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John McCutcheon¹

• Birth*: circa 1765; "McGILL, PETER (known until 29 March 1821 as Peter McCutcheon), merchant, bank and company director, justice of the peace, and politician; b. August 1789 and baptized 1 September in Creebridge, Scotland, son of John McCutcheon and his second wife, Mary McGill" (Peter McCutcheon)," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 8, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed October 31, 2024, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_peter_8E.html.)¹
• Marriage*: circa 1783; McGILL, PETER (known until 29 March 1821 as Peter McCutcheon), merchant, bank and company director, justice of the peace, and politician; b. August 1789 and baptized 1 September in Creebridge, Scotland, son of John McCutcheon and his second wife, Mary McGill"
  (Robert Sweeny, "McGILL, PETER (Peter McCutcheon)," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 8, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed October 31, 2024, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_peter_8E.html.); Principal=Mary McGill¹

Mary McGill¹

• Father*: ? McGill¹ b. c 1730
• Mother*: ? ?¹ b. c 1730

• Birth*: circa 1765; McGILL, PETER (known until 29 March 1821 as Peter McCutcheon), merchant, bank and company director, justice of the peace, and politician; b. August 1789 and baptized 1 September in Creebridge, Scotland, son of John McCutcheon and his second wife, Mary McGill"
  (Robert Sweeny, "McGILL, PETER (Peter McCutcheon)," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 8, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed October 31, 2024, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_peter_8E.html.)¹
• Marriage*: circa 1783; McGILL, PETER (known until 29 March 1821 as Peter McCutcheon), merchant, bank and company director, justice of the peace, and politician; b. August 1789 and baptized 1 September in Creebridge, Scotland, son of John McCutcheon and his second wife, Mary McGill"
  (Robert Sweeny, "McGILL, PETER (Peter McCutcheon)," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 8, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003-, accessed October 31, 2024, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_peter_8E.html.); Principal=John McCutcheon¹

• Married Name: circa 1783; McCutcheon¹

? McGill¹

• Birth*: circa 1730¹
• Marriage*: circa 1750; Principal=? ?¹

? ?¹

• Birth*: circa 1730¹
• Marriage*: circa 1750; Principal=? McGill¹

• Married Name: circa 1750; McGill¹

John McGill¹

• Father*: ? McGill¹ b. c 1730
• Mother*: ? ?¹ b. c 1730

• Birth*: March 1752; Auckland, Wigton, Scotland; "McGILL, JOHN, army officer, office holder, and politician; b. March 1752 in Auckland, Wigton, Scotland; m. Catherine Crookshank; no surviving issue; d. 31 Dec. 1834 in Toronto, Upper Canada." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹
• Marriage*: circa 1780; "McGILL, JOHN, army officer, office holder, and politician; b. March 1752 in Auckland, Wigton, Scotland; m. Catherine Crookshank; no surviving issue; d. 31 Dec. 1834 in Toronto, Upper Canada." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1); Principal=Catherine Crookshank¹
• Death*: 31 December 1834; Toronto, York Co., Upper Canada; "McGILL, JOHN, army officer, office holder, and politician; b. March 1752 in Auckland, Wigton, Scotland; m. Catherine Crookshank; no surviving issue; d. 31 Dec. 1834 in Toronto, Upper Canada." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹

