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The Ladies' Guild of St. Mary's
Church,• Dublin,held their Christ-
mas meeting at the home of Rev.
and Mrs. 'Donaldson, Seaforth, on
Wednesday' afternoon. Christmas
carols were sting, accompanied by
Mrs. Donaldsonon the piano,
Mr Donaldson presided for: the
election of officers for the year
1.960: • president, Mrs. Charles
Friend; secretary -treasurer, Mrs.
Douglas Racho; h. press reporter,
Mrs, William. Smith. -
The meetingclosed with prayer
and a, vote of thanks was tender-
ed -Rev. andeMrs, 'Donaldson • for
their hospitality; Lunch was sery-
edI.
Fernier `Rest ent Dies in Buffalo
The funeral of John. S. 3Vlaloney,
Buffalo, New York,.. formerly of
Dublin, was held at Buffalo : 'on
Thursday; Mr. Maloney died at
his home November . 30; following
a lengthy illness
He was born 'in Dublin in .1890
and has resided in Buffalo sev-
eral years prior to his death. He
was a :member`' of St. 13enediet's
Roman. Catholic Church ; He . `is
Survived .by his wife, the former
Agnes .McCormic; one son, John,.
Buffalo; , four brothers, Patrick,
Dublin; Joseph, London; James,
New York City;, Fergus, Oakville;
three 'sisters, • ;Mrs, J. Regan,
Stratford; Mrs. Mary Schudman,
Dublin; »Airs.- Leo Holland, Wind-
sor.
The funeral'seric'
services ::were • cot[ -
ducted from St.;Benedict's Roman
Catholic Claurch, wherethe Re
quiem High Mass ..,was` sung' by
Monsignor J. A: Feeney, London,
a cousin. of: Mr. Maloney.. Burial'
wasei r .Mount Olivet Cemetery,
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Rans t 24 Diary
Early Da
("The 'Diary of Henry` Rans-
ford", With an introduction by Mrs.
D...II. McInnes, appeared in the
•e tunin '1959 issue .of the Ontario
Historical Societies' Papers• and
,records),
Mr." Melville,Ransford, son of
John Ransford `and grandson . of
IlenryAeansford, knowing I was,
inter ted local h•s er
m l i t Y, loaned
me' 's grandfather's diary. It was
ban n•, written and had every .ap-
pearance of being very old. I
would judge, that some incidents
were, written- immediately after
they happened, but the bulk of it;
at tiie end of each year.
While the diary was'in my pos-
session Mr,'•Ransford passed away;
,This was in the year 1947. At that
time there were no known living
relatives and as I was leaving
Clinton, Ontario, I gave the diary
to a member of the Women's In-
stitute. She, in turn, gave it to
Mrs. I. M. Willis,, who bought the
house (Stapleton) withits 17 acres:,
Thisplace is on. No, 8 highway,'
Tuckersmith Township, Huron.
County;; about one-half, mile^ east.
of the., town of Clinton. I' visited
Mrs.. Willis (a very charming lady)
last spring. She says she has :the:
diary but at the moment could not
lay her bands .on it.
Nothing is known of Henry Rans--
ford's childhood, but from the
diary it would appear that he was
brought up in a ;well-to-do home
in or near Bristol, England, called
"Stapleton His diary covers the
years from'1823 to 1881, apart
from some year 'following' his re-
turn to England.
'At the age of 18 Mr, Ransford
went to the Isle of Jamaica, where'
he ; worked on a coffee -plantation
as: bookkeeper. Two years. later he.
was' given full epntrol of a 600 acre •
sugar cane plantation. He held this
position, for five years and at the
end of that time was receiving: 800 -
pounds .per annum. When''he re-,
quested to buy the estate outright
.and -Was ,refused-lee-returned—to-
England.
l e --returned -to-England. Then he•, made up his
mind to go to' Canada, as there
was a great urge for .emigration to.
that country. n y. A neighbor;; Edward
Ledyard, and he prepared to leave,.
they following` spring: What follow-
ed -;is told °in --his own -.words:
• On the,lst, of April, 1832, we .left
Liverpool on a fine ;New York lin,:
er (900) tons with 33 passengers
in • the cabin and ,a' great :number
in the steerage. 'Fare was 35,
guineas 12 went ;:to the owners-
and/I23. to the captain, wh kept a:
first rate. table a
nd plenty of wines'
and; liquor. We landed in New York
on May st. On the whole we had,
a air pa sage, except for two days,
1 th an 11th; when we had heavy
ales f our the S.W. and the.ship`.
itche and tossed:Like; many
others 1 kept to my,bed most of
the time. We fell in—with—Several
ice bergs and the weather .was very
cold: and ice formed on the deck.
We spent a` fortnight in New York.
and visited'- Philadelphia; Boston
and Washington.
