The Descendants of George Dagg, Pontiac County

 

Contributed by Gloria Tubman

 

[This is an interim file only, pending completion of research]

 

George Dagg owned the land lots 9 (both s½ & n½)  range 6, township of Clarendon, county of Pontiac, Lower Canada or Quebec.  This land is now the Village of Shawville on the west side of Centre Street to Rectory Road.  From the 1842 census, George was an innkeeper who said he had been in Canada for 19 years (very questionable time as children were born in Ireland in the early 1820s).  From the 1861 census the 200 acres had valuation of $2,000, and had 70 acres cleared.  In 1841, George Dagg sold land to the Anglican Mission for the first St. Paul’s Church located in the Village Cemetery.  In 1869, son Isaac sold more land to the Mission to enlarge the Village Cemetery (so named as both Anglican & Methodists were buried here).

 

George Dagg was a bigamist.  He first married Mary Connelly in Ireland, had three daughters, left Ireland and immigrated to Canada leaving the family in Ireland to follow.  From family lore, George faithfully wrote to Mary at first but after some time the letters stopped.  Mary saved or arranged passage to Canada for her and the three daughters.  Daughter Sarah died at sea during the crossing, Mary hid the body as she did not want her daughter buried at sea.  Sarah is supposed to be buried in Halifax (possibly Quebec depending on landing port).  Mary & the two girls came to Clarendon and found that George had married (have not found the registration for this marriage) Rosanna Stewart and had a second family.  When asked if she wanted to take George to law, Mary reportedly answered if they are happy leave them be.  Mary lived at Cator’s Creek about one mile from George and Rosanna.   After both wives died: Mary in 1847 and Rosanna in 1851, George married Ann Adams. 

 

George Dagg born 1794 (may be later dates vary in census & church registrations) in Prospect (unsubstantiated), County Tipperary, Ireland and died March 4, 1866 in Clarendon, Quebec and is buried in the Village Cemetery at Shawville - no tombstone. 

 

1st marriage 1815 in Finnoe Parish, Tipperary, Ire to  Mary Connelly , born abt 1800, died November 21, 1847, Clarendon, buried in Village Cemetery, no tombstone. 3 children  (information given by a descendant of this marriage)

 

children of GEORGE DAGG AND MARY CONNELLY:

I.          Mary Dagg b August 10, 1826, Ireland, died February 7, 1913, buried St. Matthew’s Cemetery, Charteris, Quebec, married April 24, 1849 in Clarendon Parish John Smyth (Smith) born abt 1801, died Nov 28, 1890, Clarendon buried St. Matthew’s.   - 8 children

A.      Mary Ann Smith, b March 2, 1850, d January 5, 1958 married James Henry Riley b 1857 d 1940 both buried in Village Cemetery - 3 children

1.        Mary Gertrude Riley b January 20, 1887, d 1964 buried Village Cemetery

2.        Adelaide Florence Riley b July 22, 1890, d 1935 m October 21, 1903 William Joseph Devine b 1868, d 1939, both buried St. Matthew’s,  - 11 children

3.        Thomas Henry Harold Riley b May 26, 1892, d 1969 m Christina Doherty b 1908 d December 30, 1985, both buried Village Cemetery - 7 children

B.      Margaret Smith, b June 28, 1852, Clarendon d July 10, 1949 m Richard Hodgins buried St Matthew’s

C.      Elizabeth Smith, b Dec 17, 1854 Clarendon, d March 13, 1949 m January 1, 1883 Robert Havelin, (descendent of John Dagg & Sarah Hodgins)  b 1853 both buried St. George’s Ladysmith, Quebec - 6 children

