PATRICK AND MARY ANN QUIGG
By
Dora Stewart Hogarth
Copyright, 1987


Patrick Quigg (1833-1917) was one of the family of Alexander Jamie and (first name unknown) 
Alexander Quigg.  He was born in Coleraine, County of Londonderry, Ireland.  Some of the family went 
to Australia, some to Canada.  Patrick, his brother Tom and sister Mary (1831-1922) came to Canada.  
Tom, it is thought, went west but his destination was never known.  Mary married John Gilchrist (1831-
1915) and lived in Ceylon, Ontario.  They had a son Tom (1871-1934) who became the popular village 
blacksmith.  In 1925 he married Nellie De Rusha Arnott (1890-1975).

Patrick was 19 when he arrived in Toronto, where he found work.  Here he met and married Mary 
Ann Stewart (1835-1928) daughter of Charlie and (first name unknown) Croft Stewart.  She was born in 
Newton, County of Tyrone, Northern Ireland.  She and her sister Eliza (1837-1919) had also come to 
Toronto to find work.  Eliza later became Eliza Cameron.

After Patrick and Mary Ann's marriage, they left Toronto and made their way to Osprey Township 
in Grey County, Ontario.  After a few years they moved to the nearby Township of Artemesia and lived 
on Concession 2, Lot 179, West Toronto and Sydenham Road, later known as the Binnie Farm.  The 
area was called Tyrone.  He bought the bush lots 166 and 167, Con. 2, W.T. & S.R. where he cleared the 
land and built a large white brick house for his now large family. He had a lime kiln just north of the 
house where he was able to get the lime.  He bought the bricks in Proton.

The Quigg children attended S.S. #3 (Red School) situated on Toronto and Sydenham Road, now 
Highway 10- Patrick served as trustee at this school for a few years.  At that time dry cedar was bought 
for ninety-five cents a cord while good hardwood was eighty cents a cord. In 1888 he moved that Mr. 
Alex Reid be hired as a teacher for three hundred and fifty dollars a year.  Mr. Reid stayed for eighteen 
years during which time several Quigg children attended the school.  In later years the older sons of Tom 
Quigg attended the same school.

Like many other settlers, he was able to accumulate enough money to invest in other properties.  
In 1890, he bought Lot 171, Con. 3, W.T. & S.R. and later sold it to his son, Tom.  In Ceylon he had 
property next to his sister Mary (Mrs. John Gilchrist).

Pat and his wife moved to Flesherton in 1907 to 37 Toronto Street.  His son Harry then took over 
the farm.  In 1908 when they were fifty years married, a family reunion was held on the old homestead, 
the last time the entire family had been together.

Patrick died very suddenly at his home, April 11, 1917 in his 84th year.  Mary Ann remained in 
the house as her sister Eliza (Mrs. Cameron) had come to live with her.  After Eliza's death in 1919, 
Mary Ann sold the house.  During the summers she lived with her daughter Em Stewart on the farm, but 
spent the winters in Harriston, Ontario with her daughter Mary, Mrs. Abe Brooks.  She died in Harriston 
on Jan. 11, 1928.  She, Pat and her sister Eliza are buried in Flesherton Cemetery.