Lois Charlene Cairns

Family/Spouse: Lawrence Howard Schuyler. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jennifer Lynn Schuyler, DNA

Archie married Anna Elizabeth Prudham. Anna was born on 2 May 1910 in Kilbride, Nelson township, Halton County, Ontario, Canada; died on 29 Nov 1992 in Milton, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Or 1901?

Other Events:

• Parents: William's 1928 death cert names his parents as Samuel Cairns born in Ontario and Maria "Gilmour" born in Ireland.
• Census: 6 Apr 1901, Nasagawaya, Halton District, Ontario, Canada; 1. Cairns, William G., male, white, head, married, 19 January 1864, 37, born Ontario, Irish origins, Presbyterian, farmer, own account, can read and write 2. _____, Emma, female, white, married, 21 March 1876, 25, England, immigrated 1882, English, can read and write

Notes:

Birth:
Granddaughter Jennifer Schuyler Silveira is quite firm that he was born in Feb, not Jan--regardless of documentation.

William married Eva Dennis before 1901. Eva died after 1928. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
Given as "Amy" Dennis in Jennifer Schuyler Silveira's FTDNA gedcom.

Notes:

Married:
Wife "Eva" was informant for Williams 1928 death certificate.

Other Events:

• Narrative: 1964; Taken from Ancestry.com, The Cairns Family History:"The Cairns Family History Written in Milton, Ontario on April 12, 1964 By Roy William Cairns (1901-1980) Transcribed by Jennifer Schuyler Silvera in Milton, Ontario on January 5, 2005. [Full narrative in Word doc in the Maria Gilmore file.] Excerpts:

  "But when [Richard] Cairns? family struck out on their own and married off, Samuel Cairns took the homestead and married [Marie Gilmore] and settled. But first of all he rented a farm in the year Eighteen Fifty-Eight for the sum of one hundred dollars a year, paying twenty-five dollars every three months starting in January then in April and July and finally in October." "In Campbellville there was a hotel on the corner of the Burnses but it was burned down Nineteen-thirty. At that time a man by the name of Kidney run it and did quite a business there. A young Irish girl worked there by the name of Myria Gilmoure, a niece of Mrs. Kidney. Samuel Cairns would go to the hotel, which was a place where people congregated-especially the young men to enjoy their drink. They were romantic in those days and Samuel Cairns fell in love with Mrs. Kidney?s niece and married her, in the year I think of Eighteen Fifty-Nine. She was short and plump and looked like Queen Victoria. Samuel Cairns. Had horses at that time in which he inherited from his father. I have heard when Samuel Cairns and his wife went to but groceries at Lowville and Killbride sometimes they went in wintertime with ox yoked to a sleigh and took the family with them. No doubt their farm produced butter and eggs in which they could spare and barter for groceries. They say there was no money at that time in those days, the money had to be used for paying taxes and rent to his parents. Sam Cairn?s family was ten of them ?five sons and five daughters by the names of Margaret, Richard, William, Eliza, Samuel Jr. Harriet, Henrietta, Charles, Louisa and Roy. Margaret, the eldest, married Isaac Smith and settled in Michigan but after their marriage, they settled in Nassagaweya for a short time. Richard married Eliza Weir and settled on the home place. William married Eva Dennis and settled in Nassagaweya on Con.1, Lot 3. Eliza married Robert Weir and settled on the mountain. She lost her husband 1893 and farmed till Nineteen-fifteen and sold out and went to Hamilton with her three children ?Two girls and a Boy. Sam Jr. married Jane page and also settled in Nassagaweya. Harriet married John Roper and lived in Milton and Henrietta married James Davison and alto lived in Milton. Charles married Margaret [Weir] and settled in Ayr, Ontario and later sold out an moved to Milton, Ontario. Louisa Cairns never did marry. Roy cairns stayed around and went to the west and married and settled there. Sam Cairns rented a farm above Campbellville for awhile-the Cargill farm. But before that time I think after Richard Cairns, in eighteen-seventy-three, died there was a sale to settle up the estate in which he had some good gray horses. They were sold and also his cattle and other stock to settle up the estate to pay the family shares. Sam Cairns, his son, had cattle to take their place in which he did from Jones in Nassagaweya. They were three springing heifers at twenty-five dollars each to start a herd. They were considered good cattle. And after he bought a team of horses from a man by the name of MacCurdy in Nassagaweya and called them Jack and Fancy. Later they bought another house called Charlie from a man by the name of Burns. The mare was used as a brood mare and raised a few colts. The cattle at that time roamed the road at will. St hem times the crop had to be cradled and cut with a scythe and raked up. The grain had to be hound and shocked up. That was before modern machinery came in. The young men worked quite a bit at about 1 dollar a day and glad to get it. Samuel Cairns sell kept a yoke of oxen to draw cord wood out of the bush apart way to meet the team in which was drawn to Christies Lime Kill at Kelso for burning stone into lime. They got a dollar and a half a cord and had to wait a year for heir money. They cut and drawn Nineteen Hundred cord of it to make payment on farms to get by. They took their butter and eggs to Hamilton Market when they lived at Hopkins Corners. They bought a farm there from John Campbell in Eighteen-Eight-five for thirty one hundred and moved there. The older sons stayed on the Guelph road homestead and cut wood in the wintertime and sold it at four foot lengths to the lime kills. It was the old original pine tops when the logs were removed and used for building a new house on the old homestead. It still stands there and a barn on the same farm still stands there."

