Maria Gilmore b. 6 Aug 1839 Ireland d. 9 Feb 1900: Our Family History

1839 - 1900 (60 years)

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Name	Maria Gilmore [1, 2]
Born	6 Aug 1839	Ireland [1, 2]
Gender	Female
Census	1871	Nassagaweya, Halton County, Ontario, Canada [3]
	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 [4]
	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
Died	9 Feb 1900 [2, 5, 6, 7]
	Thomas Gilmore's letter to his brother George W. Gilmore in 1906 stated that Maria died "5 or 6 years ago."
Narrative	1964 [8]
	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."
NOTE_RESEARCH	Nasagiweya, Ontario [9]
	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." [10]
Buried	Campbellville Burying Ground, Campbellville, Halton Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada [5]
Person ID	I131	Gilmore-Donald
Last Modified	14 Sep 2016

Father	Thomas Gilmore, b. Abt 1800-1803, County Sligo, Ireland , d. 16 Feb 1887, South Norwich, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada (Age ~ 84 years)
Mother	Mary Reed, b. About 1808, County Sligo, Ireland , d. 26 May 1885, South Norwich, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada (Age ~ 77 years)
Married	1828	Diocese of Killala and Achonry, County Sligo, Ireland [11, 12]
	Note on the transcription website: "From medieval times it was required that notification of intention to marriage be given on three consecutive Sundays in church (called publishing the banns). But, as an alternative, members of the Church of Ireland could take out a Marriage Licence Bond. The parties lodged an amount of money with the Diocese to indemnify the Church against there being an obstacle to the marriage. This marriage by licence provided privacy, and was faster than the time taken to read the banns. It was considered more prestigious than having the banns read. The bonds themselves were destroyed in the Fires of 1922, but the indexes remain in the National Archives of Ireland. After 1845 marriages were registered by the State, and are available to researchers. This diocese is in Co. Mayo and Co. Sligo."
Narrative	George W. Gilmore's pension file states that Thomas and Maria Gilmore had 10 children. When their names and dates were transcribed into the new family Bible, they only transcribed the names of those who were living. Nothing is known of the other three children.
Family ID	F32	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Samuel Cairns, b. Abt 1828, Campbellville, Ontario, Canada , d. 3 Dec 1893, Campbellville, Ontario, Canada (Age ~ 65 years)

Married Abt 1859 [8, 13]

Narrative The Cairns family history document indicates they had 10 children, but names them as "Margaret, Richard, William, Eliza, Samuel Jr. Harriet, Henrietta, Charles, Louisa and Roy."

There is some discrepancy between this list and those found in census and in birth/death/marriage records. [8]

Children

+	1. Margaret Jane Cairns, b. 9 Dec 1858, Ontario, Canada , d. 2 Dec 1928, Grant, St. Clair County, Michigan, USA (Age 69 years)
	2. Richard Thomas Cairns, b. 19 Jul 1862, Nassagaway, Halton County, Ontario, Canada , d. 15 Feb 1926, Halton County, Ontario, Canada (Age 63 years)
+	3. William George Cairns, b. 19 Feb 1864, Nassagaweya township, Halton County, Ontario, Canada , d. 2 May 1928, Campbellville, Halton County, Ontario, Canada (Age 64 years)
+	4. Eliza Ann Cairns, b. 12 Jan 1865, Ontario, Canada , d. 20 Jul 1927, Wentworth, Hamilton County, Ontario, Canada (Age 62 years)
+	5. Samuel Cairns, b. 12 Sep 1867, Ontario, Canada , d. 10 Dec 1942 (Age 75 years)
+	6. Harriet Cairns, b. 12 Nov 1868, Ontario, Canada , d. Sep 1953 (Age 84 years)
+	7. Mary Henrietta Catherine Cairns, b. 26 Jul 1871, Nassagaweya, Halton County, Ontario, Canada , d. 1964, Milton, Halton County, Ontario, Canada (Age 92 years)
+	8. Robert Joseph "Charles" Cairns, b. 1 Jan 1874, Halton County, Ontario, Canada
	9. Mariah Luisa Cairns, b. 8 Jun 1876, Halton County, Ontario, Canada
	10. Roy Franklin Cairns, b. 15 May 1878, Halton County, Ontario, Canada , d. 11 Jan 1965, 2310 1st St. SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Age 86 years)

