MacDonald Derby Neilson1,2

b. 30 November 1948, d. 4 March 1984
Last Edited23 Apr 2022
Relationship4th cousin 1 time removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherProctor Thomas Neilson1 b. 15 Jun 1917, d. 2 Sep 1958
MotherHeleine MacDonald1
Birth*30 November 19483 
Death*4 March 1984Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States3,4
From the Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), Monday, March 5, 1984.
Burial*March 1984Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States5

Citations

  1. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Family Tree named Gabrielle Moen family tree by user GNMoen1993. Accessed posted image on 23 april 2022 for the obituary of Proctor Thomas (Buster) Neilson at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/28860053/…
  2. [S1415] Newspapers.com, online https://www.newspapers.com, The Arizone Daily Star, Friday, September 5, 1958, Section B, p. 7, article entitled "Proctor Neilson". Accessed 23 April 2022 at https://www.newspapers.com/image/162686584/,0.059503924,0.32883042,0.16349676&xid=3355.
  3. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. Listing for MacDonald Derby Neilson, born 30 Nov 1948 and died March 1984. Accessed 23 April 2022 at Ancestry.com.
  4. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Wisconsin, U.S., Death Records, 1959-2004 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022. Listing for MacDonald Dirby Neilson died 04 March 1984, Milwaukee County, WI Accessed 23 April 2022 at Ancestry.com.
  5. [S878] Find a Grave, online www.findagrave.com, (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100998581/… : accessed 23 April 2022), memorial page for MacDonald Neilson (1948–1984), Find a Grave Memorial ID 100998581, citing Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA ; Maintained by Nadeen Sobottka (contributor 47145936).

Margaret Neilson1

b. 3 May 1842, d. 1913
Last Edited19 Jul 2019
Relationship1st cousin 3 times removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherWilliam Neilson1 b. 2 Dec 1805, d. 7 Jul 1895
MotherMargaret Cassin1 b. 31 Oct 1813, d. 22 May 1853

Family

 John Reynolds b. 1830
Marriage*16 May 1865John Reynolds; Church of Scotland, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "John Reynolds, farmer, bachelor, of Valcartier, and Margaret Neilson, same place, were married by dispensation of license on the sixteenth day of May, 1865.
David Shanks, minister
Samuel Neilson, witness
Elizabeth Neilson, witness."5 
Children 1.Jennie Margaret Reynolds+10 b. 14 Mar 1866, d. 20 Oct 1963
 2.Dr. Bertha Elizabeth Reynolds2 b. 22 May 1868, d. 31 Oct 1961
 3.Dr. Nelson William Reynolds+2 b. 1873, d. 20 Jan 1910
Married NameReynolds2 
Birth*3 May 1842St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada3 
Baptism13 May 1842Church of Scotland, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "William Neilson of Valcartier, Margaret, his wife had a daughter born on the 3rd day of May and baptised this thirteenth day of May, 1842 by the name of Margaret.
James Geggor, minister
William Neilson
Margaret Neilson
Catherine Knox
Bridget Cassin."3 
(Witness) MigrationMay 1865John Reynolds; Left Quebec for Wisconsin.4 
Marriage*16 May 1865John Reynolds; Church of Scotland, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "John Reynolds, farmer, bachelor, of Valcartier, and Margaret Neilson, same place, were married by dispensation of license on the sixteenth day of May, 1865.
David Shanks, minister
Samuel Neilson, witness
Elizabeth Neilson, witness."5 
(Witness) Census8 June 1870John Reynolds; Mequon, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; "John Reynolds", Dwelling #158, 40, male, white, farmer, real estate value $6000, personal property value $1100, born Canada.
Margaret, 28, white, female, born Canada, keep house.
Margaret, 4, female, white, born Wisconsin.
Elizabeth, 2, female, white, born Wisconsin.
Ann, 15, at home, born Wisconsin.6 
(Witness) Census4 June 1880John Reynolds; Mequon, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; "John Reynolds", Dwelling #30, 49, male, white, farmer, born Canada, parents born Ireland.
Margaret, 42, wife, white, female, born Canada, keep house, parents born Canada.
Margaret, 14, female, daughter, white, born Wisconsin, attending school.
Elizabeth, 12, daughter, female, white, born Wisconsin.
William, male, 9, son, att. school, born Wisconsin.
Gunther Henry, 20, male, farm helper, born Wisconsin.7 
Migration*1892John Reynolds; Nebraska, United States8 
(Witness) Census6 June 1900John Reynolds; Seward, Seward County, Nebraska, United States; "John Rennolds", HH #40, male, born February, 1830, aged 69, married for 35 years, born Canada, parents born Ireland, emigrated in 1865, farmer, can read and write, owns his farm. Listed with him:
Margaret, wife, born 1842, Canada, father born Canada, mother born Ireland, married 35 years, had 3 children, all living, can read and write.
Bertha, daughter, born May 1868 in Wiscosin, single, aged 32, medical student, attended school for 6 months, can read and write.9 
Death*19131 

Citations

  1. [S194] Eric Corrigan, "Files of Eric Corrigan", Gedcom File.
  2. [S435] E-mail Message. From June Johnston to Pat Balkcom, 22 Jan 2005. June is a direct descendant of the Neilson family.
  3. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, Church of Scotland, Valcartier, 1842.
  4. [S431] Web site: From the Ozaukee County genweb site, Copied from "History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Wisconsin",
    Western Historical Co., 1881Western Historical Co., 1881.
  5. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, Church of Scotland, Valcartier, 1865.
  6. [S501] 1870 U.S. Census, online www.ancestry.com, Census Place: Mequon, Ozaukee, Wisconsin; Roll: M593_1731; Page: 115B; Family History Library Film: 553230. Original Page #22, line 29, family of John and Margaret Reynolds.
  7. [S502] 1880 US Census, online www.ancestry.com, Census Place: Meguon, Ozaukee, Wisconsin; Roll: 1441; Page: 397C; Enumeration District: 150. Original Page #3, line 30, listing for the family of John and Margaret Reynolds.
  8. [S431] Web site: http://www.richlandcenter.com/…
  9. [S504] 1900 U.S. Census, online www.ancestry.com, Census Place: F Precinct including Tamora Village, Seward, Nebraska; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 0145; FHL microfilm: 1240940. Listing Family #40 of John Rennolds.
  10. [S501] 1870 U.S. Census, online www.ancestry.com, WI, Ozaukee County, Mequon, p. 22.

Margaret Neilson1

b. 17 June 1860
Last Edited21 Jul 2019
Relationship2nd cousin 2 times removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherSamuel Neilson1 b. 10 Apr 1840
MotherElizabeth Brown1 b. c 1841

Family

 Peter Barr b. c 1856
Marriage*2 June 1879Peter Barr; Howick Township, Huron County, Ontario, Canada; Marriage Registration states: Peter Barr, 23 of Howick, born Lanark, bachelor, joiner, son of Peter and Jennett Barr to Margaret Neilson, 19 of Howick, born Quebec, spinster, daughter of Samuel and Elizaabeth Neilson. Witnesses were Andrew Strome and Agnes Neilson, both of Howick. Married 2nd of June 1879 in Howick. Both stated they were of the Congregational religion and were married by Mathew S. Grey, Minister by license.3 
Children 1.Elizabeth Gladys Barr4 b. 6 Jan 1880, d. 3 Sep 1949
 2.Lorne William Barr5 b. 25 Dec 1881, d. 18 May 1955
 3.Chester Arthur Barr6 b. 22 Jun 1885, d. 1963
 4.Ada Luella Barr7 b. Nov 1885, d. 17 Jul 1958
 5.Melvin N. Barr6 b. Jul 1893
 6.Lillian M. Barr6 b. Jun 1896
 7.Marion A. Barr6 b. Jun 1899
Birth*17 June 1860Quebec, Canada2 
Baptism28 July 1860Church of Scotland, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Samuel Neilson, farmer, Valcartier and Elizabeth Brown, his wife, had a daughter born on the 17th day of June and baptised the twent yeighth day of July, 1860 by the name of Margaret.
David Shanks, minister.
Samuel Neilson,
Margaret Brown,
Cornelius Neilson
Margaret Neilson."2 
Married Name2 June 1879Barr3 
Marriage*2 June 1879Peter Barr; Howick Township, Huron County, Ontario, Canada; Marriage Registration states: Peter Barr, 23 of Howick, born Lanark, bachelor, joiner, son of Peter and Jennett Barr to Margaret Neilson, 19 of Howick, born Quebec, spinster, daughter of Samuel and Elizaabeth Neilson. Witnesses were Andrew Strome and Agnes Neilson, both of Howick. Married 2nd of June 1879 in Howick. Both stated they were of the Congregational religion and were married by Mathew S. Grey, Minister by license.3 

Citations

  1. [S71] "Canada, Census of 1861; Sub-census for St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec.
  2. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, St. Gabriel's Church, Valcartier, 1860.
  3. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1937 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928; Reel: 30. Marriage Registration #15 (004032) for Peter Barr and Margaret Neilson, married 2 June 1879 in Howick, Ontario.
  4. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Listing for Elizabeth Gladys Haw (Elizabeth Gladys Barr), female, white, born January 6, 1880 in Fordwich, Canada, daughter of Peter Bar and Margueritt (sic) Neilson.
  5. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Ontario, Canada Births, 1858-1913 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; MS929; Series: 54; Reel: MS929. Birth Registration for William Lorne Barr, born 25 December 1881 in Howick, Ontario to Peter Barr and Margaret Neilson.
  6. [S504] 1900 U.S. Census, online www.ancestry.com, Census Place: Gilby, Grand Forks, North Dakota; Page: 8-9; Enumeration District: 0066; FHL microfilm: 1241228. Listing for the family of Peter and Margaret Barr.
  7. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Washington, Select Death Certificates, 1907-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Death Certificate summary forAda Luella McNeil (Barr), born about 1889, died 17 July 1958 in Walla Walla, Washington, USA.

Margaret Neilson1

b. 17 April 1808, d. 8 January 1894
Last Edited28 Jan 2017
ChartsDescendants of William Neilson
FatherJohn Neilson1 b. 17 Jul 1776, d. 1 Feb 1848
MotherMarie Ursula Hubert1 b. 21 Oct 1781, d. 20 Jun 1866
Birth*17 April 1808Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada1 
Baptism3 May 1808St. Andrew Presbyterian Cemetery, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "John Neilson of Quebec, printer, and his wife, Marie Ursula, had a daughter born on the 17th. last and baptised this third day of May, 1808, named Margaret.
Alex Spark, minister
J. Neilson, father
M. Neilson, mother
Wm. Cowan
Chas. Roy".1 
(Witness) Census1852Marie Ursula Hubert; Sainte-Foy, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Marie Hubert", independent, born Canada, Catholic, age 70 on her next birthday. Living with her:
Isabel Neilson, female, born Canada, Catholic, single, 53 on her next birthday.
Marguerite Neilson, female, born Canada, Catholic, single, 42 on her next birthday.2 
Death*8 January 1894Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada3 
Burial*11 January 1894Notre-Dame-de-Foy Catholic Cemetery, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "...have buried in the cemetery of this parish the body of Marguerite Neilson, daughter of the late Honorable John Neilson and of the late Ursula Hubert died on the 8th of the current month at the age of 84 years. Present at the burial, Cornelius Neilson, Hubert Neilson, ? of medicine, Auguste Neilson, Alfred Neilson, all nephews of the deceased..."3 

Citations

  1. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, 1808.
  2. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, 1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia [database on-line]. Canada East, Quebec County, District 22, Ste. Foy, p. 71.
  3. [S771] Drouin Collection, www.ancestry.com: Ancestry.com, Quebec, Quebec County, Quebec City, Notre-Dame-de-Foy, 11 January 1894. Burial of Marguerite Neilson. Ancestry Image #2 of 16.

Mary Neilson1

b. 31 August 1802
Last Edited7 Sep 2008
ChartsDescendants of William Neilson
FatherJohn Neilson1 b. 17 Jul 1776, d. 1 Feb 1848
MotherMarie Ursula Hubert1 b. 21 Oct 1781, d. 20 Jun 1866
Birth*31 August 1802Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada1 
Baptism11 September 1802St. Andrew Presbyterian Cemetery, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "John Neilson of Quebec, printer, and his wife, Marie Ursula, had a daughter born on the 31st of Aug. last and baptised this elevent day of September, 1802, named Mary.
Alex Spark, minister
J. Neilson, father
M. Neilson, mother
Wm. Rivan
Chas. Roy".1 

Citations

  1. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, 1802.

