the river in Lochaber Twp, Lower Canada in 1828,
agreed to sell part of his land. A deal was made and James Lamb purchased the western

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half of Lot 22, on Range 2, some 135 acres including riparian rights on Lochaber Bay,

The bay was a shallow widening of the Ottawa River, really a marsh bordering the
north shore, the nesting grounds of great ï¬‚ocks of waterfowl From the edge of the marsh
the land, covered with forest, rose slightly forming a low ridge, known as Bay Hill, then
dipping down into a small creek running parallel to the shore line. On the other side of the
creek, the land rose some ï¬fty feet to a ridge above the river, The forest was everywhere;
only blazed trails led from one settlerâ€™s clearing to the next. Here James Lamb was joined
by Elizabeth and their children at their new home in the wilderness, Helen was almost 18
years of age; William,15; Ann, 13; Margaret, ll; Janet, 6; and James, nearly 3

James Lamb & Elizabeth McFarlane Build a Home on Bay Hill

The earliest settlers, Neil, James and Donald Campbell and their families, who came
in 1828, cleared enough land to build their log houses on Bay Hill. The latter was a wide
ridge perhaps six miles long bordering the marshy banks of Lochaber Bay, about twenty or
thirty feet above high water.

Probably the ï¬rst Lamb house was built three or four hundred feet west of Neil
Campbell's house on James Lamb's recently purchased half of Lot 22.

Several hundred feet east of Neil Campbellâ€˜s property was the site of the ï¬rst
schoolhouse on Bay Hill. Duncan McDemiid, a strict disciplinarian, was the ï¬rst teacher.
Although his family spoke only Gaelic, Duncan had been educated in English before coming
to Canada. His pay was $5.00 a month and board; a week with each student's family.
Duncan McDennid was the teacher of the younger Lamb children, probably Ann, Margaret,
Janet and James.

Bay Hill was also the site of the ï¬rst cemetery situated between the property of Neil
Campbell and James Lamb,

1n the winter of 1829, the Quebec Government, granted money for a road to be
built along the north shore of the Ottawa River between Grenville and Hull. Through
Lochaber Township, the road followed the length of Bay Hill to the Blanche River. The
condition of the road was another matter. Rev John King, a Baptist minister, writing in
his Journal in later years, recalls the time he was a student serving the Baptist
congregations at Lochaber Bay and Petite Nation in 1841.

The distance between the two places being ï¬fteen miles, with the
North Nation (river) to cross, it was arranged that I should spend alternate
weeks in each place. In Petite Nation, 0r Papineauville, as it is now called,
there was then a small Baptist church Travelling between Lochaber and
Petite Nation 1 found rather a laborious undertaking, on account of the
state of the roads --- the only one that was fairly passable being that ï¬om
the Nation (river) to Papineauville. From the Nation (river) to Lochaber,
in the spring and fall, it was little better than a quagmire. Sometimes I
would get a ride from Pupineauville to the Nation (river) and walk the rest
of the way, and often was halfway up to the knees in mud Occasionally I
did procure a horse at Lochaber Bay, but getting a saddle was another
thing; horses were plentiï¬rl enough, but saddles were few and far between;
and as for a buï¬‚alo robe in sleighing time, that was out of the question; the
only robes they used were bed-quilts When I travelled that road, there

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was no Thurso and no mill on the Blanche (river),

In the early years of settlement, the Ottawa River provided a much more reliable
means of travel than the new road.

Complications

Shortly after purchasing his land, James Lamb discovered that Neil Campbell did
not hold clear title to his land and therefore could not legally sell any part of it. At this time
when a settler applied for a grant of Crown land he was given a Location Ticket stating the
conditions he must fulï¬ll before being granted clear title. Usually this meant clearing and
fencing several acres, building a house and living on his land for a stated period of time,
often three years, Neil Campbell had not completed all the conditions of his Location
Ticket. Gaining clear title to his land proved to be a costly legal complication for James
Lamb, taking several years.

Rejected

When Sunday arrived, the Lambs, members of the Congregational Church in
Scotland, joined their Baptist neighbours for worship, probably at the schoolhouse built on
Bay Hill, To their surprise, they were asked to leave because, in the eyes of their
neighbours, they were not properly baptized. Baptists believed in total immersion as adults.
The Lambs had been baptized in infancy,

This rejection, no doubt, conï¬rmed James Lamb and his wife, Elizabeth McFarlane,
as life-long Independents or Congregationalists. James became associated with the
schoolteacher, Duncan McDermid, a Presbyterian. The two men oï¬en walked to
Papineauville, about 15 miles east along the shore of the Ottawa River, and to Silver Creek,
some 4 miles northwest of Lochaber, where they had Sunday schools and held services of
worship.

Two Family Weddings

On March 25th, 1834, James and Elizabethâ€™s eldest daughter, Helen, almost 21
years of age, married John Simpson Edwards, a young Scot who had settled on Lot C, 9th
Concession of Clarence Twp.s

Almost two years later, the eldest son of James and Elizabeth Lamb, John, who now
worked as a millwright in the Hamilton Mills at Hawkesbury, U.C. married, Mary Dewar of
St. Andrews, Argenteuil County, L.C.6

The Great Revival
In 1835, the Baptists held special services throughout a wide area of the Ottawa

valley, led by Rev. John Edwards, assisted by Rev William Fraser of Glengarry and Rev
John Gilmour of Montreal. This revival resulted in the conversion of many to the Baptist

5 See Helen Lamb and John S. Edwards Family, p, 52.

6 See John Lamb undMnry Dewar Family, p. 76.

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cause.

It may have been at this time, William Lamb, then about twenty years of age,
decided to join the Baptists His father, James, was so distressed with the idea, that William
packed his belongings and started to leave home. His mother, Elizabeth, called him back,
saying such a step was not needed. A truce was made, but William, his younger brother,
James, and his sisters, Helen, Ann, Margaret and Janet, all became Baptists. Not long after,
William took up fanning across the river in Clarence Township.

Pioneer Days
In her article, Early Lochaber Bay, Dorothy Lamb describes the early years in the

community:

Little by little small clearings appeared in the forest usually on the
higher [and because of better drainage, the oxen drawing the home-made
harrows, made with wood or iron pins inserted into the wood. Among the
stumps small patches of grain were sown and very carefully garnered by
sickle, and later by cradle, and bound by hand

Potash, the only means of procuring cash, was made by the
laborious method of cutting and piling hardwood logs, then dry burning
them, and gathering up the ashes, and putting them in covered bins till they
were ready to leach them, The leaches were made out of hollowed logs
placed in horizontal positions, one higher and the other a little lower so
that when the water was poured on the ashes, the lye could escape,
dripping down into the troughs. The lye was placed in large potash kettles
to be boiled down into a powder which was packed in strong barrels to the
amount of 500 lbs

In the winter the settlers loaded two barrels on their one horse
jumper (sleigh) and started for Montreal, a distance of nearly 100 miles, to
dispose of their product for which. they received 840 to $50 per barrel

During the winter, hundreds of one horse jumpers would be
employed hauling supplies to Bytown, Perth and up the Rideau to
Kingston, which was then a military post. The settlers situated along the
river were more fortunate in keeping stopping places and more easily able
to dispose of their farm produce for cash.

Dorothy tells of another adventure of some neighbours who decided they needed a
large canoe to go to the grist mill at Hawkesbury and to church across the river at
Clarence. They cut a large pine tree and hollowed out a canoe thirty feet long where it fell
in the forest. In order to launch the canoe, a road had to be cut through the forest to the
bay A number of oxen were hitched to the canoe to pull it down to the water's edge.
Then they loaded their wheat into the canoe and paddled downstream to the grist mill at
Hawkesbury.

Paddling upstream with their load of ground wheat did not appeal to them. Spotting
a steamer called the Phoenix, they asked the captain if he would tow their canoe upriver to
Whitcombâ€˜s Wharf. He gave them his price saying he would be leaving at daybreak and
their canoe must be tied and ready to leave. In the moming the captain took a look their

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canoe and said, â€œI bargained to tow a canoe, not a barge!â€

Ablaze!
Chimney ï¬res were a constant hazard in the days of log houses with chimneys built

of local stone. Many settlers kept barrels of water close by and ladders against the roof,
ready to douse a small ï¬re, More oï¬en the roof caught ï¬re from sparks ï¬â€™om an
overheated chimney and the whole house was ablaze in minutes. In 1838, the Lamb home
burned to the ground. Only a few items, James Lamb's large Bible, brought from Scotland,
Elizabethâ€˜s little spinning wheel made in Stirling and some small utensils were saved

At times of tragedy neighbours helped one another Before long the Lambs had a
new one and a half storey log house.

Friendly Fire
A neighbour of the Lambs at Lochaber Bay, Russell MacCallum, recalled this story
of the early days:

I remember hearing that Mr, James lamb (1778-1855) had the
happy knack of keeping his fires banked in such a way that they never died
out. This was important in the days before matches. Old John MacLachIan,
the father of the blind boys, sometimes sent his daughter, Mary, with an
iron pot, down to Mr, Lambâ€™s on bitterly cold mornings, to beg a few live
coals, The footpath, in those days, would be a Zigzag line from one
neighbourâ€™s door to the next As Mary came to my grandfatherir (Malcolm
MacCallum) house, the door would open and Malcolm would poke his head
out, 'Mary, " he would say, "our ï¬res are out. Would you bring me back
a few coals from Mr. Lamb?â€

The 1842 Census of Lochaber Township

In this census, James Lamb is listed as owner of 150 acres on Lot 22, Range 2, of
which 36 acres were improved or cultivated. From these 36 acres, the 1841 harvest,
measured in Winchester bushels was: wheat, 14; oats 130; pease 14; Indian com, 3 and
potatoes, 100. There were 14 neat or domestic cattle, 3 horses, 16 sheep and 6 hogs kept
on the farm. Although James Lamb is the only name listed, there were 7 people, all natives
of Scotland, living in the house, noted as being rebuilt in 1838. Other produce, largely the
work of women who did most of the spinning and weaving, consisted of 11 yards of fulled
cloth, 16 yards of ï¬‚annel or woolen cloth, not fulled, woven from 20 lbs of wool as well as
maple sugar and honey.

Spinning, Weaving and Walking

Most Scottish country women had learned as children to card, spin and weave wool
and when older, to walk/waulk or hill the woven woolen cloth, all skills they brought with
them to Canada, Often they had bees when they gathered relatives and friends to do these
tasks together, all speaking and singing in lilting Gaelic the traditional spinning and walking
songs.

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Walking/waulking was a process for cleansing and thickening or shrinking the cloth.
A length of woven cloth was washed and with most of the water removed, placed in an oval
around a long table. Seated around the table, the women kneaded the wet cloth with their
hands, moving the cloth along to the next person to the rhythm of the walking song. When
ï¬nished, the cloth was hung up to dry. The product was now ï¬illed cloth, ready to be made
into shawls, blankets or clothes for the family.

Dorothy Lamb notes that later ï¬‚ax was grown, to be spun and woven into linen
cloth for sheets, towels and other household needs.

The Depression of the 1840s

In the 18305 and the early 18405 there was a lot of prosperity in the Ottawa Valley
largely due to the boom created by the construction of the Rideau Canal. Farm products
were in great demand and prices were good, Timothy hay, oats, pork and beef sold to the
lumber companies for their lumber camps was a good source of farm cash income.
Overseas timber exports brought a great deal of wealth. But in 1848 there was an economic
downturn that :11?th farm income in the Ottawa valley,

This economic downturn could not have lasted too long. In 1851, John A.
Cameron and his brother George W. Cameron built a saw and planing mill on the east side
of the Blanche River. The mills offered employment to men from farms in the valley.
Soon a village housing the mill workers and their families began to grow on the land south
and east of the mills. The new community was given the name of Thurso,

Joys and Sorrows

The next few years brought many changes in the Lamb family; a mixture of joys and
sorrows.

About 1848, Margaret Lamb married John McLean, the son of Donald McLean and
Janet McCallum who had settled on Lot 19, Range 3 of Lochaber Twp. in 1829 7

On February 5th,1852, Elizabeth McFarlane Lamb died at her home on Bay Hill.
She was buried across the river in the Protestant Cemetery on McCaulâ€™s Point, later a part
of the Town of Rockland.

There were two weddings in the Lamb family in 1854, Janet Lamb married
Alexander McLean, a brother of John McLean.â€˜

In June, Ann Lamb and Alexander Gordon were married at Papineauville (Petite
Nation). They settled on the Lachute Road, near St. Andrews in Argenteuil Co. where
Alexander farmed with his father, John Gordon. Alexander was the only son of John
Gordon and Helen Dewar. Less than a year later, on April 14th, 1855, Ann and her baby
died during childbirth. She was buried with the Gordon family in St. Andrews Cemetery.
Several years later Alexander remarried and emigrated to Mendocino County, California.
He died there in 1915.

7 See Margaret Lamb and John McLean Family, p. 63,
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Although the date is not known, sometime in 1854 or 1855, William Lamb the
second son of James Lamb and Elizabeth McFarlane, married Margaret Gordon, daughter
of John Gordon and Helen Dewar, and sister of Alexander Gordon.9

On June 9th, 1855, James Lamb, age 77 years died at his home on Bay Hill, He
was buried beside his wife, Elizabeth, in the cemetery on McCaulâ€™s Point, across the river
His death marked the end of a generation. Only his son James was left at Lochaber Bay.

The last in the family to marry was young James. On a number of visits to his sister,
Margaret, in Osnabruck Twp, James met Sarah Ann Baker, daughter of James Baker and
Margaret Gallingher. They were married at Osnabruck on June 27th, 1855.â€˜0

McCaulâ€™s Cemetery/Rockland Protestant Cemetery

Like many pioneer burying grounds, McCaulâ€™s Cemetery began on the farm hillside
of an early settler, Alexander McCaul, who gave the site, probably in the 1830s The
cemetery continued in an informal way until 1870 when a deed was given to James McCaul
and his heirs, in trust, for a burying ground for the "burial of the dead of all Protestant
Christian denominations."

The McCaul farm became part of the village, and then the town, of Rockland. The
cemetery, known as the Rockland Protestant Cemetery, was located north of the village on
Mill Street, now Edwards Street, on the road that led from the village down to the south
shore of the Ottawa River. Gradually, over the years, the Protestant population decreased,
especially aï¬‚er the closure of the WC, Edwards & Co. lumber mills The cemetery was
largely forgotten and neglected.

Aï¬er the Second World War, the population of Rockland began to increase. Soon
new homes surrounded the old cemetery, When Mill Street was rebuilt, earth from the
steep hillside cemetery washed onto the new road with every rain. Under provisions of the
Ontario Cemeteries Act, the town graded the sloping cemetery with a bulldozer and piled
the broken gravestones into a jumbled heap in a back corner,

News of this action travelled quickly. In the 19505, Walter Lamb of Ottawa heard
of the bulldozing of the cemetery, and with his son, Bill, went to Rockland. They found the
gravestone of James Lamb and Elizabeth McFarlane broken off at the top but still standing
and arranged to have it photographed,

While the name, James Lamb was missing, the lower part read,

June - 1855 net 77 yrs.

Also His Wife, Elizabeth McFarlane
DIED Feb 5, 1852 ae. 66yrs.
Natives of Thomhill

Perlhshire Scotland

The publicity of the bulldozing of the cemetery in the 19605 brought both criticism

g See William Lamb and Margaret Gordon Family, p. 58
1Â° See James Lamb andSaralr Baker Family, p, 67,

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and suggestions for the ï¬lture, Some thought the cemetery should become a memorial park
with a cairn built with the broken gravestones, but this was never done, The cemetery was
fenced and planted with grass by the town; the remaining broken gravestones still piled in a
comer covered with poison ivy,

A 1994 Visit to the cemetery revealed further destruction of the gravestones. Only
a small triangle of the original Lamb gravestone with the words, Thomhill and Scotland
remained; the rest of the gravestone had disappeared.

Today the visitor sees only a fenced, grassy slope from the street. There is nothing
to say that this was once a pioneer cemetery. The small pile of broken stones in the back
comer are the only clue to its past and some of the people who were buried here.

*******

Helen Lamb and John S. Edwards Family

Helen Lamb born in 1815, was the eldest daughter of James Lamb and Elizabeth
McFarlane to come to Canada in 183].

Three years later, on March 25th, 1834, after the publication of banns, Rev. John
Edwards, the minister of Clarence Baptist Church, oï¬‚iciated at the marriage of Helen Lamb
and John Simpson Edwards. The witnesses were Stephen Tucker and Neil Campbell.

John Simpson Edwards, known as Souter, a Scottish name for a shoemaker, a trade
he had followed in Scotland, was the son of Alexander Edward and Margaret Simpson of
Stotï¬eld, Lossiemouth, Morayshire, Scotland. He was baptized June 26th, 1805 in the
Parish Church of Drainie,

Souter came to Canada in 1830 and settled on Lot C, Concession 9 of Clarence
Twp. at a time when there only 100 settlers in the entire township. His hillside property
was not on the river but adjoined several river front lots. Like most early settlers, he
probably farmed the land as he cleared it, as well as taking out square timber, Assessment
records show that he was able to clear about two additional acres each year, By 1848, he
had 20 acres under cultivation and 76 uncultivated; a total of 96 acres.

Souter and Helen had six children, Three sons, James Simpson Edwards born in
1835, Alexander Simpson Edwards in 1837, and John Simpson Edwards in 1840 were
followed by a daughter, Margaret/ Maggie Edwards in 1843. A fourth son, William
Wilkinson Edwards was born in 1847, and the youngest, George Edwards, in 1853 All the
family were active participants and regularly attended services at Clarence Baptist church in
Clarence Village, about four miles east of their home.

On December 28th 1868, Souter Edwards died at the age of 63 years and 6
months. His obituary in the Canadian Baptist refers to him as a man of sterling character.
He was buried in Clarence Cemetery.

The Next Generation

James Simpson Edwards, born in 1835, the eldest son of Souter and Helen, married
Catherine Sherwood Roe, daughter of George Brass Roe and Mary Ann Ager, of Clarence
Twp. about 1859. In that year he also purchased Lot 31, Rockland/Concession l, in
Clarence Twp. consisting of 200 acres, fronting on the Ottawa River. In 1860, James sold

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the west half of Lot 31 to his brother Alex, keeping the east half of 100 acres for his own
farm

James and Catherine had six children: John born about 1860, George Arthur in
1862, Mary Ann about 1864, Helen in 1867, Elizabeth Margaret about 1869 and
Catherine/Katie in 1871. On April 2nd, 1872, a few months after Katie's birth, her mother,
Catherine, died suddenly in her 37th year. Catherine was buried in the Rockland Protestant
Cemetery on McCaulâ€™s Point. Katie was taken to the William Edwards home and placed in
the care of her aunt, Maggie Edwards.

Later that year, on August 20th, 1872, James Simpson Edwards married Margaret
Johnston Rose, a widow, also of Clarence Twp. They had three children, Ida, Alice and
William.

Sometime between 1873 and 1881, James, his wife, Margaret, and all their children,
except Katie who remained with her Aunt Maggie, moved to western Canada, settling at
Melita in southwestern Manitoba. In 1884, James sold his farm at Clarence to his brother,
Alex. Margaret died in 1919 and James in 1920. Both are buried in the Melita Cemetery.

Alexander/Alex Simpson Edwards, the second son of Souter and Helen, was born
in 1837. As a young man he farmed on Lot A, 9th Concession, of Clarence Twp., a short
distance south of his fatherâ€˜s farm, In 1860, be purchased the west half of Lot 31 from his
older brother, James. This property fronted on the Ottawa River. From the shoreline the
land rose in gradual steps to a limestone ridge crossing the property on the south, The
highest point of the ridge was some 200 feet above the river and referred to as Mount Nebo
by the Edwards family aï¬er the biblical story of Moses who saw the promised land from its
heights On December lst, 1868, Alex married Elizabeth/Eliza Ann Roe, a school teacher
and sister of Catherine Roe Edwards. A few weeks later, on December 28th, 1868 Alexâ€™s
father, Souter Edwards died.

Alex and Eliza had seven children, Joseph Alexander Edwards, born in 1870, Albert
George Edwards in 1872, William Hatton Edwards in 1874, Janet Lamb Edwards in 1876,
Mary/lvlinnie Ellen Edwards in 1878, Ethel Georgina Edwards in 1882 and Sarah Roe
Edwards in 1886.

Aï¬er his brother, James, and his family moved to Manitoba, Alex bought his farm,
the east half of Lot 31,which enlarged Alexâ€™s farm to nearly 200 acres.

About a century later, Sarah Roe Edwards (1886-1979) who had married Edmund
Church in 1917, wrote about her early memories of days on her fatherâ€™s farm. At 91 years
of age, Sarah still had a clear memory and a steady hand. She ï¬rst wrote about her mother
making butter,

My ï¬rst recollection of dairying was mother setting the warm milk
in milk pans on the swinging shelf in the basement and when the cream
had risen, I remember her skimming it of into the churn each night until
there was enough to churn, The butter, she made into neat oval rolls of
maybe two pounds, Mother was quite artistic and with her butter ladle,
made a pretty fern pattern on the top of the roll. To keep it nice and firm,
she washed rhubarb leaves in clear cold spring water, put the butter
between the leaves and carried it to her customers in town, Either before
that time or when there were more cows to milk, the milk was cooled and

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put into factory cans and taken to Cumberland, a town a few miles west
where it was made into cheese. The neighbours took turns in taking the
milk to the cheese factory...

Sarah also recalled her older brother Albert's apiary, set out between the house and
the barn,

My brother, Albert, built up quite an apron/H... The bee hives were
spread around under a very large , spreading butternut tree between the
house and the barn. When it was a good honey season, the ï¬rst box got
full early in the summer Another box had to be ï¬lled with ï¬‚ames with
foundation wax already set in them and put on top of the ï¬rst box and lots
of times, a third box on top of that. When the honey gathering season was
over, came extracting time. The extractor was a large metal barrel with a
rack that held four frames on a spindle that was turned at the top, The
caps had to be cut oï¬‚ the filled frames; the frames placed in the rack, then
turned slowly at ï¬rst, then faster til all the honey was drained This was
repeated as often as needed. The honey drained down to the bottom of the
barrel, when that was up to the rack, the honey was drained through a tap
into containers.

The W.C. Edwards Company had a lumber mill near the Alex Edwards farm. As
the mill grew in the 19th century, so did the town of Rockland. This gave Sarah's brother,
Albert (1872-1932) another business plan which Sarah describes:

Albertâ€™s next project was to start delivering milk in Rockland
First of all, Albert delivered milk in Motherâ€™s demi-john (a very large glass
jar with a protective covering, a network of twine), Then, as business grew,
he took milk in cans with a smaller can with a quart measure fitted in for
measuring and as a cover As the town grew, also the number of milk
customers, the milk delivery was changed to milk bottles, quarts and pints,
and for cream, smaller bottles.

Very early in the milk bottles days, Albert built a very large stone
stable with stalls and stanchions on one side with water bowls in each stall
and a stone silo in one corner, three doors high that was ï¬lled with
silage.â€œ There was one corner of the stable fitted up as the dairy with two
large tanks ï¬lled with cold water and ice for cooling the milk after it had
been put through an aerator into bottles and the bottles put into crates...
The crates were put into the tanks of cold water, ready for delivery next
morning, early... Some deliveries had to be made before going to the
wharf to deliver milk to the two passenger boats running from Thurso to
Ottawa daily coming to Rock/and at 7 oâ€™clock, then continuing the rest of
the milk delivery, arriving home any time after ten oâ€™clock. The milk
that came back had to be warmed and separated. That cream was churned
and made into butter prints, mostly sold to the milk customers,

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Sarah Edwards Church was not the only one in her family to write about bygone
days on the Edwards farm. Sarahâ€™s older sister, Minnie Ellen Edwards, had married James
Thomson, of Thurso, Quebec, in 1904. Their son, Loyal Alexander Thomson (1909-1999),
in a memoir called Excursions Into The Past, describes a childhood visit with his mother
and younger sister, Helen, to the farm of his grandparents, Alex and Eliza Edwards,
probably in the spring of 1914, These excerpts are from Excursions Into The Past.

The farm was situated just west of the town of Rockland, and from

this form one had a superb view of the Ottawa valley for a distance of

perhaps twenty miles to the west and ï¬fteen miles to the east if one stood at

the highest point on the farm. This was the top of the escarpment which ran

in steps from the bay, the third level being high (200 feet) above the

Ottawa River. Here one could view the farms of the Lochaber area to the

north

The activities of the farm began at an early hour in the morning I

can remember being awakened to the sound of cattle lowing in the stable

and in the barnyard after milking. There was the occasional bark of Jack

(the dog) as he helped return the cattle to pasture There was the sound of

the hand pump being used to bring up water from the cistern under the

floor. One could hear wood being placed in the fire-box of the kitchen

stove. There was the slam of the screen door when someone came in.

On entering the kitchen I was aware of the smell of oatmeal
porridge cooking. There were miniature explosions as steam broke loose
from the porridge leaving a small crater on the surface

I recall following my aunt to the cellar where cold water issued
from the limestone rock to fill a basin cut ï¬om the stones As I moved
about I caught the smell of freshly worked butter.

In the woodshed were my grandfatherâ€™s tools. A large wooden

block plane, an old saw, a sledge hammer, some rock drills and a giant

crow-bar. As a boy, the room over the shed was even more interesting

Here was old ï¬lmiture, trunks of clothes, books and old photographs and I

know not what else. At the rear of the shed one found milkweed and catnip

which 1 dried to take home to my cats There were large butternut trees and

back of these, an apple orchard, and along the stone fence which marked

the western boundary of the farm, a line of sumac trees. Following this

fence southward, one came to the sugar bush and the building containing
the equipment for evaporating maple sap into maple syrup

When I ï¬rst climbed the hill that lay south of Grandfatherâ€™s barn, I

was captivated by the sight of dense woods at the rear of a cleared area, It

was to this bush that we were taken to pickMay flowers. To me, these trees

appeared to stretch endlessly to the south and I concluded that this could

end only in inï¬nity,

A playmate with us suggested that one would do well not to proceed
too far as there was always the danger that we could come upon the edge
of the earth and perhaps fall oven This prospect upset me somewhat but I

resolved to press on in the hope that I might discover what the edge of the
earth looked like

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I left the others picking ï¬‚owers and soon the woods became less
dense and I discovered to my amazement that there was no great [edge
from which one could fall into the vast abyss of outer space, Rather, I saw
a man behind a one-horse plow, a house and a barn with fields extending
into the distance.

Not long alter this visit, Loyal Thomson's grandmother, Eliza Roe Edwards died on
July 20th, 1914. His grandfather, Alex Edwards followed on May 10th, 1916 at the age of
78 years. Both are buried in the Clarence Cemetery. Their son, Albert, continued to look
aï¬er the farm and the dairy until his death in 1932.

John Simpson Edwards, born in 1840, was the third son of Souter and Helen. In
the 18805, he had his own farm on Lot A, 9th Concession, of Clarence Twp, 8 short
distance south of the original Edwards property. He probably purchased it from his
brother, Alex, who had owned it previously.

John never married. Near the turn of the century, he sold his farm and travelled to
Europe, visiting his fatherâ€™s family still living at Rowan Brae, Stotï¬eld, Morayshire,
Scotland. On returning to Canada, he lived with his sister, Maggie, and their niece, Katie
Edwards. John died in 1920 at 80 years ofage.

