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Robert Gordon Kilpatrick (1851–1929) of Prescott, Canada West

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A merchant tailor’s shop. Vintage illustration in the Public Domain. Online at archive.org (accessed 17th Nov. 2023).

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Birth at Prescott :

Robert Gordon Kilpatrick was born on 23rd December 1851, in the town of Prescott in Grenville County, Canada West. 1 Just four years before, his family had completed a harrowing sailing across the Atlantic, fleeing the Irish famine and losing three family members en route. Robert was the seventh, and last, child of Samuel Kilpatrick (c.1810–1894) and Jane McKay (c.1806–1886). He was also the only child born to Samuel and Jane in Canada: his siblings were born and raised in Lislea townland in the parish of Kilrea, county Londonderry. Further, Robert Gordon was the sole surviving son: his namesake, Robert, was born in Ireland in 1835, but had died in 1841 at the age of five years. His two other brothers, Willie John and Adam, had perished as wee infants during the sailing. 2

We can imagine Jane McKay’s surprise in early 1851 when she learnt that a wean was to be expected by year’s end. Jane was well into her mid-forties. During the four years since they had flitted from Ireland, the family had adjusted to life in the northeastern reaches of Canada West. It seems probable that they had recovered a state of stability and equanimity in their daily routines, and were reasonably well nourished—conditions conducive to conception late in life.

Robert Gordon’s family :

When Robert Gordon was born, one wonders if a certain burden of expectation fell upon him as the sole surviving son. Robert’s father, Samuel, was then forty-eight years old and worked as a labourer. Three sisters still lived at home: Mary (1837–1887), Saragh Jane (1839–1901), and Margaret (1842–c.1871). The family lived in a small, wood frame house on the north side of James Street in Prescott, halfway between Centre and Edward streets. Their nearest neighbours were, to the west, William Robinson, a carpenter from England, and to the east, Mrs. (Ann) McDonell or McDonald. 3 Grenville College, a Roman Catholic institution housed in an elegant stone building with a large arched gateway, graced the property across the street from the Kilpatricks’ humble house. 4

Round the corner, the family attended St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church at the intersection of Dibble and Centre streets. The church had just been rebuilt as a stone structure to replace the small frame church. Their minister, and founder of the Presbyterian congregation in Prescott, was the Rev. Robert Boyd, M.A., D.D., of Craig in county Antrim. 5 His early 19th century Presbyterian inclinations, together with services intoned in the softer Scots-influenced accent of the north of Ireland, would have been at once familiar and a balm to the Kilpatrick family in a foreign land. 6

During the late 1850s, young Robert would have received only an elementary education at one of the six Common Schools in the town: schools runs by John Dempsey, Will Speller, Joseph Dickey, Richard Ballard, Mary Kelly, or Caroline Foster. 7 These schools probably taught the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic, and children would have attended for just three to five years.

In 1858, Robert’s sister, Mary, married a county Antrim man, Archibald McLister. 8 Two sons were born in Canada, Robert and William John, after which Archie and Mary removed to Summit County, Ohio in the United States during the early 1860s. 9 , 10 , 11

In 1866, Robert’s sister, Margaret, married a county Down man, David Ferguson, who was living in Augusta township. 12 Sadly, Margaret died sometime during the next five years. 13 Complications of childbirth were the likely culprit. To date, neither a record of death nor a burial have been found for Margaret Ferguson née Kilpatrick or a child of the marriage.

1861 census of Canada West at Prescott :

  • Samuel Kilpatrick, carter, born in Ireland, Church of Scotland, age 45 [born c.1815], male, married
  • Jane Kilpatrick, born in Ireland, Church of Scotland, age 54 [born c.1807], female, married
  • Sarah Kilpatrick, do. [ditto.], 18, female, single
  • Margret Kilpatrick, do., 16, ditto.
  • Robert Kilpatrick, born in Upper Canada, Church of Scotland, 9, male, single
  • Mary McLeister,† born in Ireland, Church of Scotland, 22, female, married. †This was Samuel’s and Jane’s second daughter, who by 1861 had married Archibald “Archie” McLister. 14
  • Rob’t McLeister [son of Mary and Archie McLister], born in Upper Canada, Church of Scotland, 2, male, single
  • census place: Prescott, County of Grenville, Canada West; in a 1-1/2 storey frame house with 1 family living therein. 15

1871 census of Canada, at Prescott :

The 1871 census recorded Robert’s occupation as clerk which, in those days, meant working as a writer in a legal firm, a bookkeeper in accountancy, or a shop sales clerk:

  • Samuel Kilpatrick, male, 60 [born c.1811], born in Ireland, religious denomination: Canadian Presbyterian, Irish, occupation: carter
  • Jane Kilpatrick, female, 62 [born c.1809], born in Ireland, Canadian Presbyterian, Irish
  • Robert Kilpatrick, male, 19, born in Ontario, Canadian Presbyterian, Irish, occupation: clerk
  • Robert McLister, male, 12, born in Ontario, Canadian Presbyterian, Irish
  • census place: Prescott, Ontario. 16

1881 census of Canada, at Prescott :

In 1881, Robert’s occupation was recorded as “taylor,” while in later censuses his occupation was enumerated as a tailor’s cutter, which was a specialist position in the trade:

  • Samuel Kilpatrick, male, married, age 70 [born c.1811], Irish, born in Ireland, occupation: carter, religious denomination: C. Presbyterian
  • Jane Kilpatrick, female, married, 80 [born c.1801], born in Ireland, C. Presbyterian
  • Sarah J. Kilpatrick, female, single, 35, ditto., do. [ditto].
  • Robert Kilpatrick, male, single, 26 [born c.1855], do., do., occupation: taylor [sic]
  • census place: Prescott, Grenville South, Ontario 17
Measuring rule for a tailor's cutter, the vocation taken up by Robert Gordon Kilpatrick.

