John Cleghorn

1768 - 1842  (74 years)

• Name	John Cleghorn
  Born	1768	, Yarrow, Selkirkshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	1831	Canada
  Died	6 Mar 1842	Guelph, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
  Buried	Paisley Block Memorial Cemetery, Guelph, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I5400	Brydon family tree
  Last Modified	26 Aug 2023

  
  

  Family	Isabella Oliver,   b. 1777, Scotland ,   d. 1851, Guelph Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 74 years)
  Married	14 Jun 1799	, Ettrick, Selkirkshire, Scotland
  Children	+ 1. John Cleghorn, Jr.,   b. 1 Oct 1802, Selkirkshire, Scotland ,   d. 25 Dec 1879, Guelph, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 77 years) + 2. James Cleghorn,   b. 3 Nov 1818, Roxburghshire, Scotland ,   d. 29 Apr 1877, , Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 58 years)
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2020
  Family ID	F1797	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1768 - , Yarrow, Selkirkshire, Scotland Married - 14 Jun 1799 - , Ettrick, Selkirkshire, Scotland Immigration - 1831 - Canada Died - 6 Mar 1842 - Guelph, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth
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• Headstones

  Cleghorn - Oliver John and Isabella plus four kids of John Cleghorn Jr. and Christian Brydon who died of scarlet fever in the winter of 1844 photo by William Cooke, CanGenweb

  
  

• Notes

  The founder of this respected family, in Canada, was the late John Cleghorn, who was b. in Roxburghshire, Scot., in 1768, and came to the "Paisley Block" in 1831, where he purchased and settled on 100 acres, which is still owned by his descendants. Only a few settlers had preceded him, and the country was new and wild. He had m. Isabella Oliver in Scot., she d. in 1851, age 74, and their children who lived and came with them to their bush farm, were: Thomas, John Jr., William, Robert, Oliver, d. unm., 1847, age 35, and James. The father, with the assistance of his sons, soon made a small clearing, and erected a log house, in which the family found shelter, and were made comfortable, and they then went to work with a will to clear the farm. The late John Cleghorn only lived a few years after coming to the settlement, he d. March 6, 1842, age 73. He is said to have been a man of sterling integrity and great perseverance, and his demise was largely attributable to the latter.   -- source: Historical Atlas of the County of Wellington, Ontario, Toronto: Historical Atlas Publishing Co., 1906 --