Mary Neilson1

b. 17 February 1860, d. 3 February 1861
Last Edited21 Apr 2022
Relationship2nd cousin 2 times removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherCornelius Brown Neilson1 b. 12 Aug 1835, d. 12 Aug 1918
MotherMargaret Ireland1 b. Jun 1838, d. 22 Apr 1917
Birth*17 February 1860St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada1 
Baptism18 March 1860Church of Scotland, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Cornelius Neilson, farmer Valcartier, Margaret Ireland, his wife had a daughter born on the 17th day of February and baptised this eightteenth day of March, 1860 by the name of Mary.
David Shanks, minister
Cornelius Neilson
Margaret Neilson
William Knox, wit.
Francis Ireland, wit."1 
Death*3 February 1861Granville, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States2,3 
Witness: Cornelius Brown Neilson
Witness: Margaret Ireland
Burial*February 1861West Granville Cemetery, Granville, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States2
Gravestone of Mary Neilson
Photo taken October, 2021 by Dan Neilson

Citations

  1. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, Church of Scotland, Valcartier, 1860.
  2. [S435] E-mail Message. From Daniel Neilson, October 2021 to Patricia Balkcom. Sent photographs of the gravestones of the Neilson family in West Granville Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
  3. [S435] E-mail Message. From James Neilson to Patricia Balkcom, 18 April 2022.

Mary Cecile Josephine Neilson1

b. 19 September 1859
Last Edited30 Jan 2017
ChartsDescendants of William Neilson
FatherJohn Neilson1 b. 27 Jan 1821
MotherLaura Caroline Moorhead1 b. 21 Feb 1822, d. 30 Jul 1879
Birth*19 September 1859Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada1 
Baptism21 September 1859Notre-Dame-de-Foy Catholic Church, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "...baptized Marie Cecile Josphine, born two days before, of the legitimate marriage of John Neilson, Esquire, and of Dame Laura Caroline Moorhead of this parish. Godfather, Charles Fremont, Esquire, and Godmother, Marie Cecile Panet..."1 

Citations

  1. [S771] Drouin Collection, www.ancestry.com: Ancestry.com, Quebec, Quebec City, Notre-Dame-de-Foy, 21 Sept 1859. Baptism of Marie Cecile Josephine Neilson. Ancestry Image #21 of 30.

Mary Ellen Neilson1

b. 1 February 1858
Last Edited27 Sep 2019
ChartsDescendants of William Neilson
FatherJohn Neilson1 b. 27 Jan 1821
MotherLaura Caroline Moorhead1 b. 21 Feb 1822, d. 30 Jul 1879
Birth*1 February 1858Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada1 
Baptism5 February 1858Notre-Dame-de-Foy Catholic Church, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "...baptized Marie Helene , born the first of this month, of the legitimate marriage of John Neilson, Esquire, and of Dame Laura Caroline Moorhead of this parish. Godfather, Theophile Hamel, and Godmother, Catherine Roulie..."1 

Citations

  1. [S771] Drouin Collection, www.ancestry.com: Ancestry.com, Quebec, Quebec City, Notre-Dame-de-Foy, 05 February 1858. Baptism of Marie Helene Neilson. Ancestry Image #4 of 23.

Mary Louise Neilson1

b. 22 October 1913, d. 18 August 2004
Last Edited19 Apr 2022
Relationship3rd cousin 1 time removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherDr. Walter Hopper Neilson1 b. 4 Sep 1857, d. 12 Sep 1922
MotherBessie Belle Jeffers1 b. Mar 1880, d. 1962

Family

 Allan Hubbard
Marriage*Allan Hubbard2 
Mary Louise Neilson
Shared by James R. Neilson, Minnesota, 2022
Married NameHubbard2 
Marriage*Allan Hubbard2 
Birth*22 October 1913Wisconsin, United States3 
Death*18 August 2004Wisconsin, United States3 

Citations

  1. [S431] Web site: Online From - The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 16, p.160. New York: James T. White & Co., 1918 at http://ia600506.us.archive.org/21/items/…
  2. [S878] Find a Grave, online www.findagrave.com, (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189533353/… : accessed 19 April 2022), memorial page for Dr George Whittier Neilson (16 Nov 1882–1 Dec 1942), Find a Grave Memorial ID 189533353, citing Jerusalem Cemetery, Wales, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, USA ; Maintained by Cheryl (contributor 47529010).
  3. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index [database on-line].

Mary Ursula Hubert Neilson1

b. 23 May 1844, d. 17 December 1929
Last Edited19 Jul 2019
Relationship1st cousin 3 times removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherWilliam Neilson1 b. 2 Dec 1805, d. 7 Jul 1895
MotherMargaret Cassin1 b. 31 Oct 1813, d. 22 May 1853

Family

 Hopper Ireland b. 26 Mar 1840, d. 29 Mar 1882
Marriage*30 June 1863Hopper Ireland; Church of Scotland, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Hopper Ireland, farmer, of Valcartier, and Maria Ursula Hubert Neilson, were married by dispensation of license on the thirtieth day of June, 1863.
David Shanks, minister
William Neilson, witness
C.W.L. Wolff, witness."4 
Children 1.Grant Ireland+8 b. 1 Jul 1864, d. 3 Jan 1933
 2.Margaret Ireland9 b. 23 Jan 1866
 3.Elizabeth Ireland6 b. c 1872
Birth*23 May 1844St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada1,2,3 
Baptism26 July 1844St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier Catholic Church, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; The godmother was Ann Boyle.2 
Witness: Ann Boyle
Married Name30 June 1863Ireland4 
Marriage*30 June 1863Hopper Ireland; Church of Scotland, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Hopper Ireland, farmer, of Valcartier, and Maria Ursula Hubert Neilson, were married by dispensation of license on the thirtieth day of June, 1863.
David Shanks, minister
William Neilson, witness
C.W.L. Wolff, witness."4 
(Witness) Death29 March 1882Hopper Ireland; St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; Notary Glackemeyer's record states on November 22, 1883 that Hopper Ireland died on the 29th March, tombstone states the 31st.5,6 
Death*17 December 1929Loretteville, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada7 
Burial*19 December 1929St. Andrew Presbyterian Cemetery, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Maria Ursula Hubert Neilson, widow of Hopper Ireland and daughter of William Neilson and Margaret Cassin, his wife, died at Loretteville, Province of Quebec, on teh 17th day of December...1929, aged eighty-five years and was buried in Valcartier Presbyterian Cemetery on the 19th of the same month...presence of Grant Ireland and James H. McKee..."7 
Witness: Grant Ireland

Citations

  1. [S194] Eric Corrigan, "Files of Eric Corrigan", Gedcom File.
  2. [S247] Baptismal Records, Mary Ursula Hubert Neilson: From LDS Microfilm #1,293,422: Parish Record of St. Gabriel de Valcartier 1843-1876, 26 July 1844, St. Gabriel Catholic Church.
  3. [S508] St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier Catholic Record Transcriptions, Births, 1844.
  4. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, Church of Scotland, Valcartier, 1863.
  5. [S641] Gravestone, unknown cd.
  6. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Quebec Notarial Records, 1800-1900, Quebec County, Notary Samuel-Isadore Glackemeyer, 22 Nov. 1883.
  7. [S771] Drouin Collection, www.ancestry.com: Ancestry.com, Presbyterian Saint Andrew's Church, Quebec City, Quebec, 19 December 1929. Burial of Maria Ursula Hubert Neilson, died 17 December, 1929.
  8. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, Church of Scotland, Valcartier, 1864.
  9. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, Church of Scotland, Valcartier, 1866.

Matilda Marie Neilson1

b. 19 December 1847
Last Edited30 Jan 2017
ChartsDescendants of William Neilson
FatherJohn Neilson1 b. 27 Jan 1821
MotherLaura Caroline Moorhead1 b. 21 Feb 1822, d. 30 Jul 1879
Birth*19 December 1847Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada1 
Baptism21 December 1847Notre-Dame Basilica, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "...baptized Matilda Marie, born the day before yesterday, of the legitimate marriage of Sir John Neilson, bookstore merchant (?), and of Dame Laura Caroline Moorhead of this parish. Godfather, George Barth..Faribault, Esquire, and Godmother, Dame Marie Julie Plante, his wife.."1 

Citations

  1. [S771] Drouin Collection, www.ancestry.com: Ancestry.com, Quebec, Quebec City, Notre-Dame, 21 December 1847. Baptism of Matilda Marie Neilson. Ancestry Image #299 of 313.

Michael J. Neilson1

b. 12 May 1950, d. 13 May 1950
Last Edited15 Jun 2023
Relationship4th cousin of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherJohn Milan Cornelius Neilson1 b. 22 Sep 1909, d. 28 Mar 2001
MotherMary Alice Hugunin1 b. 29 Dec 1923, d. 9 Mar 2017
Birth*12 May 1950Waukesha, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States1 
Death*13 May 1950Waukesha, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States1 
Witness: John Milan Cornelius Neilson
Witness: Mary Alice Hugunin
Burial*15 May 1950Prairie Home Cemetery, Waukesha, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Canada; Michael is buried in Section K, but there is no marker.2 

Citations

  1. [S435] E-mail Message. From James Neilson [e-mail address] to Patricia Balkcom, 12 August 2022.
  2. [S435] E-mail Message. From James Neilson [e-mail address] to Patricia Balkcom, 14 June 2023.

Nora Anne Neilson1

b. 11 August 1912, d. 12 September 1977
Last Edited5 Sep 2020
ChartsDescendants of William Neilson
FatherHenry John Ivan Neilson1 b. 27 Jun 1865, d. 27 Apr 1931
MotherMatilda Anne Green1

Family

 Hew Gilbert Coventry Ellwood b. 1890, d. 1975
Marriage*Hew Gilbert Coventry Ellwood2 
Married NameEllwood2 
Birth*11 August 1912St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada1 
Baptism27 August 1912Saint Mathew's Anglican Church, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Helen Ridout, daughter of Henry Ivan Neilson, of Valcartier, P.Q. artist-painter and of Mathilda Anne, daughter of the late Andrew Green of Toronto, his wife, born on the fifteenth day of August A.D. nineteen hundred and twelve and was baptized on the twenty-seventh day of the same month in the same year.1 
Marriage*Hew Gilbert Coventry Ellwood2 
Death*12 September 19772 

Citations

  1. [S771] Drouin Collection, www.ancestry.com: Ancestry.com, Records fo Saint Mathew's Anglican Church, Quebec City, Quebec. Baptism of Nora Anne Neilson, 27 August 1912.
  2. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Moore Family Tree of mmijj60 accessed 9/5/2020 at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/55610437/…

Norman John Rieubord Neilson1

b. 3 July 1851
Last Edited30 Jan 2017
ChartsDescendants of William Neilson
FatherJohn Neilson1 b. 27 Jan 1821
MotherLaura Caroline Moorhead1 b. 21 Feb 1822, d. 30 Jul 1879
Birth*3 July 1851Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada1 
Baptism5 July 1851Notre-Dame-de-Foy Catholic Church, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "...baptized Norman John Rieubord, born two days before, of the legitimate marriage of John Neilson, Esquire, and of Dame Laura Caroline Moorhead of this parish. ..., and Godmother, Dame Marguerite Neilson..."1 

Citations

  1. [S771] Drouin Collection, www.ancestry.com: Ancestry.com, Quebec, Quebec City, Notre-Dame-de-Foy, 05 July 1851. Baptism of Norman John Rieubord Neilson. Ancestry Image #17 of 34.

Patricia Ruthven Neilson1,2,3

b. 1926, d. 11 February 2017
Last Edited23 Apr 2022
Relationship4th cousin of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherWalter Rowland Neilson1 b. 8 Aug 1892, d. 1 Nov 1955
MotherGenevieve Isabel Proctor1 b. 5 Jan 1892, d. 30 Sep 1975

Family

 Donald Newton Moen b. 4 Oct 1921, d. 9 Dec 2014
Marriage*17 June 1950Donald Newton Moen; Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin, United States1,3
Image shared on Ancestry.com by Gabrielle Moen
Image shared on Ancestry.com by Gabrielle Moen
Residence*Cambridge, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States4 
Birth*1926Wisconsin, United States2 
Married Name17 June 1950Moen1,3 
Marriage*17 June 1950Donald Newton Moen; Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin, United States1,3
Image shared on Ancestry.com by Gabrielle Moen
(Witness) Death9 December 2014Donald Newton Moen; Madison, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States3 
Death*11 February 2017Richland Center, Richland County, Wisconsin, United States3 

Citations

  1. [S1415] Newspapers.com, online https://www.newspapers.com, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Wednesday, September 1, 1976, p. 5, article entitled "Mrs. Walter Neilson". Accessed 23 April 2022 at https://www.newspapers.com/image/549972344/,0.071179815,0.50132334,0.23709431&xid=3355&ancestry=true.
  2. [S506] 1930 U.S. Census, online www.ancestry.com, Census Place: Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0405; FHL microfilm: 2342335. Listing for the family of Walter and Genevieve Neilson. Accessed 23 April 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/102747959/…
  3. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Family Tree named Gabrielle Moen family tree by user GNMoen1993. Accessed informaton for Patricia Ruthven Neilson on 23 april 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/28860053/…
  4. [S1415] Newspapers.com, online https://www.newspapers.com, The Arizone Daily Star, Friday, September 5, 1958, Section B, p. 7, article entitled "Proctor Neilson". Accessed 23 April 2022 at https://www.newspapers.com/image/162686584/,0.059503924,0.32883042,0.16349676&xid=3355.

