FALKENBURG - A post-office in Macaulay Township, lot 2, 10th con., 6 miles from Bracebridge, and 68 from Barrie. The neighborhood was first settled in 1862 by Edwin Griffin, Sidney Tibbs, and Samuel Holditch. The Muskoka River, in the vicinity, provides almost unlimited manufacturing power.
Brown, Wm., plasterer.......................} Loughead, Robert, farmer
Clarke, Rev. John, Wesleyan ...................} Loughead, Samuel, farmer
Earnshaw, Joshua, farmer.......................} Low, David, farmer
Forsyth, John, farmer................... } McNee, James, farmer
Galloway, David, shoemaker................... } Miller, Robt., carpenter
Hamilton, A., farmer................................ } Moore, Francis, farmer
Holditch, Samuel, farmer......................... } Moore, Matthias, P.M.,
Jack, John, farmer.................................... } farmer
Jack, William, farmer ...............................} Palmer, John, farmer
Jackson, John, blacksmith....................... } Schafer, Samuel, farmer
Kirby, Nathaniel, farmer.......................... } Stinson, Thomas, farmer
Levier, Chas., farmer................................. } Stinson, Robert, farmer
Levier, James, farmer............................... }
The William Brown above is probably the father-in-law of Catherine Peacock, Mrs. Wm Brown, Jr. He is shown as a stone mason in the census records ,and the son as a farmer.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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