1.        Dora May Havelin b 1885 m Andrew Silas Sunstrum - 2 children

2.        Moses Irvine Havelin b December 14, 1887 m September 11, 1912, Georgina Tippins - 5 children

3.        Margaret Adelaide Havelin b March 26, 1890 m June 26, 1907, Frederick William Thrun - 1 child

4.        Mabel Ann Havelin, b May 3, 1895 m April 17, 1918 Harold Forrest Cole - 1 child

5.        Beatrice Frederick Havelin b June 28, 1898, m December 4, 1919 John Frederick

6.        Robert John Wellington Havelin b December 27, 1892; 1 m October 30, 1918 Annie Belle Davidson - 7 children,  2 m Hazel Stanley - 0 children

D.     Sarah Jane Smith b June 23, 1857, Clarendon, d June 21, 1928 North Bay, ONT, m May 23, 1882 James Cole b Jan 12, 1858 Onslow, QUE d December 19, 1933, North Bay - 8 children

1.        John Henry Cole b June 18, 1883, d January 15, 1884

2.        Mary Alice Cole b March 10, 1885 d November 17, 1968, m May 9, 1905 Harry Rennick

3.        William James Cole b March 13, 1887, d April 22, 1942

4.        Robert Cole b March 2, 1889, d March 12, 1979

5.        Lindsay George Cole b June 20, 1892 m Annie Lang

6.        George Walter Cole b July 31, 1894 Campbells Bay, QUE, d December 1, 1950 North Bay m June 14, 1920 Clara Florence Mary Margaret Cole b June 24, 1902, d April 16, 1992 North Bay - 5 children

7.        Sarah Maud Cole b July 31, 1894 Campbell’s Bay d October 1978 m September 26, 1917 William George Harrison b Sept 26, 1917, d April 1976

8.        Enie Cole b July 19, 1900 m Clarence Albert Mulligan Black b March 14, 1893 - 4 children

E.      Rebecca Smith b July 29, 1859, d Sept 19,1909 m April 30, 1889 George H. Armitage b August 14, 1863 d 1936 both buried St. Matthew’s - 4 children

1.        Richard Lawrence Armitage, b May 8, 1892 m August 16, 1916 Louise Brown b March 15, 1883 - adopted 1 daughter

2.        Matthew J. Armitage b July 14, 1894

3.        George Percy Armitage b December 4, 1898 m Velma Holt

4.        Thomas Henry W. Armitage b August 20, 1897, m September 23,1916 Susan Ellen Levina Harris – 12 children

F.      Adelaide Ellen Smith b November 1, 1861 Clarendon d 1953 buried Wesley United Cemetery, Charteris, m June 15, 1892 Archibald Emmerson b May 8, 1865 - 4 children

1.        Ernest John Emmerson b January 3, 1893, m December 7, 1921 Paska Morrison - 8 children

2.        Mary Levina Emmerson b September 2, 1895 d May 18, 1982 m October 17, 1917 Andrew Garnet Tippins (descendent of John Dagg & Sarah Hodgins ) - 4 children

3.        Cornwallis Archibald Emmerson b February 18, 1898

4.        Elizabeth Rebekah Sophia Emmerson b October 24, 1902, d 1998 m December 7, 1921 George Allan Gray b July 20, 1895 d July 1957 - 2 children

G.     Thomas John Smith b November 15, 1863 d 1947 1m May 10, 1892 Hanna Trudeau b 1871 d 1922,- 8 children,  2m Lottie Morrison, 1 child, - all buried St. George’s

1.        Walter Smith b June 26, 1890, m Annie Brown - 8 children

2.        Mary Smith b May 25, 1893 m August 2, 1916 Fred Wilfred Young - 4 children

3.        Alice Minerva Smith b March 20, 1895 m March 26, 1924 George Ernest Black b 1896 d 1952 Falconbridge, ONT - 8 children

4.        Florence Smith, b March 6, 1897

5.        Thomas John b January 14, 1899 d March 6, 1899

6.        Charles Thomas Smith b May 1, 1900, d June 10, 1970 m 1928 Sadie Emily Havelin (descendent of John Dagg & Sarah Hodgins) b June 10, 1906, d July 27, 1989 - buried St. George’s - 8 children

