I am researching the Blackstock family from Keady, Armaugh Co., Northern Ireland.MacGowan Blackstock was born August 18, 1798, the son of James and Margaret Blackstock.MacGowan Blackstock married Mary Warnock.They immigrated to Chinguacousy Twp, Terra Cotta, Peel Count, Ontario, Canada in 1831 with their two children, Susan and Mary Blackstock.They had three more children, Margaret, Elizabeth and Sarah.MacGowan Blackstock married Margaret McAvoy October 29, 1841 in Peel Co., Ontario.They had one son, James Blackstock.MacGowan Blackstock married Mary Galbraith, December 13, 1858 in Georgetown, Halton Co., Ontario.Mary had 10 children with her first husband, Hugh Galbraith.
I am also searching related surnames:Bacon, Baldwin, Barnwell, Carmichael, Dunbar, Galbraith, Gibbs, Hunter, Loe, McAvoy, McGowan, McLoud, Mann, Murray, Parr, Pearson, Pitt, Roe, Vint and Warnock.
I am would be glad to exchange any information.
The Conservator
Brampton, Tuesday, July 19, 1898
In the little Village of Terra Cotta, Peel County, Ont., lives Mr. McGowan Blackstock, who, if he lives until the 18th of August, will be one hundred years old.
Mr. Blackstock came to Canada from Kadytown, County Armagh, Ireland, in 1831, being then thirty-one years old, bringing with him a wife and two children, and settled on a farm in Chinguacousy, Peel County.After a number of years he gave up his farm to his only son, Mr. James Blackstock, now deceased, and retired to Alloa, removing seven years ago to Terra Cotta, where he now resides.
Until very recently Mr. Blackstock has been quite active, and could hoe in his garden last summer.He has smoked for over eighty-six years, and is a strong advocate of the merits of the weed.Although rather deaf, he at times converses quite rationally, but, like that of most old people, the mind reverts more to old times and old friends than to recent events.
Mr. Blackstock has been married three times; his third wife, to whom he was married over forty years ago, was his sweetheart in his youth.She is now ninety-five years of age, and remarkably active.She had ten children by her first husband, Mr. Galbraith, one of whom, Mrs. Parr, lives in Terra Cotta, and her daughter, Miss Bessie Parr, a bright young girl, takes care of the aged couple.
Mr. Blackstock has always been a stiff staunch Conservative, and a Presbyterian.
He has two children living, Mrs. Vint, of Blythe, Ont., and Mrs. Roe of Garafraxa, Ont., and three dead--Mrs. McGowan, Mrs. Dunbar and Mr. Jas. Blackstock.Although a great many are dead, he has still numerous posterity, numbering thirty-seven grandchildren, seventy-four great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren, making in all over one hundred and sixteen.
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