Marie BENTLEY

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• Reference Number: 240.52B3
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• Reference Number: 240.52B*
• _UID: DDDE871770614B2F86F9F65BC80566FDA4E1

William married Anna CURLETTE. Anna (daughter of John T. CURLETTE and Eliza ROBLIN) was born in 1860 in Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Canada West, Canada; died in Michigan, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 240.52B
• _UID: 7A3B0A8430FD4575ACA94DF9B2007A8D7E36
• Birth: 1860; at Green Point

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• Birth: Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; in the Green Point area
• Name: John Curlett
• Name: John Trumpour Curlette
• Occupation: Prince Edward County, Canada West, Canada; as a carpenter
• Reference Number: 240.52
• Residence: Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; in the Green Point area
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• _UID: 835152319D5B4B0288831AB2511480015999
• Marriage witness: 20 May 1834, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; to the marriage of James Osborn, of Tyendinaga, to Abigail Foster, of Sophiasburgh
• Residence: 19 Aug 1835, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Census: 1851, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Canada West, Canada
• Land: 28 Mar 1855, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Canada West, Canada; of one acre of Lot 44, 1st concession West of Green Point
• Census: 1871, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Burial: 1889, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; in the Roblin Family Cemetery
• Witness: 13 May 1889, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 13 May 1889, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Will: 13 May 1889, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Will: 13 May 1889, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; when he was age 81

Notes:

Birth:
He was born on the property owned by his grandfather, John Trumpour.

Family history:
His photograph was in the possession of his great grandson, Joseph Curlette, who lived at R. R. # 2, Picton, Ontario, in 1992.

Occupation:
He listed this occupation in his will.

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Registration # 009592-89. Family History Library microfilm # 1,853,492 # 5306-11286. He died on February 25, 1889. Index microfilm: Family History Library microfilm # 1411568 item 5. C 1869-1892.

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Registration # 004632-91. Family History Library microfilm # 1,853,536 items 2-4 # 1001-6496. JOHN CURLE died February 25, 1889. [This may not be a CURLETTE] Other "CURL" or "CURLE" death: # 004809-92. Index microfilm: Family History Library microfilm # 1,411,568 item 5.

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enumeration district 59, sub-district F (Sophiasburgh Township), division 2, page 39. LAC microfilm # C-9990.

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likely in Sophiasburgh Township.

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likely in Sophiasburgh Township. Does this part of census exist?

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Where was John? Sophiasburgh or Lennox & Addington. He died in 1889.

Marriage witness:
The other marriage witness was Harriet R. Demorest.

Census:
The enumeration of Sophiasburgh was lost. John T. Curlette does not appear in any of the enumeration districts of Prince Edward County that have survived.

Land:
He paid ?52. His grandfather, John Trumpour, owned the rest of Lot 44. John willed this lot to his daughter, Mary Bennett.

Census:
He was age 60, a Methodist, and a farmer.

Witness:
One of the witnesses to his will was George A. Brown of the City of Belleville, carriagemaker.

Residence:
In his will, he described his land holding as "being comprised of part of lot number forty four, south of Green Point, which said parcel is __ of ___ is butted and bounded or may be otherwise known as follows, that is to say: commencing at the ___ edge at the limits between lots number forty three and fifty four, thence north sixty one degrees west, hence north twenty nice degrees thirty minutes east, two chains more or less to the street running from the highway to the waters edge, thence south sixty one degrees east four chains forty six links more or less to the waters edge, thence south along the waters edge two chains to the place of beginning, containing by ___ measurement, one acres of land be the same more or less together with all the ___ ____ _____ thereto belonging".

Will:
In his will, he gave his occupation as a carpenter, and his residence as Sophiasburgh Township. He left all his real and personal estate to his eldest daughter, Mary Curlett "now Mary Bennett, wife of Aaron Bennett of the City of Rochester in the State of New York, Boatman". He also appointed Mary as his executrix. His will was witnessed by G. A. Brown and James F. Curlett (M.D.)

Will:
The will was registered as # 6862 in the Prince Edward County Registry Office.

John married Eliza ROBLIN on 19 Aug 1835 in Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada. Eliza (daughter of Levi ROBLIN and Mary SHORTT) was born in 1815 in Upper Canada, Canada; died on 30 May 1886 in Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in 1886 in Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Elizabeth Curlett
• Reference Number: 240.52*
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• _UID: AD8C61FE8EA34587AD0D1BD8C6AE178754C6
• Residence: 19 Aug 1835, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Burial: 1886, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; in the Roblin Family Cemetery

Notes:

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Registration # 015838-86. Family History Library microfilm # 1,853,483 # 15186-22456. ELIZA CURLETTE died May 30, 1886 in Sophiasburgh Township. Index microfilm: Family History Library microfilm # 1411568 item 5. C 1869-1892.

Notes:

Marriage:
They were married by Rev. Thomas Demorest. The witnesses were James Curlett and Stephen N. Williams.