Notes:

Died:
Descendant Jennifer Schuyler Silveira states his death as 4 Dec 1893.

Samuel married Maria Gilmore about 1859. Maria (daughter of Thomas Gilmore and Mary Reed) was born on 6 Aug 1839 in Ireland; died on 9 Feb 1900; was buried in Campbellville Burying Ground, Campbellville, Halton Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• NOTE_RESEARCH: Nasagiweya, Ontario; The Cairns narrative states that Maria Gilmore, an "Irish girl," worked as a maid in a hotel owned by the Kidneys, and that Mrs. Kidney was her aunt. A history of Nasagiweya mentions the hotel there run by various people over the years, including a James Kidney. It states that Mr. Kidney ran the hotel in 1851, and that Kidney and partner Easterbrook ran it from 1861-1868
• RESEARCH: It was difficult to find Maria Gilmore. She appeared in no known census with her parents. [They have not been located in 1851 Canada, 1850 New York, or 1855 New York.] In George W. Gilmore's pension file, she was listed among the 7 births from the Thomas Gilmore Bible. She was also mentioned in the affidavits of her siblings. Her brother Thomas indicated in his 1906 affidavit that she had died "5 or 6 years ago." Two possible Maria Gilmores emerged. The first was the wife of Samuel Cairns in Ontario. The second was a single (unmarried) Maria Gilmore, a seamstress, in the Saginaw, Michigan directory that also listed Charles and Joseph Gilmore. The first of these has been determined to be the right Maria Gilmore:

  • Maria (Gilmore) Cairns died in February 1900, "age 60," calculating to a birth year of 1839 or 1840
  • Maria Gilmore was born on 6 August 1839. She died around 1900
  • Brother Charles Gilmore mentioned his "Aunt Kidney in his 1906 affidavit
  • A narrative on the Samuel Cairns family tells this story of his meeting with his wife, Maria Gilmore:" At that time a man by the name of Kidney run it and did quite a business there. A young Irish girl worked there by the name of Myria Gilmoure, a niece of Mrs. Kidney."
  • Maria (Gilmore) Cairns was born in Ireland
  • Maria Gilmore was born in Ireland, according to her sister Jane Ann
  • Birth of Mary Catherine Cairns, 1871, Halton Co ON, names parents as Samuel Cairns and Maria "Gilmour." Attendant "Mrs. Kidney."

• Census: 1871, Nassagaweya, Halton County, Ontario, Canada; 1. Cairns, Saml, male, 41, born Ontario, Presbyterian, Irish origins, farmer, married 2. _____, Maria, female, 31, Ireland, Preb., Irish, married 3. _____, Margaret [I.? J.?], female, 12, Ontario, Irish, attending school 4. _____, Richd, male, 10, Ontario, Irish, attending school 5. _____, Wm, male, 8, Ontario, irish, attending school 6. _____, Eliza, female, 6, Ontario, Irish, attending school 7. _____, Samuel, male, 4, Ontario, Irish 8. _____, Harriet, female, 2, Ontario, Irish
• Census: 1881, Nassagawaya, Halton County, Ontario, Canada; 1. Cairns, Samuel, male, 51, Ontario, C. Presbyterian, Scotland, farmer, married 2. _____, Maria, female, 41, Ireland, C. Presbyterian, married 3. _____, Richard, male, 20, Ontario, C. Presbyterian, farm 4. _____, William George, male, 18, C. Presbyterian 5. _____, Ann Eliza, female, [16?], Ontario, C. Presbyterian 6. _____, Samuel, male, white, [14?], Ontario, C. Presbyterian 7. _____, Harriet, female, 12, Ontario, C. Presbyterian 8. _____, Mary Henrietta, female, 10, Ontario, C. Presbyterian 9. _____, Charles King, male, 7, Ontario, C. Presbyterian 10. _____, Louisa Maria, female, 4, Ontario, C. Presbyterian 11. _____, John [Trokton?], male, 2, Ontario, C. Presbyterian
• Narrative: 1964; Taken from Ancestry.com, The Cairns Family History:"The Cairns Family History Written in Milton, Ontario on April 12, 1964 By Roy William Cairns (1901-1980) Transcribed by Jennifer Schuyler Silvera in Milton, Ontario on January 5, 2005. [Full narrative in Word doc in the Maria Gilmore file.] Excerpts:

