Canada
Manitoba
Lee
Jonathan Lee born 1817 Rawcliffe by Goole, Yorkshire, the 11th. child of 12 children. He married Sarah Holgate in 1836, they were both 19 years old. They had 3 children before they left for Canada in 1843. They settled first in Wellesley Township, Ontario. In 1854 they moved to Minto Township and bought 400 acres. They were among the first settlers in the district near the town of Palmerston. They had 9 children now, the youngest Jane was born in 1853, two years before her mother, Sarah died,
In 1857 Jonathan married Elizabeth Noble, whose family were from Lincolnshire. For 25 years Jonathan and his family lived in Minto Township raising his first family of 8 children and his additional 11 children with Elizabeth. He had a good reputation in the area as a mechanic and carpenter. In 1879 Jonathan , Elizabeth and their 11 children moved north west to Manitoba by train out of Canada, through parts of the United States to Winnipeg, Manitoba, their youngest was 1 year old. From Winnipeg they walked about 50 miles to Portage le Prairie, with all their possessions loaded on a wagon. Jonathan was 62 when he moved to Manitoba.
Elizabeth died in 1891. Jonathan married again, for the third time, at age 76 to Susan Waters, widow, in 1893. He died in 1903.
Lund
John Lund born 1819 in Nunnington, Yorkshire, moved with his family to New Brunswick. In 1882, his brother Wesley rode the rails to Brandon, Manitoba, then walked 14 miles south west from there and started homesteading. He wrote back to John that the land was good. In 1892, John and his wife, Mary Ann Towse (both now over 70) and 8 of their 12 children with their families became pioneer homesteaders on the land known as the Lippentott district. John's land, in 1905, was divided between the new border of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. John had married Mary Ann Towse 1842 in Sackville, NB. She had been born at Garton, Yorkshire in 1816. She died 1894 at Woodville, Manitoba. The Towse family had sailed from Hull, Yorkshire in 1817 landing at Baie Verte, east of Sackville. John died in 1904.
Mabb
Henry Liddell MABB (1872-1961) c.8 Mar 1872, Holy Trinity, Hull, Yorkshire, son of Henry (1845-1920) and Ellen(1851-1918 nee Holder). The Mabb family travelled from country to country and finally settled in Manitoba, Canada in 1887, where son Henry Liddell enrolled in the North West Mounted Police from 1890 to 1895. He was elected to the Manitoba Legislature in 1920 and served 2 years. He was a rancher and a Crown employee as Homestead Inspector. Read More »
