Griffith family and early settlers in
Lanark Township, Upper Canada
Isaac Griffith and Sarah Astleford family
May 6, 2008:
GRIFFITH family to Beckwith Township
I was going through some records and I have a chance to revisit my document. I have
made a few revisions - namely I found a few more names to add and put in my source.
You may wish to remove the old and replace it with this newer version.
Rory Griffith
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THE BRIG MARIA - PASSENGERS OF JUNE 29, 1819
John Griffith, emigrant, 1 adult male, country Ireland, ship Maria, June 29, 1819,
located May 17, 1820, C8 NE13.
Joseph Moulton?, emigrant, 1 adult male, 1 adult female, 3 males under 7, country
Ireland, ship Maria, June 29, 1819, located Aug. 13, 1819 Drummond, C6 SW7.
Thomas Leed?, or Luck? emigrant, 1 adult male, 1 adult female, country Ireland,
ship Maria, June 29, 1819, located Aug. 16, 1819, Beckwith, C9 SW12.
William Leed? Or Luck?, Sr., emigrant, 1 adult male, 1 adult female, 2 males under 7,
1 female over 7, 1 male under 7, country Ireland, ship Maria, June 29, 1819, located
Aug. 16, 1819 Beckwith, C9 NE12
Samuel Rathwell, emigrant, 1 adult male, country Ireland, ship Maria, June 29, 1819,
located Feb. 12, 1821, Drummond, C12 NE23.
William Rathwell, Jr., emigrant, 1 adult male, country Ireland, ship Maria, June 29,
1819, located Oct. 2, 1819 Drummond, C8 SW11.
John James, emigrant, 1 adult male, 1 adult female, 1 male under 7, country Ireland,
ship Maria, June 29, 1819, located Aug. 12, 1819 Drummond C5 lot 27.
Roger Hawkins, emigrant, 1 adult male, 1 adult female (Mary Elizabeth Griffith) ,
2 males over 7, 3 females over 7, country Ireland, ship Maria, June 29, 1819, located
Aug. 19, 1819 Beckwith, C8 SW12. SDP
Henry Hawkins, emigrant, 1 adult male, country Scotland, ship Maria, June 29, 1819,
located Aug 19, 1819, Beckwith C8 NE12. SDP
Isaac Wheaty, emigrant, 1 adult male, 1 adult female, 1 male under 7, country Ireland,
ship Maria, June 29, 1819, located Aug. 19, 1819, Beckwith C8 SW13. SDP
William Leach, emigrant, 1 adult male, country Ireland, ship Maria, June 29, 1819,
located Aug. 19, 1819, Beckwith C9 SW13. (Note: the original name is XXXX but the
settlement record of Beckwith list William Leach with # 692 and 1819 as the date.)
John Lumox or Lennox, Sr., emigrant, 1 adult male, 1 adult female, 3 males over 7,
1 female over 7, country Ireland, ship Maria, June 29, 1819, located Aug. 20, 1819
Beckwith, C6 NE13. SDP
John Lumox or Lennox, Jr., emigrant, 1 adult male, country Ireland, ship Maria,
located Aug. 20, 1819 Beckwith, C6 SW13. SDP
Samuel Crampton, emigrant, 1 adult male, 1 adult female, per ship Maria, June 29,
1819, located March 18, 1820 Drummond, C12 SW23, exchanged from NE14 in the 6th
Concession Drummond
Robert Hampton, emigrant, 1 adult male, country Ireland, ship Maria, June 29, 1819,
located May 13, 1820, Beckwith, C12 NE11.
David Moffat, emigrant, 1 adult male, country Ireland, ship Maria, June 29, 1819,
located May 13, 1820 Beckwith, C12 SW12.
William Ke**nnahan, emigrant, 1 adult male, country Ireland, ship Maria, June 29,
1819, located May 13, 1820, Beckwith, C12 NE8.
John McPheal?,(perhaps McPhail - see 1822 list of those who came with Robert no
census information whatsoever, country Scotland, ship Maria, June 29, 1819, located
Feb. 5, 1821, Drummond, C3 NE15, formerly located to J. Smith, exchanged granted
July 26, 1819.