• Residence*: 1774; Virginia; "John McGill emigrated to Virginia in 1773. When the American revolution began he joined the short-lived Loyal Virginians as a lieutenant, then late in 1777 transferred to the Queen's Rangers, in which corps he served as adjutant and was taken prisoner along with his commander, John Graves Simcoe*. He was promoted captain before the surrender at Yorktown, Va." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹
• Residence: September 1794; Newark, Upper Canada; "After the war he settled in Parrtown (Saint John, N.B.), although he was perhaps at Quebec in 1788-89 as assistant to the commissary general. One of the first two captains proposed by Simcoe for the second Queen's Rangers in Upper Canada, he preferred the administrative post of military commissary. Setting out in February 1792 with Æneas Shaw* by the Témiscouata route to join Simcoe at Quebec, he accidentally injured his leg so badly that he periodically thereafter found it painful to walk or ride. He saw no regimental service in Upper Canada; when the Rangers mustered at Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake) against an anticipated American invasion in September 1794, his duty was to escort Simcoe's family to safety at Quebec."¹
• Residence: 2 March 1796; York, York Co., Upper Canada; "On 2 March 1796 McGill was appointed to the Executive Council along with the surveyor general, David William Smith*. Simcoe had begun recommending him more than two years earlier and in 1795 gave the pressing reason that there were too few councillors: "the sickness of a Single Member stops the whole Business of the Province." Since the receiver general, Peter Russell, was already a member, the effect was to put the heads of the three main executive departments together on the council for the first time, just when its business was rapidly increasing. McGill had to wait until 8 Oct. 1808 to become a regular salaried member, because the civil establishment allowed only five; but well before that he had risen above the status of Simcoe's most efficient protégé. Sensible, assiduous, and apparently indifferent to the animosities among his colleagues, he was by the end of 1801 a regular member of the council's standing committee." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹
• Note: 5 May 1796; York, York Co., Upper Canada; "Also, I know there is a handwritten document in the Parliamentary Library. It was deciphered by someone else to read: "York, 5th May 1796. "Received of John McGill, Esquire, commissary of stores, etc., for his Majesty's forces in Upper Canada, for public service ordered by his Excellency Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe, at York. One hundred and forty-three pounds spikes, fifty pounds pitch, thirty-five pounds oakum, eight pounds 20d nails, one grapnail, five inch tarred rope, ninety-eight pounds, thirty pounds bar iron for bolts, having expended the same in building and fitting out a strong boat for the purpose of transporting stone for the Government House. "I have signed three receipts of same tenor and date.
  "GEORGE GIBSON (following is an endorsement for the same on the same date). I wonder if this it my great-grandpa George..." this is from an email sent to me by Deborah Gibson, a fellow researcher into the Gibson/Selleck families, Feb 19 2019.
• Residence: 10 June 1797; York, York Co., Upper Canada; "He remained until his death on the Legislative Council, to which he had been appointed on 10 June 1797. He had been one of its officials, the master in chancery, since 22 May 1793 and did not relinquish that office until some time in 1803. He was a less regular attender on this council, at first perhaps because being agent for purchases often took him away from York." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹
• Residence: 1 July 1801; York, York Co., Upper Canada; "On 1 July 1801 McGill exchanged the agency for a more sedentary but equally onerous post, the inspector generalship of public accounts. The office, which became the ministry of finance in 1859, was a new one, created at Hunter's instigation because the province had no effective system of audit. Russell, the only auditor general ever commissioned for Upper Canada (10 Aug. 1794), had never developed the office. McGill's new post replaced it. Having set up a provincial system of audit and presided over it for nearly 12 years, McGill changed offices again. In his last administrative appointment, he took over the receiver generalship on an acting commission (5 Oct. 1813 to 2 Dec. 1819). He was succeeded, this time only briefly, by his brother-in-law George Crookshank. Beginning as the provinces chief purchasing agent, he ended as its chief financial officer." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹
• Residence: 27 April 1805; York, York Co., Upper Canada; "Eventually, on 27 April 1805, he was appointed the last lieutenant of the county of York, remaining so until his death, but reforms accompanying a new militia act of 1808 virtually ended the military duties of that office." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹
• Residence: 13 August 1818; York, York Co., Upper Canada; "A new lieutenant governor, Peter Hunter*, had set up the committee to conduct business during his frequent absences, but even when in York he did not himself regularly attend the council. The committee therefore bore the brunt of routine business and of enforcing Hunter's measures for administrative reform. Although Chief Justice Henry Allcock* was no doubt its dominating personality, McGill seems to have been its work-horse, one of the "few Scotch instruments" on whom (according to Robert Thorpe*'s accusation) Hunter relied too much. With Allcock's departure in September 1804, the arrival of an able attorney general, Thomas SCOTT, in the following April, and Hunter's death four months later, the working style of the council changed. McGill remained a faithful attender for some years, but his influence and then his health declined. He resigned on 13 Aug. 1818." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹
• Note*: circa 1820; York, York Co., Upper Canada; "In the rewards anticipated by Upper Canadian officials, however, salary did not count for much. Land granting fees (to which McGill had access only when he became acting receiver general) might be of consequence. Social prestige and land were the main objects to which officials looked. McGill did not move in the highest society of York officialdom. No lieutenant governor after Simcoe, for example, is reported to have dined at his house. McGill lived among the "gentry" north of the town, but he visited with his wife's relations the Crookshanks and Macaulays or with other Scots such as the Beikies, none of them officials of his own rank and some of them merchants. His Presbyterianism seems to have been no disadvantage, although John Strachan* complained of it: it did not prevent him from joining Anglicans on a committee to sponsor a church at York. Nor did he dissent from the toryism of his fellow officials. The only public questions on which he recorded a strongly independent view were the size of a government grant for district grammar schools, on which he suggested spending up to £7,000 more than anyone else on the Executive Council, and a conflict of interest which he saw in borrowing by York magistrates under the Market Square Act. The skills he exercised on behalf of government were essentially those of a merchant and accountant, skills undervalued by officers with aristocratic pretensions. He continued to be known as "Commissary McGill" long after his seat on both councils entitled him to the prefix "Honourable." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹
• Note: circa 1831; York, York Co., Upper Canada; "Yet McGill prospered in Upper Canada. As a half-pay captain he was entitled to 3,000 acres of land and as an executive councillor to 5,000 more. Before he had taken up the second allowance the rule was changed, on 1 July 1799, to give councillors 6,000 acres "including former grants." His actual grants fell between the old and the new rules, at 7,509 acres. He can hardly be said to have abused the system, but he was adept at getting the most out of it. He obtained land in good locations, he exchanged bad lands for good, and he knew when to sell. He had 850 acres in York Township, including the 100-acre park lot where he usually lived. It was far enough from the town to be a refuge for the family when the Americans occupied York in 1813, but urban growth made it worth £12,000 when it was finally sold in 1855. Its value had been reckoned at £150 in 1799. He also had 400 acres in Scarborough, 1,000 in Whitby, 1,259 in Clarke (which he got in exchange for 1,000 acres in West Flamborough), and 3,000 in Oxford North townships. Except for the Oxford and some of the York lands, he had sold it all by 1831, mostly after 1817 and in lots of 200 acres." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹
• Will*: 8 November 1834; York, York Co., Upper Canada; "He did not limit his financial skills to government service. He acted as agent to collect the fees of absent officials. In a province with no banking system, credit was arranged by personal notes, which were usually discounted on acceptance and were discounted less if presented or endorsed by someone known to be of substance. McGill was used enough to giving credit on this system to doubt the need for the Bank of Upper Canada in 1821. He nevertheless subscribed to its founding, "more than was perhaps prudent," he thought. His suspicions of the new credit system were confirmed when the bank refused a note he had endorsed in 1831. By then he was winding up his affairs. If he had not been "very ricth" in 1819, as his employee James Laidlaw thought, his will, dated 8 Nov. 1834, disposed of a considerable fortune in lands and investments. With no living children and his wife dead since 1819, he left his estate to Peter McCutcheon, his nephew, a Montreal merchant who had just become president of the Bank of Montreal. He made it a condition that McCutcheon assume the surname McGill." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹

