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Descendants of James Watson

Generation No. 2

2. JEAN³ WATSON (JAMES², ALEXANDER¹) was born May 03, 1771 in Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland, and died August 08, 1852 in Caledon twp., Peel, Ontario. She married ALEXANDER PATTULLO October 09, 1806 in Inveresk-with-Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He was born Abt. 1774 in Forfarshire, Scotland, and died December 08, 1828 in Caledon twp., Peel, Ontario.

Notes for JEAN WATSON:
Jim Honeyford in Washington (state) has a family bible of the Watson family.

More About JEAN WATSON:
Burial: Melville Presbyterian Cemetery, Caledon twp.
Christening: May 05, 1771, Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland

Notes for ALEXANDER PATTULLO:
The nickname for his descendants is "Alexander's Ragtime Band," according to Thomas Pattullo Lownsbrough.
From his grave stone inscription in Caledon Township, Melville Presbyterian/United Cemetery, Ontario:
      Alex Pattullo, died 8 Dec. 1828 aged 54 years, a native of
      Dundee, Scotland, Jane Watson his wife died 8 Aug 1852 aged
      83 years, native of Prestonpans, Scotland, Thomas Pattullo died
      31 Oct. 1849 aged 31 years. erected by Halket/Harriet Pattullo AD 1855
Apparently his family came over in 1820 from Scotland to Caledon, Ontario.

Colonial Advocate, Queenston, August 26, 1824
THE MODE OF DOING BUSINESS IN UPPER CANADA!!
To Mr Thomas Fiefe 7 Lote 9 Conesson Esquiesson Townshipe

Calladon June the 14 -- 1822

Sir as I have siverall times thought upon the want of a Cowe since I was at your houze and you said you had a Particklar good one that you would sell if shie has No faltues such as fence Breaking ore Not Bliend in aney of hier Tites and Canney Everay way and what age shee is althowe she is a good Deall abouve the Comman Run of Cowes in Price as you saide you Could not Parte with hier Below about 18 Dollars Cowe and Calfe if Calfed I have just 10 Dollars at Presant But in the Couers of about 2 months ore 3 I have the fewes of moer than Clarer you if wie Bargen and I mien to Bringe my watch and Leve her for a Securetty in your hand But By no miens as Part of Payment as I had the offer of 12 Doellars for her in Cashe -- Sir if the abouve Perposel sutes you Cane send the Particklars in writeng with my son and we seeme to agrie I will come Down with one of my Boys fore ner -- I Reman Sir you most obedt

ALLEXR PATTULLO

The following directions were marked outside the letter for the carrier's guidance:

About the midel of the Lot that is Nixt to the one that is Slasshed Bleou you will sie a Slie Road that turens of to your left from the Main Road Kipe that Slie Road and it will Bringe to Mr. McKinon But Bie shuer and Louk at the Pins as you go allong 7 lot 9 Consson.

