William WATSON

Excerpt from the PAISLEY ADVOCATE, March 1886.
As the funeral of the late Wm. Watson was coming along the Elora Road South on Friday afternoon last, the mail train hove in sight and passed over the crossing before more than two thirds of the teams had got over. The engineer very considerately forbore giving the usual whistle or bad work might have been caused by some of the more fractious teams.

  Events

• He emigrated from , , , Ireland in 1849. ²

• William farmed on Lot 22, Con 5, Vaughan Twp, York Co, Ontario, Canada, in 1851

• He relocated to Lot 4, Con B, Elderslie Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada, in 1854.

• William received a Land Patent 198 acres, Lot 3 & 4 Con A Elderslie Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada on November 23, 1859.

William married Jane RITCHIE, daughter of William RITCHIE and Jane ELLIOT, about 1849 in Vaughan Twp, York Co, Ontario, Canada. (Jane RITCHIE was born on April 6, 1827 in , , Tyrone, Northern Ireland, died on September 6, 1907 in Elderslie Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada and was buried in Paisley Cemetery, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.)