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INTRODUCTION

Settlement of the Area
The rural area that may be termed the Hazeldean cornunity
straddles the boundaries of Goulbourn, March, Huntley, and Nepean town-
ships, and includes roughly the area covered by the section of the
Walling Map of 1863 reproduced on the cover. Settlement of the area
began in 1818 when it was part of the Richmond Military Settlement.
supervised by Col. George Thew Burke. Burke settled here with the
. 99th-100th Regts, Irish units that were disbanded here after service
in the iiar of 1812. Manv of the soldiers settled in the western
townships of Carleton co;nty, especially Goubourn, in which Richmond
itself is situated.

Settlement of the Hazeldean conmunity proceeded very largely by a
process of chain migration, in which one settler was followed to
Canada by friends and relatives, whose friends and relatives in turn
followed them. Individuals and individual families cme, too, but
they were outnumbered by those who cave in groups and those who came
to join friends and relatives already here.
The western part of Carleton was very largely settled by Frotes-
tants from the south of Ireland. Ulstermen fron the North, larqely
Presbyterians, scattered in significant n;lmbers along the third line
of Huntley and in northern Nepean and the Nerivale areas, and a small
but closely-knit group of Presbyterian families from north-eastern Co.
Down settled on the Huntley-Fitzroy border, in the Lowry neighbourhood.
Tipperary Catholics concentrated in the Jockvale area of southern
Nepean, and the Peter Robinson settlers of 1823, largely i?oman Cctho-
lics from Co. Cork, settled in western Huntley and Goulbourn and
adjoining parts of Lanark County.1 Significant numbers of Frotestants
from Cos. Longford and Leitrim settled in Fitzroy. But the Hazeldean
area wzs predominantly settled by Protestants from two areas--north
Tipperary and south-east Leinster.
Migrations from northern Tipperary and western Kings County were
initiated by Richard Talbot, a gentleman of Cloughjordan who took
advantage in 1818 of a short-lived British policy which funded group
settlements after the Napoleonic Wars. Talbot brought severai dozen
families out on the ship "Brunswick" to settle in the London area.
About two dozen families, half the group, left the party while still
along the St. Lawrence and came north to Richmond, where some accjuain-
tances and relatives were already living. The 100th Regt. had been
partly raised in Tipperary and two of its officers, Capt. George Burke
and Lt. Joseph Maxwell, were Tipperary men. The families on the
"Brunswick" that settled in Carleton County were those of John Colbert
and his brother William, Patrick Corbett, Robert Grant, William Hayes,
William Hodgins, John Lewis, Richard Loney, William Morgan, Francis
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'see appendices to forthcoming Branch pubiication of Corke,ry Cern.