Our Founder Immigrant
Thomas Wallace was our line’s first settler. My grandfather’s grandfather from Sligo in Ireland joined a regiment based on Enniskillen in the north. My Dad wrote that he served in Wellington’s Peninsular Campaign in the Napoleonic Wars against Bonapartes in Por-tugal and Spain. He was cook’s corporal in a commissariat that fed the 27th Foot, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [today The Royal Irish Regiment]. The unit then came over to fight in the War of 1812. As was common practice of those days, Wallace chose to take his discharge on this side after hostilities were over. He took up farming in the vicinity of what became Oshawa village, Ontario Co., province of Canada. His pension was 14 pennies but he appeared well turned out for occasions; furnished his son’s house when John married, and left two farms, furniture, goods and chattels as well as money at his death 13 October 1872.
My cousin J. Owen Granville forwarded a true copy of his Will & Testament. Because he placed a mark it is likely that Thomas Wallace was illiterate although classified Gentleman in this document. In any event the reader if not a lawyer will find Thomas was thorough as could be in nailing his affairs down for benefit of heirs.
Last Will and Testament of Thomas Wallace
No. 1059
This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas Wallace of the Village of Oshawa in the County of Ontario and Province of Canada Gentleman made this First day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty six as follows: I give devise and bequeath all my messuages lands, tenements and here ditaments and all my household furniture ready mine good and chattels and all other my real and personal estate and effects whatsoever unto my Wife Honora Wallace heirs executed administrates and assigns to and for her and their own absolute use and benefit according to the nature and quality there of respectively Subject only to the payment of my just debts funeral and testimary expenses and the charges of proving and registering this my Will. And I appoint James Gibbons of the village of Oshawa in the said county of Ontario Laborer and John O’Regan of the same place Cooper Executives of this my Will and hereby revoke all other wills by me at any time heretofore made. I declare this only to be my last Will and Testament and Seal the day and year above written
Signed Sealed Published and declared by the said Thomas signed
Wallace the Testator as and for his last Will and his
Testament in the presence of us who at his request and in Thomas X Wallace the presence of each other have hereinto subscribed our mark
Names as witness to the due execution thereof of the said
Will having been first read over to the said Testator in our presence who appeared perfectly to understand the same and made his mark thereto also in our presence
(Sgd) William McGill of Oshawa aforesaid Physician
(Sgd) R McGee of the same place Solicitor
Province of Ontario I Robert McGee of the Village of Oshawa in the County of Ontario
County of Ontario Solicitor make oath and say 1 That I Knew Thomas Wallace late of
To Wit the Village of Oshawa in the County of Ontario Gentleman deceased 2 That on or about the first day of October of the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty six I was present at the said Village of Oshawa and did see the said Thomas Wallace there sign seal execute and declare the paper writing now produced and shown to me and marked A as and for the last Will and Testament of the said Thomas Wallace 3 That I this deponent and William McGill of the said Village of Oshawa Physician did subscribe our names as witnesses to the execution of the said Will at the request of the said Testator in his presence and in the presence of each other 4 That the several names described as witnesses to the execution of the said Will are of the proper handwriting of this deponent and the said William McGill respectively 5 That I verily believe that the said Testator at the time of the execution of the said last Will and Testament was of sound and perfect mind memory and understanding 6 That the said Testator died on or about the thirteenth day of October last past and was as I am informed and believe at the time of his death as also at the time of the execution of the said Will seized of or interested in Village lot Number Four on the north side of Bond Street and number 4 on the south side of Richmond Street in the said village of Oshawa as marked on a plan of village lots laid out in lot number 10 in the Second Concession of the Town-ship of Whitby by William Karr and that the paper writing herewith annexed is a true copy of the will.
Sworn before me at the Village of Oshawa in the county
Of Ontario this sixteenth day of November AD 1872 R McGee
C A Jones a Commissioner in B R town and aforesaid
County
True copy of Thomas Wallace’s Will & Testament by Owen Granville
Saturday, April 05, 2003
Ancestors Continued:
Uncle Har, see Henry Joseph Brownrigg, etc.
William Patrick Carew (-1856-) Founder Immigrant Stephen Patrick Carew’s #1 son died in infancy Halifax, fifth of nine children. His name according to custom then went to a later brother.
William Patrick Carew (1863-91) Founder Immigrant’s #4 son, his names in memory of William Patrick, #1 son who died an infant. Of nine children, they were #5 and #8.
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Who steals my purse filches steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.[Othello Shakespeare]
Coom Hame
Keith Patrick Cardinal O’Brien fears Scotland could “plunge to 4.5 million” by 2042. So he pleaded Canadian immigrants “return to the home of your ancestors.” Awarded an honorary degree the cardinal was delivering the convocation address in the spring of 2004 to graduates of St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
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