Ferris notes.....

1871 Census return microfilm C-9960 for South Simcoe 0 District 41, Sub A-2
lists on p14, line 1-3
Ferris, Wm Charles .....23
Ferris, Caroline............23
Ferris, Robert................1

1881 Census Return microfilm C-13244 for McKellar (Muskoka), McKellar & Hagerman Township (April)
p41; line 18-25, p42; line 1
Ferris, William Charles......M 33
Caroline............................F 33
Robert Albert...................M 11
George.............................M 9
Charles.............................M 7
Mathew............................M 6
Elizabeth Anne..................F 4
Elijah Hiram......................M 2
Henry (Monty?)................M 6m
?? for this census - Mathew and Elizabeth Anne are new names, Elixabeth Anne does not appear in the next census, she died at age of 6 yrs. 3 months. The death records state the cause death as a burn received 7 weeks before. She is not in any of my other notes. The ? indicate hard to read information on the census.

1891 Census Return micorfilm T-6355 for McKellar, Hagerman Township
lists on p 41, line 16....
Ferris William Charles.....43
Caroline..........................43
George W.......................19
Charles C........................17
Mathew S.......................16 (it is interesting to note, in the 1881, and until I got here, there is no mention of a Mathew in my earlier research.)
Elijah H...........................12
Henry W.........................10
Arthur E...........................8
Francis B..........................6
John A..............................4
Isabella B.........................2
Note: Walter has not been born yet......he is the last child according to my research.
I have found Mathew's gravestone, in Fairholme cemetery, Dunchurch Ontario. He died Feb 7, 1894 in his 20th year.

I am currently waitng for the 1901 census microfilms to research.

1901 Census return Microfilm #T-6482 for McKellar, Hagerman Township
lists on p5, lines 26-36
Name......................Date of Birth/age
William Ferris..........July 13, 1847/53
Caroline..................Oct 19,1847/53
George W...............July 13 1871/29
Charles C................Ap 19 1873/27
Elijah H....................Dec 8 1878/22
Henry W.................Oct 19 1880/20
Arthur E.................. Jan 9 1882/18
Frances B................Jan 26 1885/16
John A....................Sept 25 1886/14
Isabella B................July 24 1888/12
Walter A.................Sept 20 1892/8

From George to Frances, they are listed as lumbermen & employees on the census. These are WCF's and Caroline's children. I will have to return and get Caroline's first 2 children, William and Mary Ann Anderson as well.

Moore family notes from "Along Memory Lane with Hagerman People"

Moore Family information from the Census returns....

1881 Census Return microfilm C-13244 for McKellar (Muskoka), McKellar & Hagerman Township(April)
I do not have the page number or line for the following entries....
Moore, Samuel.........30
Mary Ann.................31
Sarah Ann..................5
William.......................1
Robert......................3/12

Moore, Robert...........60
Sarah.........................48
Robert......................2(3)*This number is a guess, hard to read. Aslo, if this is the same Robert & Sarah Moore in 1891, then the ages are wrong on one of the returns.

Moore, Andrew...........33
Sarah...........................30
William Henry...............7
Robert Andrew.............6
John Samuel..................4
Frances Jemima.............3
James Laurence..............1
Moore, William.............22

1891 Census return microfilm T-6355 for McKellar, Hagerman Township
p11; line 20...
Moore, Andrew..............43
Sarah..............................39
William...........................17
Robert............................16 (this was Texas Moore)
John Samuel...................14
Francis...........................12 ( girl)
James M........................10
Sarah..............................8
Mary..............................6
Geordie..........................4
Wesley...........................2

p19;line 24,25, p20; line 1,2
Moore, Robert...............30
Alice..............................20 (Dixon)
John................................3
Bertha.............................1

p20; line3,4
Moore, Robert................68
Sarah..............................60

p20; line 5
Moore, John James..........32
Elizabeth..........................25
Mary Lucy.......................11
Margaret Jane...................9
Mabel...............................7
Robert John......................2

p27; line 10...
Moore, Samuel..................39
Mary Ann..........................40 (nee Andrews)
Sarah Ann..........................15
William...............................11
Robert...............................10
Samuel................................8
Milly May...........................6
Ethel Mary..........................2

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Posted by dennis bell <[email protected]> on Sun, 01 Aug 1999

Surname:

