The Robertson Family of Marshfield

FIRE ON THE OLD HAYTHORNE FARM

SERIOUS FIRE - We learn with much regret that all the outbuildings on the old Haythorne farm, at Marshfield, owned by Peter MacNair Robertson Esq., together with all his farming implements including valuable machines, also about 12 tons of hay, seed oats, wheat and straw, with 5 valuable calves were destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon last. Mr. Robertson was working but a few chains distant from the fire when it was discovered in the coach house, but he was unable to save anything and it was only with the active exertions of his neighbours that the dwelling house was saved. The farm was one of the best equipped in the country, and Mr. Robertson’s loss is about $4000, which is only partially covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown.

SOURCE Daily Patriot 21 May 1894. P3. Col 1. (See Properties and People S8 to 810.)

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James Robertson Sr. b. ca 1770, Blair Athol, Perthshire, Scotland, occupation shoemaker, m. 29 May 1795, in Perth, Scotland, Jean Miller, b. Methuen, Scotland, d. 1837. James d. 1842, Vernon River, both James and Jean are bur. Marshfield Pioneer Cem.

Children:

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Janet (Jessie) Robertson b. 2 Oct. 1796. James Robertson b. ca. 1797.

John Robertson d. very young in Scotland.

Alexander Robertson (Goose Pond)

b. 15 Aug. 1803.

Elizabeth “Betsy” Robertson

b. 11 Aug. 1804; (1. ca. 1816.

Peter Wallace Robertson b. 3 Sept. 1806. Margaret Robertson b. 30 Nov. 1808, m. Peter Forbes, b. 1810, d. 16 Oct. 1875, bur. Marshfield Pioneer Cem.

Jane Ann Robertson b. 1 May 1817,

m. 19 Oct. 1837, Robert Westacott,

b. Barnstaple, Devon, England, (1. USA. Jane (1. Jan/Feb. 1840.

Second Generation

Janet (Jessie) Robertson (1.James‘) b. 2 Oct. 1796, Perth, Scotland, m. 1820, Conrad Vickerson, (he was the son of George Vickerson and Anna Barbara J uncker/Younker) b. 6 Nov. 1791, Marshfield;' d. 27 Nov. 1871, Brownston Farm, Hermitage; Janet d. 23 Dec. 1874, Vernon River, Lot 49. Both Janet and Conrad are bur. Vernon River Methodist Cem.

Children:

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Jane Ann Vickerson b. 16 May 1822, Marshfleld; m. David McLure, b. 1819, Murray Harbour; occupation ship builder; (1. 1910. Jane d. 1 June 1910. Both Jane and David are bur. Murray Harbour North Cem.

George Conrad Vickerson, b. 24 April 1824, Marshfield; m. (1) Margaret Jane Hart, b. NS; d. 31 March 1857, m. 5 July, 1861 (2) Hannah Clark, b. Lot 37; d. 15 April 1901. George (1. 8 May 1884, Both George and Hannah are bur. Vernon River Methodist Cem.

Anna Barbara Vickerson, b. 25 Oct. 1825, Marshfield; m. Charles Hayden,

b. Midgell Mills.

James Vickerson b. 18 June 1827, Marshfield. James d. as an infant.