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1 Henry TAYLOR1 (1873-1875) [2576]. Born 7 Aug 1873, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.1 Died 3 Jan 1875, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.1 Cause: Malaria after a 4 week illness. Buried All Saints' Anglican Cemetery, Collingwood.2
Note from Greg Mander to Randy Richardson regarding a visit to All Saint's Anglican Cemetery
Sept 3,2002 - "A couple of weeks ago, I was in the Collingwood library where I checked the All Saint's Anglican Cemetery listing. It was a new listing and the surprising thing was that this listing did not have John Taylor or his son Henry listed. During my Monday Sept 2 visit to the cemetery, I came across the caretaker and told him who I was looking for and the problem of the two conflicting listings. He knew right
away who I was looking for and asked me if I was the person who had been in touch with the Church. Of course that was you, Randy. He took me over to the spot that he had identified as being the location of the grave-a site without a stone. I pulled out the old listing I had and we agreed that this spot didn't make sense as being correct. We went over to his truck, he had the new listing which also didn't fit the spot he had picked -he phoned his office for them to verify my old listing and than we went out there to look again. I spotted a stone that was on my list and all of a sudden realized that the direction of the stones went off in an east west direction where they are normally south to north. We followed each stone in order of my listing and there was still another stone to look at in that row and it turned out to be Henry's!!!!! It is in very poor condition and most of it is unreadable being of that soft white stone they used in those days. There is a fair amount of lichen and black fungus on the stone. The caretaker started scrapping it with a knife which was only making matters worse. I asked him to stop and told him we would use soap and water along with a brush. We tried to do a rubbing but didn't have the correct paper or pencil. There is also another large stone at this place which is in real bad shape but it could be John's. The caretaker was going to get someone else to look at it.".
2 John TAYLOR1 (c. 1844-1880) [34]. Born c. 1844, Corke, Ireland. Marr Catherine BELL 23 Feb 1870, At John's home in Osprey Township.1 Died 16 Apr 1880, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada. Buried All Saints' Anglican Cemetery, Collingwood, with son Henry.
4 Joseph TAYLOR1 ( - ) [2578].
5 Annie MCGORKLE1 ( - ) [2579].
3 Catherine BELL3,4,5,6 (1854-1927) [17]. Born 3 Sep 1854, Singhampton, Ontario, Canada.1,4 Marr George Francis RIDDELL 16 Aug 1882, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.1,2,6,7 Died 21 Dec 1927, Islington, Ontario at the home of her daughter, Pearl Higgin.1,8 Cause: Carcinoma of Kidney. Buried 24 Dec 1927, Union Cemetery, Singhampton, Ontario, Canada.2
From the Collingwood Enterprise, Thursday, Jan. 27, 1927.
"Mrs. Riddell left last week to spend the rest of the winter in Toronto and Niagara." (In Niagara Falls, New York, Catharine would have been visiting her son Frank and daughter-in-law Molly Riddell, granddaughters Elizabeth and Dorothy and great grandson Jack Strachan (Elizabeth's son, born October 9, 1926). There were a number of family photographs taken probably in the early part of her visit probably in the February-April time frame. Jack Strachan, who is in the photographs, appears to be about six months old.)
From The Advertiser, (newspaper) December 29, 1927.
"Obituary - Mrs. Catharine Bell. On December 21st, 1927, after a lingering illness at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. J.S. Higgins, Scott St., Islington, Catharine Riddell in her 74th year. The funeral service was held at the above address on Thursday at 8 p.m.. Interment was made at Singhampton on Saturday. (Mrs. J.S. Higgins was in fact Mrs. J.E. Higgin, which would be Catharine's daughter, Pearl, from her marriage to George F. Riddell.).