_From New York we, started •£or
Canada on the 16th of May. Up the•
river to 'Albany, thence to' -Schen-
ectady, by the • only ..railroad . in
America, where we took passage
on 'a canal boat :' to • Skanialetes-
Where we had' letters of introduc-
tion and spent two or three days
there looking at :farms, theneen~ to -
Rochester`: where we left the boat.
and:took'a stage to Niagara., which
we `;crossed on June 2nd. After
sp fading three or fourdays we
cr ssed OM' to York, ;a.place with
o e event tavern; called the.Man
en House and some 5-6000 inhabi-
an s. I hired a wagon at 4 pounds
a ay to take us to Goderich, 'but
i broke down before we went a
ndred ,miles—at "that time not a.
ouse or art acre of laud ;:cleared ,
I fond Constant ' Van 'Egmond
wor ing on a road that was being'
cut through the bush.. Frani him
I hired a;fron wheeeforthe wag-
on and a ten -in of .oxen and by
this means reached his' father's
/house in Ilullett, from whence we
walked •to Goderich. On the Way
I saw an ideal piece of land and'
I was so pleased/with it .I' spent a
few days examining it and de-
terniined to b y d settle here.
Finding 1 c Id o nothing with
Mr. Prior, t1, age t at Goderich;
I hired a horsed on the 23rd of
July I left for ork. ' I was four
days getting t Hamilton,' where
I took the stage to York, where I
found the •cholera was raging. (It'
carried -toff one-fifth of the popula-
tion). I the, efore took up the land
I wanted from the Canada Com-
pany ^ and ; hurried' back to Gode-
rich. I.1/ft -on 'the 30th and, was
five :days getting back and by e
time I/reached Reed's' taven
(code ich),'I felt•very ill and had
to la up for.' a couple of days.
living ,rested and recovered I
walked ,down' to see 'my Jand (3400
ar.,fes) and had a regular explore
tion for three or four days.' I enl
gaged rooms at Van: Egmonds
/where we remained over a month.
While remaining here Edward
Ledyard, a ` . Mr. Bennett and I,
walked to London to spend a day
and returned. Only one hotel in
the place_, We returned to Gode-
rich and on Sept. lst .left in the'
Canada • Company's schooner for
Detroit, which we did not reach
until the 5th. Mr. Taylor, an agent
:of the'Baron de Tuyle, was .our
fellow passenger.
We new took a steamer to Buffa-
lo which we .reached on ,the 8th.
Buffalo was a .small place. Fol-
lowing day we -took a stage to,Nia
gera, '•crossing the river at Black
'.[tock ina:horse boat, then down
the Canadian side to the Falls,.
where we spent Sunday and went
to church at Chippewa. On Monday.
wetook stage to For 'George,
where we embarked on a boat for
little -York, :which we reached in
the evening and•took .p our abode
at the Bristol Coffey House. The
cholera - had mad: /bad ravages
since 4 left on J y✓ 3 th, 670 per-
sons 'h • ving die, out of a .popula-
tion Qf mined4000.0 ined here.
unti Sept.,- ir4t `, b ng delayed by
the Canada '.m any, as I would
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deeds, •
On the 15th we left by steamboat,
United . ' Kingdom, for Kingston,
where we arrived the following
morning. On the 19th we left by
steamers for 'Brockville passing^
through the lake of the 1000 islands
and reached there at `midnight. We
embarked on the 21st on a bateau.
for LaChine but onlyreached the
bead of the Long••-Saultat dusk
where we had to go ashore to sleep.
Off next morning and reached the
head of the rapids as it was :_g ,t-,
ting dark. The men not knowing
where' they were, we remained in
the bateau all night' and right glad
to reach Montreal next morning.
Breakfast and then church and
enjoyed our day's rest. •
On 'Tuesday eve, , left by the
Chamblee steamer forQuebe'e
where we remained until the .29th,
Where' finding no good vessel was
leaving for`" England,: returned to
Montreal by an immense steamer
*called. the .John Bull: On arriving,
crossed the : river to.' La Prairie
and ;took passage to St. John,
where we, took- steamer up the
Richelieu 'river and Lake 'Cham-
plain to.White'Hall, .where we went
by canoe,�'to Troy, where Edward
Leelyerdleft;to- go to Ohio arid I:,
to New Yg
ork.
tlC e'ismlth'_
I took passage in a fine new
Steamer called the George Wash
ington. We were only 13 days from
Sandy Hook when we sighted Skei
lig's. Rocks and narrowly escaped
being wrecked. It had been :'foggy
for three days. Getting a ,`little
clearer the. Captain asked me to
go up -the foremast and looks out
I'' immediately saw 'on ascending
three sugar loaf -shaped rocks: some
five or six miles off:,` I` instantly
came:. •down and told the Captain
(Holdredge). He im•Tneriately kept
the ship at S.E. ,By this time the
fog ;closed on us, again. We round-
ed Cape Clear: and reached Liver-
pool on the 23rd :.and ':went direct
to, my; father's house,! for the left
time. Passage was • 29 pounds
sterling-- Spent-= Christm•as'at home
and visited :Ledyards, who were
dis le sed .at' not havingbrought
"Edward' home. He returnd safely
later.; _teen
1833=,On . a ; visit to ,Henley-on-
Thames tenet a Miss' Richardson,
a niece of ;Mrs. Bolton. We:'soon
gotfriends . to be fr ends and on Feb 7th
Ioffe•eda and n was accepted. In„the
spring I took „passage on the In-
dependence -9 days to New York.
