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Sir John Strange

• Birth*: 1696; London, England; "Sir John Strange PC KC (1696 - 18 May 1754) was a British politician and judge. He was born to another John Strange of Fleet Street, London and his second wife, Mary Plaistowe."
  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strange_(English_politician))
  Sir John Strange, "master of the Rolls" per "Boultons on Moulton" Cobourg Public Librasry, "Boulton family 05-03" (http://images.ourontario.ca/Cobourg/48428/data?n=8)^1,2
• Marriage*: circa 1730; Per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strange_(English_politician)); Principal=Mary Plaistowe²
• Death*: 18 May 1754; London, England; Date May 18 1754 per (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strange_(English_politician))²

• Note*: circa 1765; London, England; Sir John Strange PC KC (1696 - 18 May 1754) was a British politician and judge. He was born to another John Strange of Fleet Street, London and his second wife, Mary Plaistowe. He became a student at the Middle Temple on 11 July 1712 before starting a pupillage at the chambers of Charles Salkeld, who trained (among others) Lord Hardwicke.[1] He was called to the Bar on 27 October 1718.[2]
  In 1735 he bought the lease of Leyton Grange House in Leyton, then in Essex. He married Susan Strong on 14 May 1722; they had two sons and nine daughters, including John Strange, a noted diplomat and philosopher. In 1725 he represented Lord Macclesfield at his impeachment,[1] and he was made a King's Counsel on 9 February 1736. The same year, he became a Bencher of Middle Temple.[2]
  He was appointed Solicitor General for England and Wales on 28 January 1737, and was made a Member of Parliament for West Looe to allow him to take his position.[1] After the death of the Master of the Rolls Joseph Jekyll on 19 August 1738, Strange was invited to succeed him, but declined the offer.[2] He became Recorder of London in November 1739, and on 12 May 1740 he was knighted, along with Dudley Ryder, the Attorney General for England and Wales.[3] He resigned as Member of Parliament for West Looe in 1741, but was reelected for Totnes in a by-election in 1742.
  In December 1742 he resigned as Recorder of London and Solicitor General, claiming ill-health, and also limited his practice as a barrister to the Court of King's Bench.[1] In 1750 Lord Hardwicke convinced him to become Master of the Rolls, and he took his position on 11 January. On 17 March he was made a Privy Councillor. He served as master of the Rolls for four years until his death on 18 May 1754. After his death, his son John Strange, who had inherited (and sold) Grange House, published his father's court reports.[1] He was buried in the Rolls Chapel,[4] as was his successor Sir Thomas Clarke. His epitaph is
  Here lies an honest lawyer, and that is Strange." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strange_(English_politician))²

Mary Plaistowe¹

• Birth*: circa 1705; Per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strange_(English_politician))¹
• Marriage*: circa 1730; Per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strange_(English_politician)); Principal=Sir John Strange¹

• Married Name: circa 1730; Strange¹

Rev. James Hartley Dunsford¹

• Birth*: 2 February 1786; Ashburton, Devon, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹
• Marriage*: 22 February 1813; Highworth, Wiltshire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.; Principal=Mary Crowdy¹
• Death*: 25 July 1852; Peterborough, Peterborough Co., Canada West; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹

Mary Crowdy¹

• Birth*: 26 January 1789; Highworth, Wiltshire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹
• Marriage*: 22 February 1813; Highworth, Wiltshire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.; Principal=Rev. James Hartley Dunsford¹
• Death*: 1865; Canada West; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹

• Married Name: 22 February 1813; Dunsford¹

Augusta Dunsford¹

• Father*: Rev. James Hartley Dunsford¹ b. 2 Feb 1786, d. 25 Jul 1852
• Mother*: Mary Crowdy¹ b. 26 Jan 1789, d. 1865

• Birth*: circa 1816; England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹

Lydia Dunsford¹

• Father*: Rev. James Hartley Dunsford¹ b. 2 Feb 1786, d. 25 Jul 1852
• Mother*: Mary Crowdy¹ b. 26 Jan 1789, d. 1865

• Birth*: 21 April 1819; Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹
• Marriage*: 8 May 1845; Verulam Twp., Victoria Co., Canada West; " ... m. 8 May 1845 Lydia Dunsford in Verulam Township, Upper Canada, and they had six sons, including Hugh Hornby*, and two
  daughters; ... " and "His marriage to Lydia Dunsford in 1845 added a note of economic urgency."per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html) Date May 8 1845 & location Veralum Twp., CW per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.; Principal=John Langton^1,2
• Death*: 30 December 1887; Toronto, York Co., Ontario; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹

• Married Name: 8 May 1845; Langton¹

John Langton¹

• Father*: Thomas Langton¹ b. 10 Oct 1770, d. 3 May 1838
• Mother*: Ellen Currer¹ b. 25 Jul 1766, d. 1 Aug 1846

• Birth*: 6 April 1808; Blythe Hall, Near Ormskirk, Lancashire, England; "LANGTON, JOHN, settler, businessman, politician, and civil servant; b. 7 April 1808 at Blythe Hall, near Ormskirk, England,
  youngest of four children of Thomas Langton and Ellen Currer; ... " per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html) Date Apr 6 1808 & location Lancashire, England per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.^1,2
• Marriage*: 8 May 1845; Verulam Twp., Victoria Co., Canada West; " ... m. 8 May 1845 Lydia Dunsford in Verulam Township, Upper Canada, and they had six sons, including Hugh Hornby*, and two
  daughters; ... " and "His marriage to Lydia Dunsford in 1845 added a note of economic urgency."per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html) Date May 8 1845 & location Veralum Twp., CW per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.; Principal=Lydia Dunsford^1,2
• Death*: 19 March 1894; Toronto, York Co., Ontario; " ... d. 19 March 1894 in Toronto."per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html) Date Mar 19 1894 & location Toronto per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.^1,2

