tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18940994792320813502024-02-02T16:37:12.018-08:00The Tennant/Grawbarger JourneyDoug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-66232799718567216972021-09-06T05:35:00.006-07:002021-09-06T05:42:11.249-07:00A tidbit on the MacDonald/Cuthbert connection with the Tennants and Grawbargers. <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My maternal grandmother, Margaret Ellen MacDonald (1903-1981) was born in the Tennant Settlement. Her father was Alfred MacDonald (1877-1959) and her mother was Mary Grawbarger (1884-1961). While the foregoing is not earth shattering or even perhaps of interest to many who have visited this blog, I want to acknowledge that there was a notable extended family connection between not only the Tennants and Grawbargers but that that connection runs through the MacDonald/Cuthbert part of the family tree. You see my grandmother on the MacDonald/Cuthbert side had a grandmother who was a Tennant. <br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In addition to the above tidbit, my grandmother, Margaret MacDonald who married Ken Cuthbert, who was born at Rosehall Farm (where my wife Jeannie and I currently live), also had two sets of great grandparents who themselves were Grawbarger/Tennant and Tennant/Grawbarger (see below).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6t2A4GgZdYZ_-cqtR7_1xJKOsOJIQZmcPYXsoBAqPCPU16l9dipWDVapPc7D_Iv3PRnn1-wNGlqMX0rKfLe7KZZ0I0AxA-iwDqwxfjSgPPXOENdfnjNmoDEU4MOSDciFUMTIVCO0h5kbi/s879/Margaret+MacDonald+family+tree+excerpt.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="879" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6t2A4GgZdYZ_-cqtR7_1xJKOsOJIQZmcPYXsoBAqPCPU16l9dipWDVapPc7D_Iv3PRnn1-wNGlqMX0rKfLe7KZZ0I0AxA-iwDqwxfjSgPPXOENdfnjNmoDEU4MOSDciFUMTIVCO0h5kbi/w400-h221/Margaret+MacDonald+family+tree+excerpt.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-25685889478541664102020-08-27T09:17:00.007-07:002020-08-27T09:31:28.145-07:00<h2 style="text-align: left;"> 200th Anniversary of the arrival of the Tennants in Canada</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">The journey of the Tennants on the ship 'Commerce'</h3><div><br /></div><div>Thomas Tennant and his wife Anne Hill and their extended family arrived in Canada at Montreal aboard the sailing ship Commerce in August 1820. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Commerce was a three masted ship with 1.5 decks. She had a draft of 17 feet. The ship was 111 feet long and 29 feet 6.5 inches broad and was built in Quebec at Fort William Henry in 1813. A sketch of the Commerce by Graham McBride of Halifax is shown below. It comes from page 13 of 'Carlow to Lanark - An Irish Family History' written by Robert Dawson Tennant.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRrt1xUEWqFX1IHL4EPjqeTyHQeeZlYvDnSpDIEppFP00sU2XkR-WzmVBuYpCBDhbSusl2kWuycM87GBoYn7JrZIj59XNEFSoSTxFY91SWOcpEjN5xT5bzMRmmLgddD6ug9Las6gT6Inhv/s2048/Sailing+vessel+Commerce.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRrt1xUEWqFX1IHL4EPjqeTyHQeeZlYvDnSpDIEppFP00sU2XkR-WzmVBuYpCBDhbSusl2kWuycM87GBoYn7JrZIj59XNEFSoSTxFY91SWOcpEjN5xT5bzMRmmLgddD6ug9Las6gT6Inhv/w262-h175/Sailing+vessel+Commerce.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Thomas and Anne emigrated to Canada with seven sons and two daughters. They were George and his wife Elizabeth Smith, William, John, Richard, Elizabeth, Judith, Thomas, Robert and Joseph and a man servant.</div><div><br /></div><div>After landing in Montreal in August 1820 they all made their way to Fort Wellington at Prescott. The adult men then left for Perth via Brockville. In Perth they made formal arrangements for their Location Tickets. Thomas, the patriarch, and his wife Anne Hill settled on the 10 Concession of Lanark Townsip in Lanark County. His children and their families settled in various other locations along the 10th and 12th Concessions of Lanark Township.</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Settlement in Lanark Township</h3><div><br /></div><div>The family walked to their new home on the 10th Concession of Lanark Township in Lanark County around the 23 of November 1820. We know this as Elizabeth Smith, wife of George, the eldest son of Thomas, gave birth to her first child George Ansley Tennant on 23 November 1820 in the home of local resident, Willie Ireton, near Drummond Centre and Innisville, not too far from the Mississippi River. (From 1987 to 1991 I lived on 10 Concession Drummond Township not too far from Innisville and Drummond Centre). </div><div><br /></div><div>A photo of the log house of George Tennant and Elizabeth Smith is shown below from the summer of 1937.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSkHJRY1Rwt_AgM1dKC5iWZCALhW5XPPG3m60lvK5eRlK0Bz6qdE4chJsp7n3Hv_I40vpsUN3osJOLN0IBGyrAekGawcxgry5-yigHZGRPdpyMVz4Q0XcXmKSyP83MJp9_mCxsWjmLHHiV/s2048/George+Tennant+%2528son+of+Thomas+and+Anne%2529+log+house+in+1937.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSkHJRY1Rwt_AgM1dKC5iWZCALhW5XPPG3m60lvK5eRlK0Bz6qdE4chJsp7n3Hv_I40vpsUN3osJOLN0IBGyrAekGawcxgry5-yigHZGRPdpyMVz4Q0XcXmKSyP83MJp9_mCxsWjmLHHiV/w410-h274/George+Tennant+%2528son+of+Thomas+and+Anne%2529+log+house+in+1937.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Robert Dawson Tennant, the author of the Tennant family history book 'Carlow to Lanark - An Irish Family History' writes on page 20 of his geneaology regarding their journey to Lanark that "matriarch Ann[e] (Hill) Tennant carried an iron pot and some of their dishes". That pot is on view in the Middleville Museum. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKmowkAXS_WHMmdUsOX-9fn1LS4z3qZBlxJ2xbMKO24uUQC3p_J0czH5dOpxgfJx-ku6NvCjCjQhrF5Vd-brIUHGPvX51mDJuAAOuCj_3ee728-e26Uq_5doDT4RAwgSEDUD59cHcBlRDX/s367/Carlow+to+Lark+book+-+front+cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKmowkAXS_WHMmdUsOX-9fn1LS4z3qZBlxJ2xbMKO24uUQC3p_J0czH5dOpxgfJx-ku6NvCjCjQhrF5Vd-brIUHGPvX51mDJuAAOuCj_3ee728-e26Uq_5doDT4RAwgSEDUD59cHcBlRDX/s0/Carlow+to+Lark+book+-+front+cover.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>The museum is not too far from the original Tennant settlement. It is highly recommended that anyone interested in early Lanark Township life and times in general and the Tennants in particular, should visit the museum. It has several items of Tennant noteworthyness and overall gives an excellent perspective on early life in the area. Mike Tennant and Doug Tennant are shown in the photo below with a chest of drawers from the early Tennant household and which is on display at the Middleville Museum.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDdBbkZv01muRS7rYVfNu6r_ApDpVlsGL3llsfzZwZXd6ZCjfUd2S01OofLMrMjZnnkaEieBDh2ZokmiL2hrzCGWf12xHNf1PEKf6dvEIwTOM5i7WGc39K5eRhnTmRr_44vl89xEp7fG0/s2048/Mike+and+Doug+with+the+Tennant+chest+of+drawers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDdBbkZv01muRS7rYVfNu6r_ApDpVlsGL3llsfzZwZXd6ZCjfUd2S01OofLMrMjZnnkaEieBDh2ZokmiL2hrzCGWf12xHNf1PEKf6dvEIwTOM5i7WGc39K5eRhnTmRr_44vl89xEp7fG0/w400-h267/Mike+and+Doug+with+the+Tennant+chest+of+drawers.jpg" title="Mike and Doug Tennant at the Middleville Museum August 22, 2020" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">A low key celebration but a celebration nonetheless</h3><div><br /></div><div>On Saturday August 22, 2020 Mike Tennant and his wife Lorrie (nee Sawyshyn), Jeannie Tilson and Doug Tennant gathered during the great 2020 Covid-19 pandemic at the Tennant cemetery at 943 Concession 10B of Lanark Township to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the arrival of the Tennants in Canada. After a memorial toast, salutation/prayer in memory of Thomas and Anne and their immigrant family, a modest picnic was enjoyed on the grounds of the cemetery. Mike provided a selected reading from Robert Dawson Tennants family history and we all reviewed various stories about our ancestors and how our family has grown through marriagees and about how the Tennants and their descendants journeyed throughout North America..</div><div><br /></div><div>Scott Meabry - cemetery custodian (who just recently assumed those duties from Gerald Tennant) expended considerable time and effort to ensure the grounds were exquisite for the 200th Anniversary celebration.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8wbDuG8llDqbx5oKS4K4FXP_-8ah1vGDVU9zLaYqo4tIVZkvxua7QyQvNZQDW_UVO_6mfmmg3MuYWAoF8LoSiURufmuUwvq-5XivDqAwtUEZtSBjhGyZN-2KoAW-JdAtg5_QtimPF2Tg/s2048/Picnic+at+Tennant+Cemetery+August+22+2020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lorrie, Mike and Jeannie at the 200th Anniversary Celebration of the arrival of the Tennants in Lanark Township." border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8wbDuG8llDqbx5oKS4K4FXP_-8ah1vGDVU9zLaYqo4tIVZkvxua7QyQvNZQDW_UVO_6mfmmg3MuYWAoF8LoSiURufmuUwvq-5XivDqAwtUEZtSBjhGyZN-2KoAW-JdAtg5_QtimPF2Tg/w400-h266/Picnic+at+Tennant+Cemetery+August+22+2020.jpg" title="Lorrie, Mike and Jeannie at the 200th Anniversary Celebration of the arrival of the Tennants in Lanark Township." width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUF_weh_3dhWMOrrnm6Dnql8vhZenPGpyQZkF6VKcDrlAC1xYN2FTCpmcPXigVDYFuTMf8XsqtV1yTFc1KwNp_aiEAan48uQWvwBbGhtdJgpg9_bnMoqj43B2I6M6dMQLjsdcQU2VwDjc/s2048/Jeannie+%2526+Doug+at+Tennant+cemetery+August+22+2020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Jeannie Tilson and Doug Tennant at the Thomas Tennant and Anne Hill gravestone at the Tennant Cemetery" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUF_weh_3dhWMOrrnm6Dnql8vhZenPGpyQZkF6VKcDrlAC1xYN2FTCpmcPXigVDYFuTMf8XsqtV1yTFc1KwNp_aiEAan48uQWvwBbGhtdJgpg9_bnMoqj43B2I6M6dMQLjsdcQU2VwDjc/w426-h640/Jeannie+%2526+Doug+at+Tennant+cemetery+August+22+2020.jpg" title="Jeannie Tilson and Doug Tennant at the Thomas Tennant and Anne Hill gravestone at the Tennant Cemetery" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-59396119387068175162020-03-25T12:17:00.001-07:002020-03-25T19:19:59.746-07:00The Rockingham, Ontario Tennants<h3>
The following post information is about new research results linking William Tennant (1824-1902) of the Rockingham, Ontario area (near Barry's Bay) to his father Richard Tennant (1797-1879).</h3>
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For nigh on 100 years or so, it seemed that William Tennant (1824-1902), son of Richard Tennant (1797-1879) and Jane Cardiff (1801 - ?) was a lost soul. Indeed, in the family history book written by Robert Dawson Tennant entitled "Carlow to Lanark - An Irish Family History" William has his name listed once on page 64 along with his genealogical cataloguing system number '53' and that is it. There is no other information listed, that this blogger could find, in the book about William. Do not confuse him with the William listed as number '3' by Robert Tennant on page 25 in his book and who died in 1821 unmarried.<br />
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So what happened to William Tennant, son of Richard and Jane Cardiff? Where did he go? Who did he marry? Did he have children? All good questions which went unanswered for tens and tens of years until a distant relative of mine from the North Bay, ON area called one late winter Friday night in 2014 to enquire if I would 'just take a look' at some information about a 'William Tennant who had married a Mary Coughlin'. After discussing the matter for a considerable time via telephone I agreed to do the research. Then with dogged determination, I let life get in the way and put off the research for almost four years. One rainy day while my wife Jeannie was doing some geneaology, I decided to work on some 'dougieology' and set about checking out the Drouin collection for St. Patrick's parish near Renfrew, ON.<br />
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In the parish registery there are some very discernable entries about a William Tenant (which is an early variable of the Tennant surname) who was baptised into the Roman Catholic religion and then was married that very same day to a Mary Coughlin by the parish priest Father John McNulty. <br />
