Re: William Newmarch Merritt
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Re: William Newmarch Merritt
Stan newmarch 1/31/01
Greetings:
I am Patrick Burns, a descendant of Anne Merrett of Beckwith Township and her husband Moses Wall who were married in Beckwith Township, Lanark Co., Ontario on February 27, 1823.Though most spelling of her name is as Merrett, her marriage records record the name as Anne Marriott.From what we can see, it looks as though in the 1817-1823 period in Beckwith there was only one Merrett (Merritt, Marriott) family in the area so we're assuming that George Merrett is probably Anne's father and the William Newmarch Marrett is her brother. We haven't seen Jane Newmarch Marriott's name in Canadian records so far. William Newmarch Merritt's death record says he died in Kincardine, ON and that he was from Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.(Anne Merrett / Marriott Wall died a few miles east of Kincardine in Bentinck Township). We have found in Yorkshire records a marriage of George Marriott and Jane Newmarch (I believe the year of the marriage was 1798).We also know that George Merritt had a daughter name Jane who married in Richmond, Ontario, near Beckwith in the 1820s and, of course we have the information about Wm. Newmarch Merrett marrying Margaret Salter in that area in a similar time period.So, just wanted to throw out these pieces of information to see if anyone else has had luck in tying some of these people together.I am Patrick Burns at [email protected]