Catherine Crookshank¹

• Birth*: circa 1755; "McGILL, JOHN, army officer, office holder, and politician; b. March 1752 in Auckland, Wigton, Scotland; m. Catherine Crookshank; no surviving issue; d. 31 Dec. 1834 in Toronto, Upper Canada." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹
• Marriage*: circa 1780; "McGILL, JOHN, army officer, office holder, and politician; b. March 1752 in Auckland, Wigton, Scotland; m. Catherine Crookshank; no surviving issue; d. 31 Dec. 1834 in Toronto, Upper Canada." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1); Principal=John McGill¹
• Death*: 1819; York, York Co., Upper Canada; "With no living children and his wife dead since 1819, he left his estate to Peter McCutcheon, his nephew, a Montreal merchant who had just become president of the Bank of Montreal. He made it a condition that McCutcheon assume the surname McGill." S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹

• Married Name: circa 1780; McGill¹

John Shuter Davenport McGill¹

• Father*: Peter McCutcheon McGill¹ b. Aug 1789, d. 28 Sep 1860
• Mother*: Sarah Elizabeth Shuter Wilkins¹ b. 15 Dec 1811, d. 4 Nov 1860

• Birth*: 9 June 1834; Montreal, Quebec; "Lest it be thought that this defence of Calvinist orthodoxy by McGill was evidence of a narrow-minded approach to religious matters, it should be stressed that Sarah, who was a member of the Church of England, brought up their sons, John Shuter Davenport and Sydenham Clitherow, as Anglicans, ... " S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)
  Date Jun 9 1834 & location Montreal per family tree of DonnaGeePugh on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹

Sydenham Clitherow McGill¹

• Father*: Peter McCutcheon McGill¹ b. Aug 1789, d. 28 Sep 1860
• Mother*: Sarah Elizabeth Shuter Wilkins¹ b. 15 Dec 1811, d. 4 Nov 1860

• Birth*: circa 1840; Montreal, Quebec; "Lest it be thought that this defence of Calvinist orthodoxy by McGill was evidence of a narrow-minded approach to religious matters, it should be stressed that Sarah, who was a member of the Church of England, brought up their sons, John Shuter Davenport and Sydenham Clitherow, as Anglicans, ... " S. R. MEALING, (https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcgill_john_6E.html?print=1)¹

Sophia Soper¹

• Father*: Seth Soper¹ b. 1767, d. 1803
• Mother*: Hannah Harris b. 29 Nov 1770, d. 8 Mar 1862

• Birth*: 28 April 1803; Hope Twp., Durham Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of LindaSusanSmith on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹
• Marriage*: 9 March 1833; Port Hope, Durham Co., Upper Canada; Principal=Elias Peter Smith¹
• Death*: 1 October 1885; Durham Co., Ontario; per family tree of LindaSusanSmith on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹

• Married Name: 9 March 1833; Smith¹

Seth Soper¹

• Father*: Pelatiah Soper b. 14 Jun 1737, d. b 1790
• Mother*: Deborah Briggs b. 7 Jun 1739, d. 1769

• Birth*: 1767; Danby, Rutlans Co., Vermont, U.S.A.; Date 1767 & location Danby, Rutland Co., Vermont per family tree of Eva Light Goeken on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024. per family tree of LindaSusanSmith on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1802; Upper Canada; per family tree of LindaSusanSmith on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.; Principal=Hannah Harris¹
• Death*: 1803; Upper Canada; Date 1803 & location Canada per family tree of Eva Light Goeken on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024. per family tree of LindaSusanSmith on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹

Pelatiah Soper¹

• Father*: Peletiah Soper¹ b. 16 Jan 1703, d. 3 Dec 1787
• Mother*: Martha Soper¹ b. 11 Feb 1706, d. 7 Sep 1792

• Birth*: 14 June 1737; Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, U.S.A.; per family tree of Eva Light Goeken on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1757; U.S.A.; per family tree of Eva Light Goeken on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.; Principal=Deborah Briggs¹
• Death*: before 1790; Brandon, Rutland Co., Vermont, U.S.A.; per family tree of Eva Light Goeken on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹

Deborah Briggs¹

• Birth*: 7 June 1739; Dartmouth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, U.S.A.; per family tree of Eva Light Goeken on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1757; U.S.A.; per family tree of Eva Light Goeken on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.; Principal=Pelatiah Soper¹
• Death*: 1769; Danby, Rutland Co., Vermont, U.S.A.; per family tree of Eva Light Goeken on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹

• Married Name: circa 1757; Soper¹

? ?¹

• Birth*: circa 1736¹
• Marriage*: circa 1756; New York, U.S.A.; Principal=Capt. Elias Smith¹
• Death*: circa 1763¹

