Archive Record
Metadata
Accession # |
A2008.59 |
Title |
Barnet and Ewen family records, SERIES 1 - SUBSERIES 1-4: Barnet family, ca. 1842-1990. |
Date |
1842-1990 CIRCA |
Description |
SERIES 1: Documents and photographs that had belonged to Alexander Barnet and family of Living Springs, West Garafraxa Township, and of Fergus, covering the years ca. 1842-1990. These items had been in the care of various relatives before coming into the possession of the donors. SUBSERIES 1: Receipts & invoices paid by Alexander Barnet, 1842-1905. File 1: Receipts and paid invoices relating to agriculture, farm work and fuel, 1852-1896. - item 1: Paid to A. Michie, bushels of wheat, Fergus, 07 Feb. 1852. - item 2: Paid to Alex Wilkie for tool sharpening, repairs, shoeing, etc., 1853. - item 3: Paid to A.T. Cadenhead for "T.E. Hem" etc., by bushels of potatoes, 1854. - Item 4: Paid to Marten & Cumandy[?] of Elora, for carding and oiling, 09 January 1858. - item 5: Paid to Alex Wilkie for plough repair, shoeing, etc., 1860. - item 6: Paid to James Grindly for harrow teeth, rivets, sheet iron, etc. in 1858, 29 March 1860. - item 7: Paid to Thomas Powrie for wages, 03 Nov. 1860. - item 8: Paid to Alexander Wilkie for shears, shoes, tyres, staples, and tool repair, 1862. - item 9: Paid to Francis Green for wages, Garafraxa, 04 Nov. 1864. - item 10: Paid to Beattie & Lingwood for shoes set, tool and machine repair, new mould, etc., 1865. - item 11: Paid to Joseph Smelcer [Smeltzer] for wages, Garafraxa, 05 Nov. 1866. - item 12: Paid to Alex Wilkie for pump sucker, shear sharpening, shoeing, bolt nuts, chains, etc., 1867. - item 13: Paid to Patrick Kirivin, for two months wages, Garafraxa, 13 June 1868. - item 14: Paid to Henry Morden for harvest work, Garafraxa, 17 August 1868. - item 15: Paid to David Boys, for digging a well, Garafraxa, 01 October 1868. - item 16: Paid to Alexander Wilkie for sharpening implements, shoe sets, a sleigh, repairs to plough irons, etc., 02 March 1869. - item 17: Paid to D.M. Potter for "our reaper", Garafraxa, 15 Sep. 1869. - item 18: Paid to Mair, Lamson & Co., iron founders of Fergus, for plough point, turnip sower, cast plough share, etc., Fergus, 01 Nov. 1870. - item 19: Paid to Ash, Mair & Co., iron founders and machinists of Fergus, for plough pieces, etc., Fergus, 20 Feb. 1871. [paper torn in two at time of donation] - item 20: Paid to John Hunt for cow chains, hinge repair, bolts, hinges for gate, sharpening implements, nails, etc., Fergus, 12 January 1871. - item 21: Paid to S.E. Haight for shoes set, tools sharpened, etc., 1875. - item 22: Paid to Robert West and John Burns for cutting chords of wood and half stave bolts, Garafraxa, 19 April 1879. - item 23: Paid to Hugh Black for cedar for shingles, oil, work sawing, chopping, repairing reaper, carpentry, threshing, etc., dated West Garafraxa, 10 June 1879. - item 24: Paid to Michael Burns for cutting saw logs and cord wood, Garafraxa, 21 March 1881. - item 25: Paid to Hamilton Perry for coal, Fergus, 23 Oct. 1885. - item 26: Paid to William Green for chopping cords of wood, Fergus, 03 March 1887. - item 27: Paid to Thomas B. Burns for cords of wood, Fergus, 03 March 1896. File 2: Receipts and paid invoices relating to home and property building and improvements, 1859-1902. - item 1: Paid to William West for property in Concession 3, Garafraxa Township, dated Elora, 14 April 1859. - item 2: "Measurements of Mr. Alexander Barnet's house", with dimensions of walls, rooms, gables, etc. Inside note dated Garafraxa, 03 Sep. 1864 reads, "Mr. A. Barnet, Dear Sir, The foregoing is a correct statement of the masonwork of your house" signed John Dick and Charles Young. - item 3: Paid to John Dick and Charles Young "on account