May 30, 2008:
Source: The History of the Ottawa Police, 1826-1993, Gilles M. Larochelle, 1994,
Limited Edition, Published by Tyrell Press Ltd., page 29


Hi Al,
 
I've been wondering if this Thomas Langrell, a builder in 1851 Bytown and apparently a 
police constable as well, might have been a Canal worker, although he'd be a young one I 
guess. (The name Langrell is carried on in the Hawkins/Condell family, so likely another 
Wicklow body--there were Langrells in Wicklow.)
 
Was he a stone worker, since that would be what was needed for that Manotick grist mill of 
Moss Dickinson's?
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Anne: 
According to our page for Brian Doyle, Moss Kent Dickinson, who was mayor of Ottawa from 1864 to 1866 opened
a mill at Manotick in 1860. The building, called Watson's Mill, is still open today.
... Al

See also: King of the Rideau: Moss Kent Dickinson, by Catherine L. Carroll
Rideau Valley Conservation Authority, Manotick, Ontario, Canada, a biography of Moss Kent Dickinson.
 May 31, 2008:
Langrell seems to me to be a fairly unusual name, Al, and the people of that name that 
we have locally are Thomas of Ottawa, and Joseph (death attached), of Alfred, a stone mason, 
married to a Fitzgerald. Brothers perhaps.
 
I was speculating that Thomas maybe worked on the Canal as a stone worker (given his work 
on the Dickinson mill). 
 
Maybe the same would have been possible for Joseph, whose children were born in Alfred in the 
1840s? 
 
Anne
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Well, Al, I found that Joseph Langrell of Alfred was from Wicklow. Here's a piece from 
Ancestry's World Tree:
 
ID: I68652 
Name: Joseph Langrell 
Sex: M 
Birth: JUN 1810 in Wicklow, Ireland 
Death: 2 JUN 1891 in Alfred, Prescott County, Ontario 
Burial: St. Peter's Anglican Cemetery, Alfred, Prescott County, Ontario

Marriage 1 Unknown b: 1816 in Carlow, Ireland 
Children 
 Sarah Ellen (Ella) Langrell b: 3 AUG 1851 in Ontario 
 Frederick William Langrell b: 1860
He seems to have the same naming pattern in his children as did Thomas of Ottawa (plus 
Thomas of Ottawa had a son, Joseph), so I'm guessing they're brothers.
 
As I said earlier, there were two Richard Langrells in that group that John found living 
close together in Moyne townland, County Wicklow, Ireland (and also very close to the Carlow 
border):
 
WILLIAM LANGREL 7 acres 1 rod
ISAAC LANGREL 19 acres 2 rod 20 perch
RICHARD LANGREL (GLIN) 10 acres 20 perch  (GLIN may mean its leased from GLYNN family)
ISAAC LANGREL (GLIN) 8 acres 1 rod 20 perch
RICHARD LANGREL 8 acres 1 rod 
 
... Anne
June 1, 2008:
Thanks to Sue for the following:

In the 1851, 1871 and 1881 Alfred censuses:
 
Joseph, born Ireland
Mary Ann Fitzgerald, born Ireland
 
Known children, all born in Alfred, Ontario:
 
1) Charlotte Elizabeth, born 22 Dec 1838 and died 1926 in Ottawa, married 1871 Richard Woodland
 
2) Mary Jane, born abt 1841, married 1871 John Beckham 
 
3) Richard, born abt 1845 - nothing further known
 
4) Jemima Sofia, born abt 1848 and died 1915 in Haliburton, married 1871 Chapman Holmes.
 
5) Sarah Ellen, born abt 1851 - nothing further known.
 
6) Frederick William, born abt 1859 and died 1919

... Sue
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Thanks very much, Sue. I hadn't noted that Charlotte was married in Ottawa. And from your 
transcriptions of the Ottawa Free Press on Bytown or Bust, I found the proof that Joseph of 
Alfred and Thomas of Ottawa were brothers:
 
1871, 
Mar 20,  Richard WOODLAND, to Charlotte Elizabeth LANGRELL, niece of Thomas Langrell, all of 
Ottawa. 
 
Very nice!
 
Frederick married a Ms. Schryer, and I found her death record in the Drouin collection: in a 
Baptist church in Westmount, Montreal.
 
... Anne
 June 3, 2008:

Humphrey Hughes
County Wicklow, Ireland to Prescott County, Ontario, Canada

Here's some additional info. about Humphrey Hughes, Al. He m. Mary Langrell, and I believe 
she was a sister of Thomas Langrell, police officer in Bytown: 
 
ID: I03311 
Name: Humphrey Hughes 
Sex: M 
ALIA: "Red Humphrey" /Hughes/ 
Birth: 7 FEB 1792 in Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland 1 
Death: 25 JUL 1889 in North Plantagenet, Ontario 2 
Burial: UNKNOWN St. Peter's Anglican Cemetery, Alfred, Ontario 3 
Note: Came to Canada in 1823 and settled on the south side of George's Lake, 
becoming the fourth settler in Prescott County.

Marriage 1 Mary Langrell b: ABT 1797 in County Carlow, Ireland 
Married: 1823 in Ireland
Children 
 John Langrell Hughes b: 8 DEC 1821 in Alfred Twp., Ontario 
 Catherine Hughes b: 12 MAR 1824 
 Sarah Hughes b: 12 NOV 1826 in Alfred Twp., Ontario 
 Isaac Hughes b: 22 SEP 1830 in Alfred, Ontario 
 Joseph Hughes b: ABT 1832 in Alfred Twp., Ontario 
 Jacob Hughes b: ABT 1833 in Alfred, Ontario 
 Warner Hughes b: ABT 1834 in Alfred Twp., Ontario 
 Abraham Hughes b: 10 JUL 1835 in Alfred, Ontario 
 Jemima Hughes b: ABT 1839 
 Eliza Ellen Hughes b: 7 JUL 1839 in Alfred, Ontario

Sources: 
Title: History of the Counties of Argenteuil, Quebec and Prescott, Ontario, by C. Thomas
Repository: 
Media: Book
Page: 634 
Title: Ontario Vital Statistics
Repository: 
Media: Civil Registry 
Title: Tombstone
Repository: 
Media: Tombstone 

... Anne Burgess


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