Richard Palmer
ID # 7745, (1818-1867)
| Birth | Richard Palmer was born in 1818. |
| Marriage | He married Charlotte Thurman in 1837 at Leicestershire, England. FreeBMD shows Richard and Charlotte as being married in the last quarter of the year 1837 in Leicester. Leicester, for recording purposes, was the district town. They were likely married in a smaller locale. They are present at Hinckley, Leicestershire, as of the 1841 census and have two children with them. The 1901 census at Toronto Junction shows Charlotte Palmer coming to Canada in 1842. If this is accurate then there may not have been more than one more child born in Engand. The 1841 census shows a daughter Mary, age 2, and son James, age 7 months. |
| Death | He died in 1867. |
| Burial | He was buried at Paris, Dumfries Twp., Gore District, Canada West. |
| Note | Richard Palmer appears with wife Charlotte and two youngest children, of whom we are aware, in the 1841 census in Hinkley, Leicestershire, England. This census tells us that wife Charlotte and their two children were born in 'the same county' as that of the enumeration (Leicestershire), but that Richard was not. Had the couple not come to Canada prior to the 1851 census, we might have had information as to Richard's town and county of birth. Charlotte's appearance in the 1901 census at Toronto Junction tells that she came to Canada in 1842 and, going by places of birth for their children in later census information, this will at least be close to correct. The 1851 and 1861 Canada West censuses show a James and Elizabeth Palmer with or near them and they are of an age to be Richard's parents. James and Elizabeth appear on page 29 of the 1841 census at Hinkley and Richard and Charlotte appear on page 28. Both James and Richard are shown as sawyers. (One description has a sawyer as someone who saws timber. Whether this would be a pecise definition of the trade of James and Richard is another matter.) The 1851 census in Brantford Township shows Richard Palmer as a teamster. He is with his wife Charlotte and, by this time, six children. James and Elizabeth Palmer, almost certainly Richard's parents, are listed immediately before Richard and Charlotte. James and Elizabeth have with them two grown persons, James Jr. and Minerva. (The immediately following page of informational data indicates that James Jr. and Minerva are married, so Minerva will be James and Elizabeth's daughter-in-law. Minerva was born in the United States.) They are either in their own household or they may all be under one roof. The census isn't clear on this point. Richard appears with his family in the 1861 census at Paris in Brant County (he keeps a horse livery), but not in the 1871 census. Charlotte died in 1905 and is buried in Prospect Cemetery in Toronto. Commemorated on the gravestone is the name of Richard, her husband. He is shown as being born in 1818 and having died in 1868 and the stone tells that he was interred in Paris. Which cemetery in Paris isn't stated. At a guess, James and Elizabeth Palmer are buried there as well, but the stones for none of them appear to have survived. In the event, so far as Richard's year of death is concerned, 1868, while close, is probably not accurate. Rather, he almost certainly died in 1867. For this, see Surrogate Court Index of Ontario, Canada, 1859-1900, Vol. 20, Brant County, compiled by June Gibson and indexed by Elizabeth Hancocks, C.G., & Shannon Hancocks, Global Heritage Press, Milton (now of Ottawa), 2011. This tells that the will of Richard Palmer of Paris, nbr. 196, was probated in 1867. A note here to do with the years of birth for the children of Richard and Charlotte. No baptism information for them has been found. We depend on information as found in various censuses, the odd death registration, and inscriptions on gravestones. These sources frequently conflict. The Abstract Index pages for Brantford Township are available via onland.ca. They shows Richard Palmer gaining an interest in lot 11 of the 1st concession in 1851, and lot 12 on the same concession in 1854. These do not appear to be large holdings and later transactions, almost certainly after Richard's death, are faint and largely unreadable. See The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project. This appears to make extractions from an 1875 atlas and indicates that a W. Palmer has 100 acres on lot 10 of the 2nd concession, and that Mrs. Palmer has 100 acres of lot 9 on the 5th concession. An R. Palmer has 100 acres on lot 10 of the 2nd concession. It does appear that some considerable land accrued to family members for at least a few years after the passing of Richard. Certainly, the 1st and 2nd concession properties are a very short distance south of the town of Paris where Richard had his livery stable. |
Children of Richard Palmer and Charlotte Thurman |
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| Last Edited | 4 Feb 2020 |