From the book on Thomas Dufferin Pattullo by Robin Fisher, about his ancestors:
"By the fifteenth century some of the Pattullos had moved across the Firth of Tay to settle in Forfarshire, part of the present county of Angus, and there, in the town of Kerriemuir [sic], Duff Pattullo's great-grandfather, Alexander Pattullo, was born in 1775. Alexander pursued a military career, serving in a number of local regiments before becoming a non-commissioned officer in the forty-second Highlanders: the famous Black Watch. In his marriage record to Jean Watson, it says that he was a Private in the Forfarshire Militia. Demobbed after the end of the Napoleonic wars, Alexander was in his forties, married for a second time, the father of seven children, and looking for a new career. But prospects were few in the depressed and unsettled conditions that prevailed in Scotland in the years immediately after 1815. With the final defeat of Napoleon, thousands of old soldiers like Alexander Pattullo were looking for work at a time when rural Scotland was suffering a crisis that had been building for decades. Traditional methods of farming had depleted the land to the point where it could no longer support a growing population. Agricultural improvements and the resulting clearances produced an exodus from the countryside. Scotland was simply overcrowded. So Alexander Pattullo, like many others, looked for land and sought new opportunities in the new world. [It is believed that he lived in Dundee for some years until he emigrated.]
      "When the Pattullo family came to Canada in 1820, Alexander, at the age of forty-five, was probably thinking more of his children's future than his own. 'Having the means to cultivate a New Farm,' he applied for and was granted 100 acres of land in the township of Caledon. In the backwoods of Peel County, the fifth concession west of the village of Caledon was not prime farm land. Its tough ground would yield only with long, hard work. Yet, as the Pattullos settled among McGregors and Camerons, the rolling, wooded hills of Caledon must have reminded the newcomers in many ways of home. Having established his family on this new land, Alexander survived for only eight years, but his sons continued to farm in Caledon until the middle of the century. The census of Canada West for 1851 shows that Halket Pattullo, aged forty-two, was living with his wife and nine children in a log house in Caledon. The fact that the family was still living in a log house indicates that they had not made their fortune. Halket, the third son of Alexander, had married Jane Robson...
      "Duff's father spent his early years in Caledon until 1855, when the family moved to Blenheim Township in Oxford County where Halket had purchased 100 acres comprising the north half of Lot 13 on the Fifth Concession. The gently sloping land of Blenheim was far superior to that of Caledon. The Pattullo farm was in a rich, fertile area, one concession south of the little village of Drumbo. When Halket Pattullo died, ownership of the land was to be assumed by the eldest son, Alexander. Even on this better land, the farm would only support one family, so Halket's younger children were obliged to earn their living in other ways. Two sons, Thomas and William, left Oxford County to seek their fortunes in the goldfields of British Columbia. But it was largely through the careers of George Robson and his younger brother, Andrew, that the Pattullo name was to become prominent within the boundaries of Oxford."

The following information was taken from the Pattullo Family book, which Gordon (Hopkins?) has:
      "Alexander Pattullo was buried in the Melville (White Church) Cemetery. His body was later removed from lot 3 in the 5th concession and buried in a plot owned by his son James (23 Nov. 1926)." Note: is this a death date discrepancy? Note: the following marriage order is reversed as far as other information tells us. "He married (1) in Scotland, Jean Watson, b. 3 May 1771. He m. (2) in Scotland, M. Grierson.
      Alexander Pattullo was at one time a corporal in the "Loyal Tay Fencibles" under Col. Anstruther and later attached to the Forfar and Kincardine Regiments in Scotland under Hon. Archibald Douglas. He was subsequently a non-commissioned officer of the 42nd Highlanders, better known as the "Black Watch," and saw much service prior to his emigration to Canada and settlement in Caledon, Peel County, Ontario, in 1820."

Taken from a hand written letter by William Pattullo:
      Alexander Pattullo was a non-commissioned officer in the 42 Highlanders, better better known as the "Black Watch." It was said he was the strongest man in his regiment. My ancestors in Scotland where history can be traced far back as rendering very efficient services to their country.

More About ALEXANDER PATTULLO:
Burial: Melville Presbyterian Cemetery, Caledon twp.
Emigration: 1820, Scotland to Caledon twp.
Occupation: 1807, Sawyer
Property: Lot ?, Con. 5, Caledon twp.

Children of JEAN WATSON and ALEXANDER PATTULLO are:

3.	i.	JAMES⁴ PATTULLO, b. June 23, 1807, Inveresk-with-Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; d. June 10, 1890, Garafraxa twp., Wellington, Ontario.
4.	ii.	HALKET PATTULLO, b. July 31, 1809, Inveresk-with-Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; d. 1855, Blenheim twp., Oxford, Ontario.
5.	iii.	JANE PATTULLO, b. February 09, 1812.
6.	iv.	MARGARET PATTULLO, b. December 23, 1813; d. 1894.
	v.	THOMAS PATTULLO, b. April 08, 1817; d. October 31, 1849.

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