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• Immigration: Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Name: Robert Curlett
• Name: Robert Emmet Curlett
• Reference Number: 240.5*
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• _UID: C263C75785374EA8A28CF12216A511585ABC
• Birth: Abt 1775; at Downpatrick
• Military: 1798, Ireland
• Emigration: Abt 1800, Ireland; to Canada
• Immigration: Abt 1800, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; from Ireland
• Death: Abt 1812; at the Battle of Queenston Heights
• Military: Abt 1812, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1807-1812, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; legal distiller

Notes:

Burial:
His grave has not been found in Prince Edward County.

Family history:
"The family story, passed down over the generations, is that Robert Emmet Curlette was a descendant of the Hugenouts of France." His ancestors "are said to have fled to Ireland. It is not clear at this time exactly when this happened or which route they took. The handed down story in the North American branch of the family is that they first went to Scotland, but left there for Ireland when the Protestants were persecuted in Scotland in the late 1600's."

Family history:
"The story in the current Irish branch of the Curlett family, one of whom we have contacted, is that 3 Curlett brothers came to Ireland from England (likely the Isle of Man) with Oliver Cromwell in 1649, or slightly later, as part of the British policy of settling Englishmen (Protestants) on the lands of the dispossessed Irish (Catholics). The 3 brothers are said to have settled in the County of Down in the villages of Inch/Downpatrick, Kilmegan/Dundrum and Kilkeel respectively. A review of birth, baptism and marriage rrecords for the period 1790-1870 (the earliest ones available) for Curlett in Ireland shows three clusters of Curletts around those 3 locations during that period. The earliest records of a Curlett in Ireland [that] we have found to date are of 2 marriages in 1720 in the Inch/Downpatrict area. Thus, the circumstantial evidence supports the Irish branch version."

Family history:
"The passed down story in his Canadian descendants is that Robert Emmet Curlett was from the Inch/Downpatrick area of Ireland. The story is told that in 1798 he joined his cousin, Robert Emmet, in the Irish Rebellion of that year against the British. The rebellion failed because the promised French support did not materialize. Robert Emmet, the cousin, was captured by the British and hung as a traitor. Robert Emmet Curlett, along with others, excaped and hid in the coastal caves east of Belfast until they could board a ship out of the country. Several of the excapees, it is said, including Robert Emmet Curlett, after landing in New York, came to the United Empire Loyalist stronghold around Belleville, Ontario. That is the story of how Robert Emmet Curlett came to North America."

Land:
Robert did not own land in the area of Green Point either in his name or his wife's name. He may have been a tenant on land belonging to his father-in-law, John Trumpour.

Immigration:
"Why Robert E. Curlett, with his alleged history of anti-British activity, came to a Loyalist stronghold in Upper Canada is not clear. One explanation is that others in his group had family or friends in the Belleville area. It is alleged that one of his travelling companions was a Mr. Wilson, who had descendants who became leaders in Belleville politics."

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Canadian Veterans of the War of 1812. Eric Jonasson. Wheatfield Press, 1981. 70 pages. ISBN: 0920374069. Calgary Public Library, Central Humanities Reference, 929.371 CAN. Catalogue: June 29, 2012.

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Helen Peppler hbpeppler@hotmail.com was organizing a Corlett family reunion for July 2012. Ref: Bruce Bulletin, Vol 22, Issue 4, November 2011, pages 6 and 7, Bruce County Branch, OGS.
Sent email on September 6, 2012. See email under info in Curlette family under Trumpour family "Genealogy Families".

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Share information with Colin and Marianne Hodgson. hodgcm@gmail.com.


Military:
He "took part in the Emmett Rebellion in 1798, and had he been caught by the British Government, his fate would have been the same as that of Robert Emmett, who was his cousin, who was executed for his participation in this Rebellion".

Immigration:
He settled in the Green Point area.

Military:
"The story passed down through the generations is that Robert Emmet Curlett decided to fight on the American side during the War of 1812 and was killed at the Battle of Queenston Heights in February 1812. To date, we have not been able to verify this story and have been unable to find any record of his death."

Occupation:
"It is said (in a family letter, written in 1932 by Grace Curlette Hyman, then aged 77) that, during the period 1807-1812, he operated a legal distillery on lot 44, Concession 2, SW of Green Point. A review of the Prince Edward County land title records shows that all 93 acres of lot 44 were owned by Robert's father-in-law, John Trompour, during that period, so that could be true. We found no record of Robert Emmet Curlett owning any land in Prince Edward County."

