in search of ... William Campbell (1871)
The 1871 Census of Canada shows William Campbell (52) now living in Percy Township, Northumberland County together with Isabella Campbell (40), Sylvester Campbell (21), Sarah Campbell (14) and David Campbell (12), George Campbell (9), Mary Campbell (6), Alexander Campbell (3) and Isabella Campbell aged 10 months.
The William Campbell family is split across two census pages in the 1871 Census of Canada. Also shown on the first page is William Campbell's younger brother, George Campbell, George's wife, Sarah (Grubb) Campbell and their children. George and Sarah Campbell live almost directly across the road from William's farm. George and Sarah Campbell emigrated from Scotland almost a decade later than siblings William, Adam Corbet, Helen and Isabella Campbell who all arrived in Ontario about 1842.
William Hayden Campbell has married Catherine Jane Beggs in 1869 and has started his own family.
Wayne Wickson
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