• Married Name: circa 1756; Smith¹

John Shuter¹

• Birth*: circa 1745; "Their father Joseph Shuter died on Mar 17/1864, his body was exhumed from Montreal and he was buried with his brother John & Sarah Shuter (nee Smith) and his wife Mary Ann (nee Barnes). We don't know where he was born. Their parents were John (Snr) & Elizabeth Shuter." per FindaGrave Note for Joseph Shuter Jr.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1773; "Their father Joseph Shuter died on Mar 17/1864, his body was exhumed from Montreal and he was buried with his brother John & Sarah Shuter (nee Smith) and his wife Mary Ann (nee Barnes). We don't know where he was born. Their parents were John (Snr) & Elizabeth Shuter." per FindaGrave Note for Joseph Shuter Jr.; Principal=Elizabeth ?¹
• Death*: circa 1784; Montreal, Provicne of Quebec; "We are trying to bridge the gap between say 1650's and 1782-1784 when John Snr died in Canada, leaving his two sons and wife Elizabeth who remarried. John moved back to England around 1815-1817 and became very connected to your parish." per FindaGrave for son JOhn Shuter.¹

Elizabeth ?¹

• Birth*: circa 1745; "Their father Joseph Shuter died on Mar 17/1864, his body was exhumed from Montreal and he was buried with his brother John & Sarah Shuter (nee Smith) and his wife Mary Ann (nee Barnes). We don't know where he was born. Their parents were John (Snr) & Elizabeth Shuter." per FindaGrave Note for Joseph Shuter Jr.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1773; "Their father Joseph Shuter died on Mar 17/1864, his body was exhumed from Montreal and he was buried with his brother John & Sarah Shuter (nee Smith) and his wife Mary Ann (nee Barnes). We don't know where he was born. Their parents were John (Snr) & Elizabeth Shuter." per FindaGrave Note for Joseph Shuter Jr.; Principal=John Shuter¹

• Married Name: circa 1773; Shuter¹

Joseph Shuter¹

• Father*: John Shuter¹ b. c 1745, d. c 1784
• Mother*: Elizabeth ?¹ b. c 1745

• Birth*: circa 1783; England; "Their father Joseph Shuter died on Mar 17/1864, his body was exhumed from Montreal and he was buried with his brother John & Sarah Shuter (nee Smith) and his wife Mary Ann (nee Barnes). We don't know where he was born. Their parents were John (Snr) & Elizabeth Shuter." per FindaGrave Note for Joseph Shuter Jr.
  Date c. 1783 per family tree of cathyrem on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.^1,2
• Marriage*: 13 March 1816; Manchester, Lancashire, England; Date Mar 13 1816 & location Manchester, Lancashire, England per family tree of cathyrem on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.; Principal=Mary Ann Barnes^1,2
• Death*: 17 March 1864; Montreal, Quebec; "Joseph Shuter, Esq., a residence of Montreal, died on the seventeenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty four, aged eighty one years, and was buried on the nineteenth day of the same month, by me, J.P. Mite Apr? Jr. (Quebec, Canada Vital Church Records, Montreal, Anglican Christ Church Cathedral, Actes, 1864, pg. 4 of 20, ancestry.ca)
  "Their father Joseph Shuter died on Mar 17/1864, his body was exhumed from Montreal and he was buried with his brother John & Sarah Shuter (nee Smith) and his wife Mary Ann (nee Barnes). We don't know where he was born. Their parents were John (Snr) & Elizabeth Shuter." per FindaGrave Note for Joseph Shuter Jr.^1,3
• Burial*: 19 March 1864; Mont Royal Cemetery, Outremont, Montreal, Quebec; FindaGrave: Name: Joseph Shuter; Birth: unknown; Death: 17 Mar 1864; Burial: Cimetière Mont-Royal Outremont, Montreal Region, Quebec, Canada; Memorial ID: 108948484 (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108948484/joseph-shuter?_gl=1*1tu46th*_gcl_dc*R0NMLjE3MzAyOTU3MTEuYzA1MTA0MzUwMDk5MWZhNDY5ZDY2MzE3MzcxMjdkMjc.*_gcl_au*NzUyNzk1MzgzLjE3Mjk5ODA4MjY.*_ga*NTYwMjIyMjkyLjE2NzQ5Mzg5MDg.*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*ZTNlNjgyYjgtNGE3Ny00MzJkLTlkMTYtZWI1ZjEwOTM5ZDQ4LjEzNzkuMS4xNzMwNTA5NDc1LjMwLjAuMA..*_ga_QPQNV9XG1B*ZTNlNjgyYjgtNGE3Ny00MzJkLTlkMTYtZWI1ZjEwOTM5ZDQ4LjkxMC4xLjE3MzA1MDk0NzUuMC4wLjA.)
  FindaGrave: Name: Joseph Shuter; Birth: unknown; Death: 17 Mar 1864; Burial: St. Paul's Churchyard, Mill Hill, London Borough of Barnet, Greater London, England; Memorial ID: 231630393; Note: Their father Joseph Shuter died on Mar 17/1864, his body was exhumed from Montreal and he was buried with his brother John & Sarah Shuter (nee Smith) and his wife Mary Ann (nee Barnes). We don't know where he was born. Their parents were John (Snr) & Elizabeth Shuter. I am trying to find information on Elizabeth's maiden name so I can trace their wedding and hence their origins. There are too many John Shuters and I can't seem to narrow it down. But we traced the family crest which we have to the Salisbury area in 1609 as their ancestor John Shuter applied for the crest in Winterbourne Gunner. He became a barrister and is buried in the Temple Church in London with his wife and one or two children. We are trying to bridge the gap between say 1650's and 1782-1784 when John Snr died in Canada, leaving his two sons and wife Elizabeth who remarried. John moved back to England around 1815-1817 and became very connected to your parish.
  Inscription: Also in memory of Joseph Shuter Esq of Montreal Canada Who died at Montreal March 17th 1884 Aged 33 years Interred here Oct 5 1884. (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/231630393/joseph_shuter)
  Note: Joseph Shuter died in 1864 in Montreal and was buried there at that time. His body was exhumed and moved to England where it was buried with the family members. (Dan Buchanan, Nov 1 2024)¹

