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2 Thumbs Up To Library & Archives Canada for putting digitized images and an index online for Soldiers of the South African War 1899 - 1902 Tip of the Month Huron County Records Cemetery Records Census Records Church Records Court Records Home Children Land Records Lookups Military Records Newspapers Obits Orders in Council Archived Queries Settlers & Biographies Township Records Vital Stats (Births, Marriages, Deaths) Wills Featured Genealogy WALLACE, DEAN, MITCHELL, JOHNSTON Family Album of Bruce & Huron County, Ontario Surnames include Wallace, Dean, Mitchell, Johnston. Locations include Lucknow, Ripley, Kincardine, Bruce Co., Goderich, Huron Co., Clinton, Orangeville, Marquette Michigan Criminal Assize Clerk criminal indictment files, 1853-1929 (210 Huron County names) Quick Links Census Records Canada Naturalization Records Canada Ancestors At Rest Death Records Past Voices: Letters Home Olive Tree Genealogy Genealogy Blog Feeds Genealogy Blogs Olive Tree Genealogy Genealogy updates of free records online and tips for finding those elusive brick-wall ancestors Ask Olive Tree! Submit your genealogy questions to Ask Olive Tree. One question answered each day on AskOliveTree.blogspot.com (Chosen as BEST NEW GENEALOGY BLOG for 2009) The Paper Trail Eclectic mix of old documents - you may just find an ancestor's will, land record or general store receipt here! Past Voices Letters, letters and more letters! Letters from Civil War soldiers, from wives to husbands, sons to mothers, sisters to sisters... Ancestors at Rest - The blog for AncestorsAtRest.com website. Contains death records of all kinds - funeral cards, death notices, cemetery receipts, obits...and more Family Bibles - Another AncestorsAtRest.com blog of Family Bible entries and pictures of the births, marriages and death pages Antique Hunter - If you like antiques or collectibles, this brand-new blog will be one you don't want to miss!

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. EAST & WEST WAWANOSH This second area of Crown Land surveyed, in part, before the treaty which created the Queen's Bush, was originally the largest of all the townships of Huron with a total acreage of 85,640 up until 1866 when it was divided. It is almost square in shape and was bounded on the east by Morris, by Hullett and Colborne on the south, Ashfield on the west and Turnberry and the Township of Kinloss in Bruce on the north. This square block of land has some of the best agricultural land in Huron. It had few large areas of swamp or other useless land to be found in most of the townships. It was also fortunate inasmuch as the Maitland River from its northeastern extremity winds pretty well through the entire township in a very tortuous course providing excellent drainage and in the early days a great number of first rate sites for grists and sawmills. This township also has the distinction of being the only place name in Huron County of Indian Origin. As far as can be determine there were no settlers in the township before 1840 and in the 1851 Census it is shown to have a population of only 722. Ten years later, however, it had a population of 3,151. The first settler in Wawanosh was probably John Jackman who settled on Lot 18, Concession 1, around 1840. Mr. Jackman called his first son, who was also the first male child to be born in the township, "John Wawanosh". He remained on the family homestead throughout his entire life. About the same time settling on Lot 19 of Concession 1 was Robert Shannon whose daughter was the first female child to be born in the township. Mr. Charles Girvin, who later took an important and prominent place in the political affairs of the County, also settled in Wawanosh in the early 1840's on lot 13, Concession 2.