An Immigrant Story Scotland to Canada
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An Immigrant Story Scotland to Canada John McIntosh (1865 – 1925) Henrietta Calder (1867 – 1950) Circa 1908 2 Table of Contents Preface ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Comments about the Sources ......................................................................................................... 4 1 A bit of Scottish History ............................................................................................................. 6 2 Scottish Highland Clans .......................................................................................................... 10 3 John McIntosh; his parents and ancestors .............................................................................. 12 His Father’s Side ................................................................................................. 12 His Mother’s Side ................................................................................................ 13 4 Henrietta Calder, her parents and ancestors .......................................................................... 15 Her Father’s Side ................................................................................................. 15 Her Mother’s Side ................................................................................................ 19 Brinmore .............................................................................................................. 20 5 John and Henrietta (Harriet) in Belleville ................................................................................. 23 First Marriage to Helen Foley .............................................................................. 25 Second Marriage to Harriet Calder ...................................................................... 27 Eulogy .................................................................................................................. 35 6 McIntosh Bros. Stores ............................................................................................................. 38 7 Children of John McIntosh and his two wives ......................................................................... 44 Daisy Helen ......................................................................................................... 44 John Alexander .................................................................................................... 46 Harriet Munro ....................................................................................................... 48 George Stewart ................................................................................................... 55 Jean Asher .......................................................................................................... 57 Grace Calder ....................................................................................................... 60 William Patience .................................................................................................. 61 Helen Nellie ......................................................................................................... 62 Alice ..................................................................................................................... 62 8 John McIntosh’s Siblings ......................................................................................................... 63 William ................................................................................................................. 63 Margaret (McIntosh) McGregor ........................................................................... 64 Her Child: Alexander MacGregor ........................................................... 64 Her Child: Peter Knight MacGregor ........................................................ 64 Her Child: Margaret McGregor ............................................................... 65 Sarah ................................................................................................................... 66 Helen ................................................................................................................... 66 9 Harriet Calder’s Siblings .......................................................................................................... 67 Ebenezer ............................................................................................................. 67 Jessie ................................................................................................................... 67 Barbara ................................................................................................................ 67 Jane ..................................................................................................................... 67 Margaret .............................................................................................................. 67 Anne .................................................................................................................... 67 Elizabeth (Lizzie) ................................................................................................. 67 Grace ................................................................................................................... 68 Helen ................................................................................................................... 68 Jamesina (Minnie) ............................................................................................... 68 Alexanderina (Alice) ............................................................................................ 68 10 Family Photographs ............................................................................................................... 68 11 Ancestor and Descendant charts .......................................................................................... 81 12 Map of our Scottish family locations ...................................................................................... 88 13 Endnotes ................................................................................................................................ 90 3 Preface In 1896, my grandfather, John McIntosh, having come to Canada 8 years earlier, went back to Scotland to fetch his sweetheart, Harriet Calder, and bring her to Canada to get married. This, after having established a business with his brother in Belleville, Ontario, marrying Helen Foley, having a daughter and then getting a divorce in North Dakota. John and Harriet had eight children and the business grew to six stores. A number of their siblings and nephews and a niece followed them to Belleville and stayed in Canada. It is a good story; worth telling. In the summer of 2001, Jean Bannerman, Janet E Saylor and Randy Saylor agreed that they would write a McIntosh Family History centered on their McIntosh grandparents. Jean had given Randy a genealogy collected by her mother over the years from her parents and her Scottish cousins – mainly Jack Reid and Pat Sedgwick – and brought together by Jean Bannerman. Jean also assembled a memoir of her mother, Harriet Bannerman, from tapes and notes made while she was alive. Randy did more research and added to these records using old parish registers, civil records, census reports, directories, newspaper articles and the internet. Jean Saylor’s memoirs were another major resource. For a couple of years no further work was done and then in 2005 it was put on the web to share it more widely. From the internet, a number of new people came forward with information. Special thanks are given to Jean Bannerman, Janet E Saylor and John Morton; Moira Maclennan, Alexandra Norton, Sheila Moir of Scotland; Valerie Moir in England and Mary Saxon in California for their contributions. Improvements are welcome and will be added so that a new addition can be presented if warranted. Randy Saylor Dec 7, 2010 Posted on my web site at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~saylormowbray/familyscot.html © Randy Saylor, 2010. Small additions to pages 41 and 69 made in 2016. 4 Comments about the Sources Scottish ancestral history. We know the ancestors of John McIntosh and Henrietta Calder, with a high degree of certainty, back into the 1700’s. From the mid 1600’s to 1854 Scottish birth, marriage and death (BMD) records were recorded in local Parish Registers in the Highlands. These records are highly valued but are not complete for many reasons. Fire, water damage, inattentiveness and wear and tear took its toll. The big shortcoming of Parish Registers is that they record little connecting data. For births they usually state the male parent but rarely the mother by maiden surname. Marriages state the couple but not their parents. Death records state the person and not their spouse or parents. Therefore before 1855 it is not easy to establish relationships with certainty. Clues such as place, naming patterns, and dates may indicate a relationship but often one is left short of feeling confident in the information. All parish registers in the UK have been filmed and indexed by the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) and have been available for many years. The extensive index is called the International Genealogical Index (IGI). Since 1999 the IGI has been searchable on the Internet. In 1855, the Scottish government started the civil registration of all BMD’s, whereas civil registration started in England in 1837 and in