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1 CONC IGI Individual Record Family Search International Genealogical Index v5
1 CONC .0 British Isles
1 CONT William Nodwell  Birth: 1775 Castle Dawson, Antrim, Ireland Spouse: Mary D
1 CONC awson Marriage: 1793 Magherafelt, Londonderry, Ireland
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1 CONT Irish Flax Growers List, 1796 Record info about William Nodwell Given Nam
1 CONC e: William Surname: Nodwell ID: 23150 County: Londonderry
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1 CONT William Nodwell is listed in the 1831 census for Londonderry on page 13, f
1 CONC rom CD 197 FHL, September 1994 edition.  Along with William on this cens
1 CONC us are other familiar family names that also live in Magherafelt or Mayher
1 CONC afelt, both are listed but I am unable at this time to determine if in fa
1 CONC ct they are one in the same.  Page 16, Alexander, Alexander, Mat, and Math
1 CONC ew.  Page 12 lists David, and a 2nd David.  Also on Page 13 with William a
1 CONC re Mat, Mat, Robert, Robert, William, William, William Jr. and William Ju
1 CONC n.  There are 2 John Nodwell's one of which is listed on page 72 and the o
1 CONC ther page 75 of Artrea.  I would suspect there must be a relation betwe
1 CONC en all of these men.
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1 CONT We know from the account of the original family tree of R. D. Nodwell th
1 CONC at the family came from County Londonderry, Ireland, and that Limavady w
1 CONC as a nearby town.  The Town-Land was Anaghmore and the name of the fa
1 CONC rm is believed to have been Rusky.  Bill Mercer from BC has a similar reco
1 CONC rd stating the Mercer families of which Andrew's wife was Isabella Merce
1 CONC r, shared this farm.  William was married twice with at least 2 sons, Matt
1 CONC hew and William being born from the first union and seven issue from the m
1 CONC arriage to Letitia Dunn.  It appears that all children were born in Irelan
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1 CONT Jean Henderson's book of Wellington County mentions the Wm Nodwell fami
1 CONC ly on page 78 with much of the same information as can be found in "The Hi
1 CONC story of the William Nodwell Family" by R. D. Nodwell, June 1936.    The N
1 CONC odwell family were Presbyterians from Londonderry, Ireland, but the origin
1 CONC al name was spelled Nedwill.  Having lost a valuable stock of horses by An
1 CONC thrax, they decided to come to Canada.  They landed in Quebec City in t
1 CONC he fall of 1838, and are said to have travelled all the way to Erin Townsh
1 CONC ip by wagon and teams of oxen.  Wm. Nodwell and his second wife, Letitia D
1 CONC unn and their family settled on lot 24, con. 8.  Within a year the log hou
1 CONC se was destroyed by fire, and everything was lost.  A new log house was bu
1 CONC ilt near the site of the present buildings.  It was replaced by the lar
1 CONC ge brick house in 1868.  The frame barn was built in 1857 to which additio
1 CONC ns have been made.  Wm. Nodwell died in 1845, leaving the property divid
1 CONC ed between two sons.  Robert bought 100 acres in East Garafraxa Townshi
1 CONC p, and traded it to Thomas for his half of the homestead.  Robert's son, R
1 CONC .D. Nodwell, took over the farm in 1895, when he married Lillias Young, a
1 CONC nd the brick house was built at the road gate for his parents.  R.D. and h
1 CONC is son, Mungo, went into the growing of seed potatoes.  About 1926, Mun
1 CONC go took over the farm, married Lillian Ferguson, and kept a dairy herd.  M
1 CONC ungo died in 1963, and his daughter, Mary and her husband, Dick Buckles, a
1 CONC re operating the farm known as "Homestead Farm."
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1 CONT The book, Hillsburgh's Heyday makes mention of the William Nodwell famil
1 CONC y, beginning on page 8.  Then from Londonderry, Ireland came the Nodwel
1 CONC ls in the fall of 1838.  Their farm, "Homestead Farm", is about the cent
1 CONC re of town and on the north side of the 7th Line and was purchased from Ge
1 CONC orge Chalmers, its third owner, in 1839.  The Nodwells were fire victi
1 CONC ms as well.  Their first log house and its contents were consumed by fi
1 CONC re in 1839.  A new log house, barn and stables, erected as soon as possibl
1 CONC e, were probably built with the proceeds from the sale of the northeast ha
1 CONC lf of their lot to Angus McMurchy.
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1 CONT Assessment of the Rateable Property of the Township of Erin, 1840, lists W
1 CONC illiam Nodwell, Lot 24, Con 8 EW, Number of Acres Uncultivated, 170.  Numb
1 CONC er of Acres Cultivated, 30.
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1 CONT Census of the Population of the Township of Erin, 1840 lists the fami
1 CONC ly as Under 16, 1, Over 16, 2, Under 16, 1, Over 16, 8, No deaf and dum
1 CONC b, no insane. Total in the family 7.  Church of England, 0, Church of Scot
1 CONC land, 5.
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1 CONT A paper written by W. F. MacKenzie and published in the Guelph Mercury h
1 CONC as the following mention of William Nodwell
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1 CONT Mr. William Nodwell's family widely and favorably know in Erin, nativ
1 CONC es of the vicinity Belfast, Ireland, came into the township about 1837, a
1 CONC nd settled on lot 24, con. 8.  There were four sons, Andrew, Robert, Thom
1 CONC as and Samuel.  Andrew settle on lot 22, con 8, now the property of his so
1 CONC n, R. C. Nodwell.  Robert remained on the homestead, conveniently situat
1 CONC ed near the centre of Hillsburg, now owned by his son, R. D. Nodwell.  Sam
1 CONC uel and Thomas settled in Garafraxa.  As reported in the Guelph Mercury a
1 CONC nd Advertiser, Sept. 20, 1906.
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1 CONT Cemetery transcription for Huxley Cemetery, page 34 grave 18-15 In Memo
1 CONC ry of/ William Nodwell Died 1845/ His Wife Letitia Dunn Died 1851/ Nativ
1 CONC es of County Londonderry, Ireland/ Settled Lot 24, Con 8, Erin Tp. 1838/ I
1 CONC nterred Langs Cemetery/ Lot 22, Con 10 Erin Tp/  A picture of the sto
1 CONC ne is on file.
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1 CONT Will, on file, assigns William Everdell and Andrew Nodwell, executors.  Pr
1 CONC obated Mar 16, 1846.
1 CONT The will is written in the County of Waterloo in the Wellington District.
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1 CONT Surrogate Court Registor Books, Volume A 1840-1847, Erin Twp, Wellington C
1 CONC o.  FHC film #0555615
1 CONT Nodwell, William:  Eldest Son, William (in Ireland), 2nd son, Matthew (
1 CONC in St. Johns), the rest of the names didn't list relationship.  Andrew (
1 CONC in Erin Twp), Mary Lang, wife of Henry Lang, Jane Collins, wife of Jose
1 CONC ph Collins, Nancy, Robert, Thomas, Samuel.  Will dated 2 Aug 1844.  Yeoman
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1 CONT One might assume that most of the children from the first marriage had di
1 CONC ed by the time of William's will when he only mentions his 2 sons, Willi
1 CONC am in Ireland and Matthew in St. Johns.  I believe St. Johns should be S
1 CONC t. John in New Brunswick as that is where Matthew settled.