Person Page - 4793

Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Yeomans^1,2

• Birth*: circa 1750; Dutchess Co., New York, U.S.A.; per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 20 2022.²
• Marriage*: 24 February 1770; Hopewell, Dutchess Co., New York, U.S.A.; per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 20 2022.; Principal=Myndert Harris²

• Married Name: 24 February 1770; Harris²

Joseph Harris¹

• Father*: Myndert Harris b. 1748, d. 1823
• Mother*: Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Yeomans b. c 1750

• Birth*: 7 July 1772; Hopewell, Dutchess Co., New York, U.S.A.; Date Jul 7 1772 & location Dutchess Co., NY per Baptism. per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 20 2022.^1,2
• Baptism: 20 September 1772; Hopewell, Dutchess Co., New York, U.S.A.; US, Dutch Reformed Church Records, Hopewell, Dutchess Co., NY: Year: 1772; Name: Joseph; Bapt. Sep? 20; Born: July 7; Parents: Meindert Harrise & Maria Yeomans; Wit.: Joseph Harris & wife (US, Dutch Reformed Church Records, "Hopewell, Fishkill and Mabletown, Book 14", page 27 of 104, ancestry.ca)²
• Marriage*: circa June 1797; Port Hope, Durham Co., Upper Canada; "Before July 10 1797 & location Port Hope" per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 20 2022.; Principal=Rachel Sherwood¹
• Death*: before 18 February 1817; Rice Lake, Upper Canada; "HARRIS, WIDOW (at the Rice Lake Trading Post); The ‘widow Harris’, referred to by such early settlers as Charles Fotherrgill, was probably Rachel Sherwood Harris, daughter of Major Sherwood, U.E.. of Belleville, and widow of Joseph Harris, eldest son of Myndert Harris Sr. of Smith's Creek. When the Harrises' family friend, Jacob Herkimer, left his trading post at Rice Lake in 1801, it was taken over by Joseph and Rachel Harris. Charles Fothergill made the following entry for Friday, 18 February 1817, in his journal: Set out on Horseback to find my way to Rice Lake. . . . After entering upon the lake, is 6 miles further to the log house where the widow Harris resides to trade with the Indians and which is situated in a neck of land [which became an island after the lake level was raised following the building of the Trent Canal] on the N. east side of the moouth of the [Otonabee] river which flows into the lake. . . . Sickness, poverty and death in this place lately gave all affliction in their power to the family now there —the recital has been affecting. . . . John Halbert, her assistant and a black man of the name of Tom who has lived all his life among the Indians, did all in their power to make me confortable. Rachel Harris and her family later moved to Crowe River in the Marrmora area where they continued to trade with the natives. A son, Charles, became a Hudson’s Bay Company factor at Lake Nipissing. The land grant of Rachel Sherwood Harris, as the daughter of a United Empire Loyalist, was located at lot 35, concession 5, of Hamilton Township, although she never occupied the property. The children of Joseph and Rachel were: 1. Mary m. Stephen Curtis 2 - Peter Thum, 3. John m. Mary Case, 4. Peter, 5. Charles d. 1835. 6. Alien Collingwood, 8. Charlotte. Rachel Harris later married a Mr Healey." page 236 "Gores Landing & Rice Lake Plains" posted to ancestry by Bill Smith Aug 2021.
  Date before Feb 18 1817 & location "Rice Lake" per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 20 2022.¹