Survey of tailors in Prescott in 1881 :

A survey of tailors and clothing dealers in the town of Prescott shows that Robert had several opportunities for employment:

  • Miles Burns, an Irishman aged sixty-five;
  • Albert Davis, a 47-year-old merchant taylor from the U.S., and his brother, George;
  • William H. Dunn, merchant taylor, a young man of Robert’s age;
  • John Smith, another American, of middle years;
  • Gordon Allan, a Scotsman;
  • David Barr; John Goligher, an older Irishman;
  • Joseph Haynen, a merchant tailor from Ireland; 18
  • George and Albert Davis, who were natives of Pelham, Massachusetts, traded as clothing dealers in Prescott; 19
  • Joseph Haynen, an Irishman from county Down, also ran an extensive tailoring business in Prescott; 20
  • William H. Dunn had a workshop and retail outlet in a stone house in the middle of town, and even served as mayor of Prescott for a couple of years in the 1870s. 21 , 22

marriage to Sarah Selina Huggins at Port Hope :

Sometime after 1881, Robert moved to Port Hope, Ontario. On 30th August 1883, Robert Gordon Kilpatrick and Sarah Selina Huggins were married by the Rev. S.H. Eastman, Presbyterian minister of St. Andrew’s Church in Oshawa. Witnesses included Thomas Wallace, of Oshawa, and Catherine Huggins, Sarah Selina’s sister. 23

From 1883-85, Robert and Sarah attended St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Peterborough. Their son, Albert Samuel, was baptised there on 14th January 1886. 24

Robert Gordon and Sarah Selina tour Ontario & the western provinces :

Robert Gordon and Sarah Selina then commenced a rather frenetic tour across central Canada and the western provinces. Their various and oft-changing domiciles are revealed in the years and places of the births of their children, interleaved with other family events and census data:

  • 1884 : Port Hope, Ontario – birth of Margaret Jane; 25 , 26
  • 1885 : Peterborough, Ontario – birth of Albert Samuel; 27
  • 1886 : St. Thomas, Ontario – a brief domicile from April 1886, with Robert Gordon’s parents joining the household. The family lived at no. 54 Flora street, while R.G. worked as a tailor’s cutter for J. Smithers. 28 During this period, Robert Gordon’s mother, Jane McKay, died in her eighty-first year, when the family were living at no. 86 St. Catherine Street. 29 , 30 Robert Gordon left his father, Samuel Kilpatrick, then aged about seventy-six years, and his sister, Saragh Jane, forty-eight years, in St. Thomas. Either at Robert Gordon’s and Sarah Selina’s departure, or soon afterwards, Samuel and his daughter, Saragh, were committed to the care of the Thomas Williams Home on Walnut Street in St. Thomas. 31 The Thomas Williams Home was operated by the Ladies’ Benevolent and Temperance Society of St. Thomas, and their mission was to provide a home for residents of the town who were sick or destitute. 32
  • 1887 : Fort Garry, near Winnipeg, in the province of Manitoba – birth of Robert Edwin, 33 , 34 , 35 and death of Albert Samuel; 36
  • 1890 : Brandon, Manitoba – birth of Stephen Douglas. 37 , 38
  • 1891 : Victoria, British Columbia – where Robert Gordon worked as a tailor for Daniel Campbell, merchant tailor, at no. 88 Government street (nearly opposite Trounce Alley) and the family lived at no. 11 Third street near King and Bay streets. 39 Either late in 1891 or very early in 1892, Robert was cutting fabric for tailors out of a house or workshop shared with L.F. Wallenstein, an upholsterer, at no. 21 Green street.
1891 Fire Insurance Map of Victoria (part), British Columbia. Source: Goad, Charles E., C.E. An Atlas of Street Maps of Victoria, B.C. Fire Insurance Plans. Original record held by the Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria. Digital images hosted online by the University of Victoria (B.C.) Library vault.library.uvic.ca (accessed 17th Nov. 2023). — Note: The entire district which used to comprise First through Third streets is now occupied by shops and parking spaces, while Fourth street has become the multi-lane Blanshard street. Third Street has been reduced to a driveway through a parking lot beside shops, a small shopping mall, and a restaurant. A fast food outlet operates where the house at no. 11 Third Street stood long ago.

1891 census at Victoria, British Columbia :

  • R.G. Kilpatrick, male, age 38, married, born in Ontario, both parents born in Ireland, Presbyterian, occupation: Cutter, employee/wage earner, [whether R.G. could read and write was obscured by shadow or ink]
  • Sarah, female, 34, married, wife, born in England, both parents born in Ireland, Presbyterian, reads and writes
  • Margaret, female, 7, daughter, born in Ontario, father born in Ontario, mother born in England, Presbyterian, does not read and write
  • Robert, 3, son, born in Manitoba, ditto., …
  • Stephen, 1, son, ditto., …
  • census place: house inhabited in Johnson Street Ward (ref. W 2/7), Victoria, British Columbia 40

Why did the family lead such an itinerant life? During their peregrinations around Ontario and out west, had Robert been pursuing a dream of opening his own merchant tailor’s shop? or chasing employment as a regimental tailor for the army in Manitoba? tailoring for workers on the railway that was opening up across Canada and otherwise staying out the daily tedium of working in the clothing factories? dodging creditors mayhap? or was it simply that Robert Gordon found it difficult to hold a job?

Removal to Toronto :

Sometime during 1891-92, Robert Gordon [R.G.] and Sarah Selina removed from British Columbia to Farley Avenue in Toronto, 41 though the family moved frequently within the city, with R.G. changing jobs at about the same frequency, before finally settling at no. 269 Berkeley Street in 1909.

Typically, a city directory published in a particular year was based on information compiled the year before. The directories for the city of Toronto recorded the family’s several domiciles and Robert Gordon’s frequent changes in employment:

  • 1893 – Robert Gordon was employed as a [tailor’s] cutter, and the family lived at no. 290 Adelaide street west. 42
  • 1894 – R.G. worked as a cutter for Wilkie Collins’ dry goods at no. 1184 Queen street, while the family lived at no. 13 Delaney crescent in the near west end. 43
  • 1895 – R.G. continued working at Wilkie Collins’ shop, but the family moved to 433 Dufferin street. 44
  • 1896 – Robert G. worked as a salesman for Christopher Martin & Co., in clothing and gentlemen’s furnishings, at 153 King street east at the corner of West Market, and the family lived at 36 Sydenham street, at the intersection with Poulette street, 45 but at 410 Wilton avenue when son, Alfred William, was born. 46
  • 1897 – Robert G. continued working as a salesman, and the family stayed on at 410 Wilton avenue. 47
  • 1898 – Robert G. returned to cutting as a trade, and the family removed to 436 Sumach. 48
  • 1899 – Ditto. 49
  • 1900 – Robert Gordon was by J. Patterson & Co. as a clothing salesman on Lisgar Avenue, and the family lived at no. 3 Briggs Avenue.
  • 1901 – The Kilpatricks stayed on at no. 3 Briggs Avenue though the 1901 directory did not record Robert Gordon’s employer and place of occupation. 50

1901 Census :

By 1901 Robert Gordon and Sarah Selina had been in Toronto nearly ten years. The enumeration of their household in the federal census follows:

  • G. Robert [sic] Kilpatrick, head, married, date of birth: 21st Dec. 1851, age: 49, occupation: clothing sailsman [sic], religious denomination: Presbyterian
  • Sarah, wife, married, born 28th Dec. 1856, age 44, Presbyterian; born in England, emigrated to Canada in 1880 [s/b 1875]
  • Maggie, daughter, single, born 21st May 1884, age 16, Presbyterian, born in Ontario (rural)
  • E. Robert [Robert E.], son, single, born 28th Nov. 1887, age 13, Presbyterian, born in Ontario (rural) [s/b Manitoba]
  • D. Steavon [Stephen D.], son, single, born 12th Jan. 1890, age 11, Presbyterian; born in Ontario (rural) [s/b Manitoba]
  • S. John [John S.], son, single, born 23rd Jan. 1892, age 9, Presbyterian; born in Ontario (urban)
  • Cathelian, daughter, single, born 15th June 1894, age 6, Presbyterian; born in Ontario (urban)
  • Alfred, son, single, born 16th Oct. 1896, age 4, Presbyterian; born in Ontario (urban)
  • census place: Toronto, Ontario (Dist. 117: Toronto East, Ward 2) 51

