Cumberland County, Nova ScotiaUpdated September 5, 2000 |
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Randal William Oulton
21 Wineva Avenue
Toronto, ON M4E 2T1
(416) 694-8724
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I honestly didn't type this as one run-one sentence. Geez, it would be nice if it respected hard returns or even HTML code. <p>AllenChapmanDixon/DicksonDobsonFillmoreGoodwinGreenoHicksIbbitsonOultonSmithTrenholmWellsIn the 1770's, Yorkshire people began emigrating from England and arriving in Cumberland County, NS. They happily whiled away the next few centuries marrying their children off to each other's children. I am researching these people in Cumberland County (focus has been in area of New Brunswick border). I am the 6th great-grandson of William Chapman, whose ship arrived in Halifax harbour 6 May 1774, and the 5th great-grandson of Charles Oulton, who arrived very young with his mother, Charity (nee Bellamy), in the 1750s. These last were Cheshire people.Willam Chapman gave land to the Rev. John Wesley to build the first meeting house for the Methodist Church of Canada, generally referred to as the Stone Meeting House or Stone Chapel, which was built in 1788. The signature of his second wife, Jane, appears on the deed handed over to the church.Charity, being a widow at the point she came over, remarried to a fellow named John Bishop who operated an inn in Fort Lawrence. The name of the inn was almost certainly "Five Courts". John Thomas, surgeon in Colonel Winslow's expedition against the Acadians at Fort Beausejour in 1755, writes on 11 Oct 1755, "Pleasant Day: I went to Fort Lawrence. Dined at Bishops."When Bishop died, Charity remarried for a third time, to a Captain Sean Martin from Winslow's expedition, and continued running the inn. Her son, Charles Oulton, married a Fillmore girl (Abigail), and began the long line of Oulton's in Canada. Charles did military service under Col John Allan during the American Revolution.I am the first Oulton to be born in Upper Canada; my grandparents having moved here with my father in the 1950s. I was born in Ontario in 1960.I would like to acknowledge the following people who have shared information with me. The first step for me, remaining to be completed, is get the tree of the generations of intermarriage completed; the next step will be to flesh out the history.Joan Martin of Washington StateRev and Margaret Bentley of Tatagamouche, NSGrace Oulton, my grandmotherBonnie Douglas, USAWendy Whelen, Tiverton, ONArthur Owen, Ottawa, ONSybil Crawford, TEXAS |
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