Catherine Mckeown

Medical: Myocarditis 3 years 1901 Census 71 Hastings North, Rawdon To CONC wnship, Catherine Haslett birth 3 O ctober 1828 in Ireland. Came to Ca CONC nada in 1830. Catherine McKeown: daughter of William S. McKeown & Cat CONC herine Crosby. C amewith sister Margaret and parents to Canada from C CONC ounty Armagh. Elev en weeks on Ocean. Settled at Bathurst, near Perth CONC , for some time & had 1 2 children. Matilda, youngest died scarlet fev CONC er when young. Margaret m arried Sheppard? & settled in Perth. Note CONC : from Martha Wilkinson. Death Archives Ontario: 06 28 13 no. 0165 CONC 31 in area 22. Reel 186. Bible: Catherine b. 4 Oct. 1829. Bible owne CONC d by Bernice McKeown. 12th Line Cemetery: Died 28 June 1913 aged 84 y CONC ears, 8 months (about 24 0 days]. This would mean a birth in late Octo CONC ber 1828. Archives Ontario R egst. No. 016531. 1911 Census gives birt CONC h October 1828. Stirling News Argus 29 Aug. 1979. 8th reunion McKeowe CONC ns, 50 people, in P eterborough. Present Lillian Eastwood, Whitby, old CONC est lady, & John Solm es of Marmora. AO 2 pages typewritten notes ent CONC itled "Some early history of Rawdon Tow nship 1792-1878." 1792 Governo CONC r Simcoe divided U.C. into 19 counties for purposes represe ntation, H CONC astings one of the counties. Rawdon Township named after Lord R awdon CONC , connected at one time with the colonial Department of the Britis h G CONC overnment. Rawdon 67,200 acres. First settled about 1820 when southe r CONC n concessions occuppied by sons and other descendants of U.E. familie CONC s . A grist mill on Rawdon Creek about 1820 formed the nucleus of Stir CONC lin g village. Township contained 1060 people in 1839, and had 1gris CONC t and sawmill and t wo small stores, 84 horses, 103 oxen, 234 cows an CONC d a few hogs. Stirling p art of township until 1858. In 1878 there wer CONC e 7 sawmills andd 9 cheese f actories. Grand Junction Railway ran acro CONC ss the front of Rawdon. Road g raded and laid from Belleville to Stirl CONC ing, and a stage ran between the t wo. Springbrook post office at 9t CONC h concession lot 13. Peter Welch postm aster. Municipal council met i CONC n townhall at Harold. AO Pamphlet 1958 no. 27. Harold E Baker "Stirlin CONC g Centennial 1857-1958. " 1794 Rawdon Township surveyed. 1853 Stirling CONC s first church building, Methodist. 1856 Presbyterian church. 1858 Sti CONC rling incorporated as village and Episcopalian Church. 1859 Anglican C CONC hurch. Catherine McKeown's Probable Relatives & Wills: George Stiles CONC , Rawdon, # 1661 in 1893; Simon Stiles, Rawdon, #1957 in 1896; Simon S CONC tiles, Rawdon , #2256 in 1898.