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Amaranth
Township
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History of the Township:
1822 - area was first settled by
Abraham Hughson
(UEL) on the first concession
1832 - The area was first surveyed
by Hugh Black
1841 - Amaranth Township becomes part
of Wellington County
1851 - population was 500
1854 - Amaranth Township becomes incorporated
1861 - population was 1200;
Pathmasters for Amaranth Township for 1861
1863 - Dunlop letters - July 29; September 6
1871 - population was 1943
1871 - Gazetteer
and Directory of the Wellington County is published; lists people by
town/village and by township
1881 - township becomes part
of Dufferin County
1881 - population was 2914
1901 - population was 2798
1913 - A BEAR STORY : An Amaranth Tale of Fifty
Years Ago (reprinted from the Orangeville Banner November 20, 1913, p.6)
1963 - Small history of Whittington published in
Orangeville Banner on December 19, 1963, p. 11.
Villages of the township:
References taken from: Carter, Floreen Ellen. Place names of Ontario. London, Ont.: Phelps Publishing Company, 1984.
Amaranth Station - a small hamlet (on the 7th line) which lay on the Canadian Pacific Railway - then known as the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway. The post office was established on may 1, 1874 and the first postmaster was Archibald Lamb. The office closed on March 9, 1951.
Black's Corner - railway point located on the 6th line and 20 sideroad. The post office was established in 1878 and the first postmaster was Samuel Black. The office closed on May 1, 1913.
Bowling Green - rural community (originally called Jellyville) 8th line and 10 sideroad. The post office was established on January 1, 1870 and the first postmaster was William B. Jelly. The office closed on December 15, 1915. "...Connerville was suggested by the other early settler, Mr. Conner. The matter was settled by a Mr. Mole donating a jug of whisky for the two men to share if he was allowed to name the office. He gave the name Bowling Green for a "pretty place" he had visited in the United States." (p.132)
Campania - rural community located on the 10th line and 20 sideroad. The post office was established in 1894 and the first postmaster was John Davis. The office closed on April 20, 1912.
Coleridge - (originally known as Hall's Corners) hamlet located in the northeast corner of Amaranth. The post office was established in 1865 and the first postmaster was Joseph W. Trueman. The office closed in 1873.
Farmington - rural community located on the 2nd line and the 5 sideroad. The post office was established on September 1, 1858 and the first postmaster was John Curry. The office closed in 1885.
Laurel - (originally called Richardson's Corner) rural community located on the corner of the 5th line and the no. 10 sideroad. The post office was established on August 1, 1861 and the first postmaster was James Spence.
Shelburne- (originally called Jelly's Corners) town located 16 miles northwest of Orangeville. The post office was established on September 1, 1865 and the first postmaster was William Jelly. "Jellys Corners was named for William Jelly, the first postmaster and founder of the place. The office name was given in 1865 to honour Lord Shelburne". (p. 580)
Waldemar - police village located on the 10th line and the 2 sideroad. The post office was established on January 1, 1870. The first postmaster was David Jenkins. The office closed on May 31, 1969. "Incorporated as a Police Village on June 20th, 1901...".(p. 1270)
Whittington - rural community located on the 2nd line and the 15 sideroad. The post office was established on October 1, 1861 and the first postmaster was R. Bowsfield. The office closed on June 1, 1913. "First settler was Thomas Whittin. He sold a plot of land, in 1855 to Log hotel builder Robert Bowsfield, which building he name Whittington House, giving the place its name. " (p.1309)
Cemeteries in this township:
Bowling Green Methodist Primitive
Church Cemetery (Concession 8 Lot 10)
Crombie's Cemetery
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Greenwood Cemetery
Hughson family Cemetery
Laurel Cemetery
Waldemar Methodist Cemetery
Pioneer Families/Family Inquiries:
The families listed below* were among the first settlers in the township. If you would like to submit a family query, please fill in a submission form and I will post your inquiry to this page. If you are interested in posting a link to your family tree homepage, please email me the URL.
Queries
submitted after August, 2000
Older
Surname Queries
*Braiden, *Curry, *Golden, *Hughson, *Jelly, *Gillespie, Heffernan, *William Hunter, McGuire *David, William and Robert Menary, *Rintoul, *Wallace
Bibliographies on the township:
These items (*) are available through interlibrary loans from the National Library of Canada:
*Banks, Albert Neil. The Banks Family Story: From Yorkshire to Ontario: Family facts and folklore. 1997.
Black, Nina Lucinda Belle. William Hunter and Sarah Earl: Family Tree. Barrie, ON: Nina Lucinda Belle Black, 1982. **I will do lookups for this family from this book.
*Dean, David E. Amaranth settlement period. Orangeville, Ont.: Jacques Studios, 1990. Index and purchase information
*Kelling, Elizabeth Anne. The Roots of Amaranth. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1981.
*Marshall, John Ewing. A century of service: St. Andrew's United Church, Camilla. Ontario : s.n., 1980?.
*Richardson, William G. The Story of Whittington; A History of the Whittington Community of Dufferin County.
*Torrance, Walter Clarence. A land called Amaranth. Hamilton, Ont.: McMaster University Press, 1997.
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