| 4. | John David Hastings was born about 1841 in Dublin, Ireland (son of Hastings). Notes:
Excerpt from "Kith ‘n Kin"
Compiled and Edited by Joanna McEwen
Published by Township of Oro 1978
John David Hastings and his brother William, born in Dublin, Ireland, came to Canada as orphans, on a sailing vessel that took 6 weeks – a very rough trip. They farmed at Island Grove near Jackson’s Point. They were staunch Westleyan Methodists people came in sleighloads to Prayer Meetings held in their home. John David’s wife Mary Ann Warriner lived with the School teacher’s family, name of Law, at the Indian Reservation on Snake Island, Lake Simcoe, and was the only white woman on the Island. Their two eldest children were born on the Island, and when William, who was cared for by an Indian girl, was speaking mostly Indian language, she refused to stay any longer and came across Lake Simcoe on the ice in 1866 and settled on a farm near Edgar, where her husband had come earlier to cut trees and build a log home. Mary Ann learned the art of making straw hats from the Indians. In 1907 she had an eye removed, the operation done on the kitchen table at her son Charles’s home. Son Wesley spent 20 of his latter years with nephew Melville Hastings. Son, Charles Edward, born at Edgar, farmed at Jarratt until buying Lot 9, Concession 6 in Oro in 1914, where his son Edward and grandsons still farm. Melville bought Lot 19, Conc 5 (across the road) in 1926 and added the adjoining 75 acres, Lot 20 in 1946, known as the Kenny farm, and the highway frontage was subdivided, Melville sold the farm in 1962 to Leonard Cumming, reserving a strip of land for another subdivision back of the highway lots, and divided by Kenny Street. This area forms much of the village of Guthrie of today.
John married Mary Ann Warriner. Mary was born about 1841 in Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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