January 7, 2005:

Thanks to Robert Sample who has contributed the photograph below of McNeely's Tannery.

This photo is on page 25 of Carol Bennett's book Valley Irish along with the names of 
some of the pioneers at Morphy's Falls.


McNeely's Tannery
February 17, 2005:

James McNeely (born in 1760) came to the Carleton Place area in 1822
from County Antrim, Ireland with his wife Agness and six children.

March 24, 2005:
In 1899 the bridge across the Mississippi at Appleton collapsed. Abraham Morphy was drowned.
Thanks to Robert Sample for sending the following article which is from the book
"Bobier Ancestry" written by Lena Bobier. Thanks also to Lena for permission to 
reproduce it here.

Surnames mentioned in the article are Morphy, Beckett, Cram, Campbell, Dulmage, 
Hamilton, Lyons, Teskey and Towsley.
April 23, 2005:
Textile Mill at Appleton
The village of Appleton is a couple of miles downstream from Carleton Place.
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the Mississippi River Valley 
between Carleton Place and Almonte was the textile manufacturing centre of Canada.
There is a textile museum at Almonte.

The mill in the photo below may have been built by the Rosamond family. 
(photo taken April 22, 2005)


also posted on April 23, 2005:
"There was quite a connection back and forth between Appleton and Ashton.  As I 
recall, both the Presbyterians and the Methodists shared Preachers.  This is talked 
about in Dorothy Lewis nee Fisher's book 'Waymarks and Guideposts'.   
Appleton was a good stretch with a fast mare from Ashton but seems that those folk 
did it regularly."    
... Robert Sample
August 19, 2005:
Bev Lohm is researching the following surnames in the Carleton Place, Carp, 
North Onslow, Quebec and Osgoode / Russell areas. Some of these families went to the 
Canadian west.
Names: BOYD, McINTYRE, WOOLSEY, McCALLUM, HOCKIN, CAMPBELL and ELLIOT / ELLIOTT
 September 13, 2005:

Charles Wesley "Teachester" Munro was born c. 1820 in Glengarry.
He "went to Bytown as a lad" then on to Lanark County where he shows up in 
the 1881 census.

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