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Mary
McCoig
Just guessing that Harry, Meredith and John E. are the children of John and Mary.
1881 personal census, Harwich Twp, Kent Co., ON, LDS 1881 Can census household record:
Hamil John, M, Married, 60, born Ireland, origin: Irish, Church of England, Farmer;
Mary, F, Married, 45, born Scotland, origin: Scottish;
Mary J., F, 13, born Ont, origin: Irish, Church of England;
Misey, F, 11, born Ont, origin: Irish, Church of England.
1881 personal census, Harwich Twp, Kent Co., ON, LDS 1881 Can census household record:
Hamil Meredith, M, 27, born Ont, origin: Irish, C Methodist, Farmer.
1881 personal census, Harwich Twp, Kent Co., ON, LDS 1881 Can census household record:
Hamil Hary, M, 28, born Ont, origin: Irish, C Methodist, Farmer.
Marriage record, Harwich Twp, Kent Co., ON, from Mary Crandall's site:
005714-93 (Kent Co.) Sufferin G. JOHNSTON, 29, farmer, Ireland, Harwich, s/o James JOHNSTON & Mary GARVIN, married Mary Jane HAMEL, 24, Harwich, same, d/o John HAMEL & Mary McCAIG, witn Meredith HAMIL & Idella McCAIG of Harwich, on 1 February 1893, at Harwich.
Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 869-870:
John J. McCoig, a retired farmer of Concession 11, Harwich township, County of Kent, was born Feb. 14, 1830, in Argyllshire, Scotland, a son of John and Catherine (McNaughton) McCoig, who were born and reared and married in that country.
John McCoig was born in 1787, a son of Neil and Catherine McCoig, who died in Scotland. In 1842 he came to Canada on a sailing vessel, spending seven weeks on the water. From Quebec he came to the present home in Harwich township, although at that time all the land was covered with a dense growth of timber, and he bought this wild land for $2 per acre. He built a log cabin in which he lived for some years, later replacing it with a comfortable frame house. He died in 1863, and his wife died in 1878, aged eighty-four years. In religious belief and practice they were Presbyterians, and he was one of the founders of the church here, and one of the first elders of McCall's Church at Chatham. Politically, he was a Reformer, although in early life he supported the Conservative party. These children were born to John McCoig and his wife: Neil died in Canada, at the age of eighteen years; John J. is mentioned below; Duncan, born in 1832, married Sarah Taylor, and they reside in Harwich, 11th Concession; Barbara, born in 1838, married Kenneth Urquhart, a Scotchman, now a wealthy retired businessman of Chatham; Margaret is the widow of Donald McCoig, of Concession 10; Mary (deceased) married John Hamil, who resides in Harwich (their only daughter is a Mrs. Johnston, of Harwich); Archie, born in Scotland, married Bella McTavish, of Dover, was a carpenter by trade and died in 1868, leaving two children - Bella, deceased, and Archie, of Chicago; Daniel, born in 1840, in Scotland, married Christie Martin (first), who died leaving four children, Christina, John, Archie and Ella, all of Chatham, and his second marriagee was to Mary Black, who had one son, Harry (Daniel lived and died in Chatham); Margery, born in Scotland, married Benjamin Fields, of Santa Cruz, California, and they have one son, Martin; Neil, born in 1843, in Canada, married a Miss Wilkinson, of Wheatley, Ont., where he died in 1880, leaving one son, Harry...
Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J. H.
Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 44-45:
David Hamil... The first of the family of whom we have any definite data is Joseph Hamil, who passed his whole life in Ireland... His son Daniel was married to Martha Stuart, and had a family of seven daughters and one son, Joseph, who married Jane Crosier, daughter of Robert Crosier. The children born to Joseph Hamil and his wife were as follows: Mary Ann, Jane, Elizabeth, Joanna, and Joseph, John, Robert, William and David. They lived in the Emerald Isle until 1831...
Joseph Hamil ... settled in Harwich township, County of Kent, on Lot 15, Concession 10, where he bought farms for himself and his sons... John married Mary McCoig, and had a family of three children, two girls and one boy... Joseph Hamil, Sr., died in 1858, at the age of seventy-five; his wife survived him ten years, dying at the age of eighty.
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