United Empire Loyalists Re-United

I am going to start sorting out what information I have already and make a few copies of each document, one for my branch, one for the head office and one for my records. I have the 1851-1911 censuses for my grandfather, William Edgar Hines, my great-grandfather, John Haines/Hines and 2nd great-grandfather, Benjamin Haines. I will have to print the censuses 1/2 page on a sheet to have it legible, so for every year there will be four or eight printed pages, adding the agricultural pages as well.

I also have John Haines/Hines death record and his obituary as well as his mother, Sarah E. Haines' death record to make copies of as well.

I will also have to scan and copy the obituaries for my father and grandfather that were in the Windsor Star. I will also scan and copy the funeral cards for them.

As for Nathaniel and Joseph Haines, Sr., I have to make copies of Joseph's claim for losses, the Orders in Council for their children, the pages in Ontario People 1795-1803 where their names appear and I'll scan the page from "An annotated Roll of the Butler's Rangers..." that they appear on.

I still have to get information about land patents and grants for Benjamin, Nathaniel and Joseph Sr. and any other information that I may find when we go to the Brock University next month.

Lately I have been busy with my non-blogging life, getting my gardens planted, getting our boat finished and getting a new deck built. I'm just about caught up now so I hope to have more time for blogging now. I have a number of blogs, My Favourites Place, my homepage general blog, Creation and Recreation, my hobbies blog, and a few genealogy blogs.

Ancestral Notes is my main general genealogy blog, where I do most of my blogging, but I also have a blog dedicated to my Loyalist research, United Empire Loyalists Re-United, where I have two blogs. There is one for general loyalist history, individual loyalists and research sources I have another one for my husband and my specific loyalist families where I share information and sources.

I have been posting more on my loyalist blog recently since I am doing more research in that area for my certification. I will be duplicating some of my past posts from Ancestral Notes about my loyalist families on my dedicated blog as well. If you are interested in the Loyalist era or in my certification research process and progress stop by and add UEL Re-United to your blog reading list.


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When I first learned that I had Loyalist ancestry, I wasn't surprised. My dad had a special interest in the history of Upper Canada and took the family to several different historic sites.  He had a silver buckle that was passed down through the family for a few generations back to the Revolutionary war period. I started my research assuming  that I knew my own name, wrong! My dad probably died not even knowing that his grandfather was born John Haines, he only knew that his name was John Hines. My dad was only five years old when his grandfather died.

When I found John Hines' death record on Ancestry.com I found the name of his parents, Benjamin Hines? and Sarah Freysman?. 

I started to search and search and search. There was nothing about Bnjamin Hines, born in England. I left messages on several surname boards and got a reply from a cousin saying that Benjamin's name wasn't Hines, it was Haines and they were from the Niagara region. I looked up the family in the 1851 census of Canada West, taken in 1852, and found this family:

This census is for Niagara Township in Lincoln County, Ontario. I noticed that there is a Freisman family living nearby, so I assume that this is Sarah's family.

 

Benamin and Sarah Haines (Hanes) were living in the same area, they are listed on the same page.

After further searching I found Benjamin's sister in the 1851 census, and John, Sarah's brother on the same page.  I know that Benjamin had a sister named Lany, but I haven't found any record of her after 1828, when she got her Order in Council as a DUE. John Freisman's wife's name is Laney, could this be Benjamin's sister?

 

I also found this in the 1861 Canada West census for Niagara Township, Lincoln County, Ontario:

 It appears that Joseph was living with his grandmother, Maria(Mary) Freisman, age 90, in 1861.

In 1871 he was still living with his parents:

 

John was married to Harriet Fernetta Doan and living in Moulton Township in 1881.

 

In 1891 John was still using the Haines surname when the census of Dorchester Township, Sherbrooke was taken:

John's mother, Sarah was widowed by the 1891 census of Aldborough Township, Elgin County:

Sarah died in 1892:

By 1901 John has changed his surname to Hines and was living in Rochester Township, Essex County:

 

By 1911 his youngest daughter had died and he moved with his familly to Essex:

1750's - Joseph Haines immigrated from Germany to Johnstown, New York. 28

>1783 - Joseph Haines, Sr. married and had seven children. 1

>1783 - Joseph Haines, Sr. and family lived in Johnstown, New York. 1, 28

>1783 - Joseph Haines, Sr. served in the Butler's Rangers and went to Lachine, P.Q. with the rangers. 1

>1783 - Nathaniel Haines served in the Butler's Rangers and went to Lachine, P.Q. with the rangers. 1

1784 - Joseph Haines, Sr. family was in Niagara, U.C. 35

1784 - Nathaniel Haines was in Niagara, U.C. 35

1786 - Joseph Haines, Sr. family was in Niagara, U.C. 1. 2

1786 - Nathaniel Haines was married in in Niagara, Upper Canada and received rations there. 1, 2

1792 - Nathaniel and Lydia Haines' son, Andrew, was baptised at St. Mark's Church, Niagara. 3

1796 -Joseph Haines, Sr. was granted a patent of land in Grantham Twp. in the Home district of U.C. 4

1796 - Nathaniel Haines was granted a patent of land in Grantham Twp. in the Home district. 4

1801 - Joseph Haines, Sr. and Peter Whitney purchased mill. 5

1811 - Nathaniel Haines died?

1818 - Philip Haines died in fire in York, U.C. 5, 6

1818 - Joseph Haines, Sr. deeded the mill to grandson, James Haines after his father, Philip Haines, died in a fire. 5

1818 - Joseph Haines, Sr. died.?