Proctor Thomas Neilson1

b. 15 June 1917, d. 2 September 1958
Last Edited23 Apr 2022
Relationship4th cousin of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherWalter Rowland Neilson1 b. 8 Aug 1892, d. 1 Nov 1955
MotherGenevieve Isabel Proctor1 b. 5 Jan 1892, d. 30 Sep 1975

Family 1

 Madeline Lake b. c 1924
Marriage License*21 January 1944Madeline Lake; Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, United States; Marriage License states that Proctor is 26 and Madeline is 19.
It's possible this marriage never took place as the bottom marriage certificate is not completed, only the license part was completed.1,3 

Family 2

 Heleine MacDonald
Marriage*Heleine MacDonald2 
Children 1.Scott Thomas Neilson2 b. 18 Mar 1946, d. 19 Nov 2001
 2.MacDonald Derby Neilson2 b. 30 Nov 1948, d. 4 Mar 1984
Marriage*Heleine MacDonald2 
Birth*15 June 1917Wisconsin, United States1 
Marriage License*21 January 1944Madeline Lake; Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, United States; Marriage License states that Proctor is 26 and Madeline is 19.
It's possible this marriage never took place as the bottom marriage certificate is not completed, only the license part was completed.1,3 
Death*2 September 1958Tucson Medical Center, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, United States; Death Registration states that Proctor T. Neilson, male, white, married, born 15 June 1917 in Wisconsin, aged 41 years, died at the Tucson Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona on September 2, 1958 at 8:30pm. His address was 1213 N. Arcadia Blvd. and he had live in Tucson and Arizona for 7 years. His wife's name is Heleine and he worked at the Neilson Wheel Company. He was in the Armed Forces during WW2. His father was Walter R. Neilson, born Wisconsin and mother was Genevieve Proctor, born Iowa. The informant was his wife. Cause of death was acute coronary thrombosis due to coronary sclerosis. He lived about 1 hour after onset. He had another coronary thrombosis in 1950 (difficult to read the last number). He was buried at Grantwood Memorial Park in Tucson on 5th of September 1958.1 
Witness: Madeline Lake
Witness: Genevieve Isabel Proctor
Obituary*5 September 1958Arizona Daily Star, Arizona, United States2
Burial*5 September 1958Grantwood Memorial Park, Tuscon, Pima County, Arizona, United States1 

Citations

  1. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Arizona, U.S., Death Records, 1887-1960 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Death Certificate for Proctor T. Neilson, died 02 September 1958, Tucson, Arizona. Accessed 23 April 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/102747959/…
  2. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Family Tree named Gabrielle Moen family tree by user GNMoen1993. Accessed posted image on 23 april 2022 for the obituary of Proctor Thomas (Buster) Neilson at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/28860053/…
  3. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Arizona, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1865-1972. Marriage license issued 21 January 1944 for Proctor T. Neilson and Madeline Lake, Tucson, Arizona. Accessed 23 April 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/102747959/…

Richard Davis Neilson

b. 1939, d. 26 August 2003
Last Edited20 Jan 2016
Relationship4th cousin of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherStanley Walter Neilson b. 17 Jan 1903, d. 4 Jul 1985
MotherDolores Gertrude Johann1 b. 26 May 1909, d. 3 Jul 2001
Birth*1939Wisconsin, United States1
Death*26 August 2003Brown Deer, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States1 

Citations

  1. [S996] Milwaukee Journal, August 28, 2003, 8B.

Robert Allan Neilson1

b. 31 August 1912, d. 23 August 1978
Last Edited15 Apr 2022
Relationship3rd cousin 1 time removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherDr. Walter Hopper Neilson1 b. 4 Sep 1857, d. 12 Sep 1922
MotherBessie Belle Jeffers1 b. Mar 1880, d. 1962
Robert Allan Neilson
Shared by James R. Neilson, Minnesota, 2022
Birth*31 August 1912Wisconsin, United States2 
Death*23 August 1978Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan, United States2 

Citations

  1. [S431] Web site: Online From - The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 16, p.160. New York: James T. White & Co., 1918 at http://ia600506.us.archive.org/21/items/…
  2. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records. Michigan Deaths, 1971-1996 [database on-line].

Samuel Neilson1

b. 10 April 1840
Last Edited21 Jul 2019
Relationship1st cousin 3 times removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherWilliam Neilson1 b. 2 Dec 1805, d. 7 Jul 1895
MotherMargaret Cassin1 b. 31 Oct 1813, d. 22 May 1853

Family

 Elizabeth Brown b. c 1841
Marriage*26 February 1859Elizabeth Brown; Wesleyan Methodist Church, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Samuel Neilson of Valcartier, farmer, and Elizabeth Brown, of the same place, spinster, were married by License in presence of subscribing witnesses. (witness - James F. Wolff)"3 
Children 1.Margaret Neilson+5 b. 17 Jun 1860
 2.Agnes Elizabeth Neilson+6 b. 7 May 1862, d. 1953
 3.William John Neilson+7 b. 10 Jul 1864, d. 1930
 4.Samuel Lionel Neilson+8 b. 25 Apr 1881
Birth*10 April 1840St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada2 
Baptism10 June 1840St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Mr. William Neilson of Valcartier and Margaret, his wife, had a son born on the tenth day of April and baptised on the tenth day of June, 1840 named Samuel by me John Cook, minister.
William Neilson, father
Margaret Neilson, mother
? Neilson Ross
H. King"2 
Marriage*26 February 1859Elizabeth Brown; Wesleyan Methodist Church, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Samuel Neilson of Valcartier, farmer, and Elizabeth Brown, of the same place, spinster, were married by License in presence of subscribing witnesses. (witness - James F. Wolff)"3 
Census*6 April 1881Howick Township, Huron County, Ontario, Canada; Family #29: Samuel Neilson, 39, born Quebec, Presbyterian Church, Scotch, farmer, married.
Elizabeth, 40, born Quebec, Presbyterian Church, Scotch, married.
Ada, 18, Presbyterian Church, Scotch.
William, 16, Presbyterian Church, Scotch.4 
Witness: Elizabeth Brown
Witness: Agnes Elizabeth Neilson
Witness: William John Neilson

Citations

  1. [S194] Eric Corrigan, "Files of Eric Corrigan", Gedcom File.
  2. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, 1840.
  3. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), Quebec City, Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1859.
  4. [S378] 1881 Census of Canada, online www.ancestry.com, Census Place: Howick, Huron North, Ontario; Roll: C_13273; Page: 6; Family No: 29, Family of Samuel and Elizabeth Neilson.
  5. [S71] "Canada, Census of 1861; Sub-census for St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec.
  6. [S771] Drouin Collection, www.ancestry.com: Ancestry.com, Valcartier, Quebec, Church of Scotland, baptism of Agnes Elizabeth Neilson, born May 7, 1862 and baptized May 21, 1862.
  7. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, Church of Scotland, Valcartier, 1864.
  8. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Ontario, Canada Births, 1858-1913 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; MS929; Series: 49; Reel: MS929. Birth Registration for Samuel Lionel Neilson, born 25 April 1881 in Howick, Ontario to Samuel Neilson and Elizabeth Brown.

Samuel Neilson1

b. 1771, d. 12 January 1793
Last Edited3 Jun 2007
ChartsDescendants of William Neilson
FatherWilliam Neilson1 b. s 1740
MotherIsabel Brown1 b. s 1750
Birth*1771Balmaghie Civil Parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland1 
Note*"NEILSON, SAMUEL, printer; b. 1771 at Balmaghie (Dumfries and Galloway), Scotland, son of William Neilson and Isabel Brown; d. unmarried 12 Jan. 1793 in Quebec.

Samuel Neilson came to Quebec in 1785 to learn the compositor’s craft in the printing shop of his uncle William Brown. Brown died on 22 March 1789, and Samuel, who inherited a share of a considerable sum of money, purchased the printing shop and its newspaper the Quebec Gazette/La Gazette de Québec.

This paper, which had been founded on 21 June 1764, enjoyed a privileged status since the government published all its official announcements in it at a yearly contract price. But for some years the number of announcements had been increasing substantially and William Brown had had to claim for supplementary expenses each time work increased. Neilson continued to publish the official announcements, but the cost of printing was set by a list of prices that he established on 10 Oct. 1789. On 25 December his printing shop on Côte de la Montagne was damaged by fire; Neilson was nevertheless able to continue publishing his paper, thanks to William Moore, who owned the Quebec Herald, Miscellany and Advertiser.

Neilson markedly improved the quality of the Quebec Gazette. From 1789 on he devoted more space to news and essays, and he published the opinions of both French and English speaking readers on the proposed constitutional act, which was to be passed by parliament in London in 1791. Leading articles and news from European sources, dealing in particular with the events troubling France at the time, also were given more attention. To his weekly four-page edition Neilson quite regularly added a supplement of from two to six pages.

In the early months of 1792 Neilson announced the forthcoming publication of a bilingual monthly journal, to be called the Quebec Magazine/Le Magasin de Québec and sold for 15 pence a copy or three dollars for a year’s subscription. Neilson made Alexander Spark*, minister of the Presbyterian church in Quebec, its editor. The first issue, a 64-page number scheduled for August, came out on 13 Sept. 1792 and included a print of the city of Quebec done by J. G. Hochstetter; subsequently the magazine carried other prints and thus became the first illustrated periodical published in Quebec. The Quebec Magazine reprinted substantial extracts from works on a wide variety of subjects: astronomy, hygiene, poetry, political institutions, history, agriculture, and meteorology. A column entitled the “Provincial Register” was devoted to news from Lower and Upper Canada. Finally, the magazine carried a register of births, marriages, and deaths, meteorological tables, and lists of consumer prices.

Samuel Neilson died of tuberculosis on 12 Jan. 1793 in Quebec. His magazine did not long outlast him for it ceased publication in May 1794. But, through dynamic management, in less than four years Neilson had expanded his printing shop more than his uncle had in 25 years. His firm went to his 16-year-old brother John*, who for some time acted under the guardianship of Alexander Spark. The latter was editor of the Quebec Gazette until John came of age and took over responsibility.

John E. Hare

ASQ, Polygraphie, XXXV, 6d; Séminaire, 120, no.259. Quebec Gazette, 12 March 1789, 10 Jan. 1793. Quebec Magazine, 1792–94. Tremaine, Bibliography of Canadian imprints. F.-J. Audet, “John Neilson,” RSC Trans., 3rd ser., XXII (1928), sect.i, 81–97; “William Brown (1737–1789), premier imprimeur, journaliste et libraire de Québec; sa vie et ses œuvres,” RSC Trans., 3rd ser., XXVI (1932), sect.i, 97–112."
1 
Death*12 January 1793Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; Died from tuberculosis.1 

Citations

  1. [S431] Web site: From online records "Dictionary of Canadian Biography."

Samuel Neilson1

b. 8 February 1800, d. 17 June 1837
Last Edited24 Mar 2009
ChartsDescendants of William Neilson
FatherJohn Neilson1 b. 17 Jul 1776, d. 1 Feb 1848
MotherMarie Ursula Hubert1 b. 21 Oct 1781, d. 20 Jun 1866

Family 1

 Margaret McSkimming d. c 1833
Marriage*14 June 1831Margaret McSkimming; St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Samuel Neilson, Esquire, printer, of the city of Quebec, now at Montreal, and Margaret McSkimming, lately from Ayr, Scotland, spinster, by license by His Excellency Matthew Lind Alymer were joined in the bands of Holy Matrimony in Quebec on the fourteenth day of June, 1831 by me
James Harkeys, minister
Samuel Neilson
Margaret McSkimming
Phillip Callaghan
Phlora Cameron."3 

Family 2

 Catherine James
Marriage*28 May 1835Catherine James; New York City, Manhattan County, New York, United States1 
Birth*8 February 1800Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada2 
Baptism16 February 1800St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "John Neilson of Quebec, printer, and his wife, Marie Ursula, had a son born on the 8th instant and baptised this sixteenth day of February, 1800, named Samuel.
Alex Spark, minister
J. Neilson, father
Maria Neilson, mother
Wm. Cowan
William Rivan".2 
Note*"NEILSON, SAMUEL, printer, journalist, and publisher; b. 8 Feb. 1800 at Quebec, eldest son of John Neilson and Marie-Ursule Hubert; m. first 14 June 1831 Margaret McSkimming at Quebec; m. secondly 28 May 1835 Catherine James in New York; d. there 17 June 1837.

Samuel Neilson attended Daniel Wilkie*’s grammar school at Quebec and received a sound education there. His father removed him in order to have him finish his studies in Scotland, and in July 1816 the two sailed for Europe. After a short stay in Paris, Samuel settled in Glasgow, where he registered in a college on Richmond Street run by Dr William Chrystal. He spent three years there, studying Greek, Latin, philosophy, mathematics, and science. In the summer holidays he took special courses in bookkeeping, drawing, architecture, botany, and French. He also passed pleasant weeks at Gatehouse-of-Fleet with his paternal grandmother, his uncle William, and his aunts Isabel and Janet. Upon completing his studies in rhetoric and the two philosophy classes, he was awarded an ma in 1819.

