Tennant & Families, Ireland to Canada:Information about William Mark Cardiff
William Mark Cardiff (b. 1809, d. 1888)
Notes for William Mark Cardiff:
In 1834 Mark moved to Kitley, then in 1848 to South Elmsley near Smiths Falls.In 1858 Mark and his family moved to Huron County near Goderich.
William Mark, Jane and George CARDIFF
Family legend has it that our branch of the CARDIFF family, headed by William Mark CARDIFF, originated in Cardiff Wales and crossed to Ireland in the early 1600's. They settled first in Wexford, then moved west to Carlow county, near the city of Carlow.
Following the Irish economic collapse of 1815, the potato famines of 1817 and 1821-22, "Thousands of unfortunate sons and daughters of Ireland were at this time contemplating removal to North America", wrote Edward Talbot who lived in the hills of north Tipperary. "I became an exile, not as a matter of choice, but of necessity, not with a view of realizing a fortune in the transatlantic wilderness, but of escaping penury and its consequent miseries in the land of my nativity."
William Mark CARDIFF was born March 1, 1809, in Carlow county. With his sister Jane and brother George he booked passage to Canada in 1823. 6000 Irish were to immigrate to Canada that year. William Mark, George and Jane settled in Lanark county in what was to become the province of Ontario. In 1834 Mark moved to Kitley, then in 1848 to South Elmsley near Smiths Falls. In 1858 Mark and his family moved to Huron County near Goderich.
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George and Richard CARDIFF
Another CARDIFF family, which arrived from Ireland in 1820, was already established in Lanark county. This was the family of military settlers Richard CARDIFF, his brother George, George's wife Mary PAYNE and their six sons: John, George, Thomas, Richard, William and Mark. They took up residence in the Perth Military Settlement where their sister Jane was born in 1825. In 1834 they moved to Renfrew County near Admaston and the town of Renfrew.
More About William Mark Cardiff:
Date born 2: 1809
Children of William Mark Cardiff and Margaret Jane Duffield are:
- +Elizabeth Cardiff, b. 1835, d. 1903.
- +Mary Jane Cardiff, b. 1837.
- George Cardiff, b. 1867, d. 1921.
- +John Cardiff, b. 1831, d. 1914.
- +Henry Cardiff, b. 1844, d. 1921.
- Richard Cardiff, b. 1846, d. 1867.
- +Thomas Cardiff, b. 1848, d. 1890.
- +Mark Cardiff, b. 1850, d. 1934.
- +Sarah Cardiff, b. 1853, d. 1927.
- +William James Cardiff, b. 1856, d. 1924.
- Alice Rebecca Cardiff, b. 1867, d. 1874.