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- 1851 census for District 33, sub-district 526 St. Andre, Deux Montagnes County, Canada East:
Hugh Dewar, farmer, 42, b. Canada
Jane Dewar, 40, b. Scotland
Catherine Dewar, b. Scotland, 70
Margaret Dewar, b. Canada, 5
William Dewar, b. Canada, 4
John Dewar, b. Canada, 2
Probably Catherine Dewar was Hugh's mother. She would have been born about 1781.
1861 census for Argenteuil, Canada East:
Hugh Dewar, gentleman, 50, b. Lower Canada
Jane Todd, wife, 50, b. Scotland
Margaret Dewar, 14, b. Lower Canada
William Dewar, 12, b. Lower Canada
John Dewar, 11, b. Lower Canada
1871 census for Ottawa District 77, By Ward sub-district:
Hugh Dewar, civil servant, 60, b. Quebec
Jane Todd, wife, 55, b. Scotland
Margueritte Dewar, 18, b. Quebec
John J. Dewar, 20, b. Quebec
1891 census for Russell District 115, New Edinburgh Ward, Ontario:
Hugh Dewar, 81, b. Quebec, farmer, widower, Congregational, parents born in Scotland
Margaret Dewar, 44, b. Quebec
Hugh’s descendants have a grandfather clock, whose inscription says it was brought from Killin, Scotland in 1804 by Duncan and Catherine Dewar to St. Andrew's Parish, Argenteuil, in Lower Canada. Killin is a parish in the western part of Perthshire. The inscription further states that it was placed in the clock in 1925 by John Dewar of Toronto. Old parish records for Killin reveal 67 Dewars or Deors born between 1740 and 1785, including 7 Duncans and 7 Johns. Hundreds of Dewars were born in the whole of Perthshire in this period.
Hugh Dewar died on March 14, 1900, and was buried on March 16 in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa. the Beechwood Cemetery burial record (Ottawa Archives microfilm #79, entry 8190) states that Hugh was 89 years old, born at St. Andrew's, Quebec. He died of "general debility", and was residing in the Home for the Aged in Ottawa. St. Andrew's a parish in Argenteuil County, which was largely settled by Scottish immigrants in the early 1800s, and which later became known as St. Andre d'Argenteuil. The burial record further states that Hugh's parents were Duncan and Catherine Dewar. The Burial plot was designated R8A, G17 (although the handwriting is hard to read). The informant was W.A. Laub, a friend of the deceased.
It is possible that Hugh and his brothers were related to a John Dewar who was a United Empire Loyalist, who had fought for the crown in the American Revolution, and who settled in Missisquoi County, Quebec at the end of the Revolution. John Dewar and his wife Mary McDiarmid supported several nephews and nieces (it is not clear if they had children of their own). One of the nephews was named Duncan - the son of John's deceased brother Daniel. More information about John Dewar and his relation to Hugh Dewar and his cousins is in the Notes for Margaret McCallum (1781-1826), who was the wife of Hugh's cousin Duncan.
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Abt 1810 - 1900 (90 years)
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