7.        Charlotte Smith b June 3, 1903, d 1977 m October 8, 1919 Joseph Brown b Feb 12, 1887 d 1979 - both buried St. George’s - 4 children

8.        Laurena Smith m Halldon Villemarie

9.        Perley Smith m Betty Metcalfe - 2 children

H.      Matthew George Smith, b January 17, 1868 d July 17, 1954, buried Fort William, ONT, 1m May 10,1892 Fanny Havelin (descendent of John Dagg & Sarah Hodgins) - 2 children, 2m  Elizabeth Eva Ene Jane Martin b 1897 d August 30, 1958 buried Fort William  - 13 children

1.        William Edmund Smith b June5, 1892 Thorne, d Feb 24, 1975,Thunder Bay

2.        Bertha May Smith b June 10, 1894 Thorne m Qilburt S. Brown

3.        Mary Orpha Elizabeth Smith b March 20, 1898, d   August 9, 1970 Thunder Bay 1m Joseph Corbett d 1920 - 3 children, 2m Drew Lovering d 1944, - 1 child

4.        Theressa Olive Carolins Smith b Feb 16, 1900 Onslow Twsp QUE, d May 25, 1972 Thunder Bay m March 17, 1919 Fort William - Arthur Edgar Barrie b January 23, 1899 Fort William d June 4, 1976 Thunder Bay - 6 children

5.        John Joseph Earl Smith b Feb 11, 1902, Onslow, d Windsor

6.        Martin Gerald Smith b January 10, 1904 Onslow, d 1977 Thunder Bay

7.        Reginald Webster Smith b December 15, 1905 Onslow,

8.        George Vivien Smith b April 9, 1909 Onslow, m December 27,1931 Berna McQueen

9.        Hilliard Andrew Smith b January 13, 1912 Onslow

10.     Clinton Smith b March 11,1914 Slate River, ONT m Janet McQueen

11.     Gladys Smith b August 14, 1915 Slate River, d June 5, 1987 Thunder Bay m June 1, 1933 John Caren b July 16,1913 d Nov 22, 1988 - - 6 children

12.     Thelma Adelaide Rebecca Smith b February 7, 1918 Slate River, d February 8, 1993 Thunder Bay m Sept 29, 1942 Oscar Sideen - 4 children

13.     Wilbert Walter Smith b March 1, 1920 m December 30,1944 Dorothy Simmonds - 7 children

14.     Ivy Honora Daphane Smith b February 6, 1924 Fort William m Gerald Clinton - 5 children

II.     Elizabeth Dagg m James McCauley (MacCauley, Cawley, McCawley) b 1816 d 1899 - 8 children

A.      Julia MacCauley b 1858, d March 8, 1908 Montreal, m Sept 25, 1875 Calumet Island, Joseph Lamaire dit St-Germain b April 5, 1854, d Nov 24, 1912 - 13 children

1.        Joseph Lamaire dit St-Germain

2.        Elizabeth Lamaire dit St-Germain, b 1877 m Joseph Belanger - 7 children

3.        Alexandre Lamaire dit St-Germain m Rosalie Bertha LeClerc - 3 children

4.        Marie Amilie Lamaire dit St-Germain, b 1879 m Lenard Tanney - 2 children

5.        Julia Agnes Alexandre Lamaire dit St-Germain b 1881 1m Ildege Adam - 1 child, 2m Felix Gervais - 0 children

6.        Adelaine Caroline Lamaire dit St-Germain b 1883 m John Joseph Kelly - 2 children

7.        Helena Lamaire dit St-Germain b 1885 d 1979 m Joseph M. Kelly - 5 children

8.        Annie Maude Lamaire dit St-Germain m Hector Bertrand - 5 children

9.        Violet Lamaire dit St-Germain

10.     Julia Lamaire dit St-Germain m Joseph Oscar Ronen dit LaFleur - 4 children

11.      Mary Eugene Ruby Lamaire dit St-Germain 1m Jean Baptiste L. Valliere - 4 children, 2m Edward Langlois

12.     Leonard Lamaire dit St-Germain

13.     Leo Lamaire dit St-Germain m Mary Foisey - 4 children

B.      John McCauley m Catherine Maheral

C.      Daniel McCauley b 1851 m Mary Ann Smith - 7 children.  Both are buried in unmarked graves at the Catholic Cemetery in Thorne Township, near Ladysmith, Quebec.