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A screen shot of the registry is provided herein for your review as well as this amateur geneaologists attempt at transcibing the entries.<br />
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Transcription (below) from the St. Patrick Roman Catholic parish
registry. St. Patrick’s church is near Calabogie or Renfrew ON. The first entry (No. 74) by Father John McNulty is regarding the
baptism of William Tennant (1824-1902), son of Richard Tennant and Jane
Cardiff. The second transcription (No. 11) is about the marriage of William Tennant and Mary Coughlin.</div>
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<i>No.74 May 14, 1851 of the Indulgence Grant received
After Incantation, Baptised (illegible word - possibly 'such') Conditions William Tenant
aged 27 Years of Lake Doré Settlement. Sponsor John McNulty and Bridget
Coughlin St. Patricks</i></div>
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<i>No.11 May 14, 1851 of the Indulgence Grant Married
Wm. Tenant to Mary Coughlin before witnesses John McNulty and Bridget Coughlin St.
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William's father and mother (Richard Tennant and Jane Cardiff) are shown living in the Lake Doré Settlement area in Wilberforce Township, Renfrew County, ON in the 1851, 1861 and 1871 census documents. While the census for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia was completed in 1851, Canada West and Canada East did not start their collection of data until the following year. Therefore, for Canada West and Canada East, and in Wilberforce Township, what is known as the Census of 1851 officially began on January 12, 1852. Wilberforce Township is named after William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833) who was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.</div>
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As William fell in love (hopefully and obviously) with Mary Coughlin, it was for him, given the context of the times, to have to consider and choose to change his religious denomination and convert from being a member of the Church of England or protestantantism to Roman Catholic. In 1851, when William got married to Mary Coughlin, it would have been literally unthinkable for him to convert to Roman Catholicism <u>and</u> remain as an accepted part of the Tennant family associated with Richard Tennant and Jane Cardiff. The only option for William to be able to marry Mary would be to convert to Roman Catholicism. This would have triggered, in that day and time, the action of being ostracised and/or shunned by his parents and siblings. This shunning or ostracisation by Richard and Jane with regard to their son William, would have been a momentous action and would explain why there was no further mention of or information provided about him in the family history book. For all intents and purposes, William would have been considered 'dead' and unknown to his parents and other family members.<br />
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So, having researched and found that a William Tennant was baptised as a Roman Catholic on May 14, 1851 and then married that same day to Mary Coughlin is interesting. All the more interesting is that this William Tennant was from the Lake Doré Settlement where Richard Tennant and Jane Cardiff were living having moved there from Lanark Township, Lanark County ON about 1843 or 1844. We know this as their daughter, Elizabeth Tennant (1844 - 1923) who married William Carnegie (1818-1896), was born in Wilberforce Township according to the 1871 Canadian census.<br />
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William Tennant was married 14 May 1851 to Mary Coughlin. The 1851 census was conducted in 1852, due to delays, and there is no record of him living with or near his father Richard, in the 1851 census.<br />
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William Tennant and Mary Coughlin were content to stay in the Brudenell/Sebastopol Township area for the rest of their lives. They had five children (see insert).<br />
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William died 18 November 1902 and was buried on 21 November at St. Ann's Parish Church. Mary died 16 May 1906. The following is taken from the church registery: Item # 4 Page 267 # S 7 Mary Coughlin was born in Ireland (Mrs. Wm. Tennent) May 18th 1906 We, the undersigned blessed the body of Mary Coughlin Tennent who died the day before yesterday aged seventy-three years. Witnesses to burial James Stanley.<br />
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In the 1861 census William chose to list his religion as Church of England while Mary and the children were listed as Roman Catholic. The census shows William and Mary living amongst Mary's 'Coughlin' relatives (see insert from the 1861 census). Indeed, Mary's parents, Simon and Mary O'Brien were living just down the road from her and William.<br />
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On 20 September 2019 my wife, Jeannie, and I ventured to the Brudenell area (Letterkenny Road and Rockingham area) after having confirmed by telephone several months earlier that descendants of William Tennant and Mary Coughlin were still living in the area.<br />
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We met up with Allen Howard Tennant and his wife Lorna Roberston who live on Tennant Road just off Letterkenny Road. Over tea and homemade cookies we exchanged some stories of family lore on both sides and thoroughly enjoyed a wonderful 'mini family reunion'. With Allen and Lorna (my 3rd cousin 1X removed) calling themselves the '<b>Rockingham Tennants</b>', Jeannie and I (of the Chalk River Tennants) left our new-found cousins and headed home. It was exciting knowing that we had finally met the descendants of William Tennant and Mary Coughlin - mystery solved!<br />
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Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-56630551989921041192020-02-18T09:33:00.004-08:002020-08-27T10:17:31.581-07:00Robbie Burns Celebration 2016 - Chalk River Legion Wm. Bryant Branch #562<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Approximately 40 people attended the very first sit down Burns Supper at the Royal Canadian Legion in Chalk River ON. Jeannie Tilson was accompanied by Ray Lavallee on the pipes at this supper and they played a wee concert for the attendees. The meal, prepared by Carol Thompson and her helpers, consisted of roast beef, mashed potatoes and turnips, and a wonderful homemade dessert. <div><br /></div><div>Traditional Fare, a celtic style trio, played wonderful music. Traditional Fare is Jim Beattie, Paul McClelland, and Dan Schryer.</div>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-54151731431837922492018-07-05T19:44:00.000-07:002018-07-05T19:54:05.748-07:00The Hollmer side of things<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4e453f; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter Hollmer is listed as passenger #1 on the ship <span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">"Steinhoft".</strong></span> He left Hamburg by himself at the age of 48 as listed on the manifest on the <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Steinhoft</span> with 148 other passengers on the 15th of September and arrived in Montreal on the 4th of October 1894.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of those children was Jacob (John) Hollmer, my great grandfather on my dad's side. </span><span style="color: #181a1c;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When John (Jacob) Christopher Hollmer was born on March 20, 1881, in Germany, his father, Peter, was 33 and his mother, Katharina, was 32. He married Ella Lena (Elsie) Bergman on October 24, 1905, in Chalk River, Ontario. They had eight children in 10 years. He died on June 8, 1948, in Chalk River, Ontario, at the age of 67. </span></span><span style="color: #181a1c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;">When Elsie Bergman was born on October 21, 1885, in Germany, her father, Paul, was 35, and her mother, Annie, was 34. She married John (Jacob) Christopher Hollmer on October 24, 1905, in Chalk River, Ontario. She died as a young mother in the great influenza outbreak of 1918-1920 on October 21, 1918, in Chalk River, Ontario, at the age of 33.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #181a1c;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of those eight children of John and Elsie was my grandmother Annie Pearl Hollmer. </span></span><span style="color: #181a1c; font-family: "source sans pro" , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif;">When Annie Pearl Hollmer was born on January 7, 1909, in Chalk River, Ontario, her father, John, was 27, and her mother, Elsie, was 23. She married George Edward Tennant (my grandfather) on January 11, 1927, in her hometown of Chalk River. They had six children in 26 years. She died on December 20, 2002, in the hospital at Deep River, Ontario, at the age of 93.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #181a1c; font-family: "source sans pro" , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif;">When George Edward Tennant was born on June 3, 1906, in Chalk River, Ontario, his father, George, was 29 and his mother, Margaret, was 19. </span><span style="color: #181a1c; font-family: "source sans pro" , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif;">George Edward Tennant was born on June 3, 1906, in Chalk River, Ontario, to Margaret McAuley, age 19, and George Cardiff Tennant, age 29. </span><span style="color: #181a1c; font-family: "source sans pro" , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif;">He married Annie Pearl Hollmer on January 11, 1927, in his hometown. They had six children in 26 years. He died on June 9, 1989, in Chalk River, Ontario, at the age of 83. George worked on the local Canadian Pacific Railway establishment in Chalk River. George and Pearl are buried in Forest View Cemetery (just off highway #17 at Fields Road) in Chalk River Ontario.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tom Tennant, his father George, his mother Pearl Hollmer and me - Doug Tennant 1978</td></tr>
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Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-48744404568447542422013-07-07T06:30:00.003-07:002013-07-07T06:33:03.845-07:0065th Wedding Anniversary - Tom Tennant & Elaine CuthbertOn Wednesday June 30, 1948 Tom Tennant and Elaine Cuthbert were married by Rev. Carl Dean in St. Andrews United Church on Main Street in Chalk River ON. The maid of honour was Eunice Moore and the best man was Tom's brother Jack Tennant.<br />
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Tom and Elaine celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary at a garden party at their home in Chalk River with approximately 70 family and friends including several great grandchildren. Deputy Mayor Anne Giardini brought greetings from the Town of Laurentian Hills while Marjorie Kellow, their daughter, read out greetings from the Governor General, Prime Minister Harper and Her Majesty the Queen.<br />
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Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-55230635334570539592011-08-06T15:20:00.006-07:002020-08-27T19:42:41.810-07:00The Cuthbert Connection & Rosehall Farm<br />
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<span><strong>The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Cuthberts</span></span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Rosehall</span></span> Farm</strong> </span>