Margaret/Maggâ€˜e Edwards, the only daughter of Souter and Helen, was born in
1843 She lived with her parents until shortly aï¬er the death of her mother in 1883, when
she inherited the east quarter of Lot 31 of Clarence Twp. including a house which she and
Katie occupied. Her brother, John, lived with them after he returned from Europe, Maggie
died in 1903, leaving her house and property to her niece, Katie. Following the death of her
uncle, John Simpson Edwards, in 1920, Katie married James G. Sell (1867-1955). Katie
died in 1930, age 60 years. Maggie, John and Katie were all buried in Clarence Baptist
Cemetery.

William Wilkinson Edwards, the fourth son of Souter and Helen, was bom in 1847.
Aï¬er his father's death, William, then age 21, took over the family farm. In the Census of
187 1, he appears as head of the household living with his mother, Helen/Ellen, age 57, his
sister, Margaret/Maggie, age 27 and his brothers, John, age 30, and George, age 17.

The farm on Lot C, Concession 9 consisted of 96 acres; 65 acres of improved or
cultivated land and 25 acres of pasture. Six acres are not accounted for but may have been
the area where the house and barns stood, The ï¬eld produce for the year 1870, measured in
bushels, was 25 ofwheat from 2 1/2 acres, 150 of potatoes from 1 acre, 180 of cats, 25 of
peas, 2 of beans, 30 of turnips, 6 of beets or mangels, 20 of carrots and 2 of apples. From
15 acres planted for hay, 15 tons were harvested. Two horses and a ï¬lly, 5 milking cows, 5
other cattle and 4 swine were close in number to the number of animals kept on
neighbouring farms of similar size. However, 22 sheep was 4 or 5 times the number of
sheep kept by other nearby farmers

The 22 sheep produced 61 lbs of wool which was spun and woven into 55 yards of
homemade cloth or ï¬‚annel. While Scottish women and some men were very skillful
spinners and weavers, having learned these craï¬s as children, this was a tremendous
quantity of cloth for a family of ï¬ve to weave in one year.

On March 14th, 1883, William married Mary Jane Henderson, daughter of Edward
Henderson and his wife, Elizabeth Sproul/Sproule, of Williamsburg Twp, Dundas County,
adjoining Osnabmck Twp. where Mary Jane's sister, Margaret, lived after marrying

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William's cousin, James Lamb McLean. William and Mary Jane lived on the original
Edwards farm, Lot C, 9th Concession of Clarence Twp.

Several months after their marriage, Williamâ€™s mother, Helen Lamb Edwards, died
at the age of 70 years, on July 22nd, 1883. She was buried in the Clarence Cemetery.

By 1886, William was farming over 200 acres of land. Then on August 3 lst of that
year, he signed his will, as if death was imminent He died the following day, on September
lst and was buried in the Clarence Cemetery. At 33 years of age, Mary Jane was leï¬ a
widow. She returned to Williamsburg Twp. to live with her family. There were no children.

George Edwards, the youngest of Souter and Helen's family, was born in 1853. He
apprenticed as a blacksmith as a young man, his family referring to him as a fancy
blacksmith. Possibly George worked in the manufacture of ornamental iron, a booming
business in the late 19th century, George emigrated to Minneapolis where his cousins, John
and Jim Lamb, of Wendover, had settled. There George prospered and married Sadie -
. They had one daughter, named Grace.

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William Lamb and Margaret Gordon Family

Sometime aï¬er William joined the Baptists, he moved across the river to Clarence
Twp. where he farmed on part of Lot 19, Concession 1, 0. S. (Old Survey), a few miles
east of Clarence Village, Like most farmers of that time, he also took out and sold square
timber. William also purchased the east half of Lot 5,, Concession l, O S. of Clarence Twp,
Here he farmed and built a barn, still standing, which carries his initials, WL , on one of the
barn beams.

Marriage and Family

About 1855, William married Margaret Gordon, of St. Andrews, Argenteuil
County, CE. Margaret was the fourth daughter of Helen Dewar and John Gordon, who
farmed on the Lachute Road near St. Andrews. Margaretâ€˜s older brother, Alexander
Gordon, married William's younger sister, Ann Lamb, in 1854. Earlier, in 1835, Margaret's
cousin, Mary Dewar married William's older brother, John Lamb, (See Dewars of St.
F illan, From Glendochart to the Argenteuil Seigniory)

Margaret was Mlled Aunt William by some of her nieces and nephews who had
another Aunt Margaret, Margaret Lamb McLean. William and Margaret Lamb had six
children, all born in Clarence Twp: William Lamb, known as Willie or Will, was born in
1856; then John Alexander Lamb, in 1858, and a daughter Elizabeth Lamb, in [860. Just
ï¬ve days aï¬er her third birthday in 1863, Elizabeth died. She was buried in Clarence
Cemetery, Two more sons followed, James (Jim) Dewar Lamb born in 1862 and Gordon
Lincoln Lamb in 1865. A second daughter, Helen My (Nell) Lamb was born in 1867.

Sunday Clockwork

William Lamb and his family were active members of the Baptist Church at
Clarence, where William was a deacon for many years. In his book, My Old Home Church,
Rev, C. C. MeLaurin wrote that William Lamb and his family were so regular in their
attendance at church that neighbours along the road between Wendover and Clarence, who
had no clocks, could tell the time of day on Sunday by the passing of the Lamb carriage.

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Lambâ€™s Wharf
Probably in the early 18605, William purchased Lot 31, Broken Front, in North

Plantagenet Twp consisting of 100 acres. This became part of the village of Wendover. In
1866, he added 100 acres of Lot 31, Range 1, adjoining his property on the south. William
sold his two farms, one the east half Lot 5, the other, part of Lot 19, both Concession 1,
0.5, of Clarence Twp. in 1868, About this time the family moved to Wendover.

On the river front at Wendover, William built a wharf and nearby, a store and post
office. Lamb's Wharf was a regular stopping place for the steamers plying the Ottawa
River between Bytown and Grenville carrying both passengers, supplies and mail,

William was also a building contractor. In 1993, the writer, visiting Clarence
Baptist Cemetery, was told by the cemetery caretaker, that there were many barns still in
use in the district which were built by William Lamb in the previous century, all marked on
the inside with his initials, W.L.

The Lamb - McGregor - Ferguson Connection

With his contracting business, Lambâ€˜s Wharf and Lamb's General Store and Post
Ofï¬ce, William needed a staff to look alter the various parts of his enterprise. About 1867,
his nephew, John McGregor, came from his farm home at St. Andrews, in Argenteuil
County, to work in the store and post oï¬‚ice. John was about twenty years old, the son of
Margaret Lamb's sister, Catharine Gordon, and her husband, John McGregor. It was while
working at Wendover, that John met Janet (Jennie) Ferguson.

Jennie was the daughter of John Ferguson and Janet McDonald, of Vernon, in
Osgoode Twp, Ontario. John Ferguson and William Lamb had attended the same school
in Bridge of Allan in Scotland and had continued their friendship in Canada. Although her
father was not too pleased, Jennie came to Wendover as governess to the young Lamb
children for a year, Alter returning to Vernon, she continued to see John McGregor. Soon
they were engaged to marry. In 1869, John decided to emigrate to California where his
uncle, Alexander Gordon, had settled. Six years later, Jennie travelled to California where
she and John were married in San Francisco in 1876.

California seemed a long way from home to the young couple. In the latter part of
1879 or early 1880, John and Jennie McGregor, with their two young daughters took the
train east to Minneapolis where three of John's brothers, William, George and Alexander,
were living and working as grain brokers, Along with his brothers, John McGregor
prospered in the grain business,

The Last Years at Wendover.

The Census of 1881 of North Plantagenet Twp. shows all ï¬ve Lamb children living
at home in Wendover with William and Margaret. William and their sons, Will, age 24, and
John, age 22, were listed as merchants in Wendover. Jim, agel8, worked as a clerk, while
Gordon, 16, and Nell, 14, were in school.

Sometime in the 18805, John and Jim Lamb decided to emigrate to Minneapolis,
joining their McGregor cousins, in the grain business. At the time, Minneapolis was a
growing enter for the ï¬‚our milling industry in the American midwest. Together the
McGregor and Lamb cousins formed the company of McGregor and Lamb, They built their
own elevators, grain warehouses or granaries where grain was sorted and stored until sold
to milling companies to process into ï¬‚our, The McGregor and Lamb elevators stood on old

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Highway #2 in Minneapolis.

John Alexander Lamb never married and died in Minneapolis in 1929. James (Jim)
Dewar Lamb and his wife, Gertrude, had a son, Will, who died in the ï¬rst World War, and
a daughter, Jean, who died in Tucson, Arizona in 1976.

About the time that John and Jim Lamb emigrated to Minneapolis, their cousin,
George Edwards, the youngest son of Souter Edwards and Helen Lamb, of Clarence Twp,
also moved there,

Will, Gordon and Nell

Alter working in his fatherâ€™s store at Wendover, Will Lamb moved to Ottawa as a
young man where he had a boot and shoe store in partnership with Jacob Vincent/Vince
Poaps. Vince Poaps had married Will's cousin, Jennie McLean, a daughter of Margaret
Lamb and John McLean, of Osnabruck Twp. The Ottawa City Directory of 1893 lists
POAPS & LAMB (Jacob V. Poaps, Wm. Lamb) wholesale boots and shoes, at 398-400
Wellington Street.

Gordon Lincoln Lamb, was some nine years younger than Will. As a young man,
he attended the University of Toronto and was also a student at the Baptist College in
Woodstock, Ontario for a time.

The youngest of the family, Helen Mary, called Nell, was born in 1867. Neil proved
to be very musical and played the pianofone, an instrument which was left to her in later
years in her father's will.

From Wendover to Ottawa

About 1890, William and Margaret, retired to Ottawa where they resided at 155
McLaren Street. In 1893, Will, who was working at POAPS & LAMB, Gordon, 11 student,
and Neil were all living at home with their parents. A year later, in March of 1894, William
Lamb died. As the custom was at that time, his ï¬merai was held at the family residence.
The burial was in Beechwood Cemetery. His obituary in the Ottawa Evening Journal
speaks of the man:

The cortege which left McLaren Street yesterday for Beechwood,
followed the remains of a well-known and respected man, for the last few
years a citizen (of Ottawa) but formerly, and for more than half a century,
a resident on the banks of the Ottawa at Lambâ€™s Wharf.

Mr. Lamb was one of the business men who came upon the scene at
a time when the first attempts were made to navigate the Ottawa by steam
power. He remembered all the business movements on the river for over
sixty years and had a general knowledge of the early history of that period,
which made him a most interesting conversationalist. "

For a time, Margaret, Will, Gordon and Neil continued to live at 155 McLaren
Street, but changes were coming,

Gordon and Will Leave Home

In 1895, Gordon Lamb married Elizabeth May (Lizzie May) Jackson, of
Newmarket, Ontario. Gordon and Lizzie May moved to Riverview Farm on the Ottawa

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River in North Plantagenet Twp, near the village of Treadwell, where Gordon took up
farming. Five children were born at Riverview Farm, Arundel in 1898, Eunice in 1901,
Toynbee in 1904, and twins, Helen and Ewan, in 1907. Helen lived only about six weeks.
She was buried in Georgeâ€˜s Lake Cemetery near Treadwell. The family remained on the
farm near Treadweli until 1913,

About 1896, Will Lamb leï¬ for the Yukon seeking his fortune in the Klondike gold
msh, He likely travelled with his cousin, Herk Lamb, of Ottawa, the youngest son of John
Lamb and Mary Dewar. On retuming to Ottawa, Will joined the Civil Service, working in
the Department of the Interior in the Federal Government. He married Amelia (Bell) Edgar
(1858-1925). They had one son, Frank, who emigrated to Pueblo, Colorado. Will died in
1927 in Ottawa.

The Blairs

In 1902, Nell Lamb married Frederick (Fred) Charles Blair, a civil servant in the
Department of Immigration. They made their home at 85 Frank Street, Sometime aï¬er
their marriage, Nell's mother, Margaret Gordon Lamb, came to live with them A member
of First Baptist Church, Ottawa, Margaret died at the Blair home on April 16th, 1911. in
her 84th year. She was buried in Beechwood Cemetery.

Nell and Fred were charter members of Calvary Baptist Church and active in
various missionary organizations. For twenty years Fred led the service of worship every
Sunday evening at the Union Mission in downtown Ottawa while Nell accompanied the
singing on the piano. Nell was described a person of sterling qualities and loveable
character. She died at the age of 63 in September 1930. There were no children. Fred,
then Assistant Deputy Minister of Immigration and Colonization, carried on the services at
the Union Mission and continued to live at 85 Frank Street.

Many years later, Leone Lamb Robertson recalled her greatâ€”uncle, Fred Blair,
coming from Ottawa by train in the 1930s to visit her family, the Toynbee Lambs then
living on their farm in Colbome Twp, in southwestem Ontario. Her father, Toynbee, would
meet his Uncle Fred at the cherich train station. Their ï¬rst stop was always at the ice
cream shop in Goderich where Uncle Fred purchased pint bricks of ice cream of every
available ï¬‚avour and colour. Then the two men hunied out to the farm before the ice cream
could melt. No home freezers in those days,

Their arrival at the farm was eagerly awaited by the children. Ice cream was a
special treat. With such a variety, everyone had a choice to make, then eat it as quickly as
possible before it could melt. On these occasions, dessert came before dinner and helped
make Uncle Fredâ€™s visits memorable events.

Fred Blair died in 1959 at 84 years of age. Both Nell and Fred are buried in
Beechwood Cemetery.

The Lambs 0fColborne Township, Huron County, Ontario

In 1913, Gordon and Lizzie May Lamb and their children, Arundel, Eunice,
Toynbee and Ewart, lett Riverview Farm near Treadwell and moved to a farm in Colbome
Township, near Goderich, a town on Lake Huron. This part of southwestern Ontario was
mostly farm country, many dairy farms The children also had the opportunity of attending
high school in Goderich.

Two years later, tragedy struck when Ewart, just eight years old, was killed in a

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farm accident. He was buried in Colborne Township Cemetery, near his home,

The eldest, Gordon Arundel Lamb, who was known as Arundel, became a machinist
working in Weston, Ontario. In 1932, he married Jennie Evelina Wideman (1903- 1983), a
professional violinist and violin teacher, They had one son, Allan Gordon Lamb, born in
1934. He married Marie (Claire) Philibcrt in 1938. They had two sons, Gordon Richard
Lamb, born in 1959, and Philip Joseph Lamb, born in 1963 Amndel died in 1967 and
Jennie in 1983.

Eunice May Lamb was born in 1901. As a child, she learned to speak French from
other neighbourhood children near Treadwell, Aï¬er high school in Goderieh, Eunice took
a secretarial course and then worked for the Sun Life Assurance Company in Montreal
where she learned Spanish. Moving to Toronto in 1926 she attended the University of
Toronto, graduating with her degree in Modern Languages and Literature in 1930. She
taught Spanish at the University of Toronto for three years before going to Chicago for
post-graduate work. During the Second World War, Eunice was sent to Lima, Peru, by the
Canadian Government.

On returning to Canada, Eunice found her parents in failing health and remained in
Goderich to care for them. Her mother, Lizzie May, died in 1946 and her father, Gordon
Lamb, died in 1950. Both are buried in Colborne Township Cemetery. Eunice returned to
the University of Toronto, again teaching Spanish. Later she took up secretarial work in
the office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science. In 1977, she retired to live in
Colborne Township, near her brother Toynbee and his family. Eunice died in 1986 at 84
years of age and was buried in the cemetery in Colborne Township.

Arnold Toynbee Lamb, called by his second name, Toynbee, was the third child
bom to Gordon Lamb and Lizzie May Jackson. He was nine years old when the family
moved to Colborne Township. In 1927, he married Annie M. Kennedy (1901-1966), a
young graduate nurse whose home was in the nearby town of Whitechurch. Toynbee and
Annie had six children; Laura Elaine born in 1928; Ruth Leone in 1931, John Arnold in
1932, Donald James in 1933, Helen Doreen in 1934 and Robert Bruce in 1949.

About 1930 when Toynbeeâ€˜s parents, Gordon and Lizzie May Lamb, retired from
farming and moved to Gnden'ch, Toynbee and Annie took over the home farm, giving it the
name of Aldemey Farm. A dairy farmer at heart, Toynbee raised purebred Jersey cattle,
showing them at various agricultural fairs and winning many prizes. One award, still kept in
the family is a silver tea service and tray, suitably engraved. Milk and cream were shipped
daily by train and later, by truck, to dairies in Goderich and other centres. In 1954, Toynbee
and Annie retired to live in Goderich. Annie died in 1966, following a farm accident and
was buried in Colborne Twp. Cemetery. About six years later, in 1972, Toynbee married
Violet Wyman, of Hespeler, Ontario, They continued to live in Goderich where Toynbee
died in 1988. Toynbee was buried in Colborne Township Cemetery.

Nearly a century after Gordon Lamb and his family settled in Colborne Twp., the
home farm remains in the Lamb family. Still primarily a dairy farm, it is owned and operated
by a grandson, Donald Lamb and his family.

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Margaret Lamb and John McLean Famin

Margaret Lamb was the sixth child of James Lamb and Elizabeth McFarlane. She
came to Canada at eleven years of age. About 1848 she married John McLean who was
bom on the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland, the son of Donald McLean and
Janet McCallum. The McLeans had emigrated to Canada in 1829, settling on Lot 19,
Range 111 of Lochaber Twp. Both Margaret and John were born in 1820 and probably
attended the ï¬rst school on Bay Hill together.

The 0snabruck Connection

John's older brother, Hector McLean (1816-1897) felt called to the Baptist ministry
and attended Montreal Baptist College Then he became the minister of Osnabruck Baptist
Church in Osnabruck Twp, Stormont County in eastern Ontario. It would seem that John
and an older brother, Neil McLean, visited Hector probably in the 1840s. Finding good
farm land for sale, John and Neil McLean purchased adjoining farms, each of 100 acres on
Lot 18, Concession VI of Osnabruck Twp.

After their marriage, Margaret and John lived on the farm where their eight children
were bom' Elizabeth E. McLean in 1849, Donald McLean in 1851, James Lamb McLean in
1853, William McLean in 1855, Janet/Jennie Ann McLean in 1858, George A. McLean in
1860, Florence/Flora McLean in 1862 and John McLean in 1865. All the family were active
members of Osnabruck Baptist Church.

A Farm Report

The 1871 Census provides agricultural information about the farms in Osnabruck
Twp, John McLean had 100 acres of which 70 were improved or cultivated, 12 in pasture
and one in garden and orchard Eight acres sown to wheat produced 80 bushels; 1 1/2
acres in potatoes, 200 bushels and 12 acres provided 10 tons of hay. Other ï¬eld produce in
bushels was, 80 of barley, 200 of oats, 20 of buckwheat, 20 of peas and 2 of beans. Fruit
trees yielded 15 bushels of apples and 2 bushels of other ï¬uit, possibly plums or pears.

There were 3 horses and 2 colts or ï¬llies; 8 cows and 10 other horned animals; 16
sheep providing 100 lbs. of wool and 3 swine. Two beehives yielded 20 lbs. of honey.
From the cowâ€™s milk, 200 lbs, of butter and 40 lbs, of cheese was produced on the farm.

Rideauville

In a letter written in 1888 to Sarah Baker Lamb of Lochaber Bay, the writer, Mary
Jane Edwards, reported that her parents had visited her sister, Margaret/Maggie, and her
husband, James Lamb McLean, in Osnabmck Twp. and that James' father, John McLean,
was not well and suffering from leg trouble.

Within a few years Margaret and John McLean and their family had left the farm in
Osnabruck Twp, Two of the boys, Donald and William, had settled in western Canada,
John moved to the United States, and James to Ottawa. Margaret and John, their daughter,
Flora, son, George, and his family and daughter, Jennie McLean Poaps and her family, all
settled in Rideauville, a small village along the south bank of the Rideau Canal between
Bank Street and Bronson Avenue. This area later became part of Ottawa South. The
family attended McPhail Memorial Baptist Church in Ottawa.

John McLean died at his home in Rideauville in 1900. A year later, on August 13th,
1901, Margaret, then 80 years of age, died at the family residence. Both John and Margaret

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were buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa,

The Children of Margaret Lamb And John McLean

Elizabeth B. McLean, the eldest of their children, was born in 1849, She manâ€˜ied
Henry Wamer, probably from one of several Warner families living in Osnabruck Twp.
They had three sons, William, John Douglas and George. Elizabeth is not named in the
obituary of her mother, Margaret, in 1901 and it is assumed that she predeceased her.

Donald H, McLean born in 1851, married Emma Alford. They had three sons,
John Allan, Bert and Percy Alexander. In 1901, they were living in Moose Jaw, Northwest
Territories, later Saskatchewan.

James Lamb McLean, named for his maternal grandfather, was born in 1853. In
1876, he married Margaret/Maggie Henderson, (1859-1933) of Williamsburg Twp. which
adjoins Osnabruck Twp. They had one son, Sproule McLean, who married Margaret
Robb, They seem to have lived on the McLean farm in Osnabruck Twp. until the 18905
when they moved to Ottawa. James died in 1934. Both James and Margaret are buried in
Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa. .

William McLean was the third son, born in 1855. He married Alice
Edison/Edmondson. They had one daughter, Olive Ethel, who married W, Saddler. The
family was living in Winnipeg in 1901,

Janet/Jennie Ann McLean, born in 1858, married Vincent/Vince Poaps/Poapst
(1854-1922), son of Jacob J. Papst/Poapst and Eliza Jean Stuart, of Osnabruck Twp, in
1877, Vince was a merchant, latterly in partnership with Will Lamb in Ottawa where they
owned a shoe and boot store on Wellington Street. Jennie and Vince had six children, all
but the sixth child born in Osnabruck Twp. The eldest child, Jennie A. died in early
childhood, Two sons followed, Wilford/Wilf Vincent Poaps (1880-1948) and
Percival/Percy McLean Poaps (1882-1949). Then two daughters, Jean Ellice born in1884
and Florence/Flora Margaret in 1890. The youngest child, John Douglas Poaps (1898-
1979) was born in Ottawa. Aï¬er Vince died in 1922, Jennie moved to Chatham, Ontario to
live with her daughter, Jean Ellice Poaps Jackson. She died there in 1924. Both Jennie and
Vince were buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa,

George A. McLean, the sixth in the family, was born in 1859. He man'ied Anm'e Haines
(1862-1935). They lived in Rideauville where their three daughters were born; Bertha, Eva
Lucy and Jennie B. George died a year aï¬er his mother, in 1902. George, Annie and their
daughters are buried in Beechwood Cemetery.

Florence/Flora Margaret McLean was born in 1862. Aï¬er her mother's death, she
married Wilson Thompson. They lived in Moose Jaw, Northwest Tenitories, later
Saskatchewan,

John McLean horn in 1865, married Christine Trunneur. They lived in Detroit with
their daughter, Marion Margaret, who later married George Wilcox.

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Janet Lamb and Alex McLean Family

Janet Lamb, born in 1824 in Scotland, was the seventh child of James Lamb and
Elizabeth McFarlane. In 1854, Janet married Alexander/Alex McLean, also born in
Scotland in 1824, the son of Donald McLean and Janet McCallum, who settled at Lochaber

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Bay in 1829. The McLean home was on the west side of the RiviÃ©re Blanche on Lot 19,
Range 111 of Lochaber Twp, where the road (later Highway 148) crossed the Riviere
Blanche. This was about a mile east of the Lamb property. Earlier, Alexâ€˜s older brother,
John McLean had married Janet's older sister, Margaret.

Thurso

The village of Thurso had its beginning in 1851 when John A. Cameron and his
brother, George W. Cameron, built a sawmill on the east side of the Riviere Blanche. Soon
mill workers were building homes for their families near the mill. In 1852, a post oï¬‚ice was
established in the growing village and given the name of Thurso.

After their marriage, Janet and Alex McLean settled in Thurso where Alex carried
on a blacksmith and carriage-making business.

Thurso Baptist Church

The Baptists living in Lochaber and the growing number living in Thurso were all
members of the Clarence Baptist Church. On summer Sunday evenings, ï¬‚eets of canoes
could be seen gliding over the water, the settlers oï¬en singing familiar hymns. In winter,
horses and sleighs carried the worshippers rapidly across the ice. As the village of Thurso
grew, the Baptists felt the need of a chapel in their own community

In 1853, a schoolhouse built at the main crossroads in Thurso, was used for church
services on Sundays. A year later, the work of building a chapel on a hillside site on
Galipeau Street, was begun. Through the generosity of the Cameron brothers, the chapel
was soon completed.

By 1856, the Baptists in Thurso and Lochaber wanted to have their own
congregation apart from Clarence. A petition signed by twentyâ€”seven members including
Alex McLean and Janet Lamb McLean, requested their dismissal from the Clarence Baptist
Church to form a separate congregation in Thurso. This change became eï¬‚â€˜ective on
February Ist, 1857. At the ï¬rst meeting of the Thurso congregation, Alex McLean was
elected a Deacon and Trustee, offices he held for the rest of his life.

In 1904, the church building underwent renovations. It was bricked on the outside
and the roof was raised several feet. New windows were installed and new pews replaced
the old straight-backed seats. In the year 2000, Thurso Baptist Church still stands on its
original site on Galipeau Street, a testament to the faith of its pioneers.

Janet and Alex McLean â€™x F amin

Alex and Janet McLean had ï¬ve children: Elizabeth Ann McLean born in 1856,
married Henry Bymes, Janet Lamb McLean (1858-1928) married Peter Donald McDonald
(1857â€”1899) in 1884; My Helen McLean (1860-1930) married and moved to Buffalo,
N Y., Alexander Ernest McLean born in 1863, married Hattie Thorpe and Margaret Flora
McLean bom in 1865, married Arthur Bel].

Janet died of lockjaw in 1883 at the age of 59 years. Lockjaw, also known as
tetanus, ends in a very painful death. Alex died in Thurso in 1906, age 82 years. Both are
buried in the Papineauville Cemetery.

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Baptist Churches on the Lower Ottawa,

Thurso Baptist Church,
Thurso, Quebec, built 1854,
aï¬er 1904 renovations,
where the James Lamb and
Alex McLean families were
members

Clarence Baptist Church,
Clarence, Ontario,
organized in 1825, where
the John S. Edwards and
William Lamb families were
members.

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James Lamb and Sarah Baker Family

James, born in Scotland in 1828, came to Lochaber with his family when he was
almost three years old. He attended the local school on Bay Hill, then worked with his
father on the land. Aï¬er his older sister, Margaret, married John McLean about 1848 and
moved to Osnabruck Twp. in Stonnont Co. where John and his brother, Neil, had farms,
James visited them a number of times. Crossing the Ottawa River, he walked through the
sparsely settled forest following the roads or blazed trails, at times barefoot carrying his
shoes. On some trips he was accompanied by friends from Lochaber, Wes McEachem or
Neil McLean.

It was on one of these visits that James met Sarah Ann Baker, a member of
Osnabruck Baptist Church and daughter of James Baker and Margaret Gallingher who
farmed in Osnabruck Twp. The exact date of their wedding is somewhat uncertain. James'
Bible gives the date of June 26th, 1855 at Osnabruck However, a century later a hand-
written note signed by a Rev, Hamilton, was found among some old letters in the house at
Lochaber, saying,

On June 14th, 1854, I married James Lamb, Yeoman, and Sarah Ann
Baker, Spinster, at Omabrook.

All their lives James and Sarah celebrated their marriage in 1855

Home on Bay Hill

Following their wedding, James and Sarah returned to the log house on Bay Hill,
rebuilt alter the ï¬re in 183 8,. Their ï¬rst child, a daughter, Margaret/Maggie Baker Lamb,
was born in 1856, followed by two sons, James Edgar/Eddie Lamb in 1858 and m
Dewar Lamb in 1860.

