LENNOX & ADDINGTON County

These united counties… were set apart severally in 1792 by Col. Simcoe, but at first neither had sufficient population to justify the election of a separate member of the Legislature. Lennox was joined with Hastings and Northumberland, and Addington with the County of Islands off Kingston which Simcoe called Ontario. In 1798 Lennox and Addington became one constituency. There were variations of various kinds in subsequent years, but the union was made permanent in an Act of 1860. Settlement of this district began in 1784 with the coming of American Loyalists.


Historical Maps

All but northern Townships

See County Maps!


Historical Directories

All but northern Townships

See County Directories!


Transcribed Names

Database for each Township, or

Province-Wide Search

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Maps with Names

all Townships except:
Abinger
Ashby
Denbigh
Effingham

Directories

all Townships except:
Abinger
Ashby
Denbigh
Effingham

(Search Surnames at Township pages)

OGS

Family History Centre

County Archives

more maps and names


An excerpt from The Province of Ontario: A History, 1615-1927, by Middleton, J.E. & Langdon, F., 1927, Dominion Publishing Co., Toronto




heritagePIN PROJECT DATABASES | Project Goals and Progress




HeritagePIN has a number of Name Transcription Projects on the go since 2008. The time period of study is Pre-Confederation (1867). Since Ontario's civil records program took some years to fully implement, this time period has been extended to include Ontario's documented inhabitants prior to the mid-1870's.

Transcribed surnames are searchable at each Township's page




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MAPS | project

I had been able to photograph several of the (brittle) Pre-Confederation maps at various universities and archives, and by 2016 the University of Toronto has made images available ONLINE for many more!

The names in these databases have been transcribed by me personally, and include names from the inset town maps, and indexes of subscribers, located in the margins of each map.

 
DIRECTORIES & GAZETTEERS | project


Likewise, with historical directories, names have been transcribed by eye, not by OCR (conversion to text). They include those entries for individuals living in towns and cities.

 
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES


Where maps and directories are sparse for a township, or for an early time period, the Databases are supplemented with record-sets * that show names and Concession/Lot locations *. These include early Land Grant/Patents, and Agricultural Census returns.