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We've been here now for ten years - with over 60,000 hits!
| This site was originally created in March 2000 with the hope of connecting with hitherto unknown family. Along the way, we discovered a myriad of genealogical resources for Port Hope and Hope Township (now the Municipality of Port Hope), Ontario, Canada, and began transcribing them for on-line searching. If you have any local resources you'd like to share, let us know! |  |
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While hoping that the resources listed below will be of use to you, we are also optimistic that presently-unknown relatives with the surname of...
- Bolton, Gray, Powell, Thomas (Buckinghamshire/Middlesex)
- Skitch, Peardon, Bailey, Harris (Cornwall/Devon)
- Nicholas (Yorkshire)
- Holloway (England)
- Kyle, Carse, Oliver, White (Northumberland, England)
- Currie (Argyll, Scotland)
- Monaghan, Mills, Beatty, McCleary, Campbell (Ireland)
- Frederick, Rush (Loyalists from New Jersey)
- Greenleaf (Bergen Co., New Jersey)
- Marshall, O'Connell (Quebec)
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| ...will browse through our lineages pages, recognize a connection and get in touch. We have now met forty-nine cousins! |
We've set up a page where you can list the local surnames you're researching. Send us your information and hopefully you'll be able to connect with one of YOUR relatives!
Updated 04 Mar with a BEST researcher... |
| Note: We are building a local family history section at the Port Hope Public Library and we'll be most pleased to receive any published information you might have on your lineage. Hard copy material will go onto the shelves and electronic files will be entered into the computer resources. We hope to hear from YOU! |
| These are the electronic ones we've received to date. They have been edited to exclude the names of living people. The Port Hope Library has the complete files as submitted. |
| Note: I am currently at the Port Hope Library on Monday morning from 10AM to noon (transcribing the vital statistics information from the microfilmed copies of the 1967 Evening Guide) and at the Port Hope Archives on Friday morning, should you like to discuss your research. As there will be occasions when I'm not there, please contact me before you come. |
We're looking for further information on L/Cpl. (60656) Adam Buraczewski. According to the St. Mary's burial records, he was born in Adamic, Poland on 04 Jan 1910. He served during WWII as a member of the Polish 2nd Corps (5th Kresowa Infantry Division) and was awarded the Monte Cassino Cross. Following the war, he worked on Stan Sochaj's (Sockay) tobacco farm near Osaca, Ontario. He remained there, when Casimer Zuber took over the farm, until his death on 25 Aug 1982. He is buried in the Veterans' plot of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery. To date, no family has been located. Any help is greatly appreciated.
| Port Hope and Hope Township Resource Materials |
| Speed up your browsing of our 191 pages with this site search engine. As spelling varies considerably on many of the earlier documents, you might still want to do some manual searching. As well, the engine doesn't search the above personal family files (*.pdf, *.doc, etcetera) that people have sent us. |
| Census |
The following census (and related) materials are available for online searching:
- Crown Deeds of Hope Township
- Elias Smith's 1799 Hope Township report
- Augustus Jones' 1799 Hope Township report
- 1801-1806 Port Hope/Hope Township Oaths of Allegiance
- 1802-1807 Hope Township tax assessment rolls indices
- 1803-1851 Hope Township census indices
- 1842-1847 Hope Township assessment records indices
- 1847 Port Hope assessment index
- 1851 Canada East/Canada West/NB/NS census returns
- 1861 Port Hope/Hope Township census indices
- 1871 Port Hope/Hope Township census returns
- 1881 Canada census returns
- 1891 Port Hope/Hope Township census returns
- c1898 Port Hope Bell Telephone Directory
- 1900 Port Hope Bell Telephone Directory
- 1901 Canada census returns
- 1911 Canada census returns
- 1913 Port Hope assessment record
- 1920 Hope Township voters' list (with a township map)
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| We have access to the following resources, which we can't put online due to file size and/or copyright constraints, but for which we'll be glad to honour requests for information: |
- The 1856 Port Hope Business Directory, the first directory specifically for Port Hope, containing names and members of local organizations, lists of business owners and dozens of advertisements;
- The 1902 R.G. Dun Mercantile Agency Reference Book, covering Durham County businesses' value and credit; and
- Glen C. Phillips' The Ontario Photographers List: Vol. I (1851- 1900) and Vol. 2 (1901-1925), including a list of Port Hope photographers - a helpful aid when trying to date ancestral studio photographs.
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| Vital Statistics |
| An index of births, marriages and deaths as reported in the 1832-1967 Port Hope newspapers. Updated 11 Mar... |
| A partial list of 133 baptisms (1854-1884), which Laurie Winter transcribed during family research, from the registers of Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church (Port Hope). |
| The 148 baptisms (1875-1914) recorded in the Garden Hill Presbyterian Church register and transcribed by Walt Sammis, added to our resources with the kind permission of the United Church Minister, Reverend William Service. |
| Bernadine Dodge, Trent University Archivist, has graciously allowed us to list the Port Hope/Hope Township extractions from these four holdings in the Archive's extensive collection, beginning with this listing of 273 births (1869-1872), taken from the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham Vital Statistics fonds (#83-016). |
| A listing of 238 Port Hope/Hope Twp. marriages (1869-1872), extracted from the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham Vital Statistics fonds (#83-016). Also included are several recently-discovered marriage entries in the 1825-1848 range. |
| Extracts from the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham Vital Statistics Additions fonds - 1838-1855 (#84-004), consisting of baptism records, marriage lists and burial lists. The transcription maintains the original spelling - except where known errors have been corrected - so it would be advisable to manually check the database in addition to using the search engine. |
| A listing of 260 Port Hope/Hope Township inquests taken from the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham Court Records fonds - 1832-1914 (#84-020). As this transcription also maintains the original spelling, you should manually search the database. 1913-1914 added 02 Mar... |
| Local "Family Bible" data |
CemSearch - an ever-enlarging database of interments (372,000 as of 05 Aug 2009). Information is also provided about the local cemeteries.