Continuing the survey of the city directories between the decennial censuses:

  • 1902 – Robert Gordon continued to work as a salesman, and the family stayed on at no. 3 Briggs avenue. 52
  • 1903 – Robert Gordon [R.G.] was working at The Robert Simpson Co. Ltd., and the family was at the same address. 53
  • 1904 – R.G. worked as a clerk at Regent House Clothing Co., while the family continued at the same address. 54
  • 1905 – R.G. had taken up employment in sales at W.A. Murray Co.’s dry goods store at 17–31 King street east, while the family’s home address remained the same. 55
  • 1906 – Robert E. [s/b G.] continued to work as a salesman for W A Murray Co., while the family continued at the same address. 56
  • 1907 – Robert Gordon was a salesman, and the family lived at 358 Wilton avenue. His two eldest children entered the workforce: son, Robert E., worked as a clerk and lodged in his father’s house, and daughter, Margaret, worked as an operator and roomed at 178 Wilton avenue. 57
  • 1908 – R.G. was employed as a clerk at Joseph Patterson; his son, Robert E., worked as a clerk for T. Eaton Co., and lodged in his father’s house at 358 Wilton avenue. 58
  • 1909 – Robert G. [s/b E.] worked as a clerk for T. Eaton Co. and lodged at 269 Berkeley. There was no listing for Robert Gordon in either the street or the name directory. 59
  • 1910 – Robert G. [s/b E.] worked as a clerk for T. Eaton Co. and lodged at 269 Berkeley. Robert Kilpatrick was listed at 269 Berkeley in the street segment of the directory. 60

1911 Census of Canada, in Toronto :

  • Robert Kilpatrick, male, head, married, born Dec. 1852 [s/b 1851] in Ontario, racial origin: Irish, nationality: Canadian, religious denomination: Methodist, occupation: salesman (clothing)
  • Sarah, female, wife, married, born Dec. 1856 [s/b 1855] in England, immigrated to Canada in 1874, racial origin: English [s/b Irish], nationality: Canadian, Methodist
  • Robert, male, son, born Nov 1888 [s/b 1887] in Ontario, Irish, Canadian, Methodist, occupation: stock keeper
  • Stephen, male, son, born Jan 1890 in Ontario [s/b Manitoba], Irish, Canadian, Methodist, occupation: labourer
  • John, male, son, born Jan 1892 in Ontario, Irish, Canadian, Methodist, occupation: labourer
  • Catheline, female, daughter, born June 1894 in Ontario, Irish, Canadian, Methodist
  • Alfred, male, son, born Oct. 1897 [s/b 1896] in Ontario, Irish, Canadian, Methodist
  • census place: 269 Berkeley Street, Toronto. 61

Listings from the city directory (Toronto) from 1912–1915:

  • 1912 – Robt. G. Kilpatrick, salesman at Joseph Patterson [clothing, at 153 King street east], house at 269 Berkeley. 62
  • 1913 – John S Kilpatrick, steamfitter at Keiths Ltd., lodged at 269 Berkeley; Robt G Kilpatrick, salesman at A [Augustus] C Husband & Son[clothing], house at 269 Berkeley. 63
  • 1914 – Ditto. 64
  • 1915 – John S Kilpatrick, steamfitter, lodged at 269 Berkeley; Robert E Kilpatrick, clerk at Imperial Oil Co. Ltd., lodged at 269 Berkeley; and Robt G Kilpatrick [no occupation], house at 269 Berkeley. 65

A family disrupted :

Whatever peace and quiet the family had finally attained during the 19-oughts were marred during the second decade of the century by three traumatic events.

First was the death of Robert Gordon’s and Sarah Selina’s eldest daughter, Margaret Jane (Maggie), in 1911. In November 1910, Margaret had gone to New York City to marry William Hughes Jones. 66 There, Margaret bore a child, Sarah Bernice Jones, in January 1911. In November 1911, the baby died of acute meningitis. 67 A scant seven weeks later, Margaret succumbed to tuberculosis, aged twenty-seven years. 68 Both deaths occurred at the Kilpatrick family home, 269 Berkeley-street in Toronto.

Next came the Great War. Two of Sarah Selina’s three surviving sons enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force: John Stuart, 69 and Alf. 70 Their mother, Sarah Selina, was beside herself with worry over these enlistments, in particular, because Alf had signed up under age. 71 Imagine her state, then, when Alf was taken prisoner! To her great relief, both of Sarah’s sons returned home at the end of the war.

Committal to the asylum :

For reasons that are no longer known, in June 1914, Robert Gordon was committed by police warrant to an asylum, almost certainly the Provincial Lunatic Asylum in Queen Street. 72 The buildings of the asylum had fallen into considerable decay since Queen Street opened in 1850. A a result, Robert was one of many who were transferred to the (relatively) new Ontario Hospital at Whitby when it opened for public use in January 1920. 73 , 74 A few records survive to substantiate Robert Gordon’s admission to Whitby; however, most of the file has been expunged. 75 , 76 , 77 When he was committed, the family were told that Robert Gordon had died. 78

The question remains, though entirely rhetorical, who did know that Robert Gordon was alive, if not well? — let alone, why the old man had been committed. Although speculation can be a dangerous business in family history, we have to consider the possibility that alcohol use disorder played a rôle in Robert Gordon’s mental decline. This is a trait that runs through this branch of the Kilpatrick family. Another possibility is the fact that, back in Ireland, people in the Kilpatricks’ home parish had been intermarrying with their cousins—degrees of consanguinity such as first cousins once removed, or second or third cousins—for many generations, and therein lies a more likely path to intellectual gifts on the one hand, and to the downward spiral of mental imbalance on the other. Alternatively, in the course of his tailoring, had Robert Gordon handled or otherwise been exposed to mercury for shaping felt to interface lapels and cuffs, or arsenic when it was used to dye fabrics into a vibrant green colour? In the end, without records to shed light upon this family history mystery, we will never know what demons haunted our great grandfather, Robert Gordon Kilpatrick.

View of inmates' cottages at Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, c.1923.
Whitby Psychiatric Hospital : cottages for inmates, c.1923.
Source: “Asylum Projects” asylumprojects.org, a historic asylum wiki.