• Residence*: 1818; Montreal, Lower Canada; "The end of the War of 1812-1814 brought changes in the lives of many of its veterans. Captain George Lyon of the 99th/100th Regiment decided not to return to his native Scotland. Instead, in 1818, he came to the Richmond Settlement in the wilds of Upper Canada. Meanwhile, two militia officers, Joseph Shuter and Robert Charles Wilkins, both from respected Canadian families, became partners in the Montreal "China" trade. During the 1820's Shuter and Wilkins were the exclusive suppliers of various types of ceramic dishes and glassware to the store established by Lyon." George Lyon & the Montreal 'China' Merchants
  BY MSCOTT POSTED ON AUGUST 21, 2014.
  (http://www.richmondheritage.ca/index.php/george-lyon-the-montreal-china-merchants/)
• Note*: circa 1825; Montreal, Lower Canada; "Shuter & Wilkins of Montreal became the supplier of crockery for the Lyon's store. Collard says that Shuter & Wilkins "carried on one of the largest and most successful China-selling ventures in the colonies". Their stock was imported from various Staffordshire factories, carried by sailing ships to Quebec City or Montreal, and repacked for the Upper Canadian market. During winter months, goods could be moved by sledge but in summer the transportation route along the Ottawa River required a combination of boats, wagons and at times panniers on horses." George Lyon & the Montreal 'China' Merchants
  BY MSCOTT POSTED ON AUGUST 21, 2014.
  (http://www.richmondheritage.ca/index.php/george-lyon-the-montreal-china-merchants/)
• Census*: 29 July 1842; Montreal, Canada East; 1842 Census: Name: Joseph Shuter; Prop.; Merchant, 10 people (1842 Canada East Census: City of Montreal, Queen's Ward, pg. 425 of 583, ancestry.ca)
• Note: 14 August 1845; King Street, Toronto, York Co., Canada West; "The Bank of Montreal carried on its business in the building erected by Mr. Tully until a few years ago when it was torn down to make way for the present magnificent structure. In the corner stone of the first building at
  Yonge and Fiont streets was inserted a brass plate, now preserved at the bank. This is the inscription on it: "This first stone is laid by Benjamin Thome, Esq., President, on the 14th day of August, A.D. 1845. Directors in Montreal: The Honourable P. McGill, President ; the Honourable Joseph Masson, Vice-President ; T. B. Anderson, William Lunn, James Logan, William Molson, Joseph Shuter, John Torrance, John Fry, John Redpatb, John Molson, Harrison Stephens, John Brooke, Esquires. Benjamin Holmes, Esq., assistant cashier, Toronto Branch ; Benjamin Thorne, Esq., president; John Crawford, Esq., director: William Wilson, Esq., cashier; architect, Kivas Tully ; John Ritchey, builder." Landmarks of Toronto, Volume 1, Chapter CXXVI Bank of Montreal, page 391.⁴