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<span>This next part of the blog focuses on the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Cuthbert</span></span> side of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Tennant</span></span>/<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Grawbarger</span></span> journey. While no <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Cuthberts</span></span> ever married a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Grawbarger</span></span> (that I know of), <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Tennants</span></span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">MacDonalds</span></span> did as described elsewhere in this blog. Indeed there is also the case where two MacDonald Sisters (Laura and Margaret) married two <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Cuthbert</span></span> brothers (Ira and Ken) from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Rosehall</span></span> Farm. Margaret or Maggie is my maternal grandmother and she married Ken <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Cuthbert</span></span> while her sister Laura married Ira <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Cuthbert</span></span>. Ken was known as the gardener at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Rosehall</span></span> while Ira was the true farmer. </span></div>
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<span>The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Grawbarger</span></span> connection comes about where it is made clear that Maggie and Laura MacDonald's mother was Mary <strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Grawbarger</span></span></strong> (married to Alfred MacDonald). Interestingly with regard to the Tennant/Grawbarger linkage, Mary Grawbarger's mother was Sarah Jane Tennant (1867-1941).</span></div>
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<span>The photo on the right, taken at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Rosehall</span> Farm, shows Glenn <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Cuthbert</span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmrQvjESl8ZW-Y1RFJ5Yv-rS-B3dcv70f462pAzjppEwiroqb-l7V5oDuABYdJQIvD_JPHJgi1UB3lM_Jgi22NvPRbWXGChrdtvKY4wxv1AjjmVezaUNrlIhyphenhyphen0bKurwVZT-yl0fBeXubE/s1600/Charles+Cuthbert%252C+Winston%252C+Laura+MacDonald%252CMaria+McLeod%252C+Tom%252C+Marg+MacDonald%252C+Alex+Agnew.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638114083437446034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmrQvjESl8ZW-Y1RFJ5Yv-rS-B3dcv70f462pAzjppEwiroqb-l7V5oDuABYdJQIvD_JPHJgi1UB3lM_Jgi22NvPRbWXGChrdtvKY4wxv1AjjmVezaUNrlIhyphenhyphen0bKurwVZT-yl0fBeXubE/s200/Charles+Cuthbert%252C+Winston%252C+Laura+MacDonald%252CMaria+McLeod%252C+Tom%252C+Marg+MacDonald%252C+Alex+Agnew.jpg" style="float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a>(son of Maggie MacDonald), Winston <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Cuthbert</span>, someone I don't know, Maria McLeod (Winston's grandmother), my mom's brother Tom <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Cuthbert</span> and my aunt Ida MacDonald (married to Bill Shultz). I think the wee gaffer in front is Alec Agnew. If you can correct and/or identify any of these individuals please contact me or leave a comment.
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<span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Rosehall</span></span> was owned and cared for by the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Cuthberts</span></span> from about 1877 up through to 2005 when Winston <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Cuthbert</span></span> and his wife Cory Vermeer-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Cuthbert</span></span> sold <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Rosehall</span></span>. Winston and Cory (a minister in the United Church of Canada) along with their children Rory and Thomasina had to part with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Rosehall</span></span> as they moved up to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Espanola</span></span> where Cory had received a call for her services as a minister. Not wanting to be far from a steward of the land, Winston bought a farm just outside Massey ON so that he could carry on with his labour of love as a farmer. </span></div>
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<span>This photo to the left taken behind the milk house at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Rosehall</span> Farm shows the three <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Cuthbert</span> brothers (sons of William and Maria) Ira, Ken and Lorne (married to Helen McDavid).
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<span>My wife Jeannie and I were very fortunate and blessed to be able to buy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">Rosehall</span></span> (all 199 acres of it) and bring it back into the extended <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Cuthbert</span></span>/MacDonald/<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Grawbarger</span></span>/<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Tennant</span></span> family in December of 2010. So sit down, sit back and relax as you go on a journey to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Rosehall</span></span> Farm.</span></div>
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<span><strong>The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Cuthberts</span> of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Rosehall</span></strong></span></div>
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<span><em>Thomas <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Cuthbert</span> & Margaret <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">Downey</span> 1877-1893
<br />William <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">Cuthbert</span> & Maria McLeod 1893-1943
<br />Ira <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">Cuthbert</span> & Laura MacDonald 1943-1973
<br />Winston <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">Cuthbert</span> & Cory Vermeer 1973-2005</em></span></div>
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<strong><span>The Scottish beginnings of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">Rosehall</span></span> Farm</span></strong></div>
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<span>Thomas <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">Cuthbert</span></span> (1819-1893) was born in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">Bathgate</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">Linlithgowshire</span></span> Scotland and he married Margaret <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">Ogilvie</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">Downey</span></span> on 16 August 1844 in Scotland. Their daughter was Isabella Arthur <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">Cuthbert</span></span> in honour of Tom's mother Isabella Arthur who died at the age of 26 (1800-1826). Tom's father was David <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">Cuthbert</span></span> who may have been a weaver from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49">Bathgate</span></span> Scotland (according to the 1841 Scottish census). </span>
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<span>Tom and Margaret moved to the Glasgow area and in the 1851 census they are listed with their children Margaret (age 9) and Isabella (age 3) as living at 10 Duke Street Glasgow College. </span>
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<span>In 1861 Tom and Margaret are listed in the English census and are living in the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50">Cripplegate</span></span> Ward of the City of London and they have Isabella, Thomas, George and another son (Arthur? age 6 months) living with them. </span>
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<span>In the 1871 English census Tom (listed as a harness maker) and Margaret are living at 10 Adam Street in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51">Portman</span></span> Ward of the City of London. Their children that are living with them at this time are Isabella (age 23 a machinist, sewing machine?), Thomas (age 16), William (age 8) and a daughter Marion (age 5). </span>
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<span>In 1872 the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52">Cuthberts</span></span> emigrated to Canada and initially moved to the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53">Beachburg</span></span> area for six years in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54">Renfrew</span></span> County. They subsequently ventured a wee bit northwest and homesteaded at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55">Rosehall</span></span> Farm Lot 4 and part Lot 3 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">Concession</span> 9 of Wylie Township in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56">Renfrew</span></span> County. Today their farm has a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">municipal</span> address of 244 Law Road Chalk River (in the Town of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57">Laurentian</span></span> Hills). The map below is from 1877 and shows William Cuthbert as the owner of 200 acres in Wylie Township.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfb_x9wv86-BA1_ngGIM1EFlSB3zAJEHwxPsw_C3oGZU-0Y6TmXaJaLLyw2Udy7-LaNUVnR1XK3K-QqFOpMFinbQ2UdFOJxlXxXKdQC6e1q0rhm7XH-M2lcmeM5VOCFS2Liu8W8KOEoOz/s2048/Wylie+1877+map.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1579" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfb_x9wv86-BA1_ngGIM1EFlSB3zAJEHwxPsw_C3oGZU-0Y6TmXaJaLLyw2Udy7-LaNUVnR1XK3K-QqFOpMFinbQ2UdFOJxlXxXKdQC6e1q0rhm7XH-M2lcmeM5VOCFS2Liu8W8KOEoOz/w394-h512/Wylie+1877+map.jpg" width="394" /></a></div><br /><span><br /></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div>
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<span>The first home that Tom and Margaret built for which we have records was a log <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">house</span> constructed in 1879. William, their son, would have been 13 years old. As he became of </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmvAUUAWQ4CEtqb-J8SLf_y7oLnidhcf3Sbov-cyjDsQ6STIGIPLS2155W0jyfVknUoyMi9tT3X6oTr0VBXap5EI-1_ywgkHUxUiLn_6ooIdkF-nSZi2j9zzxxMM_LhKI8W6kEq3CtdaWN/s1600/William+Cuthbert+holding+daughter+Edith%252C+C.+Wacker+then+Ira+.jpg"><span><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637889404670742034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmvAUUAWQ4CEtqb-J8SLf_y7oLnidhcf3Sbov-cyjDsQ6STIGIPLS2155W0jyfVknUoyMi9tT3X6oTr0VBXap5EI-1_ywgkHUxUiLn_6ooIdkF-nSZi2j9zzxxMM_LhKI8W6kEq3CtdaWN/s320/William+Cuthbert+holding+daughter+Edith%252C+C.+Wacker+then+Ira+.jpg" style="float: right; height: 242px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 340px;" /></span></a><span>age and married Annie Maria McLeod, William assumed the responsibility for the farm after his father Tom died in 1893. William's mother Margaret died on 28 July 1901 in Pembroke hospital of heart disease. Here is the clearest and best photo of William and Maria with their children and some neighbours and Margaret <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58">Downey</span></span> in front of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59">Rosehall</span></span> in 1900.</span>
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<span>This photo of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60">Cuthbert</span></span> homestead is from 1907. That's William standing on the right and I think Maria in the centre. The road should have been way over to the left of this photo and that may be a summer kitchen or woodshed to the right and behind the house. I don't know who is who for the children around them.