• Residence: 11 October 1803; Conc BF Lot 35, Hope Twp., Durham Co., Upper Canada; Land Registry Records (Patent) show that Joseph Harris obtained the Patent from the Crown for all 200 acres of lot 35, Broken Front of Hope Twp. ITS Date: Oct 11 1803. (Ontario Land Registry Records, Northumberland Co., Book 028, Pg 006 of 317, Hope Twp., BF, lot 35, page copied from OnLand.ca by Dan Buchanan, Sep 4 2022)³
• Residence*: 11 October 1803; Conc 1 Lot 35, Hope Twp., Durham Co., Upper Canada; Land Registry Records (Patent) show that Joseph Harris obtained the Patent from the Crown for all 200 acres of lot 35, Broken Front of Hope Twp. ITS Date: Oct 11 1803. (Ontario Land Registry Records, Northumberland Co., Book 028, Pg 086 of 317, Hope Twp., Conc 1, lot 35, page copied from OnLand.ca by Dan Buchanan, Sep 4 2022)³
• Residence: 26 October 1803; Conc A Lot 35, Hope Twp., Durham Co., Upper Canada; Land Registry Records (B&S 35) show that Joseph Harris etux sold all 200 acres of lot 35, Conc A (Broken Front) of Hope Twp. to John Hagerman. ITS Date: Oct 26 1803. Reg'n. Date: Apr 5 1804. (Ontario Land Registry Records, Northumberland Co., Book 028, Pg 006 of 317, Hope Twp., BF, lot 35, page copied from OnLand.ca by Dan Buchanan, Sep 4 2022)³
• Residence: 26 October 1803; Conc 1 Lot 35, Hope Twp., Durham Co., Upper Canada; Land Registry Records (B&S 35) show that Joseph Harris etux sold all 200 acres of lot 35, Conc 1 of Hope Twp. to John Hagerman. ITS Date: Oct 26 1803. Reg'n. Date: Apr 5 1804. (Ontario Land Registry Records, Northumberland Co., Book 028, Pg 086 of 317, Hope Twp., Conc 1, lot 35, page copied from OnLand.ca by Dan Buchanan, Sep 4 2022)³
• Census*: 1804; Hope Twp., Durham Co., Upper Canada; 1804 Census: Joseph Harris; 1 male over 16; 1 woman; 1 male under 16; 2 girls (Newcastle Dist. Census, Hope Twp., https://www.alivingpast.ca/census.htm)⁴
• Census: 1806; Hope Twp., Durham Co., Upper Canada; 1806 Census: Joseph Harris; 1 male over 16; 1 woman; 2 males under 16; 2 girls (Newcastle Dist. Census, Hope Twp., https://www.alivingpast.ca/census.htm)⁴

Annie Curtis¹

• Father*: Stephen Curtis b. 1788, d. 12 Oct 1841
• Mother*: Mary Harris b. 1798

• Birth*: 1826; Percy Twp., Northumberland Co., Upper Canada; Date 1826 & location Ont. per marriage reg'n. - Royal Platt Hurlburt.¹
• Marriage*: 17 February 1886; Percy Twp., Warkworth, Northumberland Co., Ontario; Marriage Reg'n.#008404: Groom: Royal Plat Hurlbut; Age: 61; Res.: Warkworth; Born: United States; Status: widower; Occ.: Division Court Clerk; Parents: David & Sarah Hurlbut; Bride: Annie Curtis; Age: 60; Res.: Warkworth; Born: Ont.; Status: spinster; Parents: Stephen & Mary Curtis; Wit.: Edward Rowe, Murray Twp. & J. Lewis Davis, Warkworth; Date: Feb 17 1886; Place: Warkworth; Rel.: Meth.; Performed by: Rev. Wm. Burns; Reg'r.: R.P. Hurlbuut, Percy Twp. (Ontario Marriage Registration, #008404-1886, ancestry.ca); Principal=Royal Platt Hurlbut²

• Residence*: 17 February 1886; Percy Twp., Warkworth, Northumberland Co., Ontario; Residence Warkworth per marriage reg'n. - Royal Platt Hurlbut.¹
• Married Name: 17 February 1886; Hurlbut¹

Elizabeth Curtis¹

• Father*: Stephen Curtis¹ b. 1788, d. 12 Oct 1841
• Mother*: Mary Harris¹ b. 1798

• Birth*: 1823; Percy Twp., Northumberland Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 29 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 1842; Percy Twp., Northumberland Co., Canada West; Principal=Richard Lewis¹
• Death*: before 1871; per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 29 2022.¹

• Married Name: 1842; Lewis¹

Richard Lewis¹

• Birth*: 1818; Date 1817 per CemSearch. Date 1818 per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 29 2022.^1,2
• Marriage*: 1842; Percy Twp., Northumberland Co., Canada West; Principal=Elizabeth Curtis¹
• Death*: 1890; Date 1890 per CemSearch. Date 1890 per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 29 2022.^1,2
• Burial*: 1890; Consecon Cemetery, Ameliasburgh Twp., Consecon, Prince Edward Co., Ontario; CemSearch: Name: Richard Lewis; Born: 1817; Died: 1890; Age: 73y; ID: PEAH02JO0077; Other names: Lewis, Mary Eleanor (1847-1920), Lewis, Richard (1879-1879), Lewis, Thomas A. (1847-1929); Cemetery: Consecon Cemetery, Consecon, Ameliasburgh Twp., Prince Edward Co. (https://www.cemsearch.ca/burial/?pid=PEAH02JO0077%5E3)²

