{"id":596,"date":"2019-08-11T02:23:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickson.net\/blog\/?page_id=596"},"modified":"2019-08-11T02:23:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T02:23:36","slug":"1-2-sylvester-helen-household","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wickson.net\/blog\/1-2-sylvester-helen-household\/","title":{"rendered":"1.2 Sylvester\/Helen – Household"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sylvester Campbell-Helen Mason<\/b><\/span>
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The 1841 census in Scotland for the civil parish of Udny, Aberdeenshire, Tillyeve (parish number 249) identifies the members in the family of Sylvester Campbell\u00a0(1784-1844)\u00a0<\/b>and Helen Mason\u00a0(1789-1877). \u00a0Listed are Silvester Campbell (55), Helen Campbell (56), Silvester Campbell (22), William Campbell (20), Isabel Campbell (16), Helen Campbell (15), Adam C. Campbell (14), Margaret Campbell (12), George Campbell (9) and David Campbell (5). \u00a0Also listed are farm hands and servants George Bremar (20),\u00a0Grase Moir (15),\u00a0William Thom (15) and James Gibson (14). \u00a0Missing in this census record are the two oldest children, Jean Campbell (26) and Alexander Campbell (24). \u00a0It is not known at this time if this is due to the fact that one or both of the oldest children were independent and living away from home or if a tragedy had struck and either or both were deceased. \u00a0There is a suggestion in one document from the Campbell-Isaac Genealogy Project that Alexander Campbell “was to have married Ann Isaac”, suggesting, perhaps, that they were betrothed and Alexander or Ann died before they were married. \u00a0Three years later, on March 6, 1844, Sylvester Campbell\u00a0(1784-1844)\u00a0dies; Helen Mason will live until January 29, 1877. \u00a0The farming operation passes to his oldest [surviving] son, Sylvester Campbell (1817-1891) and his wife, Isabella Milne (1821-1883). \u00a0By the 1851 census,\u00a0Sylvester Campbell (1817-1891) and Isabella Milne (1821-1883) are living at Kinnellar, Aberdeenshire with three children, Helen (3), William (1) and Isabella (1 month) together with\u00a0Sylvester’s younger brother, George Campbell (1831-1902) aged nineteen and five servants, one of whom is Sarah Grubb (1832-1901) aged nineteen. \u00a0Four years later,\u00a0George Campbell (1831-1902) marries\u00a0Sarah Grubb (1832-1901) on September 28, 1855 in Scotland. \u00a0In the decade between 1841 and 1851 several members of this Campbell family have made their way together with other Scottish immigrants from the Aberdeenshire area, with surnames like Isaac, Kennedy, Skinner, Carruthers, Mason and McKenzie, to Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada to start their own farming operations and to develop their own families. Either prior to or at the time of the death of\u00a0Sylvester Campbell\u00a0(1784-1844) in 1844, his daughters Isabel Campbell, who marries George Isaac, and Helen Campbell, who marries William Isaac, his son Adam Corbet Campbell (1826-1868), who marries Isabella Isaac in Canada, and, I believe, his son William Campbell (1819-1897), travel to Ontario, Canada to start a new life. \u00a0The Campbell-Isaac Genealogy Project suggests that George and William Isaac, their two parents, William and Margery Isaac, their wives, Helen and Isabella Campbell, Adam Corbet Campbell and several other family members and servants “chartered a ship” and traveled to Canada at the same time. \u00a0On the 1901 Census of Canada, Isabella (Campbell) Isaac, perhaps the only surviving member of this original party, states her year of immigration to Canada as\u00a01842<\/u><\/b>. It is my belief that\u00a0William Campbell (1819-1897) emigrated to Canada at or about this same time. \u00a0Documents in the\u00a0Campbell-Isaac Genealogy Project suggest that the Campbell-Isaac party arrived at the town of Scotland, near Simcoe in Norfolk County about\u00a01842<\/u><\/b>. \u00a0For some reason, these immigrants then traveled to Northumberland County within a very few years and put down their permanent roots there. \u00a0George Campbell and Sarah Grubb join the rest of their family in Northumberland County a few years later. \u00a0The only reference discovered so far to a sojourn in Norfolk County for this group are the references in the Campbell-Isaac Genealogy Project. