File contains typescript correspondence from Mrs. Helene Strahm to Carl E. Bateman, Hastings County Clerk, and to Mrs. Mary Plumpton, Hastings County Historical Society requesting information regarding the genealogy of the Meyers, Broughton and Rutter families of Hastings County.
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.
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.
File contains a typescript letter from C.C. Crouse to Mary Plumpton, Hastings County Historical Society, 2 March 1970, concerning the genealogy of the McTaggart family of Tyendinaga Township and Huntingdon Township.
File contains a typescript booklet conveying the genealogy and origins of the Mack and Sine families of Rawdon Township. Includes photocopied photographs of family members, ca. 1890s-1954. Also contains a manuscript letter from Clarence S. Chard to Gerry Boyce which refers to the booklet.
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.
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.
File contains a manuscript genealogy of the Lingham family, descended from William Lingham, Belleville. Also contains a manuscript explanatory letter from Carol McPherson, Lingham family member, June 2, 1969 including reference to connections to the Canniff family.
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.
File contains a typescript letter from Robert E. Lord, Johnsonville, New York to the Hastings County Museum regarding the Michael LaValle family genealogy ca. 1875.
File contains a newspaper clipping regarding George Young and Cornelius Lawrence, pioneer settlers in Belleville, with a brief genealogical profile of the Lawrence and Young families.
File contains information about Col. Elijah Ketcheson (b. 1793) of Sidney. There are also newspaper clipping about the Ketcheson family reunion in 1962 in Tweed and Fred A. Ketcheson celebrating his 90th Birthday. There are two invitation to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Boyce for the Ketcheson family reunion in 1959 and 1961, as well as information about the family reunion in 1964.
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.
File contains a newspaper article that features the history of the Ketcheson family farm and cemetery in Sidney. The farm had been in the family since the early 1800s.