1835 - Benjamin Haines and Sarah Freisman were married in Niagara, U.C.?

1836 - Nathaniel's son, Benjamin, is listed in the book, Sons and Daughters of American Loyalists and had an Order in Council as a SUE on Nov.3, 1836. 7

1837 - Benjamin Haines was granted land in Middlesex Cty.? 8

1844 - Feb. 23rd - Benjamin Haines' son, John, was born in Niagara. 9, 24

1851- Benjamin Haines was living in Niagara Twp. with his wife and family. 9

1851- John Haines was in the 1851 census of the family. 9

1871 -Benjamin Haines was living in Aldborough Twp. Elgin Cty. 10

1872 - John Haines married Harriet Fernetta Doan in Welland, Ontario. 11

1881 - John Haines family was in the census of Welland. 12

1891 - Benjamin's widow, Sarah Haines was in the census of Aldborough Twp., Elgin Cty. 13

1891 - John Hines family was in the census for Aldborough Twp., Elgin Cty. 14

1892 - Sarah Haines died in Rodney, Elgin Cty. 15

1894 - William Edgar Hines, was born in Aldborough Twp., Elgin Cty. 16

1897 - John Hines' family moved to Essex County and were in Rochester. 17

1901 - John Hines family was in the census for Rochester, Essex County. 18

1906 - John Hines family were in Gosfield North Twp. in 1906 when their youngest daughter
died. 19, 20, 24

1911 - John Hines family were in Maidstone Twp. in the 1911 census. 21

1917 - Oct. 6 - William Edgar Hines married Josephine Desbiens and lived in Essex, Ontario. 22, 27
1926 - Aug. 14th -Earl Douglas Hines was born on Arthur Ave. in Essex. 23

1932 - March. 13th -John Hines died in Essex, Ontario. 24, 25

1935 - Dec. 2oth-Harriet Doan Hines died in Essex, Ontario. 25

1957 - Apr. 20th - Earl Hines married Marian Neil in Essex County, Ontario. 26

1958 -Sept. 30th - Earline Hines was born in Windsor, Ontario. 29

1964 - Earl Hines purchased property in Cottam, Ontario. 34

1976 - May 28th - Earline Hines was married to A. Morrison in Comber, Ontario. 30

1975 - Earl Hines sold property in Cottam and relocated to Leamington, Ontario.34

1977 - Mar. 29th - William Edgar Hines died in Essex, Ontario. 25, 32, 33

1977 - July 29th - B. Morrison was born in Leamington, Ontario. 29, 34

1979 - Jan. 22nd - K. Morrison was born in Leamington, Ontario. 29, 34

1983 - Earl Hines was divorced. 31

1984 - Earline Hines was divorced. 31

1985 - Mar. 9th - Earl Hines was married to R. Watkins Harris in Windsor, Ont. 34

1994 - July 4th - Josephine Hines died in Leamington, Ontario. 25, 32, 33

1996 - Feb. 7th - Earl Hines died in Windsor, Ontario. 25, 32, 33

2001 - June 2nd. - Earline Hines was married to R. P. Bradt in Leamington, Ontario. 30

2008 - Aug. 15th - Marian Neil Hines died in Leamington, Ontario. 32, 33, 34



Sources -
1. The Annotated Nominal Roll of the Butler's Rangers 1777-1784 with Documentary Sources - Lieutenant Colonel William A. Smy, OMM, CD, UE
2. The Butler's Rangers in the Revolutionary War - muster roll - E. Cruikshank
3. Baptisms at St. Mark's Church transcribed by Bill Martin
4. Ontario People 1796-1803 - E. Keith Fitzgerald
5. The Economy of Upper Canada -Merchant Millers of the Humber Valley - Sydney Thomas Fisher
6. obituary - Death Notices of Ontario - W.D.Reid
7. The Loyalists in Ontario: The Sons and Daughters of the American Loyalists of Upper Canada-W.D.Reid
8. Canadian Digital Atlas Project
9. 1851 census Canada West, Niagara Twp, U.C.
10. 1871 census Aldborough Twp., Elgin Cty., Ontario
11. Ontario Marriage Records 1869-73- Ancestry
12. 1881 census Canada, Welland County, Ontario
13. 1891 Census Canada, Aldborough Twp., Elgin Cty.
14. 1891 Census Canada, Aldborough Twp., Elgin Cty.
15. Ontario Death Records - Ancestry
16. Ontario Birth Records
17. Ontario Birth Records - Fleming W. Hines - Jan. 18, 1897
18. 1901 Census Canada - Rochester Twp.
19. Ontario Death Records - Ancestry
20. Article in Essex Times 1906
21. 1911 Canada census Essex North
22. Ontario Marriage Records 1869-1924 - Ancestry
23. personal knowledge
24. Ontario Death records - Ancestry
25. Gravestone at Woodslee United Church Cemetery
26. Personal knowledge
27. Article in Essex Free Press, Oct. 1967 - 50th Wedding Anniversary
28. Loyalists Claims For Losses
29. Birth Certificate
30. Marriage License
31. Divorce Decree
32. Obituary
33. Funeral Card
34. present at event
35. The Centennial of the Settlement of Upper Canada by the United Empire Loyalists 1784-1884. - E.Ryerson

Now, it will be easier to find the documents that I need to copy and include in my certification application(s).