george warren SIMPSON

Family 1: mary elizabeth JUDD
  1. mary elizabeth SIMPSON
  2. laura e. SIMPSON
  3. charles h. SIMPSON
  4. horace w. SIMPSON
  5. newell f. SIMPSON
  6. cyrus truman SIMPSON
Family 2: mary f. JUDD 
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St. Andrews, according to his obituary, is about 40 miles from Montreal. After the death of his father he moved with his mother to Vermont and later to St. Lawrence Co. NY 1840 - moved to Pecatonica, IL 1875 - moved to a farm near Delaware Centre, Delaware Co., IA 1881 - moved to Delaware (Iowa?), where he died As of 1-1995, very little is known about GWS's father and mother. From G.W.'s obituary we know they were in St. Andrews, about 40 miles from Montrea, in 1807. And that on the father's death the mother moved to Vermont. The same obituary implies that she later moved to St. Lawrence Co. NY, where GW married Mary at Massena in 1837. It may have been the case that the mother moved back to Vermont because that was where she had lived prior to St. Andrews. There is no mention of her in the 1850 census with G.W. so it's probable that she died before then and possibly before GW moved to Pectonica in 1840. The father must have died before 1837 - the only date known after GW's birth in 1807 - when GW was 30. So it's most likely that the father died very much closer to 1807 than to 1837. The father might have been a 'loyalist' who moved up to Quebec from CT or MA or VT or NH. He may have been engaged in the fur trade/farming and he may have moved down to there from the Maritime Provinces rather than having moved north. Or he may have been in the British army and been around St. Andrews in the course of his duties. Robert G. Simpson, his great grandson, used to say the family came from Scotland. Following the French and Indian war around 1760 the Scots dominated the fur trade, which might just account for George's father, or more realistically his grandfater, being in the area as [TAN: the last one or two lines of this text are missing. I think whoever photocopied it didn't center the original properly. I got the photocopy from Dave Bailey, but I think it's likely the work of Donald Simpson.]

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