James Stirton

Abt 1790 - Bef 1881  (~ 90 years)

• Name	James Stirton
  Born	Abt 1790	Angus, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Died	Bef 1881
  Person ID	I18517	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024

  
  

  Family	Janet Crichton,   b. 1795, Angus, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1881, Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada  (Age > 87 years)
  Children	1. Elizabeth Stirton,   b. 1816, Forfarshire, Scotland ,   d. 1 Jun 1906, Russell, Manitoba, Canada  (Age 90 years)  [natural]   2. David Stirton,   b. 13 Jun 1816, Forfarshire, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1906, Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada  (Age > 91 years)  [natural]   3. Janet Stirton,   b. 15 Apr 1830, "Lillie Farm", Marden, Puslinch Township, Wellington County, Ontario ,   d. 6 Feb 1914, Puslinch, Wellington, Ontario, Canada  (Age 83 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024
  Family ID	F4751	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  In 1825 James Stirton and his family with a large number of others, sailed from the port of Cromarty, Scot., in the sailing vessel "Planet" for La Guayra, South America, where they went on the promise of land and other concessions that were never realized, and in consequence they left that country and came to Canada in 1827, and were allotted land in Guelph Tp. on the Elora road ("Scotch Block") mentioned elsewhere in this work. Mr. James Stirton and his family left South America for New York City early in 1827. He readily found employment in that city, and David Stirton, who was then a boy of eleven years, obtained a position with a coffee merchant, and remembers seeing the cows pasturing on Seventeenth Street. While the Stirton family were doing well in New York, they concluded to join their friends, who had gone from South America to Canada some months before, and in August they started for Canada, arriving in Guelph, Sept. 8th, 1827. They set. on lot 23 and 24, con. 2, Guelph Tp., and lived there for some years, when they removed to Puslinch. (Wellington County Historical Atlas, 1906)