Neilson returned to Quebec that summer and immediately went to work for his father, who was proprietor of the Quebec Gazette and of the biggest shop for printing, bookbinding, books, and office supplies in Lower Canada and who also held the office of king’s printer. He had been elected member of the House of Assembly for Quebec in 1818, and there was some concern that difficulties, if not a conflict of interest, might arise from his holding the two offices at once. To avoid such a situation, he handed his printing enterprise over on 29 April 1822 to a company formed by his son Samuel and William Cowan. The partners received respectively two-thirds and one-third of the business.

The plan to unite Upper and Lower Canada was at the heart of political debate in the summer of 1822, and John Neilson sided wholeheartedly with the Canadian party. Governor Lord Dalhousie [Ramsay] was displeased, and offered John Charlton Fisher the position of publisher of the Quebec Gazette. Because Fisher was unable to come to an agreement with Samuel Neilson, the governor decided to strip Samuel of the commission as king’s printer that he had granted him. On 22 Oct. 1823 he conferred it on Fisher, who also received authorization to bring out the Quebec Gazette, published by authority.

In January 1828 John Neilson went to London with Denis-Benjamin Viger* and Austin Cuvillier to put the Canadian case against Dalhousie’s maladministration. Dalhousie lost all sense of proportion and abused his prerogatives by taking severe measures against some justices of the peace and militia officers, and by arresting journalists for venturing to publish accounts of the mass meetings then being held. As a result Samuel was arrested four times, charged with libel, and released on bail. These difficulties occurred during his father’s absence, but he did not lose his calm and maintained a dignified tone in his articles in the Quebec Gazette. Dalhousie was recalled in 1828, and Sir James Kempt*, who succeeded him, dropped the charges.

Founded in 1764 by William Brown* and Thomas Gilmore*, the Quebec Gazette had always been bilingual and since 1818 had appeared twice a week. In May 1831 Jean-Baptiste Fréchette and Étienne Parent* resumed publication of Le Canadien and a year later they turned it into a thrice-weekly paper. Doubtless spurred by the success of his competitors, Neilson altered his newspaper in April 1832, publishing two editions three times a week, one in English and the other in French. The change amounted to producing a daily paper and imposed an almost superhuman task upon Neilson. Some time later a calamitous cholera epidemic struck the town of Quebec, claiming thousands of victims. Those who could, left for the countryside, and John Neilson retired with his family to their farm at Cap-Rouge. But Samuel remained at the head of the paper, never absent for even a day from the shop on Rue de la Montagne (Côte de la Montagne), imperturbable, and temperate in the pages of the Gazette as well as in the short notes he penned to his father. One can readily imagine how overworked he was during this period.

In 1833 Samuel returned to the British Isles. He spent several months resting in Ireland, went to Scotland, and got as far as London. From there he wrote to tell his father that he intended taking up residence in Europe. He returned to Quebec, however, and did not end his partnership with William Cowan until 30 April 1836. On 31 May he turned the business over to his brother William, and in July he made his father his attorney. He was ill, and after he had consulted Quebec physicians Thomas Fargues and James Douglas*, he left for Europe in July, stopping at Saratoga Springs and New York to seek the opinion of other doctors. In November 1836 he sailed for Madeira and the Mediterranean, where he spent the winter. He was back in New York on 16 June 1837 and died of tuberculosis the following day in the quarantine station of that city.

Samuel Neilson’s destiny was tragic. The favourite son of his father, whose intelligence and good sense he had inherited, he was utterly devoted to his work and was still making plans in the autumn of 1836 for improving the newspaper and printing-shop. A keen observer of men and politics, he was also a talented writer and possessed real aptitude for drawing and painting, as his unpublished accounts of trips to the Saguenay and Madeira demonstrate. He was a reserved man and seems to have been an enigma to his close relatives. For example, none of his family is listed in the entry for his first marriage in the register of St Andrew’s Church. His wife died a year or two later, and his second marriage took place in New York in 1835. Samuel Neilson was one of the most gifted young men of his generation. His untimely death together with his father’s dominating personality kept him from fulfilling his early promise.

Claude Galarneau

Samuel Neilson’s unpublished narratives of his voyages, which he wrote on his return from the Saguenay and from Madeira, are at PAC, MG 24, B1, 19: 4 and 42: 2157–348 respectively. The PAC also holds important materials on Neilson and his family in the same collection: MG 24, B1, 19: 8; 24: 585; 36: 242–572; 38: 1038–45; 40: 1452–87; 42: 1736–2038.

ANQ-Q, CE1-66, 16 févr. 1800, 14 juin 1831; CN1-116, 29 avril 1822; 22 avril, 7, 31 mai, 11 juill. 1836. F.-X. Garneau, Voyage en Angleterre et en France dans les années 1831, 1832 et 1833 (Québec, 1855), 236–37. Le Canadien, juin 1837. La Minerve, juin 1837. Quebec Gazette, April–May 1822, April–September 1832, April–May 1836, June–August 1837. Quebec Mercury, June 1837. Beaulieu et Hamelin, La presse québécoise. F.-J. Audet, “John Neilson,” RSC Trans., 3rd ser., 22 (1928), sect.i: 81–97. Ignotus [Thomas Chapais], “Le monument Wolfe et Montcalm à Québec,” BRH, 5 (1899): 305–9. Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, 21 June 1939."
1 
Marriage*14 June 1831Margaret McSkimming; St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Samuel Neilson, Esquire, printer, of the city of Quebec, now at Montreal, and Margaret McSkimming, lately from Ayr, Scotland, spinster, by license by His Excellency Matthew Lind Alymer were joined in the bands of Holy Matrimony in Quebec on the fourteenth day of June, 1831 by me
James Harkeys, minister
Samuel Neilson
Margaret McSkimming
Phillip Callaghan
Phlora Cameron."3 
(Witness) Deathcirca 1833Margaret McSkimming1 
Marriage*28 May 1835Catherine James; New York City, Manhattan County, New York, United States1 
Death*17 June 1837New York City, Manhattan County, New York, United States; Died of tuberculosis in the quarantine station on his way back from Europe to Quebec.1 
Witness: Marie Ursula Hubert
Witness: Catherine James

Citations

  1. [S431] Web site: From online records "Dictionary of Canadian Biography."
  2. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, 1800.
  3. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, 1831.

Samuel Lionel Neilson1

b. 25 April 1881
Last Edited22 Jul 2019
Relationship2nd cousin 2 times removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherSamuel Neilson1 b. 10 Apr 1840
MotherElizabeth Brown1 b. c 1841

Family

 Margaret (?) b. c 1881
Marriage*circa 1910Margaret (?)2 
Child 1.Isabella Neilson2 b. c 1912
Birth*25 April 1881Howick Township, Huron County, Ontario, Canada1 
Marriage*circa 1910Margaret (?)2 

Citations

  1. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Ontario, Canada Births, 1858-1913 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; MS929; Series: 49; Reel: MS929. Birth Registration for Samuel Lionel Neilson, born 25 April 1881 in Howick, Ontario to Samuel Neilson and Elizabeth Brown.
  2. [S526] 1916 Canada Census, online www.ancestry.com, Census Place: Saskatchewan, Kindersley, 30; Roll: T-21937; Page: 16; Family No: 196. Listing for Samuel Nelson (sic) and Maggie, wife and Isabella, daughter.

Scott Thomas Neilson1,2

b. 18 March 1946, d. 19 November 2001
Last Edited23 Apr 2022
Relationship4th cousin 1 time removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherProctor Thomas Neilson1 b. 15 Jun 1917, d. 2 Sep 1958
MotherHeleine MacDonald1
Birth*18 March 1946Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States 
Death*19 November 2001Hartford, Washington County, Wisconsin, United States3 

Citations

  1. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Family Tree named Gabrielle Moen family tree by user GNMoen1993. Accessed posted image on 23 april 2022 for the obituary of Proctor Thomas (Buster) Neilson at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/28860053/…
  2. [S1415] Newspapers.com, online https://www.newspapers.com, The Arizone Daily Star, Friday, September 5, 1958, Section B, p. 7, article entitled "Proctor Neilson". Accessed 23 April 2022 at https://www.newspapers.com/image/162686584/,0.059503924,0.32883042,0.16349676&xid=3355.
  3. [S1415] Newspapers.com, online https://www.newspapers.com, Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wisconsin), Monday, March 5, 1984, page 2. Accessed 24 April 2022 at https://www.newspapers.com/image/402586742/

Stanley Walter Neilson1,2,3

b. 17 January 1903, d. 4 July 1985
Last Edited16 Apr 2022
Relationship3rd cousin 1 time removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherWilliam Cornelius Neilson1 b. 18 Sep 1869, d. 28 Nov 1948
MotherHarriet J. Davis1 b. 1878, d. 21 Jun 1961

Family

 Dolores Gertrude Johann b. 26 May 1909, d. 3 Jul 2001
Marriage*17 September 1932Dolores Gertrude Johann; Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States5,6 
Child 1.Richard Davis Neilson+ b. 1939, d. 26 Aug 2003
Birth*17 January 1903Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; Note - On his draft card, it states that he was born January 3, 1903.1,3,4 
(Witness) Census18 April 1910William Cornelius Neilson; 2030 Chambers Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; Family #115 at 2030 Chambers Street, Milwaukee City - William C. Neilson, head, white, male, born 40, married 12 years, born Wisconsin, parents born Canada Eng., farmer in general farming, can read, write, owns his own house free of mortgage.
Harriet D., wife, white, 31, married 12 years, born Wisconsin, father born Pennsylvania, mother NY, can read and write.
Dorothy M., daughter, 11, born Wisconsin, can read and write, attending school.
William D. Neilson, son, born Wisconsin, 8, born Wisconsin, can read and write, attending school.
Stanley W., son, 7, can read and write, attending school.2 
Marriage*17 September 1932Dolores Gertrude Johann; Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States5,6 
Death*4 July 1985Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States7 
Witness: Dolores Gertrude Johann
Burial*July 1985Wisconsin Memorial Park, Brookfield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States8 

Citations

  1. [S505] 1920 U.S. Census, online www.ancestry.com, WI, Milwaukee Co., Granville, ED #4, p. 11B.
  2. [S503] 1910 U.S. Census, online www.ancestry.com, Census Place: Milwaukee Ward 20, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Roll: T624_1727; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0230; FHL microfilm: 1375740. Listing for William C. Neilson, sheet #6. Accessed 16 A;ril 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/…
  3. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Wisconsin, U.S., Birth Index, 1808-1907 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services. Wisconsin Vital Record Index, pre-1907. Madison, WI, USA: Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services Vital Records Division. Listing for Stanley Walter Neilson, born 17 January 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Accessed April 16, 2022 at https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll
  4. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Card for Stanley Walter Neilson, accessed 16 April 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/…
  5. [S996] Milwaukee Journal, August 28, 2003, 8B.
  6. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Wisconsin, U.S., Marriage Records, 1820-2004. Listing for Stanley W. Neilson and Dolores G. Johann, married 17 Sept 1932 in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
  7. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Wisconsin, U.S., Death Records, 1959-2004. Listing for Stanley W. Neilson, died 04 July 1985 in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
  8. [S878] Find a Grave, online www.findagrave.com, (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/216372769/… : accessed 16 April 2022), memorial page for Stanley W Neilson (1903–1985), Find a Grave Memorial ID 216372769, citing Wisconsin Memorial Park, Brookfield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, USA ; Maintained by Patrick Lemirande (contributor 48811158).

