Ramara Carden Dalton History Online

Hello-- I do not know of an active genealogist in the Ramara area-- You can find the land records for Mara and Rama, at the Simcoe Land registry office, in Barrie. There are several directories on this site that indicate the lot and concession number, for residents. All the land records are on mirco...

After a considerable time searching the obits of the Orillia Packet &Times, to no avail, I did find an obituary on Patrick Moffatt, in the Oil City, Pa, newspaper. He died 18 June 1949, at the Orillia Soldiers Memorial Hospital. He is buried in an unmarked grave in St. Andrew's Cemetry, Brechin....

you may find a Estate documents like a Will, at the Ontario Archives, visit www.archives.gov.on.ca for more info. Also, the Simcoe County land registery office in Barrie, may be worth a visit. Sometimes Wills are attached to the land deeds. I found a copy of my GG Grandfathers Will attached to his l...

Ronald, as you know, your grand parents are buried in the Atherley Union Cemetery, however there are no historical douments that link them to this area. They married 20 Apr 1916, in Toronto, where Edward had been living for the previous 9 years. He was born in London England in 1885, a son of James ...

Bill- in the book "Relections of the Past: the story of Rama Township" (you can google this title, it is on Our Roots)- page 31, it reads that no much is known about the Campbell's in Rama-- I find this surprising as Campbells were in Rama before the 1851 census. I have not found much on N...

Thank you- Mary Walsh - would would have been his grand daughter- born in Oil City, PA 1907- died in Oil City, 2005. Mary's mother Margaret Catherine Moffatt (Mrs. John Walsh) was born in Mara- 1879. she died in Oil City, PA 1960.---

Does anyone have a date of death?

I am looking for some info on Patrick Moffatt, for the time period from 1910 to his death. Patrick was born 10 Feb. 1858, son of Jeremiah Moffatt and Mary Kelly, brother to John 1859-1931, Catherine (Mrs. Jas. Maloney) 1860-1943, Bridget 1862-?, Mary 1864-?, Margaret Ann (Mrs. Michael McDonnell) 186...

Eric- I am so glad my ancestors are not named Smith- searching records is hard enough- when you search Smith it is 100 times more time consuming. I have discovered a few items that may allow you to narrow your search. The book entitled -Relections of the Past- Rama, has the history of Rama Twp. The ...

to help in our search, do you have a timeline, when the watch was recovered?

Sounds like you have done a lot of research and things are well in hand.

I will keep a eye out for the story on the person in Mud Lake. The book on the pioneers of Mara has a copy of the Orillia Packet and Times obits for Mrs. Robert Monahan nee Danton, july 1, 1943 & Ben Danton 13 jan. 1944

There are several historical records on this family availble on Ancestry.ca things like John Danton's death registration, 1891 census etc. You can get a free 14 day trail, or some libraries have an internet connection. the book entitled 'they came to Mara...' has 2 pages 198/199 on this family and l...