Robert married Christina TRUMPOUR about 1807 in Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. Christina (daughter of John (Johannes, Hans, Haunts) TRUMPOUR and Elizabeth B?HR) was born in 1785; died in 1839 in Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Tina Trumpour
• Reference Number: 240.5
• _UID: 9ACAA593CE144D368BDAA798E20B209A4C12
• Birth: Abt 1775, Katsbaan, Ulster County, New York, British Colonies in America
• Land petition: 29 Jan 1807, Ontario, Canada
• Land petition: 29 Jan 1807, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Land petition: 29 Jan 1807, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Petition for land: 28 Feb 1807; Tina's petition was noted as received from Ebenezer Washburn
• Petition for land: Abt 1 Mar 1807, Toronto, York County, Upper Canada, Canada; The assertion in Tina's petition that her father, John Trumpour, was a U. E. Loyalist, was investigated
• Petition for land: 11 Mar 1807, York, York County, Upper Canada, Canada; Tina's petition was received at the Lieutenant Governor's Office
• Land: 13 Mar 1807, Upper Canada, Canada; granted by Order in Council
• Petition for land: 13 Mar 1807, York, York County, Upper Canada, Canada; was read in Council [Executive Council]
• Land grant: 28 Mar 1807, York, York County, Upper Canada, Canada; was noted as Warrant "U 500 issued to the Attorney General
• Land: 2 Jan 1808, North Gwilliambury Township, York County, Ontario, Canada; located at lot 10, concession 6
• Land: 26 Oct 1834, North Gwilliambury Township, York County, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Burial:
Her grave has not been found in Prince Edward County.

Land petition:
Tina's petition, as the daughter of a United Empire Loyalist, was stored in the National Archives [of Canada] Record Group 1, the Upper Canada Land Petitions, L 3, Volume 96, Bundle 8, 1806-1808.

Land petition:
Her petition read "That your petitioner is the daughter of John Trumpour Sen. of the Township of Sophiasburgh a U.E. Loyalist, That she is married to Robert Curlett of Sophiasburgh and has never received any land or order of land from the Crown. Wherefore your Petitioner prays that your Excellency may be pleased to grant her two hundred acres of the waste lands of the Crown and permit Ebenezer Washburn Esquire or his lawful agent to locate the same and take out the Deed when completed. And your petitioner will ever pray. Sophiasburgh 29th Jan. 1807. Her Mark. Tina X Curlett".

Land petition:
Tina signed (with an "X" mark) a sworn statement to Nicholas Lazier, that "she is the person, she dexcribes herself to be in the within petition that she is married to Robert Curlett and has never received any land or order for land from the Crown."
Then, Nicholas Lazier certified that Tina had signed the document.

Petition for land:
[This may have been at the Land Board for the Midland District].

Petition for land:
A person named J. Mantne [?] noted on the cover page of the petition that "The Name of John Trompeau appears on the UE List, ___ of the sames as stated within. Petitioner has had no land by Order in Council."
Another person, John W. Gill [some letters? below his signature} wrote "DUE".
[This may have done at the Land Board of Midland District level].

Petition for land:
It was "referred to the Executive Council by order of the Lieutenant Governor". W. Hatton signed this notation.

Land:
She was "of Sophiasburgh".

Petition for land:
The notation made was "The Petitioners ___ in ___ of Law as the daughter of U. E. Loyalist." Signed by Thos. Hall [?], Chairman. Approved. Francis Gore, Lt. Governor.

Land grant:
Another notation stated "entered in Land Book "C", page 289.

Land:
Her grant of 200 acres was recorded in the Ontario Land Records Index as RG 8, Series 13840, Volume 1, page 21. The patent to her was shown on the "Abstract" for this lot in the land registry records.

Land:
Tina sold lot 10, concession 6 to her son William B. Curlett on this date for $ 400.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Family: Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Land: Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; lot 17, concession 2 west of Green Point
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• _UID: 232CDFDEFD53476485D95AF6800593CC99F5
• Birth: 30 Nov 1793
• Military: 1812, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; Prince Edward Militia
• Residence: 23 Apr 1829, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Burial: Abt 31 Jul 1878, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; in the Roblin Family Cemetery

Notes:

Family:
Levi was the grandson of John Roblin and Elizabeth Moore.

Land:
He purchased this property where the Roblin homestead (of his grandparents) and the cemetery were located.

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FHL index microfilm # 1819302 items 4-5. R 1869-1919. Levi died on July 31, 1878 aged 84 years, 8 months. Buried in Sophiasburgh.

Birth:
Since Levi died on July 31, 1878 aged 84 years, 8 months, his birth date was calculated as November 30, 1793.

Military:
He was a Private in Captain John Stinson's Troop of Horse in the Prince Edward Militia. He served 6 months during the war [1812].

Residence:
Levi lived in Sophiasburgh when he applied for a marriage bond with Elizabeth Osborne.

Levi married Mary SHORTT about 1815 in Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada. Mary (daughter of Adam SHORTT and Miss ODELL) was born in Dec 1790 in New Jersey, United States; died in May 1828 in Ontario, Canada; was buried about May 1828 in Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: BF7AAE14E70E485AB7FD279E10CD84127E6A
• Birth: Dec 1790
• Burial: Abt May 1828, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; in the Roblin Family Cemetery

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Birth:
Since Mary died in May 1828 aged 37 years, 5 months, her birth date was calculated as December 1790.