• Note*: 1816; England; "As a child John Langton was described by his father in 1816 as “the most skinny little thing you ever saw, though as full of vivacity as possible and scarce ever moves but with a bound and jerk.” per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Residence*: 1816; Italy; "Thomas Langton was a Liverpool merchant who had retired into a silent partnership in a family enterprise, and in 1815 he took his family on an extended European tour. John was enrolled as a part-time student in the famous Swiss school of his father’s friend Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, but the family was too peripatetic, and perhaps too conservative, for a strong commitment to Pestalozzi’s advanced teaching methods. They relied more often on the conventional tutors of the English communities of Switzerland and Italy." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Residence: 1820; Liverpool, England; "Business difficulties called Thomas Langton back to England in 1820 and John returned to a school system that he would remember for being devoted mainly to the study of Latin and
  Greek." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Residence: 1826; Cambridge University, England; "In 1826, the year that John went to the University of Cambridge and a year of recession, his father was forced to reach an accommodation with his creditors that avoided the name but was, in fact, a bankruptcy."per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Immigration*: 1833; Fenelon Twp., Sturgeon Lake, Victoria Co., Upper Canada; "An aunt saw John, who seems to have been a family favourite, through Cambridge, and money was found in 1833 for him to immigrate to escape his limited prospects at home. Once in Upper Canada he was attracted to the community of British gentlemen settlers forming in the backwoods of Peterborough, among whom were Thomas Alexander Stewart*, Charles Rubidge*, and James Wallis. Langton bought land in Fenelon and
  Verulam townships and settled on Sturgeon Lake." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Residence: 28 August 1833; Blythe Farm, Fenelon Twp., Sturgeon Point, Victoria Co., Upper Canada; "On the 26th of August, 1833, John Langton,
  a graduate of Cambridge University, at the age of twenty-four, guided by Indians, landed at the well known Cedar Spring just around the apex of Sturgeon Point. Proceeding up the shores he made a preliminary survey as far as Cameron Falls and chose a location to be known as Blythe Farm. It was so called after Blythe Hall, his birthplace in Lancashire. He was a man of fine physique and outstanding
  ability and after ten years of pioneer life moved to Peterborough and married one of the Miss Dunsfords from the Beehive on the north shore of Sturgeon Lake. He became a member of the Provincial Legislature and afterwards Auditor of Public Accounts. Later he was elected Vice-Chancellor of Toronto University in which city he died in 1894." from Historical Sketch of Sturgeon Point", by G. A. Lucas, page 4.
• Residence: 1837; Blythe Fram, Victoria Co., Upper Canada; "Most of Langton’s surviving letters date from his years as a backwoods bachelor. In his correspondence, he proved himself a keen and reflective observer and also a good story-teller, with a humorous turn of phrase which was never to desert him. In 1837 his parents, his aunt, and his sister, Anne, came to join him at the New-World Blythe. With his life there settling into predictable routines, John was torn between an attachment to his farm and frustrated ambition." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Note: 1841; Fenelon Twp., Victoria Co., Canada West; "When district councils were established in 1841, he was elected for Fenelon Township, per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Note: 1848; Colborne Dist., Canada West; " ... and by 1848 he had been elected warden of the Colborne District." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Note: 1849; Bobcaygeon, Victoria Co., Canada West; "A brief experience in the timber trade, as a partner of Mossom Boyd at Bobcaygeon in 1849 ... " per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Note: 1851; Peterborough Co., Canada West; "Although he declined when first asked to stand for election to the provincial legislature in the 1840s, he ran successfully for Peterborough in 1851 and again in 1854." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Note: between 1851 and 1854; Blythe Mills, Victoria Co., Canada West; " ... and from 1851 to 1854 as the unsuccessful owner of the Blythe mills (purchased just before his move to Peterborough in 1852), confirmed his distaste for a business career of the backwoods variety. In fact, his talents lay more in the direction of his inclination." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Note: November 1854; Legislative Assembly, Peterborough Co., Canada West; "In the Legislative Assembly, as on district council, Langton concerned himself with finance. He established a reputation as a critic of the public accounts, which he described in a speech in November 1854 as existing in a “more curiously complicated state” than those of any country he knew. The cursory audits by the inspector general and the Executive Council had been under attack for years, notably by William Lyon Mackenzie, and Attorney General John A. Macdonald was himself anxious to see greater control asserted. Perhaps because he recognized Langton’s quickness or saw in his suggestions the possibility of effective action, he had him appointed chairman of the new Board of Audit created in 1855." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Residence: October 1855; Toronto, York Co., Canada West; "Moving to Toronto, Langton assumed his duties in October 1855 and was formally appointed on 27 December. As a civil servant, he was prevented from speaking in public once he resigned his seat on 15 Feb. 1856. His priorities, however, were already on record and he continued to discuss them in private correspondence with his banker-brother, William. He sought to bring the accounts to a form that would reflect current expenditure as closely as possible and enable parliament to pass estimates based on accurate knowledge of the previous year’s revenue and spending. To this same end he tried to prevent the departments from anticipating the legislature by spending money that had yet to be authorized." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Note: December 1855; Toronto, York Co., Canada West; "Appointed to the senate of the University of Toronto late in 1855, he served as vice-chancellor (1856–60) and presided over the building of University College (1856–59) [see Frederic William Cumberland]. He joined with Professor Daniel Wilson in 1860 in defending, before a parliamentary committee, the university’s claim to an exclusive right to government financial support, which Egerton Ryerson and others were challenging on behalf of the denominational colleges." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Residence: 1859; Montreal, Quebec; "After Langton moved with the government to Quebec in 1859, he proved an active contributor to and president of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Residence: 1866; Ottawa, Carleton Co., Canada West; "The year 1866 found Langton in Ottawa preparing for confederation. The work of the audit was by now well accepted and he was studying how best to arrange the accounts of the dominion. As its arbitrator, he worked with the colonial finance ministers in negotiating the
  transfer of accounts in areas of federal responsibility. He also devoted much time to the formidable problem of how to apportion the debt of the old Province of Canada between the dominion, Ontario, and Quebec. A revenue and audit act passed in December 1867 established a federal Board of Audit and Langton was formally appointed auditor in May." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Residence: 1870; Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario; "Increased responsibilities followed – as a member of the Civil Service Commission and secretary to the Treasury Board in 1868 and, most significantly, as deputy minister of finance from 1870." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Note: 1878; Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario; "The last appointment brought Langton into close association with the government he was supposed to monitor as auditor, a mistake which was tacitly acknowledged when the two
  offices were separated in 1878. Langton was retired as part of that reorganization. Although he was given a generous pension, he left office under a cloud, scolded by a parliamentary committee for having sanctioned a misuse of the secret-service fund by his old friend Sir John A. Macdonald." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²
• Residence: February 1879; Toronto, York Co., Ontario; "In February 1879, shortly after Langton had moved back to Toronto, Daniel Wilson remarked that he was “still wonderfully vigorous, but the old fire is gone.” In 1880–82
  he was president of the Canadian Institute." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_john_12E.html)²

