He married Mary Brooks 20 Jan 1837 in Glassford, Scotland, and they lived on Quay Street in Dumbarton, where James worked as a town, or burgh, officer.
James and Mary, and their eldest nine children, emigrated from Scotland to Quebec in approximately 1860. In the 1861 census of Canada, the family of nine children and three adults (including Mary's father John Brooks), all resided in a one story log house in Brome Township.
Three more children were born to James and Mary after they settled in Brome. In total, there were 12 children, including: John Edmond (1838), Jane (1842), James C. (1846), Margaret (1847), Alexander Hastie (1848), William (1851), George Gossip (1853), Mary Young (1855), Janet (1859), Jessie (1860), Arthur (1862), and Allen (1865).
He married Mary Brooks 20 Jan 1837 in Glassford, Scotland, and they lived on Quay Street in Dumbarton, where James worked as a town, or burgh, officer.
James and Mary, and their eldest nine children, emigrated from Scotland to Quebec in approximately 1860. In the 1861 census of Canada, the family of nine children and three adults (including Mary's father John Brooks), all resided in a one story log house in Brome Township.
Three more children were born to James and Mary after they settled in Brome. In total, there were 12 children, including: John Edmond (1838), Jane (1842), James C. (1846), Margaret (1847), Alexander Hastie (1848), William (1851), George Gossip (1853), Mary Young (1855), Janet (1859), Jessie (1860), Arthur (1862), and Allen (1865).
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