Sarah Selina Huggins, 1914–1928 :

After her husband’s committal, Sarah Selina lived with her sons, Robert Edwin, Stephen, and John Stuart, who maintained the house at 269 Berkeley street. 79 By 1921, all but Alfred William [Alf] had married, so the house was given up, and Sarah Selina took her daughter, Catheline, to live with Alf at no. 147 Leslie Street in Toronto. 80

As she aged, Sarah Selina’s health deteriorated. She lived the last months of her life in the household of her son, John Stuart, and his wife, May, at 103 Jones Avenue in Toronto. My mother recalled her father, Robert Edwin, pulling her along in a wagon, to visit his mother, usually on Sundays. As a young child, she recalled only that her grandmother had an English accent, dressed impeccably, and kept a vase of dried pearly everlasting on the mantel. 81

On 28th February 1928, Sarah Selina Kilpatrick née Huggins died of a cerebral haemorrhage. 82 Her body was buried in Mount Pleasant cemetery, east of Yonge Street. 83

Death of Robert Gordon Kilpatrick :

Mum also recalled the day that word came by letter about a year later, informing the family that Robert Gordon had died in the hospital at Whitby. Everyone was sitting round the dinner table, all of them dumbstruck, as they’d been given to understand that the poor man had died nearly fifteen years earlier. 84 His body was laid to rest in Mount Pleasant cemetery. 85

Obituary :

Robert Gordon Kilpatrick was born in 1851, a few years after his family fled the ravages of hunger and disease during the “Great Famine” in Ireland, losing two children and a sister-in-law en route. By the end of 1847, his family had settled in James Street at Prescott, occupying one small storey with a loft upstairs. Prescott was an important Great Lakes shipping port in Canada West where his father, Samuel Kilpatrick, found work readily. Samuel was a well known carter, with a reputation for answering the call to community service. 86 Certainly the elder Kilpatrick harboured hopes that his son would parlay New World opportunities into a more favourable station in life.

During Robert Gordon’s youth, the Bytown and Prescott Railway opened, with ferry service to Ogdensburg on the other side of the St. Lawrence River, thus connecting Ottawa, formerly Bytown, the capital city of Canada, with commerce in New York State. He grew into his majority shortly after the Confederation of the Canadian provinces in 1867. At nineteen, his interest might have been piqued by the controversy involving the Red River Rebellion in Manitoba in 1870. Conflicting views about the fate of the leader, Louis Riel, tended to divide along Anglo Protestant and French Catholic lines in a manner nearly reminiscent of his parents’ experience in Ireland. During the 19th century, Orange halls popped up in most small towns in the province of Ontario (which name succeeded Canada West at Confederation) while in those same towns were Roman Catholic parishes of long standing. With freed men of African descent and escaped slaves also settling in the province, and acknowledging the first peoples living in the district, Iroquois and Mississauga, 87 the Kilpatricks had a different social landscape to navigate in Canada.

Robert Gordon joined a respectable trade in tailoring yet lived long enough to see most of the trade pass into mechanized industry. He and his wife, Sarah Selina, followed the opening (1882) of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Fort William, Ontario and the subsequent extension (1886) of the railway into Vancouver Island. Robert and Sarah set down roots, for short periods, in St. Thomas in southern Ontario, at Fort Garry and Brandon in Manitoba, and in the city of Victoria on Vancouver Island.

Returning to the province of Ontario, Robert Gordon Kilpatrick settled with his wife and children in Toronto. Perhaps turned away from tailoring by the forces of escalating industrialization, he found employment as a salesman in the clothing departments of the better known department stores in the city.

In 1911, the death of his eldest child, Margaret, in her twenty-eighth year, and her infant daughter, Sarah Beatrice Jones, left the widower, William Hughes Jones, and the family of Robert Gordon Kilpatrick entirely bereft. As the drums of war thrummed and the first battalions left Canada for the western front, Mr. Kilpatrick suffered the effects of nervous exhaustion. The extent of his illness became evident upon his being housed in the Queen Street asylum in 1914, followed by a transfer to the Ontario Hospital at Whitby in 1921.

Predeceased by his wife, Sarah Selina Huggins, in 1928, Mr. Kilpatrick died at Whitby on 30th January 1929. He was in his 78th year, and had been visited by “the old man’s friend,” pneumonia. Both were buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Kilpatrick are survived by four sons and a daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edwin Kilpatrick (Ethel May Flavell), Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Douglas Kilpatrick (Helen Robertson Dickson), Mr. and Mrs. John Stuart Kilpatrick (Ellen May Bolt), Mr. Alfred William Kilpatrick, all of Toronto, and Miss Catheline Kilpatrick of Woodstock, and grandchildren, Ruth Margaret and Dorothy May, Margaret Selina, Douglas Stephen, Alfred John, and Helen Janet, and Donna May and John Gordon.

Whatever his travails, and because of them, may the soul of Robert Gordon Kilpatrick rest in peace.

— by Alison Kilpatrick, 17th Nov. 2023.

Photograph of Robert Gordon Kilpatrick, courtesy of MA of Cleveland.

See also :

Footnotes :

