Descendants of
James HAMILTON

This is my line. James Hamilton is my great great  grandfather, born in 1806 in Ulster Ireland. He immigrated in about 1824 at age 18 according to the census of 1842.  James married Matthew Hammond's daughter Mary in 1832. Matthew Hammond arrived in Canada in 1830 with his family from County Cavan Ulster Ireland. The Hammonds settled in the Gore of Two Mountains. In the 1842 census Matthew Hammond and James Hamilton are on adjoining sections. The Gore is called now Gore Township, Argenteuil County, Quebec, close to Lachute and the Ottawa River. Lakefield is the where the township offices are located. Of  James Children we have found nothing of William after the family arrived in Randborough Quebec. He was listed as a labourer on his father's farm in the 1861 census so maybe he stayed in the Gore and married. Well in 2007 we found William and 2 other Hamilton Boys working on the farm of Eugene Chase in Derby Vermont. Irene's mother's name was Elizabeth Chase and so we assume Eugene Chase and Irene are cousins but do not have a direct link we can follow. The other two young men are James age 16 and John age 24. They are not James children and they are not from is brothers either so there is another Hamilton Connection to discover here. Three of James sons we believed died as children in Gore prior to 1866 as they are not mentioned in the migration to Randborough Compton in the Eastern Townships in 1866, they are James Jr #1, Thomas and James Jr #2. There is mention by John, James eldest son, who lived on Parker Hill, Randboro, Quebec of being one of thirteen children, if this is true there is one child that we do not know of,  he or she has been lost in time. James #2 died in the Spring of 1866 and was it was recorded in the Wesleyan Methodist Church records of Lakefield Gore.

In the next generation, one of the three son's of my great grandfather, Matthew  is not covered. well as little is known.  His name is Frank (Francis S. J.) and contact with that side of the family seems to have been lost. We know he lived in Unity and was married and have the names of three of his children, but have no name for his wife or information on her and where she was from until recently (2007) and still do not know what happened to her after she was widowed. We did have an e-mail from a lady in Kitchener who said she was doing research for someone who believed she was a descendant of  Frank and had been put up for adoption at some point and was trying to find her family roots. No information was received back in exchange for the information provided.  In 2007 we found Frank and his wife Nellie F Lake in the 1900 US census for Boston. Then we found in in the 1911 census of Canada in Saskatchewan.

While I know something of the daughters of my great grandfather, Matthew Hamilton, Hattie Hamilton Greenlay, and Effie Hamilton Stanley, I do have current information on the Greenlay's and their descendants, but not for the Stanley's. As more resources become available on the Interent we seem to find more pieces to the puzzle.