of building a House to [Alexander Barnet]", Garafraxa, 04 June 1864. - item 4: Paid to Joseph Fanning for "plastering a House to you", Garafraxa, 13 September 1864. - item 5: Paid to Charles Young "balance in full of contract for House building", Fergus, 05 October 1864. - item 6: Paid to Edmond Phelan for "painting your house", Garafraxa, 15 October 1864. - item 7: Paid to D.F. Small for wall paper, borders, etc., dated 188[?]". - item 8: Memorandum of agreement made with Mr. Kerr, tinsmith, for galvanized steel roof and labour, Fergus, 04 July 1883. - item 9: Paid to Robert Kerr Jr. for "putting on Galvanized Iron roof on his House", Fergus, 16 Aug. 1883. - item 10: Paid to R. Kerr Jr. for pipes and elbows, Fergus, 15 Dec. 1883. - item 11: Paid to Robert Phillips for wall paper and borders, Fergus, 29 April 1891. - item 12: Paid to D.F. Small, painter, for wall paper bought from R. Phillips, Fergus, 11 May 1893. - item 13: Paid to D.F. Small, House Painter, for painting exterior of house, fences, and wood shed, dated Fergus, 07 Aug. 1897. - item 14: Paid to R. Phillips Sr. for "Couble[?] walls, Inframe..., Sill Bords" etc., Fergus 27 May 1901. - item 15: Paid to D.F. Small, House Painter and Decorator, for painting windows, gluing, and wall papering, Fergus, 13 July 1901. - item 16: Paid to David Ritchie "for Chimney Building", Fergus, 10 Oct. 1902. File 3: Receipts and paid invoices relating to groceries, clothing and dry goods, 1844-1905. - item 1: Paid to Webster & Fordyce, for bagging, tobacco, sweets, buttons, linen, seat rent in Fergus church, etc., Feb. 1844. - item 2: Paid to Webster & Fordyce, for tobacco, alum, soap, oatmeal, cotton, silk, Jean [denim], coffee, sugar, etc., 01 May 1846. - item 3: Paid to Webster & Fordyce & Harvey for pots, pans, dishes, tobacco, buttons, cloth, shoe blacking, etc., 12 March 1847. - item 4: Paid to J. & T. Webster, Webster & Fordyce, and Webster & Harvey, by wages, 01 Nov. 1848. - item 5: Paid to Webster & Harvey for flannel, handkerchief, molassees, etc., 01 November 1848. - item 6: Paid to James Webster for flour, soap, molasses, barley, bows, cloth, etc., 01 May 1849. - item 7: Paid to James Webster for oatmeal, matches, tobacco, eggs milk strainer, whiskey, nails, shingles, etc., 01 Sep. 1849. - item 8: Paid to James Webster for various accounts, 30 Dec. 1849. - item 9: Paid to S.W. Watson for cloth, maple sugar, butter, coffee, cut nails, chopping axe, etc., dated Fergus, 16 Apr. 1850. - item 10: Paid to James Webster for crocks, candle, sugar kettle, tobacco, whiskey, flour, bran, etc., 16 Apr. 1850. - item 11: Paid to James Watt for boots, thread, tobacco, soap, apples, etc., dated Fergus, 22 Feb. 1851. - item 12: Paid to James Webster for church seat, oatmeal, black dust, slabs, etc., 20 August 1852. - item 13: Paid (by butter) to James Watt for cloth, crockery, cotton, tobacco, spoons, a boa, oil, etc., Fergus, 26 Jan. 1856. - item 14: Paid to John Mennie for boots, Fergus, 18 Nov. 1856. - item 15: Paid to John Mennie for moccasins, boots, and shoes, 01 July 1858. - item 16: Paid to A. L. Argo for cotton warp, plough lines, tobacco, etc. 10 March 1859. - item 17: Paid to John A. McMillan for slippers and boots, 08 Nov. 1859. - item 18: Paid [to whom not stated] for a woolen cap, candlesticks, looking glass, shaving brush, pepper & mustard, pitch forks, etc., [ca. 1860]. - item 19: Paid to A. Argo & Son for clober seed, tea, tobacco, nails, knife, turnip seed, denim, ribbon, etc., Fergus, 03 July 1860. - item 20: Paid to John A. McMillan, money owed, Fergus, 09 November 1861. - item 21: Paid to A. Argo & son for salt, panes of glass, boots, tobacco, paper, coffee, ribbon, cloth, whiskey, etc., 10 January 1862. - item 22: Paid