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The Ontario Register
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. h Ab ham Green who was a balcksmith living in Brant Abram Green
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ford at the time of the 1871 census. But .perhaps the best news
was that she indicated that he was born m Waterford, Ontario, she found the data when she did and not f
all! Such is research. At least the prio: ew yeha.rs ?enc.e, ~f at
15 March 1849. d .d · searc mgmM1eh1gan

The census return of Waterford for 1851 was iminediately records 1 prov1de, among other things th b h
• e rot er Albert
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Green s 1rthdate, the name of his wife a d h' fath
searched. The family of Bremen Green was found living in n lB er, and the
date and place of death of both Albert and Ab Al
Townsend Township, Norfolk County. Waterford is located in . ram. so, the
names of two s1sters, Polly Blumfield and Alie M th·
this township. Bremen Green was listed as a farmer, born in · M' h' a 1as, were
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foun m IC 1gan records. Alie is probably short for Alvira
Canada, a Baptist, aged 54. The family resided in a one story
in the cens us record, and Polly is the din:: inutive for Mary,
log bouse. His wife Lorry, aged 42, was born in the United
probably the Mary J. in the census record.
States and was also a Baptist. The children were ali listed as
I now hope to trace the identification of Bremen Green of
having been born in Canada. They were: Ammi Green, a male
Townsend Township, Norfolk County, Ontario.
aged 19, Maria 17, Al vira 15, Albert 12, Hannah 8, Mary J.
4, and Abram 1. There is a column heading of those born dur-
GENEALOGIES IN PREPARATION
ing 1851, and a mark is after Abram 's name in this column.
If this is so, then he would have been about 60 when he died in CURRAN. All Descendants of John Jones Curran of Orillia
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1911, and this is close enough to the reported age at death of Ontario and his two wives, Jane Watson and Jennie Millar and
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58. His age of 20 at the time of the 1871 census would also the ancestry of ail. John J. Curran published and edited the
i~dicate that he was born about 1851, and this agrees exactly C anadian Workman and the Orillia N ewsl etter. The fa mil y came
~VIth, the record in ~he 1851 cens us. He was undoubtedly born from Curran, Antrim which is nowa suburb of Larue, Antrim,

m \\aterford, as Mtss Crum's record indicates although the N. Ireland. His grandfather was first cousin to John Phil pot
year 1849 is perhaps two years off from being c~rrect. Curran, the Irish orator. Family quarterly planned. - Mrs .

. The re appears to be an interesting clue as to the identifica- Gay Curran Hus band, 1043 Strathmore, Nanaimo, B. C.
~ton of Lorry Green, wife of Bremen Green. On the next line

m the 1851 census after the entry of Abram Green who is the BA TES. Ali the descendants of George Bates and his wife
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thast p~rson reported with the name of Green in' the family Patience Churchill who came to Glen Elbe, Leeds County, in
ere 1s an entry f r 1 ' 1791 from New York. Churchills and Bates from Mass. Their
United States B o t· a ma e named Ammi Swain, born in the
son Joshua Bates settled in Smith's Falls; son Ezra settled at
that th· , a ~P Ist, aged 75, and widowed. It is thought
1s person hved with th Whitby; and son George stayed near Brockville. There were
Arnmi Swain names the head e Greens as the entry following
fourteen children. (As above)
name, Arnmi, is also the nam of another family. The unusual
in the cens us record Th e of the eldest child of the Greens BRYANS William and wife Mary of Scotland arrived circa
· erefore ·t ·
Arnmi Swain was Lorry G , ' 1 18 strongly suspected that 1847 at We~tminster Twp, Middlesex Co., Ontario (Old Sc?ts
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that the Greens were ori i re~t father · There is a tradition Settlement) Children were George, Mary and Thomas. Destre
Thus the search fo tgh na. y from "York State." correspondence wlth descen an s. _ Maryann Griffith, 7~75
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ended. One can 't help b t f Ica Ion of Abram Green is Airport Hwy. , Rolland, Ohio. 43528.
d u eel that 'fM'
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ate and place of birth f Iss Crum had found the
years before she did th ~ Abram Green in her papers a few OLMSTEAD VanRanslar, bornAug 1837: traced to Re~rew
been avoided. But perh~sa ~~:of extra searching would have County. - Mrs William A. Stellmon, 1122 lOth A\·e .. Lewtston,
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' one should be grateful that Idaho. 83501.