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Alin M. Merrick

Male Abt 1845 -


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Alin M. Merrick was born about 1845 in Canada (son of Herbert B. Merrick and Maggie Weir).

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 3120


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Herbert B. Merrick was born about 1842 in Canada (son of Aaron Merrick and Mary Byrne Burritt).

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    • Reference Number: 3118

    Herbert married Maggie Weir on 8 Nov 1870 in Leeds & Grenville County, Ontario, Canada. Maggie was born about 1848 in Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Maggie Weir was born about 1848 in Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 3119

    Children:
    1. 1. Alin M. Merrick was born about 1845 in Canada.
    2. Martha Merrick was born about 1846 in Canada.
    3. Edward Merrick was born about 1849 in Canada.
    4. Edmund Merrick was born on 28 Mar 1828.
    5. Olive Merrick
    6. Henry Osgoode Merrick


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Aaron Merrick was born on 1 Oct 1800 in Ontario, Canada (son of William Merrick and Sylvia Comstock).

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    • Reference Number: 3116

    Aaron married Mary Byrne Burritt. Mary was born on 29 Oct 1810 in Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Mary Byrne Burritt was born on 29 Oct 1810 in Canada.

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    • Reference Number: 3117

    Children:
    1. 2. Herbert B. Merrick was born about 1842 in Canada.
    2. Stephen Merrick was born on 4 Oct 1805 in Merrickville, Leeds, Ontario, Canada.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  William Merrick was born on 30 Apr 1763 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (son of William Merrick and Ruth LNU); died on 5 Jul 1844 in Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada; was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Merrickville, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada.

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    • FSID: L41K-TWN
    • Reference Number: 2876
    • LifeSketch: 1776, Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada; Founder of Merrickville, Ontario, Canada

    Notes:

    William Merrick was recommended by Governor Simcoe to build the mill to open up the Rideau. The mill is located near the site called "Factory Village" and on the Ka-ya-derosseras Creek, where General Gordon also built a grist mill. He and his wife, Sylvia Comstock, came to Canada as United Empire Loyalists, where he founded the town of Merrickville, near Montreal, in 1789. Other residences of William Merrick are New Oswegatchie and Sorrel, Quebec, Canada. This source also gives the year of death for William Merrick as 1842. (Snowdon - North Wales, Britain to Union, New York, USA (Southwest of Syracuse, NY).

    Per 'Lanark Legacy: Nineteenth Century Glimpses of an Ontario County', Pg 204, William Merrick was licensed in the 1830s at Merrickville for a 42-gallon still and later an 85-gallon unit for the the manufacture of 'spirituous liquors'.

    In 1999 the Merrickville Library Genealogical Reference Center had record that William Merrick moved to Merrickville when William Jr was three years old or approximately 1790.

    Died:
    Collar Hill Cemertery

    William married Sylvia Comstock. Sylvia was born on 23 Feb 1848 in Merrickville, Grenville County, Ontario,Canada; died on 23 Feb 1848 in Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Sylvia Comstock was born on 23 Feb 1848 in Merrickville, Grenville County, Ontario,Canada; died on 23 Feb 1848 in Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 3084

    Notes:

    Died:
    Collar Hill Cemetery

    Children:
    1. Charlotte Merrick was born on 7 Mar 1791 in Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Can; died in 1867.
    2. William Merrick was born on 28 Mar 1793 in Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada; died on 19 Apr 1867 in Merrickville, Leeds & Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
    3. Charles Merrick was born on 10 Jan 1796 in Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada.
    4. Paula Merrick was born on 23 Apr 1798 in Ontario, Canada; died on 23 Apr 1804.
    5. 4. Aaron Merrick was born on 1 Oct 1800 in Ontario, Canada.
    6. Lavinia Merrick was born on 20 Aug 1803 in Ontario, Canada.
    7. Stephen Hedger Merrick was born on 4 Jun 1807 in Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada; died on 2 Aug 1860 in Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada.
    8. Aurelia Merrick was born on 14 Sep 1810 in Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada; died in May 1913 in Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada.
    9. Terrence Hamilton Merrick was born on 11 Jul 1813 in Merrickville, Grenville Ontario, Canada; died on 23 Jan 1885 in Bruce, Ontario, Canada.
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