Vietta Lorraine Neilson1

b. 31 August 1897, d. 7 April 1991
Last Edited27 Jul 2017
Relationship3rd cousin 1 time removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherWilliam John Neilson1 b. 10 Jul 1864, d. 1930
MotherFrances Robeson Hatt1 b. 15 Mar 1876, d. Dec 1912

Family

 William Henry Parr b. 31 Dec 1887, d. 1 Jan 1951
Marriage*circa 1919William Henry Parr2 
Children 1.June Parr7 b. c 1921, d. 2011
 2.Nancy Aileen Parr7 b. 3 Nov 1921, d. 19 Oct 1997
 3.William Henry Parr Jr.7 b. c 1925
 4.Leslie M. Parr7 b. c 1928
Birth*31 August 1897Gilby, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States1 
Married Namecirca 1919Parr2 
Marriage*circa 1919William Henry Parr2 
Residence*1925413 Laurel, Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, United States3 
(Witness) BurialJanuary 1951William Henry Parr; Republic Cemetery, Republic, Ferry County, Washington, United States; "William H. Parr, Montana, 1st Lieutenant, Field Artillery, World War 1, December 31, 1887 - January 1, 1951."4 
Death*7 April 1991Ephrata, Grant County, Washington, United States5 
Burial*April 1991Republic Cemetery, Republic, Ferry County, Washington, United States6 

Citations

  1. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Listing Death Claims for Vietta Lorraine Parr (Vietta Lorraine Neilson), born 31 Aug. 1897 in Gilby, North Dakota, died 07 April 1991. Father, William J. Neilson, mother Frances Hatt. Death Certificate #10684.
  2. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Family Tree of S_N_Parr who is a DNA Match located at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/57159432/family
  3. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Listing of Vieta L. Parr, wife of William H. Parr in Bellingham, Washington City Directory in 1925.
  4. [S878] Find a Grave, online www.findagrave.com, Listing for William H. Parr, born 31 Dec. 1887, died January 1, 1951. Burial in Republic Cemetery, Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA. Created by: Agnes Garbison; Record added: Aug 15, 2008; Find A Grave Memorial# 29048316.
  5. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Washington, Death Index, 1940-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2002. Listing of death of Vietta L. Parr, female, 93, residence Grant, Washington, USA, died there on 07 April 1991.
  6. [S878] Find a Grave, online www.findagrave.com, Listing for Vietta L. Parr, born Aug. 31, 1897, died April 7, 1991. Burial in Republic Cemetery, Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA. Created by: NW Mountain Man; Record added: Jan 25, 2011; Find A Grave Memorial# 64680986.
  7. [S506] 1930 U.S. Census, online www.ancestry.com, Census Place: Friday Harbor, San Juan, Washington; Roll: 2507; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 0005; Image: 1022.0; FHL microfilm: 2342241. Listing for family of William Parr, family #149, line 91. Ancestry Image #10 of 13 for Washington, San Juan, Friday Harbor, District 0005 in Census for Washington state.

Dr. Walter Hopper Neilson1,2

b. 4 September 1857, d. 12 September 1922
Last Edited21 Apr 2022
Relationship2nd cousin 2 times removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherCornelius Brown Neilson2 b. 12 Aug 1835, d. 12 Aug 1918
MotherMargaret Ireland3 b. Jun 1838, d. 22 Apr 1917

Family 1

 Clara Thomas b. 13 Aug 1856, d. 31 May 1906
Marriage*29 December 1881Clara Thomas; Silver Spring, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; Marriage Registration #1659 - Walter Hopper Neilson, son of Cornelius B. Neilson and Margaret Ireland, physician, residing in Milwaukee, born Quebec, married Clara Thomas, daughter of Joseph A. Thomas and Ellen Rowland, born Granville, Wisconsin. Married on December 29th 1881 in Silver Spring Town, Milwaukee. Both are white and the ceremoney was religious. Witnesses were Clifford Harkins and Ida Neilson. Married by R. E. Manning, Minister of the Gospel of Milwaukee.3,8 
Witness: Ida Isabel Neilson
Children 1.Dr. George Whittier Neilson+3 b. 16 Nov 1882, d. 1 Dec 1942
 2.Walter Rowland Neilson+3 b. 8 Aug 1892, d. 1 Nov 1955

Family 2

 Bessie Belle Jeffers b. Mar 1880, d. 1962
Marriage*26 November 1907Bessie Belle Jeffers; Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States15
Walter Neilson and Bessie Jeffers Neilson
Shared by James R. Neilson, Minnesota, 2022
Children 1.John Milan Cornelius Neilson+15 b. 22 Sep 1909, d. 28 Mar 2001
 2.Elizabeth Margaret Neilson17 b. 27 May 1911, d. 22 Jan 1915
 3.Robert Allan Neilson15 b. 31 Aug 1912, d. 23 Aug 1978
 4.Mary Louise Neilson15 b. 22 Oct 1913, d. 18 Aug 2004
 5.Charles Gordon Jeffers Neilson+20 b. 18 May 1919, d. 4 Aug 1994
Walter Hooper Neilson, MD (1857-1922)
Gravestone of Walter Hopper Neilson
Photo taken October, 2021 by Dan Neilson
Birth*4 September 1857St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada4 
Baptism11 October 1857Church of Scotland, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Cornelius Neilson, farmer Valcartier, Margaret Ireland, his wife had a son born on the 4th day of September and baptised this eleventh day of October, 1857 by the name of Walter Hopper.
David Shanks, minister
Cornelius Neilson
Margaret Neilson
James H. Shanks, wit."4 
Anecdote*From the newspaper The Milwaukee Sentinel, Feb. 18, 1954: "ONE OF THE LAST members of the Neilson family to be buried at the little Methodist cemetery on the Good Hope Rd. at N. 43rd St. was Walter H. Neilson, M.D. 1857-1922.

Neilson is an important name in the history of Milwaukee medicine. It was this Dr. Neilson who founded Trinity Hospital and was one of the organizers of the Milwaukee Medical College which was to grow into Marquette's famous school of medicine.

His widow, who live in Delafield, told us the doctor was born in Valcartier, Canada, near Quebec, and was of Scottish ancestry. His father brought him to the town of Granville at age of three when the father purchased a farm that is now part of Tripoli Golf Club.

The boy was raised on the farm and went to Granville Rural District No. 2 one-room school. He received his education in medicine at the Rush Medical College in Chicago. Then Dr. Neilson spent the rest of his life practicing and teaching medicine in Milwaukee. He is well-remembered for his work among the poor in the 2nd and 3rd Wards.

DR. NEILSON OWNED the farm on which the Byrnwood Country Club now is located. Mrs. Neilson says they always spent part of their summers there, living in the old colonial home which the Brynwood members used as a club house until they built a new one.

During these vacations they often visited the old cemetery, caring for the Neilson plot and others. Mrs. Neilson ways the last meeting of the cemetery board of directors was on Sept. 26, 1915. Since then, Mrs. Neilson relates, the people who have relatives buried there have sort of lost interest although she and a few others have been going out regularly to leave flowers and to do whatever they could to honor the memory of their dead.

A discouraging factor has been vandalism. Some years ago hoodlums pushed over a number of headstones and broke some beyond repair, since then nature has been busy trying to hide the desecration with grass and underbrush.

ON SEPT> 15, 1922, the proud, dignified, confident, 65-year-old Dr. Neilson arrived at his office early, as was his custom. AT 9 that morning he suffered an attack, coronary thrombosis, and died 12 hours later. The next day the following editorial appeared in the Sentinel: "In the light of current comment on the alleged decline of the medical practitioner of the old school, the career of Dr. Walter H. Neilson stands out as a shining example of the type of doctor who was a compound of science, charity and personal friendship.

"He infused into his work and daily routine the quality of human interest and made his name beloved by patients and students. When he took up his practice in Milwaukee 41 years ago, he at once made the most of such opportunities as he found in the city at the stage of its development, and perhaps opportunities for personal development in medical practice were more numerous before the advent of modern specialization.

"It is recorded that he soon became known among the poor as one of the medical Good Samaritans who seem to be wearing out their life in the service of mercy and yet miraculously live to a ripe old age.

"The same genial personality and fatherly interest, by the testimony of his students, was radiated in the classroom. As dean of the medical college which is now part of Marquette University, Dr. Neilson has a large share in shaping the careers of many medical men whose remembrance of his profession and personal guidance will long survive him as a living monument."

As we said at the beginning of this series, the little cemetery on the Good Hope Rd. may be neglected, but our memories of those who rest there will keep us from ever forgetting it.

East Granville Cemetery5 
(Witness) Census30 July 1870Cornelius Brown Neilson; Granville, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; "Carnelius Nelson", white, male, age 35, Head of Household #140, farmer, real estate worth $8000, personal estate $1100, born Canada, parents of foreign birth.
Living with him:
"Marguertie Nelson", his wife, age 32, keeping house, born Canada, parents of foreign birth.
Walter, his son, age 13, born Canada, attended school.
Ada, his daughter, age 8 , born Wisconsin, attended school.
Ida, his daughter, age 6, born WI.
Maud, his daughter, age 4, born WI.
William, age 8 months, born Sept. 1869 in WI.
Living close by are his inlaws the Irelands.6 
School*1881Rush Medical College, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States7 
Marriage*29 December 1881Clara Thomas; Silver Spring, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; Marriage Registration #1659 - Walter Hopper Neilson, son of Cornelius B. Neilson and Margaret Ireland, physician, residing in Milwaukee, born Quebec, married Clara Thomas, daughter of Joseph A. Thomas and Ellen Rowland, born Granville, Wisconsin. Married on December 29th 1881 in Silver Spring Town, Milwaukee. Both are white and the ceremoney was religious. Witnesses were Clifford Harkins and Ida Neilson. Married by R. E. Manning, Minister of the Gospel of Milwaukee.3,8 
Witness: Ida Isabel Neilson
Biography*1897"NEILSON, Walter Hopper, M. D., a well-known physician, editor of the Milwaukee Medical Journal, and prominent in connection with the founding and conducting of the Trinity hospital of Milwaukee, traces his lineage to an immigrant from Scotland to Quebec in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and to immigrants from France more than a hundred years earlier. His father, Cornelius B. Neilson, was born in Val Cartier, province of Quebec, on the 12th of August, 1835, but came to Granville, Milwaukee county, in November, 1860, settling on a farm which he has occupied ever since, and is now in the enjoyment of the natural results of enterprise and industry. On November 17th, 1856, he was married to Margaret Ireland, and they have eight children, all of whom have been carefully fitted for and are creditably doing the work of life. For thirty-five consecutive years the family name appeared upon the roll of the district school, and the success of its members is testimony to the efficiency of the public school system. Something more than a century ago, John Neilson, a man of literary tastes and business sagacity, came from Scotland, and, settling in Quebec, established the Quebec Gazette, which, under his editorship became a flourishing and influential journal; and, from this and a publishing business which grew up with it, he amassed a considerable fortune. In social and political life he early took a prominent place, became a member of the Canadian cabinet, and was a delegate to the court of St. James in behalf of the colony. He was a friend of the Indians, was noted for his charities, and met his death while ministering to the fever-stricken emigrants from the famine districts of Ireland. He married a French lady of the name of Hubert, whose ancestors came from Paris in 1650, their descendants taking a prominent place in the early clerical and professional history of Quebec. His eldest son, William, married Margaret Cassin, an accomplished woman of Irish parentage, and settled on a concession of land from the [p.177] crown, granted in consideration of valuable service, and there they lived the life of the landed gentry of Great Britain, dispensing a hospitality which made them noted throughout the country. Here eleven children were born, of whom seven reached adult age, the mother dying at the early age of thirty-seven, while the father died in 1894 at the age of eighty-nine. The eldest son of this family was Cornelius, father of the subject of this sketch. His mother, Margaret Ireland, was the daughter of Hopper Ireland and Margaret Watt, a Scotch lady. Mr. Ireland was a native of Yorkshire, England. He came to Canada when a young man, and settled in Val Cartier. There were eleven children in this family, and their descendants are scattered from the St. Lawrence to the Pacific. The parents died in Ontario, a few years ago, at the age of eighty-nine and eighty-seven, respectively. Dr. Neilson was born on the 4th of September, 1857, in Val Cartier, Quebec county, by the side of the Jacques Cartier river, in the shadow of the mountain that shuts in the vale. He attended the district school in Granville during the winter terms, work on the farm occupying the spring and summer months. Some of the teachers were excellent, two of them--Messrs. Shaughnessy and Sullivan--afterward becoming principals of Milwaukee schools. In this primitive school enough education was obtained to enable him to pass an examination for a third-grade teacher's certificate. One winter he spent in teaching a district school, and in this way his first money was earned, excepting three dollars obtained in cutting wood at fifty cents per cord. In 1876 he entered the University of Wisconsin, where he spent two years, which he says were of exceeding interest and profit to him, and where he was a member of the Athenean Literary society. After leaving the university he spent one year in studying medicine in the office of Drs. Marks and Ladd, and in the year 1879 entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which he graduated in 1881, having spent his vacation as intern in the Milwaukee county hospital. Soon after graduation he received the appointment of physician to the construction department of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western railroad. This professional experience he regards of special advantage, as it gave him confidence and self-reliance. This position was resigned after six months, to enter upon the practice of medicine in Milwaukee. The first two years in this work he had the experience of most young physicians--business came slowly, and sickness followed with its disheartening influence; but at length health returned, and with it business rapidly increased. In 1888 Dr. Neilson, in company with Dr. W. H. Earles, purchased the homestead at the corner of Ninth and Wells streets, remodeled and fitted it up for a general hospital; and, September 1st, 1889, the first patient was received. That fall he went to New York for postgraduate study, and three months were spent in clinical work in hospitals of that city. In 1891, he, in conjunction with other physicians, established the Trinity Hospital Training School for Nurses, [p.178] and he was elected president, as he was of the Practitioners' society, formed the following year. In 1893, he, with Dr. Earles, established the Milwaukee Medical Journal, of which he is the editor. He was also active, with others, in establishing the Milwaukee Medical College and School of Dentistry, was elected one of the directors and professor of the principles and practice of medicine and clinical medicine. Dr. Neilson does not claim to have made any discoveries, but to have kept abreast of the best thought and practice of his profession; and he is now in the enjoyment of a fairly lucrative business. Dr. Neilson has generally affiliated with the Republican party, but is in no sense a politician. He is a member of the American Medical association, and of the leading medical societies of the state. He is also a member of the St. Andrew's society, and an attendant at Calvary Presbyterian church. He was married December 29th, 1881, to Miss Clara Thomas of Milwaukee county, a daughter of one of its pioneers. They have two sons, George Whittier and Walter Roland. The doctor and his family live plainly in an old-fashioned house surrounded by native forest trees, and amid these they strive to keep as close to nature as it is possible to do in a great city."3 
(Witness) Birth1 November 1899Dorothy Maude Neilson; 546 29th Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; Birth Certificate #7029 states that Dorothy Maude Neilson, white, female, daughter of William C. Neilson, publisher and Harriet J. Davis was born on Tuesday, November 1, 1898 at 4:30pm at 546 29th Street. Father was born in Granvlle, Milwaukee Co. and mother in Raymond, Racine Co. Certificate signed by W.H.Neilson, M.D. Registered on Nov. 14, 1899. (It's possible that the date of birth is in error and could be Nov. 1, 1899 as the registration was likely not a year later and is chronologically in the book for 1899. Also, the 1900 census states she is 6 months old).9,10 
(Witness) Birth9 August 1901William Davis Neilson; 714 25th Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; Birth Certificate #5599 states that William Davis Neilson, white, parents Wm. C. Neilson, publisher and Harriet Davis was born on August 9th, 1901, at 12:50pm at 714 25th Street. Parents born Wisconsin. Physician was W.H. Neilson, M.D. Registered on September 10th, 1901.9,11,12 
(Witness) Death31 May 1906Clara Thomas; 114 Garfield Ave., Granville, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; Death Registration #2871, Clara Neilson, maiden name, Thomas, white, female, housewife, aged 49 years, 9 months, 18 days, daughter of Jos. R. Thomas, born Indiana and Ellen Rowland, born PA. Born in Granville, WI, married, husband W. H. Neilson. She was born Aug. 13, 1856 and died May 31, 1906. Died at 114 Garfield Ave., Milwaukee, of Acute bronchitis and diplococis infection of 12 days duration. Buried in East Granville Cemetery on June 2, 1906.13,14 
Marriage*26 November 1907Bessie Belle Jeffers; Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States15
Walter Neilson and Bessie Jeffers Neilson
Shared by James R. Neilson, Minnesota, 2022
Address*1909Bessie Belle Jeffers; 114 Garfield Ave., Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States16 
(Witness) Death22 January 1915Elizabeth Margaret Neilson; Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; Family information states he died of diphtheria.17,18 
Biography1922Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; From the book, The History of Milwaukee City and County, published 1922: "Dr. Walter H. Neilson , a physician and surgeon of Milwaukee , largely specializing in internal medicine , came to this country from Canada , his birth having occurred at Val Cartier , Quebec , September 4 , 1857 . He is a son of Cornelius and Margaret ( Ireland ) Neilson . The former , a farmer by occupation , was also a native of Val Cartier , Quebec , and was of Scotch , Irish and French descent , while his wife was of Scotch and English lineage . In 1860 they crossed the border to the United States , settling on a farm in Milwaukee county , Wisconsin , about five miles from the present city limits of Milwaukee but at that time ten miles distant .