George Peacock, emigrant, 1 adult male, 1 adult female, 1 female under 7, country
Ireland, ship Maria, 1819, located Nov. 6, 1819 Drummond, C10 NE17.
William McSpadden, emigrant, 1 adult male, country Ireland, ship Maria, located
Nov. 11, 1819 Elizabethtown, C11 lot 16, formerly located to Robert ***ord, emigrant.
All of the records come from this document:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onlanark/Land_Property/landgrt4.htm
Note: SDP = Settlement Duties Performed - they had cleared enough land.
CONCESSIONS
LOTS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8 WK
9
10
11 RH
12 RHHH DM
13 JL JGIW WL
14
15 JM
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23 JRSC
24
25
26
27 JJ
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Settlers that came with Robert Griffith
1822
GRIFFITH Robert Ire Nov 1822 8 11SW
LUMMOX Thomas Ire Nov 1822 8 6SW
MAY Isaac Ire Nov 1822 5 7NE
MAY William Ire Nov 1822 5 7SW
McPHAIL Peter Nov 1822 11 3NE
http://www.100megsfree3.com/granny1/beckw1.html
· Roger Hawkins (brother Henry) and his wife Mary Elizabeth Griffith from Enniscorthy,
· John Lumox - Catherine Griffith married Thomas Lumox b. 1802. Thomas Lumox came on
the same boat in 1822 as Robert Griffith
· William Leech - Roger and Mary Elizabeth Hawkins (nee Griffith) first child Harriet
b. 1794 married William Leech b. 1791)
1817
Emigrants from Counties Carlow & Wexford to Canada. By 1817 there was a post war
recession and Irish crops were failing. Soldiers returning from the Napoleonic wars on
the European mainland were flooding the labour market. There had been a war in North
America between the Americans and the Canadians (1812-14). The English government
offered free land to settlers (preferrably with military experience) to defend Canada
from the Americans.
Mothell Parish Families Desiring to leave to go to Upper Canada 1817 - 1818
With Hugh Masson's (related to the Willoughby's) notes in brackets.
Coolcullen
1. GRIFFITH, Widow, Lewis, Elizabeth?, Jane1, Catherine, James, Jane2 , Mary,
2. GRIFFITH, Richard, Sarah, William, John, Lewis, Richard
3. PRESCOTT, Richard, Mary, Lewis
4. JAMES, Thomas, ?, Anne, Catherine, Jacob, Thomas, religion RC
5. PIELOW, name missing, Sally, Dinah, Elizabeth
6. SMYTH, John, Molly, Mary, Sally
7. KIRFOOT, William , Elizabeth, Jane, Thomas, Samuel, Eliza, [this KERFOOT family
settled Con 4 lot 25 Beckwith Twp. Lanark Co.
8. GRIFFITH, Henry, Catherine
9. LETT, John, --olly, Martha, 3 more unscrambled names,[ this family was one to
move with some of the Willoughbys to Lambton Co.]
