* There have been no family tree
submissions on this descendancy. The
information presented below has been compiled from a number of undocumented
and unverified sources. I
make no representation whatever as to the accuracy or completeness of this
information. It is presented
anecdotally only, as a guideline family outline. Please do NOT rely on this data as a source of
research. If you can add to, or correct
this outline, please send your updates to Jann Callaghan Cullen.
GEORGE BLACKWELL was born in Tipperary, Ireland. Dates given for his birth range between 1802 to 1808. He died in about 1887 in Renfrew, Ontario. He married SUSAN DAGG, born in Tipperary some time between 1804 to 1809. She died about 1893 in Renfrew, Ontario. This family is believed to have emigrated to Canada in about 1834, to Ramsay Twp. Ontario.
Children of George Blackwell and Susan Dagg:
1) Jane Blackwell, was born in about
1823, in Ireland
2) Margaret Blackwell was born in about 1825 in Ireland. She was married in about 1845 in Horton Twp., Renfrew Co. Ont. to JOHN DEAN, b. abt 1828 , d.1/5/1902 Bromley Twp. Renfrew Co. Ont.
Children of Margaret Blackwell
and John Dean:
1) Ann Dean b.1848,
2) George Dean b.5/1850 Haley Twp. Renfrew Co. Ontario,
3) Thomas Dean b.1852,
4) Richard Dean b.1856,
5) Susan Dean b.1858,
6) Eliza Dean b.1860,
7) John Dean b.1864,
8) William Dean b.1866,
9) Margaret Dean b.1875
3) John Blackwell was born about 1831
in Tipperary. Shirley Marie Smart is descended from this line and may be able
to provide more data on this descendancy.
4) Richard Blackwell was born in
about 1833 in Tipperary. He died in
about 1892 He married ELIZABETH MASON,
the daughter of Samuel Mason and Elizabeth Seales. Elizabeth Mason was born in about 1837 and died about 1927.
Child
of Richard Blackwell and Elizabeth Mason:
1) Margaret Blackwell was born Jul 22, 1863 in Renfrew, Ont. She died
Aug. 30, 1930, and is buried at Haley’s Cemetery. She was married on March 20, 1895 to WILLIAM JOHN GUEST, son of
James Guest and Catherine Peever.
William was born on May 8, 1860, and died June 27, 1933.
Children of Margaret Blackwell and
William Guest:
1) Elsie Mildred Guest, born Feb 5, 1896 in Renfrew, Ontario, and
died July 12, 1987.
2) Wilbert James Guest, born Aug 7,
1896 in Renfrew, Ontario, and died Aug 23, 1902
3) Carrie Ethel Guest, born Dec. 24,
1903 in Renfrew, Ontario and died Oct 8, 1983.
5) James Blackwell was born in 1835 in
Ramsay Twp., Lanark Co. He died Jul 15,
1915 in Neepawa, Man. He married
ELIZABETH ARMITAGE. She was born. Jan
1, 1844 and died Aug 23, 1919 in Neepawa, Man.
Child
of James Blackwell and Elizabeth Armitage:
1) Susan Blackwell was born Oct. 1868. She married Thomas Dagg.
6) Thomas Blackwell was born in 1839 in
Ramsay Twp., Lanark Co.
7) Eliza Blackwell was born in 1841
in Ramsay Twp., Lanark Co.
8) William Blackwell was born in 1842 in
Ramsay Twp., Lanark Co.
9) George Blackwell was born in 1845
in Ramsay Twp., Lanark Co.
10) Susanna Blackwell was born in
about 1853 in Ross Twp., Renfrew Co., She died Mar. 12, 1939, in Portage du
Fort, Quebec. She married GEORGE DAGG
of Clarendon, Pontiac Co., Que. Mar 26, 1884.
The marriage notice says that she was married in her father’s house in
Ross Twp. Renfrew. * For more information on this
line, refer to the Family Tree of John Dagg and Jane Jones, posted for Pontiac
County, Quebec.
Children
of Susanna Blackwell and George Dagg:
1) Mary Lorena Dagg
2) Eliza Anne Dagg
3) M. Bertha Dagg
4) John Armand Dagg
5) Albertha Clara Dagg
6) Margaret Edna Dagg
7) Thomas George Dagg
8) Emma Alice Dagg
9) William Alfred Roy Dagg
10) Harvey Melville Dagg
The following is an excerpt
from “Irish Migrants in the Canadas” as compiled by Bruce S. Elliott.
THE GEORGE BLACKWELL FAMILY, of Renfrew, Ontario
"The
Blackwell family of Renfrew County, Ontario was part of a group of Protestant Irish
who came from Co. Tipperary in the early nineteenth century and settled first
on the boundary of Pakenham and Ramsay Townships near the site of the later
village of Clayton. The surnames of other families involved were Collins,
Loney, Stanley, Lewis, Wall, Dagg, Howard, Owens, Smithson, Hodgins, and
Guest. No fewer than six of these
original heads of families in the Clayton area were , like George Blackwell,
married to Daggs. Most of the families
were from the parish of Modreeny, a few from the adjoining parish of
Borrisokane. The George Blackwell
family cannot be found in the parish registers of Modreeny, the home of the
Daggs, so evidently they lived elsewhere in the vicinity.
The
land these families took up in Canada was of inferior quality, and so it is not
surprising that few of them remained where they first settled. As children began to come of age and more
land was needed to establish the new generation on farms, a new move seemed
like a good idea. The group split up around 1850. Some moved to the Bervie area near Kincardine in Bruce
County….. The remaining families, with
two exceptions, moved further up the Ottawa River to the Haleys Station area of
Renfrew County, and settled more or less where the townships of Admaston,
Bromley, Ross and Horton meet. Two of
George Blackwell's children joined their friends in moving to Bruce County,
while the rest settled in Renfrew County with their parents."
Jann Callaghan Cullen
Sept 4, 2001