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<span>In this 1934 photo William and Maria are posing at the back of the house. Notice the corner of the milk house just behind them to the right. The original log house has been covered over and an addition has been put on the front of it facing towards the road. A small porch is visible to the left of the rear of the house.</span></div>
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<span>This 1908 photo shows the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61">Cuthbert</span></span> family posing out in front of their log home once again with 6 of their children. Bill is looking very distinguished with his fancy hat on with the children surrounding him and Maria. There is still lots of the "ivy" growing around and over the milk house at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62">Rosehall</span></span> today. </span></div>
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<span>This photo of Maria and others behind the milk house was taken in the 1940s or 50s. You can see the bank barn off to the right and a couple of other drive shed type buildings on either side of the milk house.</span>
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<span>This photo (to the left) of the ubiquitous ivy covered milk house has Marion <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63">Cuthbert</span></span> and her husband Herb Gunning posing with some cousins (siblings?). The bank barn and another wee building are visible on the right hand side. </span>
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637968007076207058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEaS5FJfOC1_qTdnTTU-hbRsPKwdWbtvpHGYzqCNqCHz-4_exYNoqi-wiL4rUCC-rEUo3peD8vo30smpzSsHs2mAZsQz1YUOI-WCjBiV-F4Nyh-INLHblGgJTTMxSXMadVvADp0us7NEvn/s200/A+day+at+the+farm+014.jpg" style="display: block; height: 150px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /><span> This is the rear of the farm house in a photo (above) taken on July 31, 2011.</span><span></span>
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638119870900680034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjleL4yA5SbP_8_P6pOmg53ggAT2B7GC_Yea-3RaDdlB0JpEXhyo4BerCPu0NUyCemB1nqf3sXRNQJhtHpYspOslsPcWmv-mwWos_wMmCmFBV7sqSYybeG_vOfU0Cdn8xsr_vd4G0yrHhvT/s320/The+Farm+107.jpg" style="display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><span>This photo (above) from October 2010 shows the east and south side of the bank barn with the modern hay barn off to the left.</span>
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637967992004928402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs55Ek_DFzVm7MGTlG4E5GidCC48a0gDpL0fKtPx_voe6NXSJ1RQ84pDpVgxMcCl2iwYg4UFlVwCxlY9O28lLIBTodhy9r2Pu4HQaXXda0K8tghV0w84vp9ej3ak9_i1gQK4AMdbxVZcyq/s200/The+Farm+053.jpg" style="display: block; height: 176px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 238px;" /><span>Here is a photo (above) of the front of the farm house at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64">Rosehall</span></span> Farm taken in October 2010. The deck has been replaced with new flooring and lattice work is now up all around the deck.</span> <span>That's me and Kevin Hickey talking on the deck.</span>
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<span>This is a photo of my wife Jeannie <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65">Tilson</span> who is out standing in her field at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66">Rosehall</span> Farm.</span>
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<span>Looking westward towards the buildings of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67">Rosehall</span></span> Farm on July 30, 2011.</span></div>
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<span>Various images of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68">Rosehall</span></span> Farm taken July 30, 2011.</span>
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638119883514058370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHc8WwU7-6h8VPB8QtN6a5GufzVcS3k8OIfzWYtbzyCXycsx7Qx8884TgbsY4aLtSaBobMqKYao2DgZhJ8LR48rtQIAoVT3RcBlKYnW4QzGmRYk4YQ5gWFygZ5i-aUOXUBWJfIEMp-bW7/s320/The+Farm+098.jpg" style="display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /> This is a photo of me (Douglas Tennant) east of the bank barn at Rosehall in October 2010.
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The photo below captures Dean Cuthbert and me when Dean came for a visit in June 2019.<br />
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They brought five of their children with them: George, Isaac, Sarah (Sadie), Margaret (Maggie) and Bill. </span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></p><p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtFMmw35JrtYj7IKLtJaf0JJ3mhKWDZ4nsSvU048pcIxiaCxKjlUvC1L_tMElUIAnL6VOOvbR6I_acgD05ZDmaVtMC-Y6Mmz5oHCEqr2JkSU5sF7HlA-Nq0r8WN4U2_Yr_YAN8uLzafB3t/s1600-h/Alfred+MacDonald+%26+Mary+Grawbarger+wedding+day.jpg"><span style="font-size:130%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448281432515094738" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 262px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtFMmw35JrtYj7IKLtJaf0JJ3mhKWDZ4nsSvU048pcIxiaCxKjlUvC1L_tMElUIAnL6VOOvbR6I_acgD05ZDmaVtMC-Y6Mmz5oHCEqr2JkSU5sF7HlA-Nq0r8WN4U2_Yr_YAN8uLzafB3t/s320/Alfred+MacDonald+%26+Mary+Grawbarger+wedding+day.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Their oldest daughter, Mary, remained in Chalk River and married a man named Alfred MacDonald on October 31, 1900. Mary & Alfred had chicken stew for their wedding supper as recounted by Elaine (Cuthbert) Tennant. The photo on the right is Alfred and Mary on their wedding day. Photo supplied by Perry MacDonald - Chalk River.</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Badger was a thriving little town then, with a Post Office, stores, dance hall, section house, station and freight sheds. There were quite a few saw mills in the area and a lot of wood business. Tom worked on the Canadian National Railway and his wife Sarah Jane operated a boarding house. </span></p><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Margaret, Sadie and Bill went to school in Badger.<br />In 1906, Tom took a homestead on S.E. 1/4 of 14-2-11 where he moved later after retiring from the C.N.R. because of illness. He lived there until his death in 1925 at the age of 70.<br /></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgymPhLWxianzriQWRWfItr_G61uiNm90C6hRnTzCQvoEQ4_448RxO9PQptTRYSzScpS86uxLoTuBvJM2SCC4PnwxMelIg3CBV5Dt2j0j3-8ZAGZqOFpJ4betEVofJqPhW3625LMNy-LGXu/s1600-h/George+Grawbarger+son+of+Jane+Tennant.jpg"><span style="font-size:130%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448283972164528498" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 133px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgymPhLWxianzriQWRWfItr_G61uiNm90C6hRnTzCQvoEQ4_448RxO9PQptTRYSzScpS86uxLoTuBvJM2SCC4PnwxMelIg3CBV5Dt2j0j3-8ZAGZqOFpJ4betEVofJqPhW3625LMNy-LGXu/s200/George+Grawbarger+son+of+Jane+Tennant.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /><p></p><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Their son, George joined the Army in 1914 and was reported missing in action in 1916 in World War I.<br /></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Bill married a girl in Vancouver and he died in 1954. </span></p><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;">There are several Grawberger (notice that their name spelling is with an "e" not an "a" in Grawberger) families still living in the Piney Manitoba area.</span><br /><br /><br />ref: Pine Valley Echoes: a History of Badger, Menisino and Piney, p. 229<br />Author: Piney Area History Book Committee<br />Publisher: Piney Area History Book Committee, 1988ISBN0920739474, 9780920739471, Length343 pages</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Thomas Tennant & Mary Ann Grawbarger</strong></span></p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLoZA_lHUuXU1sIFL2rlNbc_UNbH7cDP3s4ypPn4UaAY1CBRhjo201PXrudLZqI-Md5Uv3FUQY9BIvMCO8YbY642fJCZGlXghLI9qp5R2BEyTVUEIcx0rpC72X6cnHLt6MJP-AF6JlQDqt/s1600/Thomas+%26+Mary+Ann.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533932366326071218" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 148px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLoZA_lHUuXU1sIFL2rlNbc_UNbH7cDP3s4ypPn4UaAY1CBRhjo201PXrudLZqI-Md5Uv3FUQY9BIvMCO8YbY642fJCZGlXghLI9qp5R2BEyTVUEIcx0rpC72X6cnHLt6MJP-AF6JlQDqt/s200/Thomas+%26+Mary+Ann.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Thomas and Mary Ann and Robert Tennant (brother to Thomas) and his wife Elizabeth Grawbarger (sister to Mary Ann) rode the rails out to Manitoba in the very early 1900s. They probably came out just after they were bought out on the Tennant Settlement by the Federal Government to form the Petawawa Military Base in 1907/08. That's Thomas and Mary Ann on the right.</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;">The major rail head where they moved to was Minnedosa Manitoba and they set up<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRZI2Q6HOpx-kdbgyEhhUhNOoE0065uPbr3yx_8ZDBNTyfm2FM0fPBa5z78za6E5SV_ZhxDERxlC7KkE9qin24decVCOay0Xpb9DL9Ew2xE2NAbeQtrMMZPQojGLN2__WkzD6A40h1Uvwe/s1600/Fairmount+Church+%26+Basswood+Train+Station+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533931769648049250" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 132px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRZI2Q6HOpx-kdbgyEhhUhNOoE0065uPbr3yx_8ZDBNTyfm2FM0fPBa5z78za6E5SV_ZhxDERxlC7KkE9qin24decVCOay0Xpb9DL9Ew2xE2NAbeQtrMMZPQojGLN2__WkzD6A40h1Uvwe/s200/Fairmount+Church+%26+Basswood+Train+Station+001.jpg" border="0" /></a> their new homes near Fairmount Manitoba just north of Basswood. They were members of the Fairmount Church and Thomas and Mary Ann and Elizabeth are buried in the Fairmount Cemetery (just off Fairmount Road which is east of Manitoba Highway #270 - off Hwy #16). This is a photo on the right of Fairmount Church.