Smith Bawtinheimer
ID # 7176, (1836-)
| Father | James Bawtinheimer (1809-1849) |
| Mother | Charlotte Kelly (1814-1877) |
| Birth | Smith Bawtinheimer was born in 1836. |
| Marriage | He married Ann Johnstone on 11 November 1861 at Grey County, Canada West. MS248 reel 6, Vol. 13, page 50 Grey County Marriage Register Extracted from a list of marriages solemnized by Thomas Stevenson, a minister of the Canada Presbyterian Church for the year ending 31st day of December, A.D. 1861 Smith Bawtinheimer, 25, born Canada West, residing Nelson (township). Parents Jas. Bawtinheimer and Charlotte Kelly. Ann Johnstone, 24, born Scotland, residing Nelson. Parents Neil Johnstone and Jane Sinclair. Witness James Johnstone, residence Nelson. On November 11th, 1861. An explanation as to why two residents of Nelson Township in Halton County should marry in Grey County has yet to be found. A search of the 1861 census in Grey does not show obvious Johnstone family members. The county marriage register pages do not typically show the locale of the marriage. Sometimes a marriage notice is found in a newspaper that can be informative, but such has yet to be found. |
| Note | At the time of the 1851 census in South Dumfries, Smith is with his mother, Charlotte Bawtinhimer, and his siblings. At age 16, he appears as the second oldest, second in age only to his brother Levi. By the time of the 1861 census, he is in Nelson Township (Halton County) and to be found on the agricultural census. He is shown as being on 2 N.D., lot 18, apparently with 100 acres. (Your researcher is unfamiliar with the meaning of the letters N.D.) Appearing on an agricultural census does not mean that the land is owned by the person listed. He may well have had a financial interest in the land, or may have been leasing. He married in 1861 and is shown on his marriage registration as being resident in Nelson. By the time of the 1871 census he is resident in North Dumfries Township of Waterloo County and is shown as a farmer. By 1881 he is in the town of Galt. He is shown as a gentleman. This sometimes means being retired. It can also simply mean unemployed. By 1891 he is in Waterdown Village in Wentworth County and is shown as a stone cutter. He has yet to be found thereafter. What follows is a guess and more research is needed, but for a time in the 1870s and 1880s there was a firm in Galt that made gravestones. The name was either Marks & Bawtinhimer or Parks & Bawtinhimer. Considering that Smith was shown as a stone cutter in 1891, and that he was in Galt as of the 1881 census, one of the proprietors of the firm may have been Smith. The firm has been sought in directories, but remains to be found. |
| Last Edited | 19 Jul 2019 |