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1 CONC Philadelphia, 1800-1850 Passenger and Immigration Lists Record info abo
1 CONC ut Bell Nodwell
1 CONT Name: Bell Nodwell Arrival Date: Jun 21, 1838 Age: 26 Gender: Unknown Po
1 CONC rt of Arrival: Philadelphia Port of Departure: Londonderry Ship Name: Ba
1 CONC rk Courage National Archives' Series Number: 425 Microfilm Number: 53 Li
1 CONC st Number: 58
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1 CONT Cemetery transcriptions Huxley Cemetery, Page 22, grave 11-5 In/ Memory O
1 CONC f/ Isabella/ Wife of/ Andrew Nodwell/ Who Died/ Feb. 22, 1879/ Aged 60 Yea
1 CONC rs/ A Loving Wife With Children Dear/ In Silence All Lie Keeping Here/ Gre
1 CONC at Is The Loss That I Sustain/ But Hope In Heaven to Meet Again/  A pictu
1 CONC re of the stone is on file.
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1 CONT Vital Statistics Index for the Province of Ontario, deaths, 1879, registra
1 CONC tion #015712-79.  Copy on file.  Dr McNaughton attended her at her death.
1 CONT Her death notice was published in the Acton Free Press on Feb 27, 1879.  T
1 CONC he piece, which is on file, reads as follows:  Near Hillburgh, on the t
1 CONC he 21st inst, Mrs. Andrew Nodwell, aged 60 years.  She was one of the pion
1 CONC eers of that place and leaves a large circle of friends to morn her depart
1 CONC ure among which is the wife of Geo. Tolton, Esq, of this place.  She was m
1 CONC uch respected by all who knew her, and the funeral which took place on Tue
1 CONC sday, was one of the largest that had been in that neighbourhood.
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1 CONT Note from Bill Mercer about the Mercer family sharing the Rusky Farm.
1 CONT ALEXANDER MERCER b.June, 1827 in Derry County, Ulster near Limavady a
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1 CONT 17 Dec. 1894 in Artemesia Townships (nr. Markdale), Grey County Ontari
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1 CONT 23 Sep. 1848 in Philadelphia to MARY JANE SMYTH b. 14 Nov. 1821 possib
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1 CONT Derry or Antrim  County Ireland, and d. 6 Nov. 1919 in Artemesia Townshi
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1 CONT Moved to Ontario circa 1855 and purchased a 100 acre farm from Gavin Simps
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1 CONT (Easterly Lot #32, Concession #8, Erin township Wellington County. Sold
1 CONT their farm on 5 Nov. 1877 to a cousin, Robert C. Nodwell, Andrew's younge
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1 CONT son. The Mercer's moved to Markdale and subsequently purchased a farm on t
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1 CONT East Line, Artemesia Township Grey County about one mile southeast of
1 CONT Markdale and their homestead there was still in excellent conditi
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1 CONT There son, ALEXANDER MERCER was born in Philadelphia Pa. on 22 Dec. 1853 a
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1 CONT was my grandfather. He was married to Isabel Ruth Foster on Jan 1, 1884 a
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1 CONT he died Sept. 25, 1935 in Chilliwack BC. They left Markdale in 1889. I ha
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1 CONT more information on the entire family which I would be happy to mail if y
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1 CONT are interested.
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