November 2, 2003:

Greetings,

Your website is most interesting. I have been all over the map looking for
my Fitch/Honeywell family. I believe that Ira Honeywell was an early settler
in Nepean. He came from NY after the revolutionary war, having loyalist
sympathies. My ggg-grandfather also born in NY, married Ira's daughter
Elizabeth Honeywell. It appears that one of their first children was
Stephen, and according to his marriage record, was b. abt. 1824 in Richmond.
As I first learned today that Richmond later became what is Ottawa (if I
understand my source correctly), it seems to confirm that my ggg-grandfather
Joseph F. Fitch likely did marry  Elizabeth Honeywell in the neighborhood of
his father-in-law. Any feedback or contacts with similar researchers would
surely be appreciated!

Jeanine Theiler
Wisconsin
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Ira Honeywell was the son of Rice HONEYWELL and Ruth ALLEN and was
the first settler in Nepean Township. Ira's wife was Polly ANDREWS.
They settled in Nepean in 1811.

Rice's speculations led him to buy up Loyalist lands in Nepean as
early as 1804, when he purchased 300 acres.(1) ... more ...

(1) Source: Nepean: The City Beyond, by Bruce Elliott.
October 19, 2004:
Hello Mr Lewis-

This is Jeanine Theiler. I have a new e-mail address: 
it is datheiler@tri-west.net

Hope someone else out there is researching this family, I have quite a lot of
info but still no proof of the eldest Ira Honeywell's daughter's marriage to
Joseph Fitch.

Best wishes to you,
Jeanine Theiler
May 16, 2005:
Hi Jeanine - I was poking around on Al's Bytown site this morning and found 
your Honeywell connection.  I have an "Elkanah Honeywell" that married 
Violetta Mooney, in my Mooney family tree.  Perhaps just a coincidence, 
but Violetta had a brother named Ira.  I have no other information on Elkanah, 
but Violetta was born abt 1870 and her parents were married in Carleton Co., 
Huntley Twp., Ontario.
 
Sincerely,
Don Lowe
Ontario surnames researching: Wilson, Hodgins, Mooney, Graham, Cavanagh
 July 27, 2005:
Hello.
 
I've just been playing around on the web and have come across your "Ira Honeywell" 
page and it seems to suggest connections to my relatives. 
 
I had started out with an old family tree that lists my great-great grandmother 
as Charlotte Honeywell of Nepean (1809 -1895). She married Joseph Mayhew.
 
What makes me suspect that there might be a connection between our Honeywells is 
that she had five children whose names include two rather unusual ones you mention - 
Ira and Elkanah (1836-1904).
 
Our family tree also mentions that the Honeywells were United Empire Loyalists. 
Perhaps, then,  we connect to the Ira Honneywell of New York who settled in 
Nepean your correspondent from Wisconsin of Nov. 2, 2003 mentions.
 
Any thoughts? 
Thanks. 
... John Whiteway