</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-I7mkybmBvvMItVUA9Ws_yyhRLZYx4DQQFCEbsgYZKbanjIUJYegsSZCIpZiHmZz9hsUA9H4XTm0h7AVheTeOvqAhnvx5aof8MMeD1XWMposo97WqIx8ZdY9BR25mAaXWV8kMopO83rGj/s1600/Thomas+Tennat+%26+Mary+Ann+Grawbarger+015.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533933586274023666" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-I7mkybmBvvMItVUA9Ws_yyhRLZYx4DQQFCEbsgYZKbanjIUJYegsSZCIpZiHmZz9hsUA9H4XTm0h7AVheTeOvqAhnvx5aof8MMeD1XWMposo97WqIx8ZdY9BR25mAaXWV8kMopO83rGj/s200/Thomas+Tennat+%26+Mary+Ann+Grawbarger+015.jpg" border="0" /></a>After Elizabeth died in 1913 her husband Robert Tennant (in his early 70s) picked up with his remaining family and they carried on the journey out to Egerton Alberta to become farmers once again. Egerton is just south east of Wainwright Alberta. That's Doug Tennant standing beside the headstone for Thomas Tennant and Mary Ann Grawbarger at Fairmount Cemetery in Fairmount Manitoba.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjd7M_jy_INRlC_FfT7g6jjrSUC4tP8wD9P_gMse3DhiyRO2nGAx-4xVSZO77gnzD1rmuxUXe4O_lWXRLsxpl0tbtpC79GJOcbzmmhIqTftGIf8ANo43r1XBDw_nK1cio3sug9HLk6yDCp/s1600/Thomas+Tennat+%26+Mary+Ann+Grawbarger+018.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533934089347607538" style="WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjd7M_jy_INRlC_FfT7g6jjrSUC4tP8wD9P_gMse3DhiyRO2nGAx-4xVSZO77gnzD1rmuxUXe4O_lWXRLsxpl0tbtpC79GJOcbzmmhIqTftGIf8ANo43r1XBDw_nK1cio3sug9HLk6yDCp/s200/Thomas+Tennat+%26+Mary+Ann+Grawbarger+018.jpg" border="0" /></a> This is a photo of Fairmount Cemetery looking to the rear of it toward where Thomas & Mary Ann and her sister Elizabeth Grawbarger are buried.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p></div></div></div>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-46752652554936804002009-05-09T10:09:00.000-07:002020-02-18T09:22:48.959-08:00The Tennant/McAuley Connection<span style="font-size: 130%;">The Tennants and McAuleys knew the value of keeping it all in the family. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoccCwJv4RgD1yev9WzBKgZ8J03g5jcdNEr66TFaMPrBSeipfkD7AR37TIae7IpC3Ceej10EdGu21_6kk5nhhhpvYafvI6EgDVb4hyphenhyphenmePX2Yisx3uCL1HZ3Uqfe8S81QzB3SKxEKUHh93y/s1600-h/Jim+McAuley+%26+Sarah+Jane+Leach.bmp"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333875123840243362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoccCwJv4RgD1yev9WzBKgZ8J03g5jcdNEr66TFaMPrBSeipfkD7AR37TIae7IpC3Ceej10EdGu21_6kk5nhhhpvYafvI6EgDVb4hyphenhyphenmePX2Yisx3uCL1HZ3Uqfe8S81QzB3SKxEKUHh93y/s320/Jim+McAuley+%26+Sarah+Jane+Leach.bmp" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 351px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 201px;" /></span></a><span style="font-size: 130%;">(No they didn't all marry Grawbargers but perhaps they dated a few - you never know?) Three of Thomas and Mary Ann Tennant's sons, George (the son of George Tennant and Lily Ann Hamilton) and Sophia and her brother Andrew Tennant (the daughter and son of Edward Tennant and Sarah Grawbarger) went to the family of James McAuley and Mary Jane Leach for their spouses. James was originally from the Alice Township area. All tolled five Tennant boys and one Tennant girl (from three different Tennant families) married six of James and Mary McAuley's children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">The picture above is James McAuley (b. 3 June 1851) and his wife Mary Jane Leach (b. 13 January 1857). James was born in Shady Nook, Alice Twsp Renfrew County.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Jim and Mary's oldest daughter <strong>Nancy Foster McAuley</strong> was married at the age of 17 to <strong>Andrew Tennant</strong> age 28 on Wednesday March 28, 1894. Reverend E.S. Logie the Presbyterian Minister performed the ceremony either at the home of James and Mary or at the Presbyterian Mission Hall (church) near Forestview Cemetery. Daniel Stewart and Mary Boyle were the official registered witnesses. Andrew and Nancy moved to the Lakehead and the 1911 Census shows that they were living in Dorion with 8 of their children. Sadly Nancy died in Great Pandemic of 1918-1919 and the younger children were dispersed throughout Canada. Some of them went to live in Westlock Alberta with their Uncle Bill Tennant and Aunt Belle Mallard.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">On Dominion Day Tuesday July 1, 1902 <strong>George Tennant,</strong> (son of George Tennant and Lily Ann Hamilton) age 40 and first cousin to Andrew, George and John and Sophia and her brother Andrew Wesley Tennant, married <strong>Mary "Minnie" McAuley</strong> age 26. They were both living up north at the time in the Restoule and Parry Sound area respectively but for some reason (perhaps because Mary's parents were living in the Tennant Settlement/Chalk River area) they got married in Renfrew County. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">My Great Grandfather <strong>George Cardiff Tennant</strong> ( 16 April 1877 - 10 October 1952) was next </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk9MtMp0iHYgw-fkyieLzoQ-sPVI6LXQlfWhvRtzzcpSNAS1zuQnJFpBWMoNdE1fLJFLT46-1Ey9ONfSrqjACEiXeZ03s24kbXScQtpHHWD27O9jkohBLrUoiKQqQh_yXDrkwtL3zmN5kO/s1600-h/George+Cardiff+%26+Margaret+McAuley+12+July.jpg"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333930527678694194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk9MtMp0iHYgw-fkyieLzoQ-sPVI6LXQlfWhvRtzzcpSNAS1zuQnJFpBWMoNdE1fLJFLT46-1Ey9ONfSrqjACEiXeZ03s24kbXScQtpHHWD27O9jkohBLrUoiKQqQh_yXDrkwtL3zmN5kO/s320/George+Cardiff+%26+Margaret+McAuley+12+July.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 226px;" /></span></a><span style="font-size: 130%;">on the list of the Tennant boys to marry a McAuley . (The Cardiffs are another whole blog entry some other time). George was born in the Tennant Settlement and at the age of 26 he married my Great Grandmother <strong>Margaret McAuley </strong>on Tuesday September 1, 1903. Maggie McAuley was 17 when she was married to George. The details are sketchy but as the McAuleys and Tennants were both Presbyterian it is a fair guess that in 1903 George and Maggie were married in the Presbyterian Mission Hall (church) in Chalk River by Rev. George Campbell who served as Minister in the area from 1899 - 1912. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">The photo above is of George Cardiff Tennant and his wife Margaret McAuley in their Loyal Orange Lodge and Ladies Orange Benevolent Association regalia.<br /><br /><br />See elsewhere in this blog about George Cardiff Tennant and his cancer cure.<br /><br /><br />The following story is passed along by Margaret Ann McAuley - grand daughter of George and Maggie.<br /><br />"Since Grandpa (George Cardiff Tennant) worked on the CPR he</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmc8jpNUZdANRKVox59l5wdpM6Zm5QFv3kY3LQ1YeHiDsk9_Vk-UfQdJbyz9b772kEj293Qq25lNGK7yGhZwjjgi4P1fKgBf3HhDiQfR7aTFPV9f1vlLZNmCVqnnrdlMGvShPSwC_KT414/s1600-h/George+Cardiff+Tennant+%26+Wife+-+12th+of+July.jpg"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333934104400689346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmc8jpNUZdANRKVox59l5wdpM6Zm5QFv3kY3LQ1YeHiDsk9_Vk-UfQdJbyz9b772kEj293Qq25lNGK7yGhZwjjgi4P1fKgBf3HhDiQfR7aTFPV9f1vlLZNmCVqnnrdlMGvShPSwC_KT414/s320/George+Cardiff+Tennant+%26+Wife+-+12th+of+July.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 220px;" /></span></a><span style="font-size: 130%;"> would always send the hobo's as everyone called them, over to his log house on Railway Street for a home cooked meal that Grandma would have prepared. They were fed and treated well when they came and always left with a full stomach. When they would leave the house they would put little notches on the side of the house. When I asked Grandma why the notches were there, she said that the men put them there to tell others that there were good meals at this house".<br /><br />The photo to the right is of Margaret McAuley, her husband George Cardiff Tennant and her sister Sarah McAuley at a 12th of July parade.<br /></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong>John Tennant</strong> was born 30 October 1874 in the Tennant Settlement (d. 1955 in Westlock </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix56WoBd_QmNNjve6Rc4nvfo23HSOgEujuJtOSn5lXVwWepMYGwCTYFvac0v2mv6C9zJIHClr9zOyuuRcI5vHd3u0LRUlesX_yS2f2nLrpxJA0Ju6WEmCiKCsfkRLssrPP8b0q6hudPk2i/s1600-h/John+Tennant+%26+Charlotte+McAuley.jpg"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333887308214787186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix56WoBd_QmNNjve6Rc4nvfo23HSOgEujuJtOSn5lXVwWepMYGwCTYFvac0v2mv6C9zJIHClr9zOyuuRcI5vHd3u0LRUlesX_yS2f2nLrpxJA0Ju6WEmCiKCsfkRLssrPP8b0q6hudPk2i/s320/John+Tennant+%26+Charlotte+McAuley.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 282px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 244px;" /></span></a><span style="font-size: 130%;">Alberta). John was 30 years old when he was married to 20 year old <strong>Charlotte Jane McAuley</strong> (b. 25 June 1884 d. 1959 Westlock Alberta) on 1 November 1904. The ceremony would have been conducted at the Presbyterian Church on Main Street in Chalk River by Rev. George Campbell. The witnesses for John and Charlotte's marriage were Charlotte's brother John McAuley and his wife Sophia Tennant. Sophia was John Tennant's first cousin. There are no children present so the picture at the right could be their wedding photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">John Tennant's son - Hugh Wesley Tennant - is married to Betty Mortelette. Betty was widowed after her first husband Richard McAuley son of John McAuley and Sophia Tennant past away in 1980. Hugh and Betty are currently (as of May 2009) living in Barrhead Alberta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">In 1905 <strong>John Leach McAuley</strong> (the only son of James and Mary McAuley to marry a Tennant) married <strong>Sophia (pronounced "sof eye yaw") Tennant</strong> age 18. Sophia was the daughter of Edward Tennant and Sarah Grawbarger and sister to Andrew Wesley Tennant (see below). John and Sophia moved out west to Alberta with his sister Charlotte and her husband John, several other Tennants and Grawbergers after the federal government bought them out to turn the Tennant Settlement into the Petawawa Military base in 1907.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong>Andrew Wesley Tennant</strong> (son of Edward Tennant and Sarah Grawbarger) who died in the great 1918-19 Pandemic was married at the age of 29 to <strong>Sarah McAuley</strong> age 23 on April 21, 1910 in Alice by Rev. M. Blakely. Andrew Wesley Tennant stayed in the Chalk River area with his wife Sarah. </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><br />
