September 3, 2008
Marriage record of Samuel ARBUCKLE & Margaret Jane MINIONS
I spent a few hours yesterday at the Ottawa Public Library with my records and a USB key. If you go to the library, they have a subscription to ancestry.com which is a website that has images of many of the public records up to about 1918. If you know the name of the person you’re trying to find, and some other pertinent details like a birth date or a place, it’s actually pretty easy to find records.
This is a copy of the marriage record for Samuel ARBUCKLE and Margaret Jane MINIONS – this is not the register that they signed at their church. The Reverend would have sent a copy of that record to the provincial government, where someone copied it into the big book of registrations.
August 31, 2008
Samuel ARBUCKLE & Margaret Jane MINION
This is the couple that started all this genealogy mess. Samuel and Margaret Jane are buried in the Bellevue cemetery, Aylmer Quebec. I managed to find a photo of the gravestone of Samuel and Margaret Jane on Scott Naylor’s website; here’s the link
Samuel and Margaret Jane were married in Gloucester, Carleton County by Reverend J H Stewart on August 8, 1882. Samuel was 23 years old, a farmer, son of James ARBUCKLE and Jane ARBUCKLE (Presbyterian). He was born in Duncansville which is now Russell, Ontario. Margaret Jane was 19 (listed as Jane on the marriage schedule) and was born in Gloucester and the daughter of Stephen MINION and Jane ROBERTS (Methodist). James MINION and Janet MINION were witnesses. I assume that since there was no ARBUCKLE witness present, that Samuel’s parents were unavailable. This also makes sense, because Eddy ARBUCKLE has told me that he was always told that Samuel was an orphan.
The Arbuckle farm and Minion farm were very close to one another; Eastman’s springs in now known as Carlsbad Springs and is a short drive out of Ottawa, going east along the 417 highway. The atlas image is courtesy of McGill University’s “In search of your Canadian past”
The couple lived in Eastman’s Springs and then moved to Aylmer Quebec in 1894 (found in Pioneers of the Upper Ottawa Valley; Author: Anson A Gard). Samuel and Margaret are listed in the 1901 census with their family and several associated relatives and labourers. Samuel worked for EB Eddy’s daughter Mrs. Bessey as a foreman on her farm (listed as foreman in 1901 census).
In 1911, the family is shown on Lot 10bc R2; I don’t know if this is the same place as in 1901 because Samuel’s grandson E.A. has told me that the family moved from one farm on the Aylmer road to another further north.
Here is the census record for 1911:
Eddy Earle ARBUCKLE
Eddy Earle was the first child born to Samuel ARBUCKLE and Margaret Jane MINIONS after they moved to Aylmer Quebec. Eddy was born March 13th, 1896 and was named after E.B. Eddy (naturally).
Eddy fought in the first world war; his attestation papers are available online here. When I showed these documents to E.A. (Eddy’s son), he said that the forms were definitely completed by Eddy Earle – he could tell because of the capital Es.