Dr. Neilson traces his ancestry from the Neilsons of Corsock , near Castle Douglas , Scotland , one of the most famous of the family being John Neilson , who married Lady Mary McLellan , Kirkcudbright . Near them lived the minister of Kirkpatrick Durham , who was so outspoken against the government that he was ejected from his parish and took refuge with the Neilsons , in whose home he preached until his congregation became so large that he was obliged to take to the fields , being the first field preacher in Scotland . This gave such offense that John Neilson was arrested , lodged in jail and heavily fined . With other gentlemen in the neighborhood a rebellion was started which ended disastrously at the battle fought at Rullion Green . Being arrested , John Neilson freely confessed his part in the uprising but would not incriminate his friends . Al though put to torture of the Boot , he steadily refused and on the 14th of December , 1666 , was hanged at the cross of Edinburgh and buried in Greyfriar cemetery . One of his descendants John Neilson , removed to Quebec , Canada , in 1787 and there engaged in the newspaper and publishing business , editing the Quebec Gazette for many years . Entering politics , he became a member of parliament and was a member of the privy council . He received many honors from the people , representing them on a mission to the court of St. James .

Walter H. Neilson was reared on the old home farm in Milwaukee county and when eighteen years of age took up the profession of teaching , thus earning a portion of the funds for a college education . After studying for two years in the academic department of the University of Wisconsin he matriculated in Rush Medical College of Chicago , which institution conferred upon him the degree of M. D. at his graduation with the class of 1881. He served for some time as an interne in the Milwaukee County Hospital and has pursued postgraduate work in the New York Postgraduate School , in the New York Polyclinic and also abroad . It was in the year of his gradua tion from Rush Medical College that he opened an office in Milwaukee , where he has remained throughout the intervening period of more than four decades and where he formerly devoted his attention to general practice but for the past twelve years has specialized in internal medicine . Associated with Dr. William H. Earles and B. G. Maercklein he was instrumental in founding the Milwaukee Medical College , of which school he was professor of internal medicine until that institution was merged with the Wisconsin Medical College to form the Marquette School of Medicine , in which he is associate professor of internal medicine . He is identified with the Milwaukee Medical Society , the Milwaukee County Medical Society , the Wisconsin State Medical Society , the Tri - State Medical Society and the American Medical Association . His high professional standing is indicated in the fact that he has been honored with the presidency of the Wisconsin State Medical Society and for nineteen years he was the editor of the Milwaukee Medical Journal , which he owned during that period .

Dr. Neilson has been married twice . In 1881 he wedded Miss Clara Thomas , who died in ay , 1906 , leaving two sons , Dr. George W. Neilson and Walter R. Neilson , the latter engaged in the insurance business . The former , Dr. George W. Neilson , is a well known physician of Milwaukee , who is associated in practice with his father . His degree of Bachelor of Arts was received at the University of Wisconsin and that of Doctor of Medicine from Marquette University . In November , 1907 , Dr. Walter H. Neilson was again married , at which time Miss Bessie B. Jeffers became his wife. They have four living children : John M. C. , Robert A. , Mary L. and Charles Gordon . They lost one daughter , Elizabeth Margaret .

Dr. Neilson has ever possessed a social , genial nature which has found expression in his membership in the Milwaukee City Club , as well as in many other ways . He is also a member of St. Andrews Society , Academy of Arts , Sciences and Letters of Wisconsin , and the Archaeological Society of Wisconsin . He has long been a consistent member of the Presbyterian church ana for twelve years served as one of its elders . His interest in the church has never been of a lukewarm character but on the contrary has expressed itself in active service in the upbuilding of the church and in the ad vancement of the moral welfare of the community."19 
Death*12 September 1922Granville, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States13,7 
Witness: Bessie Belle Jeffers
Burial*September 1922East Granville Cemetery, Granville, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; This cemetery was demolished and the Neilson family was reburied in West Granville Cemetery.

"Source: The Milwaukee Sentinel Feb. 18 1954

ONE OF THE LAST members of the Neilson family to be buried at the little Methodist cemetery on the Good Hope Rd. at N. 43rd St. was Walter H. Neilson, M.D. 1857-1922.

Neilson is an important name in the history of Milwaukee medicine. It was this Dr. Neilson who founded Trinity Hospital and was one of the organizers of the Milwaukee Medical College which was to grow into Marquette's famous school of medicine.

His widow, who lives in Delafield, told us the doctor was born in Valcartier, Canada, near Quebec, and was of Scottish ancestry. His father brought him to the town of Granville at age of three when the father purchased a farm that is now part of Tripoli Golf Club.

The boy was raised on the farm and went to Granville Rural District No. 2 one-room school. He received his education in medicine at the Rush Medical College in Chicago. Then Dr. Neilson spent the rest of his life practicing and teaching medicine in Milwaukee. He is well-remembered for his work among the poor in the 2nd and 3rd Wards.

DR. NEILSON OWNED the farm on which the Byrnwood Country Club now is located. Mrs. Neilson says they always spent part of their summers there, living in the old colonial home which the Brynwood members used as a club house until they built a new one.

During these vacations they often visited the old cemetery, caring for the Neilson plot and others. Mrs. Neilson ways the last meeting of the cemetery board of directors was on Sept. 26, 1915. Since then, Mrs. Neilson relates, the people who have relatives buried there have sort of lost interest although she and a few others have been going out regularly to leave flowers and to do whatever they could to honor the memory of their dead.

A discouraging factor has been vandalism. Some years ago hoodlums pushed over a number of headstones and broke some beyond repair, since then nature has been busy trying to hide the desecration with grass and underbrush.

ON SEPT> 15, 1922, the proud, dignified, confident, 65-year-old Dr. Neilson arrived at his office early, as was his custom. AT 9 that morning he suffered an attack, coronary thrombosis, and died 12 hours later. The next day the following editorial appeared in the Sentinel: "In the light of current comment on the alleged decline of the medical practitioner of the old school, the career of Dr. Walter H. Neilson stands out as a shining example of the type of doctor who was a compound of science, charity and personal friendship.

"He infused into his work and daily routine the quality of human interest and made his name beloved by patients and students. When he took up his practice in Milwaukee 41 years ago, he at once made the most of such opportunities as he found in the city at the stage of its development, and perhaps opportunities for personal development in medical practice were more numerous before the advent of modern specialization.

"It is recorded that he soon became known among the poor as one of the medical Good Samaritans who seem to be wearing out their life in the service of mercy and yet miraculously live to a ripe old age.

"The same genial personality and fatherly interest, by the testimony of his students, was radiated in the classroom. As dean of the medical college which is now part of Marquette University, Dr. Neilson has a large share in shaping the careers of many medical men whose remembrance of his profession and personal guidance will long survive him as a living monument."

As we said at the beginning of this series, the little cemetery on the Good Hope Rd. may be neglected, but our memories of those who rest there will keep us from ever forgetting it.13
Neilson Plot in West Granville Cemetery, Wisconsin
Picture taken October 2021 by Dan Neilson

Citations

  1. "Hopper" was the name of Walter Hopper's maternal grandfather, Hopper Ireland.
  2. [S431] Web site: www.ancestry.com. Report in the Wisconsin Men of Progress by Andrew Aiken, Milwaukee, 1897.
  3. [S431] Web site: www.ancestry.com. Report in the Wisconsin Men of Progress by Andrew Aiken, Milwaukee, 1897, p. 177-8.
  4. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, Church of Scotland, Valcartier, 1857.
  5. [S431] Web site: http://www.linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/038b.php#walter
  6. [S501] 1870 U.S. Census, online www.ancestry.com, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Granville, p. 19.
  7. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929 [database on-line]. Listing for Walter Hopper Neilson, born 1857, died in Milwaukee on September 12, 1922.
  8. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., Marriages, 1838-1911 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. Original data:Milwaukee Public Library. Milwaukee Vital Records. Call Number: 929.3. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Listing of the marriage of Walter Hopper Neilson and Clara Thomas on December 29, 1881 in Silver Spring Town, Milwaukee County. Accessed 17 April 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/102747959/…
  9. [S505] 1920 U.S. Census, online www.ancestry.com, WI, Milwaukee Co., Granville, ED #4, p. 11B.
  10. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., Births, 1839-1911 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018.
    Original data:Milwaukee Public Library. Milwaukee Public Library. Call Number: 929.3. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Birth Registration #7029 for Dorothy Maude Neilson, page 61. Accessed April 16, 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/102747959/…
  11. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Wisconsin Births database.
  12. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., Births, 1839-1911 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018.
    Original data:Milwaukee Public Library. Milwaukee Public Library. Call Number: 929.3. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Birth Registration #5592 for William Davis Neilson, page 170. Accessed April 16, 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/102747959/…
  13. [S431] Web site: http://www.linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/038.php
  14. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., Deaths, 1854-1911 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. Death Registration for Clara Neilson, died 31 May 1906. Accessed 17 April 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/102747959/…
  15. [S431] Web site: Online From - The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 16, p.160. New York: James T. White & Co., 1918 at http://ia600506.us.archive.org/21/items/…
  16. [S844] Lieut. Col Jerome A. Watrous, Milwaukee County, Volume II, p. 727-8.
  17. [S435] E-mail Message. From Daniel Neilson, October 2021 to Patricia Balkcom. Sent photographs of the gravestones of the Neilson family in West Granville Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
  18. [S435] E-mail Message. From James Neilson to Patricia Balkcom, 18 April 2022.
  19. [S1481] William George Bruce, History of Milwaukee City and County, Volume 2, page 96. Accessed online at https://play.google.com/books/reader
  20. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index [database on-line].

