Thomas
A.
Lockhart
Born about in County Down, Ireland
Ancestors 
Son of John Lockhart
and Jane (Unknown) Lockhart
Brother of
Ann Jane (Lockhart) McMurray, Richard Lockhart, Mary (Lockhart) Falconer, Elizabeth Lockhart, James Samuel Lockhart, John Lockhart, William Lockhart, Rachel Lockhart and Isaac Lockhart
Husband of
Mary (Sturgeon) Lockhart
— married
1840 in Knocknamuckly, County Armagh, Ireland
Father of
Elizabeth Lockhart and Ann Jane (Lockhart) Conley
Died
at about age 76
in Kinloss Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada
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Thomas Lockhart was born in Ireland.
Biography
Thomas was born in Co. Down, Ireland.
Mary Sturgeon married Thomas Lockhart in 1840 at the Knocknamuckley Church Of Ireland, Portadown, Craigavon, Armagh. [1]
According to descendants he immigrated to Canada West in 1852.
In 1861 the Lockhart family lived at Lot 16 Concession 4 Kinloss Twp, Co. of Bruce, Canada West in a frame house built in 1860.[2] Thomas Lockhart (37) Farmer & Mary Lockart (37) with John Lockhart (15) labourer, Richard Lockhart (13), James Lockhart (11), Betsy Lockhart (7) all born in Ireland, Thomas Lockhart (3) & A.J. Lockhart (5) and William Lockhart (1) all born in Upper Canada.
Thomas Lockhart purchased his 100 acres of land from the crown in 1874 although he was residing on it before 1861.
Thomas was a farmer.
Obituary of Thomas Lockhart age 76 appeared in Lucknow Sentinel on Friday Sept 7, 1900. According to the obituary Thomas reared eleven children and was survived by sons John and William in Rainy River ON, Thomas in Manitoba, Ezekial and Andrew farming in Kinloss and two daughters, also his wife who was living on their homestead with a granddaugher.
Sources
- 1861 Canada West Census Enumeration District No. 1 Twp of Kinloss in the Co. of Bruce Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1861 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
- 1871 Census of Canada ON District No. 27 Sub-District No. 2 of A
- 1891 Census of Canada ON District No. 53 Sub-District B Twp of Kinloss
- Schedule C Deaths Bruce Co. Division of Kinloss Ancestry.com. Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.
- Kith and Kin of Kinloss: a History of the Settlement of Kinloss Township by the Kinloss Township Historians, 2003. Vol 1 p. 310-312
(This 2 volume history is very fine for researching family history and genealogy in Kinloss as an attempt was made to include every owner and occupant of every lot in the township, since it was surveyed about 1850.)
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