Joseph N. Curtis¹

• Father*: Stephen Curtis¹ b. 1788, d. 12 Oct 1841
• Mother*: Mary Harris¹ b. 1798

• Birth*: 1827; Percy Twp., Northumberland Co., Upper Canada; Date 1827 per CemSearch. Date 1827 & location Percy Twp. per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 29 2022.^1,2
• Marriage*: circa 1860; Canada West; per CemSearch.; Principal=Eliza Wessels¹
• Death*: 26 July 1884; Percy Twp., Northumberland Co., Ontario; Date Jul 26 1884 per CemSearch. Date 1884 & location Percy Twp. per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 29 2022.^1,2
• Burial*: 28 July 1884; Warkworth Cemetery, Warkworth, Percy Twp., Ontario; CemSearch: Name: Joseph N. Curtis; Born: 1827; Died: Jul 26 1884; Age: 53y; ID: WRKWTH0400; Other names: Curtis, Eliza [Wessels] (1834-1908); Cemetery: Warkworth Cemetery, Conc 3, Lot 15, Percy Twp., Village of Warkworth, Northumberland Co., Sec 2 Row 22 Plot 07; Note: Married in 1870 to Eliza Wessels; Son of Stephen Curtis and Mary Collingwood; (source: Linda Herman, Maryland) Father of Stephen Warren 1879-1909 at Kingston, ON.) Also had four other children a set of twins and two others all stillborn. (https://www.cemsearch.ca/burial/?pid=WRKWTH0400%5E1)¹

• Residence*: 20 November 1841; Conc 2 Lot 13, Percy Twp., Northumberland Co., Canada West; Land Registry Records (Will 6553) show that the Will of Stephen Curtis grants the centre 50 acres of the south east 150 acres in lot 13, conc 2, Percy Twp., Northumberland Co. to his son Joseph Curtis. ITS Date: May 27 1841; Reg'n. Date: Nov 20 1841. (Ontario Land Registry Records, Northumberland Co., Percy Twp., Book 002, pg. 110 of 285, Conc 2, Lot 13, page copied from OnLand.ca by Dan Aug 29 2022.)³

Eliza Wessels¹

• Birth*: 1834; Date 1834 per CemSearch.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1860; Canada West; per CemSearch.; Principal=Joseph N. Curtis¹
• Death*: 11 May 1908; Ontario; Date May 11 1908 per CemSearch.¹
• Burial*: 13 May 1908; Warkworth Cemetery, Warkworth, Northumberland Co., Ontario; CemSearch: Name: Eliza Curtis; Maiden: Wessels; Born: 1834; Died: May 11 1908; Age: 74y; ID: WRKWTH0400; Other names: Curtis, Joseph N. (1827-1884); Cemetery: Warkworth Cemetery, Conc 3, Lot 15, Percy Twp., Village of Warkworth, Northumberland Co., Sec 2 Row 22 Plot 07; Note: Born Murray Twp. Died Percy Twp. Wife of Joseph Curtis; Mother of Stephen Warren Curtis. Sister of Owen Wessels (source: Linda Herman, Maryland) Stephen married Clara Josephine Harvey daughter of William Harvey and Maria Ann Black on June 13, 1895 at Toronto, ON. Stepehn d. Aug. 5, 1909 at Rockwood Hospital, Portsmouth, Frontenac Cty. On 1901 census he was listed with his mother living in Campbellford but no Clara. Info from obit, marriage and census reg's. No picture available (https://www.cemsearch.ca/burial/?pid=WRKWTH0400%5E0)¹

• Married Name: circa 1860; Curtis¹

Thomas Curtis¹

• Father*: Stephen Curtis¹ b. 1788, d. 12 Oct 1841
• Mother*: Mary Harris¹ b. 1798

• Birth*: 1829; Percy Twp., Northumberland Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 29 2022.¹
• Death*: 1846; Percy Twp., Northumberland Co., Canada West; per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 29 2022.¹

• Residence*: 20 November 1841; Conc 2 Lot 13, Percy Twp., Northumberland Co., Canada West; Land Registry Records (Will 6553) show that the Will of Stephen Curtis grants the west 50 acres of the south east 150 acres in lot 13, conc 2, Percy Twp., Northumberland Co. to his son Thomas Curtis. ITS Date: May 27 1841; Reg'n. Date: Nov 20 1841. (Ontario Land Registry Records, Northumberland Co., Percy Twp., Book 002, pg. 110 of 285, Conc 2, Lot 13, page copied from OnLand.ca by Dan Aug 29 2022.)²

