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?Before we left the Hamilton place, in 1857, my eldest sister, Eliza Jane, was married to Alexander Buchanan, a tall handsome man, but one whom she had not known for very long. We were great friends and I missed her sorely. She was very lonely, leaving her parents, to whom she was devoted, and the home where she and her sisters had such a happy time with their young friends. At St. Giles there were few Protestants, so she was happy when they moved near Quebec at Cap Rouge, a lovely place, and later to a farm on the Little River Road opposite the Hossacks. She was near home again, but with a large family to care for and a dairy to manage she had little time for visiting.
Some time after Mother?s death they moved to the Eastern Townships near Stanstead, where her daughter, Maggie, now Mrs. Louis Schwab, attended the College. From that place they moved out to Michigan, where my dear sister died when only sixty-four. Several of her eight children are still there near Flint. Mary, the eldest daughter, remained in Montreal, living with us in the St. James? parsonage, and when we moved to Toronto her sisters, Maggie and Aggie, lived with her while attending Normal School, until they secured Model School diplomas and began to teach.?

Eliza married Alexander Buchanan on 10 Aug 1858 in Quebec City, QC. Alexander was born in 1820 in Ballymena, Antrim, Ireland; died on 26 Feb 1902 in Fenton, MI; was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Linden, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Buchanan was born on 21 Sep 1859 in Canada; died in 1931.
2. Robert Buchanan was born on 11 Apr 1862 in Quebec; died in 1942.
3. Sarah Jane Buchanan was born on 26 Aug 1864; died in 1941.
4. James Alexander Buchanan was born on 21 Feb 1867 in Little River, QC; died on 22 Dec 1963 in Flint, MI; was buried on 24 Dec 1963 in Fairview Cemetery, Linden, MI.
5. Alice Buchanan was born on 9 Jul 1869 in Quebec City, QC; died in 1957.
6. William John Buchanan was born on 25 Jan 1873 in Quebec City, QC; died in 1887.
7. Margaret (Maggie) Buchanan was born on 6 Sep 1875 in Quebec; died in 1950.
8. Agnes Sophia Buchanan was born on 4 Oct 1878; died in 1961.
9. George A.S. Buchanan was born in 1881; died in 1947.

Notes:

James and Mary moved to Qu?bec in 1837. They settled at Little River, Qu?bec, on a farm that was just visible north of Qu?bec City. They lived there for the rest of their lives. James was a "Scotch-English-Irishman" and a staunch Presbyterian. ("Memories of My Early Life" by Mary Gillespie Henderson)

Information below is from http://www.gillespieancestors.com/

James Gillespie, born in Scarnageeragh, County Monaghan, Ireland, April 20, 1810, was the son of John Gillespie and Sarah Woods Gillespie, his second wife. John Gillespie, a farmer and a weaver, whose father came from Glasgow, Scotland, was well-known in the county and was instrumental in raising a company of volunteers for Lord Charlemont in the Rebellion of 1798. Born in 1780, John Gillespie lived to the great age of 100.

By his first marriage, John Gillespie had two daughters and a son. The two daughters married brothers of the name Greer and immigrated to the United States; the son remained in Ireland. By his second marriage, he had 3 sons - Robert, James and Alexander, and one daughter, Sarah, who married John Smith. All of these immigrated to Canada, but Alexander contracted typhoid on the ship and died in the hospital in Quebec.

James Gillespie, who was employed on the estate of Lord Beresford, "Primate of all Ireland," was married in Lisnadill Church on December 31, 1835, to Mary Jamieson (b. 3-3-1814), one of
four daughters of Arthur Jamieson and Mary Orr, who had a farm about five miles from Armagh. She had a good voice and sang in the choir of Lisnadill Church, her father being precentor.

James Gillespie and his young wife came to Quebec in 1837. For a time he managed the farm of George Henderson at Little River, four miles from the city. This farm later became the Hossack farm. He soon rented the place, and lived there for about eight years. Here, four children were born - Eliza Jane, Mary, John and Sarah. In 1845, he rented the Hamilton farm, directly north of Scott's Bridge, and in this home were born James, George Arthur Stewart and Margaret. It was here that Eliza Jane was married, in the year 1857, to Alexander Buchanan.

In 1860, James Gillespie bought a farm nearby from Mr. Prendergast, which the family still owned, according to family records, as late as 1965. Mary was married to Peter LeRossignol there in 1862; Sarah to Alexander Gillespie (her cousin) in 1867, and Margaret to James Jack in 1876. The house was an old-fashioned, French-Canadian type, with a steep roof and sloping eaves. Fronted by the St. Charles River, the house had farmland extending almost two miles back towards Charlesbourg.

Two photos exist of Gillespie family homes in Little River. There is a discrepancy in records as
to whether the house at left is actually the Hossack house or the Prendergast house. Click on photo to see a similar house captioned by Mary Gillespie LeRossignol-Henderson, in her book, "Memories of My Early Life," as being her "birth-place." However, Mary Henderson's written description of the Prendergast house matches the architecture of the houses in both photos. When James Gillespie arrived in Quebec in 1837, he became affiliated with St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, where he was an active member and an elder for 35 years, during the long ministry of Dr. John Cook. He organized the first Sunday school in Quebec, and for a time, served as its superintendent at the Cameron Church in St. Roch. Greatly interested in education, he secured the services of a teacher from Ireland, Mrs. Story, and gave her the use of a cottage on the farm, in which she lived and where school was held. The dairy business that they ran on the farm supplied the Officers' Mess in Quebec with butter, all made into quarter pound prints with a thistle stamp.

After their children were married, with the exception of Agnes and Margaret, James and Mary Gillespie stayed on the farm for several years, until it was bought by their son, James Gillespie II. They rented an adjacent farm, where they lived until Mary Orr Jamieson Gillespie died on 2-25-1880. About 2 years after this, James Gillespie married a cousin, Mrs. McRoberts, n?e Woods, at Lucan, Ontario, and lived there for several years - and later at Park Hill. When his wife became too frail to keep house, she made her home with a daughter and James Gillespie lived with the Rev. and Mrs. James Henderson until his death on 10-8-1899. His body was taken to Quebec and buried in the family lot in Mount Hermon Cemetery.

James married Mary Orr Jamieson on 31 Dec 1835 in Lisnadill Church, Armagh. Mary (daughter of Arthur Jamieson and Mary Orr) was born on 3 Mar 1814; died on 25 Feb 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her brothers John and William James Jamieson came to Quebec. John worked for James Gillespie for a time and then went to West Winchester where he bought a farm. She was a very busy woman with a large family and a large dairy to look after. She had a good deal of musical ability which was inherited by some of her children and grandchildren. She was a pretty woman in her youth with good features and beautiful fair hair with a reddish tinge. But an attack of malaria caused it to darken and grow thin and when not more than fifty-five she began to wear a cap of white muslin at home and black lace with mauve ribbon bows when she went out for tea.

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John and Sarah emigrated from Glasgow, Scotland, to County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland, and later to County Armagh in Northern Ireland. Of their children, two sons and a daughter emigrated to the New World. James crossed over in 1837.

John Gillespie, a farmer and a weaver, whose father came from Glasgow, Scotland, was well-known in the county and was instrumental in raising a company of volunteers for Lord Charlemont in the Rebellion of 1798. Born in 1780, John Gillespie lived to the great age of 100.

John + Sarah Woods. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthur + Mary Orr. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]