The Baptist congregation in nearby Thurso had separated from Clarence Baptist
Church, across the river in 1857, but neither James nor Sarah, both Baptists, were listed
among the Constituent Members of the new Thurso Baptist Church,

The Farm Census of 1861

James Lamb's farm at Lochaber consisted of 200 acres on Lot 22, Range 11 and Lot
22, Range 111 in Lochaber Twp. of which 65 acres were under cultivation; 35 acres in crops
and 30 acres in pasture. The remaining 135 acres was in bush, In 1860, the crop produce
was, in bushels, 63 in spring wheat, 60 in peas, 300 in oats, 100 in potatoes and 16 tons of
hay. The livestock consisted of 5 milk cows, yielding 250 lbs. of butter and 50 lbs. of
cheese, and 3 heifers, 3 horses and l ï¬lly, 6 sheep providing 25 lbs. of wool which was
woven into 36 yards of ï¬‚annel, and 3 pigs. Four hundred lbs. of beef and 400 lbs. of pork
were also produced during the year The production of the Lamb farm was comparable to
neighbouring farms in the area.

Bytown Becomes Ottawa

Upstream, the village of Bytown had been growing in size. On January lst, 1855, it
was incorporated as the City of Ottawa. Meanwhile the Parliament of the United Canadas,
that is Upper and Lower Canada, could not agree on the site of a permanent capital. In early

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1857, it was decided to ask Queen Victoria to choose between the two cities.

On December 31st, 1857, Queen Victoria conveyed to the Parliament her choice of
Ottawa as the permanent capital of the United Canadas, then meeting
in Quebec City. Possibly she was guided by the words of the Govemor, Sir Edmund Head,
"Ottawa, in fact, is neither in Upper or Lower Canada. Literally it is in the former but a
bridge alone separates it from the latter." Soon architects and engineers were designing the
new Parliament Buildings to be built on the bluff on the west side of Entrance Bay, known
as Barracks Hill, 150 feet above the Ottawa River. Excavation for the foundations began in
the fall of 1859.

A Princer Procession

In August of 1860, the Price of Wales, later Edward VII, came to Canada to lay the
cornerstone of the new Parliament Buildings. As he traveled up the Ottawa River by
steamer, he was met and escorted along the way by hundreds of small boats and canoes
paddled by local people and lumbermen from up and down the Ottawa, It must have been
an exciting occasion for the residents of the Lower Ottawa as they watched the parade of
boats pass by. The next day, September lst, 1860, the Prince of Wales ofï¬cially laid the
cornerstone of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.

Moving the Government

It was another ï¬ve years before the government in Quebec City could ï¬nally move
to Ottawa. In his book, Lochaber Boy: My Well Loved Country Home, Angus MacLachlan,
describes the move of the government oï¬ices from Quebec City to Ottawa by way of the
Ottawa River:

In September 1865 the buildings, though not ï¬nished, were ï¬t to be
occupied and Parliament, then at Quebec City, was so notiï¬ed The
Parliament came to an end the 18th of September, Craig and ValliÃ©re, of
Quebec City, won the contract for moving the furniture, etc, of the
government. The amount of the contract was $15,800.

The contractors used steamers and barges, the first away
September 29th, Others followed and all was up the Ottawa before the end
of November.

The packing ï¬nished, the government employees began to pack up
their furniture and eï¬‚ects for their own moves For the married it was an
era of large families, so this was not a light task, Not all moved, as a few
stayed in Quebec City. About 350 public servants made Ottawa their new
home, With dependents about 1500 new citizens gave quite a boost to
Ottawa â€˜s population of 15, 0001 Some came by way of the Ottawa River:
others by railway by way of Point Levis, Montreal, Prescott, and to the
Depot near Sussex Street, Ottawa.

It was indeed a rare thing to see the furniture and ï¬xtures of your
government passing by your very door, including also the books of the

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Parliamentary Library in a thousand or more cases, All this was
accomplished In a little under two months

While the government oï¬ices were occupied in 1865, it was not until June of 1866
that the Parliament of the United Canadas met in Ottawa.

A Growing Family

In 1862,a third son was born to James and Sarah, Peter Osborne Lamb, then four
daughters, Elizabeth Ann Lamb in 1864 and Helen/Ella Edwards Lamb in 1867, born a few
days before Confederation. Lug Janet Lamb was born in 1872 and the youngest of the
family, Frances Dorothy/Dora/Dolly Lamb in 1878.

Summer Concerns
The summer of 1870 was not without its concerns for the families living along the

north shore of the Ottawa River. A column in the Ottawa Citizen on September 27, 1924,
called Old Time Stuï¬‚: refers to the great bush ï¬res of the summer of 1870 which swept
through the district around Ottawa and Hull and the north bank of the Ottawa most of the
way to Montreal. For weeks the air was heavy with smoke as the bush ï¬res spread,
breaking out here and there, then subsiding. No one knew where the ï¬re might break out
next. September rains ï¬nally ended the threat of ï¬re

Fire in the Night

In Lochaber Bay, My Well Loved Country Home, Angus MacLachlan records an
event told by Florence McDermid Skinner about the home of her grandfather, Rev.
Archibald Campbell, who lived in the original log house on Bay Hill built by his father, Neil
Campbell, in 1828. Florence Skinner wrote:

By 1875, Archibald and his wife had six children and on a cold
night just before Christmas, the big log house built by his father (Neil
Campbell) caught ï¬re and burned to the ground, Mrs. Campbell and the
children had to escape in their night clothes and Archibald had to see his
library of valuable books and all the family records go up in ï¬‚ames. Their
good neighbour, James lamb, came with his team of horses and sleigh,
covered with blankets and quilts, to take them to another shelter

This story indicates that James Lamb and his family were still living in the log house
built in 183 8, near the Campbell home in 1875.

The Age of the Railway

The ï¬rst train to travel from Montreal to Ottawa by way of the north shore of the
Ottawa River, passed through Lochaber in 1880. The railway closely followed the earlier
road along Bay Hill crossing both the Lamb and Campbell farms. The Lochaber station was
built on the Campbell land close to the road.

For many years there were two passenger trains each day to Ottawa and two to

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Montreal, morning and evening to serve the Lochaber people. The passenger trains
included a baggage car for mail, light parcels and perishable goods.

A Home an the Ridge

Everyone liked the services the trains brought to the community, but some farmers
whose lands the tracks crossed on Bay Hill, found the trains noisy and the tracks
inconvenient to their farm operations. About this time two new roads were opened; one
north from the highway between Lots 21 and 22, the other west from Riviere Blanche to
the township boundary,.between Range II and Range III. By 1890, James and Sarah had
built a two story house and nearby barn on the ridge at the north end of their farm on Range
II close to the new township road. Situated about ï¬fty feet above Bay Hill, the hem of the
house provided a panoramic View of the Ottawa valley and the gentle hills of eastern
Ontario beyond.

A century later, the house and barn still stand, although the barn is showing its age.

Shadows and Sunshine, 1883-1893

The ï¬rst shadows to cross the family of James and Sarah silently approached in the
spring of 1883. In late winter their second daughter, Elizabeth, then 18 years old,
contracted tetanus, often called lockjaw. Bacteria commonly found in the soil enter the
body through cuts in the skin and produce a neurotoxin. In a short time the neurotoxin
causes extreme muscular spasms ending in a painful death. Elizabeth died a few weeks later
on April 12th and was buried in the Lochaber Cemetery near her home.

About four months later, on July 22nd, James' sister, Helen Lamb Edwards, died at
her home across the river in Clarence Twp. She was 70 years old and was buried in the
Clarence Cemetery. The cause of her death is not known,

Not quite a month later, on August 18th, Janet Lamb McLean, the sister closest in
age to James, also contracted tetanus and died at her home in Thurso in her 60th year. She
was buried in the Papineauville Cemetery.

In l884, the neurotoxin causing tetanus was isolated leading to the development of
an antitoxin which prevents the muscular spasms of tetanus. This antitoxin is still in use
today.

The Campbell:

The next year brought a wedding in the family when Margaret/Maggie Lamb, the
eldest daughter of James and Sarah, married Hugh Campbell, a widower, on August 81h,
1885. Their ï¬rst child, James/Jamesie/Jimmy/Jim Campbell was born on February 18th,
1887. It was a very difficult birth, the baby suffering severe birth injuries which leï¬‚ him
with lifelong speech and coordination difficulties.

Nineteen months later, a second son, Percival/Percy Campbell, was born on October
10th, 1888. Again it was a difï¬cult birth. The baby, Percy, survived. His mother, Maggie,
age 32 years, died shortly aï¬er giving birth. She was buried in the Lochaber Cemetery.

Maggie's husband, Hugh Campbell, moved away leaving Jimmy, then 20 months old
and Percy, a few weeks of age, with their grandparents, James and Sarah.

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A Farm Accident

A few weeks before Maggie's death, her younger brother, John Dewar Lamb,
married Annie McLeod McFarlane, on September 25th 1888. A daughter, Elizabeth
Pearl/Lizzie Pearl Lamb, was born on December 30th, 1889. At the time, John Lamb, then
30 years of age, was postmaster of the Lochaber Bay Post Ofï¬ce, Although varying details
are given by different descendants, it was a day in 1890 that John was working across the
river near Rockland, when he fell or was thrown from a grain or hay wagon. He died
immediately leaving a young widow and baby daughter, He, too, was buried in the
Lochaber Cemetery,

An Accident at the Mill

James Edgar Lamb, usually called Eddie, was the eldest son of James and Sarah.
About 1892, he married Lucy Ferguson. Shortly aï¬er, when he was working at the pulp
mill in Buckingham, a pulp grinder exploded. Eddie, then 34 years old, was killed instantly,
leaving Lucy a young widow. He was buried in the Lochaber Cemetery. Some months
following the accident, Lucy gave birth to a daughter, Ethel Janet Lamb. Ethel married Earl
Munson, ofMassena, New York. They had one daughter, Louella.

A Shudaw at Gull Lake

As a young man, Peter Lamb, the fourth child of James and Sarah, worked for the
WC. Edwards Lumber Company which sent him into their timber limits in Mulgrave Twp,
just north of Lochaber Twp. It was there that he met Lena Mielke, the daughter of Carl
Mielke and Carolin Berwald who farmed at Gull Lake. Peter and Lena were married at
Thurso on June 18th,1889. They returned to Gull Lake where they lived on the Mielke
farm, A son, John Gilbert Lamb, was born in February, 1891, Nineteen months later, in
September 1892, John took sick and died almost immediately. He was buried at Gull Lake,
Two daughters were born later at Gull Lake, Mary Carlena in 1893 and Lucy Janet in
l 897.

About 1900, Peter, Lena and their two daughters moved to Buckingham where
Peter was employed by the James McLaren Pulp Mills Two more daughters were born in
Buckingham, Ruby Ruth in 1900 and Helen Alexandra in 1902.

The proximity of Buckingham to the Lamb farm at Lochaber meant the Peter Lamb
family could visit their grandparents, aunts and cousins frequently, especially in the summer
when Peter was home from the woods.

Dawn

For James and Sarah, now in their ï¬ï¬ies, the pain of losing four of their eight
children and one grandchild, suddenly and tragically, may have been somewhat eased by the
needs of their four young grandchildren, Lizzie Pearl Lamb and Ethel Lamb, in the care of
young widowed mothers, and Jimmy and Percy Campbell, leï¬ in their care at the farm. Ella,
26 years of age, was working as a secretary in Ottawa. Lucy, age 21, preparing to be
married, was at home with Dorothy, 15 years old.

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The Portmisrresr

Lucy Janet Lamb the seventh child of James and Sarah, married Robert Scott of
Shawbridge, Quebec, in 1894. They lived in Shawbridge where the Scott family were
merchants in the town. Later that year a son, Harold Robinson Scott, was born. In 1895,
Robert Scott died suddenly and Lucy, at twenty-three years of age, was leï¬ a widow with a
baby son.

Shortly aï¬‚er, James wrote to Lucy saying that Lochaber Bay Post Ofï¬ce needed a
postmistress. If she wished to train for the position, she could have part of the house for the
post ofï¬ce and the family would care for baby, Harold. Lucy came home to look after the
post oï¬ice, a position she held for many years. Her nephew, Jimmy Campbell, now a
teenager, also had a job. Each day he went down the hill and across the creek to the train
station to bring back the mail for the Post Ofï¬ce in the Lamb house on the ridge,

The Peels of Lindsay

Helen/Ellen/Ella Edwards Lamb was the third daughter of James and Sarah. Ella, as
a young woman, taught school at Thurso by special licence, Then, in the18905 she became
secretary to Mr. Garland, of John M. Garland & Son of Ottawa, 3 position she held for
seven years.

In the fall of 1899, Ella married James Albert/Bert Peel (1874Â»1955) of Lindsay,
Ontario, where Bert owned a lumber mill. A farming and lumbering center on the Scugog
River, Lindsay was located some twenty-seven miles west of Peterborough in central
Ontario. Ella and Bert had ï¬ve children. Anna Isabel, born in 1902, married T. Watson
Kirkconnel aï¬er graduating from McMaster University in 1924. In the summer of 1925,
she returned to Lindsay to give birth to twins. Isabel died immediately following the birth.
The boys, Jim and Tom, were brought up in the Peel family in Lindsay.

Three sons followed' Walter born in 1905, Stewart in 1908 and Morgan in 1911. A
daughter, Marion, born in 1914, later graduated in nursing and married a school teacher,
Bob McKinley.

The Peel family were faithï¬rl members of Cambridge St. Baptist Church in Lindsay,
where Bert was a deacon for almost 40 years. Over the years there was much visiting back
and forth between the Peels of Lindsay and the Lambs of Lochaber. Ella died in 1952 in
Lindsay, Bert in 1955. Both are buried in Riverside Cemetery, Lindsay.

A Golden Wedding Anniversary

On Tuesday, June 27th, 1905, family, relatives and friends gathered at the Lamb
farm on Lochaber Bay to join James and Sarah in celebration of their 50th wedding
anniversary. Following aï¬emoon tea, a number of brief addresses were given recalling
events of the past and hopes for the ï¬xture. The local newspaper, The Buckingham Post,
reported that James and Sarah were among the oldest residents of the township of
Lochaber, calling them peaceable and upright citizens who had experienced their sunshine
and shadows. The item concluded:

Mr. and Mrs. Lamb have held the esteem of the community
continuously. They have been consistent and honoured members of Thurso

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Baptist Church, All trust they may yet see many happy years together.

The Politician

Harold Scott grew up on the Lamb farm with his cousins, Jimmy and Percy
Campbell, both a few years older. Harold and Percy attended the Lochaber Protestant
School. About 1907, when Harold was ready for high school, he moved to Lindsay, Ontario,
to live with his uncle and aunt, Bert and Ella Lamb Peel. He graduated from Lindsay
Collegiate Institute and later from the Faculty of Education in Toronto.

As a young man, Harold worked in the lumber industry, ï¬rst in the woods and later
in retail lumber, eventually owning the Scott Lumber Company in Peterborough, In 1943,
Harold sold his business and entered politics, He was elected to the Ontario Legislature that
year as the Conservative member for Peterborough, From 1946 to 1952, Harold was
Minister of Lands and Forests for the Province of Ontario. He held his seat until 1959 when
he retired for health reasons Two years later he died and was buried in Riverside Cemetery
in Lindsay. He was survived by his wife, Lucy Ellen/Nellie Gray, whom he married in 1919,
There were no children.

Struck down

About the time that Harold leï¬ for Lindsay, in 1907, his grandmother, Sarah, who
for over titty years had looked after everyone else in the family, suffered a severe stroke that
leï¬ her paralysed and conï¬ned to her room. She was cared for by her daughters, Lucy and
Dorothy. Percy, now nearly twenty years old and Jimmy, a year older, worked with their
grandfather on the farm.

A Memorable Reunion

In Lochaber Bay, My Well Loved Country Home, Angus MacLachlan describes a
gathering held at Lochaber Bay amid a grove of trees on the McEachern farm, on September
13th, 1912. Called the Old Boys Reunion, it brought together several hundred descendants
of the early Scottish settlers from near and far. The program included speeches, highland
dancing, recitations of Robbie Bums' poems, the singing of Scottish songs, music played on
the bagpipes by Pipe-Major MacDonald, games, time to visit with old friends and
neighbours and plenty of good food from local kitchens served in the nearby schoolhouse.
The Mayor of Lochaber, R.N. MacLachlan, opened his address of welcome with these
words:

While we rejoice with you on the progress you have made, we look
back with greater pride to the time nearly a century ago, that marks the
landing of the ï¬rst settlers in this place from their beloved Scotland.

A photograph was taken of ten Lochaber men, all early settlers, whose ages added
up to 750 years. One of these was James Lamb, then 84 years of age.

The gathering ended as everyone joined hands and sang Auld Lang Syne, then
slowly leï¬ the grove to the strains of Lochaber's Lament played by Pipe-Major MacDonald.

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All agreed that this had been a truly memorable reunion.

Faithful Servants

April 1914 brought to a close the lives of two devout members of Thurso Baptist
Church, James Lamb and his wife, Sarah Ann Baker. They had been married almost 60
years. Sarah, paralysed by a stroke seven years earlier, had been conï¬ned to her room by
limited movement and difficulty in speaking, afï¬‚ictions she bore with great patience. She
was in her 79th year when she died on April 9th.

James had come to Canada with his family in 1831 as a child of three. He had lived
on the farm at Lochaber for 83 of his 86 years. In frail health for several years, James
passed away on April 26th. Both Sarah and James were buried in the Lochaber Cemetery.

The Next Generation

Jamesâ€™ Last Will and Testament, with bequests to other family members, left the
farm at Lochaber Bay to his daughters, Lucy and Dorothy, and his grandson, Percy
Campbell It was also to be a lifelong home for his grandson, Jimmy, disabled from birth.

Percy is remembered for his fondness for animals, particularly his horses. Marion
Peel McKinley, in a letter written in 1999, recalled that Percy was noted for his lovely horses
and how he won ï¬rst prize at the Montebello Horse Show. Marion and her aunt, Dorothy
Lamb, made little yarn balls to decorate the brass harness that Percy had rented for the
Show. She also said that Percy took great care of Jimmy.

In later years Lucy Lamb Scott married John S. Hews, of Thurso, a widower with
several adult sons. Their home was on the east side of Galipeau Street opposite the Baptist
Church. John died in 1951.

Early Lochaber Bay

In the fall of 1931, a group of Lochaber Bay women, including Dorothy Lamb, met
and decided to form the Lochaber Bay Women's Institute, affiliated with the Quebec
Women's Institute, a farm organization for women. The local women took tums presenting
the program at their meetings. About 193 5, Dorothy Lamb was asked to prepare a paper on
the early days of Lochaber Bay and the families who were among the early settlers,

Two years later she read her paper, called Early Lochaber Bay, at a meeting of the
Institute. It was well received. That fall it was published in the Buckingham Post in the
September 10th, 1937 issue of the newspaper.

Another Tragic Accident

In 1940, Peter Lamb and his wife, Lena, were living in Buckingham. Peter had
retired some years earlier and often spent the day visiting the farm at Lochaber where he
was born in 1862 On Thursday morning, August 8th, 1940, unknown to others on the farm,
he decided to take the four year old bull from the barn down to the creek for water. Shortly
after, his nephew, Percy, found him near the creek fatally injured, the docile bull nearby. The
funeral was held in Buckingham Baptist Church on Sunday afternoon, August 11th, 1940.
Peter was buried in the Lochaber Cemetery. Later a memorial window was presented to

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Buckingham Baptist Church with the inscription, â€œTo the glory of God and in loving
memory of Peter Lamb, died August 8, 1940, donated by his wife and family.â€

Lena continued to live in their Buckingham home until 1956 when she moved to
Ottawa to live with her daughter, Ruby Lamb Clarkson. Over the years, Lena had been an
active member of the Baptist Church, the Women's Missionary Society and the Red Cross.
Her nimble ï¬ngers knit hundreds of items, not only for her family, but for agencies such as
the Red Cross, especially during the two World Wars. Lena died in Ottawa on January 12,
1957 and was interred in the Lochaber Cemetery.

A Wedding at Waterde

Perhaps it was through Lucy Lamb Hews, Percy's aunt, or through Thurso Baptist
Church, that Percy met Ethel Campbell, a widow living on Galipeau Street in Thurso. They
were married on Saturday, June 14th, 1947 in Waterdown, Ontario, where Ethelâ€™s sister
lived, Aï¬er the wedding they returned to live on the farm at Lochaber.

The Lamb Look

Frances Dorothy Lamb, known as Dorothy, Dora or Dolly, was bom at Lochaber
on January 8th, 1878, the fifth daughter and youngest child of James and Sarah. She was
ï¬ve years old when her older sister, Elizabeth, died at home of lockjaw in 1883, and ten
years old when her sister, Maggie, died at home following childbirth in 1888. Dorothy's
nephews, Jimmy and Percy Campbell, who lived in the Lamb home were more like younger
brothers. Later, with Lucy, she looked aï¬er her invalid mother for seven years. There was
always someone needing her care

Dorothy had the Lamb look - pink skin, twinkling blue eyes, fair hair and a gracious
manner. She had a strong resemblance to her cousin, William Alexander Lamb, of Ottawa,
a son of John Lamb and Mary Dewar. Story-telling seemed to come easily to Dorothy. She
had a great sense of Lamb family history and often spoke of earlier years in the family and
community. Later she wrote about these times and people in Early Lochaber Bay. Dorothy
was delighted when the Buckingham Post published her paper in 1937.

On April 26th,1948, Dorothy died suddenly at her home on the Lamb farm, at 70
years of age. She was buried in the Lochaber Cemetery with her family.

Changes at Lochaber and Lindsay

Quickly and quietly, three members of the Lamb connection passed away in 1952.
The ï¬rst was Jimmy Campbell, who died on April 20th at Lochaber. Neighbours joined
relatives from Buckingham, Thurso, Osgoode and Ottawa for the funeral, Harold Scott,
Bert Peel and his son, Stewart, came from Lindsay. In spite of, or perhaps because of
Jimmy's disabilities, he was well respected and loved in his family and community. He was
buried in the family plot at Lochaber.

In the fall, Ella Lamb Peel died at Lindsay on October 5th. She was buried in
Riverside Cemetery. A month later, on November 10th, Percy's wife, Ethel Campbell, also
passed away and was buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa. Towards the end of 1952,
Lucy Lamb Hews, widowed in 1951, and her brother-in-law, Bert Peel, then a widower,
were married. Bert died in 1955 and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Lindsay, Lucy died

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on August lOth of the same year. Her funeral was held in Thurso Baptist Church. Interment
followed in Papineauville Cemetery.

Farewell to Loehaber

The last of the Lamb family to live on the farm at Lochaber, Percy Campbell began
to make plans for the future. There were still some of his Peel cousins living in Lindsay
and he decided to move there. In 1955, he sold the farm. On March 19th, about ï¬fty friends
and neighbours gathered to say, an revoir to Percy, He was remembered for his interest in all
community activities and for his friendly personality and keen Scottish wit. With words of
appreciation for the past and best wishes for the future, Percy was presented with a wallet
and gilt of money. After 124 years, the Lamb farm, ï¬rst settled in 1831 by James Lamb, his
wife, Elizabeth McFarlane and their children, had been passed on to others.

After Loehaber

Not long after Percy took up residence in Lindsay, Ontario, he met Dora Hall
Thomas, a widow. They manied on January 19th, 1957 and lived in Sunderland, a town
about 20 miles west of Lindsay for 15 years, Percy died there on August lst, 1972 at 84
years of age, He was buried near Sunderland.

drivirtkirkir

John Lamb and Mary Dewar Family

Aï¬er his father, James Lamb, leï¬ New Edinburgh for Clarence Twp. in June of 1831,
John Lamb began working at the grist and ï¬‚our mill in the process of being built by Thomas
McKay on his property at Rideau Falls. In Bytown 1834 to Ottawa 1854, George R. Blyth
describes the McKay mill in these words:

The McKayâ€™s large ï¬‚our mill at New Edinburgh was built in 1832,
and was at that time the most extensive in Canada, being ï¬tted up with the
most modern machinery. Ihey manufactured for the British and home
market, giving employment to overï¬fty handy in the mill and c00perage,,
as all ï¬‚our was then sold in barrels or halfâ€”barrels.

Planning and installing new mill machinery was any millwrightâ€™s dream. For twentyâ€”
one year old John, this was a rare opportunity.

The Precentor

Three years earlier, in 1828, when his stonemasons had a slack period in the building
of the Rideau Canal, Thomas McKay, at his own expense, had his men build a small stone
church in Bytown, at the corner of Wellington and Kent Streets. Later known as St.
Andrew's Presbyterian Church, it stands on the same corner today.

On learning that his new millwright, John Lamb, was well acquainted with church
music, Thomas McKay arranged to have John installed as precentor at the new Presbyterian

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church. John's task, sometimes called â€œraising the tune,â€ was to strike his tuning fork to
begin the singing of the psalms from the Scottish Psalter in slow time to such well-known
tunes as Dunfermline, Old 100th or Dundee.

Thomas McKay's grist mill in New Edinburgh was ï¬nished in the summer of 1833
and on August 26th, opened for business,

Hamilton Mills - Hawkesbmy Mills

In late 1833, when his work was ï¬nished at New Edinburgh, John Lamb moved
down the Ottawa River to Hamilton Mills, known locally as the Snye or Hawkesbury Mills,
which included the village of Hawkesbury, at the head of the Long Sault Rapids.

0n islands near the shore, the Hamiltons had built sawmills which the Hamilton
family had owned and operated since 1807. The mills were situated between the two largest
islands, Hamilton Island and Ile du Chenail, where the water ran swiï¬ and deep providing
power for the mill machinery. This channel, in French, Chenail Ecarteâ€™, meaning lost
channel, provided the local name, the Snye. It was a community of mills and houses for
employees, a village of its own, extending over several islands, the channels between ï¬lled
in with slabs of wood and covered with eanâ€˜h.

Lumber for the mills was cut during the winter months on the company's timber
limits on the upper reaches of rivers ï¬‚owing into the Ottawa River. The cut logs were
placed beside the river which would carry them down to the Ottawa with the spring melt.
On reaching the Ottawa, the logs were surrounded by log booms, towed downstream and
anchored above the mills until needed,

Some years ago, in an address to the Women's Club of Hawkesbury, called The
Hamilton Era And Beyond, Maria Higginson (1871-1961) and her cousin, Agnes Higginson
Brock (1879-1978), described the scene from the bridge over the channel between Hamilton
Island and Ile du Chenail:

From the bridges we watched the men with their pike poles sorting
out the logs for the conveyor to carry them up, one after another to the
saw, The men seemed to walk on the water, as they hurried along on the
slippery boom of square timber chained together to turrets of rock piles, to
prevent them from getting loose and ï¬‚oating away under the bridges. 0n
the right we watch the men unloading boards, and board by board passing
them up to the man at the top of the lumber pile.

We enter the Mills to gaze and gaze at the saws, band saws and cir-
culars saws, and listen to their music as they do their work, powered by the
rushing water in ï¬‚umes below. We enjoy the pungent smell of the newly
cut pine, and all the neat limewashed buildings so white and clean.

There were five mills, each with its gang saws, Circular saws, and
then a band saw. The whole Snye was network of tracks for the cars to take
the lumber to the piling grounds. These cars were drawn by horses.

The horses knew, as well as the drivers, that when the bell rang at
twelve and at six, It meant "stop work! â€ The horses were separated from the
cars, and horses rmd boys ran for the stables.

