Originally Published in Heritage Happenings, February 1996
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Waterdown

Many of the very early settlers who came to Canada to make a new life for themselves and their descendants left virtually no written evidence of their life in a strange land. Possibly aware of this and fearful that later generations would not know of their ancestry, many of these pioneers chose to include their place of birth on their tombstone. This way of leaving some reminder of their origin was not fashionable for many years and is almost always to be found on only the oldest monuments in early cemeteries. This paper will cover some of the pioneers who are buried in Waterdown cemeteries and whose place of birth is documented on their tombstone.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

• Read Baker, Waterdown Cradle and Rake manufacturer, Pelham, Massachusetts.
• Abraham Lebar, Pennsylvania.
• John McCollom, Cherry Valley, New York.

IRELAND.

• Bridget O’Rourke, Mushall.
• Michael Foley, Waterford.
• James Quigley, County Tyrone.
• Peter Cronin, Thomas Davis, Jeffrey Croston, Mary Connel, wife of Richard Croston, Ellen Crowley, wife of Dennis McCarty, County Cork.
• William Waddell, Peter Doran, William Foster and his wife Jane, County Down.
• Robert Hamilton, Charles and Mary Ann Baxter, Jane, wife of George Hall, County Fermanagh.
• Mary Mullhall, County Killarney.
• Eliza Jane Forde, wife of Robert Hamilton, Dungannon.
• William Savage, Tralee, County Kerry.
• Margaret Sullivan, wife of Patrick Downey, Hanora and Patrick Callahan, County Kerry.
• James and Mary McGovern, County Meath.
• Mary Maloney, County Kenny.
• Mary O’Connor, wife of Richard Donohue, County Limerick.
• Timothy Newman, Patrick’s Well, County Limerick.
• Ann Stewart, County Antrim.
• John Flynn, County Wicklow.
• Maria Finnamor, Ann Finnamor, wife of John Flynn, County Kildare.
• Hannah Griffin, wife of James Dundon, Cullen, County Tipprary.
• Catharine, wife of Thomas Foley. MacHonniel, County Tipprary.
• William Davis, County Kilkenny.

SCOTLAND.

• David Brown, Scotland.
• James Robertson, Dumbartonshire.
• Robert Harvey and his wife, Jane Jessiman, William Jessiman and his wife, Jane Forbes, Aberdeenshire.
• Alexander Brown, Dumfriesshire.
• Merren Grierson, wife of Alexander Brown, Parish of Glencairn, Dumfriesshire.
• Thomas Stuart, Banffshire.
• Donald Mackenzie, Strathpeffer.
• George Hall, Thomas Little, James Little, Roxburgshire.
• Sarah Murray, Charles Melville, Perthshire.
• John Hunter, Addingtonshire.
• Captain William Spence, Dundee.

ENGLAND.

• Thomas English, John Rowe, England.
• Walter Grieve, Waterdown Stonemason, Tweedmouth.
• Benjamin Hackney, George Hackney, Lincolnshire.
• Bernard Richardson, Isabella and James Wetherelt, William Stuart, Cumberland.
• Ann, wife of Christopher Alderson, Jane and John Alderson, Westmoreland.
• William Brown, Henry Edwards, Ann, wife of William Nicholls, Cornwall.
• George Pettinger, John Shapland, Devonshire.
• Frederick Feilde, Plymouth, Devon.
• Rev. Arthur Boultbee, Forsam, Exeter, Devon.
• John Clarke. Derbyshire.
• John Dean, Balsham, Cambridgeshire.
• Mary Ann Dean, London.
• Lawty Langton, Amy Law, Yorkshire.
• Mary Marshall, wife of James Fowler, Newborough, Yorkshire.
• Thomas Fretwell, Wroot, West Riding, Yorkshire.
• Jane Proctor, wife of William Brown, Bury, Lancashire.
• Charles Tuck, Norfolk.
• Margaret Hall, wife of George Willis, Hampshire.
• James Emery, Sussex.
• Jane Featherstone, William Featherston, Thomas Featherston and his wife Jane, Durham.

GERMANY.

• Jacob Metzger, Germany.
• Henry Metzger, Wallertheim Rhein, Hessen.

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