My WICKSON Tree

Making a Case for Descendancy

William Campbell (1819-1897) is my maternal Great-Great-Grandfather. He arrived in Ontario, Canada from the Aberdeenshire area of Scotland in the first half of the 1840’s, probably 1842, and lived in various locations until he died in 1897, still resident in Ontario, Canada. I have documented his travels through life in Canada from his first point of emergence in Woodhouse Parish, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada in 1845 until he died in Chandos Township, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada in 1897. I knew where he came from geographically but as of 2010 had not yet found what I would consider definitive proof of his parentage. As with many things in genealogy when no clear cut conclusion presents itself in “black and white”, one must weigh the probabilities and rely on a preponderance of secondary evidence to tilt a conclusion one way or another. The conclusion that I will subsequently present regarding the parentage of William Campbell (1819-1897) is now, in 2019, proven, in my opinion. Then it was simply the “best guess” I could make weighing the probabilities suggested by the documentary evidence I had in my possession in 2010. At that time there were other competing theories on the Internet which fit with some of the facts in this case.

My “thesis” is that William Campbell (1819-1897), my ancestor, who lived most of his adult life in Ontario, Canada, is the son of Sylvester Campbell (1784-1844) and Helen Mason (1789-1877) who lived out their lives in the Aberdeenshire area of Scotland. In the absence of documentation that directly states this fact, I will present what indirect evidence I have in support of this claim.

 

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