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LOWER CANADA

Leï¬ - The Ottawa River
at Hawkesbury, c 1840,

Below-Hawkesbury &
Islands 0. 1840.

UPPER CANADA

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Millions of feet of lumber were cut every season - 70, 000 per day.
Some of this lumber was sold locally, but most of it was loaded onto barges,
principally for the American market. Big square timber was made into cribs
and ï¬‚oated to Quebec City for the British market. It was much used in
shipbuilding.

It was here in the Hamilton mills that John Lamb would be employed as a millwright
for the next twenty years, responsible with others for the efï¬cient mechanical operation of the
mill machinery,

The Congregationalism

When John arrived at Hamilton Mills, there already were Congregationalists meeting
each Sunday for worship in the adjoining village of Hawkesbury. Rev. William McKillican,
a Congregational minister liom Scotland, had settled on a farm at Breadalbane in Lochiel
Twp, Glengarry County, about twelve miles south of Hawkesbury. Each Sunday he rose at
4 am. to walk to Hawkesbury, then on to one or two other communities to conduct Sunday
worship, returning home late in the evening. The Congregationalists at Hawkesbury met in
a log school built by the Hamiltons, sometimes referred to as Hawkesbury Hall, It was
situated on John Street near the bridge across to the Snye. Later this site was sold to the
Presbyterians, who built a church which still stands today.

Soon John was leading the music, striking his tuning fork to start the singing in his
clear baritone voice The Congregationalists preferred much livelier hymns than the
Presbyterians. It was not long before Mr. McKillican invited John to come with him and lead
the music at his other services. The congregation at St. Andrews, in Argenteuil County
across the river did not yet have a church but met in each others homes. Among this group
was the Duncan Dewar family including their twenty-two year old daughter, Mary,

The Dewars of Carillon Hill

Duncan Dewar, his wife, Catherine Black, and their eldest son, Peter, came to Canada
from Scotland in 1804 with Duncan's older brother, Peter, his wife, Christian Stewart, and
their family of nine. Duncan and Peter settled on nearby farms on Carillon Hill, a ridge
separating the North River and the Ottawa River. Carillon Hill was a part of the Argenteuil
Seigniory.

Duncan and Peter Dewar were sons of a Scottish Baron and his wife, Duncan
Deor/Dewar and Janet McIver, of Glendochart, near the village of Killin in Perthshire. Their
father, the Baron, had lost his title and his property in the aï¬ermath of the Jacobite Rebellion
of 1745. Both the Duncan and Peter Dewar families would have known the Rev. William
McKillican in Scotland when he had been the Congregational minister in the village of Killin
in Glendochart before emigrating to Canada in 1816,

Dimcan Dewar and his family were staunch Congregationalism, although his brother,
Peter and his family were Presbyterians Duncan and Catherine Dewar had seven children
born at their home on Carillon Hill, near St. Andrews, including their daughter, Mary, in
18 l 1 .

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A Wedding at St. Andrews, Argenteuil County, CE.
Within two years of meeting, John and Mary were married at St. Andrews. The
entry in the records of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church reads:

John Lamb, bachelor, of Hawkesbury, Upper Canada, millwright, and
Mary Dewar, of St. Andrews. spinster, were married after the publication
of barms on the ï¬fth day of November in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-ï¬ve in the presence of these witnesses,

by me

Duncan Dewar Arch â€™41 Henderson

ES T readwell John Lamb Mary Dewar
Children and Churches

John and Mary had seven children, all born at their home on Main Street in
Hawkesbury Mills. Their ï¬rst child, a daughter, Elizabeth Jane Lamb, was born August
24th, 1836, and two years later, a second daughter, Catherine/Kate on November 18th,
1838. Both were baptized as infants by Rev. William McKillican.

In 1841, Rev. James T. Byme, a Congregational minister brought to Canada by the
London Missionary Society, arrived at L'Orignal to work with the Congregationalists in
L'Orignal and Hawkesbury. He baptized both of John and Mary's older sons in the
Congregational Chapel in Lâ€˜Orignal; Jameslï¬m Bme Lamb, named aï¬er the minister, was
born July 2nd, 1841 and William/Willie Alexander Lamb, born September 17th, 1843.

About this time, plans were being made to build a Congregational Chapel in the
village of Hawkesbury, 6 miles east of L'Orignal. An entry in the Land Registry oï¬ice at
Lâ€™Orignal, Vol. X, dated April 6, 1844, describes a lot in Hawkesbury as, â€œVillage Lot #4,
south side of great High Way, at Church Street to the bank of Mill Creek," sold by Hon.
Peter McGill to the trustees of "A religious Congregation or Society of Congregationalistsâ€œ
for a Chapel and burying ground. The trustees were John Lamb, G. Hutchinson, Thos,
White, Alexander Anderson and Zephaniah Swiï¬‚ Moon Hersey. The price was Â£20.

Two writers brieï¬‚y describe the Congregational Church which soon rose on the
site. Maria Higginson, in her article A Tour of The Village, in Hawkesbury 1859-1984,
reminisced:

We walk up Main Street. On the opposite side is the old white church,
a Congregational church It had 4 tall pillars, characteristic of many
New England churches .. ,.

In 1858, Rev. Joseph Elliot reported to the Canadian Congregational Missionary
Society, that "We have, at Hawkesbury, a very oommodious church ediface.â€

A third daughter, Mg, was born on June 17th, 1846. She lived only 8 weeks and
died on August 10th. It is assumed she was buried in the new Congregational burying
ground in Hawkesbury. Two years later, a fourth daughter, Mm Ami/Minnie Lamb was

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Above: M. Bymeâ€™s House, Lâ€™Origual, 1845. NAC C127644
Below: M. Lambâ€˜s (Hamihm Mills) CW. 1848. NAC C127622

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born on June 11th, 1848, followed by a third son, John Hercus/Herk Lamb on
September 11th, 1850. Both these children were baptized by Rev. Joseph
Anderson, in the Congregational Chapel at Hawkesbury.

School Days

The ï¬rst school at Hawkesbury Mills was held in the log building on John Street
built by the Hamiltons and also used by the Congregationalists and others for church
services before it was sold in 1840. A paragraph in Hawkesbury 1859-1954, describes its
successor, the Trestle School, likely the school the Lamb children attended.

We have no deï¬nite date for the building of the Trestle School for it
was built by the Hamiltons on Hamilton land. We assume it was built in
the late 1830â€™s to replace the one sold on John Street. We know that in
1859, while operating at a semiprivate level, a charge was made of 26Â¢
per child per month, and it received a yearly $40. 00 grant from the
village.

A New and Useful Water Wheel 1842-1843

In Historic Mills of Ontario, the Mikas and Turner list the qualiï¬cations of a
millwright as part architect, engineer, machinist and dam builder who had to be adaptable
to constant changes in technical aspects of mill machinery, seasonal changes in water ï¬‚ow
and choosing the size and ratios of mill machinery. The overall location, construction and
design of mill buildings was also one of their concerns.

John Lamb was always searching for a better way to create and make mill
machinery. It was not long before he was experimenting with a new and more useful
water-wheel, a wheel turned by running or falling water, used to supply power. Satisï¬ed
that he had a better product, he applied for Letters Patent in both Upper and Lower
Canada This included submitting a scale working model for his water-wheel, a three
dimension blueprint and a written description of its ï¬inction.

On October 3rd, 1842, John received Letters Patent, Upper Canada, #180, for the
invention of a New and Useï¬tl Description of Water-wheel, Six months later, on April
3rd, 1843, he received Letters Patent, Lower Canada #63, for the invention of a New And
Improved Water-wheel, Both patents were issued at Kingston, Upper Canada, when
Kingston was the temporary capital of the United Canadas. It is not known if these water-
wheels ever went into production; it is known that John went on inventing and improving
more water-wheels and other mill machinery.

Sketches from The Past

About 1839, representatives from a number of Protestant churches, mostly
Presbyterian, Baptist and Congregational, met in Montreal to form the French Canadian
Missionary Society, to support French-speaking Protestant congregations and schools in
Lower Canada and the eastern part of Upper Canada. Several Swiss French-speaking
Protestant ministers and their families were brought to Canada by the Society, to serve the
small scattered French congregations and schools.

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One of these ministers was Rev. Jacques Frederic Doudiet, who came to Canada in
1844. Stationed at Belle Riviere about 10 miles northeast of St. Andrews, in Argenteuil
County, M. Doudiet ï¬equently travelled through Hawkesbury to visit a small congregation
in East Hawkesbury Twp, and on to other places in Glengarry County. He also visited
Englishâ€”speaking congregations and individuals who supported the work of the French
Canadian Missionary Society. Wherever he went, M. Doudiet kept a record of his travels,
by sketching the homes of supporters of his work, each sketch dated and titled, Today the
Doudiet sketchbook can be found in the National Archives of Canada, in Ottawa. Five of
these sketches portray the homes of people living in Hawkesbury Mills and the nearby
communities of Breadalbane, Lâ€˜Orignal and St. Andrews.

On June 19th,!845, M. Doudiet visited the home of Rev.William McKillican at
Breadaibane, 12 miles south of Hawkesbury. Three months later, on September 17th, he
travelled to Lâ€™Orignal where Rev. James T, Byme was the Congregational minister. Mr.
Bymeâ€˜s home is shown in the foreground of the sketch but in the background is an
unmistakable church building, thought to be the recently built Congregational Chapel at
Lâ€˜Orignal.

Two years later, on May 26th 1847, M. Doudiet's sketch reads, Sr. AndrÃ©
Deâ€™part a maison Dewar. This was likely the home of John Dewar, of St. Andrews, a
brother of Mary Dewar Lamb, who was known to be a supporter of the French Canadian
Missionary Society.

On October 9th, 1848, M. Doudiet was in Hawkesbury Mills where he sketched
two houses; one titled M. Hamilton - au Chenail, the otherM. Lamb's (Hamilton Mills)
C. W. The latter was the home of John Lamb, on Main Street, also known as the High
Way, in the village of Hawkesbury where the Lamb family lived until 1853. In the 20th
century, the Lamb house became a very popular shop called Abrahamâ€™s Ice Cream Parlour.
About 1963, the original building was dismantled, the land becoming a parking lot.

Whitby Sojaum

In the fall of 1853, John Lamb sold his house and property in Hawkesbury and
moved his family to Whitby, Ontario, a town on Lake Ontario about 30 miles east of
Toronto. Two years earlier his old friend, Rev. James Byme had accepted a call to be
minister of Whitby Congregational Church located at the comer of Mary and Byron
Streets. Little is known of the ï¬ve years John and Mary Lamb and their family lived in
Whitby. At that time there were many small mills on the streams in the area. It is thought
that John Lamb may have worked in some of these.

One event was remembered. It was at Whitby that John and Mary's eldest
daughter, Elizabeth, then 21 years of age, met Thomas Gallagher, a widower, aged 39
years. Thomas had two daughters ï¬'om his ï¬rst marriage, Adeline (Addie), age 9 years,
and Melissa, age 7 years. Rev. James Byme oï¬iciated at the marriage of Elizabeth and
Thomas on June lst, 1858.

John Lamb had always participated in the wider work of the Congregational
Church and the Canadian Congregational Missionary Society, (C.C.M.S.) In the 18505
there had been much discussion among Congregationalists about the need for a
Congregational presence in the capital city of the United Canadas. In 1858, after Queen

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Victoria had announced her choice of Ottawa as the permanent seat of government, the
C.C.M. S. decided to take action. In the early part of 1859, the Lamb family, including
Thomas and Elizabeth Gallagher, leit Whitby and moved to the new capital, Ottawa.

A Sparks Street Address

In coming to Ottawa, John Lamb hoped to have a place large enough to set up his
own business selling and servicing mill equipment including his own patented water wheel
and other mill machinery. Shortly aï¬er arriving in Ottawa in 1859, he found a location on
Sparks Street not far from his work at the Ottawa Mills of the McKay Milling Company on
Chaudiere Island.

On January 6th, 1860, John purchased Lot 8, south side of Sparks Street and the
adjoining Lot 8, north side of Queen Street from John Bower Lewis, a lawyer and former
mayor of Ottawa for Â£500. The property included a two story brick house facing Sparks
Street with a wood frame extension at the rear, perhaps meant as a woodshed or summer
kitchen. 0n the east side of the property there were three separate ï¬‚ame sheds. One may
have been a small barn, for family stories tell of a cow being kept in the back yard. The
other sheds provided space for an oï¬‚ice and workshop.

John Lamb & San, Engineers

Johnâ€˜s sons were to have a part in the business, John Lamb & Son, Engineers, Jim,
now nineteen years old, was skilled in drawing plans, an architect and designer in the
making. He worked with his father in setting up many small mills in the Ottawa area. In
1873, he was appointed to the Chief Architect's Branch, Department of Public Works of
the Civil Service, a post he held for 48 years.

Willie, almost seventeen, was a born salesman with an interest in meeting people.
Soon he was working part-time as a clerk in Crosby's Boot and Shoe Store on Sparks
Street as well as travelling in eastern Ontario and Quebec consulting with local mill owners
and supervising the installation of mill equipment, About 1866 he opened his own boot
and shoe store, called Hie Red Boot, on Sussex Street.

Many years later, Jean McGibbon Gervan, whose daughter Eva, would marry
Willie's son, Walter, in 1925, recalled Willie Lamb staying at her father's home in
Brownsburg, Quebec, in the 1860's, while overseeing the installation of machinery in the
McGibbon Mills.

In a letter written in 1867, Willie told of staying with Ruben Lawrie and his family
in St. Catharines, Ontario, while consulting about mill equipment for the Lawrie Mills in
nearby Port Dalhousie. It was on this ï¬rst visit to St Catharines that Willie met Robert
Lawrie's niece, Helen Lawrie Black, whom he married in 1868.

Herk, the youngest in the family, seems to have apprenticed as an engineer under
his father, then worked with him in the family business, John Lamb & Son, Engineers, 316-
320 Sparks Street in Ottawa.

About 1866, a new survey by the City of Ottawa, assigned street numbers to the
properties in this area. The Lamb home became 320 Sparks Street, the remaining property
designated as 316 and 318 Sparks Street and 317-319-321 Queen Street.

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Ute McKay Mills at The ChuudiÃ©re

On the south side of the great cataract known as the Chaudiere Falls on the Ottawa
River are several fairly large islands separated by channels of swiï¬-ï¬‚owing water. By
1858, the islands and even the great cataract had been bridged providing easy access
between Ottawa on the south side and Hull on the north side of the river.

ChaudiÃ©re Island, near the south shore, was the location of the Ottawa Mills of the
McKay Milling Co. owned by Thomas McKay, a nephew of the Honourable Thomas
McKay who had built the ï¬rst mills at New Edinburgh and later, Rideau Hall,

The Ottawa Mills are described as extensive and complete ï¬‚our and oatmeal mills. The
company also had a warehouse and ofï¬ces on Sussex Street near St. Patrick. One report
says that in the mid-19th century, oatmeal exports by the McKay Milling Co. to the British
market were worth over $300,000 annually. John Lamb was one of the millwrights
overseeing the mechanical operations at the Ottawa Mills, a short distance to Wellington
Street, down the hill and across the bridges ï¬'om his Sparks Street home.

Alter many years of operation, the McKay Milling Company's Ottawa mills on
Chaudiere Island were completely destroyed in the Great Fire of April 26th, 1900, which
razed Hull, then crossed the Chaudiere islands and spread to the west end of Ottawa before
being extinguished.

A Royal Visitor Comes to Ottawa

In the summer of 1860, the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, came to Canada to
lay the cornerstone of the new Parliament Buildings being built on Barracks Hill in Ottawa.
On August 3 1 st, he travelled up the Ottawa River from Montreal on the steamer Phoenix,
escorted by six other steamers and many small boats and canoes. Near his destination,
lumberrnen ï¬'om up and down the Ottawa valley joined the procession in more than one
hundred large canoes. The residents along the Ontario and Quebec shores watched in awe
as this amazing procession of boats passed their homes,

Among those who watched was Jim Lamb, then nineteen years of age, Early that
morning Jim made his way east ï¬'om his home on Sparks Street to the rocky bluï¬â€˜s high
above the Ottawa River near Rockliï¬‚â€˜e. There he sat and waited, sketchbook in hand, As
the procession of steamers and boats passed below on the river, he made sketches of the
scene. Later from his sketches, he painted the scene in watercolours, detailing each of the
seven steamers led by the Phoenix and over one hundred canoes providing the escort for
the Prince of Wales, He titled the watercolour, "Reception of HRH. The Prince of Wales
at Ottawa, Canada, Augt 31.31 1860, Lumbennen's River Escort. " This family treasure
remains in the possession of a great-granddaughter.

The following day, September lst, 1860, crowds gathered on Barracks Hill, later
called Parliament Hill, as the Prince of Wales ofï¬cially laid the cornerstone for the
Parliament Buildings. No doubt, all the Lamb family joined the crowds for this festive event
just four blocks from their home on Sparks Street.

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First Congregational Church
Elgin & Albert Streets
c, 1862.

Comerstones of on donalism

l) Fmdom to interpret the truth of the Bible
under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

2) Openness and tolerance tnwards others with
diï¬erem, distinctive beliefs.

3) Local responsï¬‚ility for church organization
and property.

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First Congregational Church? Florence & Kent Streets,
Ottawa. sketched by William Alexander Lamb c, 1915,
It became First United Church in 1925.

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A Congregational Church Renewed

Shortly alter moving to Ottawa, John Lamb received a letter dated June 17th, 1859,
from Rev. Kenneth M. Fenwick, of Kingston, Home Secretary of the Canadian
Congregational Missionary Society (C.C.M.S.). The letter had ï¬rst been sent to Rev.
Henry Wilkes, minister of Zion Congregational Church in Montreal, who appended a short
note with some speciï¬c procedural suggestions and his own encouragement

Mr. Fenwick reported on a recent meeting of the C.C.M.S. in Toronto when it was
decided to encourage and support a Congregational interest in Ottawa and to invite Rev.
Joseph Elliot, of Hawkesbury, to undertake this mission. He asked John Lamb to inform
Congregational friends of this decision and to consider what interim arrangements might be
needed pending Mr. Elliot's arrival.

Earlier, in 1846, an attempt had been made to establish a Congregational Church in
Bytown under the auspices of the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.) when Rev, James
Byme, appointed by the L.M.S., came from Hawkesbury to give leadership to the new
congregation. At ï¬rst the small group met in the Oddfellows' Hall on St. Paul/Besserer
Street in Lower Bytown. Soon a church building was begun on the west side of Elgin
Street near Sparks Street. About ï¬ve years later the L.M.S. withdrew its support. The
partly-built church building was sold and became known as the Temperance Hall, shared
with a group of Baptists. Mr. Byme was succeeded in 1851 by Rev. Richard Miles, who
remained until 1857. When he leï¬, the congregation ceased to meet.

John Lamb needed no further encouragement to contact the few people attached to
the earlier Congregational cause. On March 10th, 1860, the ï¬rst meeting of
Congregationalists was held in the Temperance Hall with Rev. Henry Wilkes, of Montreal,
Rev. Kenneth M. Fenwick of Kingston, and Rev. Joseph Elliot, of Hawkesbury, present.
A list of 22 charter members transferring from other congregations included John Lamb,
Mary Lamb, Thomas Gallagher and Elizabeth Gallagher from Whitby Congregational
Church. A unanimous call was extended to Rev. Joseph Elliot, who being present,
accepted forthwith. Two deacons, John Lamb and John Gibson, were appointed.

Sunday worship services were held morning and evening in the Temperance Hall,
with John Lamb as precentor. Wednesday evening prayer meetings were followed by a
congregational meeting or sometimes a special committee meeting,

In 1861 a ï¬nance committee was appointed and the following year a lot was
purchased on the southwest corner of Elgin and Albert Streets for a new church building.
The architect was H.H.Horsey, of Kingston, and the building contractors, Gallagher &
Hodgson of Ottawa. The building of the church of local blue stone, proceeded quickly.
The cornerstone was laid on May 19th, 1862 and the church held opening services on
October 19th, although the building was not completely ï¬nished inside.

With the move of the Parliament of the United Canadas ï¬'om Quebec City to
Ottawa in 1865 with many of its employees, there was a considerable increase in the
population of Ottawa, some joining First Congregational Church,

The Organ Question
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began discussing the possibility of having an organ to provide the music for worship. This

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issue was being raised among many Protestant churches at the time. John Lamb, for one,
did not like the idea, but then he would no longer be needed as precentor. Wisely, he
decided to let the younger members have their way. At a congregational meeting in
January, 1866, â€œit was moved and seconded, that we have no objection to the aid of
instrumental music in this place of worship.â€ The motion carried. Shortly alter, a used
organ was purchased and installed. This was replaced with a new organ in 1871.

One of the early organists was John Lambâ€˜s granddaughter, Hettie Gallagher (1859-
1924). Many years later, another granddaughter, Edith Lamb (1870-1955) was organist
and choir director from 1917-1935.

The Fenian Threat

Ottawa always had a military presence since the days of Bytown and the building of
the Rideau Canal. Over the years, companies of volunteers or militia had been raised, then
disbanded a few years later. In 1866 and again in 1870, Canada was under threat of
invasion along the St. Lawrence River ï¬'ontier by the Fenians who gathered their forces at
various places on the American side of the borderi The Fenians were a rogue Irish
independence movement in the United States who thought they could help their cause in
Ireland by invading Canada.

Young Ottawa men, including Jim and Herk Lamb, responded to the call for
volunteers. In 1866, Jim served with the 3rd Ottawa Regiment at Cornwall, Four years
later, Herk enlisted in the 151 Ottawa Riï¬‚e Company which, along with other militia units,
was sent to Prescott, one of the danger points along the St. Lawrence River. The lst
Ottawa Riï¬‚e Company was at Prescott ï¬'om May 25th to June 20th, 1870, when the threat
of Fenian Raids was stopped quickly by the intervention of the American government.

New Patents

In 1866, John Lamb was granted patent No. 2088 under an Act of the Parliament
of Canada, for A New And Useï¬rl Water Wheel, dated 23rd August 1866. Called the lamb
Water Turbine, it was featured in advertisements of John Lamb & Son, Engineers. These
turbines were compact and strong, producing power much more efï¬ciently than earlier
water wheels.

Four years later, on March 5th, 1870, patent No. 269 (New Series) for A Machine
For Separating Greats From Other Grain, was issued to J. Lamb of Ottawa. This was
advertised as Lamb â€˜s Patent Grout Screen.

113. Lamb, John's son Jim, received a patent, No. 1606 (New Series) for
Improvement in Binding Rollers, issued Slst August 1872. The machinery patented and
sold by the Lambs was manufactured to their speciï¬cations by N. S. Blasdell, a foundry on
ChaudiÃ©re Island well known for their implements and tools. In eastern Canada
the Lamb Water Turbineâ€˜s biggest competition came from the American-made Leffel water
wheel. Some mills even used turbines ï¬'om both companies. Hence the need to advertise
the Lamb Water Turbine as widely as possible. John Lamb offered facts and testimonials
from satisï¬ed mill owners. A circular published about 1882 had testimonials from mil]
owners in such communities as Lachute Mills, Danville, Chelsea, Buckingham, Kazabazua
and Hull in Quebec, and Hawkesbury, Plantagenet, Amprior,

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Carleton Place, Galetta, Oxford Mills and Ottawa in Ontario, Some mills had as many as
ï¬ve Lamb Turbines. The E. B. Eddy Company of Hull, Quebec, had four Lamb Water
Turbines using water from the Ottawa River, Nearly a century later these turbines were
still in daily use in the Eddy mills and only ceased operation when the mills were sold and
dismantled to make space for the Museum of Civilization, which opened in 1989,

At times, John Lamb and his sons, visiting a mill site on mill business, were asked
or perhaps offered to help with local community or church events. In 1872, Andrew
Pritchard of Kazabazua, Quebec, engaged John Lamb to install one or more Lamb Water
Turbines in his mill on the Gatineau River, some 50 miles north of Ottawa. At that time
the local Methodists needed someone to draw up plans for the church they hoped to build.
The annals of the Methodist Church, which became Kazabazua United Church in 1925, say
the church was built in the summer of 1872 with plans sketched by the architects, l. C.
Chamberlain and John Lamb,

The Gallagher: of Ottawa

Shortly aï¬er Elizabeth Jane Lamb married Thomas Gallagher (1819-1882) in
Whitby, they moved to Ottawa where Thomas began his own construction ï¬rm of
Gallagher and Hodgson. One of the ï¬rm's ï¬rst contracts was the building of the new
Congregational Church at the comer of Elgin and Albert Streets. Thomas and Elizabeth's
home was on Metcalfe Street near Maria Street, later called Laurier Avenue. They had four
children, all born in Ottawa. The ï¬rst three were daughters: Henrietta/Hettie Gallagher
born in 1859, Elizabeth/Libby Annie Gallagher, in 1861, and M Eleanor Galla er in
1863. Mary Eleanor only lived about six months and died in 1864. A son, Thomas/Tom
Lincoln Gallagher was born in 1865. All the family attended the Congregational Church.

On November l2th, 1868, Elizabeth died at 32 years of age, leaving three young
children, the eldest, Hettie only 9 years old. Elizabeth was buried in Beechwood
Cemetery. The following year, 1869, Thomas married a young widow, Mary Streit. For a
time, Thomas worked as a civil servant in the federal government in Ottawa. He died in
1882.

In 1894, Libby married Frank H. Till, of Toronto. Three years later, in 1897, Tom
married Alice Squarey. Both families lived in Toronto. Hettie remained in Ottawa. In
1904 she married Thomas Birkett, (1844-1920), a widower and former mayor of Ottawa
and member of parliament. Earlier, in 1896, he had built a large house at 306 Metcalfe
Street, sometimes referred to as Birkett's Castle from its castellated roof-line. In the 20th
century it was designated as a heritage building in Ottawa and later became home of the
Heritage Foundation of Canada. Thomas Birkett died in 1920 and Hettie in 1924. Both are
buried in Beechwood Cemetery.

The Roddens of Ottawa Move to Montreal, 187 7.

Kate Lamb married William Richard John Rodden (1836-1899) of Montreal in
1861 in Ottawa. In Montreal, the Rodden family had a large ornamental iron business and
were active members of Zion Congregational Church. William Rodden & Co.
manufactured and sold iron columns, stairs, architectural iron-work, beds, stoves and other
household items. For some years Richard was the Ottawa agent for the company.

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Kate and Richard had seven children, all born in Ottawa. The eldest, a daughter,

was Ida Amelia Rodden (1864-1940), followed by two sons, William/Ellie Thomas
Rodden (1865-1946) and Francis/Frank Alexander Rodden (1867-1923). A second

daughter, Minnie Helen Rodden (1870-1931) and a third son, Richard Montgomery/Many
Rodden (1871-1965) were followed by two daughters, Ruby Catherine/Puss Rodden
(1873-1959) and Veronica/0mg Rodden (1875â€”1951).

About 1877, the Rodden family left Ottawa for the Montreal suburb of Cote St.
Antoine, later a part of Westmount. All the family except Ida, married and all but Onie,
remained in the Montreal area. Onie married Jesse Folsom Johnson and moved to
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Richard Rodden died in 1899. Nine years later, in 1908, Kate passed away. Kate,
Richard and all the family are buried in Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal.

In the late 19305, Ida Rodden visited her cousin, Edith Lamb, in Ottawa, She is
remembered as a tall gracious lady, a great knitter, who had the pink complexion, twinkling
blue eyes, snow white hair and warm smile, so familiar in the Lamb family. Ida died shortly
after this visit.