Simpson Memorials (Port Hope) has a web page showing the location of the area cemeteries. |
| A lot map for Zion United Church Cemetery (1839-1972), located in Hope Township on Con. 3, Lot 31, contributed by Robert Symons |
| 116 death/funeral notices from 1861-1916 |
| Local funeral home records - dating from 1864 |
| Elizabeth Hancocks, of Generation Press, has graciously given permission to list the Port Hope/Hope Township entries from her book, Surrogate Court Index of Ontario, Canada (1859-1900) Volume 4, Northumberland and Durham Counties. |
| The Port Hope Archives holds a collection of 1,161 probates (1821-1997), mostly of area residents. Copies can be obtained from the Archives. Updated 05 Feb ... |
| Military |
| 1st Regiment of the Durham Militia (15 Dec 1837) |
| 1st-6th Durham Battalions of the Militia of Canada (1847) |
| 1st Battalion of the Durham Regiment of Militia (1856) |
| Port Hope Light Infantry Volunteer Company (01 May 1866) |
| Photograph of the 46th Battalion band, taken at the Commons, SE of the viaduct (1869) |
| Photograph of the Fenian Raid veterans of the 46th Battalion of Port Hope (c1870) |
| With the Midland Battn.
during the North West Rebellion of 1885 - a personal diary written by William E. Young |
| List of Officers of the 136th Durham Overseas Battalion (15 May 1916) |
| List of Appeals - decisions of the Appeal Tribunal in Port Hope and Hope Township cases (25 Jan 1918) |
| List of Hope Township WWI soldiers (24 Dec 1918) |
Book of Remembrance: Local Participants in the Great War (1914-1918). Only two copies of this 1919 book were made, both now located at the Port Hope Archives. This modified transcription includes photographs, submitted by the families of those who lost their lives, on permanent display at the Town Hall.
Note: In 2007, as a fund-raiser for the Port Hope Archives to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge, Barbara and I had the privilege of working on the re-issue of the Book of Remembrance (500 copies) with updated information, the soldiers' photographs, letters home from the Front as published in the local newspaper, and additional photographs from the Archives' collection. Please contact us for further information. Once these are sold, it's unlikely that there will be a second printing.
| As a companion to the Book of Remembrance, we've indexed 136 letters written home from the WWI front and published in the local newspaper. Many of these were used in the 2007 reprint above. Updated 24 Feb... |
| Miscellaneous Historical |
| Letters, diaries and logs penned by residents of the Port Hope area (dating from 1819), including the 1890 log of Sylvan Glen Camp |
| A description of area travel and its costs in 1825 |
| Early Council: the Chief Magistrates of Port Hope from 1834 to the present day (a work in progress) Updated with a photo of George Bennett: 11 Feb... |
| Members of the Port Hope Board of Police (1843) |
| A rare photo of several Great Lakes captains living in Port Hope in 1885 |
| Thanks to Marcia, gggggranddaughter of Louis Bertolotto, we are now convinced that the "L. Bertolotto" of 1830s London, England, flea-circus fame is the Louis Bertolotto buried in Port Hope's Union Cemetery (1887). As there are reportedly three enlarged photographs somewhere, we would like to hear from anyone with information about the location of these pictures. We have also provided a link to Walt Noon's site, containing everything you ever wanted to know about flea circuses! |
| A newspaper article (1889) listing 495 local citizens who had emigrated from the area, mostly to the United States |
| A listing of the 1891 Port Hope Fire Brigade members |
| Portions of the Port Hope Model High School Register (1891-'92) and the complete Training Register (1884-1904) for those in teacher training |
| Three newspaper articles describing the local I.O.O.F. Decoration Day services (1918, 1923 and 1926) |
| A transcription of the original 1930 programme for a local amateur production of the musical, Page the Prince |
| Sources of Information |
| The Port Hope Archives is located in the refurbished former County Registry Office at the foot of Walton Street and is a constantly-enlarging source of information. Donations of local documents and photographs are welcomed. |
| The Port Hope Public Library has a considerable number of resources, including microfilms of the available census returns and newspapers. The Ancestry (Library Edition) databases have been newly-added and can be accessed at the library. |
| The Cobourg and District Historical Society Archives has a number of interesting items relating to Port Hope's past. |
| Garnet Clayton's site features a considerable amount of Port Hope material, much of it gathered by his late father and local historian, Cal Clayton. |
| Sites we've found particularly useful for our own research. |
While happy to search out and transcribe local resources for this site, we simply haven't the time to fill requests for photocopies of births, marriages, obituaries and census returns. However, this service is available at the Port Hope Public Library for a nominal cost.
(Note: if the page/column indicated is in the latter pages of the newspaper - 4/4 or 8/2 for example - it's likely a typical BMD announcement with little detail beyond that which we've recorded online.)
Please let us know if some link isn't working.
Happy searching...and good luck!
 Barbara Kyle and Peter Bolton, UE
Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
hunter@nhb.com
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