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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. James Wright Ham: Birth: 17 APR 1843 in Rawdon Tp., Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. Death: 26 SEP 1913 in Limerick Tp., Hastings County, Ontario, Canada

  2. Elizabeth Ham: Birth: 29 SEP 1844 in Rawdon Tp., Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. Death: 3 JUN 1913 in Stirling, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada

  3. Thomas Sine Hamm: Birth: 13 OCT 1846 in Rawdon Tp., Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. Death: 31 OCT 1902 in Tudor Tp., Hastings County, Ontario, Canada

  4. Phoebe Jane Ham: Birth: 1 OCT 1848 in Rawdon Tp., Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. Death: 5 APR 1924 in Springbrook, Rawdon Tp., Hastings County, Ontario, Canada

  5. Susanna Ham: Birth: 1850 in Rawdon Tp., Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. Death: 16 JUL 1881 in Rawdon Tp., Hastings County, Ontario, Canada

  6. Mary Jane Hamm: Birth: 6 DEC 1852 in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. Death: 1 AUG 1890 in Rawdon Tp., Hastings County, Ontario, Canada


Notes
a. Note:   rother of Polly Wright.
  Source: Joan Hamm- letter in her possession - According to rumour, Polly was disowned by her family (not pleased with her marriage). She taught school in St. Ola and was known to young and old as Aunt Polly. The school was an old log building, the foundation was on the corner of the cemetery.
  http://www.township.limerick.on.ca/history.htm The first school house was called Hamm’s school which is school section 4 near what is known as Ham’s Corners, and was a log school and stood in the south-west corner of the old cemetery and John Ballard was the teacher.
  1861 Census Records, Hastings County, Film C1033, Hamilton Public Library, 141 - Rawdon Tp., Dist. 2, pg. 22, line 13 - Mary Ham, age 37, married, born Canada, Religion E. Methodist, age 37. Listed with her husband & 6 children.
  1871 Census Records, 62 - Hastings County North, Film C9994, Hamilton Public Library, G2 - Limerick Tp., pg. 12, line 1, Mary Ham, widow, age 47, born Ontario, E. Methodist, Origin-English. Listed with her two sons, daughter, daughter-in-law, & William Gillman, age 8.
  1881 Census Records, 122 - Hastings County North, Ontario, Film C13238, Hamilton Public Library: C3 - Rawdon Tp., pg. 6, Mary Ham, Age 57, born Ontario, Religion E. Methodist, Origin German, Widow. Listed with married daughter, Mary Jane & Jacob Kemp.
  1891 Census Records, Hastings County, Ontario, Film T6343, Hamilton Public Library: M5 - Rawdon Tp., pg. 22, Polly Ham, Age 67, born Ontario, Religion Methodist. Listed with her widowed son-in-law, Jacob Kemp, & her seven grandchildren.
  Ontario Death Register#011357 - Polly Wright, 75 yrs old, Con. 2 Lot 16 Limerick Tp., born Sidney Ont., died of a paralytic stroke, informant was James W. Ham
  http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/greenwoodontario/StOla2.html- St. Ola Cemetery- WRIGHT:- Polly - Died Apr. 25, 1899 - Aged 75 yrs 3 mos - Spouse William HAM
  Tombstone photo: http://www.gravemarkers.ca/ontario/centont/hastings/limerick/st_ola/ham1.jpg
Note:   Peter Wright, buried in the St. Ola Cemetery, and born in 1830, was the b


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