1.        John McCauley m Catherine Dagg (descendent of John Dagg & Sarah Hodgins) - 1 adopted child

2.        Mary McCauley m Patrick Murdock  - 8 children

3.        James McCauley b 1877 m Catherine Louise Dumas - 3 children

4.        Daniel McCauley b 1879

5.        Catherine Elizabeth McCauley b 1881 d 1906

6.        Horatio Michael McCauley b 1892

7.        Maggie Louise McCauley b 1899 m Richard Watters

D.     Denis McCauley b 1859 m Caroline Brizard dit St-Germain

E.      Elizabeth McCauley b 1863 m William Cahill - 9 children

1.        James Charles Cahill b 1884

2.        William John Baptiste Cahill b 1886 m Christine Villeneuve

3.        Charles James Cahill b 1887 d 1901

4.        Mary Ann Cahill b 1888 m John Cunningham

5.        Mary Margaret Cahill b 1891 m Charles Donnelly - 1 child

6.        Mary Elizabeth Cahill b 1894 m Thomas Donnelly

7.        Thomas Edmund Cahill b 1896 m Mary Irene Hearty

8.        Theresa Ernestine Cahill b 1899 m Charles O’Hare

9.        Stillborn son Cahill b&d 1901

F.      Bridget McCauley b 1857 m David Brizard dit St-Germain - 10 children

1.        Elizabeth St-Germain b 1877

2.        Charles David St-Germain b 1880

3.        Cecile St-Germain b 1883

4.        Joseph David St-Germain b 1885

5.        Alberta St-Germain b 1885

6.        Michael James St-Germain b 1886 1m Mary Katherine O’Hare - 1 child, 2m Mary Elizabeth Edna Sealey

7.        Louis Arthur St-Germain b 1888 m Frances Christina Geroux

8.        Marie Elizabeth St-Germain b 1893 m Alfred Ladouceur - 1 child

9.        Alberta St-Germain b 1895 m John Mark Gardner - 2 children

10.     Joseph Richard St-Germain b 1897 m Delisca Tremblay

G.     Sarah McCauley m Joseph Labine - 11 children

1.        Celeste Labine m Ulysse Gervais

2.        Joseph (Gaulderie) Labine m Emma Amyot

3.        Mary Jane Labine m John Thomas McMahon

4.        Sarah Ann (Guildry) Labine m Edmond Gervais

5.        Elizabeth Labine b 1874 m Joseph Shannon

6.        James Labine b 1877

7.        Joseph Gabriel Labine b 1886 d 1886

8.        John Andrew Labine b 1890

9.        Agnes Faustina Labine b 1892

10.     Lauretta Julia Labine b 1893

11.   Mabel Malvina Labine b 1900

H.      Ann McCauley 1m Frederic Ladouceur - 6 children, 2m Jean Baptiste Turgeon - 5 children

1.        Alexandre Ladouceur 1m Mathilda Dufault, 2m Elizabeth Turgeon, 3m Marie Josephine Georgina Hamelin

2.        Daniel Ladouceur m Clemence Godin - 2 children

3.        Sara Ladouceur m Pierre Godin - 14 children

4.        Mary Theresa Turgeon b 1889

5.        Rosan Turgeon b 1873

6.        Lizzie Turgeon m Wencesles Thibault

7.        Marguerite Turgeon m David Trottier

8.        John Turgeon m Mary Trottier - 6 children

III.   Sarah Dagg - died at sea

 

2nd marriage to Rosanna Stewart, (no record).  No additional information is known on Rosanna Stewart.

