Plympton Township


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Plympton Twp. in historical LAMBTON Co.

Opened for settlement 1834 and named from a Devonshire town, near the family seat of Sir John Colborne, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. One pioneer was John Morrison who drove from Hamilton in an ox wagon in 1827.

Jesse E. Middleton, The Province of Ontario: a History: 1615-1927, published 1927

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HINT: Before fine-searching the online maps, verify from the database of transcribed names (bottom).

Early survey maps with names of original patentees – over-written with subsequent owners.

1 available I0051061

THE ABOVE LINKS ARE BROKEN. These had been off-site links to the Archives of Ontario's RG-100 Patent Plans. In 2023 the A of O replaced the 'Archives Descriptive Database' with the 'AIMS' database. Please direct inquiries to the Archives of Ontario quoting the RG 1-100 collection and urging for restoration of *large-sized* map images. (I'm always happy to hear from you too).

The names on these maps are not transcribed for the HeritagePIN databases.

No pre-Confederation era maps have been found, or are known to have been published. See the hand-drawn Patent Maps.

Maps at McGill University's Digital Atlas Project cover the Post-Confederation period (late for the scope of this project). Names of land-owners are transcribed at McGill's site.

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1864-65 Lambton Co. / Sutherland / free online

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Find Concession/Lot Locations from the Agricultural Schedules of the Canadian national Censuses.
1842 (limited), 1851, 1861 and 1871.

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Finding Aid | Search Form – LAC | see table, below

1861 District SubDistrict Film     PGs: 37 – 48
Lambton Plympton C-1041 37 38 39
Lambton Plympton C-1041 40 41 42
Lambton Plympton C-1041 43 44 45
Lambton Plympton C-1041 46 47 48

 
* The LAC search form is pre-set to search this District, and for Agricultural schedules only. However, these indexes are significantly incomplete. ALL IMAGES ARE AVAILABLE by page number, in the chart, above.

The 1861 Census Districts | Re: Bothwell, Cardwell & Monck

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1871 District SubDistrict Div.* Film Images
04 Lambton H Plympton Div 1 C-9896 Link to Start
04 Lambton H Plympton Div 2 C-9896 Link to Start
04 Lambton H Plympton Div 3 C-9896 Link to Start
04 Lambton H Plympton Div 4 C-9896 Link to Start

 
* The Enumeration Division must match the corresponding Sched. 1 Personal Census.

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The 1871 Census Districts | Maps of City Wards

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Ontario historical township tax assessments showing concessions and lots

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Township Dates Film Images  
Plympton 1871-1878 8661559 Link to Start
Plympton 1879-1880 8661560 Link to Start

NOTE: The above table is for records BEFORE 1880, only!
Films marked in red are viewable at LDS Family History Centers.


FamilySearch has begun to transcribe: (incomplete)

Ontario Tax Assessment Rolls, 1834-1899
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Both Owners and Tenants were assessed for taxes (i.e. Freeholders and Householders).
See the Instructions to Assessors from 1847 Norfolk Co.


Search Surname - by part name, or use a star as a wildcard -- do not use single quote i.e. O'Brien - instead use O(star) :
Total Records Found: 500, showing 10 per page
SurnameIncidenceTownshipCountyDatesSourceAvailable online?DetailsMisc
Abel 1 Plympton Lambton 1864 directory Link to Source
Achram 1 Plympton Lambton 1864 directory Link to Source
Adams Plympton Lambton 1864 directory Link to Source add'tl surname - McMillan's
Adams 3 Plympton Lambton 1864 directory Link to Source
Aikman 1 Plympton Lambton 1864 directory Link to Source
Ailing 1 Plympton Lambton 1864 directory Link to Source
Alfred 1 Plympton Lambton 1864 directory Link to Source
Aliveo 1 Plympton Lambton 1864 directory Link to Source
Allan 1 Plympton Lambton 1864 directory Link to Source
Almers 1 Plympton Lambton 1864 directory Link to Source




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.