children: Earle, Minnie, Harold, Eleanor and Dorothy.

-Leitha (1861)

-Obediah (1863) married Priscilla Gom'll of Birch Hill, (see below)

-William (1867) married Mary Ann Penrose Newcombe (refer to Cindy Jones)

-Ge0rge Bruce (1873) married Janie Ellis.

-Colin (1876)

-Priscilla (1877)

—Arthur (1880) 1901 Census, section 2, page 21, family # 71 Obediah Ramsay married Priscilla Gorrill, daughter of John and Josephine (Hopgood) Gorrill of Birch Hill. It is said that Obediah stopped to pick Priscilla up in his horse and buggy, then they

went and got married without her parents knowledge or concent. They had twelve children:

-Lilla Belle (1896) married Donald MacLeod and had three children: Donald, Myrtle and James Clarence.

Josephine Elsie (1898) married Alex MacKinnon and had three children: Hazel, Russell and Henry.

-Lqu Blanche (1901) married Alexander MacLeod of Victoria West and they had seven children: Priscilla, Freda, Ramsay, Annie, Helen, Muriel and Leaman.

-Mary Ella (1903) married Roy Ford of Mount Pleasant and had 7 children: Henry, George, Robert, Lloyd, Ribekah (Betty), Gerald and Thomas.

—Bruce “Wallace” (1905) married Mary Enman and had seven children: Myrtle, Auldene Ada, Arthur, Victor, Ingham and Janie. Wallace died in a sawmill accident (1948).

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—Rubizel (1906) died at age 14 -Jenny “Ribekah” (Betty) (1907) married Arthur Walker and had (?) children: -Bernice (1910) married Bernard McInnis

—Hudson (1913) married Mary MacDonald and had three children: Fenton, Baxter and Joyce. Hudson was foreman of the Community Sport Center building

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