  1. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Prescott, Upper Canada. Solemnization of a Baptism. Robert Gordon Kilpatrick, son of Samuel and Jane Kilpatrick. Source: B. A., Archives Technician, Presbyterian Church in Canada (31st May 2011). ↩︎
  2. Kilpatrick Family Bible. Inscribed by Samuel and Jane Kilpatrick, who recorded the deaths of their two young sons and of Jane’s sister, Margaret McKay, in the fall of 1847. Photocopies from the original held by R.S.K., 19th May 2002 ↩︎
  3. Canada 1851 Census. Household of Samuel Kilpatrick and Jane, his wife; in Prescott, Grenville County, Upper Canada. Original record: Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa. Archival ref. microfilm C-11724, page 37, line 18; enumeration district no. 12, sub-district no. 105. Digital images online at Ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2011-05-25). ↩︎
  4. Morris, John A.H. Morrises’ History of Prescott, 1800–2000. Prescott, Ontario: St. Lawrence Printing Company Ltd., 2001. ↩︎
  5. Province of Ontario (Canada). Civil Registration of a Death. Extract: Robert Boyd, died 29th February 1872, male, aged 81 years, rank: minister; born at Craig Co Antrim Ireland; cause of death: softening of brain, physician: Wm J Jones, M.D., Prescott; registered 11th March 1872, religious denomination: Canada Presbyterian, registrar: B. White, Prescott, county: Leeds & Grenville. Registration no. 023499. Original record held by Archives Ontario, Registrations of Deaths, 1869–1948, archival ref. MS935, reels 1–694. Digital image online at Ancestry.ca (accessed 17th Nov. 2023). ↩︎
  6. Morris, John A.H., Morrises’ History, op. cit. ↩︎
  7. Canada 1861 Census. Prescott, Grenville County, Canada West. Original records: Canada, “Census returns for 1861.” Archival ref. LAC microfilm C-1026. page 30, Enumeration District no. 2, East Ward, pg. 30; held by Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa. Digital images online at Ancestry.ca (accessed 2011-05-25). ↩︎
  8. Hancocks, Elizabeth, C.G. County Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada. Vol. 20: Leeds & Grenville. Agincourt, Ontario: Generation Press, 1987. Marriage of Archibald McLister, age 36, son of Daniel and Mary McLister, and Mary Kilpatrick, age 20, daughter of Samuel Kilpatrick and Jane M’Kay, 2 August 1858. ↩︎
  9. Canada 1861 Census. op. cit. ↩︎
  10. Thomas’ Buffalo City Directory. Published by Franklin Steam Printing House, June 1864 (pg. 245). “McClester, Archibald, lab. h. 4 Centre.” Digital copy hosted online by Ancestry.ca (accessed 2015-04-23). ↩︎
  11. U.S. 1870 Census. Household of A. [Archibald] McAllister [McLister], age 40, with wife Mary (36), and children: William J. (7), Daniel (6), Samuel (3), and Charles (1); in Norton township, Summit County, Ohio. Original record: 1870 US census, population schedules; held at National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC. Archival microfilm M593-1270, ref. pg. 331B, image 666, enumerated 9th June 1870. Digital image online at Ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2011-05-25). ↩︎
  12. Hancocks, Elizabeth, C.G. County Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada. Vol. 20: Leeds & Grenville. Agincourt, Ontario: Generation Press Inc., 1987. Marriage of Margaret Kilpatrick, daughter of Samuel Kilpatrick and Jane M’Kay, and David Ferguson, son of Samuel Ferguson and Eleoner Halladay, 9 October 1866 (pg. 37). ↩︎
  13. Canada 1871 Census. Household of David Ferguson, age 45, widower, with children: J. William (16), Elizabeth (15), Mary (13), Robert (11), and Samuel (9); in Augusta township, Grenville County, Ontario. Original record: Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada, RG31-C-1, Statistics Canada Fonds, microfilm reels C-0999 to C-9975, etc. Archival ref. District: Grenville South, District no. 69, Division no. 1, Subdistrict: Augusta, Subdistrict no. a. Digital image online at Ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2011-05-08). ↩︎
  14. Hancocks, Elizabeth, C.G. County Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada. Vol. 20: Leeds & Grenville. Agincourt, Ontario: Generation Press, 1987 (accessed in Windsor Public Library, Windsor, Ontario, in 2002). Marriage of Archibald McLister, age 36, son of Daniel and Mary McLister, and Mary Kilpatrick, age 20, daughter of Samuel Kilpatrick and Jane M’Kay, 2 August 1858. ↩︎
  15. Canada 1861 Census, op. cit. ↩︎
  16. Canada 1871 Census. Household of Samuel Kilpatrick, age 60, with wife Jane (62), son Robert (19), and grandson Robert McLister (12); in Prescott, Ontario. Original record: Census of Canada, 1871; Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa; microfilm C-10003. Archival ref. district no. 69, South Grenville, sub-district B, division, Prescott Town east of Center Street, page 27, family no. 114. Digital image online at Ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2011-05-25). ↩︎
  17. Canada 1881 Census. Household of Samuel Kilpatrick, age 70, with wife Jane (80), and children: Sarah J. (35) and Robert (26); in Prescott, Ontario. Original record held by National Archives of Canada (Ottawa), microfilm no. C-13230. Archival ref. district no. 106, subdistrict B, page 17. Transcript hosted online by the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, familysearch.org (FHL film no. 1375866) (accessed 3rd Oct. 2003). ↩︎
  18. Canada 1881 Census, op. cit. ↩︎
  19. Parmenter, Charles Oscar. History of Pelham, Mass., from 1738 to 1898. Pelham: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1898. ↩︎
  20. The Prescott Journal. 6 October 1927. Death notice for Joseph Haynen (1840–1927); transcript by Phyllis Haynen, and posted to the HAYNEN-L mailing list 21 July 2005, online at archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com (accessed 2014-09-10). ↩︎
  21. Magnan, Gillian. “Salvaging a piece of history.” In, The Ottawa Citizen, 11 August 2011 ↩︎
  22. Magnan, Gillian. “Historic home captures couple’s attention.” Citing the house owned by William H. Dunn, tailor, former mayor of Prescott, Ontario (1870s). In, The Saskatoon Star Phoenix, 11th Aug. 2011. ↩︎
  23. Province of Ontario (Canada). Civil Registration of Marriage. Extract: Robert Gordon Kilpatrick and Sarah Selina Huggins married 30th August 1883 by the Rev. S.H. Eastman in Oshawa, Ontario; witnesses: Thos. Wallace, of Oshawa, and Catharine Higgins [sic] (file no. 008889). Original record: Archives of Ontario. Photocopy obtained from the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah (2004-02-12). Note:—Finding the marriage certificate for Robert Gordon Kilpatrick and Sarah Selina Huggins proved very difficult because his surname was registered as Kirkpatrick and hers as Higgins. ↩︎
  24. Presbyterian Church in Canada. St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Peterborough, Ontario. Solemnization of a Baptism. Citing Albert Samuel Kilpatrick, son of Robert and Sarah Kilpatrick, born 22nd November 1885, baptised 14th January 1886 by the Rev. H.P. Torrance, D.D. Source: letter written by the church secretary to K.S. [private], 29th February 1980. — Note: The minister was actually the Rev. Edward Fraser Torrance, M.A., D.D. (1852–1952). See Find-a-Grave memorial no. 138178137 findagrave.com, citing the Rev. Edward Fraser Torrance, buried in Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough, Ontario. ↩︎