Thomas Langton¹

• Birth*: 10 October 1770; Kirkham, Lancashire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹
• Marriage*: 6 April 1802; Clapham, Yorkshire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.; Principal=Ellen Currer¹
• Death*: 3 May 1838; Fenelon Twp., Victoria Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹

Ellen Currer¹

• Father*: Rev. William Currer¹ b. 8 Mar 1716, d. 11 Nov 1803
• Mother*: Ann Stokoe¹ b. 20 Sep 1723, d. 29 Aug 1800

• Birth*: 25 July 1766; Chorley, Lancashire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹
• Marriage*: 6 April 1802; Clapham, Yorkshire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.; Principal=Thomas Langton¹
• Death*: 1 August 1846; Fenelon Twp., Victoria Co., Canada West; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹

• Married Name: 6 April 1802; Langton¹

Rev. William Currer¹

• Birth*: 8 March 1716; Skipton, Yorkshire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹
• Marriage*: 27 May 1745; Blackburn, Lancashire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.; Principal=Ann Stokoe¹
• Death*: 11 November 1803; Clapham, Yorkshire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹

Ann Stokoe¹

• Birth*: 20 September 1723; Blackburn, Lancashire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹
• Marriage*: 27 May 1745; Blackburn, Lancashire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.; Principal=Rev. William Currer¹
• Death*: 29 August 1800; Clapham, Bedfordshire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹

• Married Name: 27 May 1745; Currer¹

William Langton¹

• Father*: Thomas Langton¹ b. 10 Oct 1770, d. 3 May 1838
• Mother*: Ellen Currer¹ b. 25 Jul 1766, d. 1 Aug 1846

• Birth*: 17 April 1803; Fairfield, Addingham, Yorkshire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹
• Marriage*: 15 November 1831; Kirkham, Lancashire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.; Principal=Margaret Hornby¹
• Death*: 29 September 1881; Ingatestone, Essex, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹

Margaret Hornby¹

• Birth*: 5 August 1804; Kirkham, Fylde Borough, Lancashire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹
• Marriage*: 15 November 1831; Kirkham, Lancashire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.; Principal=William Langton¹
• Death*: 25 February 1896; Kensington, London, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹

• Married Name: 15 November 1831; Langton¹

Thomas Langton¹

• Father*: Thomas Langton¹ b. 10 Oct 1770, d. 3 May 1838
• Mother*: Ellen Currer¹ b. 25 Jul 1766, d. 1 Aug 1846

• Birth*: circa 1806; Lancashire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹
• Death*: circa 1812; Lancashire, England; per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.¹

Anne Langton¹

• Father*: Thomas Langton¹ b. 10 Oct 1770, d. 3 May 1838
• Mother*: Ellen Currer¹ b. 25 Jul 1766, d. 1 Aug 1846

• Birth*: 24 June 1804; Addingham, Yorkshire, England; "LANGTON, ANNE, settler, artist, author, teacher, and musician; b. 24 June 1804 in Farfield Hall, Bolton Abbey, England, second
  child and only daughter of Thomas Langton and Ellen Currer; ... " per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_anne_12E.html) Date Jun 24 1804 & location Addingham, Yorkshire, England per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.^1,2
• Death*: 10 May 1893; 123 Beverley St., Toronto, York Co., Ontario; "Anne died at 123 Beverley Street, the Langtons’ final home, near the site now occupied by the Art Gallery of Ontario. In the last years, too old to “ramble,” she practised the traditional gentlewomanly pursuits of embroidery and china painting, providing delicate, decorative legacies for immediate loved ones. In her more extensive portfolio of perpetually delightful art works and in her lively written chronicles, Anne’s deft strokes with pencil, pen, and brush yielded a wider legacy for subsequent generations of her cultural descendants on both sides of the Atlantic. To echo her own comments on first viewing Niagara, her words and visual images
  offer “partial,” though never “obscure,” glimpses which “each and all assist in the expansion of [the] agination” of both reader and viewer." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_anne_12E.html)
  "d. 10 May 1893 in Toronto." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_anne_12E.html) Date May 10 1893 & location Toronto per family tree of Bruce Gordon on ancestry.ca, Oct 24 2020.^1,2

