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"The Edward Conroy Family Home Page" Lanark County Ontario

Updated December 20, 2004

Lynda J (Conroy) Karhukangas
6B-46354Brooks Ave
Chilliwack, B.C V2P7S9
Canada
604-793-9460
olli@telus.net

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HISTORY OF EDWARD CONROY
The year 1819 - 1820 was a hard winter in Ireland and Scotland, with the result that some families nearly staved. In the spring they saw they would have to do something before another winter set in.

Among those in Ireland was one family by the name of EDWARD CONROY which moved across to Scotland and landed there just as they were recruiting two boats to sail for Canada. This family signed up with the "Lesmahago" group which set sail on the "PROMPT" from Greenock on July 4, 1820, landing at Quebec about two months later.

They went from Quebec to Prescott and then on to Brockville by boat, where they went by wagon or carts through the bush trails to Perth. They landed in this military settlement on September 15, 1820. After choosing their lots by drawing tickets with numbers on them, they found they had drawn West Half Lot 18 on the 3rd Concession of Dalhousie. Each family were given some very crude tools such as: axes, augers, hoes, shovels, hammers, saws, a few nails, reaping hook, 1 door lock, set of hinges, skillet & camping kettle. They were also given one blanket for each member of the family.

They continued on by wagon to Lanark, on the Clyde which was marked by only a card nailed to a tree. Here the wagons had to turn back, as the only crossing over the river was a tree. They continued on by foot from here, accompanied by Lieutenant Fraser who was employed to show them their lots.

By the first night, the had travelled only about eight miles and campted at the rocks later called the "Crags" which are about two miles west of what is now known as Watsons Corners. In the morning when they awoke, they discovered that the cow which they had brought from Brockville had hung herself with the rope with which she was tied. When the family arrived at their lots, they set to work clearing and building a log house for the winter which as quickly approaching.

Edward Conroy went on clearing the land and raising his family. The first revenue from the land was from burning the hardwood trees, leeching the ashes and selling the potash. Soon the family was too large for the farm and they set out for themselves. John (Jr.) went to Oso and Edward to Maberly, where they took up farming. Thomas B. bought a lot opposite his father's farm from the Shields. Edward Conroy was a shoemaker and a carpenter by trade, and his wife a carder in Ireland.

Thomas B. married Lillian Scott who actually came across on the same boat. He was nine years of age and she was four. To them were born 3 boys and 6 girls who al grew up to make homes for themselves, and except two men, all were married and lived in Lanark County, Ontario. Of these two men, one went to Webbwood, northern Ontario, and the other to Conroy Road, Ottawa East, Ontario.

The origingal lot remained in the Conroy name until about 1886, when it was sold to William McDougall.

Thomas A> fell heir to his father's farm and married Janet McDougall to whom were born 4 boys and 4 girls: of these, one girl died in infancy and one boy at middle age. Only one remains in Dalhousie, at the present time, and all the rest are in Ontario.

It would seem that although these people left all their friends and family Church in Ireland, they seem to have made a reasonable success in life

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