Dr. Walter Ivan Neilson1

b. December 1917, d. 1973
Last Edited5 Sep 2020
ChartsDescendants of William Neilson
FatherHenry John Ivan Neilson1 b. 27 Jun 1865, d. 27 Apr 1931
MotherMatilda Anne Green1
Birth*December 1917Quebec County, Quebec, Canada1 
Burial*1973St. Andrew Presbyterian Cemetery, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada1 
Death*19731 

Citations

  1. [S878] Find a Grave, online www.findagrave.com, Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 September 2020), memorial page for Henry Ivan Neilson (1865–1931), Find a Grave Memorial no. 99586280, citing St. Andrew's Church Graveyard, Valcartier-Village, Capitale-Nationale Region, Quebec, Canada ; Maintained by Thomas F. Scully (contributor 46818179). Image of gravesite of Henry Ivan Neilson and two of his children.

Walter Rowland Neilson1,2

b. 8 August 1892, d. 1 November 1955
Last Edited23 Apr 2022
Relationship3rd cousin 1 time removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherDr. Walter Hopper Neilson2 b. 4 Sep 1857, d. 12 Sep 1922
MotherClara Thomas2 b. 13 Aug 1856, d. 31 May 1906

Family

 Genevieve Isabel Proctor b. 5 Jan 1892, d. 30 Sep 1975
Marriage*12 June 1915Genevieve Isabel Proctor; Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, United States5,6
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Saturday, June 12, 1915, page 2
Children 1.Proctor Thomas Neilson+8 b. 15 Jun 1917, d. 2 Sep 1958
 2.George Cornelius Neilson9 b. 1918
 3.David Rothwell Neilson9 b. 5 Sep 1921, d. c 1933
 4.Patricia Ruthven Neilson10 b. 1926, d. 11 Feb 2017
Birth*8 August 1892Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States2,3,4 
Marriage*12 June 1915Genevieve Isabel Proctor; Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, United States5,6
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Saturday, June 12, 1915, page 2
Death*1 November 19557,4 Witness: Genevieve Isabel Proctor
Burial*November 1955Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States; Section 477,4

Citations

  1. Rowland was the maiden name of his maternal grandmother.
  2. [S431] Web site: www.ancestry.com. Report in the Wisconsin Men of Progress by Andrew Aiken, Milwaukee, 1897, p. 177-8.
  3. [S504] 1900 U.S. Census, online www.ancestry.com, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Ward 6, p.5.
  4. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. Listing for Walter R. Neilson, born 8 Aug. 1892 and died 1 Nov. 1955.
  5. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Iowa, U.S., Select Marriages Index, 1758-1996. Listing for the marriage of Walter Roland Neilson and Genevieve Isabal Proctor, 12 June 1915, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. Accessed 17 April 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/…
  6. [S1482] The Gazette, June 12, 1915, 2, Accessed 23 April 2022 at https://www.newspapers.com/image/547625926/,0.07639372,0.16483882,0.27835724&xid=3398.
  7. [S431] Web site: Find a Grave.
  8. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Arizona, U.S., Death Records, 1887-1960 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Death Certificate for Proctor T. Neilson, died 02 September 1958, Tucson, Arizona. Accessed 23 April 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/102747959/…
  9. [S506] 1930 U.S. Census, online www.ancestry.com, Census Place: Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0405; FHL microfilm: 2342335. Listing for the family of Walter and Genevieve Neilson. Accessed 23 April 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/102747959/…
  10. [S1415] Newspapers.com, online https://www.newspapers.com, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Wednesday, September 1, 1976, p. 5, article entitled "Mrs. Walter Neilson". Accessed 23 April 2022 at https://www.newspapers.com/image/549972344/,0.071179815,0.50132334,0.23709431&xid=3355&ancestry=true.

William Neilson1

b. 2 December 1805, d. 7 July 1895
Last Edited20 Jul 2019
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherJohn Neilson3 b. 17 Jul 1776, d. 1 Feb 1848
MotherMarie Ursula Hubert2 b. 21 Oct 1781, d. 20 Jun 1866

Family 1

 Margaret Cassin b. 31 Oct 1813, d. 22 May 1853
Marriage License12 February 1830Margaret Cassin; Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Mr. Michael and Mrs. Margaret do agree and give consent to their daughter, Margaret...(rest is very hard to read)" This is a bond for marriage between William Neilson of Valcartier and Margaret Cassin.5 
Marriage*15 February 1830Margaret Cassin; Aubigny Church of England, Aubigny, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada6 
Children 1.Isabel Neilson+12 b. 8 Jan 1831, d. 21 Jan 1895
 2.William John Neilson12 b. 23 Jul 1833, d. 1 Aug 1834
 3.Cornelius Brown Neilson+12 b. 12 Aug 1835, d. 12 Aug 1918
 4.Agnes Janet Neilson+12 b. 26 Feb 1838, d. 5 May 1918
 5.Samuel Neilson+12 b. 10 Apr 1840
 6.Margaret Neilson+12 b. 3 May 1842, d. 1913
 7.Mary Ursula Hubert Neilson+12 b. 23 May 1844, d. 17 Dec 1929
 8.Elizabeth Laura Neilson+12 b. 27 Aug 1846, d. 12 Dec 1873
 9.William Neilson12 b. 22 Oct 1848, d. bt 1851 - 1861
 10.John Neilson12 b. 10 Nov 1850, d. 9 Jun 1855

Family 2

 Elizabeth MacAdams b. c 1833, d. 10 Jan 1911
Marriage*circa 1865Elizabeth MacAdams; I have not found the marriage, however, William is not married in the 1861 Census, but he is married in the 1871 Census.10 
George Moore Fairchild Sr. & William Neilson c1890
Take on northside of the Clarke Bridge in Valcartier
Used with permission of Sylvia Shcneider-Fairchild
Birth*2 December 1805Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; Was of Irish descent.4 
Christening23 December 1805St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "John Neilson of Quebec, printer, and his wife, Marie Ursula, had a son born on the 2nd instant and baptised this twenty-third day of December, 1805, named William.
Alex Spark, minister
J. Neilson, father
M. Neilson, mother
Chas. Roy
Henry Graham".4 
Marriage License12 February 1830Margaret Cassin; Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "Mr. Michael and Mrs. Margaret do agree and give consent to their daughter, Margaret...(rest is very hard to read)" This is a bond for marriage between William Neilson of Valcartier and Margaret Cassin.5 
Marriage*15 February 1830Margaret Cassin; Aubigny Church of England, Aubigny, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada6 
(Witness) Death1 August 1834William John Neilson; St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada7 
Residence*Margaret Cassin; St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; This is one of two houses that William and Margaret owned. This one is on the north side of the Jacques Cartier River on a road that is now called Rue Lewis. As one can see from the picture, it has fallen into disrepair.
William Neilson & Margaret Cassin House (taken 2008)
Land*1852St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; NEILSON, WILLIAM - 4th Concession - St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier
No. of acres owned: 400
Under cultivation: 150 (In 1851 - Under crops: 129; Under pasture: 20; Garden: 1)
Under wood or wild: 250
Wheat: 4 acres = 400 bushels; Pas: ¾ acre = 12 bushels;
Oats: 13 acres = 300 bushels; Buck Wheat: ½ acre = 12 bushels;
Potatoes: 7 acres = 600 bushels; Turnips: ½ acre = 100 bushels;
Hay: 3000 bundles; Wool: 50 lbs; Fulled Cloth: 50 yards.
Butter: 30 lbs; Cheese: 39 lbs; Beef: 4 cwt; Pork: 7 cwt.
Bulls, Oxen or Steers: 1; Milk Cows: 9; Calves or Heifers: 3;
Horses: 2; Sheep: 6; Pigs: 5.8 
(Witness) Death22 May 1853Margaret Cassin; St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada1 
(Witness) Death9 June 1855John Neilson; St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada9 
Residence*1860St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; This is one of two houses owned by William Neilson. It is now owned and managed by a religious order of Brothers. It is located just northwest of the St. Gabriel Church.
This is information about the house and what became of it, written by a religious brother (Mariste Frere) originally written in French. English translation is:
The William Neilson House:
This house that you are living in presently was built in 1860. It belonged to William Neilson born in Canada in 1804. He was originally Irish and married a Margaret Casson, also Irish descent in 1851. The Neilson couple had 9 children whose age varied 21 to 2 years.
William was Presbyterian and Margaret Catholic. Without a doubt for the good family understanding they alternated in the choice of religion for the children. The first baptized in the Catholic Church; the second in the Presbyterian and the following also.
The 10th of August 1888, William at 84 years made his will. He left to his second wife, Elizabeth Mac’ Adams, $30,000.00, a part of lot 131 and his house. To his children he left a total of $12,986.00 and some parcels of territory. Mr. William Neilson died the 7th of July 1895. His second wife died the 10th January 1911.
The house then passed to Cornelius, beloved son of William. He in turn sold it the same year, the lot 131 and the house to his brother (or nephew) Norman R. Neilson.
In 1924, Norman Neilson sold to Constance Neilson Fairchild the lot 131 and the house, for $3,000.00.
Three years later, in 1927, John Hebert Price bought the lot 131 and the house that belonged to William Neilson, also other neighboring properties. He built the Manoir situated on the higher ground in the years 1929-1930. He is bettering the place also in planting between others 20 elms of a large size at $1,000.00 per tree. He also built a chalet (possibly a summer residence) situated near the river.
Around 1933 or 34, The Donacona Company bought the majority of the places of Price Brothers and put up for sale this rich property valued at $400,000.00.
Celestin Simard, a merchant of Quebec, bought this domain in a liquidation sale for $15,000.00 in 1941and sold it the same year November 4th to Joseph Bastien. He in his turn gave it and the furniture to Valcartier 26th of the same month.
The 26th of January 1945, the Freres (Brothers) Maristes bought the property.
This House now carries the name of Villa St. Leon in Honor of one of the first brothers who lived there in 1945.
Frere Gabriel Bolduc, 04-06 -90
Majela Murphy tells me that they dug the earth from around the perimeter of the trees in the fall let it freeze and during the winter hauled them from the grounds which had been expropriated for the Valcartier camp to the site of the Neilson grounds for planting.
William Neilson & Margaret Cassin House (taken 2008)
William Neilson & Margaret Cassin Horse Barn (taken 2008)
Marriage*circa 1865Elizabeth MacAdams; I have not found the marriage, however, William is not married in the 1861 Census, but he is married in the 1871 Census.10 
Census*3 April 1871Elizabeth MacAdams; St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "William Nelson (sic), male, age 65, born Quebec, Scotch, married, Church of Scotland.
Elizabeth Nelson (sic), female, age 39, born Ireland, Church of England, married."11 
(Witness) Death12 December 1873Elizabeth Laura Neilson; St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada12,13 
Census*1881St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "William Neilson, married male, Scottish origin, age 76, born Quebec, Presbyterian. Living with him:
Elisabeth Neilson, married female, Irish origin, age 49, born Ireland, Church of England.
Annie McAdams, female, Irish origin, age 35, born Quebec, Church of England.
Ida Wolff, female, German, age 20, born Quebec, Church of England.
James Kerr, male , Scottish origin, age 64, born Scotland, servant, Presbyterian.
Louis Gros, widowed male, indigenous, age 62, born Quebec, servant, Catholic.14 
Witness: Elizabeth MacAdams
Witness: Ida Isabel Wolff
Witness: Annie McAdams
Will*10 August 1888St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; 10th August 1888
Last Will of William Neilson
Husband of Elizabeth MacAdams, widower of Margaret Cassin
From records of Notary Cyprien Labreque
No. 5851
Quebec Archives
Transcribed from the Original

The tenth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty eight, before us, Cyprien Labrèque and Pierre Édouard Émile Bélanger, Notaries Public for the Province of Quebec, personally came and appeared William Neilson of the Parish of St. Gabriel of Valcartier, in the County of Quebec, Esquire, Yeoman, who being in good bodily health and sound of mind and understanding as to us appeared by his manner and conversation, declared unto us the said Notaries that he desired to make his last will and testament which he hath requested us, the said Notaries, in the presence of the said Pierre Édouard Émile Bélanger, our confrère, have taken down as dictated to us by the said William Neilson word for word and as follows, namely:

The said Testator doth recommend his soul unto Almighty God and direct that his body be committed to the earth with decent and Christian burial at the discretion of his Executors hereinafter named and secondly as to the worldly estate with which it has pleased God to bless him, the said Testator doth give and devise, direct and dispose in respect thereof as follows, that is to say:

The said Testator doth hereby give and bequeath to his beloved wife Elizabeth MacAdams, the sum of twenty three thousand dollars of lawful money of Canada to be paid and raised out of his property and estate freely, to be possessed and enjoyed by her en pleine & entière propriété, from the day of his decease and for ever & also all and every sum or amount of money, that my said wife may or might have deposited at any bank or banks at Quebec or elsewhere in her name, which said sum or sums shall be her own & entire property, on the express condition that the said Elizabeth MacAdams, his said wife shall renounce to the communauté de biens that now exist between his said wife and himself, there being no marriage contract between them; and if she does not renounce to the said communauté, then & in that case the said Testator doth hereby order and direct that the said sum of twenty three thousand dollars and the said sums herein about mentioned which shall or might be deposited in her name at any bank or elsewhere hereby bequeathed to her, shall and will belong and revert to his children, male and female, issued of his marriage with the late Margaret Cassin, his first wife deceased, share and share alike from the day of his decease for ever.