Sophia Curtis¹

• Father*: Stephen Curtis¹ b. 1788, d. 12 Oct 1841
• Mother*: Mary Harris¹ b. 1798

• Birth*: 1834; Percy Twp., Northumberland Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 29 2022.¹
• Death*: before 1861; Percy Twp., Northumberland Co., Canada West; per family tree of Bill Smith on ancestry.ca, Aug 29 2022.¹

Thomas Harvey Clare¹

• Birth*: 9 January 1802; Wicklow, Ireland; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 1828; Hastings Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.; Principal=Elizabeth Robinson¹
• Marriage*: October 1839; Hastings Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.; Principal=Maria Deen¹
• Death*: 18 May 1869; Hungerford Twp., Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹

Elizabeth Robinson¹

• Birth*: 5 April 1805; Fermanaugh Co., Ireland; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 1828; Hastings Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.; Principal=Thomas Harvey Clare¹
• Death*: 19 February 1839; Hungerford Twp., Hastings Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹

• Married Name: 1828; Clare¹

John Lake¹

• Father*: Nicholas Lake b. 18 May 1755, d. 1818
• Mother*: Mary Rhody Bradwell b. 1755

• Birth*: 1790; Ernestown Twp., Lennox & Addington Co., Upper Canada; Date 1790 & "Ernestown or Bath, Ont." per family tree of gdenyes on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2024. per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 26 March 1811; Sidney Twp., Hastings Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.; Principal=Elizabeth Sherrard¹
• Death*: 18 February 1871; Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of gdenyes on ancestry.ca, Aug 10 2024. per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹

Elizabeth Sherrard¹

• Birth*: 1786; Province of Quebec; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 26 March 1811; Sidney Twp., Hastings Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.; Principal=John Lake¹
• Death*: 1884; Sidney Twp., Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹

• Married Name: 26 March 1811; Lake¹

Catherine Ann Huston¹

• Father*: John Huston¹ b. c 1797, d. 10 Feb 1886
• Mother*: Louisa Manetta Page¹ b. Nov 1804, d. 30 Sep 1893

• Birth*: 29 April 1834; Huntingdon Twp., Hastings Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1881; Ontario; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.; Principal=William Henry Deen¹
• Death*: 5 May 1922; 61 Albion St., Belleville, Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹

• Married Name: circa 1881; Deen¹

John Huston¹

• Birth*: circa 1797; Donegal Co., Ireland; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 1830; Elgin Co., Canada West; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.; Principal=Louisa Manetta Page¹
• Death*: 10 February 1886; Huron Co., Ontario; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹

Louisa Manetta Page¹

• Birth*: November 1804; Quebec; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 1830; Elgin Co., Canada West; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.; Principal=John Huston¹
• Death*: 30 September 1893; Bruce Co., Ontario; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹

• Married Name: 1830; Huston¹

Mary Ann Deen¹

• Father*: Jabez Smith Deen¹ b. 6 Oct 1838, d. 1918
• Mother*: Eliza Jane Langman¹ b. 4 May 1848, d. 29 Dec 1930

• Birth*: 1 October 1869; Hungerford Twp., Tweed, Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 11 February 1890; Hungerford Twp., Tweed, Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.; Principal=John William Hutchinson¹
• Death*: 5 May 1947; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹

• Married Name: 11 February 1890; Hutchinson¹

John William Hutchinson¹

• Birth*: 26 August 1865; Yorkshire, England; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹
• Marriage*: 11 February 1890; Hungerford Twp., Tweed, Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.; Principal=Mary Ann Deen¹
• Death*: 15 October 1924; Conc 5, Thurlow Twp., Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹

John Langman Dean¹

• Father*: Jabez Smith Deen¹ b. 6 Oct 1838, d. 1918
• Mother*: Eliza Jane Langman¹ b. 4 May 1848, d. 29 Dec 1930

• Birth*: 6 October 1874; Hungerford Twp., Tweed, Hastings Co., Ontario; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹
• Marriage*: circa August 1907; Saskatchewan; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.; Principal=Sarah ?¹
• Death*: after 1949; Saskatchewan; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹

Sarah ?¹

• Birth*: May 1875; Ontario; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.¹
• Marriage*: circa August 1907; Saskatchewan; per family tree of bonny20 on ancestry.ca, Aug 30 2022.; Principal=John Langman Dean¹

• Married Name: circa August 1907; Dean¹