The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Marriages by Rev'd Richard Herrington, Baptist Minister, Gosfield (p. 75):
George Irving, of Walsingham, to Tabitha Stewart, of Gosfield. 14 May 1843, Gosfield, by Licence. Rev. Herrington. Wit. John Stewart and Abel Stewart.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 90-92:
Simeon M. Stewart is a representative member of one of the historic families of County Essex, and is now proprietor of the leading hotel at Ruthven. The family, as the name indicates, is of Scottish extraction.
James Stewart, progenitor of the family in County Essex, was born in Argyllshire, Scotland... During the American Revolution he served as a colonel in the British army.. he subsequently married, in Maryland, a Scottish-born maiden, Margaret Brown... They settled on a farm in Dunkard township, Greene county, Pennsylvania, and in the course of time eight children were born to them, four sons - James, John, Daniel and Charles - and four daughters - Sophia, Mary, Jane and one whose name is not recorded...
Charles Stewart, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania, and when he settled in Ontario drew a Government lot on the 4th Concession, in Mersea township. Later he acquired much land, enough to enable him to start each of his sons with a farm. For years he was an elder in the Baptist Church. His children were: ... Tabitha married Rev. Mr. Irving, a Baptist preacher...
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