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Nancy Foster McAuley married Andrew - son of Tom Tennant and Mary Ann Grawbarger<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"></span>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-86724621282019610032009-02-08T09:00:00.000-08:002020-02-18T09:26:51.030-08:00More Grawbarger and Tennant Connections<div align="center">
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><em><strong>Thomas Grawbarger and Sarah Jane Tennant</strong></em></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 130%;">Thomas Grawbarger 1859-1926 (son of Andrew Grawbarger and Sarah Jane Tennant) married Sarah Jane Tennant 1867-1941 (no not his mother!!). Sarah Jane or "Jennie" as she was known was the daughter of Thomas Tennant and Mary Ann Grawbarger. "Jennie" was also affectionately called "Grandma Crowbar". A picture of them later in life is above.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><span style="font-size: 130%;">Thomas and "Jennie" had four sons and three daughters. The daughters were Mary (1881-1961), Margaret Anne (1898-1963) and Sarah Jane "Sadie" (1895-1969). </span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;">Mary Grawbarger or "Grandma MacDonald" as she was affectionately known married Alfred MacDonald </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf8eNhpWMbFcRiV6QQwUsCpoGaG2IdDdCOMQr1IlKLQlS8-1aqGWyQvfYmvpXXDovJXd7nNqt6rOyqcf_wi7TxqwMEAqMjRsiMbZxluhSswtoA_OlLPfudBZP7SS-sas47FF260OFRhoRp/s1600-h/Alfred+MacDonald+%26+Mary+Grawbarger+wedding+day.jpg"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333962757472809314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf8eNhpWMbFcRiV6QQwUsCpoGaG2IdDdCOMQr1IlKLQlS8-1aqGWyQvfYmvpXXDovJXd7nNqt6rOyqcf_wi7TxqwMEAqMjRsiMbZxluhSswtoA_OlLPfudBZP7SS-sas47FF260OFRhoRp/s320/Alfred+MacDonald+%26+Mary+Grawbarger+wedding+day.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 262px;" /></span></a><span style="font-size: 130%;">(see blog post elsewhere) on October 31, 1900 when she was 16 years old. Alfred was 24 when he married Mary. Mary, whose mother was a Tennant (see above regarding Jennie) was a kind soul and always had a joke or story for every occasion. Alfred was a stern business like man who farmed his whole life. Every now and then he would act as a hunting guide for dignitaries. One of those who hired him was General A.G.L. McNaughton. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifli2k4KZLVAa9x9zDkK0tQ7jZCVlKASUSlhshDiWtXEu3hU0_rmT_RPK27wuHzJ6_eJ98W5QAaQfWzvRfIHnXaREDHpw73EFSb_fwgGpJcj9bMa9ySn7CXwl8or1Ebn7PbYQtEdM0JQxy/s1600-h/General+McNaughton.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333961523948696994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifli2k4KZLVAa9x9zDkK0tQ7jZCVlKASUSlhshDiWtXEu3hU0_rmT_RPK27wuHzJ6_eJ98W5QAaQfWzvRfIHnXaREDHpw73EFSb_fwgGpJcj9bMa9ySn7CXwl8or1Ebn7PbYQtEdM0JQxy/s320/General+McNaughton.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 173px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 169px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;">General McNaughton (on the left) commanded the expeditionary force that the Canadian government sent to England in 1940 during World War 2.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">Margaret Anne (Maggie) Grawbarger married Charles Newman Kenyon in 1914. Charlie came from Mill Shoals in Illinois USA. Like her sister Mary, Maggie was also 16 when she got married to Charles. Charles' family was living in Elm Creek Manitoba and he went to Winnipeg on March 13, 1916 and joined the 221st Overseas Battalion of the Candian Expeditionary Force. He also served in the 78th Battalion. The photo below is from Charles and Maggie's wedding day in 1914.</span><br />
<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333973897655901762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNz_zzp9wBNjhXcnX9_BYxyeDdx9aBOq_AikmoSmD1An3zZqbVL5GOkr5_6YOohFUb9XYTiLi4E0lJHO-gpOE8AbSaHueQ8490EtBVNYDPsjzVC2kciHKmWUejl5bzIIy1lKrUi3UZ55s/s320/Maggie+Kenyon+%26+husband+in+1914.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 242px;" /> <span style="font-size: 130%;">After the 1st World War Charles and Maggie moved to Elm Creek Manitoba where he bought land from the S.S. Board until 1928. He moved to Badger, Manitoba shortly after and from there to Piney, Manitoba in May 1934. Cox Family Notes state Newman returned home from the First World War with shrapnel in his leg and hand.<br />While living around Piney, Newman was digging a well that collapsed and killed him. Chester, his son remembers this.."that he was watching his father dig the well and he told him to get away, seconds later the well caved in." (From <em><strong>Grawbarger/McConnell Family Tree</strong></em> by Corinne Grawbarger.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;">Sadie Grawbarger (1895-1969) married twice. She was married to George Boyd (8 August 1912 in Winnipeg) and also to Harvey </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitVqzp44HgmpOQ4mTe5C4LhTwYU4KQAHSA8Dmi7uQ8U6Hq1t5pEYBf_iMTDvHDY87ZAOk7mI46HG-2GlvzhckF_RWoNjAXZAMfu95wFaAS9Wa6wTncVMSOPtchAGaGFKTapvt2nF2lzhmW/s1600-h/Sadie+Grawbarger+%26+husband+Mr+Boyd.JPG"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333979065489405682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitVqzp44HgmpOQ4mTe5C4LhTwYU4KQAHSA8Dmi7uQ8U6Hq1t5pEYBf_iMTDvHDY87ZAOk7mI46HG-2GlvzhckF_RWoNjAXZAMfu95wFaAS9Wa6wTncVMSOPtchAGaGFKTapvt2nF2lzhmW/s320/Sadie+Grawbarger+%26+husband+Mr+Boyd.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 242px;" /></span></a><span style="font-size: 130%;">Thibideau (23 May 1921 in Woodridge near Piney Manitoba). Let me know if you can help out with more information about Sadie and her first husband George. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">The photo on the left is of Sadie and her first husband George Boyd.</span>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-63488437843580686162008-12-20T16:15:00.000-08:002020-03-25T12:06:24.759-07:00The Start of the Journey<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgjnh3s06VRWuAi8s3rTUSEr6U5S3ciWY7pwM3dteYXz0j1FqwUOj6t9ggmBmr8oP6ZAspEEkSh3Ty4lyusrXvlDzBf_5VGiU2u-uye0kMzQJumOK5rjhe1GZ73tU4Z2kJIBgC2h8N6Y2/s1600-h/Thomas+%26+Mary+Ann.JPG"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282034452543125474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgjnh3s06VRWuAi8s3rTUSEr6U5S3ciWY7pwM3dteYXz0j1FqwUOj6t9ggmBmr8oP6ZAspEEkSh3Ty4lyusrXvlDzBf_5VGiU2u-uye0kMzQJumOK5rjhe1GZ73tU4Z2kJIBgC2h8N6Y2/s320/Thomas+%26+Mary+Ann.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 236px;" /></span></a><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">In the 1861 Census Thomas Tennant (1835-1909) and Andrew Grawbarger (1835-1907) were neighbours in Wilberforce Township. Thomas had moved there with his father from Lanark County and Andrew came with his father from Westmeath Township and previously from Dundas County. Andrew Grawbarger Sr. was born in the United States.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Thomas and his wife (Andrews sister) Mary Ann Grawbarger (1837-1911)( in the photo on the right ) lived on 100 acres on <span style="color: #3333ff;"><strong>Concession 25 lot 17</strong></span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Andrew (in photo below) and his wife Sarah Jane Tennant (1837-1882) who was sister to Thomas lived on 100 acres as well on <span style="color: #3333ff;"><strong>Concession 25 lot 9</strong> </span><span style="color: black;">in Wilberforce Township</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Thomas and Mary Ann had 10 children - 7 boys and 3 girls. Andrew and Sarah Jane had 12 children - 10 boys and 2 girls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Edward Tennant (Thomas' brother) married Sarah Ann Grawbarger (b. Nov. 7, 1847). Robert Tennant (born on the Twelth of July 1846) married Elizabeth Grawbarger (Sarah and Mary Ann's sister).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Four Grawbargers married four Tennants and thus the Tennant/Grawbarger Journey started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Tom Tennant (1834-1909) m. Mary Ann Grawbarger (1837-1911)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Edward Tennant (1846-1916) m. Sarah Ann Grawbarger (1843-1935)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">As of the 1871 Census data Andrew Grawbarger Jr. and his wife Sarah Jane Tennant had moved to Petawawa Township, Renfrew County, to what would become to be known as the Tennant Settlement (damn Tennants stole the name of the settlement from the Grawbargers!). In 1871, after Andrew and Sarah Jane had moved to Petawawa Township, Richard Tennant and Jane Cardiff and their sons Thomas (and his wife Mary Ann Grawbarger), George, Edward and Robert were still living in Wilberforce Township in Renfrew County.</span></div>
