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them; scattered
asat'd .anti''unaware of the
i.o'eil.econr,ing. The sheriff's
children, Were born here; two
Of W, oml';there is Acord lived
to middle age„alnd there is no
record of any dying young.
cdonaid was in
Goderich from the first ye' rs
of settlementto his death in
1$73, as a result of a fall: A
'native ,of Invernessshire,
Scotland, he was •in Brant
county when Commissioner
rigJohn Galt engaged him to
work for the Canada. Com-
a parry as surveyor. As well, he
O was, agent, for the Bank ..of
Upper Canada, treasurer of
the jail building committee,
CIS president of the Northern
Gravel Road.Company,-and
in 1845 was appointed sheriff
Oil
of Huron, Bruce and Perth.
He purchased , the wholearea
which now includes Saltford,
and for many years., was an
elder of the . Church of
Scotland.
Sheriff Macdonald married
three times. His -first wife was
a daughter of Judge 'Mitchell,
of London, his second a
daughter of Sheriff Carroll, of
Woodstock, and his third was_
'MaryFiaser of Toronto.
According to the Signal, in
Its obituary article, Mr.
Macdonald "left by his first
wife one daughter, Mrs. J.B.
Gordon of this town, and by
his second three sons and
three daughters."
The newspapers did not
name these six children. Mr.
John Inksater, of the
University of Western
Ontario Library, has been
good enough to dig out the
census for this district in 1871.
That-. enumeration gave
Macdonald's age as 77, that of
0
his wife, ° Mary, as 40. The
eldest son, John, was 19, and
employed as sheriff's clerk.
The other children were
Mary, Cha Jane, 13,o ictoria,
11 ; and
Frederick, 10.
The stone on the Macdonald
plot in Maltland Cemetery,
where lie the remains of the
sheriff and his first two
other three daughters a
son theta a
record
-Sheriff Macdonald left
considerable'. estate to, bid
widow,. Mary, 4:for Matin*.
tenance of the children. There:
is a note somewhere;; not at
this moment to . be found,
...indicating that she . adopted
wives; recor+draiso "thadeatti'
of John Carroll, who died in
1905, and Frederick Carroll,
who died in 1910 (aged 47).
They are probably buried
elsewhere, . and we know
nothing • of their families:
There is a death notice of
John Carroll Macdonald, ,
• "late of the auditor -general's
department, Ottawa, son of
the late John Macdonald,
sheriff of the United Counties
of Huron, Bruce and Perth,
and grandson of the late
James Carroll, sheriff of
Oxford", who died at Mon-
treal in his 59th year. Of the
;one of theadlx�nal:
:.c1
Mary Macdonald Lire died
in 1897, and:on,May 3 of the
following year "a large
portion" of the real estate
was put up for sale at .Gun-
dry's auction rooms,
Hamilton Street. According
to a heivspaper report, the
property was di'vlded info
eigl t parcels, six of which
sold well: No. 1, 15 acres, A.
Sands; 3, J. Sands; 4, J.
Kuntz;, 5 and 6, Goldthorpe
and McConnell; 7, property
adjoining Maitland
Cemetery, A,P, McLean.
st sheriff
m page 34
fe Lots 1, 2 and 3, Lake
ad east, "with all houses,
tidings, furniture, platek
ks, linen, farming stock,
ttle and utensils of
sbandry which may be on
same at the time of my
th."
ire destroyed the Ayrshire,
n, plate and books, but the
ograph will is still on file in
ron surrogate court office.
survived the Huron
thouse fire of 1954.
Ile Williams family came
Canada originally from
aica, for reasons similar
ose which influenced the
skett, Thwaites and
on families to migrate
xford county from Santa
namely, the abolition of
Ty and its effect upon
tation labor.
aby Williams, who
ried the eldest daughter
he Laird of Lunderston,
previously a druggist in
tford, according to his
endants.
ots 4 and 5 are not -men,
ed in Henry Hyndman's
the 200 acres evidently
e given to Augusta and
her husband, who sold the lots
in 1864 and 1862, respectively.
Lot 5 was later known as the
James Strachan farm.
Henry Hyndman's widow
deeded Lot 1 to Henry Cowper
Hyndman, the eldest son,
When she returned to
Scotland. Henry C, sold Tots 2
and 3 to the Williams family
in 1882.On,the north half of lot
3, Arthur Acland Williams,
son of Raby, owned 50 acres,
and the house in which he
lived, and in which Harry T.
Williams of Saltford was
'born, was later removed to
Ernest Jackrpan's place in
the same township. Jack
Williams, brother of Arthur,
owned 50 acres - at the
southeast corner of the Con.
VIII property, next to Loyal
corner.
Arthur Acland Williams
was named for Judge Acland,
whose wife was Sarah
Williams. The judge, .who
signed Henry Hyndman's will
in 1844, was county judge at
least las late as 1852,. a Canada
Directory shows.
The children of Raby
Williams and Augusta
Hyndman were Henry,
Scarlet, Augusta, Robert
B.H., Arthur A., Jack, Pat,
and Quintin.
Henry Hyndman's
children, whose names were
preserved in the Ontario
archives, were Henry
Cowper, Augusta Harriet,
Anna Louise, John, George,
William, Marie Carolina
Isabelle, Elizabeth Mary,
Patrick Kennedy. pays of the
Canada Company mentions
another, Arthur, as one of five
born in Colborne. He died in
infancy.
John Hyndman, second son
of Henry, was born in London,
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England, in 1830 and came to
Canada with his parents. He
graduated from the Toronto
Medical School in 1851. Mrs.
J.M. Southcott, of Exeter,
was able to round out this
part of the story.
Dr. Hyndman, she finds, at
once commenced practice at
Devon, a settlement two and
-a half miles south of Exeter,
now: long extinct, and while
`there was appointed first
coroner of the county. In 1855
he married Charlotte Quick,
whose father conducted one
bf the first hostelries on the
London Road.
After practising at Devon
for a few years he moved to
Exeter.
He had two sons who
followed in the medical
profession: Dr. Hugh K. and
Dr. Garnet Hyndman. The.
former took over the father's
practice in 1899 and died in
1926. Thus for 75 years there
was always a Dr. Hyndman.
at Exeter.
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