  25. 1901 Canada Census. Robert Gordon Kilpatrick, Sarah Selina Kilpatrick [née Huggins], and family, Toronto, Ontario (district no. 117, Toronto City East, sub-district B-25, ward 2, pg. 8). Microfilm copy of original record held by National Archives of Canada (reel no. T-6498) (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2002). ↩︎
  26. Immigration card, at Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. Citing Margaret Kilpatrick of 269 Berkeley Street, Toronto, dated 14 November 1910; citing Port Hope, Ontario as place of birth, race: Irish, father: Robert Gordon Kilpatrick of 269 Berkeley Street, Toronto. Original record: National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, record group no. 85. Digital image online at Ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2008-06-23). ↩︎
  27. Presbyterian Church in Canada. St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Peterborough, Ontario. Solemnization of a Baptism. Citing Albert Samuel Kilpatrick, son of Robert and Sarah Kilpatrick, born 22nd November 1885, baptised 14th January 1886 by he Rev. H.P. Torrance, D.D. Source: letter written by church secretary, to K.S. [private], 29th Feb. 1980. ↩︎
  28. St. Thomas (Elgin County, Ontario) City Directory for 1886. Citing listings for Robert G. Kilpatrick, tailor’s cutter J. Smithers, h[ouse] 54 Flora; Samuel Kilpatrick, gentleman, bds [boards] 54 Flora; and Miss Sarah Kilpatrick, bds 54 Flora Street, St. Thomas. Ingersoll: Union Publishing Co., 1886. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed 2017-08-06). ↩︎
  29. St. Thomas City Directory 1886. Listings for Robert G. Kilpatrick, Samuel Kilpatrick, and Miss Sarah Kilpatrick, 54 Flora Street, St. Thomas. Ingersoll: Union Publishing Co., 1886. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed 2017-08-06). ↩︎
  30. St. Thomas Daily Times (St. Thomas, Ontario), 11 October 1886. Death notice for Jane Kilpatrick at 86 St. Catherine Street, St. Thomas, aged 92 years [sic], the Kilpatrick family having arrived in St. Thomas about six months previously (transcript by Alison Kilpatrick, 16th March 2004.) ↩︎
  31. St. Thomas City Directory, 1895-96 and 1898-99 editions. Listings for Miss Sarah Kilpatrick, Thomas Williams Home, St. Thomas. Ingersoll: Union Publishing Co., 1896. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed 7th August 2017-08). ↩︎
  32. Elgin County Archives (St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada). “Residents of the Thomas Williams Home, St. Thomas, July 1969.” In, Bygone Days, published 13th April 2013. Summary hosted by Elgin County Archives, online at flickr.com/photos/elgincountyarchives/8652591644 (accessed 4th Nov. 2023). ↩︎
  33. 1901 Census of Canada, Robert Gordon and Sarah Kilpatrick, op. cit. ↩︎
  34. Province of Ontario (Canada). Civil Registration of a Marriage. Marriage license no. C5282 was issued by Matthew T.C. Ellis, 98 Yonge street, Toronto. Civil registration of marriage between: Robert Edwin Kilpatrick, age 28, resident of Toronto, born at Winnipeg, bachelor, Clerk, Episcopalian, father: Robert, mother: Sarah Huggins; Ethel May Flavell, age 29, resident of Toronto, born in Toronto, spinster, occupation: at Home, Episcopalian, father: John, mother: Rachel Gilmour; intended place of marriage: Toronto, county of York. Witnesses: Stephen Douglas Kilpatrick, Toronto, and Ethel Cotter, Toronto. Marriage solemnized by John Hodgkinson, 168 Carlton street, Church of England. Source: Archives of Ontario, Toronto. Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928; series MS932, Reel no. 374 (record no. 4329) (transcript by Alison Kilpatrick, 2004). Note:—The Rev. John Hodgkinson was an assistant minister at St James’ Cathedral (source: Recollections and Records of Toronto of Old, by W.H. Pearson, pub. William Briggs, Toronto, 1934). ↩︎
  35. Robert Edwin Kilpatrick maintained that he was born at Fort Garry, a Hudson’s Bay post lying a few miles south of Winnipeg. ↩︎
  36. Province of Manitoba (Canada). Index of Deaths. Extract: Albert Samuel Kilpatrick, died 13th December 1887, Winnipeg. Registration no. 1887,002310. Index entry online at web2.gov.mb.ca/cca/vital (accessed 16th Mar. 2004). ↩︎
  37. 1901 Census of Canada, Robert Gordon and Sarah Kilpatrick, op. cit. ↩︎
  38. Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists, 1905-1963. U.S. Immigration Card. Extract: date: 12 May 1943; Stephen Douglas Kilpatrick, male, age 53, born 12 January 1890 at Brandon, Manitoba, arrived at Port Huron, Michigan, 12 May 1943. Original record: Selected Passenger and Crew Lists and Manifests (The National Archives at Washington, D.C.); online at ancestry.ca (accessed 2008-06-23). ↩︎
  39. Henderson’s British Columbia Gazetteer and Directory for 1891. Citing R.G. Kilpatrick, tailor, 88 Government Street, Victoria, house at 11 Third. Digital images online at British Columbia City Directories, 1860–1955, bccd.vpl.ca (accessed 2023-11-17). ↩︎
  40. Canada 1891 Census. Robert [Gordon] Kilpatrick, Sarah Kilpatrick née Huggins, and family, Victoria, British Columbia; Johnson Street ward, district no. 4: Victoria City, family no. 30, schedule no. 1, page 5; original records: Statistics Canada fonds, microfilm reels T-6920 to T-6427, held by Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa. Digital images online at ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 14th April 2011). ↩︎
  41. Province of Ontario (Canada). Statement of Birth. Extract: John Stuart Kilpatrick, born 23 January 1892 at Farley Avenue, Toronto, resident in 1955 of 82 Bellefair Avenue, Toronto; father: Robert Gordon Kilpatrick, Farley Avenue, Canadian, Irish, age 41 years, born in Ireland [sic], occupation: tailor; mother: Sarah Selina Huggins, Farley Avenue, Canadian, Irish, age 38 years, born in Ireland [sic], housewife. Original record: Registrar General, Province of Ontario. Archival ref. registered 17 August 1955, registration no. 501885. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2008-06-24). ↩︎
  42. Toronto City Directory, 1893. “Kilpatrick, Robert G, cutter, h 290 Adelaide, w,” pg. 934. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 21st Nov. 2015). ↩︎
  43. Toronto City Directory, 1894. “Kilpatrick, Robert G, cutter Wilkie Collins, h 13 Delaney cres,” pg. 961. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 21st Nov. 2015). ↩︎
  44. Toronto City Directory, 1895. “Kilpatrick G, cutter W Collins, h 433 Dufferin,” pg. 885. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 2015-11-21). ↩︎
  45. Toronto City Directory, 1896. Robert G Kilpatrick, slsmn C [Christopher] Martin & Co (clothing and gents’ furnishings, 153 King e cor West Market), h 36 Sydenham (intersection with Poulett street). Published by Might Directory Company. Digital copy hosted online by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 8th Sept. 2014). ↩︎
