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Volume 6, Issue 15 - Feature #1279

Whittet's Make Another Connection...

Does anyone remember my grandmother Grace ward Smith? She once ran for mayor and lost by 6 votes. If you have pictures or stories or documents..please contact me. TracyAmazon@hotmail.com

- 2010-10-22 21:01:36

So far as I can tell all Whittets originate either in Scotland or England. The earliest in Scotland seem to go back to Dundee on the Firth of Tay east of Perth c 1500 but not long after that http://www.archive.org/stream/whittetafamilyr00unkngoog/whittetafamilyr00unkngoog_djvu.txt they are in Kintillo and Kin fauns and elsewhere around Perth and Lord Greys estate. ... See More There is a Whittets Ait on the Thames in Londown, a Whittet drive http://www.uisge.com/ud/glenmoray.html leading to the glenmoray scotch distillery and a passage about Whittets as an establishment in an Old English poem My ancestors were married on board ship as they embarked for the New World where they arrived about 1830 making their way to Detroit and later Sarnia in Lambton County Ontario where they were among the founders. From there the Whittets spread out to NY, MN, OK, KN, TC, CA, FL, MA, RI... you can get a good idea where by searching for whittet on Google maps. Margaret Cross Whittet b c 1810 wife of William Whittet b c 1804 whose sister Jane died at birth. They were the parents of Rowland Cross Whittet, my g grandfather. Margaret was the daughter of Henry Cross who was the forester of Kinfauns. http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/p-2081.jpg He married a second wife Ishbel Drummond of Methven in 1807 and died of Typhus in 1824 His surviving children were Henry, Jessica, Margaret, William, Charles, Rowland and George with Jane dying at birth and Belle and Rebecca Dying of the Typhus epidemic that killed their father. Rowland Cross, who was a jointer, married Mary McLean the daughter of John McLean who was living in St Clair. Margaret Cross married William Whittet who was the foreman of the farm laborers of the Kinfauns estate They were married on board the boat that took them to Detroit in 1834. From there they moved to a 100 acre lot in St Clair about a mile from John McLean where they were visited by Rowland Cross who ended up marrying Mary McLean. Moore Township WHITTET William Scot FC 56 Farmer b 1805 Margaret Scot FC 51 b 1810 Henry Ont FC 26 Labourer b 1835 William Ont FC 24 Labourer b 1837 Isabella Ont FC 22 b 1839 Jane Ann Ont FC 20 b 1841 Rowland Ont FC 19 Labourer b 1842 Margaret Ont FC 17 b 1843 Jessie Ont FC 15 b 1845 Elizabeth Ont FC 13 b 1847 Charles Ont FC 11 b 1849 Linus Ont FC 8 b 1851 McNIECE, John Albert, married 17 Apr 1872, to Jessie Cross Whittet. regards, Rowland Whittet

Rowland Whittet - 2010-01-16 09:42:30

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