Benjamin Shackel Palmer (1832 - 1913)

Born 4 Nov 1832 in England, United Kingdom

Husband of Margaret (MacNab) Palmer — married 30 Nov 1868 in Ontario, Canada

Died 1 Nov 1913 at age 80 in Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Shackel was born in 1832 to Samuel Palmer and Sarah Money. He married Margaret MacNab in 1868. ^[1]

"Samuel Palmer and Sarah Money, his wife, came from London, England, to Canada in 1853 and settled on Lot 25, Con. 8. Mr. Palmer was a cabinetmaker by trade, but found it necessary to devote most of his time and strength to the sterner business of chopping, saw-logging and land-clearing. In later years he retired to Claremont, where he died in 1866. Mrs. Palmer died in 1873. Their family were: Sarah Ann, who taught school for some years at Milligan's Corners, walking the distance to her home every second week (she afterward married Richard Burton and lived on the Seventh Concession till her death, in 1880) ; John, who married Sarah Smith, and lived in Claremont, working at his trade as a shoemaker, later moving to Manitoulin Island, where he died some years ago; Samuel, who married Hannah Smith, and lived in Uxbridge, where since his death Mrs. Palmer continues to reside; Mary Ann, who married Frederick George, and still lives in Stouffville; William, who married Sarah M. Elliott, and went to Rolling Home, Missouri, where he still lives; Shackel Benjamin, who married Margaret Macnab, and worked at his trade as a shoemaker in Claremont till his retirement a few years ago. (Their family are: Isabella (Mrs. Thomas Gregg) and William M. Palmer, of Claremont)." ^[2]

"In the early seventies there were the following shoemakers in Claremont: Dugald Taylor, who often employed four men: John Palmer later succeeded by his son, John Palmer, jr.; Shackel Palmer, and William Keith, and in 1876 Magnus Henderson and J. S. Parmer began business. One of those who worked with Dugald Taylor was his son-in-law, James Jobbitt. After Mr. Taylor's death he continued the business and for some time was in partnership with J. W. Gregg, and later with W. M. Palmer. Mr. Jobbitt died in 1904, and the following year Mr. Palmer opened the business which is still carried on in the frame store on the northwest corner." ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Canada Marriages, 1661-1949: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2G1-DZG
2. ↑ Past Years in Pickering: Sketches of the History of the Community, William R. Wood, 1911
3. ↑ Past Years in Pickering: Sketches of the History of the Community, William R. Wood, 1911

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