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HURON COUNTY TOWNSHIPS

Stories and information on Huron County Townships taken from the book The Settlement of Huron Countyby James Scott, 1916. Ryerson Press, 1966
Ashfield
Colborne 
Goderich 
Grey
Hay 
Howick 
Hullett 
McKillop
Morris
Stanley 
Stephen 
Tuckersmith
Turnberry 
Usborne 
Wawanosh E. 
Wawanosh W.

Huron County Wills

Miscellaneous Huron County wills can be found on Rootsweb.com. A list of names and locations follows. Each will provides more details such as spouse's name, children, executors, etc:

McKillop Township Huron County Deaths & Wills

NAME: McClure, Mary Jane
Date: 9 January 1912
Place: McKillop Township, Huron county

NAME: Case, Francis
Date: 29 April 1891
Place: McKillop Township, Huron county

NAME: Case, George
Date: 21 June 1888
Place: McKillop Township, Huron county

NAME: Cuthill, John
Date: 29 November 1882
Place: McKillop Township, Huron county

NAME: Flanagan, Thomas
Date: 10 January 1918
Place: McKillop Township, Huron county

NAME: O'Rourke, Thomas
Date: 6 January 1917
Place: McKillop Township, Huron county

McKILLOP TOWNSHIP

This Township gets its name from the first directors and later Deputy-Governor of the Canada Company. The Township is bound on the northeast by the townships of Morris and Grey; on the southeast by the Township of Logan, on the southwest by the townships of Hibbert and Tuckersmith, and on the northwest by Hullett. It contains 39,322 acres ofl and. The section of McKillop which immediately adjoins the Huron Road is flat with comparatively light soil but as one proceeds farther north it becomes more rolling and hilly and in several places provides gravel. The township is well watered by the Maitland River as well as by Silver Creek, a tributary running into the Bayfield River.

Settlement of McKillop Township was centered around two areas, known as "the Irish Settlement" and "the Scottish Settlement" The Irish Settlement was probably first as the Registry Office Records indicate that at least two Irish families (Michael Rawley and P. Carlin) had secured deeds for their land as early as 1827 and 1828. Their descendants lived in the areas known as Dublin and Beechwood for many years. Other early names in the Irishtown area were Dennis, Downie, O'Sullivan, Fox and O'Neill.

The first settlers in the Scottish Settlement arrived in 1832. (the Scotts and Dicksons). Other early names were Govenlock, Grieve, Hays, and Kerr and slightly later came names such as Cluff, Habkirk, Lapslie and Henderson. The third largest group amongst the early settlers was English, but it was about one-third of either the Irish or Scottish population. In addition there was a light sprinkling of German settlers. The development of the settlement was at approximately the same rate as those of the other original townships. Before 1845 there were only 321 people in the whole township. By 1860 there were 2,425. The major crops were wheat, potatoes, turnips, peas, and hay.

Within 15 years of its being set up as a separate municipal unit, seventeen of its citizens kept carriages for pleasure, indicating rapid developing prosperity of the township. McKillop is a township with no major village or town developed with the exception of the northern half of the Town of Seaforth. Some crossroads settlements developed to the point of acquiring post office status. The only two that reached a considerable size are located mostly outside the boundary of the township. Those are Dublin, which was originally known as Carronbrook, and Walton. The majority of Dublin is located in the County of Perth.

McKillop Township 1861 Census Records for Young, Buchanan & Buchan Families

 


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