Re: MCCOLMAN, CAMPBELL, BELL, GRAHAM
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Patrick Fero <pdfero@...>
Not to confuse matters, although admittedly I
probably am, but we've got Muirs in our background also, but can
find no link between them and those being discussed here.
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This is the limited information I have: Nothing much back beyond William Moir
(1818-1861)/Catherine Woodward (1828-1896) except his parents
were likely William and Mary Moir. No direct evidence back
beyond that. Also no direct evidence of any surname spelled
More or Muir other than the belief that all of them stem from
the same gene pool farther back. Our clan likely came from
Aberdeenshire.
The 1861 London Ontario census shows Margaret
and William Moir and three kids (James 1819; Alexander 1824; and
William 1818) living in the same neighborhood as the
Woodwards and the Dwyers (all eventually intermarried). St.
Peter's Basilica Parish records there show our Moirs were
married in 1850 and had child #1 (Isabella) in 1851.
Have not yet found the precise emigration year
or the vessel on which they sailed but it's narrowed to 1848-49.
And, William and three of the six kids all died in the
1861 influenza epidemic (December).
Catherine remarried in Detroit in 1863 to
Patrick Keating and they and the three surviving Moir kids
(Isabella 1851, Daniel 1854, and William1856) moved up to Ovid
in that time frame.
Patrick Fero Pennsylvania
On 1/30/2020 5:08 PM, Jocelyn Gould
wrote:
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