POLL BOOK (VOTERS' LIST), December 24, 1866
United Municipalities of Denbigh, Abinger and Ashby
Transcribed by Kate Mundell.
Background: This holograph early poll book, written in fading ink on blue paper, is too fragile to flatten for microfilming. In this pioneer period, nearly all property owners would have been grouped along the settlement trails, in this case the future "Addington Road" now known as Regional Road 41. The interest in the area for German settlers is already apparent.
At the turn of the last century, sources commonly referred to these settlers as "from the Rhineland". Michael Umpherson has pointed out that the term "Rhineland" was possibly a generic term for "Germany" for those oldtimers. Michael has learned that many of the early German immigrants to Denbigh came, not from the Rhineland (which is in western Germany) but from the old province of Silesia (Schlesien) in the furthest east portions of Prussia. Today the Silesia area is part of Poland. To further complicate matters, one or two families apparently came from central areas of Germany. We are grateful to Michael Umpherson for pointing out that we should take references to "the Rhineland" and "Rhinelanders" in the old records with a grain of salt!
DENBIGH VOTERS, 1866
Bartsh, Gustav
Bebee, E. C. - Elected councillor for 1867
Blakely, Alex
Byrns, John
Cassilman F.
Clark, B. - Elected councillor for 1867
Conner, Robert
Conner, Wm.
Copelin, Thos.
Cowan A.
Crankshaw, E. N.
Crankshaw, Isaac - Elected councillor for 1867
Crookshank, Andrew
Dogg, John
Doig, C.
Eno, John
Finch, John
Fritch, Godfrey
Grant, James
Greer, Wm.
Gregg, John
Hames, William
Holmes, J.
Hughs, David (Clerk and Returning Officer)
John, Augustus
Kenyon, C. M. - Elected Reeve for 1867
Kenyon, Willm.
Lane, James*
Lane, John
Lane, William
Livingston, David
Livingston, W. J.
Malory, Elisha
Malory, Wallace
Marlin, R.
Marquardt, Joseph
McCann, Owen
Nery, John
Newman, Charles - Elected councillor for 1867
O'Neil, Dennis
Peholka, Frederick
Petzold, William
Radal, Gothart
Reid, L.
Roark, James
Roark, Saml.
Spenser, Chas. T.
Spranklin, J.
Sweetman, G. W.
Switzer, D.
Thompson, John
Vama, Thomas
Vantassel, F.
Waddington, David
Wensley, E.
Wickwire, A. P.
Wickwire, L. P.
Wickwire, William
Youmans, David
* James Lane was elected Reeve, but was given "Notice to him and to the Electors that he was disqualified by Selling Liquor on his premises in 1861."
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