A Golden Celebration, 1885

John Lamb and Mary Dewar were married at St. Andrews, Argenteuil County, on
November 4th, 1835. Fiï¬y years later they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with
a gathering at First Congregational Church in Ottawa. This excerpt from the Daily Citizen
of November 5th, 1885 describes the event.

Golden WeddingAnniversary

Mr and Mrs John Lamb, who are among the oldest and most respected
residents of Ottawa, celebrated the ï¬ftieth anniversary of their wedding
yesterday. In the evening they received the hearty congratulations of a
large number of relatives and friends, and were the recipients of many
handsome mementoes of the high esteem in which they are held The
members of the Congregational Church, in which they me active workers,
presented an address, accompanied by an elegant gold brooch, set with
pearls, from the ladies of the congregation to Ms Lamb. Ihe address,
which is one of Mr Medlowâ€™s masterpieces, was enclosed in a magniï¬cent
gilt frame, the illuminated border being a most beautiful piece of work.
The following is the text;

Beloved Friends, Kindly permit us, in the name of the Congregational
Church in this City, of which you have been honoured members ï¬om
its organization, to join your family in their congratulations on your
attaining today, the Fiftieth Anniversary of your marriage. We rejoice
with you in the health and vigour you still enjoy, and in the good
Providence of God you have been brought through all the vicissitudes
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occasion, by your children and grandchildren, all of them beloved and
respected in the community, and giving hope of their walking in the
paths of Piety, Temperance and Virtue, in which you have led the way,
May the dear Lord and Master, whom you have sought to honour,
graciously bring them all to know Him, and may He long spare you to
them, and to each other, imparting to you increasingly the joys of His
Salvation, and making your declining years more joyous, if possible,
than your earlier ones â€”"At evening time it shall be light. â€ â€” The God
of Peace be with you, and be your guide even unto death.

The address was read by Rev Mr (John) Wood. Mr Lamb, who with his
atbnirable wife. was taken completely by surprise - both being visibly
aï¬‚ected - replied with a few happy remarks, after which the company
present was entertained with light good old-fashioned hospitality. A very
pleasant hour was passed the enjwment being enhanced by some choice
selections of music by members of the choir.

Mr aners Lamb have reached their 77th and 75th years respectively, but
are still hole and hearty with every prospect of fulï¬lling their many
friendsâ€™ good wishes, that they may yet enjoy a number of years of
continued happiness and prosperity.

Skits, Stunts and Musical Events

In the early years of First Congregational Church, the minutes of the congregational
meetings often record John Lamb responsible for arranging entertainment, the planning of
an evening program of skits, stunts and always, music. At that time most people expected
to participate, needing only to be asked. On occasion, the choir provided an evening of
music. Edith Lamb and her younger brother, Walter, recalled their grandfather, John Lamb,
gathering many of his twenty grandchildren together and coaching them in recitations,
songs, skits and choruses. Sometimes the boys performed gymnastic stunts. Some played
the piano, others sang solos or duets, one was remembered playing his trombone, and John
himself played his bassoon. The church newsletter, The Congregational Record, in its
March 1886 issue, described one event in these words:

At one of our meetings this month, we had the rather unusual
spectacle of a grandfather singing a song and his granddaughter playing
the accompaniment. There might not be anything extraordinary about the
occurrence had not the song been sung with all the spirit of a young man,
The singer was Mr. John Lamb who celebrated his golden wedding last
fall.

The granddaughter could have been either Hettie Gallagher, then twenty-six, or
Edith Lamb, then ï¬ï¬‚een years ofage. Both were accomplished pianists and organists.

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The Tea PotAccoumâ€˜

Like most women of her generation, Mary Lamb lived and worked quietly behind
the scenes, creating a home for her husband and family. Very few relics remain to tell of
her life. One known item is her account book with The T ea Pat, a grocery shop in Ottawa.
The small leatherâ€”bound book measuring 4 by 6 inches, opens with these words, â€œMrs John
Lamb, Sparks Street, in a/c with John Hill, The Tea Pot, Rideau Street, Ottawa.â€

The lined pages have vertical columns for the store clerk to enter the date, quantity
of the purchased item and the price, with the total amount owed at the bottom of the page.
Payments were made periodically in cash. The pages are interleaved with blotting paper
which prevented the writing in ink from being smeared when the page was turned or the
book closed.

Most purchases listed in the account book cost less than one dollar. Some were
household items such as soap, brooms and brushes, washing soda and candles; others were
food items, tinned salmon, oysters, peas and tomatoes, various cereals, oatmeal, barley and
rice, several kinds of biscuits, frequently cheese, butter, most oï¬en in prints,but sometimes
in 20 pound tubs, eggs at 10 cents a dozen, rarely oranges and lemons.

Once a month, Mary, Mrs John Lamb, as she was known in the trade, purchased
one pound of Japan or green tea and, once in a while, a pound of black tea. At 65 to 75
cents a pound tea was by far the most expensive item on her grocery list. Twice each
month, Mary bought 10 pounds of granulated sugar at 10 cents a pound, easily the largest
purchase.

The account book was provided by John Hill, who operated The Tea Pot between
January 6th 1877 and September 2nd, 1879. There are no further entries until August 6th,
1884, when entries resume under the name of Scott & Ramsford. The account was paid in
hill on July 2nd, 1886, two days alter Mary's death on June 30th. The Tea Pot account
book remains in the Lamb family.

A Sudden Passing

Mary Lambâ€™s death seems to have been quite unexpected. It was not until mid-June
of 1886 when guests arriving for the annual meeting of the Congregational Union of
Ontario and Quebec realized that she was not her usual self. Her health failed quickly and
she died at home, surrounded by her family on June 30th, the day before her 75th birthday,
The ï¬rneral took place in First Congregational Church followed by burial in Beechwood
Cemetery. John and Herk continued to live in their Sparks Street home and carry on the
business of Johir Lamb & Son, Engineers.

The Porters Emigrrue to Boston, 1886

My Ann Lamb, the fourth daughter of John and Mary, was always called Minnie.
On May 30th, 1872, Minnie married Thomas/Tom Porter, in Ottawa. Tom was bom at
Lyme Regis, County Dorset, England, in 1848 and came to Canada with his family. In
Ottawa he owned a tea shop on Rideau Street at the comer of Sussex Street. In some
notes about his childhood years in Ottawa, Tom Porters nephew, Arthur/Art Lamb (1874-
1944), recalled visiting Porter's Tea Shop. From windows over the shop, Art and his
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Riel Rebellion of 1885.

Minnie and Tom had six children, the ï¬rst ï¬ve born in Ottawa. Their ï¬rst child,
William Alli-ed Porter, born October 30th, 1873, lived only about 3 months and died
February 16th, 1874, A daughter, Minnie Maud Porter, was born later in 1874, followed
by two sons, Wilï¬'ed/Wilf Hardy Porter, in 1877 and Thomas Percival/Percy Porter, in
1880. A second daughter, Aveline/Avelyn Alice Porter was born in 1883. In 1886,
Minnie, Tom and their family moved to Boston where a third daughter, Bemice Marion
Porter, was born in 1892.

From time to time, members of the Porter family returned to Ottawa to visit their
Lamb cousins. One such visit occurred about 1912 when Avelyn Porter came from Boston
to stay with her Uncle Jim and Aunt Maggie Lamb at their home on Gilmour Street. One
evening, her Uncle Jim invited a young man, recently from Scotland, who worked with him
in the Department of Public Works in Ottawa, to the Lamb home for dinner. Charlie
Ewen, a native of Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was captivated by the young
American cousin, Avelyn Porter. Several years later, they were married in Ottawa where
they lived for many'years. They had one daughter, Jean Loma Avelyn Ewen, who married
David Henderson Gervan in 1939. Both Tom and Minnie Lamb Porter died in Boston;
Tom in 1922 and Minnie in 1936.

Bedridden!

Two and a half years after Maryâ€˜s death, John Lamb, always blessed with good
health, suffered a severe stroke in December, 1889, at eighty years of age, leaving him
completely paralysed on his lett side and conï¬ned to bed. Needing constant care, John was
moved to the Gilmour Street home of his eldest son, Jim and his wife Maggie Black, who
had married in 1873. Herk closed the business and the Sparks Street part of the property
was sold. For the next ï¬ve and a half years, Maggie looked aï¬er her father-in-law, with
help ï¬'om Herk, Jim, and Willie and their families.

During this time John had occasional visitors including his minister, Rev. John
Wood. Many years later, a note written to Mr. Wood by John while bedridden, was
returned to Lamb family. The handwriting rambles over the page but the intent of the
message is clear:

Revd John Wood,
I had hoped Dear Sir, to hear you preach as usual, but I ï¬nd our

Lord would have me keep bed a little longer, and! have good reason to be
content. He has been so kind to me all my days and not the least since my
sickness and I thank you for your kindness in calling to see me and
bringing to mind the words of Jesus. I will be glad to hear from you. I
intend to go to Montreal as soon as I am able and hope to see you. Please
write me.

Yours truly,

John Lamb.

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Gone to His Rest
With these words an unidentiï¬ed newspaper clipping dated May 11th, 1895,
announced the passing of John Lamb in his 86th year, on Friday, May 10th. It continues,

For ï¬ve yemâ€˜s, he has been conï¬ned to his room with paralysis, and
recently became worse until last night, when death relieved him of his
suï¬‚eringsi

His obituary in The Canadian Independent, published by the Congregational Union
of Ontario and Quebec, June 1895, speaks of his part in church life.

He was mainly instrumental in organizing and supporting the
Congregational cause, being Deacon, Sunday School teacher, and musical
instructor, and his conscientious, faithful work there is written in the
annals of eternity He was ever ready with a kind word and deed for
anyone in need and it was always given in a most cheerful and hearty way
which was entirely in accord with his unselfish disposition. He had
unusual conï¬dence in the honesty and good purposes of others, and only
with great reluctance would he ever admit their intentional wrongdoing

His funeral was held in First Congregational Church on Sunday aï¬emoon, May
12th, Burial followed in Beechwood Cemetery.

A Tribute to John Lamb, Inventor, 1920

An unexpected tribute to John Lamb was given some twenty-ï¬ve years later in a
paper prepared by William S, Lynch, Chief of the Canadian Patent Office, for the Women's
Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, on Early Patents For Inventions Granted to
Residents of Ottawa. His paper, delivered on December 10th, 1920, lists the patents
obtained by John Lamb, among others, with a biief outline of his life, including these
words:

The results of his services are still in evidence throughout the provinces
of Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia. He originated and introduced many
improvements in grain cleaning and reducing machinery and wood
working machines, and the distinctive features of his "Turbine Water
Wheels, "patented by him in Canada, are vital parts of the most popular
wheels now in use.

To future generations, his children and grandchildren passed down a sense of love
and admiration for this manyâ€”faceted man, always speaking with awe at his many lifetime
accomplishments.

Herk Leaves for the Klondike
Alter the death of his father in 1895, Herk continued to live with his brother, Jim,

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and his family on Gilmour Street. Then came the Klondike Gold Rush!

In mid 1896, word that gold had been discovered along the Klondike River in the
Yukon, spread like wildï¬re. In a very short time thousands were making their way to the
northwest, sure they would ï¬nd gold. There were headlines in the newspapers, stories of
gold found in the rivers, songs and poetry written about this road to riches. The railways
and steamships published ads crying, "Ho for the Klondike!â€œ and â€œThe Klondike or bust!"
Typical is this verse printed in a local paper,

All you miners wide awake!

Go to the Klondike, make your stake;
Get out your pick, your pan, your pack,
Go to the Klondike, donâ€™t come back
H0 for the Klondike. Ho!

Herk, possibly with his cousin, Will Lamb (1856-1927), decided to join the
multitudes on the trek to the Klondike.

The gold rush was over by 1899. Only a few made a fortune; most returned home
no richer than when they went. Will Lamb came back to Ottawa but Herk remained in the
northwest. In 1900, Herk was living at Atlin, British Columbia, a town south of Whitehorse
near the Yukon-BC. border. Little was heard from him over the years. In 1911, in
response to a letter from Herk, his brother, Jim, wrote:

We are gradually getting over the shock of getting your letter of
Thursday last. We had begun to wonder whether you were going to be one
of those "never heard ofsâ€ and so we were glad to get your letter and know
thatyou were still in Canada

Later in the letter Jim says, â€œYou did not say how you came out of the Klondike
deal By 1914, Herk was living in Vancouver.

Aï¬er an absence of thirty years and little contact with his family, about 1928, Herk
returned to Ottawa, sick and penniless. He lived with his brother, Willie, and his nieces,
Edith and Ethel Lamb. Herk is remembered as a thin, jovial man, candies always in his
jacket pockets for the children in the family.

Herk died in 1936 in his 86th year and was buried beside his parents in Beechwood
Cemetery. He leï¬ no will, only a pile of worthless mining stock certiï¬cates. Two pieces of
jewelry remained in the Lamb family; a man's tie pin with a small pure gold nugget and a
long hat pin for a woman's hat of the 1912 era with a large gold nugget. Later generations
assumed the nuggets were relics of Herk's Klondike days.

Settling an Estate

At ï¬rst, John Lamb's will seemed very simple. His estate was to be divided into six
equal parts, one part for each of his live living children, the sixth to be divided into three
equal parts, one for each of Elizabeth Gallagher's surviving children, Hettie Gallagher,
Libby Gallagher Till, and Tom Gallagher.

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Most assets could be divided quite easily. The problem was how to divide or
dispose of the Queen Street property consisting of three city lots. Only Jim and Willie
Lamb and their niece, Hettie Gallagher, were living in Ottawa. Herk was in the Yukon or
B.C., Kate in Montreal, Minnie in Boston and Libby Till and Tom Gallagher, in Toronto.

Jim, employed in the Department of Public Works, knew the federal government
was looking for storage space in central Ottawa and was offering long-term leases for the
kind of space they required. Realizing the Queen Street property was an ideal site for a
warehouse, Jim and Willie proposed to form a partnership and offer to buy out the othersâ€™
interest in the property, providing they could arrange a long-term lease and raise the
mortgage money to build the warehouse. The others agreed.

The Lamb Building

By August 1900, arrangements were completed, plans for the warehouse drawn up,
mortgages and a long-term lease obtained and a contract with the builder, signed. Jim
looked alter the building and technical matters; Willie dealt with ï¬nances and business
details. In many ways the brothers complimented one another. Willie's account ledger,
beginning in 1900, is still kept in the Lamb family.

In a few months a two story red brick building rose on the Queen Street site,
known as the Lamb Building at 319 Queen Street. The Department of Public Works
moved into the almost finished building on March lst, 1901, paying three months rent in
advance. Willie made a chart at the ï¬'ont of his ledger showing the amount of principal
owed to each of the others named in John Lamb's will with interest paid quarterly. The
payments were made on time during the next four years and by the end of 1904, all debts
owing to family members were paid in full. All seemed to go smoothly at the Lamb
Building for about 10 years. Then

The Fireworks Show

In a letter to his brother, Herk, dated June 11th 1911, Jim Lamb describes this
unexpected event. Jim and Willie sometimes referred to each other by their initials; Jim
was J .B. and Willie, W.A. Beginning in August of 1910, a two story annex of matching red
brick was added on the east side of the original building. Jim tells of the event in these
words:

I wonder if you have heard anything of the ï¬re works show Will and
I gave here one day last winter The Govâ€™t wanted more room than we
had for them in our Queen St. building and W.A. oï¬‚ered to build an
addition to it. Yhey agreed to pay the rent we asked and up went the
annex. lt wasjusl about ready at the beginning of the year (1911) when on
the 4th of January in the manufacture of methylated spirits some of the
stuï¬‚ got mixed up with the electric motor and the old part of the building
was all red hot in a few minutes. It was a good day for aï¬re as there was
a ï¬erce icy blizzard blowing. All the woodwork of the old building was
burnt and some damage in the new wing We had some insurance but not
as much as the ï¬re cost us. It was only last week that the whole of the

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building was taken over by the Depâ€™t again. There was a large stock of spirits in at that
time but only one barrel caught so it might have been worse than it was.

The govenunent remained as tenants for some thirty years, ï¬nally moving out in
1933 at the height of the Great Depression of the 19305. The building stood empty for
three years. As the economy improved in the late [9305, new tenants were found.

Alter Jimâ€˜s death in 1923, the building was jointly owned by the IE. Lamb estate
and Willie. When Willie died in 1935, Willie's younger son, Walter Lamb, purchased the
interest of the J. B. Lamb estate, becoming the sole owner. The Lamb Building ï¬nally
passed from the Lamb family when it was sold in 1958, Today the land lies under one of
Ottawaâ€™s downtown towers a short walk from Parliament Hill.

[intertwined Families

Jim and Willie Lamb's descendants oï¬‚en described the two families as one big
family because so many of their activities interconnected over the years, making it difï¬cult
to write about one family and not include the other.

About 1865, Willie Lamb visited St. Catharines on behalf of John Lamb & Son,
Engineers, to meet and discuss mill machinery with Robert Lawrie who, with his brother,
John Lawrie, owned the Lawrie Flour Mills in nearby Port Dalhousie. As a guest of the
Lawrie family, Willie joined the Lawries for Sunday services at the Scotch Presbyterian
Church, later renamed Knox Presbyterian Church, He was delighted when an acappella
choir of young women sang several anthems. He was even more delighted to meet two of
the choir members, Helen Lawrie Black, and her sister, Magdalene/Maggie Bone Black, at
the Lawrie home. Their mother, Helen Bone Black, who died in 1855, was a ï¬rst cousin of
Robert Lawrie.

Lawries, Bond and Blacks

The Lawrie family came to Canada in 1837 ï¬‚'om their home in East Lothian, also
called Haddingtonshire, in Scotland. For centuries, Lawrie and Bone families had lived in
the Parishes of Innerwick and Oldhamstocks in the southern part ofEast Lothian where the
Larnmermuir Hills reach down to the North Sea, There, Robert Lawrieâ€˜s father, John
(17864863) had owned a grist mill on Dunglass Burn below the village ofOldhamstocks.

In Canada, John Lawrie, his wife, Margaret Davidson, their ï¬ve sons and two
daughters, settled on a farm on Lot 16 & part of Lot 15, Concession HI, Grantham Twp,
about two miles north of St. Catharines. Three of the Lawrie sons, Robert (1818-1905),
John Jr,(1820-]877) and William (1827-1859) built a ï¬‚our mill at nearby Port Dalhousie
where their families lived for some years. In 1863, Robert Lawrie and his wife, Eleanor
Pawling, moved to a home on Race Street in St Catharines. In Scotland the Lawries were
members of the United Secession Church. When they came to Canada they joined the
Scotch Presbyterian Church in St Catharines, providing nine of the twenty-four charter
members when it was formed in 1841.

In 1852, Thomas Bone, a ï¬rst cousin of Robert Lawrie, emigrated to Canada with
his family and also settled in St. Catharines. Thomas was well known for his work as a

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Baptist minister for almost forty years with the Welland Canal Mission working with
sailors on the canal,

Two years later, in 1854, another ï¬rst cousin of Robert Lawrie, Helen Bone Black,
her husband, John Black(1819-1885) and their four children, John Kirkwood Black, age
11, Jamieson Bone Black, age 8, Helen Lawrie Black, age 6, and Maggie Bone Black, age
3, am'ved in Port Dalhousie from Scotland. John, a cooper, was employed at the Lawrie
Mills,

011 April 10th, 1855, tragedy stnick. An obituary in the St. Catharines
Constitution of April 11th, 1855, tells the story:

At Port Dalhousie on the 1 01h inst. immediately after childbirth,
Helen, wife of John Black, both nieces of John Lawrie, Grantham Twp.

Helen Bone Black, age 37 years, was buried in St, Andrews Cemetery Port
Dalhousie. The baby, Janet/Jen lived and was cared for by John Blackâ€˜s sister, Margaret,
who lived with them. Three year old, Maggie, went to live with Robert Lawrie and his
wife, Eleanor, who had no children of their own and lived nearby in Port Dalhousie. The
other children, John, Jamieson and Helen, grew up moving back and forth between the
Black and Lawrie homes. By 1865, Helen and Maggie were singing in the choir at the
Scotch Presbyterian Church. in St Catharines, which all the family attended.

Brothm Marry Sisters

In July of 1867, Willie Lamb wrote a letter, still in existence, to Helenâ€˜s father, John
Black of Port Dalhousie, telling him of their desire to marry. Aï¬er stating his favourable
business prospects as owner of The Red Boot, a boot and shoe store in Ottawa, and their
plans to marry in a year or two, Willie asked for his blessing on their marriage, At the time
of the letter it appeared that Helen was living in St Catharines with the Robert Lawries
Pemiission must have been given, as Willie and Helen were married on November 12, 1868
in St Catharines, later taking up residence in Ottawa.

Willie and Helen had ï¬ve children all born at home in Ottawa. The eldest was a
daughter, Edith Helen Lamb born October 21st 1870, followed by four sons, William
Hmert Lamb, born June 28th, 1872, John Arthur Lamb born June 1st, 1874, Charles
Kirkwood Lamb born September 1st, 1876, and Walter James Thornton Lamb on
December 26th, 1878, Two of the boys died in early childhood, William Herbert on
August 4th, 1875, just 3 yearsof age, and Charles Kirkwood, on September 24th, 1876,
only 23 days old.

The early 1870s brought a general economic depression in Canada and Willie found
it necessary to close The Red Boot on Sussex Street. For several years he worked as a
bookkeeper; then joined the Confederation Life Insurance Company as one of their agents
in Ottawa, remaining for over thirty years,

It is uncertain just when Willie's brother, Jim met Helen's sister, Maggie. It is
certain they were married in St, Catharines on November 13th, 1873, then made their home
in Ottawa, Jim and Maggie had three children born in Ottawa. A son, Robert/Bob Lawrie
m was born in 1875 followed by a daughter, Ethel Florence Lamb in 1877, and a

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second son, William/Billy Herbert Lamb in 1881.

Both families took an active part in the life of First Congregational Church, Willie
and Jim were life deacons and trustees. Helen and Maggie actively participated in the
Ladies Aid and the Womanâ€˜s Board of Home Missions Wednesday night was Prayer
Meeting; Thursday night, choir practice. There were morning and evening services on
Sunday and Sunday School in the aï¬emoon. It made for a close church and family
community

Song and Poetry from Scotland

Broad Scots was the language the Blacks and Lawries brought to Canada. This
dialect of nor-them English was mainly spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland, south of the
Forth and Clyde Rivers including East Lothian. Robert Burns (1759-1796), affectionately
known as Robbie Bums, made Broad Scots popular with his songs and poems, still sung
and quoted today wherever Scots gather,

Robbie Burns was bom at Alloway, Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. At an
early age, he began to write songs and poems in Broad Scots, such as Auld Lang Syne,
Flaw Gently Sweet A flan, Ye Banks and Braes, Coming Through the Rye and Seals Wha
Hue. Many Scots around the world celebrate Bums' birthday each year on January 25th, at
a dinner when a haggis is ceremonially served following a recitation of Bumsâ€˜ poem, T a a
Haggis.

In Ottawa, it was traditional for the Lamb families to attend the annual Bums'
Dinner as well as the St, Andrew's Society meeting on November 30th, an evening of
Scottish song and dance. In later years, Edith Lamb oï¬en provided the piano
accompaniment on these occasions.

A framed illustrated grace, in Broad Scots, attributed to Robbie Burns, hung on the
dining room wall of three generations of Lambs in Ottawa. It was repeated by several
generations of children who did not understand the language but delighted with the sound
of the words. Called The Selkirk Grace, it is one of the few graces that remembers the sick,
who canna eat, and the hungry who want or have need of food, before oï¬‚'ering thanks for
oneâ€™s own blessings.

Some hae meat and mum eat,
And some wad eat that want it;
but we hae meat, and we can eat,
and me the Lord be thankit.

Identical Houses

Probably sometime in the 18805, the Lamb brothers purchased identical houses on
Gilmour Street four doors apart; the J.B. Lambs at 294 and the WA. Lambs at 302. Each
house had the same living-room ï¬n'niture and identical green carpets on the ï¬‚oor. For all,
it seemed to be a comfortable arrangement with much visiting back and forth.

Visiting Cousins
For the Lamb families, summer oï¬‚en meant travelling to St. Catharines where

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Helen and Maggie's brothers, John and Jamieson, and sister, Jen Black, lived. John had
married Magdalene Craise, a cousin, in 1869. They had eight children, six daughters and
two sons. The John Blacks lived in a large house on Race Street, next to Robert Lawrie,
whom everyone called Grandpa Lawrie, though he was not their grandfather, but a cousin
of their mother. All the girls slept in the house while the boys camped out in the back yard.
The yard included a large garden which one Lamb cousin recalled with delight, years later,
in these words, "The garden was enormous, the raspberries the biggest and the peaches the
sweetest than anything Iâ€˜ve ever seen or tasted in Ottawa.â€œ

Jamieson Black married Mary Houston in 1871. They had eleven children, of
whom four died in early childhood. One of the daughters, Jean Black (1883-1979), lived
to be 96 years of age. In her later years Jean wrote several letters about the Black family.

One summer was especially remembered. Uncle Jamieson was bringing a load of
grain by boat ï¬om Port Dalhousie to Kingston. The Lamb families were to meet him in
Kingston and return by boat across Lake Ontario to Port Dalhousie. At other times, the
Black cousins came to Ottawa for extended visits with the Lambs.

An Honours Graduate, 1890

Edith Lamb remembered trying to play the piano on her motherâ€˜s ironing board at
the age of four. Piano lessons followed and later organ lessons. Hours of practice on the
organ usually took place in unheated churches which could be very cold in winter.

In 1890, Edith graduated with honours in music and was awarded the silver medal
ï¬'om the London (England) College of Music which had their own examiners in Canada at
that time. The same year, at the age of 20, she became the organist at First Baptist Church
in Ottawa, a post she held for some 25 years. About 19â€, Edith was appointed organist
and choir director at First Congregational Church, where she remained until her retirement
in 1935. Over the years she taught piano and organ to numerous Ottawa students. Edith
was a talented accompanist playing for many Ottawa music groups, concerts and visiting
soloists, often performing in the Russell Theatre. Highlights of each year were the St.
Andrews Society events in November and the Burnsâ€˜ Day dimers in January when Scottish
music was the order of the evening.

Edith was known to compose music but her real delight was playing the organ or
listening to others perform. In her later years, radio brought operas and symphony
orchestras into her home, Edith died in 1955 in her 85th year, a gentle, gracious soul
remembered with love.

Camping at 110ng Back

An adventure long remembered in the Lamb families, was the year the four Lamb
boys, Art, Bob, Walter and Billy, went camping at Hogâ€™s Back, a spot where the Rideau
Canal and Rideau River meet, then about four miles southwest of the city limits, It was
probably in the early 18905, when the boys were in their teens.

Helen Black Lamb had a sewing machine on which she fashioned a tent of canvas
for the boys. When it was ready, they set it up in the back yard and waterproofed it with
linseed oil. Aï¬er several weeks of drying and testing, the tent was ready for use,
Excitement rose as they gathered their food and clothes. When all was ready, Art, Bob,

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Walter, Billy and their dog, Paddy, packed their tent, food and clothes, and started out on
their great adventure.

From Gilmour Street, they walked west to Bank Street and north to Maria/Lauder,
where they stopped at a shop to sample and buy bags of broken biscuits to take with them.
Then west to Concession /Bronson and south to the Canal Road which took them to Hog's
Back. There they set up their campsite.

By all accounts, it was an idyllic week of ï¬shing, hiking and swimming. Too soon
it was time to return home to Gilmour Street and their waiting families.