 

children of GEORGE DAGG AND Rosanna Stewart:

IV.   William Dagg b 1833, emigrated to Australia with brother Charles in 1870, d 1904 Australia

V.      Caroline Dagg b March 22, 1834, d June 10,1912 1m February 11, 1855 George (Paddy George Hodgins s/o James - Pioneer James Hodgins & Elizabeth Dagg) b June 28, 1827 Clarendon d July 27, 1892 - 10 children 2m Nathaniel Nesbitt .  Caroline & George are buried at Wesley United Cemetery, Charteris

A.      James Hodgins b 1857

B.      William Hodgins, b 1859, d December 29, 1884

C.      Eliza-Ann Hodgins b January 22, 1861 d October 11, 1929 m April 1, 1890 Arnprior, Benjamin Howard (grandchild of Pioneer James Hodgins & Elizabeth Dagg) - 8 children

1.        John Milton Howard b 1890, d 1917

2.        Inez Mabel Howard b 1892 m William Albert Armitage

3.        Cecil Garnet Howard m Pearl Greer - 5 children

4.        Jane Jenny Florence Howard b 1895 m Charles Sunstrum - 3 children

5.        Henry Gordon Howard b 1896 d 1981 m Louisa Early

6.        Benjamin Garfield Howard

7.        Laura May Howard b 1903, d 1906

D.     Stewart Hodgins b October 8, 1862 d September 20, 1919 m April 1, 1890 Arnprior Mary Meacham b February 10, 1874, d May 18, 1968 -7 children

1.        Stephen Lawrence Hodgins b September 8, 1893 d May 12, 1975 m September 12, 1923 Annie Bond - 11 children (this is my family)

2.        Florence Julia Hodgins b 1895, d 1895

3.        Clarence Hodgins b December 25, 1897, d December 25, 1974 m October 1916 Ethel Swain - 6 children

4.        Byron Austin Hodgins b March 28, 1898 d February 1964 Regina SASK 1m Bertha Harris - 4 children, 2m Rose Herbert - 1 child

5.        Margaret Eva Hodgins, b May 26, 1905 d March 4, 1960 Sudbury ONT m Apr. 6, 1920 Thomas Heman Hodgins b December 23, 1897 d May 23, 1975 - 6 children

6.        Linsay Hodgins m Veronica Kane - 4 children

7.        Gladys Mary Hodgins b June 2, 1910 d May 18, 1988 Sudbury 1m Herbert Wesley Haggerty - 3 children, 2m William D. Belyea

E.      John Wesley Hodgins, b 1866 m Laura French – 7 children

F.      Theresa Hodgins b 1869

G.     Margaret Hodgins, b 1870 d April 20, 1967 NY, USA m Charles Beale

H.      Rose Anna Hodgins b 1870 m December 19, 1893 William Smith - 4 Children

1.        Eason Smith

2.        Lena Emily Smith

3.        Lila Smith

4.        Alan Smith

I.        George Issac Hodgins b January 29, 1873, d December 7, 1873

J.       Humphrey Hodgins, b June 23, 1874 m Mary Sollers – 2 children, possibly more

VI.   George Dagg b 1835 m 1868 Horton Township Renfrew County, ONT Mary Richardson, 1870 emigrated to Australia as a single man with brothers William & Charles.

VII.   Charles Dagg b 1839, d 1922 Australia  (note have sometimes seen Charles Percy but not in church records of Clarendon) m June 17, 1860 Ann Dagg d/o John Dagg & Sarah Hodgins.  Charles Dagg, his wife Ann and their children emigrated to Australia in 1870, aboard the ship 'Royal Dane'.  Also emigrating on the same ship were Charles' brothers George and William, and Ann's brother Richard Dagg.  [Ed. Note - the Royal Dane arrived on November 19, 1870 in Rockhampton]