Mary Ann Barnes^1,2,3

• Birth*: 1794; Date 1794 per FindaGrave.²
• Marriage*: 13 March 1816; Manchester, Lancashire, England; Date Mar 13 1816 & location Manchester, Lancashire, England per family tree of cathyrem on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.; Principal=Joseph Shuter^2,4
• Death*: March 1860; Montreal, Lower Canada; Date Mar 1860 per FindaGrave.²
• Burial*: March 1860; Montreal, Quebec; FindaGrave: Name: Mary Ann Shuter; Birth: 1794; Death: Mar 1860 (aged 65-66); Burial: St. Paul's Churchyard, Mill Hill, London Borough of Barnet, Greater London, England; Memorial ID: 231630747; Note: Inscription: Also in memory of Mary Ann wife of Joseph Shuter Of Montreal Canada Who died Mar 1860 Aged 66 years. (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/231630747/mary_ann_shuter)
  Note: Joseph Shuter died in 1864 in Montreal and was buried there at that time. His body was exhumed and moved to England where it was buried with the family members. (Dan Buchanan, Nov 1 2024)²

• Married Name: circa 1818; Shuter²

Joseph Shuter Jr.^1,2

• Father*: Joseph Shuter b. c 1783, d. 17 Mar 1864
• Mother*: Mary Ann Barnes b. 1794, d. Mar 1860

• Birth*: 26 August 1821; Montreal, Lower Canada; Date Aug 26 1821 & location Montreal per Baptism Record. Date Aug 26 1820 per FindaGrave.^2,3
• Baptism: 7 October 1821; Christ Church Cathedral, Anglican, Montreal, Lower Canada; Register of the Parish of St. Ch, Montreal; 1821, October 7th; Shuter, Baptiszed; Joseph, son of Joseph Shuter of Montreal, Merchant, and of Mary Ann Barnes, his wife, was born tghe Twenty sixth day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty one and was Baptized on the seventh day of October, solemnized by me, John Bethune, Rector. The Sponsors are Robert Charles Wilkins, William Edmondstone, Merchants and Mary Wilkins who have hereonto signed their names; (A.C. Wilkins, Wm. Edmondstone, Mary Wilkins) Parents: Joseph Shuter, Mary Ann Shuter (Quebec, Canada Vital and Church Records, 1821, M, Montreal, Anglican Christ Church Cathedral, ACtes, pg. 51 of 66, ancestry.ca)³
• Baptism: 7 October 1821; Christ Church Cathedral, Anglican, Montreal, Lower Canada; Baptism: Name: Joseph Shuter s/o Joseph Shuter & Mary Ann Barnes; Gender: male; Record Type: Baptism; Birth Date: Aug 26 1821; Baptism Date: Oct 7 1821; Baptism Place: Montreal; Baptism Church: Anglican Christ Church Cathedral; Parents: Joseph Shuter & Mary Ann Barnes (Quebec Vital and Church Records, 1821, pg. 51 of 66, ancestry.ca)³
• Death*: 19 May 1869; Date May 19 1869 per FindaGrave.²

James Shuter¹

• Father*: Joseph Shuter¹ b. c 1783, d. 17 Mar 1864
• Mother*: Mary Ann Barnes¹ b. 1794, d. Mar 1860

• Birth*: 4 December 1823; Montreal, Lower Canada; per family tree of cathyrem on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1850; Canada East; per family tree of cathyrem on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.; Principal=Mary Ann Taylor¹
• Death*: 25 July 1861; Sorel, Canada East; per family tree of cathyrem on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹

Mary Ann Taylor¹

• Birth*: circa 1818; Ireland; per family tree of cathyrem on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1850; Canada East; per family tree of cathyrem on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.; Principal=James Shuter¹
• Death*: 22 April 1891; Lennoxville, Quebec; per family tree of cathyrem on ancestry.ca, Nov 1 2024.¹

• Married Name: circa 1850; Shuter¹