Settler of township lots: Lots 31 & 32, Conc. 3, Stanhope

Link to the Jones family on the Settlers of Algonquin Highlands Family Tree website

Location: Map point is the approximate location within Lot 31, Conc. 3 running east from 30th Line Road south to Irish Line.

Land acquisition:

• Lot 31, Conc. 3, Stanhope - 1884 Patent from The Crown. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 476).
• Lot 32, Conc. 3, Stanhope - 1899 Patent from The Crown. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 480).

Other locations:

• Lot 16, Conc. 4, Guilford - 1905 from The C .L. & E. Co; 1925 to Owen Jones (his son). Ontario Land Parcel Register - Guilford (Image 276).
• Lots 17 & 18, Conc. 4, Guilford - 1884 from Owen Wessels; 1902 to Owen Jones (his son). Ontario Land Parcel Register - Guilford (Images 279 & 298).
• Lot 19, Conc. 4, Guilford - 1883 from The C .L. & E. Co; 1902 to Owen Jones. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Guilford (Image 324)

Dates of residency:

• 1881 Census of Canada, Stanhope
• 1883 Stanhope Voters List: William Jones, owner, Lots 31 & 32, Conc. 3
• 1890 Stanhope Voters List: William Jones, owner, pt Lots 31 & 32, Conc. 3
• 1891 Stanhope Voters Lists: these lots
• 1893 Stanhope Directory: Maple Lake Lot 32, Conc. 3
• 1899 Stanhope Directory: Lot 32, Conc. 3
• 1901 Stanhope Voters List: Lot 31 Conc. 3
• 1903 Business Directory, Guilford: Wm Jones, Maple Lake, Lot 18, Conc. 4
• 1903 Stanhope Voters List: Wm Jones, farmer, s pt Lot 31, 32, Conc 3
• 1903 Business Directory, Stanhope: Wm Jones Sr, Maple Lake, Lot 32, Conc. 3
• 1911 Stanhope Voters List: both lots
• 1911 Census of Canada:
  - William Jones and his second wife Mahalia Jane Demill Redner were enumerated at Lot 17, Conc. 4, Guilford (Cranberry Lake)
  - William Hugh Jones, b. 1874, son, was enumerated at this Lot 31, Con 3
• 1911 &1918 Stanhope Township Post Office Lists: Lot 31, Conc. 3 - son William Hugh Jones
• 1925 Death: West Guilford

Other residents at these lots:

• John Alex Baker, farmer
  - Lot 32, Conc. 3: J A Baker, Maple Lake on the 1899 Stanhope Directory
  - listed at these properties on the 1901 and both of these lots on the 1911 Stanhope Voters List.
  - 1903 Business Directory, Stanhope: J A Baker, Maple Lake, Lot 32, Conc. 3
• Thomas George Mitchell, married to Mary Elizabeth Demill Redner:
  - Lot 32, Conc. 3, Maple Lake on the 1893 Stanhope Directory

Interesting facts:

Preceding landowner: The Crown

Succeeding landowner:

• 1902 George Morrison - North half of Lots 31 & 32
• 1902 son William Hugh Jones - South half of Lots 31 & 32
• 1907 George Fader - North half of Lot 31 & 32
• 1945 Warden & Treasurer - tax sale of son William Hugh Jones' South half of Lots 31 & 32