Itâ€™s in the Faminl You Know

Pemicious anemia, a fairly common condition in the 19th century, had an insidious
onset, oï¬‚en beginning with pallor and prematurely greying hair. Once diagnosed, it offered
perhaps twenty years of life, complicated with increasing problems of balance and sight and
developing weakness and numbness in arms and legs. It seemed to mn in families. The
cause and treatment were unknown. The condition gained the name â€˜pernieiousâ€™ because it
did not respond to the usual anemia treatment of iron salts.

Helen Black Lamb was probably diagnosed with pernicious anemia about 1895,
when its effect began to change her familyâ€˜s priorities. Her son, Walter, an honour student
and dux in classics, leï¬ the Ottawa Collegiate on Lisgar Street before graduation to work
at James Hope & Co., a stationery store on Sparks Street. Suddenly, he wanted to make it
possible for his parents to travel to Scotland and visit Helen's relatives and childhood home.
A few years later, the Laran had a new house built in the Glebe district, "out in the
country, for Mother's health." It was the second house built west of Bank Street on
Clemow Avenue.

About 1900, Helen's sister, Maggie, learned that she, too, had pernicious anemia
with perhaps twenty years to live. "It's in the family, you know," was the way family
members spoke of it. Pernicious anemia also aifected the next generation. Maggie and
Jimâ€˜s younger son, Billy, developed it about 1920. However, not long alter, it was
discovered that pernicious anemia responded to the eating of raw liver. Later, the factor in
raw liver was found to be Vitamin BIZ and an injectable form of the vitamin became the
eï¬â€˜ective treatment.

A Family Vacation at the Devil's Elbow, 1097

On August 15th 1897, the J.B. and WA. Lamb families embarked on on a
camping vacation, travelling to Kingston by way of the Rideau Canal. The Volunteer, a
steam boat with a glassed-in cabin accommodating 12 to 15 people and its captain, was
chartered in Ottawa for the two week period.

Twelve people went aboard at the Canal Basin: Jim and Maggie Lamb their sons,
Bob and Billy and daughter, Ethel, Willie and Helen Lamb their sons, Art and Walter and
daughter, Edith and lastly, Nell Black, a cousin visiting from St, Catharines and Captain
Jones.

The weather was good with many stops for sightseeing along the way. At night the
women slept in the Volunteer's cabin, the men in tents pitched on the shore. Meals were
picnic-style, sometimes in the cabin, at other times when the boat was tied up, on a grassy

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knoll.

Aï¬er a few days sightseeing in Kingston, they retraced their route through the
canal, stopping to camp for a week at a quiet glade on Mud Lake, called the Devilâ€™s
Elbow. Many jokes were made about good church folk staying at a place with such a
name.

A number of photos, probably taken by Art Lamb, and a ioumal written by Jim
Lamb, still survive. One photo taken at night at the Devilâ€™s Elbow, shows the group
gathered around a large campï¬re. In the journal it is described as a musical evening in
which "the bass would roll out strong and grand" and some of the women â€œwould forget
and soar away up into giddy heights of song." Scottish songs were particularly favoured.
Most of the campers are pictured with various musical instruments. Edith Lamb, normally
a church organist, is playing the mouth organ.

The week at the Devilâ€™s Elbow passed quickly. Too soon it was time to pack up
and return to Ottawa. On August 30th, the Volunteer and its passengers arrived at the
Canal Basin. As the campers made their way home, suddenly the noise and busyness of the
city stmck 16-year-old Billy Lamb. He turned to his father and innocently said, "Thereâ€˜s
more noise here than at the Devilâ€™s Elbow!"

Doc Lamb Goes West

After graduating from the Ottawa Collegiate on Lisgar Street, Art Lamb worked
for several years as a clerk at A. Workman & Co., a hardware store on Rideau Street,
saving for university. In 1894, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in
Montreal. Four years later, in 1898, he graduated with the degree of MD. in surgery and
medicine and returned to Ottawa as house surgeon at the Protestant General Hospital, A
year at the New York Lying-In Hospital in New York City followed. In 1901, he took a
position at Sand Coulee, Montana, ï¬nally settling in the Flathead Valley in northern
Montana about 50 miles south of the Canadian border.

The Flathead Valley, set amidst the snow-capped Rocky Mountains, was sparsely
settled at the tum of the 20th century. Travel was only possible by horseback. The Great
Northern Railway between Minneapolis and Seattle crossed through the valley, stopping at
Columbia Falls, a lumber center.

At ï¬rst, Art had his medical practice in Columbia Falls. In a few years a larger
center began to develop in the Flathead valley, some 15 miles to the southwest of Columbia
Falls, called Kalispell. It was here that Art ï¬nally settled.

In 1909, he married Maud Lovina Talbott (1879-193 I) of Columbia Falls. In
Kalispell, they were members of the Episcopal Church where Art sang in the choir. They
had one daughter, JosÃ©e Helen, born in 1911 who died shortly aï¬er birth In 1942, Art
married Ann Pederson (1900-1979), a high school teacher and gifted musician.

Over the years , Art or Doc Lamb, as he was affectionately known, was not only a
family doctor to the incoming settlers in the Flathead Valley, but a community builder who
pioneered many activities, Boy Scouts, the Masonic Order, parks and playgrounds for the
children, and in the 19205, along with others, he founded a radio station, KGEZ in
Kalispell. He also initiated the building of a local hospital. His personal hobbies were
many, including photography and amateur radio with his own ham radio station W7ABT in

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his home.
This was the legacy he leï¬ the town when he died in 1944 at the age of seventy
years. His gravestone in the Kalispell Cemetery bears these words,

His daily prayer, for better understood
In acts than words, was simply doing good

Twenty-ï¬ve years later, in 1968, while visiting Ann Pederson Lamb in Kalispell, the
writer asked a number of local folk if they remembered Doc Lamb. They responded
warmly, recalling events of past years. Strangely they all spoke in the present tense as if
Doc Lamb was still alive. Such was his impact on Kalispell.

"Walter and Billy, Where Have You Been?
Weâ€™ve Been to London to Visit the Queen. "

In the spring of 1902, excitement grew throughout the British Empire as the date of
the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra on June 26th, approached. In
oï¬‚icial Ottawa, Canadian representatives and a contingent of the Princess Louise Dragoon
Guards was preparing to travel to England for the event, In unoï¬icial Ottawa, two young
men, Walter Lamb, then 22 years of age, and his cousin, William/Billy Lamb, then 21,
made their own plans to attend the Coronation in London.

The Ottawa Evening Journal of Monday, May 26th, announced in large letters that
â€œMr.W.T.Lamb and William H.Lamb leï¬‚ this afternoon for Montreal, whence they will sail
for London to enjoy the festivities of the Coronation." In Montreal, they made their way to
the harbour looking for ships sailing for England. Finally, they signed on to the passenger
ship, the Ionian, replacing two crew who were leï¬‚ at the quarantine station at Grosse lle
with smallpox on its inbound voyage. The Ionian leï¬ Montreal for Liverpool on May 3 1 st.

Seasick or not, Walter and Billy had to serve meals to the passengers. There was
much scrubbing and cleaning between meals. The Ionian docked in Liverpool on June 9th.
Walter and Billy left by train for London.

They spent several weeks sightseeing in London and trying to contact some of the
ofï¬cers of the Canadian contingent in London, hoping there would be a space for them to
join the troops lining the parade route the day of the Coronation. Eventually, they were
offered jobs guarding the Canadian Arch at night.

Although the exact location of the Canadian Arch is not known, photos show a
high, decorated arch, probably built of lumber and decorated with many sheaves of wheat
and garlands of evergreens with wings of electric lights. The arch is topped with a
decorated cupola below which are these words in large letters,

CANADA
BRITAIN â€˜S GRANARY
God Save Our King & Queen

The large decorated pillars on either side of the road supporting the arch, contain

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porches where dignitaries can view the passing procession.

Since their nighttime guard duties meant sleeping in the daytime, Walter and Billy
seem to have missed the Coronation parade. However, Billy's log notes that they did see
King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier in Hyde Park. The King and Queen were
returning to London from Windsor and Billy says they received a special bow from the
Queen.

The Coronation festivities over, Walter and Billy returned to Canada the slow way,
on a cattle boat. They ï¬nally docked in Montreal and returned to Ottawa, glad to be home,
their adventure over.

On their return to the real world, Walter became an agent for the Greatâ€”West Life
Assurance Company in Ottawa. Billy joined the Bank of Nova Scotia, later moving to
Grenville, Buckingham and Lachute, all in the lower Ottawa valley.

Waning Days

In a photo taken in 1912 by her son, Art Lamb, who was visiting ï¬'om his home in
Kalispell, Montana, Helen Black Lamb, sitting on the veranda of her Clemow Avenue
home with her sister, Maggie, and others, appears very thin and trail, By March 1914, her
condition had worsened The family gathered on March 19th to mark Helen's 66th
birthday. Art Lamb and his wife, Maud, had arrived from Montana, Helenâ€™s brother,
Jamieson Black, and nieces and nephews came from St. Catharines, and other family
members from Montreal.

Aï¬er 20 years of decreasing vigour, Helen passed away the following day. Her
obituary in The Canadian Congregationalist of April 23rd, 1914, describes her passing in
these words,

0n the evening of March 201h, with her family about her, Mrs. Lamb
entered into rest. Thus sweetly and quietly came the passing of a good and
gentle life, whose sweet disposition endeared her to all with whom she
came in contact. Mrs, Lamb is faith in her Heavenly Father is well
expressed in her favorite quotation:

And so beside the silent sea

I wait with muï¬‚led oar.

No harm from Him can come to me
On ocean or on share,

I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;

I only know I cannot mift

Beyond His love and care.

Her funeral was held at her home. Burial followed beside her two infant sons in
Beechwood Cemetery.

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Lengthening Shadows

As the years passed, Maggie Black Lambâ€˜s health began deteriorating as a result of
pernicious anemia. In 1917 she was no longer able to provide communion care, providing
the elements for communion services at the church, a task she had faithfully carried out for
many years. On November 25th, 1919, Maggie died at her Gilmour Street home at the age
of 68 years, her family gathered round. Aï¬er services at her home, she was buried in
Beechwood cemetery.

Jim continued to work until his retirement in 1921 at 80 years of age. Two years
later, Jim died on March 13th, 1923, aï¬er a short illness. His funeral was at his home
followed by burial in Beechwood Cemetery. An obituary in the Ottawa Citizen of March
14th, 1923, recalls his lifetime accomplishments:

7he deceased developed a genius for aâ€˜raughting and designing and
was associated with his father in setting up many of the small mills then
being built around Ottawa. He was a vetenm of the Fenian Raid in 1866
and served with the 3rd Ottawa Regiment at Cornwall during that period

In 1873, the late Mr lamb was appointed to the chief architect is
branch of the public works department and after 48 years service, was
superannuated in 1921. He was a lifelong deacon of First Congregational
Church and an earnest worker in all branches of church life.

Jim was survived by his daughter, Ethel, living at home, two sons, Robert/Bob
Lawrie Lamb, an accountant in Montreal, his daughter-in-law, Grace Grant Lamb, two
yanddaughters, Jane and Susan Lamb, and William/Billy Herbert Lamb, a bank manager in
Buckingham, his daughter-inâ€”law, Jessie Christie Lamb, a granddaughter, Rosamond
Lamb, and a grandson, George Christie Lamb, two brothers, Willie Lamb, of Ottawa, and
Herk Lamb, of Vancouver, and a sister, Minnie Lamb Porter, of Boston.

Changing Circumstances

About 1923 the Lamb's Clemow Avenue house was sold. Willie, Edith and Waiter
moved to 110-112 Carling Avenue, a large, double house just east of Bank Street, which
they converted into four apartments. They lived in one of the larger apartments at 110
Carling Avenue and rented the other three, This would provide Willie with retirement
income,

Shortly alter Jim Lamb died in 1923, the Gilmour Street house was sold and Ethel
came to live with her Uncle Willie and cousins, Edith and Walter Lamb. Edith and Ethel
were both talented in various arts and craï¬s, taking orders for all sorts of painted and
embroidered items which they sold to raise money for the church. One upstairs bedroom
was like a small eraï¬ studio.

In 1925, Walter, an insurance agent with Great-West Assurance Company, married
Eva Gervan whom he had known for many years and whose family were long-time
members of First Congregational Church. After their wedding they moved into their own
apartment. Their three children were Helen, born in 1926, Walter/Bud, born in 1928 and
William/Bill born in 1930.

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Sometime about 1928 Herk Lamb arrived from Vancouver, sick and penniless. He
lived with Willie, Edith and Ethel at 110 Carling Avenue.

A few years later, Ethel leï¬ for the weekend to visit her Black cousins in St
Catharines, or so her Ottawa family thought. On Sunday, she telephoned ï¬om St.
Catharines to say that she had been married to an old friend, a widower and lawyer,
Alexander/Al William Marquis (1862-1940). Ethel moved to St Catharines where she died
in 1951. Her remains were placed in the Marquis vault in the mausoleum at Victoria Lawn
Cemetery, St. Catharines.

Bethlehem Bells

Born in 1843, Willie Lamb had seen in his lifetime the advent of steamboat, railway,
streetcar, automobile and airplane travel, electricity in all its forms, central heating,
telephone and telegraph communication, and now radio. A big battery radio, acquired in
1931, sat on a table in the livingroom. Willie wasn't very impressed with this box with
dials that produced so much static. Edith kept saying, "Just wait â€˜til Christmas."

Christmas Day arrived and the family gathered around the radio in the livingroom,
waiting. Suddenly there was a clear peal of bells ringing out Christmas tidings. When the
announcer said the bells were ringing in Bethlehem, Willie couldn't believe his ears. From
Bethlehem! On Christmas Day! Ringing in his house!

For Willie, this was the highlight of Christmas 1931. In his mind all the other
inventions in his lifetime paled in comparison with the sound of the bells of Bethlehem
ringing out the Good News of Christmas.

A Special Birthday

The year 1932, brought many anxieties as the economic depression of the 19305,
deepened. It was decided that Willie and Edith would move to Walter and Evaâ€™s larger
house at 174 Carling Avenue so that their apartment could be rented.

It was here that Willie, still in good health, celebrated his 90th birthday a year later
on September 17th, 1933. Art came ï¬'om his home in Montana for the occasion, bringing
his camera for the birthday photo. The minister of the church, Rev, G,B. McLerman,
brought greetings on behalf of the Session and congregation. Birthday cards, telegrams
and letters arrived ï¬'om near and far. Willie had lived longer than anyone else in his family.

The Last Ten Days

In early January of 1935, Willie attended Sunday morning worship as was his
custom, sitting in his usual pew. That evening, while Edith was at church playing the
organ for the evening service, Willie suffered a severe stroke leaving him unconscious and
partially paralysed. Ten days later he died peacefully on January 30th, in his 92nd year.
Rev. GB. McLennan conducted his lirneral, remembering Willie with these words,

We Shall miss those bright eyes, that kindling smile, that sweet blithe
countenance, that sense of humour. His years were noted not so much by
the failing of the physical as by the growth of the spirit in grace.

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Burial took place in Beechwood Cemetery where the JB. Lambs and the WA.
Lambs had chosen adjoining graves. The large gravestones of grey granite, almost
identical, stand side by side. In life these brothersâ€™ and sistersâ€™ lives were intertwined; in
death they are not apart.

The End ofa Gena-adorn

Within eighteen months Willieâ€™s brother, Herk, and sister, Minnie, also passed on.
Herk Lamb died in Ottawa on April let, 1936 in his 86th year, and Minnie Lamb Porter
died in Boston on June 30th, 1936 in her 88th year; the last of the children of John Lamb
and Mary Dewar.

In the let century, there are a few Lamb descendants still living along the shores
of the Lower Ottawa. Some live in the cities of Montreal and Ottawa; some in other parts
of Ontario. Most have irrigated to western Canada and the United States. For over a
century James Lamb and his family lived along the Ottawa River where they cleared the
land for farming and built churches, Gradually the next generation who leï¬ the Ottawa
Valley took their farming slcills and knowledge of lumbering to their new homes where
they contributed to the building of many communities. Today, Lamb descendants are
scattered across the continent.

artarttahtaar

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A FAMIL Y ALBUM

Descendants of James Lamb
& Elizabeth McFarlane

The original photos from Lamb
descendants' collections have been re-
phmographed and enlarged or reduced In
512.6 fat this album There Is no known
photo oflohn S Edwards (1805-1868)

Marv Dewar Lamb c 1885

James & Sarah Baker Lamb 9 1000.

John Lamb c 1885,

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Am Lamb Gordon c 1855 Helen Lamb Edwards 0 1865

Margaret Gordon Lamb 5 $870 Wllham Lamb 0 1870

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Margaret Lamb McLeah 4 $880

{ohm McLean c {880

Alex McLean c 1000 Janet 2.9va McLean c 1880

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Lefl - W.A. Lamb famlly c. 1900.
L to R. - Helen Black Lamb, Walter,
Edith, Art & W A./Willie Lamb

Below - Lamb gathering on Willie's 85"â€œ
birthday, Sept 17, 1928.

L. to R . Back - W H /Billy Lamb,
Edith, Maud, Wlllie holdmg Bud,
Helen & Eva

Front â€” Rosamond, Jessie, George
& Walter

Phom byArI Lamb

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Chart #3 - Family of James Lamb and Elizabeth McFarlane

1 James Lamb b: 1733 d: 1355 G c j aï¬:
+Elizabeth McFarlane b: 1783 m 1809 d: 1852 '

. 2 JohnLamb b: 1809 d:1895

â€˜ +MaryDewar b: 1811 m: 1835 d: 1886

Elizabeth Lamb b: 1811 d. Unknown

Helen Lamb b: 1813 d 1883

V +John Simpson Edwards b: 1805 m: 1834 d. 1868

William Lamb b: 1815 d: 1894

+Margaret Gordon b' 1827 m: Abt. 1854 dâ€˜ 1911

AnnLamb b: 1817 d 1855

V +Alexander Gordon b. 1824 m: 1854 d: 1915

Margaret Lamb b: 1820 d: 1901

1 +John McLean b 1820 m: Abt 1848 d: 1900

Janet Lamb b, 1824 d 1883

.. ,. . +AlexanderMcLean b: 1824 m: 1854 d: 1906 _ f

2 James Lamb b: 1828 d: 1914 cÂ» '5/â€™
. . . . +SarahAnnBaker b: 1835 m 1855 d. 1914

Elizabeth Lamb, born in 181 1, died in Scotland .

See also Family Charts #4 - #10 for each ofthe other children.

Chart #4 - Family of John Lamb & Mary Dewar

2 John Lamb b 1809 d: 1895
+Mary Dewar b 1811 m: 1835 d: 1886
. 3 Elizabeth Jane Lamb b. 1836 d: 1868
+Thomas Gallagher b: 1819 m: 1858 d: 1882
.. . 4 Henrietta/Hetlie Gallagher bâ€™ 1859 d: 1924
V . +Thomas Birkett b' 1844 m 1904 d: 1920
1 ,,,, 1, 4 ElizabethmibbyAnn Gallagher b: 1861 d. 1921
+Frank H. Till m. 1894
5 Bernice Elizabeth Till bâ€˜ 1895 d: 1974
V .. +Edward G Warnock b: 1897 d: 1966
5 Frank Lawrence Till b, 1899 d: 1966
. . . . . .. +MargaretE1Willmott b: 1906 m: 1929 d: 1965
. 4 Mary Eleanor Gallagher b' 1863 d: 1864
,. 4 Thomas Lincoln Gallagher b: 1865 d: 1944
. H r. +AliceM, Squarey m: 1897 d 1954
3 Catherine/Kate Lamb b' 1838 dâ€™ 1908
+chhard John Rodden b 1836 m 1861 dâ€™ 1899

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Ida Amelia Rodden b: 1864 d: 1940
William/Billie Thomas Rodden b' 1865 d: 1946
.. +Louise Gallagher
Francis/Frank Alexander Rodden b: 1867 d' 1923
.. .7 +Mar1'e Mackay b: 1882 d: 1953
,,,,,,, .7 5 -- (son) â€”~ Rodden b: 1916 d: 1916
. 4 Minnie HelenRodden b' 1870 d: 1931
. +William/Billie Lyall
Helen Lyall
Charles Edward Lyall
7 +Pearl Topping
Edna Lyall
. +Gaston Debuc
Peter Lyall
7. +Edna Elcome
Catherine Lyall
. +Keirh Notman
Richard Montgomery/Monty Rodden b: 1871 d 1965
. +Julia Grace Brown d' 1978
Ruby Catherine/Puss Rodden b: 1873 d: 1959
. +William/Billie J7 Walker
7.7. .7 . .7 5 FrancesWalker
. 4 Veronica/Onie Rodden b' 1875 d. 1951
.7 . . Hesse Folsom Johnson
. 3 James/Jim Byrne Lamb b' 1841 d 1923
+Magda1ene/Maggie Bone Black b 1851 m, 1873 d 1919
4 Ruben/Bob Lawrie Lamb 1) 1875 d' 1935
+GraceG Grant b: 1875 m: 1903 d, 1958
. 5 Helen Grace Lamb b: 1904
+Robert L. Craik
7 7 6 Jane Craik
6 Susan Craik
Margaret Ethel Lamb b: 1905 d: 1970
7 +Geurge Arthur Wardrope
7 7 6 Murray Grant Wardrope b. 1943
. 7 . 7 . 77 +Delia Ann Doucette
. 7 Laurie Heather Wardrope
7 7 Darrel Grant Wardrope
6 Heather Lawrie Wardrope b: 1946
+Joseph Daniel McGillivray
7 Sean David McGillivray
4 Ethel Florence Lamb b: 1877 d: 1951
..... .7 +AJexander/Al W. Marquis b: 1862 m: Abt. 1930 d. 1940
4 William/Billy Herbert Lamb b: 1881 d: 1959
+Jessie Murray Christie [3: 1884 d' 1944
5 Rosamond Anna Herbert Lamb b: 1912 d. 1980

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5 William George Christie Lamb b: 1917
+Dorothy E. Wells b: 1922 m: 1948
,. 6 KathrynE, Lamb b: 1950
. . _ . . . . . . . 6 Judith Anna Lamb b: 1952
6 William James Christie Lamb b: 1953
. +Tracey Stephen m: 1986
: . : . 7 BrendanGeorge StephenLamb b: 1988
: . .. . 3 William/Willie Alexan er Lamb b: 1843 d: 1935
+Helen Lawrie Black b: 1848 m. 1868 d. 1914
4 Edith Helen Lamb b: 1870 d: 1955
. 4 William Herbert Lamb b: 1872 d: 1875
4 John Arthur/Art Lamb b: 1874 d: 1944
+Maud Lovina Talbott b: 1879 m: 1909 d: 1931
.... 5 JosÃ©e HelenLamb b: 1911 d: 1911
. : *an Wife of John Arthur/Art Lamb:
. . . . . . +Ann Pederson b: 1900 m: 1942 d: 1979
. 4 Charles Kirkwood Lamb b: 1876 d: 1876
4 Walter James Thornton Lamb b: 1878 d: 1960
+Katharine Eva May Gervan b: 1886 m: 1925 d: 1958
5 Edith Helen Thornton Lamb b: 1926
. +John Leigh Stewart Shearman b: 1926 m: 1951
. . . . . . : 6 David Keith Shearman b: 1954
. +Janet Wight m: 1976
, ., 7 Bradley Jason Shearman b: 1982
. . 7 Christopher Michael Shearman b' 1984
: : *an Wife ofDavid Keith Shearman:
. . . . . +Carol Merton rn 1989
. . 7 Angela Ann Shearman b: 1992
. . .: 7 Jessica James Shearman b: 1994
:. 6 Mary Diane Shearman b: 1957
: +Wallace/Wally James Syme b: 1951 m: 1983
1, : 7 Malcolm Andrew Syme b: 1986
7 Candice Joanne Syme b: 1990
,,........, , 7 AmberHope Syme b: 1998
. . 5 Walter/Bud Arthur Thornton Lamb b: 1928 d: 1977
. .. +SheilaB, Convery b: 1930 m: 1953
. : 6 Jeffrey ConveryLamb b: 1954
. +Patricia/Trisha Simpson
6 Walter Thomas/Tom Lamb b: 1957
: +LoniConor
. 7 Matthew Austin Lamb b: 1981
. . 7 Stacey Conor Lamb b' 1983
6 Phyllis Kathryn/Kathy Helen Lamb b: 1964
: +Steven Hughes
. . . . ., 7 Michael Hughes b: 1991
: . . . .: . 7 Shaun Hughes b: 1993

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5 John William/Bill Thornton Lamb b' 1930
+Gina Elise Baker m: 1961
6 Susan Alexandra/Sandra Lamb b: 1965
. +Christopher/Chris Ifechuku Oneymenam b: 1966 m: 2000
7 Obinna/Obi Christopher Colton Onyemenam b 1998
. . .. . . V 7 Ifechuku/Ife Justen Onyemenam b' 2000
..... ,. 3 MaryLamh b: 1846 d' 1847
. 3 Mary/Minnie Ann Lamb b: 1848 d: 1936
. +Th0mas Porter b: 1848 m: 1872 d: 1922
4 William Alï¬'ed Porter bâ€™ 1873 d: 1874
. 4 Minnie Maud Poner b: 1874 d: 1959
+Wa1ter Albert Beekert b: 1875 m: 1901 d: 1947
. 5 Doris Maud Beckert b: 1904 d: 1984
: +Charles Edward Kidner b: 1904 m: 1929 d: 1988
6 Charles Edward Kidner b: 1931
6 Joan Emily Kidner b: 1934
: +Charles Fritz Marigold bâ€™ 1935 m' 1956
. 7 Linda Marigold b: 1958
: +Bruce Mounce m: 1989
V . 8 Emily Alis Mounce b. 1992
.......... .. 8 Patrick Charles Mounce b: 1992
6 ar yPorter b: 1877 d. 1946
4 Thomas Percival Porter b' 1880 dâ€˜ 1953
. 4 Avelyn Alice Porter b: 1883 d: 1959
+Charles Ewen b 1882 In: 1914 d: 1945
. V . V . . . .. 5 Jean Lorna Avelyn Ewen b: 1916
+David Henderson Gervan b, 1911 m: 1939 d; 1995
â€˜â€˜â€˜â€˜â€˜â€˜ ., 6 Suzanne Jean Gervan b: 1941
. +Nonnan HanwellMacoy b: 1936 m: 1962
. 7 Ian Wilson Macoy b: 1963
+Stephanie Sprouse b: 1966 m: 1991
. 7 David Earle Macoy b: 1965
. V V . . .: +Kristen Lynn Gebhardt b. 1967 mâ€˜ 1990
. . 4 Bernice Marion Porter b: 1892 d: 1980
3 John Herons/Herk Lamb 13 1850 d 1936

Chart #5 - Family of Helen Lamb and John Simpson Edwards

2 HelenLamb b. 1813 d: 1883
Hahn/Some: Simpson Edwards b: 1805 m: 1834 d: 1868
3 James Simpson Edwards b: 1835 d: 1920
+Catherine Roe b, 1835 d, 1872

