Settler of township lots: Lot 27, Conc. 3, Stanhope

Location: Map point is the approximate location on this lot which runs south from MacBrien Road at Hwy 118

Land acquisition: After 1889 from Hamilton Boice. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 458).

Other land:

• Lot 9, Conc. 3, Guilford - 1904 Patent from The Crown; 1927 Henry Bain. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Guilford (Image 9).
• Lot 5, Conc. 5, Guilford - 1899 from Benjamin Wessels; 1903 to George Henry Sims; 1904 to John Arthur Cooper; 1940 to Trevor Cooper. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Guilford (Image 45).

Dates of residency:

• 1893 Stanhope Directory: Richard Powell (father), Maple Lake
• 1900 Marriage: William J. POWELL, 21, farmer, Lutterworth, Guilford, s/o Richard POWELL & Jane PEAL, married Bertha Annie SIMS, 17, Stanhope, Guilford, d/o George SIMS & Mary JONES, witn: George SIMS & Iona JONES, both of Stanhope, 7 March 1900 at Haliburton
• 1901 Census of Canada, Stanhope: William Powell, wife Bertha (Sims) and daughter Vera
• 1901 Stanhope Voters List
• 1903 Business Directory, Guilford: Wm Powell, Maple Lake, Lot 5, Conc. 5
• 1903 Business Directory, Stanhope: Richard Powell (his father?), Maple Lake, Lot 27, Conc. 3, Stanhope
• 1905 Death: Guilford
• 1907 Birth of daughter, Mary Irene Morrison, with Bertha's second husband, George Morrison in West Guilford

Interesting facts:

Preceding landowner:

• 1867 Francis Jones from the Crown
• 1889 Hamilton Boice

Succeeding landowner:

• 1906 John J. Morrison - Powell's wife, Bertha's second husband whom she married in 1906
• 1915 Robert John McBrien
• 1924 Theresa McBrien

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree

• William John Powell, b. 22 Jun 1878, Lutterworth, d. 22 Mar 1905, Guilford, (Age 26 years) COD: Peritonitis.
  Parents: Richard Ebenezer Powell (1847-1903). Jane Peel (1847-1884)
• Bertha Anne Sims, b. 10 Jun 1884, Stanhope, d. 23 Aug 1974, (Age 90 years). Buried: Evergreen Cemetery with George Morrison
  Parents:
  • George Sims, b. 1846, England d. 11 Mar 1891, Stanhope,  (Age 45 years)
  • Mary Susan Jones, b. 02 Feb 1854,  England d. 25 Jan 1940, Haliburton, (Age 85 years)
• Children with William John Powell:
  1. Vera Beatrice Powell, b. 5 Mar 1901, Stanhope
  2. George Richard Powell, b. 29 Mar 1903, Stanhope d. 19 Dec. 1960
  3. John Wesley Powell, b. 11 Nov 1904, Stanhope
• Husband 2: George Morrison, b. 22 Apr 1876, Ontario, d. 17 Feb 1957 (Age 80 years)
• Children: Mary Irene Morrison, b. 18 Oct 1907, West Guilford

Photo: Bertha Annie Sims-Morrison, Haliburton. Source: Ancestry. ca chanceychelsey originally shared this on 30 Mar 2009