A.      George3 Dagg, b. Clarendon, Quebec.  (1863-1917)

B.      William John Dagg, b. Clarendon, Quebec. 1868

C.      Robert Dagg, b. Clarendon, Quebec 1869

D.     Emily Dagg (1873) m George Alcorn

E.      Charles Stewart Dagg (1875-) m Isabella Brown

F.      Martha Jane Dagg  (1878-) m James Morris

G.     Rosannah Dagg (1882-1961) m Samuel Young (Heather Peterson’s family)

H.      Charlotte Elizabeth Dagg b1883

VIII. John Dagg b 1841 d 1865 buried Villiage Cemetery

IX.      Robert Dagg b 1843 d 1908, m November 3, 1880 Emily Greer b May 10, 1853 - 10 children (Dominion Land Grants - have land to Robert Dagg & Emily Greer)

A.      Rose Ann Dagg b June 7, 1872 d 1938 m November 21, 1900 John Alfred Hodgins b July 21, 1873 d 1937 both buried St. Matthew’s - 1 child

1.        Percy Ewert Hodgins b 1908 d 1979 April 14, 1947 Mary Sarah Adelaide Wall b July 30, 1911 d 1968 both buried St. Matthew’s - 3 children

B.      George Alfred Dagg b October 28, 1874 m December 19, 1912 Sarah Cecilia Corrigan - 2 children

C.      Sarah Jane Dagg b March 21, 1877 m August 2, 1899 Thomas Rollins

D.     Isabella Ada Dagg b June 1, 1880 m June 27, 1906 Thomas Francis Burgess

E.      Archibald Dagg b May 21, 1882  (Dominion Land Grants - land to Archibald Dagg)

F.      Isaac John Dagg b February 14, 1886, d March 26, 1886 Buried Village Cemetery

G.     William Herbert Dagg b 1887

H.      Edna Violetta Dagg b July 30, 1892 m June 25, 1913 Joseph Robertson Edwards

I.        Ivy Merle Dagg b April 12, 1895 d April 25, 1895 buried Village Cemetery

J.       John Hiram Dagg b April 12, 1895 d May 5, 1895 buried Village Cemetery

X.     Isaac Dagg b April 1, 1846, died February 1, 1893 buried Village Cemetery m May 26, 1874 Susan Euphrosine Shouldice b September 3, 1857 Braeside, ONT - 5 children.  Susan Shouldice remarried Thomas Telford and had 2 children

A.      Ann Jane Dagg b April 25, 1876

B.      John Henry Dagg b March 4, 1884 m August 6, 1900 Sarah Francis Nicholson - 7 children

1.                    Edith Sarah May Dagg b December 4, 1907 d May 1, 1991 m Lyle Hall - 8 children

2.                    Ida Pearl Dagg b August 7, 1919 d January 1, 1962 m Hector Joseph Foisey - 1 child

3.                    Rita Patricia Dagg b July 10, 1912 d February 1986 m Eldridge McNabb - 3 children

4.                    Mary Alexandra Eunice Dagg m Frederick Parks - 7 children

5.                    Myrtle Amelia Annie Dagg b December 8, 1913 d 1999 m Alexander Joseph Chabot - 3 children

6.                    James Harrison Dagg b March 20, 1924, d August 4, 1988 m Thelma Larkin - 10 children

7.                    Ruby Jean Dagg m 1945 Ernest John Russell - 5 children

C.      Amelia Emmeline Dagg b April 11, 1886

D.     Ida May Dagg, b October 4, 1888 m May 3, 1916 St.Lukes Ottawa, Ervan Lamont

E.      Cecil Garnet Dagg b March 24, 1891

 

XI.   ARCHIBALD Dagg b February 10, 1849, died February 23, 1851 buried Village Cemetery, Shawville

 

3rd marriage to Ann Adams on May 11, 1857 at Portage du Fort Anglican Mission.  Ann was born about 1809 and died January 28, 1872.  According to newspaper reports written in the 1930’s Ann was investigated at the time of George’s death. She was suspected of poisoning George.  After the reading of George’s will where Ann did not inherit, the investigation did not proceed further.