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Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-6512259363787655482008-12-20T12:10:00.000-08:002008-12-27T15:45:42.166-08:00Roger MacLeod and his team of moose<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKvPS5Ky24o6Uiw6rIvqVMzdAnQyowHSLwS4od2RmplfA4__BuONB2W6nQ4siXWm-3d6w4mD_BO12DXm6tYlvZpdw3u3Td1bZFxfsRapjvtDo1Q0qn4glbk3G7Mj4i2_XBLyNMh4OlQ90z/s1600-h/Roger+MacLeod+%26+team+of+Moose.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282021388276425890" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 206px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKvPS5Ky24o6Uiw6rIvqVMzdAnQyowHSLwS4od2RmplfA4__BuONB2W6nQ4siXWm-3d6w4mD_BO12DXm6tYlvZpdw3u3Td1bZFxfsRapjvtDo1Q0qn4glbk3G7Mj4i2_XBLyNMh4OlQ90z/s320/Roger+MacLeod+%26+team+of+Moose.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">This c. 1890 photo is of a cousin of mine - Roger McLeod - with a team of young moose hitched to his wagon. Roger was the last lighthouse keeper at the McQuestion Point Lighthouse on the Ottawa River near Chalk River Ontario.</span></div>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-80437523363792566242008-12-18T10:06:00.000-08:002020-02-18T10:52:00.640-08:00Alfred MacDonald and Mary Grawbarger -<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZiSwxlcmAIvDcPBhr-jKUWEyvYlZ33M2qVHLb2GFDjuhfkgeJi1QHhMc7oDMlNNiAhNPRl-qtbi3_MkPiNoQuIEC42V_hEKVReQ12kXVtB_sVK9fz8OP5VPNbCyG9JTQrN3vM7KsHvhdS/s1600-h/Alfred+MacDonald+&+Mary+Grawbarger+wedding+day.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281193390078651410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZiSwxlcmAIvDcPBhr-jKUWEyvYlZ33M2qVHLb2GFDjuhfkgeJi1QHhMc7oDMlNNiAhNPRl-qtbi3_MkPiNoQuIEC42V_hEKVReQ12kXVtB_sVK9fz8OP5VPNbCyG9JTQrN3vM7KsHvhdS/s320/Alfred+MacDonald+%26+Mary+Grawbarger+wedding+day.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 262px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">This is a wedding photo of Alfred MacDonald and Mary Grawbarger supplied by Perry MacDonald of Chalk River Ontario.<br /><br />Alfred and Mary were married on October 31, 1900 in Chalk River. For their wedding meal they had "chicken stew".<br /><br />Alfred was born in the Lake Dore Ontario area in 1867 and died in Chalk River on March 21, 1959. Mary was born April 27, 1884 in the Tennant Settlement near Chalk River. She was the daughter of Thomas Grawbarger and Sarah Jane Tennant. One set of her grandparents were Thomas Tennant (1834-1909) and Mary Ann Grawbarger (1837-1911). Mary died on October 6, 1961 in Chalk River Ontario.</span>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-37906685885075104102008-12-18T10:02:00.000-08:002008-12-27T15:49:06.371-08:00George Cardiff Tennant<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigY4hP7gNJvEnu08F87No5vrpd8AbC8CzdtLgXeQFpKgflMyLZfEZtfP7OTfWnMcbyZ-HYGWd39-FDu5F0fqALEFcsaARSvL-sbGgFzzszgoo1wfcP564rBPRuMzKDo_Ggf9aHvu6GWYXX/s1600-h/Alfred+MacDonald+(left)+%26+George+Card+Tennant.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281192385646737426" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 202px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigY4hP7gNJvEnu08F87No5vrpd8AbC8CzdtLgXeQFpKgflMyLZfEZtfP7OTfWnMcbyZ-HYGWd39-FDu5F0fqALEFcsaARSvL-sbGgFzzszgoo1wfcP564rBPRuMzKDo_Ggf9aHvu6GWYXX/s320/Alfred+MacDonald+(left)+%26+George+Card+Tennant.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">This is a photo taken on Wednesday June 30, 1948 in the side yard of Kenneth Cuthbert in Chalk River. This was the wedding day of Margaret Elaine Cuthbert (Ken's daughter) and Thomas George Tennant.<br /><br />The gentleman on the left is Alfred MacDonald - Margaret Elaine's maternal grandfather. The man on the right is George Cardiff Tennant.</span>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-60042836855706181462008-12-18T09:38:00.000-08:002020-08-27T19:50:11.975-07:00The mystery of the "Man Servant"<span>Thomas Tennant and his wife Anne Hill and their children emigrated to Upper Canada in 1820. Thomas and his family left their Aghade home on April 12th 1820 and made their way to Dublin. On April 18th 1820 Thomas made the purchase for the ticket for the sailing ship passage to the "New World". Robert Dawson Tennant included a copy of the receipt for his passge in his book "Carlow to Lanark". The receipt details that it was for passage to Quebec for Thomas Tennant, his wife and family of nine children, a daughter in law and "one man servant".
The grand sum of 39 pounds was paid for the passage on the ship "Commerce" which sailed out of Greenock Scotland with 402 passengers on June 21, 1820. </span><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>According to the newspaper <em>Quebec Mercury </em>of 1820 the Tennant family's ship landed at Montreal, Quebec on August 5, 1820. </span><a href="http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/ships/ships1820.html"><span>http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/ships/ships1820.html</span></a><span>
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg61LSddZIWrwIPjAwtbobbMWy8eH0jCgbfYDFcExrNHjcxynCQ3UVO1bzc2FWIoQtnMmuI30HU2N5S6jvz0n8nDWFJnLDkD_vSghgxMsEMsMoJQcVGNKDwn4U4OAGrj_WG5DusLPZrqxCF/s1600-h/Fort+Wellington+-+Prescott.jpg"><span><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281316934861828146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg61LSddZIWrwIPjAwtbobbMWy8eH0jCgbfYDFcExrNHjcxynCQ3UVO1bzc2FWIoQtnMmuI30HU2N5S6jvz0n8nDWFJnLDkD_vSghgxMsEMsMoJQcVGNKDwn4U4OAGrj_WG5DusLPZrqxCF/s320/Fort+Wellington+-+Prescott.jpg" style="float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 300px;" /></span></a><span> According to the narrative in Robert Dawson Tennant's book, the new Tennant immigrants would have travelled by wagon to Lachine Quebec where they prepared to go upstream on the St. Lawrence River to Prescott (Fort Wellington)- a duration of five days.
The women stayed in Prescott while the men travelled once again by wagon to the Perth area. From Perth they walked up the blazed trail or precursor of the "Pakenham Road" to their chosen lots on what would become the 10th line of Lanark. Officially Thomas settled on "Crown reserve Lot No. 8 on the tenth concession of Lanark Township".</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>As confirmed in information from the first draft of the "Carlow to Lanark- An Irish Family History" written by Robert Dawson Tennant and provided by Colin Chalmers Tennant (nephew of Robert Dawson Tennant) the "Man Servant" referred to in the receipt for passage was actually Betty Neal. She met and married a British Army soldier, William Wilson, while staying in Prescott in 1820 with the Tennants and returned to England with him when he retired from his duties in Upper Canada.</span></div>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-1851327096566384882008-12-18T09:34:00.000-08:002010-12-08T19:36:27.750-08:00The Tennant "Cancer Cure"<span style="font-size:130%;">George Cardiff Tennant<br /><br />George Tennant, son of Thomas and Mary Ann and grandson of Richard Tennant and Jane Cardiff, was renowned for his ability to apply the "Tennant Cancer Cure" to those he came across who had skin cancer. My dad and mom recount many times they heard and saw cancers being cured by George. Many of his "patients" were locals in the Chalk River and Pembroke area. George also cured several Railroaders as they travelled through Chalk River on the CPR line. George's son Wesley Tennant of Chalk River also had the cure and applied it up until just a few decades ago. My dad Thomas George Tennant has the ingredients for the "cure" but not the amounts required and thus for all intents and purposes it has been lost with time and modern medicine rules and regs.<br /><br />Here is an excerpt from the Perth Courier of 1899:<br /><br />Perth Courier, June 2, 1899<br />John Dunlop of Pembroke Township, we regret to hear, is troubled with a cancer in the lower hip. Mr. Dunlop is about 83 years of age but apart from the cancer is in excellent health. Mr. Tennant of Chalk River who, a couple weeks ago, treated Charles Cornwith so successfully for the same condition, came down on Monday and hopes to effect a cure in Mr. Dunlop's case in a short time.<br /><br />Here is another quote from the Coppsville/Clarkesville website:<br />Chalk River is not without it's folk heroes and legendary sons. The Tennant family, prominent even today in the area, deserves special mention. It seems that Mr George Tennant Sr. , now deceased, had an uncanny ability to prescribe herbal cures for a variety of ailments. Mr Tennant's abilities were certainly well appreciated, considering that Doctors were few and far </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFxj3e8qQwaG658jvL9NUiXxT2iDudXbOQ9hNCRnqUg8BNnPiCbEPw7ZegtrXDFMSrbQolc6WMPA7hL42rn_PwPdBrPfcQVHOyo5RGJgHQ1wx4Z1EyB6XYqueYXgfbSGpJXTwAM2KyLze6/s1600-h/Jim+McKay,+George+C+Tennant,+Unknown,+Rich+Tennant+%26+Wm.+Cuthbert.JPG"><span style="font-size:130%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281312793952139314" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 208px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFxj3e8qQwaG658jvL9NUiXxT2iDudXbOQ9hNCRnqUg8BNnPiCbEPw7ZegtrXDFMSrbQolc6WMPA7hL42rn_PwPdBrPfcQVHOyo5RGJgHQ1wx4Z1EyB6XYqueYXgfbSGpJXTwAM2KyLze6/s320/Jim+McKay,+George+C+Tennant,+Unknown,+Rich+Tennant+%26+Wm.+Cuthbert.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;">between in those days. Mr Dick Tennant, George's brother, performed many pioneer veterinary services for the areas sick animals. His sister-in-law, Mrs Andy Tennant who acted as midwife, delivered many of today's (1979) village residents. The Tennants and the services of this family were undoubtedly greatly appreciated by the early settlers of the area.