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Lot Thirteen
George and Hannah Forbes took their • marriage vows in
Cork, Ireland, and came from, there to Merrickville, Ont.;' in
1841; 'where. they .lived for eleven years before they settled
on Lot 13' in 1852. Their four •children were Mary, Richard,,
Frank and Tom. Mary :first married James, Frizner, a wood -
.worker,,, and ;\later''George Burchill, from London. The two
sons, Richard, -who "married ;his' cousin, Ellen. Forbes. a
daughter of Richard and`Rebecca' Kingston Forbes, and Toxo,'
who. 'married, Jane Butters; from Godertch,.:each hadpart of
the home farm later. The 'other son, Frank,: Married Jessie
Patterson. After "'they left Hibbert, they lived on Coburn
Isla hiTP T'rarnk-workked-on the -1.- k-es-0-t-hers-who'have-
had the East 50 since George Forbes,; were.:Richard .:Ferbes,
William Forbes, Kenneth Roney and Russel. Roney -rand the
eWest:50, Torii Fore, Johnoore (pt.)'George Moore
(pt.,
Archie Forbes, John Meagher,` and the present .owner, Wi
lielmus' Lansberger:
-Michael,
and Jeremiah
Flaherty, two bachelors, who were
day laborers,. at at early'date lived near•4the- track in, a log
house'. `Jerry was ,very' small and `short: Mike, had, a. fall while_
workin in John ` '
g Carpenters barn, `whi'ch caused his death:'
Both' Mike and,Jerry died in Dublin.
Those who haveowned the four -acre plot; on this -lot have
;been Frank' Forbes; John' McConnell,- William Kenny, Cath-
erine Kenny; Lapp, Alex Fraser and Mrs. Alex Fraser, who
sold. the plot to the farm owner, Archie Forbes, in.•19,01, some
time after her.husband, was:- found drowned in the cistern.
J-oe.Evans bought the house arid=had_it moved to-DLficili ,'Tlxe
William Kenny who lived here was one' of the several Kennys"
who resided in the:.comrnunity, He'was a' native of Wicklow,
",Ireland From 1880, William and his daughter, Catherine
.lived. hese. till his;; death. Catherine -later -went to th;e States
:and anarried 'there.
Early owners of the East 50,of Lot 14 were Elijah Baker,
David Aikens; .John Forbes and Johnnie Kenny; The first
:to own the West,50 was James Woods, who marriedHanorh,
Boland_ James died here; and =then other members of '.his
family had it' for "their home. '-His son, 1 trick, wast ie_.next_
owner:.;: Sin e�ihese; several have ovrned sr ll - blocks -of -these':
:two..50's Wilfred:.: Feeney; ,Leo `Kroonen and Martin Feeney
have parts of them; ;today. Albert C. Rock, the first ;manager
of the lcucumber,'industry in. Dublin, also lives hereon a
five -acre plot.
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Lot Fifteen
By -184 -7, -Aver 'ohm. Stinson own'e'd Lot 15, ands:in 1851
sold•to`Robert Donkin. for. £150: Donkin, an 1868, donated a
plot offthis lot to the: trustees''of'the:.Ch`s o
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a chnreh: site. 'For'.,sdfn time before the .church .was built,
Rev., Ehriam Patterson from '.
Ephriam ,Stratford <representing
..the
Anglican Ghiireh, hadh been holding ;services" io --the li.omes
along the Huron Road; but :at times not -oftener ftener than once a
Canon Rphriarn Patterson was rector of St...J'ames' An li
can Church,; `Stratford, from December 1851 until June:2
1892; .„AS Well as being an impressive speaker' and an= earnest
:Christian workers .doing.
much mission •work; he was also
deeply interested in educational.; work. '.•:For many years •he
'Was chairman of the old; Grammar `School.; Board::' inStrat-
ford; was.'.a member of -'•the. Count Board of:"Public
YInstruc-
tion ,for granting. a ac r '
certificates ; .and 'also' Public,
School Inspector for Stratford -up till -487-2-------
..T, 'This- s Mission ' r
g oup which he started Was -.Organized by,
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ev.:11 Caulfield into' a congregation in!;1866: ` The frame St.
Many's -Anglican-_C ikcli,'which. is still in use wasbuilt in
1868 -in thepl'ot,donated by Donkin. James Green and`:Robes
,Donkin iwere :its promoters When the church was dedicated
it
was Connected' ed
with T t �
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Anglican Church nMtt
chell.
In 1872 the sum of '1110.62 was ; collected and an organ and
a stool were purchased. The' price: paid was $109.00: ;' Durin
the years this Church has also been connected with Hensall
and, Staffa,' making :a' three -church parish charge.' It was
next with Seaforth; then:'it-was Closed for a,:short 'time, and
reopened under Rev.' Carlton, of , Mitchell..Since" September;
-1939, it: has -been"•.connected ~again' with St Thomas'i Church
in Seaforth. In the Chancel of the;Seafor',h chuircli is a beau-
tiful "stained' glass window bearing the following inscription,
In lrjv nt, m rrc;o7; y of Robert Donkin, relied 1887'and his:wife,-:
Ann Donkin, died 1890.
Sone_ of ' the 'rectors 'of St. Mary's ? Church during the,
years. have been: Rev. H: Caulfield; Rev. Freeman `Harding,
Rev. William B. Evens, Rev. Pierre B. DeLorn, 'Rev.' H. C,.
