Notices on lost or bad notes of hand (money) Note of Hand Notices of absconding debtors and sheriff's sales of land Sheriff's Sale Many more types of newspaper notices are indexed including persons seeking info on family and friends Information Wanted Records of family breakups include a man's announcement that his wife has left him, Elopement fathers disowning their sons and other rare details of family relationships.
Notices of Property Sales often include valuable descriptions of your ancestors farms or houses.īusiness Notices and Partnership Notices are great personal additions for your family history project. That occasionally include the names of one or more parents of the parties, which seasoned researchers know is one of the rarities in early records of Upper Canada.Īnd Birth Notices have also been indexed, and include many rare items that have never been located previously. My indexed notices include Marriage Records
Some of the aforementioned records may be relevant to Upper Canada researchers, ie individuals that used to reside in Upper Canada, or those that had relatives in Upper Canada. There are a few records indexed here from outside the province, notably from the border states of the USA, Quebec, and the maritime provinces of Canada. Most researchers know that locating any record at all of some of the 'ordinary' pioneer farmers and settlers of Upper Canada can be a daunting task. These records may also include the ONLY record of your ancestor in Upper Canada, once in a lifetime records of an individual who has been convicted of a crime and banished, or an ancestor who has left a single newspaper 'footprint' of their time in Upper Canada before heading across the border to the United States, or perhaps an ancestor whose only 'claim to fame' was finding a strayed cow or horse.
Many of the notices I have indexed here are being published for the first time. Upper Canada newspapers contain a wealth of information on the lives of early settlers. Upper Canada (Ontario) Newspaper Database Upper Canada Newspaper Notices
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