From New York I steamedup. the
Hudson' and took canal boat. .to
Lockport, then bystage to ;Van-
derburg's tavern in Tuckersmith,
close to my land. Thiis....journeytook
a. fortnight.' I, at once, hired a
man to clear `iny.land.'.I 4naced,on
a pretty, spot overlooking •the. river
(Bayfield)• on', lots'39' arid 40. I
marked out 10 acres' and got three
or, four cleated so I could build the
frame of my house and sowed'some
three acres in clover and grass. 1
hired' a handy man, Jack Hamil-
ton, a good: heaver and heand -I
raised the frame of nay house and
got on a roof and shingled it 'I
agreed' with him' to chop'' six acres
the following :'winter, get out . din -
leer foea' barn and plant an acre
of potatoes.. Vanderburgh,_promis-
ed to sow six . acres •-.with :,spring
wheat after the Irishman fenced
in the cleared land. `
I also- bargained with a carpen-
der called Freeman, to floor: the
house, get on the siding and make
the windows (but none of which
he did.) I boarded at.Vanderburg's
all ,this time. and saw many 'who
camenp to settle, Having•done all
I could I return 4 to England ar-
riving.`late in 'November, `
During my absence. Mr• `,Rich—
ardson . had returned to England.
from New Orleane where•he.had
sufferled from the cholera. He left
again before I returned but had
given consent 'to his daughter's
marriage with me. He died on the
trip . back to New Orleans.
1834—Married Jan. 23rd, at the
Henley church by the Rev. James
King, Mr. Bolton gave away . `the
bride. ` Took a three weeks honey
moon.. 'I, had many things to look
after and to pack for our ,futtire
residence. I engaged Thomas Wal-
ker with his wife and four chil-
dren to go with us as servants. We.
left the. London docks first week
in May, by same ship I had gone
out in, in 1832. Had a good pass
age .for 28 days but my ,wife suf
fered sot mtich from seasickness 1
thought she would die.
Our fellow passengers were .Ad-,
miral •VanSittart, wife and 'two
sons (lived in Woodstock later).
We remained 'three or four days in.
New Yor andvisited my wife's
aunts,- , Curtis and Mrs. John
Bolton:, e had to go up the Hud-
son on goods. steamer having all
our things with us, At Albany we
transferred .them to a canal boat
which took a week before we reach-
ed Buffalo on June, 14th.We had to'
wait at Buffalo a day for a small
steamer : which .took up: to. Poet
Stanley. At' Port: Stanley the hired
wagons to London- but, they- would'
not go further, believing the roads
to be :impassable and they were
not far wrong.
At London I found a man to un-
dertake the job but the roaarWere
in a dreadful state. The third day
we got as far, as Widow Connor's,
a small tavern in the N.W. corner
of the township. Here we slept and
the next A.M. hired a horsefor
my wife to ride as the wagon jolt-
ed her so much, • This' day, being'
the best, as ' we went 14 miles in
3 hours half the road was swamp
rid once we turned• over anda
precious job we had to right the
wagon- and the load '.up again'; At
one place we'h•ad to cross a nar-'
ow, deep Creek: We found three
re, four logs -by the bridge had
Ioated away, so we carried therm
ack and laid thein across: the
tringers and .so got the wagon
over.
In the evening we arrived at a
og house in Usborneg kept by a
Devonshire man, named Balkwill,
where we got something to eat and
placeto lie down,. On one . side
f the house was a raised .plat-
orxn, the wholelength, covered
ith bedding of some kind, divid-
ed by et>;rtains into four or live:
beds. T e' next'day we reached:
V anderb gll's corner. This was
the 22nd' of June and thus ended a
journey of Seven weeks from Lon-
don, England..
rN'ext A.M. I walked down to
Stapleton (named after my old-
home) and
there to my dismay,
although the wheat, grass and pot-
atoes were all growing well, the
carpenter .had done nothing :but
pi$ on _the siding at the.east side
of the house: .
There was nothing for it but to
sleep at 'the tavern and hurry on
the carpenters. We got all the sid-
ing on, the lower aid'ehalf the up-
per floor laid, the doors hung. and
the unglazed sashes in,- owing to
;the discomfort of the tavern, we
moved in.
We lived in the south side of tjie
house and the Walkers in the north.
They•spread their beds on the west
side under the upper floor and I
and, my' wife slept on ,the half up-
per floor which we_reaehed by a
ladder I' :had made.
Our kitchen and fireplace wasa
large 'hemlock stump outside tfie
house. Our dinner table ' was 'a
cherry board, sixfeet long, on the
top of a flour barrel. For chairs
we used our trunks andboxes and.
'the piano case made a capital 'cup-
board. I, procured two cows m:
m diatel . and had milk a
e y ttdbut
ter. I went to Goderich. and bought
a churn; milk tins.' and a stock of
groceries.
I then divided the lower .store
into fourrooms and 'glazed the
'windows I ,had bought a yoke of
oxen and`.a wagon: •
The' wheat was' nearly' ready and;
I had to build -a -_barn, or rather,
Pa shanty and cover it with bark
as no Shingles to:be•had.,The
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