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4 John Edwards b: 1860
+Jessie ----
5 Allan Edwards
. 4 George Arthur Edwards b: 1362 d: 1940
+Ange1ina McRae b: 1869 m, 1890 d: 1960
.V John James Edwards b 1891 d: 1978
William Charles Edwards b: 1893 d: 1946
Ellen/Ella Edwards 1): 1894
Alva George Edwards 13: 1896 d: 1957
+EthelMcFarlane b: 1897 d: 1979
Ethel Catherine Edwards 12: 1900
Mabel May Edwards b: 1903 d: 1970
Douglas Edwards b: 1905 d: 1975
+Myrtle Meneer b. 1913
. 5 Abram Edwards bâ€™ 1910
1 +AnneKester b: 1911 m. 1949
4 MaryAnnEdwards b: 1864
+Alva Cameron
5 Gordon Cameron
.â€˜ +Ethel Cook
1 6 Jewel Cameron
6 Geraldine Cameron
6 Ross Cameron
6 Clive Cameron
Clarence Cameron
+Agnes Davidson
. ........ .. 6 Betty Cameron
V 6 Jean Cameron
6 Helen Cameron
1. 6 Clarence Cameron
6 Harry Cameron
Helen Edwards b: 1867 d 1954
V +Anthony Hollingshead b: 1861 m' 1894 d, 1929
. 5 James Hollingshead d: 1958
V +Victoria Bailey m. 1927
6 Donald Hollingshead
6 Jean Hollingshead
6 James Hollingshead
6 David Hollingshead
V 5 Elizabeth Hollingshead
+Roben Sandell m: 1928
,. 6 Gerald Sandell
. . .V 6 Hazel Helen Sandell
V .... ,. 5 Mary Helen Hollingshead
+Harold Hammer m: 1944
. 6 Mary Hammer

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5 Hazel Ann Hollingshead
. +Carl Simonson m. 1940
. 6 CarlSimonson
+Joyce ------- --
. 6 Seigrid Simonson
+Jan Brown
4 Elizabeth Margaret Edwards b: 1869
. +Tâ€˜homas Meredith
. 5 Elmer Meredith
5 Edwin Meredith
V 5 Fred Meredith
5 Howard Meredith
5 Carrie Meredith
, + ------ -- Hutton
H 5 Gertrude Meredith
4 Catherine/Katie Edwards b. 1871 d: 1931
+James G. Sell b: 1867 d 1955
.. V 5 Fred Sell (died in infancy)
. *an Wife of James Simpson Edwardsâ€˜
V. +Margaret Johnson Rose b: 1840 m 1872 d: 1919
, 4 Ida Edwards
. +Anthony Fry
, 5 Regoma Fry
5 Nelson Fry
5 Leita Fry
..... H - Gillis
V 5 Maurice Fry
4 Alice Edwards
+Thomas Hopkins
5 Marjorie Hopkins
5 Lyle Hoplo'ns
V. 5 Perry Hopkins
William Edwards
. +Ida Snyder
, 5 Gordon Edwards
., ,1 +Ethe1â€”-- -
5 Harold Edwards
,. +Theresa ---------
5 James Edwards
. ., . V . 5 LillianEdwards
â€˜ *an Wife of William Edwards.
.......... .. +Nan ---Â«Â»â€”--
3 Alexander Simpson Edwards b: 1837 d. 1916
+Elizabeth/Eliza AnnRoe b: 1843 m: 1868 d: 1914
.... ., 4 Joseph Alexander Edwards b: 1870 d: 1959

*Anne/Annie Cameron 1:: 1874 m' 1915 d: 1958

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. 4 Albert George Edwards b: 1872 d: 1932
. +Norma McGregor Campbell b. 1868 m: 1905 d: 1952
William Hatton Edwards b: 1874 d: 1930
. +Ida Esther Parr b: 1877 m: 1904 d: 1952
Janet Lamb Edwards 13: 1876 d: 1944
Mary/Minnie Ellen Edwards 1): 1878 d 1967
: +Lyman James Thomson b: 1879 m: 1904 d: 1964
: : 5 Loyal Alexander Thomson b: 1909 d: 1999
+01ive Mary Marks b: 1911 m' 1947 d: 1989
., 6 Rosalie Sandra Thomson b: 1949
: +Gordon Robert Cheriton b: 1948 m: 1970
7 Suzanne Elizabeth Cheriton b' 1975
. . . . .. 7 Sean Christopher Cheriton b: 1977
6 Alexander James Thomson b: 1950 d: 2000
. +BarbaraAnnPurdy b: 1950 m: 1976
7 Rhonda Helen Thomson b: 1978
........ .. 8 Jeï¬â€˜rey Michael Thomson b 1999
.. ,. . 7 Sarah Anne Thomson 1): 1986
. . 5 Helen Clementia Thomson b 1910 d: 1992
+Charles Hardie b: 1901 d: 1942
.: V 6 Helen Elizabeth Hardie b: 1939
, +A1fred Ronnebo Rasmussen-Waymann M b; 1938
7 Eric Charles Rasmussen-Waymann ** b' 1961
7 Ian Tor Rasmussen-Waymann ** b: 1963
+Anita Lagler m: 1992
7 Karen Lynn Rasmussen-Waymann ** bâ€™ 1964
+Roben Dean Dunlop b: 1963 m: 1991
8 Elizabeth Ann Dunlop b: 1993
V . .: 8 Sarah Alexandra Dunlop b: 1996
. *an Husband of Helen Clementia Thomson:
: ,1 H H +Clarence Dixon b: 1906 m' 1971 d: 1995
. 4 Ethel Georgina Edwards b: 1882 d: 1932
. +Charles McKenzie b: 1880 m: 1922 d: 1957
V 4 Sarah Rerdwards b: 1886 d: 1979
+Edmund Church b: 1888 m: 1917 d: 1958
. 5 Howard Edwards Church b: 1918
,,,,,,,,,,,,, :. +Margaret Olive Sibbald b: 1922 m: 1944
6 Leonard Allen Church bâ€˜ 1946
+Sharon Ruthâ€”Marie Bellows b 1945 m: 1973
. ., 7 Treena Marie Church b: 1976
. 7 Timothy Mark Church I): 1979
., 7 Matthew David Church b: 1981
. 6 Linda Margaret Church b' 1948
+Carmen Richard Loberg b 1950 m: 1980
. . 6 Andrew James Church b- 1950
+Bever1y Eleanor Ells b: 1950 m 1972

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V . . . . . 7 Jermey Andrew Church b. 1975
V V 7 Alanna Beth Church b: 1982
V . .V 7 Kayla Ells Church 11: 1990
. . . . . . V . . 5 Leonard Campbell Church b: 1920 d: 1987
. â€˜ +Joyce Vernell Lindberg b: 1926 m: 1950
. 6 CarolRoe Church b: 1952
, +Bruce Kenneth Malmas b: 1949 m: 1974
. . 7 Shamin Erin Malmas b: 1984
.. 7 Sean IanMalmas b: 1986
.. . 6 Rodney Campbell Church b: 1955
. +Joanne Carol Schneider 1): 1959 m: 1980
7 Tara Lynne Church I): 1982
V V 7 Stephanie Leah Church b: 1983
6 Martha Lynne Church b: 1964
V +David Joseph Zimmer b: 1961
. r 7 Amanda Lynne Zimmer b. 1984
7 Shauna Ann Zimmer b: 1986
7 Sarah Marie Zirnmer b: 1990
. . V . ., 7 Larissa Rachel Zimmer b: 1992
6 Ann Vernell Church b: 1966
V +Leslie Cliï¬ord Carey b: 1964
.. . 7 Corbin Leslie Carey b: 1991
. . . V .. 7 Alex Campbell Carey 13' 1994
. 5 Stuart Roe Church b, 1923
.. 7 . ., .. +DorothyLorrainePanlow b: 1929 m: 1951
. . . V . . .. 6 Donald Stuart Church b: 1952
. . +Wendy Nickel
.. 7 . 7 Donald Paul Church b: 1978
. . . . . . . 2nd Wife of Donald Stuart Church:
. . , +Sandra Lynn Davidson Bill
. 6 Kathryn Lorraine Church b: 1954
, +Ross Eric Gray b: 1955 m: 1975
6 Brian Douglas Church b' 1958
,. +Lori Anne Wood Lotzien b: 1962
7 Brian Eli Church b: 1991
.. . .7. 7 Eric Stuart Church b: 1993
6 Robert Edward Church b' 1961
+Margaret Cornelia Colyn b. 1961 m. 1982
7 Wade Brent Church b: 1990
. ..... 7 Sarah Corey Church b: 1994
5 Albert Joseph Church b: 1924
. +Margery Leone Knaut b: 1927 m: 1950
., 6 Murray Albert Church b: 1954
+Gail Patricia Amundsen b: 1960
. .. . 7 Dawson James Church b: 1993
. . 7 Hailey Leone Church b' 1995

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. 6 Alan Edmund Church b 1955
6 David Brent Church b: 1957
. +Wendy Joâ€”Anne Welsh b: 1954
7 Tami Jo Church b'1971

. 7 John Devon Church 1:: 1980
, 7 Tiffany Dawne Church b: 1983
7 Daniel Matthew Church b: 1987
6 Robert Laurier Church b: 1959
5 Jamel Rachel Church b: 1927
. +Lawrence Richard Monson b: 1921 m: 1948
6 Ronald Brian Monson b: 1948
+E|eanor Moberly
7 April Rose Monson b. 1973
. 7 Jocelyn Joan Morison b: 1974 d: 1992
7 Robert Monson b: 1976
7 Clinton Collinston Monson b: 1978
. 6 Marylyn Dawn Manson bâ€™ 1949 d: 1949
1 . 6 Wendy Lorraine Manson b' 1952

. . . . 1 V . +1-1enry Marvin Thiessen b: 1935 m: 1972
. 7 Michael James Thiessen b: 1974
.. 7 Cunis Andrew Thjessen b 1975
. 7 Andrea Michele Thiessen b. 1978
. V .: 7 Laurie Lynn Thiessen b, 1990
. 6 Elaine Hanley Monson b: 1953
. +Lynette Rachel Wooten b 1959
. 7 Felicia Dawn Monson b: 1979
. . 7 Holly Lynn Manson b: 1981
7 Ryan Andrew Monson b. 1983
. 6 Serena Lynn Monson b: 1955
+Gordon Henry Neufeld b: 1952 m: 1974

:. . 7 Jennifer Lynn Neufeld b: 1977
7 Cameron Gordon Neufeld b. 1979
7 Corryn Rachelle Neufeld b' 1982
3 John Simpson Edwards 12: 1840 d: 1920
,,,, ,. 3 Margaret/Maggie Edwards b, 1843 d' 1903
3 William W. Edwards bâ€™ 1847 d' 1886
., V . : +Mary Jane Henderson m' 1883

.... .. 3 George Edwards 1!: 1853
. +Sadie ~---
. V 4 Grace Victoria Edwards b: 1896

** This family uses the name of Waymann.

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Chart # 6 - Family of William Lamb and Margaret Gordon

2 William Lamb b: 1815 d: 1894
: +Margaret Gordon b: 1827 m' Abt 1855 d: 1911
...... .. 3 William/Willie Lamb b: 1856 d: 1927
, +Amelia/Bell Edgar b' 1858 d: 1925
.. 4 FrarikLamb
3 John Alexander Lamb b: 1858 d: 1929
: 3 Elizabeth M, Lamb b: 1860 d: 1863
3 James/Jim Dewar Lamb b: 1862
+Genrude/Genie -v--v----
. 4 Willie Lamb d: Bet 1914-1918
4 Jean Lamb d: 1976
3 Gordon Lincoln Lamb b: 1865 d: 1950
. +Elizabeth/Lizzie May Jackson 17. 1872 m: 1895 d' 1946
4 Gordon Arundel Lamb 1;: 1898 d' 1967
Hennie Evelina Wideman b: 1902 mâ€™ 1932 d: 1983
: 5 Allan Gordon Lamb bâ€™ 1934
, +Marie/Claire Philiben b. 1929 m' 1958
6 Gordon Richard Lamb b: 1959
.. +Gineï¬‚e Vaillancourt b: 1961 m 1979
. . . . . 6 Philip Joseph Lamb b' 1963
. +Karyn Elizabeth Monk b: 1960 m' 1991
6 Mary Helen Lamb bâ€˜ 1964
+Samuel Bishop m: 1987
. .. . 6 Monique/Sim Lillian Lamb b: 1968
4 umce MayLamb b' 1901 dâ€™ 1986
4 Arnold Toynbee Lamb b. 1904 d: 1988
:. +Annie M. Kennedy b' 1901 m: 1927 d: 1966
. 5 Laura Elaine Lamb b: 1928
.: +Rean Herbert Collins b: 1929 m: 1950
...... .: 6 Laura Annie Collins b: 1970
. ï¬‚ames Daniel Gyomory b: 1967 m: 1989
: ., 7 Daniel James Gyomory b: 1991
. 7 Matthew Shawn Gyomory b: 1993
. .: 7 Austin Blayne Gyomory b: 1999
. 5 Rut eone Lamb b' 1931
+William/Bill Franklin Robertson b: 1933 m: 1952
........ .. 6 Norman Bruce Robertson b: 1954
+Dale Lynn Oke b: 1956 m: 1979
7 Erica Lynn Robertson b: 1981
7 Ashley Marie Robertson b. 1984
6 Judith/Judy Anne Robertson b: 1956
+William Gordon Alton b. 1955 m: 1974
. 7 Shawn William Alton b: 1976

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*2nd Husband of Judith/Judy Anne Robertson
+Les1ie Robert Turner b: 1951 m: 1983
7 Christopher Thomas Turner b: 1983
6 William Brian Robertson b: 1962
. 6 Robert/Bob James Robertson b: 1965
+Deborah/Debbie Anne Austin b: 1963 m: 1989
. 7 Curtis James Robertson b: 1990
. 7 Courtney Nicole Robertson b' 1994
5 John Arnold Lamb b: 1932
,: +Joanne McCullough b: 1935 m: 1956
..: . 6 Gerald Clayton Lamb b: 1956

., 6 Glenda Joanne Lamb b: 1959
+Harry Talbot b: 1956 m: 1983
7 Katherine/Katie Joanne Talbot b: 1997
. 6 Jean Elizabeth Lamb b: 1964
. +Jeffrey/Jeï¬‚â€˜ Cameron Leitch b: 1963 m: 1993
7 Jason Daniel Leitch b 1995

7 Justin Darren Leitch b: 1999
. Joan Marie Lamb b: 1967
:.., . 6 JillAnnLamb b: 1972

5 Donald James Lamb b: 1933

. +Mary Jane McCullough b: 1937 m: 1958
6 Beverly Jane Lamb b 1962
1 6 Donald Paul Lamb b, 1964
+Bever1y Ann Dalton b: 1964 m: 1988

7 Matthew Paul Lamb b: 1989

7 Adam Donald Douglas Lamb b: 1991
. 7 Zachmmece Lamb b: 1994
: 6 Glen Edward Lamb b. 1966
+PattiRean b: 1968 m: 1992

.. 7 Sierra Rose Lamb b: 1993
. . 7 Carson James Edward Lamb b: 1995
: V. . 7 Rylan Toynbee Lamb b: 1997
, : 6 Steven James Lamb b: 1969

. +Annette Gruendler b: 1971 m' 1993
7 Megan Marie Lamb b: 1995
. 7 Brandon Steven Lamb b: 1999
,. 5 Helen Doreen Lamb b: 1934
: +Bill Rose 111. 1957
6 William Alan Garner (nÃ© Rose) b: 1959
+Wendy Gardner b: 1957 m: 1980

. . 7 Jennifer Lynn Gamer b: 1978
7 Michelle Nicole Gamer b: 1981
7 William/Willie Alan Kane Logan-Garner b: 1993

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V ............... V. *2nd Husband of Helen Doreen Lamb:

. +Wi111amGamer b: 1929 m: 1966 d 1975

. 6 Patrick James Garner b: 1968

. +Terry Newton b: 1966

V 7 Jordan Patrick Newton-Gamer b: 1990
* 1 st Wife of Patrick James Gamer:

+Christine Diane Borland b: 1971 m: 1996

7 Abigail Marie Garner b: 1998

V *3rd Husband of Helen Doreen Lamb:

. +Troy Black m: 1987

. . .. 5 Robert Bruce Lamb b: 1949 d: 1971

*2nd Wife of Amold Toynbee Lamb:

+Violet Wyman b: 1916 m: 1972

V 4 John Ewart Grenfell Lamb b: 1907 d: 1915

4 Helen Margaret Elizabeth Lamb b: 1907 d: 1907

3 He1en/Ne11 Mary Lamb b: 1867 d: 1930 L] V

7 +FredCharles Blair b 1874 m: 1992 d: 125% 8-5

i 5,,

Chart #7 - Family of Ann Lamb andAlexander Gordan

- AnnLamb b' 1817 d 1855
+A1exander Gordon b 1824 d; 1915 m. 1854
3 BabyGordon b 1855 d 1855

Chart #8 - Family ofMurgaret Lamb and John McLean

John McLean b. 1820 d: 1900
+Margaret Lamb b. 1820 m. Abt 1848 d: 1901
.... 3 Elizabeth EV McLean b: 1849
. +Henry Warner
4 William Warner
V V . . 4 John Douglas Warner
. . . . . . . . . ., 4 George Warner
3 Donald H McLean b: 1851 d: 1924
+Emma Alford b: 1867 d. 1891

4 John Allan McLean
, +_

V 5 Donald McLean
4 Ben McLean

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............... .. 4 Percy Alexander McLean
3 James Lamb McLean b' 1853 d. 1934
+Margaret/Maggie Henderson b: 1859 d: 1933
. . 4 Sproule McLean
. +Margaret Robb
. . .. .V ....... V. 5 Marion McLean
. 3 William McLean b: 1855
+Alice Edison d: 1903
4 Olive Ethel McLean
+W ------ -- Saddler
JanetJJennieAnnMcLean b 1858 d 1924
+Jacob Vincent/Vince PoapsM b: 1854 m: 1877 d: 1922
. .. .V 4 Janet/Jenny Poaps b: 1878
. ,, 4 Wilfred/Wilf Vincent Poaps b. 1880 d: 1948
V. +Elâ€˜ï¬e May Wallace
. ,,,, .. 5 Peter Allan Poaps b 1921
+Edith Irene Bush m: 1949
V 5 James Vincent Poaps b: 1925
V +Mary Elizabeth Scott in. 1949
. . . . . V . . . 5 Patricia Sarah Poaps be 1928
4 Percival/Percy McLean Poaps b: 1882 d: 1949
. +Lois Mary Hovey b. 1894 m' 1917 d: 1977
, 5 Donald Poaps
, 5 Phillip M Poaps
5 John Edward Poaps
. 5 Richard Poaps
. 4 Jean Ellice Poaps b: 1884
+John Grant Jackson m: 1912
. . . 5 John Grant Jackson
. . . . V . V . . . , . 5 Jean Jackson
. . 5 Betty Jackson
. . . V . . . . , , r 5 Barbara AnnJackson
â€˜ V . .. 4 Florence/Flora Margaret Poaps b: 1890
, +Stanley Murray
,1 5 JoanMurray
4 John Douglas Poaps b: 1898 d: 1979
. +Jessie May Gautier
, *an Wife of John Douglas Poaps:
V +Florence Frances Johnston b: 1899 d' 1987
... . .. 5 Douglas J, Poaps
. 3 George A. McLean b: 1859 d: 1902
+Annie Haines b: 1862 d' 1935
.. . .. 4 Bertha McLean b: 1893 d: 1983
4 Eva Lucy McLean b: 1895 d: 1993
4 JennieB McLean b: 1900 d: 1900

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3 Flora MY McLean b 1862

. +Wilson Thompson

3 JohnMcLean b: 1865

. +Christine Trunneur

. ....... ,1 4 Marion Margaret McLean
.................... V. +George Wilcox

** Family surname has been spelled Poapst

Chart #9 - Family of Janet Lamb and Alwamder McLean

2 Janet Lamb b: 1824 d: 1883
. +Alexander McLean b' 1824 m: 1854 d: 1906
.... i. 3 ElizabethAnnMcLean bâ€˜ 1856
.. . +Henry Bymes
, 3 Janet Lamb McLean b: 1858 d 1928
+PeterMcDona1d b: 1857 m: 1884 d: 1899
. 4 Norman McDonald b 1885 d' 1948
+Mabel Crawford
. 5 JanetMcDonald

+W WV Mitchell
. 6 William Winchley Mitchell
5 Norman Alexander McDonald

, 5 AngusMcDonald
. 5 Crawford McDonald
. 5 Mabel McDonald
.. . . S John Douglas McDonald
4 Wilfred McDonald b: 1887 d 1970

V +Jessie McTavish
5 Elizabeth Jessie McDonald b 1914
+N. H111
. 5 Malcolm Alexander McDonald b: 1923
.. +0. Gillatly
. 5 Wilfred Donald McDonald b 1925
. . +Frances McCaig
1 5 Nancy McDonald b: 1928
+Aâ€˜ Hoffman
4 Ernest McDonald

, +Ann -v~------

, 5 Elizabeth Ann McDonald

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V 4 Everett McDonald
: +Fern McDonald
5 John Hector McDonald
4 Stuan McDonald
4 Keith McDonald
,1 +Dorothy Williams
. 5 Patricia McDonald
5 Joan McDonald
. ,. 5 Spencer Charles McDonald
., 3 Mary Helen McLean b: 1860 d: 1930
+ ............... ..

3 Alexander Ernest McLean b: 1863

. +Hattie Thorpe
, . ., ,. V 4 HarolndLean d 1974

.. 3 Margaret Flora McLean b: 1865

+Anhur Bell

4 Stanley Bell
. . 4 AlexanderBell

: : 4 Ernest Bell

4 Dorothy Bell

Chart #10 - Family of James Lamb and Sarah Ann Baker

F
2 JamesLamb b: 1828 d' 1914 Mâ€ â€œâ€™5; G G/
+SarahAnnBaker bâ€˜ 1835 d: 1914 .

3 Margaret/Maggie Baker Lamb b. 1856 d' 1888

+Hugh Campbell m: 1885
..... .. 4 James/Jim William Middleton Campbell b 1887 d: 1952
. 4 Hugh Percival/Percy Baker Campbell b: 1888 d: 1972 1
: +Sarah Ethel Campbell b: 1887 m: 1947 d: 1952
*2nd Wife of Hugh Percival/Percy Baker Campbellâ€˜
. ., +DoraHall Thomas b; 1900 m. 1957
3 James Edgar Lamb b, 1858 d: 1892
+Lucy Ferguson
GK 4 Ethel Janet Lamb b: 1893 d: 1954

+Ear1Munson

. 5 LouellaMunson
+Fred Wheeler m: 1938
6 Paula Diane Wheeler b: 1938

6 Cherrie Denise Wheeler b: 1947
9/? K 3 John Dewar Lamb b: 1860 d: 1890

.7 / 39
+AnnieMcLeondFarlane b: 1869 m: 1888 am 9â€˜ â€œâ€™5 -â€™ :/ Buckwwmm.
gun/1:Â» In/ a

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Q) x 4 Elizabeth/Lizzie Pearl Lamb b: 1889 d: 1974
Hâ€ . +Jothe1erMcLachlan b: 1876 m: 1914 d: 1929
V 5 Donald Campbell McLachlan b: 1915
5 John Harold McLachlan b: 1917 d: 1993
.. +Violet Fisher 1111 1951 d: 1972

*2nd Wife of John Harold McLachlan:
+Gwyn Thomas Crowe m: 1973 d: 1973
5 ------- McLachlan b: 1920 d: 1920
5 Evelyn Pearl McLachlan b: 1921
+Edward B. M Hodgins b: 1908 m: 1962
: 6 Michael Hodgins b: 1964

.. +Ann Beaudoin m: 1981

. . 7 ChristinaAnnHodgins b' 1981
.. .. .: 7 Scott Michael Hodgins b. 1984
, :V . : 6 Elizabeth Pearl Tracey Hodgins b: 1966
5 William/Bill Warren McLachlan b: 1923
. +Phyllis Hope Raynard b: 1925 m: 1945
.. 6 Deborah Jane McLachlan b: 1951
., ..Ww MWâ€œ) G W
. H VVVVV .V 6 Janet Evelyn McLachlan b' 1955 +J'0'V Mean. " â€™7â€œ
,..:. .. 5 Malcolm James/Ted McLachlan b: 1928 Duwv 3" Mâ€ "1"; AW?â€
. : . +AntoinetteBerci b: 1928 m: 1951 h WW- MW?â€œ â€œ"""â€œâ€â€™
: . : : : : . . . : . . . . 6 James Ronald McLachlan bâ€˜ 1956 I) ' 7â€˜) 7â€™
. +Karen Roesler m: 1979
6 David Anthony McLachlan b: 1959
: : ., . 6 Karen Isabel McLachlan b. 1961
, ., . . ., .. 6 John PeterMcLachlan b: 1964
. 3 Peter Osborne Lamb bâ€™ 1862 d: 1940
. +Mary Carlena/Lena Mielke b: 1868 m: 1889 d: 1957
: . 4 JohnGilbertLamb b: 1891 d: 1892
.. 4 Mary Carlena Lamb bâ€˜ 1893 d: 1974
. +Joseph Grandmajson b' 1889 m: 1912 d: 1970
. 5 Ernest James Grandmajson b: 1913
. +Hazel Elizabeth Lindblad b: 1917 m. 1940
. 6 Lynn Reta Grandmalson b. 1946
+Barry Thorns m: 1968
6 Peter Ernest Grandmaison b: 1955
. +Susan Guenette b: 1956 m: 1975
: .. . 7 BarryRyanGTandmaison b 1981
.1 5 Norman Charles Grandmajson b: 1916 d: 1917
4 Lucy Janet Lamb b: 1897
+Roy Alexander Reid b: 1895 m: 1918 d: 1972
, 5 Twin daughters Reid bâ€™ 1918 d: 1918
5 Ruth Janet Reid b 1920
+J0hnSchinde1 bâ€™ 1898 m: 1957 d: 1970

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.. . .i 4 Ruby Ruth Lamb 1): 1900 d: 1969
.. +GeorgeC1arkson b 1892 m; 1920 d: 1974
. 5 Gladys Louella Clarkson 1:: 1921
+John Eric Ferguson b. 1915 m' 1948 d: 2000
., , 6 Helen Maureen Ferguson b: 1950
V 6 Brian George Ferguson 13: 1953
+Sy1viaBohm b: 1956 mâ€™ 1978
i, . 7 Michaela Sylvia Ferguson bâ€™ 1981
. V .. 7 Jade Shannon Ferguson b: 1982
.... ., 7 Kyle Brian Ferguson 13â€˜ 1983
6 Eleanor Jean Ferguson 1:: 1956
+Ian Douglas Smiley b: 1954 m: 1991
. 7 Jason Lee Smiley bâ€˜ 1992 d: 1993
V 7 Marina Katelyn Smiley b: 1994
. 7 Sheena Lacey Smiley b 1996
5 anon Evelyn Clarkson b: 1925
.. .. i. +Sidney Charles Wilcox b: 1927 m' 1952
.. 4 Helen Alexandra Lamb b: 1902 d: 1993
V +Harold Robson m' 1940
*2nd Husband of Helen Alexandra Lamb:
.. V . . . .V, +John Erickson
3 ElizabethArmLamb b. 1864 d. 1883
3 Helen/Ella Edwards Lamb b: 1867 d: 1952
. +James Albert Peel ** b 1874 mâ€˜ 1899 d: 1955
4 Anna Isabel Peel 1) 1902 d' 1925
+Ti Watson Kirkconnell b 1895 m: 1924 d: 1977
. 5 James Walter Kirkeonnell b: 1925
. +Marjorie Smith
. 6 Heather Kirkconnell
, +Peter Skilliter
. . . 6 Holly Kirkconnell
5 Thomas William Kirkconnell b: 1925
+Dorothy McGowan
. 6 Kathie Kirkconnell
+George Nixon m: 1982
... . 7 Amanda Nixon b: 1985
i 6 Betty Kirkeonnell
. +Kevin Keane
. 6 James/Jim Kirkconnell
,. ., 6 Mary Kirkconnell
4 Walter Peel b, 1905 d: 1960
. +Norma May Lindsay d: 1992
5 William Walter Peel
. +Shir1eyMcKissock m: 1961
.. . V . . ., 6 ScottPeel

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6 Leslie Peel
. +Allan Brown m: 1991
7 Kelvin Brown b. 1997
V 5 Norman Allen Peel
. +Sue â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€” vâ€”
. 6 Ronald Peel
6 Susan Peel
,. +PaulMaither
. . .... .. . 7 Alexandra Mailher b: 1993
. 4 Stewart Peel b: 1908 d: 1997
, +Marjorie Donna Wright b: 1907
.. 5 James Peel b: 1943
. +Sue ------ --
. 6 Kim Peel
6 Geoffrey Peel
., 6 Michael Peel
. *2nd Wife ofJames Peel:
V. +Carol--
. 5 Richard Peel b 1944
+Christine Robb m, 1973
. . .. . .. 6 RobinPeel
4 Morgan Peel b' 1911 d; 1971
+Marion Viola James
5 Mary Peel
V +Marvin Paul
7 6 Shaundra Paul
5 Helen Peel
. +1ngram Gillmore
â€˜ 6 Ingram Gillmore Jr,
. 6 Beverley Gillmore
6 Sam Gillmore
.. David Peel
.7 V 4 MarionPeel b: 1914
. \/ . +Robert/Bob McKinley b' 1910 d: 1993
3 Lucy Janet Lamb b: 1872 d: 1955
+Robert Thomas Scott m: 1894 d: 1895
. 4 Harold Robinson Scott b: 1894 d: 1961
.. +Lucy Ellen/Nellie Gray bâ€™ 1900 m: 1919
2nd Husband of Lucy Janet Lamb,
Helm S. Hews b: 1867 m: AR 1895 d: 1951
. *3rd Husband of Lucy Janet Lamb
+James Albert Peel ** b. 1874 m: 1952 d: 1955
r 3 Frances Dorothy/Dora/Dolly Lamb b: 1878 d: 1948

** James Albert Peel married both sisters, Ella and Lucy Lamb

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Lamb Fantin Papers - Legal documents; wills; deeds; account books; letters and notes;
copies of patents held by John and James Lamb; advertising brochures of John Lamb &
Sons, Engineers; photographs and photo albums; presentation of illustrated vellum to John
and Mary Lamb on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary; family Bibles (James
Lamb, W.A, Lamb); sketchbooks and watercolours by James B. Lamb & Ethel Lamb
Marquis; diaries of trips to the Coronation of Edward V11, 1902, and boat trip on the
Rideau Canal, 1897; Various graduation and qualiï¬cation certiï¬cates of Edith Lamb &
Walter Lamb. Canadian Canoe Association Ribbons awarded to Walter Lamb, 18924938.