  "But when [Richard] Cairns? family struck out on their own and married off, Samuel Cairns took the homestead and married [Marie Gilmore] and settled. But first of all he rented a farm in the year Eighteen Fifty-Eight for the sum of one hundred dollars a year, paying twenty-five dollars every three months starting in January then in April and July and finally in October." "In Campbellville there was a hotel on the corner of the Burnses but it was burned down Nineteen-thirty. At that time a man by the name of Kidney run it and did quite a business there. A young Irish girl worked there by the name of Myria Gilmoure, a niece of Mrs. Kidney. Samuel Cairns would go to the hotel, which was a place where people congregated-especially the young men to enjoy their drink. They were romantic in those days and Samuel Cairns fell in love with Mrs. Kidney?s niece and married her, in the year I think of Eighteen Fifty-Nine. She was short and plump and looked like Queen Victoria. Samuel Cairns. Had horses at that time in which he inherited from his father. I have heard when Samuel Cairns and his wife went to but groceries at Lowville and Killbride sometimes they went in wintertime with ox yoked to a sleigh and took the family with them. No doubt their farm produced butter and eggs in which they could spare and barter for groceries. They say there was no money at that time in those days, the money had to be used for paying taxes and rent to his parents. Sam Cairn?s family was ten of them ?five sons and five daughters by the names of Margaret, Richard, William, Eliza, Samuel Jr. Harriet, Henrietta, Charles, Louisa and Roy. Margaret, the eldest, married Isaac Smith and settled in Michigan but after their marriage, they settled in Nassagaweya for a short time. Richard married Eliza Weir and settled on the home place. William married Eva Dennis and settled in Nassagaweya on Con.1, Lot 3. Eliza married Robert Weir and settled on the mountain. She lost her husband 1893 and farmed till Nineteen-fifteen and sold out and went to Hamilton with her three children ?Two girls and a Boy. Sam Jr. married Jane page and also settled in Nassagaweya. Harriet married John Roper and lived in Milton and Henrietta married James Davison and alto lived in Milton. Charles married Margaret [Weir] and settled in Ayr, Ontario and later sold out an moved to Milton, Ontario. Louisa Cairns never did marry. Roy cairns stayed around and went to the west and married and settled there. Sam Cairns rented a farm above Campbellville for awhile-the Cargill farm. But before that time I think after Richard Cairns, in eighteen-seventy-three, died there was a sale to settle up the estate in which he had some good gray horses. They were sold and also his cattle and other stock to settle up the estate to pay the family shares. Sam Cairns, his son, had cattle to take their place in which he did from Jones in Nassagaweya. They were three springing heifers at twenty-five dollars each to start a herd. They were considered good cattle. And after he bought a team of horses from a man by the name of MacCurdy in Nassagaweya and called them Jack and Fancy. Later they bought another house called Charlie from a man by the name of Burns. The mare was used as a brood mare and raised a few colts. The cattle at that time roamed the road at will. St hem times the crop had to be cradled and cut with a scythe and raked up. The grain had to be hound and shocked up. That was before modern machinery came in. The young men worked quite a bit at about 1 dollar a day and glad to get it. Samuel Cairns sell kept a yoke of oxen to draw cord wood out of the bush apart way to meet the team in which was drawn to Christies Lime Kill at Kelso for burning stone into lime. They got a dollar and a half a cord and had to wait a year for heir money. They cut and drawn Nineteen Hundred cord of it to make payment on farms to get by. They took their butter and eggs to Hamilton Market when they lived at Hopkins Corners. They bought a farm there from John Campbell in Eighteen-Eight-five for thirty one hundred and moved there. The older sons stayed on the Guelph road homestead and cut wood in the wintertime and sold it at four foot lengths to the lime kills. It was the old original pine tops when the logs were removed and used for building a new house on the old homestead. It still stands there and a barn on the same farm still stands there."

Notes:

Died:
Thomas Gilmore's letter to his brother George W. Gilmore in 1906 stated that Maria died "5 or 6 years ago."