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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However, independent of any reference in the\u00a0Campbell-Isaac Genealogy Project,\u00a0William Campbell\u00a0<\/b>(1819-1897) is noted as marrying\u00a0Sarah Ann Havens<\/b>\u00a0(1825-1854) in the parish register for Woodhouse Parish, Norfolk County, near Simcoe and Scotland, Ontario in\u00a01845<\/u><\/b>. \u00a0Then, like the members of the Campbell-Isaac party,\u00a0William Campbell<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Sarah Ann (Havens) Campbell<\/b>\u00a0move to Northumberland County to take up residence in Hamilton Township, a few miles from the main body of the Campbell-Isaac party, who settle across the township line in adjoining Haldimand Township. Fragmentary records from the Congregational Church at Cold Springs, Hamilton Township, Northumberland County suggest that\u00a0Willliam Campbell<\/b>\u00a0and his relatively new bride,\u00a0Sarah Ann (Havens) Campbell\u00a0<\/b>arrive in Hamilton Township and join the newly-formed Congregationalist Church at Cold Springs, headed by Reverend\u00a0William Hayden<\/b>\u00a0from 1840 to 1865, in the 1845-1846 reporting year of the church.,\u00a0William Campbell<\/b>\u00a0becomes a Deacon (1845) and Secretary within the church organization and\u00a0Sarah Ann (Havens) Campbell\u00a0<\/b>, his wife of only a few months, probably joins the choir. Family “lore”, related in 2010 by\u00a0Sylvester Campbell<\/b>\u00a0to\u00a0Wayne Wickson<\/b>, suggests that\u00a0William Campbell<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Sarah Ann (Havens) Campbell<\/b>\u00a0were personal friends of\u00a0William Hayden<\/b>\u00a0and his family, perhaps leading to the naming of\u00a0William<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Sarah Ann’s<\/b>\u00a0first son as\u00a0William\u00a0Hayden<\/u>\u00a0Campbell,<\/b>\u00a0the\u00a0William\u00a0H<\/u>. Campbell<\/b>\u00a0who shows up in the 1851\/1852 census record and the\u00a0William\u00a0Hayden<\/u>\u00a0Campbell<\/b>\u00a0whose full name is noted in the birth registration of his (assumed) first son,\u00a0Fredrick Havens Campbell<\/b>\u00a0in 1874.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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William Campbell<\/b>, through his marriage to\u00a0Sarah Ann Havens<\/b>, was connected to two established Loyalist families in Norfolk County – the Havens and the Gilberts. For him to leave Norfolk County and travel the distance to Northumberland County was a very significant decision in the 1840’s. \u00a0There must have been compelling reasons to believe that he could “do better” in Northumberland County. \u00a0The presence of several members of his own family and a significant number of familiar Aberdeen Scotsmen might have provided the incentive for that momentous move out of Norfolk County to Northumberland County. \u00a0By the census of 1851\/1852 William Campbell and Sarah Ann Havens, Adam Corbet Campbell and Isabella Isaac, Isabel Campbell and George Isaac, Helen Campbell and William Isaac and the other members of their party are settled in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada. \u00a0George Campbell and Sarah Grubb will follow them within a few years, as will some of the children of Sylvester Campbell (William’s older brother) and his wife, Isabella Milne. \u00a0Within a decade of Sylvester’s death in 1844, there may be more of Sylvester Campbell and Helen Mason’s children and grandchildren living\u00a0in close proximity\u00a0in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada than remain in Scotland.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sylvester Campbell-Helen Mason (The Household in Aberdeen) The 1841 census in Scotland for the civil parish of Udny, Aberdeenshire, Tillyeve (parish number 249) identifies the members in the family of Sylvester Campbell\u00a0(1784-1844)\u00a0and Helen Mason\u00a0(1789-1877). \u00a0Listed are Silvester Campbell (55), Helen Campbell (56), Silvester Campbell (22), William Campbell (20), Isabel Campbell (16), Helen Campbell (15), Adam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-596","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wickson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/wickson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/596\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}