to Alex Stewart for boots, Fergus, 26 Dec. 1862. - item 23: Paid to W.B. Choate for butter, knives, forks, candle sticks, etc., 1863. - item 24: Paid to John Ross, Weaver of Fergus, for cloth woven, November 1863. - item 25: Paid to A. Argo & Son for glass, "boild oil", nails, sugar, tobacco, matches, soda, shoes, lamp blacking, castor oil, etc., 03 November 1864. - item 26: Paid to John Mennie for boots and shoes, Fergus, 31 December 1867. - item 27: Paid to Alex Stewart for boots and shoes, 31 Dec. 1868. - item 28: Paid to John Mennie for boots and shoes, Fergus, January 1869. - item 29: Paid to T. Argo for a pail, turnip seed, cloth, etc., 1876. - item 30: Paid to T. Argo for groceries, by butter, eggs and ham, 20 April 1883. - item 31: Paid to J. & H. Tindale, "The House for Bargains in Kinds of Dry Goods, Groceries, Glassware & Crockery", Fergus, 17 Jan. 1884. - item 32: Paid to James Argo for a china tea set, shawl, etc., January 1886. - item 33: Paid to James Pattison & Co, General Merchants of Fergus, for velvet, bonnet, etc., 25 Jan. 1905. File 4: Receipts relating to medical expenses, 1876-1905. - item 1: Paid to Dr. Johnson of Fergus for medicine and attendance on son, 02 May 1876. - item 2: Paid to G.A. Reid of Fergus for "sett of teeth", 16 Feb. 1878. - item 3: Paid to Dr. A[braham] Groves of Fergus for eighteen visits, medicine, and setting an arm, December 1882. - items 4 - 59: Paid to the Bursar's Office, Asylum for the Insane in Hamilton, Ontario, for maintenance etc. of Jean Barnet, 30 Sep. 1886 through 28 December 1900. - item 60: Paid to Dr. A[braham] Groves of Fergus, for professional services and medicine, 08 August 1901. - item 61: Paid to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Fergus, for nursing, 25 January 1905. File 5: Reciepts re. taxes, 1848-1901. - item 1: Paid to Wellington District, Wild Land and Road Tax for the southwest half of Lot 16, Concession 3, Garafraxa Township "from the 1 July 1840 to the 1 July 1846 being 6 years on 100 acres". Dated Guelph, 17 June 1848. - item 2: Paid to the District of Wellington for Wild Land and Road Tax for the property on the southwest half of Lot 16, Concession 3, Garafraxa Township, "from the 1 July 1846 to the 1 July 1849". Dated Guelph, 31 OCtober 1849. - item 3: Paid to the United Couties of Wellington, Waterloo and Grey for Wild Land and Road Tax on the southwest half of Lot 16, Concession 3, Garafraxa Township, "from the 1 July 1849 to the 1 Jany. 1850". Dated Guelph, 11 January 1853. - item 4: Paid to the Township of Garafraxa, taxes on the property at Concession 3, west half of Lot 16, 1857. - item 5: Paid to the Township of Garafraxa, taxes for Concession 3, west half of Lot 16, 1858. - item 6: Paid to the Township of Garafraxa, taxes for Concession 3, west of the west quarter of Lot 16, and for Concession 4, Lot 14, 1859. - item 7: Paid to the Township of Garafraxa, taxes for Concession 3, west half of Lot 16, and for Concession 4, west half of Lot 14, 1860. - item 8: Paid to the Township of Garafraxa, taxes for Concession 3, west half of Lot 16, and for Con.4, west half of Lot 14, 1862. - item 9: Paid to the Townshipo of Garafraxa, taxes for Con. 3 and 4, the west half of Lots 16 and 14, 1863. - item 10: Paid to the Township of Garafraxa, taxes for Con.3 west half of Lot 16 and Con.4, west half of Lot 14, 1864. - item 11: Paid to the Township of Garafraxa, taxes for Con.3 west half of Lot 16; Con.4, west half Lot 14, 1865. - item 12: Paid to the Township of Garafraxa, taxes for Con.3 west half of Lot 16; Con.4 west half Lot 14, 1866. - item 13: Paid to the Township of Garafraxa, taxes for Con.3 west half of Lot 16; Con.4 west half of Lot 14, 1867. - item 14: Paid to the Township of West