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Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 44-45:
David Hamil. The Hamil family of Ontario is of English extraction, and has an ancestry traceable very far back, even to the days when seven brothers of the name accompanied Oliver Cromwell to Ireland. The first of the family of whom we have any definite data is Joseph Hamil, who passed his whole life in Ireland. He had a family of two sons and two daughters. 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. She had three brothers: William, who for twenty-one years was captain of the 58th Regiment in the English army; Robert, a lieutenant in the same army; and Thomas, a land master; all participated in the battle of Waterloo. 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, in which year the two families (of Daniel and Joseph) came to Canada, Daniel settling in Cartwright.
     Joseph Hamil settled in the County of Brockville, in Kitley township, where he purchased a farm which he conducted six years. In 1837 he settled in Harwich township, County of Kent, on Lot 15, Concession 10, where he bought farms for himself and his sons. His eldest daughter, Mary Ann, married William Kinnaird, and they had a family of five girls and three boys. Jane married John Fhike; they had a family of four girls and two boys. Elizabeth married James English, and had a family of four girls and one boy. Joanna married John Muckle, and they had a family of five boys and two girls. The eldest son, Joseph, married Elizabeth Kenny, and had a family of fifteen children, six boys and nine girls. John married Mary McCoig, and had a family of three children, two girls and one boy. Robert married Sophia Gammage and their family consisted of three boys and five girls. William married Hannah Conn, and they had three boys and four girls. David married Catherine Conn, and they had ten children, two boys and eight girls. Joseph Hamil, Sr., died in 1858, at the age of seventy-five; his wife survived him ten years, dying at the age of eighty.
     David Hamil was born July 25, 1829, in County Monaghan, Ireland. At the age of eighteen he began life for himself as a farmer, on land given him by his father, and later he purchased the farm of his brother William, where he was engaged in general agriculture, until 1892. In that year he sold 100 acres and gave his sons each 100 acres. Then he moved to Blenheim, where he lived ten years, after which he bought a farm on the Communication road, near Rondeau, where he still resides. The old family home is on the town line between Harwich and Howard, near the 10th Concession, Lot 15.
     As previously mentioned, Mr. Hamil married Catherine Conn, and they had ten children, two sons and eight daughters. The eldest daughter, (1) Jane, married George Hall, by whom she had three children, David F., Nellie and Bertram. For her second husband she married Alexander Goff, and they have one daughter, Leata Fern. (2) Elizabeth married William Brien, and they have six children, Kate, Minnie, Myrtle, Delila, Vernon and John. Of these, Kate married Arthur Sutton, and has two daughters, Pearl and Gladys. Minnie married Coral Brookins, and they have one son, named Glen. (3) Joseph married Alice Louisa Scane, and they have two children, Josephine and Wilbury. (4) Cathrine married Gilbert Philips, and they have two children, Addie and Zelma. (5) Alice married Samuel Johnson, and they have had four children, Gertrude (deceased), Winnie, Leora and Frederick. (6) Meredith married Bertha Coyne; they have four children, Mildred, Edith, Genevieve, Frederick. (7) Christina (deceased) married Charles Chapin. (8) Eliza Ann died in infancy. (9) Joanna married James Smith; they have five children, James Lloyd, Florence, Lorne Hamil, and Harold C. and Abigal Edith. (10) Elsie Irene married Angus Lawton, and they have one child, Marjorie.
     Mr. Hamil is a Conservative in politics. In religious belief he is a Methodist. He was a school trustee for eighteen years, and a councillor for three years. Most all the members of his family live in the townships of Harwich and Howard, and they are well known in this section.

Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 735-736:
     Robert Hamil, a prosperous retired farmer of Ridgetown, County Kent, was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, in May 1824, a son of Joseph and Jane C. Hamil, both natives of Ireland, who came to the Dominion as early as 1831. They first settled near Kingston, where they lived until the Rebellion, when Joseph Hamil sold and moved to the township of Harwich, County of Kent, and, buying wild land there built a log cabin. In this he started his life as a pioneer settler, and in time reared his family, and became a very successful farmer. His death occurred in 1848, while his widow lived to the year 1869. They were members of the Church of England, and numbered among the founders of that faith in County Kent. In politics he was a Conservative, as was also his father, Joseph, who died in Ireland.
     Joseph Hamil, Jr., and wife had a family as follows: Mary A., born in Ireland, married William Canard, a farmer, and died, leaving a family; Jane, born in Ireland, married John Fruke, a farmer of Harwich, and is now deceased; Elizabeth, born in Ireland, married James English, and settled on a farm in Harwich, where she died, leaving five children; Joanna, born in Ireland, is the deceased wife of John Mickle, who settled as a farmer in Harwich, and they had five children; Joseph, born in Ireland, married Elizabeth Kenny, of County Kent, settled on a farm adjoining his father's homestead where he died in 1886, leaving a family of fifteen children, all but one yet living; John, born in Ireland, married May McCord, of County Kent, and settled on land purchased by his father adjoining the Harwich homestead, and he has one daughter living; William, born in Ireland, married Hannah Conn, of County Elgin, and for a number of years they lived in Harwich township, there reared a family, and he is now living a retired live at Chatham; David, born in Ireland, came to this country with his parents when about two years of age, and when he grew up, he married Catherine Conn, of County Kent, settled on the old homestead in Harwich township, reared his family, and now lives retired in Blenheim; and Robert.
     Robert Hamil was only seven years of age when the family located in County Kent, and he grew up to young manhood in Harwich township, where he was educated, and where he has practically spent his entire life.
     In September, 1851, Mr. Hamil married Miss Sophia Gammage, daughter of William and Rachel D. Gammage...
     Robert Hamil brought his bride to a farm, which he had purchased adjoining his father's and he has become one of the most prosperous farmers of Harwich township. He erected a large brick house and outbuildings, and now owns 150 acres of rich land in County Kent. In 1888 he bought real estate in Ridgetown, where he built a fine brick residence, on the corner of Richard street; there he now lives, retired from active work.
     The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hamil: (1) Henry, born in 1852, in Harwich township, married Barbara Watson, settled on a farm purchased by his father, and has four children, Guy, Roy, May and Veda. (2) Robert, born in 1854, married (first) Katie Manifold, who died, leaving him two sons, Orin and Ivan, and he married (second) Alice Coyn (no children); they reside in Harwich on a farm. (3) Louisa, born in 1856, married Robert Taylor, a farmer in Harwich, and has four children, Arthur, Ernest, Ethel and Edith. (4) Amelia, born in 1858, married Angus Watson, a farmer in Harwich township, and has four children, Robert, May, Estell and Neal. (5) William, born in 1860, now lives on the old homestead; he married May Baird, of County Kent, and has two children, Edna and Gladys. (6) Emma, born in 1863, married Dr. Albert Lusty, a practicing physician of Dundee, Michigan, and has two children, Hazel and Frank. (7) Mary, born in 1865, married Rev. Daniel Martin, minister of the Methodist Church, stationed at Brownsville, Ont. (8) Edith, born in 1869, married Rev. John Bell, of Glencoe, Ont., where he is stationed as a Methodist minister, and they have two daughters, Eloise and Grace. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Hamil are consistent members of the Methodist Church, in which they have held membership for over fifty years. Mr. Hamil has been steward of the Harwich Church for a great many years. Politically he has always been a staunch Conservative, and taken an active part in his party. Both Mr. Hamil and his wife are members of old pioneer families, and have themselves borne useful parts in the development of County Kent. They have been useful church members, and kind, generous neighbours, and few people are more highly respected.