• Residence*: 1815; Yverdon, Switzerland; "In 1815, shortly after Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, Thomas uprooted the family to broaden the children’s education. The Langtons’ European tour was no dilettante trip. They spent six years in nomadic, though civilized, existence, in several countries. Their immediate destination was Yverdon, on Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Here, the educational reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ran an innovative institute which Anne’s younger brother, John, attended; Anne and her older brother, William, were tutored privately by institute masters. Pestalozzi encouraged
  individual talent rather than competitive rote learning and advocated education by deduction from experience and by sensory perception: sound tenets for future pioneers. The Langtons’ studies included languages, literature, music, art, and fencing. Their further travel experiences gave them a philosophical attitude toward vicissitudes and an enhanced appreciation of foreign cultures – further invaluable assets. In Switzerland, Austria, and Italy they visited art galleries
  and attended concerts, fiestas, and papal audiences. They resided in Frankfurt am Main,
  Montpellier, Florence, Rome, Venice, Naples, and Paris. Anne copied works by Old Masters,
  sketched landscapes derivative of “ideal” composition, inhabitants of various countries in national costume, and not-too challenging, rear-view early portraits of her mother and her aunt Alice. Fellow travellers whom the Langtons came to know well in Europe included Isaac Weld and family – Weld’s Travels through ... the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada ... (London, 1799) would later persuade John Langton to immigrate to Upper Canada – and the noted travel writer Mariana Starke." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_anne_12E.html)²
• Residence: 24 May 1837; Fenelon Twp., Sturgeon Lake, Victoria Co., Upper Canada; "In 1833 John immigrated to Upper Canada
  and took up residence on Sturgeon Lake, near such other genteel settlers as Thomas Alexander Stewart, Samuel Strickland, Thomas Traill, John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie, and their families. Anne, having overcome her father’s reluctance to her earning income by practising art, now painted portraits, but only on commission for relatives and close friends. By 1837 family resources were so low that “the Canada project” – to live with John – was embarked upon. Thomas, Ellen, Alice, and Anne set forth on 24 May, not without warnings that theirs was “rather a wild scheme” for three ailing, elderly people and a spinster who, in her mid thirties, was going deaf." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_anne_12E.html)²
• Residence: 1850; Fenelon Twp., Victoria Co., Canada West; "The years 1845–47 marked a watershed in Anne’s life. John married in 1845, Ellen Langton and Alice Currer died within weeks of each other during the severe ague epidemic of 1846, and John, his wife Lydia, and Anne made a return visit to England in 1847 which, in Anne’s case, lasted for three years. In 1849 she faced another turning-point. Should she remain with William’s family “frittering my life away” as ornamental lady, take a post as governess at a friend’s school for young ladies near London, or return to help raise the new “Canadian” Langton generation? Once again, circumstances did not force her into independence. She opted for reciprocal sustenance and partial self-fulfilment with John’s family, and returned in 1850." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_anne_12E.html)²
• Residence: 1851; Peterborough, Peterborough Co., Canada West; "The Langtons’ backwoods years ended in 1851 when John was elected to the assembly to represent Peterborough. The family, after first living there, moved with the government to Toronto (1855–60), Quebec (1860–65), and Ottawa (1865–78). At Peterborough Anne became organist and music director for St John’s Church; presumably, her hearing impairment was not yet so severe as to prevent her leading the congregation’s singing." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_anne_12E.html)²
• Residence: 1878; Toronto, York Co., Ontario; "After John’s retirement in 1878 the Langtons returned to live in Toronto. By then, Anne had made several more extended visits to Britain, in 1860–62, 1868–70, and 1873–75; she made her last visit there, still touring, in 1880." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_anne_12E.html)²
• Note*: 1879; 23 Prince Arthur Ave., Toronto, York Co., Ontario; "In 1879 Anne wrote The story of our family. Published privately in England in 1881, this retrospective account is more personal than the record eventually published as A gentlewoman. Of initial post-emigration difficulties, she observed, “I never shall forget my feeling of despair at that time . . . . Now, it did seem a rash step for such a party to come out to such a place, but we were very careful in writing home to say as little of our difficulties as possible.” The book was written at the Langtons’ first retirement residence, 23 Prince Arthur Avenue, later the headquarters of the Women’s Art Association of Canada." per Dictionary of Canadian Biogrphy - John Langton (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/langton_anne_12E.html)²