Garafraxa, taxes for Con.3, west half of Lot 16, 1869. - item 15: Paid to the Municipality of West Garafraxa, taxes for Con.3 the northwest half of the west half of Lot 14; Con.3 the west half of Lot 16; Con.4 the west hal fo the west half of Lot 14, 1881. - item 16: Paid to the Municipality of West Garafraxa, taxes for Concession 3 west half of Lot 16 and the northwest half of the west half of Lot 14; and Concession 4, west half of the west half of Lot 14, 1882. - item 17: Paid to the Municipality of Fergus, taxes for Lots 26 through 32, corner of Garafraxa and Perry Streets, 1895. - item 18: Paid to the Municipality of Fergus, taxes for Lots 26-32 North corner of Garafraxa Street at Perry Street, 1900. - item 19: Paid to the Municipality of Fergus, taxes for property at the north corner of Garafraxa and Perry Streets, 1901. File 6: Miscellaneous receipts and notice of payment due, 1846-1901. - item 1: Paid to Hugh Black Jr. for Black's "Lodgings & Harry Martin's Board", Fergus, 08 Dec. 1846. - item 2: Paid to George Pirie for a subscription to The Fergus Freeholder, 21 February 1855. - item 3: Paid to Adam Argo and P.J. Ironside for items bought from Adam J. Argo, Fergus, 11 August 1857. - item 4: Paid to Charles Stovel for "a delivered to me" [sic], Garafraxa, 19 August 1858. - item 5: Paid to James Wyllie the amount owing, Fergus, 24 Feb. 1859. - item 6: Paid to the British Constitution & Fergus Freeholder for "subscription to paper", Ferugs, 12 March 1866. - item 7: Paid to the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of the Municipality of Nichol, Fergus, 17 April 1866. Signed by John Beattie. - item 8: Paid to John Beattie on behalf of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of the Municipality of Nichol, 09 January 1867. - item 9: Paid to Watt Bros., British Constitution office, for subscription to the [Fergus] News Record, Fergus, February 1867. - item 10: Paid to Watson & Lambert of Elora for tombstone to be delivered to Belsyde Cemetery in Fergus, dated Elora, 11 August 1876. Inscription on stone was to read in part, "James A. son of Alexander & Ann Barnet died April 27 1876 aged 5 yrs 2 mos & 2 dys...". - item 11: Paid to Knox College Endowment Fund for subscription, Toronto, 09 June 1884. - item 12: Paid to D.B. Hyatt for "6 mos reading", Fergus, 05 Feb. 1886. - item 13: Paid to Alexander Barnet by N.O. Richardson, via the Imperial Bank of Canada, Fergus, 03 June 1892. - item 14: Notice of payment due to the Imperial Bank of Canada, Fergus, 05 January 1899. - item 15: Paid to Robert Glen, Treasurer [of Melville Church] for "the Building Fund of Melville Church", Fergus, 10 May 1899. - item 16: Paid to Robert Glen, Treasurer, for his subscription to the building fund of Melville Church, Fergus, 10 August 1899. - item 17: Paid to Melville Church, Fergus, 02 December 1900. - item 18: Paid to the Fergus News-Record for subscription to the Fergus News-Record and to the Montreal Witness, Fergus, 07 Nov. 1901. File 7: Receipts of Mrs. Alexander Barnet, 1876-1887. - item 1: Paid to Wm. Pattison for Crape Bonnet etc., Fergus, 06 May 1876. - item 2: Paid to Robert Craig for organ, Fergus, 17 Jan. 1880. - item 3: Paid to R. Craig for "bal on sewing machine", 03 Jan. 1887. SUBSERIES 2: Cashbooks, 1862-1902. File 1: Cashbooks itemizing household, farm, and building expenses and payments received, 1862-1902. - item 1: Cashbook, 1862-1872. Details payments made and received, to/from whom and why. - item 2: Cashbook, 1874-1902 [two pages loose]. Details re. payments made and received. Cover missing. Includes list on first surviving page, "Cost of House" with details re. payment made to carpenters, brick layers, etc. SUSBSERIS 3: Wills and legal Documents, 1874-1888. File 1: Wills and legal documents, 1874-1888. - item 1: Envelope addressed "To the Public School Trustee Corporation / School Section No. 3 Township of W. Garafraxa / c/o James Nairn Esq. / Teacher...", [1874]. - item 2: Indenture of sale: between David and Ann Black of West Garafraxa Township, and the school trustees of S.S.