Rebecca McCartney

Posted 11 March 2004

This inquiry was sent by Wesley Bateman. If you have any related information, please contact him at wbateman@ns.sympatico.ca.

I am looking for any information regarding my Great-Grandmother Rebecca McCartney

Rebecca immigrated to Canada from Ireland (origin unknown) to work as a domestic on a farm in southeastern Ontario sometime between 1857-1864. She met and married James Bateman on the 14th of April 1864 in Cavan Township, Durham County, Ontario, Canada. They had 12 children:

Sarah Ann b1866
George Henry b1867
John Hamilton b1869
Hiram J b1970,
Fredrick William b1873
Burton b1875
Wilbert Stanley b1876
Wesley J b1878
Wellington b1881
Herbert b1883
Norman b1886
Mabel Irene b 1887

Wesley J was my grandfather he was married on July 25 1904 to Ethel May Baker. (b June 9 1886 in Carleton, Ontario) and died in 1952 in Port Arthur Ontario. They had 5 children.

William James
Myrtle Marilla
Ester Lilly
Catherine May
Wesley Silmser (my father).

If anyone has any information on Rebecca McCartney and/or James Bateman, please, contact me.

Thank You,
Wesley Bateman
wbateman@ns.sympatico.ca