10. STONE, William, Susanne, John, Eliza, Jane, William , George,
11. FLEMING, John, Betty, Jane, William ,Richard, Dorah,
12. WARD, John, Anne, Ellen, Mary died,
13. WARD, Luke, Betty, Richard, John Anne,
14. GORDON, Samuel, Mary, John, Samuel,
15. KIERFOOT, George Senior, Jane, Jane Foxstone servant,[ George KERFOOT was known
to come but died at Nepean Point 1819 before rest got to Beckwith]
16. MORRIS, Joseph, Sarah, Susan, Jane, James, Mary,
17. MORRIS, William, Jane, Henry, James Mary, Joseph? Betty?, Jane, Ellen,
18. WILLOUGHBY, George, Anne, [nee Kerfoot], MaryAnn, Peggy, Alley, William, Thomas,
Richard [I descend from Mary Ann]
19. GRIFFITH, John, Mary, Betty, Sally, Anne, Peggy, Jane, May, John, Betty Gregg = servant
20. Missing
21. PENDER, Widow, Mary, Samuel, John, Mary Langford=servant
22. LANGFORD, Widow died Oct. 1817, George, Sally Joseph, William, Richard,
23. STACEY/ STEACY William, Allie/Sally/Alice, Sally, Joseph, Annie, Betty, Jane,
24. BRADLEY Samuel, Betty, Isaac, John, [Samuel will be related to the
Kerfoots via Wm's wife Elizabeth. Records indicate she was Elizabeth Bradley,
the widow Wilson before her marriage to William Kerfoot. Sam might be a son of Eliz]
25. BASSETT, Edward, Mary, John, Peggy, Thomas, William, Edward? Bassett? Michael
Leach / Leech apprentice, Sally Bradley, gone to America 1817, family emigrated
to America, probably Canada in 1817,
26. BRADLEY William, ..ea perhaps Jane Shea noted in burial Register Mothel ,Shea
Bradley Coolcullen died of fever Oct 12th buried Coolcullen, ..illy, Betty,
Henry, John, Alley, Thomas, Samuel,
27. SCARF James Anne, Enoch, Joseph, John, Becham,[Scarfs are found throughout
Carleton Co. Scarf family is being traced by Barbara Hadden]
28. RATHWILE / Rathwell / Rothwell, Edward, Jane and Jane FENNEL [Rothwell is the
spelling used in the Tithe applotment book 1824 for Prospect church Coolcullen.
Ireland and in land records for Con 4 lot 26 Beckwith Twp. 1880]
29. ROSE Widow, Joseph, Betty, James, and James servant
30. KEAYS/ KEYES/ Keys Thomas, Mary,
Mary left 1818 ,Mary Married William ??, William left 1818 William married Mary??,
Jane, Mary or May, Elizabeth, Richard
31. KIERFOOT/KERFOOT George, Deborah, William,
32. EUSTACE William, Catherine, left 1817
33. GARLAND Thomas, Jane, Elizabeth, Thomas, Nicholas, Anne
34. ALCOCK, Thomas, Dorah, Mary, Thomas, Joseph, Mary, Francis [Alcocks settled near
Kerfoots on Con 4 at Prospect, Beckwith Twp. Peter Light is tracing some of these]
35. TRISTRASSE??, Thomas, Catherine, Patrick, Mary, Thomas, Adam, family left 1817
36. SHIRLEY Basil, Jane, Ellen Morris servant [see families 16 & 17 Shirleys married
into Willoughby, some Shirleys stayed in Ireland]
Knockalane
1. GRIFFITH Thomas, Susan, Mary, Anne, Rachel, Francis, Sally, Thomas, Susanna, Esther,
2. JACKSON Robert, Mary, Hannah, Sally, Mary, Robert,
3. LUCAS Widow, Robert, Sally,
4. TOOLE, James, Susan, Robert, Sally [might be POOLE as Pooles settled on Con 4
near Prospect, Beckwith Twp. Lanark Co along with Alcock, Willoughby, Kerfoot]
5. DUCK / AUCK / HUCK William? Margaret? Jonathan married to Anne, Richard
6. SAUNDERS, …?, Margaret, Thomas, John, Margaret, Jane, Martha,
7. SAUNDERS Widow, George, Ellen, James, Nath, Bridget, Betty, Mary, Jane Joseph,
8. PRESCOTT Widow, Henry married ? Mary, Mary, William
9. SAUNDERS William, Anne, Anne,
10. LEECH /Leach/Leich George, [see family 25 Bassett]
1822
GRIFFITH Robert Ire Nov 1822 8 11SW
LUMMOX Thomas Ire Nov 1822 8 6SW
MAY Isaac Ire Nov 1822 5 7NE
MAY William Ire Nov 1822 5 7SW
McPHAIL Peter Nov 1822 11 3NE
... Rory
May 23, 2008:
Here are Thomas Hawkins and his wife Elizabeth in the 1852 census. They are neighbours of
the Griffith family:
... Anne Burgess
E-mail Rory Griffith, Anne Burgess and Al Lewis
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