#3 West Garafraxa, land at part of the NE half of Lot 15, Con.2, West Garafraxa Township, 1874. Signed by James Muir, David Black, Ann Black, Samuel Williams and Hugh Black. - item 3: Last Will and testament of Isabella Pringle, widow of the village of Fergus, 28 July 1875. Executor: Alexander Barnet. Includes reference to her tenant, Charles Stewart. - item 4: Last Will and testament of Alexander Barnet, yeoman of West Garafraxa Township, 06 June 1878. - item 5: Receipt from James Ford for money received from Alexander Barnet as executor of his father's estate, 05 May 1883. - item 6: Receipt from George Ewan for money received from Alexander Barnet and James Cowie as executors of his father John's estate, 12 Oct. 1888. SUBSERIES 4: Miscellaneous documents, 1867-1990. File 1: Genealogies, correspondence, funeral cards and other documents relating to Alexander Barnet and family, 1878-1990. - item 1: Waterloo County Mutual Fire Insurance Company policy taken out by Alexander Barnet, 13 April 1878. It covers contents of stone house at Concession 3, Lot 16, West Garafraxa Township, as well as household and farm implements, frame barn, sheds, and stables. - item 2: Sixteenth annual report of the Waterloo County Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Village Branch, 1878. Includes claimants and amounts of claims that year, including for Guelph: Edward Hornbostel, Mrs. Jane Pearson, Inglis & Hunter, Mrs. Ellen Cormie, and the Worswick Engine Co. It also includes John Knowles of Mount Forest and George Hambly of Hollin. - item 3-5: Melville Church, Fergus, financial report for 1878, 1883, and 1884. - item 6: Letter addressed to "My Dear Sandy" from J.M. Webster, writing from 29 Green Street, Guelph, 13 October [ca. 1895]. Re. trips to Scotland, family and friends. - item 7: Happy New Year card to Mr. & Mrs. Barnett [sic] from Mr. and Mrs. MacVicar of Fergus, 1899. - item 8: Pastoral address on special meetings / Presbytery of GUelph, December 1900. - item 9: Happy New Year card from MR. & Mrs. MacVicar, Melville Manse, Fergus, 1901. - item 10: Funeral card of Jemima Davidson Barnet (wife of William A. Richardson), died 27 October 1914. [x2; one with cross motif, the other with scroll motif]. - item 11: Funeral card of William Barnet who died in Leamington on 10 May 1927, aged 72. - item 12: Letter to Marian Treacher of Toronto from her cousin Dr. Roy B. Richardson of Toronto, 11 January 1966. Regarding Dr. Richardson's health, time spent in prison, and the genealogy of Alexander Barnet. 4 pages. - item 13: "Early History of Alexander Barnet (Pioneer of Libing Springs), by Lloyd & Lorna Fletcher of R.R.3 Fergus, ca. 1980. 2 pages. - item 14: Handwritten notes on page titled "Alex & Anna Davidson Barnet"; includes contact information for Marion Treacher, ca. 1965. - item 15: Photocopy of a ca.1900 photograph of the house that Alexander Barnet had built on Garafraxa Street, Fergus, in the 1880s. - item 16: "History of Alexander Barnet" by Vida Stewart, ca. 1960. 1 page. - item 17: "Descendants of William Barnet & Elizabeth Imrie", ca. 1960. 