<br /><br />In the photo above we have from left to right:<br />George McKay, George Cardiff Tennant, Unkown, Richard (Dick) Tennant and William Cuthbert - CPR Yard Chalk River ON.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Interestingly in August of 2010 while visiting family and doing some genealogical research out in Egerton Alberta at the Egerton Cemetery my wife Jeannie and I met up with some long lost cousins. They too were in the wee town of Egerton cemetery conducting family research. What are the chances of two families that live 3000 kilometeres apart and unbeknownst to each other would pick the same time and day to visit the same cemetery to search for the same gravesites? Well the stars were aligned that day as Jeannie and I met up with Hugh Tennant (son of Robert Gordon Ttennant and Sara Symington), his sister Isabelle West (nee Tennant) and their neice Lynn Currier (daughter of Colleen Tennant) and Lynn's step father Carl. </span><br /><br /><p>Egerton Cemetery - August 2010<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVn96YQk0LUDc___hsxXendHPaYP39YdDK3PHtWwPOMiC4upMds3Jk6HjVNn8lgo9s8FYpD1IEQYOlqBFip42k4Q22LalDOKIoqXq9hedKi8tofJ64bWQjpkJjXQo5tJgQJ2gPR2wC3SFK/s1600/Egerton+Cemetery+August+2010+003.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548520313747638482" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVn96YQk0LUDc___hsxXendHPaYP39YdDK3PHtWwPOMiC4upMds3Jk6HjVNn8lgo9s8FYpD1IEQYOlqBFip42k4Q22LalDOKIoqXq9hedKi8tofJ64bWQjpkJjXQo5tJgQJ2gPR2wC3SFK/s320/Egerton+Cemetery+August+2010+003.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">After introducing ourselves and a very brief enquiry as to whether or not they had ever heard about the Tennant cancer cure, Lynn and Isabelle recounted almost verbatim the detailed descriptions that my Mom and Dad and grandparents would tell of the Tennant cancer cure. It seems that the Tennants carried their not so secret cancer cure with them from the Wilberforce Township/Chalk River/Tennant Settlement area all the way out west to Alberta. Some of the details that Isabelle and Lynn recounted included the painful manner in which the cure slowly killed the cancer just under the skin, how it looked like a large spider with its tendrils and the hole or depression that it would leave after dying and falling off the body. They also mentioned how you had to let the cancer die completely and not to pick at it or remove part of it until it had all died before peeling it out of the hole in the skin. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">A healing poultice would then be placed over the area until it "haired up and healed over". My Mom and Dad both explain in detail how the never ending pain kept those under the cure from getting any proper sleep for the 2-3 weeks it took the cancer to die.</span>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-90348232792390588392008-12-18T09:29:00.000-08:002008-12-27T16:03:49.305-08:00Aghade Church and the Tennants<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOEff2GGAILjQtTVP1MVMwgppxVNWYoMy9qr1NxdzEBB1yEaGtozBS6rUW7XoUZKLNip9rfcYzUI133Fv7kPngCG2FV4dMqfOzm5JpldGBApgDfC1Qkng-U_wtHEp7y1uicuv-95yd0zLy/s1600-h/Ireland+and+Tennant+Cemetary+030.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281290265329470098" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 242px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOEff2GGAILjQtTVP1MVMwgppxVNWYoMy9qr1NxdzEBB1yEaGtozBS6rUW7XoUZKLNip9rfcYzUI133Fv7kPngCG2FV4dMqfOzm5JpldGBApgDfC1Qkng-U_wtHEp7y1uicuv-95yd0zLy/s320/Ireland+and+Tennant+Cemetary+030.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The Parish of Aghade.<br /><br />Thomas Tennant and Judith Butler most likely worshipped at the Aghade church (Church of Ireland - Part of a five point charge today) as they and some of their relatives are buried there. While Thomas and Judith's graves have not been found a vertical tombstone can be found secured in place with the inscription telling of the death of Richard Tennant (son of Thomas and Judith) on December 3, 1772 and burial in 1775 of a 6 month old baby boy -Thomas Tennant- son of Robert. See the following link for more details about the gravestone at Agahde Church. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tennant/aghadegravepage2.htm<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsUEIqPWJbDh-l8JxQhUB6FG82kpF1-1plZps-fGWGD_1wzHn2EV3dLizzZu1aY15ta2w9rBOtY8r6H3MDfJYLXAClT9C7X-0TEvNRY2JdvEgZ8Mqz9FsYSuPJavFfWDTttncPz7KUuzG4/s1600-h/Ireland+and+Tennant+Cemetary+011.jpg"><span style="font-size:130%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281291324976683586" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 242px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsUEIqPWJbDh-l8JxQhUB6FG82kpF1-1plZps-fGWGD_1wzHn2EV3dLizzZu1aY15ta2w9rBOtY8r6H3MDfJYLXAClT9C7X-0TEvNRY2JdvEgZ8Mqz9FsYSuPJavFfWDTttncPz7KUuzG4/s320/Ireland+and+Tennant+Cemetary+011.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />The name of the Aghade parish is not of ecclesiastical origin though it is of great and celebrated antiquity as we read from what is known as 'The Book of Ballymote'. There it is told how Eochaidh, the son of Enna Cennsealach, killed the poet Niall of the Nine Hostages. The High-King pursued him into Leinster, laid waste the province and forced the Leinstermen to surrender Eochaidh to him. He then carried off his prisoners to 'Ath Fadhat' on the banks of the Slaney and there he left him with a chain around his neck secured to a stone. As Niall retreated northward, nine of his champions returned to put an end to Eochaidh. When the latter saw them coming the 'legend' has it that he put forth all his strength, gave a sudden jerk by which he broke the chain and seizing an iron bar to which it was secured, attacked and slew his champions. Encouraged by this feat the Leinstermen rallied, attacked Niall's army, defeated it and pursued it as far as Tullow slaughtering the retreating troops all the way.<br /><br />In modern times, human bones and skeletons as well as mangled pieces of swords and other military equipment have been dug up from Aghade to Tullow. Nothing can be more certain that a bloody conflict took place here at a remote period. Christian origins of Aghade and All Saints.In the fifth century Saint Iserninus, Saint Patrick's nephew, resided in and was buried at Aghade. It is argued that Iserninus in close consultation with St. Patrick founded the church here.From the 'The Carlow O.S. Letters' we learn that an abbey for nuns of the Order of St. Augustine was founded by Dermot McMorogh, King of Leinster, in 1151. He appointed it to be a sub abbey of the nunnery of St. Mary de Hoggis in Dublin. It appears that in the reign of Henry V! (1422 - 1461) 60 acres of land in Ardristian as well as the rectory of Aghade belonged to this Abbey or rather to the head house of that order in Dublin city. The present day church occupies the same site of the former convent.<br /><br />Quoting from the O.S. letters we read 'There is now no vistage or remembrance of the abbey now at Aghade but there are a blessed (holy) well, without a name, and a very old baptismal font near the present church which is sufficient indication of a religious establishment of other character having formally occupied the same situation'.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicuYnf6xyvUM5KIvIGc5jlnZcBJKccteCn7SWgdu4yNXlTbj4-iiXJInHaVmK6wBZcU6WqfvSkH0H-PCnu9FE2qEUBepxxZ-1gAmtwreQt7C_t3rs4Y9yFLHu0GqzaOXTwRVsuyOG2FZuX/s1600-h/Ireland+and+Tennant+Cemetary+028.jpg"><span style="font-size:130%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281293537149628066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 242px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicuYnf6xyvUM5KIvIGc5jlnZcBJKccteCn7SWgdu4yNXlTbj4-iiXJInHaVmK6wBZcU6WqfvSkH0H-PCnu9FE2qEUBepxxZ-1gAmtwreQt7C_t3rs4Y9yFLHu0GqzaOXTwRVsuyOG2FZuX/s320/Ireland+and+Tennant+Cemetary+028.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;">In bygone days, bound by the fetters of superstition, very few people went to a funeral in Aghade graveyard without paying a visit to the well and taking a drink from it as the water was believed to have curative properties. The church hall was the parochial National School until its closure in 1967. In addition to the church and Tennant Gravestone and Church hall pictures here other pictures of the Aghade "All Saints" church can be found at the link below.</span><br /><a href="http://www.ballonvillage.com/Aghade%20church.htm">http://www.ballonvillage.com/Aghade%20church.htm</a>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894099479232081350.post-37269194015296682802008-10-25T11:02:00.000-07:002010-08-19T16:41:07.180-07:00The Ivan Tennant Memorial Award<span style="font-size:180%;">The Ivan Tennant Memorial Award is awarded annually to the top academic high school player in the Ontario Hockey League. It is named in honour of the late Ivan Tennant, a former education consultant for the Kitchener Rangers who worked to develop the academic standards for the entire league during twenty years of service. The award was first given out in 2005 and is based on the player's average in his best six courses regardless of level of difficulty of the courses. Ivan James Tennant was the eldest son of James William (Bill) Tennant who left Chalk River Ontario to settle in Timmins. They were quite a hockey family and Ivan took on his fathers sporting abilities.<br /><br />The winners so far of the Ivan Tennant Award:2007–08: Alex Friesen, Niagara IceDogs 2006–07: Andrew Shorkey, Owen Sound Attack 2005–06: Joe Pleckaitis, Ottawa 67's 2004–05: Matt Pelech, Sarnia Sting .<br /><br />Ivan's son David Tennant who lives in Kitchener Ontario has taken over from where his father left off and he is now the Educational Consultant for the Kitchener Rangers.</span>Doug Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18026487048864691349noreply@blogger.com0