Hugh & Ellen - Leaving King Township

The Thomas Peacock family left King Township about 1872. Ellen
Peacock’s mother died in King in July, 1875; Sarah Peacock died
in Muskoka in September, 1875 ; Sarah’s son Hugh in March, 1879;
and finally Ellen’s brother-in-law, Samuel Ramsay, in Bruce County
sometime before the census in the spring of 1881.

This last death may have been the reason Hugh and Ellen chose
to move farther west in Ontario to Bruce County for a few years.
Elizabeth Ramsay had only been married about a decade and had
a young family. At any rate, Hugh and Ellen’s youngest child, Ellen
Letitia Etta, called ‘Ettie,' was born in November, 1880 near
Walkerton, Ontario not far from the Ramsays. Their eldest son,
William, had already left Ontario with a new wife to begin a new life
in Manitoba.