1 page. - item 18: Envelope addressed to Jean Wright of Elora with handwritten notes about relatives, ca. 1990. File 2: Receipts, newspaper clippings, and documents without an obvious connection to the Barnet family, 1867-1930. - item 1: Receipt of payment to Alex Stewart from Mr. Raenot[?] for boots and shoes, Fergus, 12 January 1867. - item 2: Receipt of payment to James Miller from Mrs. Pringle "for log house doors windows etc. on lot lately purchased from her...", Fergus, 03 January 1868. - item 3: Canada short horn stock register showing genealogy of a yearling heifer named Flora, owned by John Grieves of Eramosa Township, 27 February 1872. - item 4: Receipt of payment from Joseph Tweddle to Wm. H. Sparrow House Finishing Goods for "a granite [style enamel?] kettle", Toronto, 19 Sep. 1883. - item 5: Receipt of payment from Thomas Wansborough to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company for transporting apples from Fergus to Flesherton, 16 November 1892. Signed by R.M. Gill. - item 6: Newspaper clipping: "Dr. Chiniquy's Will. / Desirres Mission Work to be Continued / Bequests to his wife and children" [after 17 January 1898]. - item 7: Newspaper clipping: obituary of James McQueen of Fergus, [likely from a Guelph or Fergus paper] 21 February 1899. - item 8: The Economical Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Berlin policy taken out by H. Dalton of Elora for a stable and implement house and contents at Park Lots 2 and 3, west side of Geddes Street, part of Lot 18 Nichol, between Elora and Salem, 19 May 1901. - item 9: Newspaper clipping: "Mrs. Beatty Laid Corner Stone.." re. Melville United [Presbyterian] Church, August 1930. |
Creator \ Maker |
Barnet, Alexander [compiler] |
Item Name |
Record Group Receipt Tax Notice Account Book Memorial Card Correspondence |
Person \ Organization |
Argo, Adam Argo, James Ash Ash, Mair and Company Foundry Asylum For the Insane Barnet, Alexander Barnet, Jean Beattie and Lingwood Beattie, John Beatty Belsyde Cemetery Black, Ann Black, David Black, Hugh Boys, David British Constitution Burns, John Burns, Michael Burns, Thomas Cadenhead, Alexander S. Canadian Pacific Railway Choate, W. B. Cormie, Ellen Cowie, James Craig, Robert Dalton, H. Dick, John Ewen, George Ewen, John Fanning, Joseph Fergus Freeholder Fergus News Record Ford, James Fordyce Gill Green, Francis Green, William Grieves, John Grindley, James Groves, Abraham (Dr.) Haight, S. Hambly, George Harvey Hornbostel, Edward C. Hunt, John Hyatt, David Bruce Imperial Bank of Commerce Inglis and Hunter Ironside James Pattison and Company Johnson, James (Dr.) Kerr, Robert Kirvin, Patrick Kirwin, Patrick Knowles, John Knox College Lambert Lamson Lingwood MacVicar Mair Mair, Lamson and Company Foundry Marten Martin, Harry Martin, Henry McMillan, John Alexander McQueen, James Melville Presbyterian Church Melville Presbyterian Church Mennie, John Michie, A. Miller, James Mitchel Mitchell, Eleanor Morden, Henry Muir, James Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Nichol Twp. Pattison, James Pattison, William Pearson, Jane Perry, Hamilton Phelan, Edmond Phillips, Robert Pirie, George Potter, D. Powrie, Thomas Presbytery of Guelph Pringle, Isabella Reid, G. A. Ritchie, David Ross, John Royal Alexandra Hospital S. S. #3 West Garafraxa Twp. Small, Donald Fraser Smeltzer, Joseph Stewart, Alex Stewart, Charles Stovel, Charles Tindale Brothers Tindale, John Tweddle, Joseph Wansborough, Thomas Watson and Lambert Watson, S. W. Watt, James Webster, James West, Robert West, William Wilkie, Alexander Williams, Samuel Worswick Engine Company Wylie, James Young, Charles |
Place |
Elora Fergus Hamilton Hollen Garafraxa Street Geddes Street Guelph Living Springs Mount Forest Nichol Twp. Perry Street West Garafraxa Twp. Wellington District Green Street Scotland Eramosa Twp. |
Subject |
Agriculture Farm Labour Animals Commercial Manufacturing And Trades Architecture Smoking Medical Government Religion |
Year Range from |
1842 |
Year Range to |
1990 |
Accession # |
A2008.59 |
Containers |
MU 854 |