Family/Spouse: Frank Howden PATTERSON. Frank (son of Father PATTERSON) was born about 1918; died on 11 Aug 2008. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eric Robert Kingan PATTERSON
2. Roger Kingan PATTERSON

Notes:

Worked at the hardware store until he was about 90. (Telecon John Cowan/Roger Patterson Jan 20, 2019)

Charles married Alice May SHIMMIN about 1919 in Isle Of Man. Alice was born in 1900; died in 1984. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living in Peterborough at the time of his mother's death 1892.

Continued his father's hardware business at least until 1935 (see Marian Macleod Materials - Page 1 AJ Tree)

Married Nov 12, 1889 according to his entry in Aunt Jess' guest book (Library/Janet Jeffrey/Item 4 Page 16), 1889 according to Irondale Newsletter (Library/Jane Jeffrey Kingan/Item 3)

Jane Jeffrey Kingan library Item 12 conflicts with WikiTree on birth and death dates.

Robert married Harriet Atkins PUSEY on 12 Nov 1889 in Irondale, Ontario. Harriet (daughter of Charles Jonathan PUSEY and Ruth ATKINS) was born on 29 Mar 1867 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, USA; died in 1942. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriage registry shows her as 22 years old at the time, living in Snowdon twp (Irondale?).

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Graduate of Edinburgh University. Ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church.

Came to Canada and supervised "mission work amongts the then scattered congregations on the lake front."

He was living in Cobourg at the time of his marraige to Jane (Cobourg Star May 31, 1848)

Due to infirmity of the voice he got into the hardware business in Cobourg, moving to Peterborough in 1850. (Peterborough Historical Atlas says 1848. The Atlas says he was a Merchant in 1875)

In 1854 he was an "elder and session clerk," (Library/William Jeffrey (II)/3-The Jeffrey Tree, page 2) presumably in Cobourg, though it may have been in Peterborough based on the above date.

Final residence at 271 Brock St, Peterborough where the funeral was held. (The Peterborough Historcal Atlas of 1875 says living at "pt 2 n Hunter wG." All John Cowan can tell from the key to this code is that in 1875 Robert lived in part of lot 2 (maybe the north part) west of George street. The reference to Hunter is probably the street to the south.

A strong churchman.

A pronounced Liberal in politics.

In 1881 he turned the hardware business (Kingan and Co) over to his sons.

See death notice in Jane Jeffrey Kingan Libary Item 2.

3 children died in infancy, 7 lived

"Doors Open Peterborough" list his house at 271 Brock street and business thus: "Robert Kingan emigrated from Scotland in 1840 and opened a hardware store in Peterborough in 1850. His red brick home was built about 1863. Originally the front of the house faced east towards Bethune Street and resembled a Georgian structure with a symmetrical façade, flanking 6-over-6 sash windows and a restrained entryway with side lights and a transom. A number of additions and annexes have been added. The Kingan family continued in the hardware business on Simcoe Street until Charles Kingan, Robert’s grandson, retired in 1976. Formerly the Brock Mission, it is being restored by a local software company as offices."

Web search shows that in 2018 Kingan Home Hardware is a thriving business at 167 Simcoe Street. John Cowan determined this is a new location. TBD

Robert married Jane JEFFREY on 24 May 1848 in Cobourg, Ontario. Jane (daughter of Honourable Andrew JEFFREY and Janet HALL) was born on 17 Dec 1828 in Cobourg, Ontario; died on 13 May 1892 in St Catherines, Ontario; was buried in Peterborough, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died while visiting her sister Mrs Cross in St Catherines for a month.

Flowery description in death notice (see Jane Jeffrey Library Item 1)

Lived in Peterborough from 1852 to the time of death.

Funeral took place from her home at the corner of Stewart and Brock (271 Brock St) in Peterborough. Rev Mr Torrance of St Paul's (Presbyterian) officiated.

William Campbell's unreferenced notes show Peterborough as place of death, but that is most likely burial spot.

Notes:

Married at the home of Jane's father (Andrew) by Wm Reid, Grafton (from the Cobourg Star May 31, 1848, abstracted by Gayle Nelson 1993 and sent to Bill Campbell and read by John Cowan Dec 1, 2017).

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Laid out the village of Irondale in March 1887. See http://www.irondaleontario.ca/church/history

Charles married Ruth ATKINS. Ruth died in 1892. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ruth paid for the building of the non-denominational Irondale Church. See the history of the Irondale Church at http://www.irondaleontario.ca/church/history

"Charles' wife Ruth, felt the community needed a church - a place for spiritual guidance as well as a place for the community to gather and celebrate. The Irondale Church was built entirely of Pusey money. It is rather unusual to have a church built for a community using one person's money. Mrs. Ruth Pusey's obituary (as published in the Peterborough Examiner 1892) states "She was a member of the English Church, and showed her fidelity by procuring through her own effects and largely by her own means, the erection of a new church at Irondale, now nearly completed." "

The building was sold to the Anglican Diocese in 1901 which sold it to a non-profit organization in 2012.