Samuel Cairns

Abt 1828 - 1893  (~ 65 years)

• Name	Samuel Cairns  [1]
  Born	Abt 1828	Campbellville, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Dec 1893	Campbellville, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2, 3]
  	Descendant Jennifer Schuyler Silveira states his death as 4 Dec 1893.
  Narrative	1964  [4]
  	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."
  Buried	Campbellville Burying Ground, Campbellville, Halton Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Person ID	I325	Gilmore-Donald
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2016

  
  

  Last Modified	27 Jun 2015
  Family ID	F115	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Maria Gilmore,   b. 6 Aug 1839, Ireland ,   d. 9 Feb 1900  (Age 60 years)
  Married	Abt 1859  [1, 4]
  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.  [4]
  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

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S384] FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6DSS-7WR : accessed : 15 September 2015) > Ontario Deaths and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947 > Deaths > 1893 > no. 1001-6996 > image 1350, for Samuel Cairns, Halton County, registration no. 006303 (1898); FHL film no. 1,853,578. [S723] Jennifer Schuyler Silveira (jennsilveira@gmail.com) to Janis Walker Gilmore, email, 2 September 2016, subject "Jennifer Lynn Schuyler - Pedigree.". [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.