The said Testator doth hereby also give and bequeath to his said wife Elizabeth MacAdams a part of the land one hundred and thirty one of the cadastral plan of the Parish of St. Gabriel of Valcartier, County of Quebec, in the Third Concession North East of the River Jacques Cartier, containing two acres in superficies, bounded as follows: on the North East and North West by the said lot one hundred and thirty one occupied by Mrs. K. Temple Fairchild, and on the South East and South West by the lot one hundred and thirty two occupied by Charles Stuart Wolff with the buildings thereon erected, circumstances and dependencies, together with the household furniture, goods, moveable effects, instruments of agriculture, horses, cows, sheep, and poultry, and all and every thing appertaining and belonging to the said Testator by her freely to be possessed and enjoyed en pleine et entière propriété from the day of his decease and forever.

The said testator declares that he has sold to Robert Ross, that certain lot or parcel of land, situated and being at the place called Belvedere in the Banlieu of the said City of Quebec & known as being the lot number seventy two (72) on the cadastral plan & Book of Reference for the Parish of St. Jean Baptiste de Québec for the price or sum of one thousand four hundred dollars as it appears by Deed of Sale passed before Mtre. P.E. Émile Bélanger, Notary Public, dated at Quebec the fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighty seven and registered at Quebec under No. 75782. That the said Testator has given to his said wife Elizabeth MacAdams the said sum of one thousand four hundred dollars paid for price of sale of the said above described lot, and that he dispenses his said wife to return to his estate or the said Communauté de biens , the said sum of one thousand four hundred dollars, willing on the contrary that the said Elizabeth MacAdams shall use & enjoy the said sum en pleine & entière propriété.

And as to the rest and residue of his property and estate moveable and immoveable of what nature soever and in what place so ever it may be situated after paying all expenses that may or might be sustained in recovering property or any other expenses that may occur, the said Testator doth hereby give, ordain & direct that it be divided as hereinafter directed amongst all his said children issued of his marriage with the said Margaret Cassin, share and share alike; hereby instituting them his said children, his universal residuary legatees.

And the said testator doth hereby declare that in as much as his said children have already received from him, in lands money, and effects, namely -

His daughter Isabel Neilson, wife of Charles Stuart Wolff has received from him in land, money, and effects to the amount of two thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.

His daughter Agnes Janet Neilson, wife of John Billings has received from him in money and effects to the amount of one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.

His son Cornelius Neilson has received from him in money and effects to the amount of two thousand and six hundred dollars.

His son Samuel Neilson has received from him in money and effects to the amount of two thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars.

His daughter Maria Ursula Hubert Neilson now widow of the late Hopper Ireland, junior, has received from him in lands and effects to the amount of two thousand five hundred & fifteen dollars.

His daughter Margaret Neilson, wife of John Reynolds, has received from him in money and effects to the amount of one thousand dollars.

His late daughter Elizabeth Laura Neilson, wife of Robert Ross, junior, has received from him in money and effects to the amount of six hundred and eighty six dollars.

And the said Testator doth hereby will and ordain that those of his said children who, as it appears as above mentioned, have received less than the others shall first take from the residue of his estate & property, an amount sufficient to equalize their shares with that of their brothers and sisters, as well as with the children issued of the marriage of the said Elizabeth Laura Neilson wife of the said Robert Ross, junior, and this being done, he doth hereby will and ordain that the then residue of his estate and property be equally divided among all his children as well a with the children of the said Elizabeth Laura Neilson wife of the said Robert Ross in such a manner that all his said children as well as the children issued of the marriage of Elizabeth Laura Neilson wife of the said Robert Ross, will be equally benefited by him, share and share alike.

And the said Testator doth hereby ordain and direct that in the event of the death of any of his said children before his decease, then and in that case the share of such of them that may die before the said Testator shall and will go and belong to the children issued of the marriage of any of his said sons and daughters that may die before the said Testator. The said Testator will and ordain that all his said children universal residuary legatees comply with all and every clauses & disposals of this his last will and testament, and moreover will and ordain that the one or those of his said residuary legatees who would refuse to comply with the said clauses & disposals of this his last will and testament or would refuse to execute one or more of his wills be, ipso facto excluded from his said estate & have no right to claim the legacy or legacies herein above bequeathed to him or them.

And for the execution of the present will and testament the said Testator doth hereby constitute and appoint his said wife Elizabeth MacAdams, Executrix, Cornelius Neilson, his son, and John MacAdams, Machinist, of the City of New York, United States, his Executors giving them power to prolong and carry the execution of this his said last will and testament beyond the term allowed by law, and until his views and intentions shall have been fully executed, hereby revoking all former wills, testaments & codicils that he may have made at any time heretofore by him, declaring the present to be his only true last will and testament.

This done and dictated word for word and published and declared by the said Testator as well for his last will and testament to and in the presence of us the said Notaries in the said City of Quebec under the number five thousand eight hundred & fifty one of the minutes of the said Cyprien Labrèque, Notary.

In faith and testimony whereof the said Testator hath signed his name and signature in the presence of us the said Notaries who have signed in his presence and in the presence of each other, these presents having been first duly read according to law.

Four marginal notes are good. Forty nine words erased are null.

William Neilson, his signature;
P.E. Émile Bélanger, N.P., his signature;
C. Labrèque, N.P., his signature

____________________________________

NOTE: Elizabeth MacAdams renounces [as specified in Paragraph 3 of the will] the Communauté de biens between her and her husband, William Neilson in the Notarial Act Number 2575 of the records of Notary P.E. Émile Bélanger dated September 9, 1895. She states no children issued of the marriage with William Neilson.

[Translated and transcribed by Gerry Neville]

Notes by Patricia Balkcom: Notes by Patricia Balkcom: William died in 1895, seven years after writing this will. His wife, Elizabeth MacAdams was about 25 years younger and he knew that she would probably outlive him by several years. He therefore set this will up to insure that his children from his first marriage would enjoy some of the fruits of his estate. William and his wife, Margaret Cassin, had 10 children. Two died as young children. His daughter, Laura, who he mentions in the will died in 1873 at the age of 27. Isabel, also mentioned in the will, died a few months before William. There was another son – William, born 1848, who is not mentioned in the will. It is possible that he died young also as he is not in the 1861 Census with the family.15 
Death*7 July 1895St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; John Neilson, a native of Scotland,
who came to Quebec before 1800. He was a prominent politician,
a man of broad charities, and a great friend and benefactor of the
Indians. He married Isabel Brown before he was twenty years of
age, and later became a member of Parliament and of the privy
council, and died in Quebec from disease contracted while ministering to the wants of the sufferers from Ireland.3,16 
Burial*10 July 1895St. Andrew Presbyterian Cemetery, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "William Neilson, of Valcatier, Co. Quebec, gentleman, son of the late John Neilson, aged 90 years, died on the seventh day of July, 1895, and was buried by me on the tenth of July, 1895 by me.
C.E. Dobbs, Minister of St. Andrews
Witnesses: John Neilson, H.I. Neilson."17 
Obituary*10 July 1895Quebec City, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; At Valcartier, on the 7th instant, William Neilson,
in his 90th year. Funeral from his late residence, Valcartier, to-day
(Wednesday), the 10th instant, at 2 p.m. Friends and acquaintances are
invited to attend.
Quebec Morning Chronicle, Vol. XLIX, No. 18,101, Wednesday, July 10,
1895. 
Anecdote*St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; From an email from Eric Corrigan: "Hi Pat. I came across this page of information I guess you could call it, about a property of William Neilson, and what became of it, written by a religious brother (Mariste Frere)
In French, I will include a translated version in this e-mail;
The William Neilson House:
This house that you are living in presently was built in 1860. It belonged to William Neilson born in Canada in 1804. He was originally Irish and married a Margaret Casson, also Irish descent in 1851. The Neilson couple had 9 children whose age varied 21 to 2 years.
William was Presbyterian and Margaret Catholic. Without a doubt for the good family understanding they alternated in the choice of religion for the children. The first baptized in the Catholic Church; the second in the Presbyterian and the following also.
The 10th of August 1888, William at 84 years made his will. He left to his second wife, Elizabeth Mac’ Adams, $23,000.00, a part of lot 131 and his house. To his children he left a total of $12,986.00 and some parcels of territory. Mr. William Neilson died the 7th of July 1895. His second wife died the 10th January 1911.
The house then passed to Cornelius, beloved son of William. He in turn sold it the same year, the lot 131 and the house to his brother (or nephew) Norman.
In 1924, Norman Neilson sold to Constance Neilson Fairchild the lot 131 and the house, for $3,000.00.
Three years later, in 1927, John Hebert Price bought the lot 131 and the house that belonged to William Neilson, also other neighboring properties. He built the Manoir situated on the higher ground in the years 1929-1930. He is bettering the place also in planting between others 20 elms of a large size at $1,000.00 per tree. He also built a chalet (possibly a summer residence) situated near the river.
Around 1933 or 34, The Donacona Company bought the majority of the places of Price Brothers and put up for sale this rich property valued at $400,000.00.
Celestin Simard, a merchant of Quebec, bought this domain in a liquidation sale for $15,000.00 in 1941and sold it the same year November 4th to Joseph Bastien. He in his turn gave it to furniture Valcartier 26th of the same month.
The 26th of January 1945, the Freres (Brothers) Maristes bought the property.
This House now carries the name of Villa St. Leon in Honor of one of the first brothers who lived there in 1945.
Frere Gabriel Bolduc, 04-06 -90
Majela Murphy tells me that they dug the earth from around the perimeter of the trees in the fall let it freeze and during the winter hauled them from the grounds which had been expropriated for the Valcartier camp to the site of the Neilson grounds for planting. Majella is now 83 but has a very good memory, he was born and lived about a mile from this place, so he is a good source of information I am sure he would be glad to share it."18 

Citations

  1. [S104] Michael Cassin Gravestone Photo, taken at unknown repository, unknown repository address.
  2. [S384] Letter, June Johnston to Patricia Balkcom, 19 June 2000.
  3. [S428] International Genealogical Index (IGI).
  4. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Quebec City, 1805.
  5. [S686] Neilson & Cassin Marriage Bond: Reference: RG 4 B28; Volume: 34-A; Bond Number: 1098; Date: 1830-02-12; Microfilm reel number: H-1130.
  6. [S507] Gerald Neville, Index of Baptisms.
  7. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, Church of Scotland, Valcartier, 1834.
  8. [S345] 1851 Census of Canada, online www.ancestry.com, Quebec, Valcartier.
  9. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, Church of Scotland, Valcartier, 1855.
  10. [S435] E-mail Message. Eric Corrigan, April 2007,.
  11. [S370] 1871 Census of Canada, Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Quebec, Quebec County, District 144 St. Gabriel-de-Valcartier, p. 13-14.
  12. [S194] Eric Corrigan, "Files of Eric Corrigan", Gedcom File.
  13. [S435] E-mail Message. From Gerry Neville. His source "Civil Register of Births, Marriages, and Deaths" at the Quebec City Archives.
  14. [S378] 1881 Census of Canada, online www.ancestry.com, Quebec, Quebec County, St. Gabriel-de-Valcartier East, p. 1, House #2.
  15. [S645] Will of William Neilson; Translated from the Original Will.
  16. [S844] Lieut. Col Jerome A. Watrous, Milwaukee County, Volume II, p. 727-8.
  17. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, Church of Scotland, Valcartier, 1895.
  18. [S435] E-mail Message. Eric Corrigan, April 2007,. The original document he translated was written by a religious brother, Frere Gabriel Bolduc on 4/06/1990.

William Neilson1

b. 22 October 1848, d. between 1851 and 1861
Last Edited20 Jul 2019
Relationship1st cousin 3 times removed of Patricia Ann Monogue
ChartsDescendants of Michael Cassin
Descendants of William Neilson
FatherWilliam Neilson1 b. 2 Dec 1805, d. 7 Jul 1895
MotherMargaret Cassin1 b. 31 Oct 1813, d. 22 May 1853
Birth*22 October 1848St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada2 
Baptism2 November 1848Church of Scotland, St-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec County, Quebec, Canada; "William Neilson, Esquire Valcartier and his wife, Margaret Cassin, had a son born on the 22nd day of October and baptised this second day of Novermber, 1848 by the name of William.
David Shanks, minister
William Neilson, father
Margaret Neilson, mother
Isabel Neilson, wit.
Helen Eaglesham, wit".2 
Death*between 1851 and 1861It appears that William may have died young as he is not listed in the 1861 Census with his father when he would have been 13 years old. 

Citations

  1. [S194] Eric Corrigan, "Files of Eric Corrigan", Gedcom File.
  2. [S436] Ancestry.com, online at www.ancestry.com, Drouin Database, Church of Scotland, Valcartier, 1848.