  46. Province of Ontario, Canada. Schedule A.—Births. Extract: Alfred Kilpatrick, born 16th Oct. 1896, son of Robert Gordon Kilpatrick, cutter, and Sarah Selina Huggins, Toronto, Ontario; informant: Maggie Kilpatrick [Alfred’s sister], 410 Wilton av., City; registered 6th November 1896, D. Pyne, accoucheur; John Blevins, registrar. Original record held by Archives Ontario; archival ref. MS 929, registration no. 047389. Photocopy obtained through the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2002). ↩︎
  47. Toronto City Directory, 1897. Robert G Kilpatrick, slsmn h 410  Wilton av. Published by Might Directory Company. Digital copy hosted online by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 11th Aug. 2017). ↩︎
  48. Toronto City Directory, 1898. “Kilpatrick, Robert G, cutter, h 436 Sumach,” pg. 908. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 21st Nov. 2015). ↩︎
  49. Toronto City Directory, 1899. Vol. XXIV. Citing Robert G. Kilpatrick, cutter, h[ouse] 436 Sumach. Toronto: J.M. Might., 1899. Digital images hosted online by Toronto Public Library digitalarchive.tpl.ca (accessed 18th Nov. 2023). ↩︎
  50. Toronto City Directory, 1900–1902 editions. “Kilpatrick, Robert G, slsmn J Patterson & Co. [John S, clothing 158 Lisgar?] h 3 Briggs av,” pg. 572. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 21st Nov. 2015). Note: The 1901 and 1902 directories did not publish the name and address of the employer, per digital images online at archive.org (accessed 4th Nov. 2023). ↩︎
  51. 1901 Census of Canada, op. cit. ↩︎
  52. Toronto City Directory, 1902. “Kilpatrick, Robert G, slsmn [salesman], h 3 Briggs av.,” pg. 653. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online at archive.org (accessed 18th Nov. 2023). ↩︎
  53. Toronto City Directory, 1903. “Kilpatrick, Robert G, h 3 Briggs av. with The Robert Simpson Co Ltd,” pg. 568. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 21st Nov. 2015). ↩︎
  54. Toronto City Directory, 1904. “Kilpatrick, Robert G. clk Regent House Clothing Co. h 3 Briggs av,” pg. 599. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 21st Nov. 2015). ↩︎
  55. Toronto City Directory, 1905. “Kilpatrick, Robert G. slsmn W A Murray Co (dry goods, 17-31 King e), [house:] 3 Briggs av,” pg. 613. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 21st Nov. 2015). ↩︎
  56. Toronto City Directory, 1906. Listing for: Kilpatrick, Robert E. [sic], slsman W A Murray Co, h 3 Briggs av. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online at archive.org (accessed 2023-11-18). ↩︎
  57. Toronto City Directory, 1907. Listings for: Kilpatrick, Robert E. clk, l [lodger] 358 Wilton av; Kilpatrick, Robert G,  slsmn, h 358 Wilton av.; Miss Margaret Kilpatrick, opr. [operator], rms [rooms] 178 Wilton avenue. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 2023-11-18). ↩︎
  58. Toronto City Directory, 1908. Kilpatrick, Robert E. clk, l [lodger] 358 Wilton av; Kilpatrick, Robert G, clk Joseph Patterson, h 358 Wilton av. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 21st Nov. 2015). ↩︎
  59. Toronto City Directory, 1909. “Kilpatrick, Robert G [s/b E], clk T Eaton Co, l 269 Berkeley,” pg. 738. No listing for the family home at 269 Berkeley (pg. 120). Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 21st Nov. 2015). ↩︎
  60. Toronto City Directory, 1910. “Kilpatrick, Robert G, clk T Eaton Co, l 269 Berkeley,” pg. 786. Note: This was Robert *E*, Robert Gordon’s son. The house was listed at 269 Berkeley street in the street segment of the directory, alongside the name, Robert Kilpatrick. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 2015-11-21). ↩︎
  61. 1911 Canada Census. Robert Kilpatrick, with wife, Sarah, and children: Robert, Stephen, John, Catheline, and Alfred; in Toronto, Ontario. Original record: Statistics Canada fonds, microfilm reels T-20326 to T-20460, held by Library and Archives Canada. Archival ref. district: 125 Toronto East, district no. 2, subdistrict no. 18, enumeration district no. 2, Toronto City Ward 2, pg. 17. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 23rd June 2008). ↩︎
  62. Toronto City Directory, 1912. Extract: “Kilpatrick, Robt G. slsmn Joseph Patterson, h 269 Berkeley,” pg. 880. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 21st Nov. 2015). ↩︎
  63. Toronto City Directory, 1913. Extract: Kilpatrick, John S. stmftr Keiths, Ltd [Manufacturers & Designers, Engineers & Contractors, 109-111 King St. W.], l 269 Berkeley; Kilpatrick, Robt G. slsmn A C Husband, h 269 Berkeley, pg. 935 (1913). Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 21st Nov. 2015). ↩︎
  64. Toronto City Directory, 1914. Extract: Kilpatrick, John S. stmftr Keiths, Ltd, l 269 Berkeley; Kilpatrick, Robt G. slsmn A C Husband, h 269 Berkeley. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 21st Nov. 2015). ↩︎
  65. Toronto City Directory, 1915. Extract: John S, stmftr, l 269 Berkeley; Robt E. clk Imperial Oil Co. Ltd, l 269 Berkeley; Robt G, h 269 Berkeley. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copy online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 10th Aug. 2017). ↩︎
  66. The City of New York (New York, USA). Department of Health. Certificate and Record of Marriage. Extract: William Hughes Jones, groom’s residence: 142 E. 96 St., age 28, white, widower, bricklayer, born at Manchester, England, father: William H. Jones, mother: Sarah Jones; and, Margaret Jane Kilpatrick, bride’s residence: 418 East 83rd St., age 26, white, single, born at Port Hope, Canada, father: Robert Gordon Kilpatrick, mother: Sarah Huggins; marriage solemnized by James A. McCague, clergyman, resident at 321 W. 136th St., marriage solemnized at 7 W. 11th St., Borough of Manhattan; witnesses: W.A. Morentz, Alton D. Byrd. Certificate no 25764. Copy certificate purchased by Alison Kilpatrick from the Municipal Archives, New York City Department of Records and Information Services (received 28th Oct. 2014). ↩︎
  67. Province of Ontario (Canada). Civil Registration of Death. Extract: Sarah Bernice Jones, died 8 November 1911, 269 Berkeley Street, Toronto, County of York; cause of death: primary-acute meningitis, 10 days; secondary-cardiac paralysis, 2 days; physician, R.C. Coatsworth, 296 Parliament street. Original record held by Archives Ontario. Archival ref. file no. 006228. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (accessed, and extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2008-06-23). ↩︎
  68. Province of Ontario (Canada). Civil Registration of Death. Extract: Margaret Jane Jones [née Kilpatrick], died 23 December 1911, 269 Berkeley Street, Toronto; cause of death: pulmonary tuberculosis, 4 months; physician, W.B. Thistle, 171 College street. Original record held by Archives of Ontario (Toronto); file no. 096994. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2008-06-23). ↩︎
  69. Canada. WWI CEF Personnel Files, 1914–1918. Extract: John Stuart Kilpatrick, Private, 124th Battalion (attached to Canadian Engineers), regimental no. 769998. Original record held by Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa), Accession 1992-93/166, Record Group 150. Digital images online at ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2017-08-12). ↩︎
