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HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1500 to 1999 Hastings, County of Family and personal life
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Madoc : Hannah family genealogy

File contains a typescript extract from the Hastings County Court Registry Office concerning the ownership of a piece of land in Madoc Township, granted to C. Gordon Hannah in 1861. The lot is not identified, but information from the land index maintained by the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre suggest that it is lot 24 in the seventh concession of Madoc Township.

Ketcheson family; funeral cards

File contains the funeral cards for Everett Ketcheson (b. 1891, d. 1914) and Edward Ketcheson (b. 1832, d. 1915). There is also a book published in 1958, “The Ketcheson Family”, a newspaper article from 1968 about Mr. and Mrs. Lawrenson L. Ketcheson celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary, and an invite for the Ketcheson family reunion in 1965 at the Memorial Park in Tweed.

Merry Family papers

File contains manuscript marriage and militia enlistment certificates from London [Ont.] and Middlesex County, Ontario involving members of the Merry Family. Also contains two newspaper articles concerning Miss Neil Merry, a former teacher in Saskatchewan, and at Belleville Collegiate Institute.

Merritt Family

File contains a typescript letter from Olive Delaney, Belleville Public Library to Mary Plumpton, Hastings County Historical Society, dated 28 February 1969 inquiring for information regarding Dr. James Merritt, a physician who testified at the trial of the alleged assassins of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, and who was a probable resident of Sidney Township in his youth.

Loughray Family genealogy

File contains three manuscript letters from Mary M. Middleton to the Hastings County Historical Society, and Hastings County Museum, regarding the genealogy of the William and Ellen Loughray family who resided in Tyendinaga Township, ca. 1848-1875.

Lister family papers

File contains miscellaneous manuscript and printed items including claims to lands, correspondence, printed memorials and newspaper articles relating to history and genealogy of the Lister family of Belleville. The Lister Family descended from Major James Lister, who served as Surgeon to the Hastings Militia from 1862, including deployment in the Riel Rebellion. Also contains a printed certificate of completion of instruction issued to James Lister, Jr. by the School of Military Instruction, Kingston, Ontario in 1866.

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