Olive Tree Genealogy Blog: Home District Land Claims 1803 & 1804 - Corrections to Canadiana.org Faulty Content List

May 21, 2014

Home District Land Claims 1803 & 1804 - Corrections to Canadiana.org Faulty Content List

H 1140 Image 253

Canadiana.Org has digitized 21 films of the Heir & Devisee Commission Papers (Heir & Devisee Commission papers 1797-1854, found in their Heritage Collection), and that's a good thing for genealogists. These records have valuable and informative genealogical documents.

But as mentioned in a previous blog post Heir & Devisee Commission 1797-1854 on Canadiana.org - Listing Errors and a Workaround, the index and description of what is in each film, as provided on Canadiana.org, is incorrect.

I have been going through those digitized records to create a working corrected Finding Aid. You may view the corrected content lists on Olive Tree Genealogy website at Heir & Devisee Commission

While scrolling through microfilm H 1140 in order to correct Canadiana.org's flawed content description, I came across a set of Land Certificates and other documents from individuals living in what was called the Home District. This consisted of land along Lake Ontario and the Niagara region of Ontario.

Continuing on from Home District Land Certificates 1787 to 1795 and An index to Niagara area Loyalists and their Land Certificates here is the start of my list of names of claimants for land in the Home District from 1803-1804. Each name has an image number beside it so that you can easily click through to that image to view the claims and any supporting documents.

H 1140 Image 321

Images 250–253 index to claimant names. These images have lists of names of claimants. Note that often it is the attorney's name on the index and not the petitioner or claimant. The claimants' names can be viewed in my list below. Please also note that I cannot guarantee my interpretation of the names in these documents. The writing is often difficult to read or the image is blurry.

The following images are the actual certificates, claims and other documents

Image 254, 255 claim of Robert Isaac dey Gray, 1802
Image 256 Hannah McBride widow of John
Image 257, 258 claim number five
Image 259 William Jones
Image 260 William Bowkett
Image 261 William Bokette and Sarah H----- want to marry, 1799.
Image 262 Joseph Hunt 1802
Image 263 Joseph Hunt
Image 264, 265 William Allen 1802
Image 266 John Everson
Image 267 Abner Mills
Image 268 Thomas Berry and John McBride
Image 269 Thomas Barry and Richard Lawrence
Image 270–273 Richard Lawrence
Image 274–275 Richard Beasley for the heirs of Thomas Berry
Image 276-278 Abner Mills (Miles?) 1803
Image 279 – 284 David Saban of Whitchurch and Abner Mills or Miles I
Image 235 Joachim Luran of Markham 1804
Image 286 Daniel Herrick of Markham and Harry McClary
Image 287 William Cooper 1803
Image 288 Isaac Davis 1801
Image 289–291 Thomas Hamilton 1803
Image 292–294 William Allen and Isaac Horton
Image 295 --- Tiffany of Ancastor 1803
Image 296 George Purvis
Image 297 Aime Michel Fortier 1803
Image 298 George Purvis
Image 299–300 John Reiley
Image 301 William Weikes 1803
Image 302 William Emery
Image 303 Christian Horning of Markham 1803
Image 304–305 William Weeks
Image 306–307 Isaac Hollingshead 1802
Image 308–309 Deed of Benjamin Hale and Elizabeth Murray to Isaac Todd 1804
Image 310–313 the late Duncan Murray, Lieutenant in 34th Regiment, Lincoln County
Image 314 Isaac Todd of Montréal and Elizabeth Murray
Image 315–319 Jean Baptiste Rousseau of Ancastor, Estate and inheritance, 1803
Image 320 Duncan Cameron 1803
Image 321–322 Elizabeth Murray daughter of the late Duncan Murray & sister of deceased John Murray, Isabella Murray widow of Duncan Murray, Isaac Todd, Joseph Edwards
Image 323 Elizabeth Murray
Image 324 Richard Ferguson of Vaughan Township
Image 325 William Weeks, Daniel Laughlin
Image 326 James Crane, 1803
Image 327–332 Daniel Laughlin
Image 333 Patrick Boon or Bern of Markham, Wheelwright, 1804
Image 334–336 William Weeks
Image 337–338 Jean Baptiste Bouchette to William Church
Image 339 William Chewitt 1804
Image 340 Peter McGregor 1803
Image 341 James McGregor of Markham

To be continued. There are many more names in this section and I will publish them as soon as possible.

May 21, 2014

Home District Land Claims 1803 & 1804 - Corrections to Canadiana.org Faulty Content List

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