George Husband
ID # 1173
| Marriage | George Husband married Elizabeth White. A tree appearing as a separate page in the transcription of Henry Husband's diary seems to say indicate that George was born in 1765. If true, he was very young when he married Elizabeth White. No years of birth or death are provided for Elizabeth. Since son John was born in 1782, this would make George at the time of his marriage something like 16 and this doesn't seem reasonable. George and Elizabeth are said to have had sons Robert, born 1796; William, born 1800, and George, birth year not given. No source is given for this information. |
| Note | What follows is an update of the descendants of George Husband and Elizabeth White. Some years ago, your researcher entered such information as was at the time available. Recently, I have been the recipient of correspondence from one Husband descendant and from a gentleman who is married to another descendant and they provided family information as well as directing me to excellent source material which (so far I knew) was not available in earlier years. I am most grateful for this input. My family had Husband relatives who are fondly remembered. What follows has already some updates entered and, I suspect, will require more. And so... Henry Husband, in the opening page of his diary, makes reference to his grandparents, George Husband and Elizabeth White. We know little of them other than Henry telling that his grandfather was a weaver. We have no information to suggest that George and Elizabeth ever came to Canada. Henry describes his father, John Husband, as the second son of George and Elizabeth. For the moment, this may in no way be reflected by the list of sons as is presented here. We do not know the year of birth for John's brother George, only that he died in approximately 1846. There may be other sons, or daughters, who came to Canada or who remained in Ireland, beyond the list of four sons, which for the moment is presented here. Henry describes all the members of his father's family as having been Church of England (this was not the situation in later years) and that his father, at the least, was resident of Mormount, a village in Ireland, just prior to his coming to Canada. Did all the brothers and their families come to Canada at the same time? We don't know, though they do not appear on passenger lists of the era presently available. With the little we do know, their immigrations, first to the Niagara Peninsula area, can't have been too many years apart. We may say, however, that John and Robert came to Canada at or nearly the same time. Library & Archives Canada (LAC) has microfilm reels of petitions for land and these may be found for John and Robert. Both petitions appear on microfilm reel C-2049. John's petition, nbr. 122, begins on image 00411, and Robert's petition, nbr. 130, begins on image 00445. John's petition tells of his service in the Royal Navy which began on 12 July 1812 (omitting, perhaps diplomatically, that he was press-ganged into the service) and tells that he was discharged in 1816 and that he is a yeoman (farmer) in Bertie Township. (Fort Erie is located in what was Bertie Township). He states that he is a native of Tipperary, Ireland, and that he emigrated in May of 1822 to Quebec and has since resided in Bertie. He goes on to say that he is married and has three children and he asks for a patent for 100 acres to which he is entitled by way of his military service. His petition is dated 9 July, 1823. John states that he has taken the oath of allegiance and the certificate is annexed, though it does not appear in the file. Henry Husband, John's son, on the first page of his diary, refers to Lord Hawarden for whom his great grandfather worked as Master of the Forests. It's rather startling to note that Robert Husband's petition has a commendation from the then current Lord Hawarden. This is annexed to Robert's petition. Hawarden describes Robert as having worked in his coach-making and farming businesses and his performance was entirely satisfactory. This document has other supporting signatures, one of them being the deputy mayor of Cashel. Robert in his petition describes himself as a wheelwright in the Township of Bertie. He emigrated in May of 1822 to Quebec (the same month as his brother John - probably on the same vessel). Perhaps the one problematic point in Robert's petition, which is dated 3 September, 1823, is that he states that he is married. He does not mention children and the earliest of his children that we are able to list is his daughter Margaret, born approximately 1828. Looking over the list of children so far found, there will be children both before and after 1828 for whom we have no list. Also appended to Robert's petition is his oath of allegiance, which was taken at York (Toronto) on 3 September, 1823, the same date as his petition. It must surely have been written and filed at York. Robert's petition is for Crown Land and he bases this simply on the fact that he wishes to be a 'settler'. His means are meagre, however. He cannot afford to apply for 100 acres, so he is applying for 50 acres. Both John and Robert gain patents in Nassagaweya Township in the Gore District. John received 100 acres comprising the west half of lot 25 on the 4th concession on 19th April, 1833 (yes, the wheels of government ground slowly); on 4th August, 1832, Robert received 50 acres which comprised the south west quarter of lot 24 in the 5th concession of Nassagaweya. (In later years, Robert was in Nelson Township.) No such petitions have been found for George or James. Just why this might be your researcher has no sure knowledge. James' family, however, is listed in an 1828 census for Pelham Township and in later years both George and James are present in Pelham. And, when it comes to no petitions being found for them, it does raise a possibility. Both George and James were evidently associated with the Society of Friends in Pelham - also known as the Quakers. The Quakers had an issue with allegiances to earthly potentates. There is evidence of land ownership for George and James in Pelham, almost certainly related to outright purchase. We do not know how early George and James were connected with the Quakers, but this connection may have been an impediment to petitioning for land and the concomitant oath of allegiance required. The list of the four sons of George Husband and Elizabeth White that we do have is justified as follows. Henry, in his diary, makes reference to his father John. John was still living as of the 1861 census in Nassagaweya Township in Halton County. This doesn't directly state where John is buried, though he is probably in the Ebenezer Church cemetery in Nassagaweya. John receives further mention in the diary, but he is also memorialized on Henry's gravestone in St. Jude's Cemetery in Oakville. That Henry had an Uncle George is mentioned in Henry's diary entry for October 14, 1907. He has received a letter telling of the passing of his cousin Richard Husband who was the son of Henry's Uncle George. The diary page is available via Halinet and may be viewed at: http://images.oakville.halinet.on.ca/2671501/page/54?n= The comment of interest is near the bottom of the page. Henry's diary makes several references to his Uncle Robert who was for a time in Nassagaweya, but was later in Nelson Township of Halton County. The information we have for James is interesting. James and George were in Pelham Township in the Niagara Peninsula, and such information as we have appears to make it safe to link them. If George became a Quaker, we have no direct information, though his (apparently) third wife, Susannah Hughie/Huie/Howee/Howey(?) certainly was a Quaker. James, however, at some point became a Quaker and his marriage in 1827, which is found in Quaker records, names his parents as George and Elizabeth. (James' wife was Hannah Hoover, though this is variously rendered, and may be related to George's last wife.) Beyond this, we have James being shown as an executor at the least involved with the sale of brother George's property. There isn't another James Husband that could be reasonably identified as performing this responsibility. See notes under the sons' names for more detail. |
Children of George Husband and Elizabeth White |
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| Last Edited | 9 Apr 2021 |