Bridgman, _Rev._ J. :W-' Ilodgins,': Rev.;,Charles Mills, •Rev;
Carlton, Rev. Capper, Dr. I:-1),. D. Hurford,'' Rev, . C: F. L.
Gilbert, Rev.. T. Dale Jones, Rey. W. A.'Jones, and the present,
rector, Rev. ,I. H., James ' .
„.'..In 1872 -Thomas King, a leading business nlan in Carron
brook, bought from : Donkin; what he had not -already. sold 'of
the north 50, and very soon King had most . of it Surveyed
into village lots . '
After Donkin, Joseph Kidd, the village magnate in the 70's`
and. 80's, •was the owner of the south 50: =.It was here he built
fob himself -a palatial .residence in.1876, which is now: the.
honie-.of I the St.' Patrick Church ;parish priest's. The barns.
built;, y '(Kidd !:are ;still in' use, also: the ,small house.::These
-mere •i loved -farther south -when the Continuation School 'was
built south of the- church in 1914. JohnJ.. McKennaa siir
veyor. and village merchant, .bought from the Kidd Estate..
McKenna, after he sold• and movedagain to.his home on the
west side of Main Street, dropped dead. when giving evidence
at a court case hi Stratford in. 1.910. ' Otherowners''of the
south "part of Lot 15 since McKenna havebeen John 1VIcCon-
,, ne.11, .. Sr.,', aid -also' his • son, • John. ,Wilfred Feeney -is- the
present Owner.l •. , _
Lot Sixteens
Robert Dozikin - a -surveyor' and the .one believed to bethe
first settler, owned Lot 16 from an early date. While. John
Kiddrthe next owner, had the lot,' part of the north 50 was
laid out into village Iots. These are in the John Kidd surveyf
John was the.:first of the Kidds •to arrive in Carronbrook, but
not liking it here, he returned t� Athlone, and'cvas followed
by his brother, ;Joseph, who in his heyday was the big:"shot",
of- the village.Mafthew Williams' by 1874 owned -.84 acres
of this lot, and',froni April. of that year till he -vent to .Strat-
ford after the death of his wife, the northwest' 29 acres was
owned by Henry, McQuoid, Peter. DilIf,,Jaines Nolan, Michael
Benninger and Hugh Benningerl• have been the owners ` in
later -years. 'After Williams; these owned the, south -3'61h
acres. James Shea and ~Mrs. Martin Khhkhammer,
:Lots Seventeen and Eighteen
John and Peter Neven, brothers and Carronbrook:motel-
keepers,. had the East 50 of Lot 17 from; '1860. John lived
here till he went. to Stratford, and Peter still owned it when
hedied. ip° 1872. -The two'brothers niairried twb Kenny sisters `
--=JohaiMa andk Ann. James Carpenter bought this', 50 in
1878 anordied fere in 187G. In later years his widow moved
oto Stratford. Mrs. Walter Carpenter, James thea and Roland,
Kleinfeldt, till his death -in May, 19,58, have been later own-
ers.-Someti ne:after James. Shea ought',it,'he built a large
piggery near the highway, which was used also by Klein
feldt, In the 1920's Frank Dunseith, one of the village black
smiths,- lived .in the •Igloo on the lot.. .
The wes•
t fifty was left •with the Canada Company for,
Many years. ,1`'91 eft'rat to own it was James DeCa,ntillon, a
PART TWO
By',ISABELLE'. CAMPBELL_
retired school teacher, Jim Jordan had it next:: For 30 years
he was; Clerk' of the township and Dublin Postmaster for; 28"
years. He was known as Dublin's grand old man. In 1949
he passed away in the village at the age of 92 years. Frank_
-Burns was -the next owner; from .1918 and Joseph Hickey:
later rented for a time.. Michael McLaughlin is the present
owner. These mentioned also owned the East 50 of Lot 18
after Doyle, and all lived on it.
From the late 1850's, all of Lot 18 was 'owned by Patrick -
Doyle who not: many years' after, moved. to .Concession: 3; -
where he diedSince Doyle, the owners of the West 50 have
been Johnnie Downey,'Henry Craig, James and Alex Darling
(R), Mrs: Tom Connolly, Dan Hastings, Mrs. Dan Hastings,
William .Dorsey,; Louis Dorsey, Mrs. Louis Dorsey and son,'.
�To xOrr`Ju-ly-89 ].x95-6; Dorsey's learn was one ,of several
completely, demolished' by a flash cyclone that passed through
the community. ,It 'was replaced laced . a steel structure P by cru e later
that summer..
Lot Nineteen .
Lot 19' was' s Canada Company land for'a 1ong'.tarine with':
one-from Ailsa Craig, Ont., in charge. Michael Shea was -the
first to own the East 50, and William Kenny,,the West 50.
1VIrs . Louis Dors and ey, Edward Byers are the present owners.
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CORN CLUB "
The 'Tuekersmith 4-H Corn Club
met at the home of Wilfred Cole-
man on Thursday. The officers for;
this:: year 'are as, follows: presi-
dent, Jack Broadfoot; secretary,,
:lien .Papple; press=r-eporter;--Rdbt.
Fotheringha.m.
Dan Rose gave out information -
needed for :,the year, " and had . a
class for trie 'members to_judge _
' The productivity; . of, Canadian
forests can be inaintined forever.
Nature' unaided raises far more
trees than` -can be planted.
Canada•-is'takmg<`more measures
to protect the''forests; her most:
Valuable • resource.;
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