Last Modified 3 Sep 2015

Family ID F116 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Documents » Slide Show		Birth of Mary Catherine Cairns, 1871, Halton County. Naming parents Samuel Cairns and Maria "Gilmour" with "Mrs. Kidney" attendant. Halton County, Ontario, birth registration no. 024978, for Mary Catherine Cairns (1871); digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 5 July 2015); citing Archives of Ontario, Series MS929, reel 6.
		Birth register, Robert Joseph Cairns, 1874. Naming parents Samuel Cairns and "Mariah Gilmour." Attendant "Mrs. Kidney." Halton County, Ontario, birth registration no. 005121, for Robert Joseph Cairns (1874); digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 5 July 2015); citing Archives of Ontario, Series MS929, reel 15.
		Birth reg Maria Luisa Cairns, parents Samuel Cairns and "Mariah Gilmore." Halton County, Ontario, birth registration no. 008661, for Mariah Luisa Cairns (1876); digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 5 July 2015); citing Archives of Ontario, Series MS929, reel 23.
		Birth reg, John Cairns, 1878, naming parents Samuel Cairns and Maria "Gilmour." Halton County, Ontario, birth registration no. 008521, for John Cairns (1878); digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 5 July 2015); citing Archives of Ontario, Series MS929, reel 33.

Sources

[S1574] Notarized transcription, typescript, of family birth data from the Thomas Gilmore Bible [no full title stated] (George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, London, 1860, "printers to the Queen.
[S723] Jennifer Schuyler Silveira (jennsilveira@gmail.com) to Janis Walker Gilmore, email, 2 September 2016, subject "Jennifer Lynn Schuyler - Pedigree.".
[S282] 1871 census of Canada, Ontario, Halton, District 38, Nassagaweya division, subdistrict East division Nassagaweya, p. 1, dwelling 55, family 58, Samuel Cairns household; image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 5 July 2015; citing Library and Archives of Canada, roll C-9956.
[S373] 1881 census of Canada, population schedule, district Halton (150), subdistrict Nassagaweya (Div. 1), p. 13, dwelling 56, family 62, Samuel Cairns; digital image, (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/ : accessed 7 September 2015), Censuses > Census of 1881 > image no. e008190930.
[S264] Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), memorial 30623461, 25 October 2008 by "SuzyQ" for Maria Gilmore Cairns (1840-1900), citing Campbellville Burying Ground (Campbellville, Halton Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada).
[S267] "Cairns/Lewis Family Tree," tree pages, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 June 2015), for Samuel Cairns, born 1828, Ontario, Canada, and wife Maria Gilmore. .
[S272] Thomas Gilmore to George W. Gilmore, letter, 7 November 1905; George W. Gilmore Civil War pension no. S. C. 602,065, RG 15, NA-Washington.
[S266] Roy William Cairns, "The Cairns Family History," unpublished document, written 12 April 1964, in Milton, Ontario); transcription, posted by dcairns456621, "Cairns/Lewis Family Tree," tree pages, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 June 2015), for Samuel Cairns, born 1828, Ontario, Canada, and wife Maria Gilmore. The author, Mr. Cairns, lived 1900-1980. Transcription by Jennifer Schuyler Silvera, 2005, Milton, Ontario.
[S268] J. Norrish, The Early History of Nasagiweya (Guelph, Ont.: Jas. Hough, Jr., 1889), 72; digital image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org : accessed 29 June 2015).
[S278] Halton County, Ontario, birth registration no. 024978, for Mary Catherine Cairns (1871); digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 5 July 2015); citing Archives of Ontario, Series MS929, reel 6.
[S55] Balloonlady_1, “Marr Flood Hussey and Allin,” tree pages, Ancestry.com ((http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 September 2014), for marriage of Thomas Gilmore-Mary Reed, 1828, Sligo, Ireland ; citing Index to Diocese of Killala and Achonry [does not state whether the index was book, microfilm, and does not name a repository].
[S56] Bill McGee, contributor, and Maureen Doane, transcriber, "Index to Diocese of Killala and Achonry: Marriage Bonds Film 100868," database, IrelandGenWeb Project: Sligo County (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/dioceseofachonryandkillala2.html), entry for Thomas Gilmor-Mary Read, 1828; citing National Archives of Ireland, "Index to Diocese of Killala and Achonry, Marriage Bonds," film no. 100868, p. 52.
[S265] rsboulton_1, "Boulton Family Tree," tree pages, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 June 2015), for Samuel Cairns, born 1828, Ontario, Canada.