Ballou Robert                 (1806-6/1880)

Township Book of Aylesford: (undated) 
"Issue Robert Blue and Mary Dalton, alias Blue:" see below
census 1838: total in family = 10
census 1851: messy entry, doesn't make sense, no age for male, 2 people married, 2 females aged over 50
census 1861: name only
census 1871: born in Ireland
[From his position in the 1871 census he was probably living on the Australia Road.  It is said that his son Archibald named the Australia Road but I think he was born there and his father Robert Ballou gave the road it's name.  He had plans of immigrating to Australia, so goes the story, and thus the name of the road.  If you consider that he was capable of immigrating from Ireland to the wilderness of Canada then it doesn't seem too unlikely that he would have moved to Australia given an opportunity.  From the population and the number of schools in 1871 it is my opinion that the community had been building for years and that the lumber trade had been in operation since the early 1800s shipping their product out of Morden.  This is not the way that post railroad, valley centric histories see it but I think that in the days of sailing ships it was the valley which was remote and isolated - JD]
Kings County Probate Records 1880: 
BALLOW Robert, Aylesford, , Jun 1880;
 BALLOW Archibald, son.

census 1838: age over 14
census 1871: born in Ireland

Township Book of Aylesford 1834: born 18 Jan 1834
census 1838: age under 6

Township Book of Aylesford 1838: born 19 Feb. 1836
census 1838: age under 6
census 1851: age under 10
census 1861: single, age 20-30

Township Book of Aylesford 1838: born 5 May 1838
census 1838: age under 6
census 1861: single, age 20-30

census 1861: single, age 20-30
Marriage Records Kings County 1866:
11 Nov 1866 Kentville Roman Catholic: John BLUE, age 27, Bachelor of North Mountain, son of Robert and Mary Doherty, married Mary Ann COSHMAN, age 24, Spinster, dau of  John and M Hogerty 
Kingston Roman Catholic Cemetery 1869: Tombstone:
Mary A Ballou wife of John d. Nov 20  1869 Aged 25 yrs

census 1851: age under 10
census 1861: single, age 15-20
Kingston Roman Catholic Cemetery 1861: Tombstone:
Ellen Ballou daughter of Robert and Mary d. Sept 11 1861 Aged 17 years

census 1851: age under 10
census 1861: single, age 15-20

Marriage Records Kings County 1889:
 23 Nov 1879 Morden Mountain Roman Catholic: John MURPHY, age 25, Bachelor of Bishop Mountain, married Bridget BLUE, age 27, Spinster of Morden Mountain