Other Family Genealogies. Lamb-Gordon, compiled by Leone Lamb Robertson; Lamb-
Baker, compiled by Gladys Clarkson Ferguson; Lamb-Gallagher, compiled by Alvin
Gallagher; Lamb-Porter, compiled by Norman Macoy; Lamb-Edwards, compiled by
Elizabeth Hardie Waymann.

Letters, Notes and Oral History: Jean Black, Percy Campbell, Sarah Edwards Church,
Gladys Clarkson Ferguson, Jean Ewen Gervan, Dorothy Lamb, Edith Lamb, Ethel Lamb
Marquis, Eunice Lamb, Eva Gervan Lamb, George & Dorothy Wells Lamb, J, Arthur
Lamb, J ,William Lamb, Rosamond Lamb, Walter T. Lamb, William H. Lamb, Marion Peel
McKinley, Leone Lamb Robertson, Elizabeth Hardie Waymann.

******t**

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Index to Individuals on Charts #3â€”#10
Numbers in bold type indicate charts

A lfard -
Emma: 8:128
Alton -
Shawn William: 6: 126
William Gordon: 6:126
Amundsen -
Gail Patricia: 5: 124
A uinn Â»
Deborah/Debbie Anne: 6: 127
Bailey
Victoria 5:121
Baker -
Gina Elise: 4:120
Sarah Ann: 3:117; 10:131
Beaudmâ€˜n -
Ann: 10: 1 3 2
Becker! -
Doris Maud: 4: 120
Walter Albert: 4:120
Bell -
Alexander 9:131
Arthur: 9: 13 1
Dorothy: 9: 131
Ernest: 9: 131
Stanley: 9: 13 1
Bellow: -
Sharon Ruth-Marie: 5: 123
Berci -
Antoinette: 102132
Bill -
Sandra Lynn Davidson: 5:124
Blrkett -
Thomas: 3: 1 17
Bishop -
Samuel: 6:126
Black -
Helen Lawrie: 4:119
Magdalene/Maggie Bone: 4: 1 18
Troy: â€˜ 6:128
Blair -
Fred Charles: 6: 128
Bahm -
Sylvia: 10:133
Bar/and -
Christine Diane: 6:128
W-
Johnaï¬‚fï¬'l/
(Next Family: Brown)

141

Brown
Allan: 10:134
Jan: 5:122
Julia Grace: 4:118
Kelvin: 10:134
Buiâ€˜h -
Edith Irene: 8:129
Byme: -
Henry: 9:130
Cameron -
Alva: 5:121
Alice: 5:122
Anne/Annie, 5:122
Betty: 5:121
Clarence: 5:121
Clarence In. ,121
Clive: 5:121
Geraldine: 5:121
Gordon: 5:121
Harry: :121
Hele 5:121
Jean: 5:121
Jewel 5:121
Ross: 5:121
Campbell -
Hugh; 10:131
Hugh Percival/Percy Baker: 10: 131
James/Jim William Middleton: 10: 131
Norma McGregor: 5:123
Sarah Ethel. 10:131
Carey ~
Alex Campbell: 5:124
Corbin Leslie: 5:124
Leslie Clifford: 5:124
Cheriton -
Gordon Robert: 5:124
Sean Christopher: 5:124
Suzanne Elizabeth: 5: 124
Christie -
Jessie Murray: 4:118
Church -
Alan Edmund: 5:125
Alanna Beth: 124
Albert Joseph: 5:124
Andrew James: 5:123
Ann Vernell: 5:124
Brian Douglas: 5:124
Brian Eli: 5:124

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Church -
Carol Roe: 5: 124
Daniel Matthew: 5:125
David Brent. 5'
Dawson 1am
Donald Paul:
Donald Stuartâ€˜ 5:124
Edmund: 5:123
Eric Stuart: 5: 124
Hailey Leone: 5:124
Howard Edwar : 123
Janet Rachel: 5:125
Jenney Andrew: 5: 124
John Devon: 5:125
Kathryn Lorraine: 5:124
KayIa E115: 5:124
Leonard Allen: 5:123
Leonard Campbell: 5: 124
Linda Margaret: 5:123
Martha Lynne:
Matthew David

:123

Murray Albert: 5: 124

Rodney Campbell: 5:124
Sarah Corey: 5: 124
Stephanie Leah: 5:124
Stuart Roe: 5: 124
Tami Jo: 5:125
Tara Lynne: 5:124
Tiffany Dawne: 5:125
Timothy Mark; 5: 123
Treena Marie. 5:123
Wade Brent: 5: 124
Clarkron -
George: 10:13}
Gladys Louella: 10' 133
Who): Evelyn' 10:13}
Collins .
Laura Annie: 6:126
Rean Herbert: 6:126
Colyn -
Margaret Cornelia: 5:124
Canor -
Loni: 4:119
Canvery -
Sheila 13.: 4:119
Cook Â»
Ethel: 5:121

Susan: :118
Crawford -

Mabel: 9:130
Crowe -

Gwyn Thomas: 10:132
Dalton v

Beverly Ann: 6:127
Davidson -

Agnes: 5:121
Debuc

Gaston; 4:118
Dewar -

Mary: 3:117; 4:117
Dixon -

Clarence: 5:123
Doucetre -

Delta Ann: 4:118
Dunlap -

Elizabeth Ann: 5:123
Robert Dean: 5.123
Sarah Alexandra: 5:123
Edgar -
Amelia/Bell: 6: 126
Edison -
Alice: 8:129
Edwards -
Abram: 5:121
Albeï¬‚ George: 5:123
Alexander Simpson: 5:122
Alice: 5:122
Alla . :121
Alva George: 5:121
Catherine/Katie: 5: 122
Douglas: 5:121
Elizabeth Margaret: 5:122
Ellen/Ella: 5:121
Ethel Catherine: 5: 121
Ethel Georgina: 5:122
George: 5:125
George Anhur: 5:121
Gordon: 5: 121
Grace Victoria: 5: 125
Harold: 5:122
Helen: 5:121
Ida: 5:122
James: 5:122
James Simpson: 5:120
Janet Lamb: 5:122

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Edwards -
John: 5:121
John James' 5:12]
John Simpson: 5:125
John/Souter Simpson: 3: l 17: 5:120
Joseph Alexander: 5:122
Lillian: 5:122
Mabel May: 5:121
Margaret/Maggie: 5:125
Mary Ann' 5:121
Mary/Minnie Ellen: 5:122
Sarah Roe; 5:122
William: 5:122
William Charles: 5: 121
Wi 1am Hanan: 5:123
William W:: 5:125
Elcome
Ednaâ€˜ 4:118
EIIs -
Beverly Eleanor: 5:123
Ens/(sun -
John: 10:13}
Ewen -
Charles: 4:120
Jean Lorna Avelyn: 4: 120
Ferguson -
Brian George: 10: 133
Eleanor Jean: 10: 133
Helen Maureen: 10: 133
Jade Shannon: 1 :133

Lucy: 102131

Michaela Sylvia: 10: 133
Fisher -

Regoma: 5:122
Gallagher -

Elizabeth/Libby Ann: 4:117

Henrietta/Heme: 4:117

Louise: 4:117

Mary Eleanor: 4:117

Thomas: 4:117

Thomas Lincoln: 4:117
Gardner -

Wendy: 6:127

143

Gamer -
Abigail Marie: 6:128
Jennifer Lynn, . 27

Michelle Nicole: 6: 127
Paliiek James: 6: 128
William: 6:128
William Alan Rose 6: 127
Gautier -
Jessie May: 8:129
Gebhardt -
Kristen Lynn: 4: 120
Gervan -
Dï¬‚Yld Henderson: ' 20
Katharine Eva May: 4:119
Suzanne Jean: 4:120
Gillatly Â»
0' 9: 130
Gilli: -
- 5: 122
Gillmure -
Beverley, 102134
Ingram 101134
Gil/mare 7
Sam. 10:134
Gordon -
Alexander 3: 117; 7:128
Baby 7: 128
Margaretâ€˜ 3:117: 7:128
Grandmnison -
Barry Ryan. 10:132
Ernest James: 10:132
Joseph. 10:132
Lynn Reta 10:132
Norman Charles: 10: 132
Peter Ernest 10: 132
Grant -
Grace G: 4:118
Gray â€”
Lucy Ellen/Nellie. 10: 134
Ross Eric. 5:124
Gruendler -
Annette: 6:127
Guenette -
Susan: 10:134
Gyomarv -
Ausiin Blayne, 6: 126
Daniel James' 6:126
James Daniel: 6: 126
Matthew Shawn: 6:126
Hairles -
Annie 8:129

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Hammer -
Harold: 5:121
Maryâ€˜ 5:121
Hardie Â»
Charles: 5:123
Helen Elizabeth: 5:123
Henderson -
Margaret/Maggie: 8:129
Mary Jane: 6:125
Hews -
John S: 10:134
Hill Â«
N.: 9:130
Hodgin: -
Christina A1m.10:132
Edward B. M.: 10:132
Elizabeth Pearl Tracey" 10: 132
Michael: 10:132
Scott Michael: 10:132
Hoï¬nan -
A : 9:13
llallingshead ~
Anthony 5.121
David. 5121
Donald' 5:121
Elizabeth: 5:121
HazelAnn 5:122
James: 5:121
lean. 5.121
Mary Helen: 5121
Hopkins -
Lyle. 5.122
Marjorie: 5:122
Perry, 5:122
Thomas 5:122
Havey -
Lois Mary. 8: 129
Hughes -
Michael: 4:119
Shaun' 4:119
Steven: 4:119
Hutton -
------ --: 5'122
Jackson -
Barbara Annâ€˜ 8:129
Betty: 8:129
Elizabeth/Lizzie May: 6:126

Jean: 8:129
lollâ€ Glam: 3:129

James -
Marion Viola: 10:134

Johnson -
Jesse Folsom: 4:118
Margaret: 5: 122
Johnrtan -
Florence Frances 8:129
Keane -
Kevin: 10:133
Kennedy -
Annie M.â€˜ ti: 126
Kester -
Anne. 5: 121
Kidner -
Charles Edward (1904-1988) 4:120
Charles Edward (1931- ). 4: 120
Joan Emily. 4:120
Kirkconnell v
Betty: 10~133
Heath 0: 1 33
Holly' 10:133
James Walter. 10:133
James/Jim 10:133
Kathie 10: l 33
Mary, 10:133
T Watson 10:133
Thomas William 10:133
Knau! -
Margery Leone: 5: 124
Lagler' 7
Anita 5:123
Lamb -
Adam Donald Douglas 6:127
Allan Gordon. 6:126
Ann: 4:117: 128
Arnold Toynbee: 6:126. 62128
Beverly Jane. 6127
Brandon Steven: 6: 127
Brendan George Stephen. 4:119
Carson James Edward. 6:127
Catherine/Kate. 3:117
Charles Kirkvvood: 3:119
Donald James' 6:127
Donald Paul: 27
Edith Helen 4:119
Edith Helen Thornton 4:119
Elizabeth. 3:117
Elizabeth Ann: 10:13.1
Elizabeth Jane. 3:117
Elizabeth M.: 6: 126
Elizabeth/112216 Pearl [0:132
Ethel Florence. 4:118
Ethel Janet: 10:13

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Lamb -
Eunice May' 6:126
Frances Dorothy/Dora/Dolly: 10:134
Frank: 6:126
Gerald Clayton: 6: 127
Glen Edward: 6:127
Glenda Joanne. 6: 127
Gordon Arundel: 6:126
Gordon Lincoln: 6:126
Gordon Riehar 6:126
Helen: 3:117; 5:120
Helen Alexandra: 10: 13}
Helen Grace: 4:118
Helen Margaret Elizabeth: 6: 128
Helen/Ella Edwards, 10:133
Helen/NellMary: 6:128
James (1778â€”1855): 3:117
James (1828-1914): 3:117; 10:13]
James Edgar: 10:131
James/Jim Byrne: 4:118
James/Jun Dewar. 6:126
Janet 3:117; 10:131
Joan 6:126
Jean Elizabethâ€˜ 6: 127
Jeffrey Comâ€˜ery. 4:119
Jill Ann' 6:127
Joan Mane. 6:127
John' 3:117: 4:117
John Alexande .
John Arnold: 6:127
John Arthur/Art: 4:119
John Dewar: 10: 131
John Ewan Grenfell: 6:128
John Gilbert: 101132
John Hercus/Herk: 4: 120
John William/Bill Thornton: 4: 120
JosÃ©e Helen, 4:119
Judith Anna:
Kathryn E.. 4:119
Laura Elaine: 6:126
Lucy Janet: 134
Margaret 3.117: 8:128
Margaret Ethel: 4:118
Margaret/Maggie Baker: 10: 131
Mary: 4:120
Mary Carlena/Lena: 10: 132
Mary Helen: 6: 126
Mary/Minnie Ann: 4:120
Matthew Austin: 4:119
Matthew Paul: 6: 127

145

Lamb Â»
Megan Marie: 6: 127
Monique/Sim Lillian: 6:126
Peter Osborne, 10: 132
Philip Joseph: 6:126
Phyllis Kathryn/Kathy Helen 4:119
Robert Bruce: 6:128
Roben/Bob Lawrie 4:118
Rosamond Anna Herbert 4:118
Ruby Ruth: 0:133
Ruth Leone 6:126
Rylan Toynbee: 6: 127
Sierra Rose: 6 127
Stacey Conor: 4:119
Steven James: 6: 127
Susan Alexandra/Sandra. 4: 120
Walter James Thornton: 4:1 19
Walter Thomas/T om: 4:119
Walter/Bud Arthur Thornton: 4:119
William: 3:117; 6:126
William George Christie: 4:119
William Herbert: 4:119
William James Christie 4:119
William/Billy Herbert. 4: 118
William/Willie: 6:126
William/Willie Alexander: 4:1 19
Willie: 6:126
Zachary Bruce 6: 12
Lei tch
Jason Daniel: 6: 127
Jeï¬‚rey/Jeff Cameron: 6: 127
Justin Darren: 6: 127
Lindberg -
Joyce Vemellâ€™ 5:124
Lindblaa' -
Hazel Elizabeth 10:132
Lindsay -
Norma Mayâ€™10: 133
Loberg -
Carmen Richard: 5:123
Logan- Gamer -
William/Willie Alan Kane: 6:127
Lotzlen -
Lori Anne Wood: 5:124
Lyn/l -
Catherine: 4: 1 18
Charles Edward. 4: 1 18
Edna: 4' l 13
Helen: 4: 1 18
Peter: 4:1 18

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Lyall -

William/Billie: 4: 1 18
Alaska}: -

Marie: :
Mach -

David Earle 4:120

Ian Wilson: 4: 120

Norman Hartwell: 4:120
Maither -

Alexandra 10: 134

Paul: 10:134
Malma: -

Bruce Keimelh: 5:124

Sean Ian: 5:124

Shamin Erinâ€˜ 5:124
Mango/d -

Charles Fritz 4:120

Linda 4:120
Marks -

Olive Mary: 5: 123
1â€™1 [arqum -

Alexander/Al W 4:118
AlcCaig Â»

Frances: 9:130
McCullough -

Joanne: 6:127

Mary Jane: 6:127
lVchrmu/d Â»

Crawford 9: 130

Elizabeth: 9:130

Elizabeth Jessieâ€˜ 9:130

John Douglas: 9: 1311
McDonald â€”

John Hemor: 9: 131

Keith: 9:131

Mabelâ€˜ 9:130

Malcolm Alexander: 9: 130

Nancy, 9:130

Norman: 9:130

Norman Alexander, 9:130

Patricia: 9:131

Peler. 9:130

Spencer Charles 9:131

Wilfred Donald: 9: 130
,\[cFar/ane -

Joseph Daniel: 4:118
Sean David: 4:118

David Anthony: 10:132
Deborah Jane: 10:132

Donald Campbell: 10:132
Evelyn Pearl: 10:132

James Ronald: 10:132

Janet Evelyn: 10:132

John Harold: 10: 132

John Peter (1876â€”1929): 10:132
John Peter(l964 â€” ), 10:132
Karen Isabel, 10:132

Malcolm James/Ted: 10:132
William/Bill Warren. 10:132

McLean -

Alexander 9:130
Alexander Ernest: 9:131
Ben: 8:128

Bertha 8:129

Donald: 8: 128

Donald H.: 8:128
E1izabet11 Ann 9:130
Eiizabeth E â€˜ 8:128

Eva anyâ€˜ 8:129

Flora M. 30

George A.: 8:129
Harold: 9:131

James Lamb: 8:129
Jane1 Lamb: 9: 130
JanelJJennie Ann: 8:129
Jennie B.: 8:129

John (1820-1900): 8:128
John (1865- 7) 8:130

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lMcLezm -
John Allan: 8:128
Margaret Flora: 9: 131
Marlon: 8:129
Manon Margaret. 8:130
Mary Helen: 9: 131
Olive Ethel: 8:129
Percy Alexander 8: 129
Sproule' 8:129
William: 8:129

[MERGE -

Angelina: 5:121
ll/lLâ€˜TaviSh -

Jessie. 9:130
Meneer -

Myrtle: 5:121
llleredllh .

Mary Carlena/â€˜Lena 10:132
Mitchell -

W, W,. 9:130

William Winchley: 9: 130
1110172er -

Eleanor 5:125
Alan/r -

Karyn Elizabeth: 6:126
Alonso" -

April Rose: 5:125
Blaine Hartley: 5:125
Clinton Collinso
Felicia Dawn: '
Holly Lynn:
Jocelyn Joan: 5:125
Lawrence Richard 5:125
Marilyn Dawn. 5: 125
Robert. S: 125
Ronald Brian:
Ryan Andrew: :
Serena Lynn: 5:125
Wendy Lorraine: 5:125

Mounce
Bruce: 4: 120
Emily A115. 4: 120
Patrick Charles: 4:120
Manson -
Earl: 10:132
Louella' 10:132

Murray -
Joan: â€˜ 129
Stanley. 8: 129

,Veu/eld Â»
Cameron Gordon: 5:125
Corrm Rachelle, 5:125
Gordon Henry' 5: 125
Jennifer Lynn 5: 125

Newton -
Terry 6:128
Newtonâ€”Gamer Â»
Jordan Patrick: 6: 128
Nickel v
Wendy. 5:124
Nixon -
Amanda 10:133
George: 10:132
Norman -
Keith: 4:118
Oke -
Dale Lynn: 6: 126
OMQVINEIâ€™IHNF r
Christopher/Chris Lfechuku' 4: 120
Ifechuku/lfe Justen: 4:120
Obinna/Obi Christopher Colton: 4: 120
Parr -
Ida Esther 5:123
Parr/aw -
Dorothy Lorraine: 5:124
Paul -
Marvin 10:134
Sllaundra. 10:134
Pedersun -
Ami: 4:119
Peel -
Anna Isabel, 10:133
Davrd: 10:134
Geoffrey: 10:134
Helenâ€˜ 101134
Ingram Gillmoreâ€˜ 10:134
James: 10:134
James Albert: 10:13}; 10:134
Kim. 10:134
Leslie: 10:134

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Peel -

Marion: 10:134
Mary: 10:134
Michael 101134
Morgan: 10:134
Norman Allen; 10: 134
Richard 10:134
Robin: 101134

William Walter: 10: 133
Philibert -

Marie/Claire: 6:126
POHpS -

Donald: 8:129

Douglas J. 8:129

Florence/Flora Margaret: 8:129
Pimp: -

Patricia Sarah, 8: 129

Percival/Percy McLean: 8: 129

Peter Allan: 8: 129

Phillip M: 8:129

Richard 8:129

Wilfred/Wilf Vincent: 8:129
Porter -

Avelyn Alice: 4: 120

Bernice Marion: 4:120

Minnie Maud: 4: 120

Thomas. 4:120

Thomas Percival: 4: 120

Wilfred Hardy: 4: 120

William Alfred: 4: 120
Purdv -

Barbara Ann: 8:129
aRasmussen-Waymann (See Waymann)
Raynard -

Phyllis Hopeâ€˜ 10:132
Rean -

Patti: 6:127

Reid -
Roy Alexander: 10: 132
Ruth Janet: 10:132

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Twin daughters 10:132
Robb -
Christine: 10:134
Margaret: 8:129
Roberlsun -
Ashley Marie 6:126
Courtney Nicole: 6: 127
Curtis James, 6:127
Erica Lynn. 6:126
Judith/Judy Anne 6:126
Norman Bruce: 6: 126
Robert/Bob James 6:127
William Brian' 6:127
William/Bill Franklin: 6:126
Robsun -
Haroldâ€˜ 10:133
Radden -
-- (son) --: 4:118
Francis/Frank Alexander 4:118
lcla Amelia: 4:118
Minnie Helen 4:118
Richard Jolur 4:117
Richard Montgomery/Mont) : 4:1 18
Ruby Catherine/Puss. 4:118
Veronica/Onie: 4:118
William/Billie Thomas 4:118
Rae -
Catherine 5:120
Elizabeth/Eliza Ann' 5:120
Roesler â€”
Karen: 10:132
Rose -
Bill. 6:127
Saddler -
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Sande]! -
Gerald. 5:121
Hazel Helen: 5:121
Robert: 5:121
Schindel -
John: 10: 132
Schneider -
Joanne Carol: 5:124
Scott .
HaroldRobinson 10: 134
Mary Elizabeth: '129
Robert Thomas: 10: 134
Sell -
Fred: 5:122
James G.: 5:122

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Angela Ann. 4:119
Bradley Jason' 4: 1 19
Christopher Michael 4:119
David Keith: 4:119
Jessica James: 4:119
John Leigh Stewart. 4:119
Mary Diane: 4:119
Slhbuld -
Margaret Olive. 5:123
Swanson Â»
Carl: 5:122
Carlâ€™ 5:122
Seigrid 5:122
Simpson -
Patricia/Trisha: 4:119
SIG/liter .
Pelerâ€˜ 10:133
Smiley -
Ian Douglas. 10:13}
Sml/Ey -
Jason Lee.10:133
Marina Katelyn. 10:133
Sheena Lace)â€œ 10: 133
Smith -
Marjorie. 10:13}
Snyder 7
Ida: 5:122
Sprouse -
Stephaine. 4:120
Squarey -
Alice Mu 4:117
Stephen Â»
Tracey 4:119
Svme -
Amber Hope: 4:119
Candice Joanne: 4: 119
Malcolm Andrew: 4:119
Wallace/Wally James: 4:119
Talbot -
Harry: 6:127
Katherine/Katie Joanne: 6:127
Talbert -
Maud Lovina: 4: 119
Tam/m -
Alex' 10:134
Thiessen -
Andrea Michele: 5:125
Curtis Andrew 5:125
Henry Marvin 5:125
Laurie Lynn: 5: 125

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Michael James: 5:125
Thymus -

Dora Hall: 101131
Thompson -

Wilson: 9:130
Thams -

Barry' 10:132
Thomson -

Alexander James: 5:123

Helen Clemenria: .123

Jeffrey Miehael' 5 23

Sarah Anne 5:123
Thorpe -

Hattie: 9:131
Till -

Bernice Elizabeth: 4:117

Frank H: 4:117

Frank Laurence: 4:] l7
Topping -

Pearl: 4:118
Truhneur -

Christine 8:130
Yurher -

Christopher Thomas: 6: 127

Leslie Robert 6:127
P'arllancour! -

Ginene: 6:126
Walker -

Frances: 4: 118

William/Billie J . 4:118
Wullace -

Efï¬e May: 8: 129
Ilâ€™ardrope -

Darrel Gram: 4:118

George Arthur: 4:118

Heather Lawne, 4:118

Laurie Heather: 4:1 18

Murray Grant: 4:118
Warner <

George: 8:128

Henry, 8:128

John Douglas: 8: 128

William: 8:128
Warth -

Edward CL: 4:117

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Wï¬‚ymann â€”

Alfred Ronnebo: 5:123

Eï¬‚C Charles: 5:123

lan Tor 5: 123

Karen Lynn â€˜ 5:123
Wells -

Darothy E â€™ 4:119

Sue: [0:134
Welsh -

Wendy Jo-Anne: 5:125
Wheeler -

Chenie Denise: 10:131

Fred' 10:131

Paula Diane: 10:131
Widenmn -

Jennie Evelina: 6: 126
Wight -

Janet: 4:119
Wilcox A

George 9:130

Sidney Charles: 10:133
William: -

Dorothy: 10:131
Ill/[mart -

Margarex E.: 4:117

Wooten -
Lynene Rachel: 5:125
Wright â€”
Marjorie Dorma210:134
llfvmrm -
Vlolel. 6:128
Zimmer -
Amanda Lynne: 5:124
David Joseph: 5: 124
Larissa Rachel 5:124
Samh Mari ' 24
Shauna Ann: :124

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The names listed in this index and in rhe
Family Charts are all that are currently lqiawn to
the author, Any errors or omissrons are due (0
lack of information.

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