Timothy McGinnis¹

• Birth*: 1711; Down Co., Ireland; per family tree of John Wesley Carton on ancestry.ca, Oct 26 2020.¹
• Marriage*: 1734; German Flats, New York, U.S.A.; Daet 1734 & location German Flats, NY per family tree of John Wesley Carton on ancestry.ca, Oct 26 2020.
  "Sarah Kast's father, Johan Georg Kast, and family are listed by Henry Z. Jones in The Palatine Families of New York; vol 1, pp 437-38. He is no. 360 in Governor Hunter's Lists. Four of Hans Georg's children were born before the 1709 emigration from Germany. Sarah was the 7th child - noted in Hans Georg's Will, which noted that she had married Tim McGinnis, as per Jones' research." http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/detail.php?letter=m&line=533; Principal=Sarah Kast^1,2
• Death*: 10 September 1755; Lake George, New Yor, U.S.A.; per family tree of John Wesley Carton on ancestry.ca, Oct 26 2020.¹

Sarah Kast¹

• Birth*: 1713; German Flats, New York, U.S.A.; per family tree of John Wesley Carton on ancestry.ca, Oct 26 2020.¹
• Marriage*: 1734; German Flats, New York, U.S.A.; Daet 1734 & location German Flats, NY per family tree of John Wesley Carton on ancestry.ca, Oct 26 2020.
  "Sarah Kast's father, Johan Georg Kast, and family are listed by Henry Z. Jones in The Palatine Families of New York; vol 1, pp 437-38. He is no. 360 in Governor Hunter's Lists. Four of Hans Georg's children were born before the 1709 emigration from Germany. Sarah was the 7th child - noted in Hans Georg's Will, which noted that she had married Tim McGinnis, as per Jones' research." http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/detail.php?letter=m&line=533; Principal=Timothy McGinnis^1,2
• Death*: 9 September 1791; Fredericksburgh Twp., Lennox & Addington Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of John Wesley Carton on ancestry.ca, Oct 26 2020.¹

• Married Name: 1734; McGinnis¹
• Note*: circa 1790; Fredericksburgh Twp., Lennox & Addington Co., Upper Canada; Sarah Kast McGinnis lived with her grandson, Timothy THOMPSON, not McGinnis. That grandson Timothy was the son of Sarah's daughter, Dorothy McGinnis and her husband John Thompson. As far as is known, Sarah died at the Thompson home. Where she is buried is unknown. Possibly on the Thompson farm. There is a memorial to Sarah at the Bath, Ontario church yard, but she is not buried there. ... Sarah Kast McGinnis went on to be a heroine of Canada, coming back down to NY at least 2 times to talk to the Indians in their own tongues, once to get them to fight for the British, another time to warn them that the American white men would demand their lands after the war, and that they should go north to Canada. Sarah is credited with saving many Indian lives." per family tree of John Wesley Carton on ancestry.ca, Oct 26 2020.¹

Archibald Thomson¹

• Father*: David Thomson¹ b. 30 Sep 1763, d. 22 Jun 1834
• Mother*: Mary Glendinning¹ b. 1768, d. 1847

• Birth*: 2 August 1796; Newark, Niagara Dist., Upper Canada; "The family Bible records the birth of the couple's fifth child, named after David's brother Archibald, on August 2nd, 1796 at Newark. David's own account book clearly indicates that he worked at Newark until at least June of 1797." per Note in FindaGrave, source Sandi Sullivan.¹

David D. Thomson¹

• Father*: David Thomson¹ b. 30 Sep 1763, d. 22 Jun 1834
• Mother*: Mary Glendinning¹ b. 1768, d. 1847

• Birth*: 27 February 1798; York, York Co., Upper Canada; "That winter, Mary gave birth to the couple's sixth child, David D. Thomson, on February 27th, 1798 at York. This information was documented in the family Bible." per Note in FindaGrave for David Thomson, source Sandi Sullivan.¹

Andrew Thomson¹

• Father*: Archibald Thomson¹ b. 7 May 1749, d. 22 Jan 1819
• Mother*: Elizabeth McKay¹ b. 1762, d. 22 Apr 1817

• Birth*: 25 April 1782; Montreal, Quebec; "Andrew, b Apr 25 1782" per Loyalist Directory, Childen of Archibald Thomson and Elizabeth McKay - see marriage.
  Date Apr 25 1782 & location Montreal per family tree of June Greene-Casselman on ancestry.ca, Oct 26 2020.^1,2
• Death*: circa 1853; Brougham, Canada West; per family tree of June Greene-Casselman on ancestry.ca, Oct 26 2020.¹