6 Angus BELL5,9,10 (c. 1818-1897) [24]. Born c. 1818, Islay, Argyll, Scotland.1,2,5 Marr Jane MCDOWELL c. 1841. Died 18 Sep 1897, Singhampton, Nottawasaga Township, Ontario.2,11 Cause: Kidney and heart disease. Buried 20 Sep 1897, Union Cemetery, Singhampton, Ontario, Canada.2
Angus was born circa 1818 in Islay, most probably in the area of Conisby, Kilchoman which was the known residence of his Father Ronald and youngest Brother CCAB in 1823.”
Angus Bell is shown as being a "conveyancer, issuer of marriage licenses and Township Clerk of Nottawasaga, Twp., coroner." He was the Township Clerk from 1850 until his death in 1897.
From the Creeemore Star (newspaper), Village of Singhampton in 1889, written by J.B. Spurr, Editor:
"In 1846 he (Angus) settled on the lot which has seen the rise and progress of the village of Singhampton."
From an Ancestry.com tree:
Last Will and Testament.
The subject will was probated on January 25, 1898.
All the rest of my children, namely: Ronald, Margaret, Sarah Jane, Catherine, Mary Ann, Thomas Wildridge, and Janet have had all their portion during my lifetime I therefore leave them nothing.
From the Enterprise-Messenger (Collingwood, Ontario newspaper).
Sept 23, 1897 - "Deceased had a large family. His wife died some years ago. The best known of the survivors are his sons, Angus of Singhampton, and Thomas of Dakota. Of the daughters, Mrs Greenaway (Agnes) and Mrs. Riddell (Catherine formerly Taylor nee Bell) live at Singhampton, and another daughter Lizzie (Elizabeth Bell) lives on the homestead. One daughter (Mary Ann Stevenson) lives in Toronto, and another (Margaret Crawford formerly Lang nee Bell) in Collingwood Township (most likely) Osprey Township)"
Obituary of Donald Bell in " The Orillia Packet" 18 March 1881, says "He leaves one brother in Canada, Mr. A. Bell, of Singhampton, Clerk of the township [of Nottawasaga]"
From Elaine Bell, "At the time of the 1861 Census, Donald, John and Angus were living in Enumeration District #2 in the Township of Nottawasaga in Simcoe County, and Mary and CCA in Enumeration District #4 in the Township of Osprey in Grey County. Both Enumeration Districts include parts of the village of Singhampton.".
12 Ronald BELL12 (c. 1778- ) [15122]. Born c. 1778, Islay, Argyll, Scotland.12,13
13 Margaret MACLERGAN12 (c. 1778-1856) [15123]. Born c. 1778, Islay, Argyll, Scotland.12 Died 19 Jul 1856, Nottawasaga, Simco, Canada West, Canada.12
7 Jane MCDOWELL1 (1823-1878) [25]. Born 1823, Ireland.2,14 Died 25 Aug 1878, Singhampton, Nottawasaga Township, Ontario.2 Buried Union Cemetery, Singhampton, Ontario, Canada.
Jane was born in Ireland and was probably living in the Township of Innisfil or West Gwillimbury where she met Angus. They were married in approximately 1841.
The inscription on the Bell family monument in Union Cemetery incorrectly lists Jane's death as 1897. The actual year of her death was 1878.
| 1 | "Information provided by Nancy Hallam Sneddon". |
| 2 | "Information provided by Greg Mander". |
| 3 | "Information provided by Beverly Gutenberg". |
| 4 | Recorded by Robert Royal, April 26, 1901, "1901 Canadian Census". |
| 5 | "Cliff Rusk website, http://members.home.net/c.rusk/AngusBell&JaneMcDowell.html". |
| 6 | "Ontario Marriage Registration of George Francis Riddell and Kate Taylor". |
| 7 | "Biography of Augustine Riddell". |
| 8 | "Memories of Margaret Wright". |
| 9 | "Nancy Hallam Sneddon". |
| 10 | "Online family tree of Livers/Bell & Mahnke/Foster Families by shansloat1". |
| 11 | "Ontario Canada Deaths". |
| 12 | "Information initially provided by Elaine Bell". |
| 13 | "Information provided by Alan Bell - 5-1-2020". |
| 14 | "Information provided by Cynthia Segorski". |