  70. Canada. WWI CEF Personnel Files, 1914–1918. Extract: Alfred William Kilpatrick, attested into the 8th Canadian Mounted Rifles, 31 July 1915, regimental no. 113340. Original record held by Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa), Accession 1992-93/166, Record Group 150. Digital images online at ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2017-08-12). ↩︎
  71. Interview with Dorothy May Causton née Kilpatrick (1922–2003), Nanaimo, British Columbia, 2001. ↩︎
  72. The Toronto Star, 13 June 1914 (pg. 23). “Toronto Police Court.” Remand of Robert Kilpatrick to jail pending examination by jail physicians. Digital image online at newspapers.com (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2023-11-03). ↩︎
  73. Deadman, John. “The Ontario Psychiatric Association’s 90 Years of History.” In, The Newsletter of the Ontario Psychiatric Association (Dec. 2013). Citing “Names from the Past,” Whitby Hospital, &c., pg. 3. ↩︎
  74. Built between 1913–1916, the Whitby hospital was appropriated by the federal goverment as a convalescent hospital for soldiers until 1919. Source: Wikipedia. “Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, history and description of the facility” enwikipedia.org (accessed 13th Jan. 2019.) ↩︎
  75. Canada 1921 Census. Extract: Robert Gordon Kilpatrick, age 58; in Whitby Hospital, Whitby, Ontario. Original record: Statistics Canada, series RG 31, held by Library and Archives Canada, Sixth Census of Canada, 1921, Ottawa. Archival ref. Ontario East, district no. 109, sub-district no. 46, Whitby Town – Insane Asylum, page 15. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2013-12-22). ↩︎
  76. Wikipedia, Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, op. cit. ↩︎
  77. Province of Ontario. Ministry of Government and Consumer Affairs. Letter dated 24th Sept. 2015, accompanied by photocopies of admission and census forms. Citing Robert Kilpatrick, admitted (i) by warrant on 28th Jan. [year not stated] and on 25th June 1914, aged 51 years; occupation: salesman, religion: Presbyterian, age 57, married, nativity: Canadian, county of York. Archival refs. Correspondence ref. no. A-215-00184,Register nos. RG 10-271 and -458. ↩︎
  78. Interview with Dorothy Causton, op. cit. ↩︎
  79. Toronto City Directories, 1916–1921. Publisher: Might Directory Co. Digital copies online hosted by the Toronto Public Library torontopubliclibrary.ca (accessed 21st Nov. 2015 & 10th Aug. 2017). ↩︎
  80. Canada 1921 Census. Alfred William Kilpatrick, age 24; with mother, Sarah (65), and sister, Kathleen (26); in Toronto, Ontario. Original record: Library and Archives Canada, Sixth Census of Canada, 1921, Ottawa. Archival ref. series RG31, Statistics Canada fonds, ref. RG31, folder no. 20; Toronto, district: York East 142, subdistrict no. 47, pg. 2. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2013-12-22). ↩︎
  81. Interview with Dorothy Causton, op. cit. ↩︎
  82. Province of Ontario (Canada). Civil Registration of a Death. Extract: Sarah Selina Kilpatrick [née Huggins], died 28 February 1928, at 103 Jones Avenue, Toronto, County of York; cause of death: primary-cerebral haemorrhage, sudden; contributory: a previous haemorrhage, 3 mos.; physician, E.R. Hastings, 791 Queen E.; informant: Robert Kilpatrick, son, 42 Haslett Ave.; buried at Mt Pleasant cemetery, Washington & Johnston, undertakers. Parents cited as Samuel Huggins, b. England, and [—] McLister, b. England [sic]. Original record held by Ontario Archives, Toronto. Archival ref. registration no. 002239. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2014-09-10) ↩︎
  83. Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826–1989. Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Extract: Sarah Kilpatrick, aged 73 years; born in England; died 28 February 1928 in Toronto; married; buried 1st 2nd March 1928; cause of death: haemorrhage; plot no. 19, section no. 5, lot no. 3; ground property of: Alfred W. Kilpatrick; medical attendant: R. Montgomery; deceased’s nearest relation: Alfred W. Kilpatrick, 103 Jones Avenue; undertaker: Matthews Burial. Toronto Trust Cemeteries ref. Vol. IV, 1920–1931. Digital image online at FamilySearch, Int’l. familysearch.org (accessed 2017-08-06). ↩︎
  84. Province of Ontario (Canada). Civil Registration of a Death. (i) File no. 1929-05026/38. Robert Kilpatrick, 30 January 1929, age 75 years, born at Prescott, occupation: Salesman, dry goods, name of parents not recorded, cause of death: broncho-pneumonia, father’s birthplace and mother’s birthplace not recorded, informant: Mrs. Sarah Kilpatrick;* cemetery: Necropic, Toronto; information extracted for genealogy, 6 July 1979, by N.A. Vetere, Deputy Registrar General, Office of the Registrar General, Toronto, to K.S. [private]. (ii) The original certificate contains the following additional information: male, Canadian, married, born in Canada [Prescott not mentioned] in 1853; length of residence: 9 yrs. 2 dys.; physician: Dr. W.D. Montgomery, Ontario Hospital, Whitby; name of informant: Mrs. Sarah Kilpatrick, 140 Leslie St., Toronto, wife; date of burial: Feb. 1, 1929; Mathews Burial Co., undertaker; physician attended from Nov. 1923 to Jan. 30/29; primary cause of death: senile changes; contributory: broncho-pneumonia. Original record held by Archives Ontario; archival ref. file no. 1929-05026/38. Digital image online at ancestry.ca (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2013-10-11) — *Note: The hospital must not have kept or been informed of the next-of-kin after the death of Sarah Selina. ↩︎
  85. Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826–1989. Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Robert Kilpatrick, aged 78 years; born at Prescott, Ontario; died 30th January 1929 in Toronto [sic]; buried 1st February 1929; cause of death: broncho pneumonia, senile changes; plot no. 19, section no. 5, lot no. 3; ground property of: Alfred W. Kilpatrick; medical attendant: R. Montgomery; deceased’s nearest relation: Alfred W. Kilpatrick, 103 Jones Avenue; undertaker: Matthews Burial. Toronto Trust Cemeteries ref. Vol. IV, 1920–1931. Digital image online at FamilySearch, Int’l. familysearch.org (extract by Alison Kilpatrick, 2017-08-06) ↩︎
  86. Morris, John A. Morrises’ History of Prescott 1800–2000. Prescott, Ontario: St. Lawrence Printing Company, Ltd., 2001. Citing that Mr. Kilpatrick was the only one of the carters who answered the call to attend a fire (pg. 195). ↩︎
  87. Wikipedia. Crawford Purchase en.wikipedia.org (accessed 17th Nov. 2023). ↩︎

End notes :

Source citation for this page: Kilpatrick, Alison. Robert Gordon Kilpatrick (1851–1929) of Prescott, Canada West. Biographical sketch for R.G. Kilpatrick (1851–1929), and family outline. Published to Arborealis, online at arborealis.ca/family-history/irish/kilpatrick/robert-d1929/, accessed [insert date].

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Updated 15th Dec. 2023; edited 27th Dec. 2023.