The Ferris Family

Perhaps the best description of the Ferris family origins comes from historian and genealogist W.R. Cutter, in his
book, Genealogy and Family History of Western New York: “The name Ferris is from Leicestershire, House of
Feriers, Farers, Fereis, Ferrerr, Ferreis, Ferrers or Ferris, the first member of which (in England) was Henry de
Feriers (Ferrers), son of Guelchelme (Guillaume, or William) de Feriers, Master of Horse to the Duke of
Normandy.” This would explain the horseshoes on the Ferris Coat of Arms, although many sources say that
Guilchelme de Feriers was in fact the duke’s “Master of the House” rather than the horses. It is said that Henry
took an active part in the Battle of Hastings in 1066, having invaded England with William the Conqueror. William
gave large grants of land in Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to his vassals and knights after they routed
the Saxons. From Guelchelme de Feriers and William de Ferers, Earl of Derby, are descended the Ferrers of Groby.
Their Westchester descendants came up with a coat of arms festooned with fleur di lis and a slogan that translated
into “much in the flowery arts.” This indicates to researchers that the family was distinguished for its love of
horticulture rather than the horrors of war following Hastings.

To sum up, The Ferris name started with the Normans invaders, and continued through the next five centuries in
England, with large pockets of Ferris men and women found in Leicester, Cornwall and London. However, there are
Germans and Dutchmen bearing the surname in Canadian and U.S. records as well. Virtually all of the 111 Ferris’s
surveyed in the 1871 Ontario census listed themselves as Irish, British, English, Scottish or from the United Kingdom.
The Irish predominated by a wide margin, but they were, by and large, Protestants -- Wesleyan Methodists and
Presbyterians. And that leads inevitably to the possibility that many of the Ferris ancestors were mainly from what is
now Northern Ireland. If they were, that in turn is fairly strong evidence that at least some of the Ferris’s may have
originated in the Scottish Highlands as part of the Clan Ferguson, and were deported to the Ulster Plantations in
large numbers during the Clearances. The Fergusons maintain to this day that the surname “Ferris” is one of many
similar names deriving from Fergus. The problem is that Irish records are virtually non-existent, particularly for the
tens of thousands of Ulster settlers from Scotland and England, sent over by the Stuarts, the Cromwells and the
German Georges to break the Celtic and Catholic hold on Ireland.

How did the family come to the Americas? The very first one in the Americas was a man named Jeffery Ferris, said
to have been born about 1610 in Leicestershire, and his wife Anne Howard, a daughter of the blue-blooded and very
powerful Howard family which originated in Norfolk. The Howards had produced one of Henry VIII’s executed
wives a century earlier, and a host of lords and knights executed for various political offences by Henry and his
successors. Jeffery, a commoner, and Anne, a titled lady, are said to have married in secret and fled England for
Boston in 1634 to escape the vengeful wrath of Anne’s politically powerful father Thomas Howard.

Jeffery took the Freeman’s Oath of loyalty to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the Boston Court House on
May 6, 1635. The freemen were the only colonists given the right to vote, and the franchise was by no means
offered to all male settlers. One generally had to be a mature male church member who had experienced “a
transforming spiritual experience by God's grace,” as attested by himself and confirmed by church leaders. As a
result, the Freemen represented a very small but very powerful percentage of the Commonwealth’s early settlers, a
number lessened even further by the refusal of many religious zealots to utter the text for fear of divine retribution.
But Jeffery apparently took it at the first opportunity:

“I, Jeffery Ferris, being, by the Almighty's most wise disposition, become a member of this body, consisting of the
Governor, Deputy Governor, Assistants and a commonalty of the Mattachusets in New England, do freely and
sincerely acknowledge that I am justly and lawfully subject to the government of the same, and do accordingly
submit my person and estate to be protected, ordered, and governed by the laws and constitutions thereof, and do
faithfully promise to be from time to time obedient and conformable thereunto, and to the authority of the said
Governor and Assistants and their successors, and to all such laws, orders, sentences, and decrees as shall be
lawfully made and published by them or their successors; and I will always endeavor (as in duty I am bound) to
advance the peace and welfare of this body or commonwealth to my utmost skill and ability; and I will, to my best
power and means, seek to divert and prevent whatsoever may tend to the ruin or damage thereof, or of any the said
Governor, Deputy Governor, or Assistants, or any of them or their successors, and will give speedy notice to them,
or some of them, of any sedition, violence, treachery, or other hurt or evil which I shall know, hear, or vehemently
suspect to be plotted or intended against the said commonwealth, or the said government established; and I will not at
any time suffer or give consent to any counsel or attempt that shall be done, given, or attempted for the impeachment
of the said government, or making any change alteration of the same, contrary to the laws and ordinances thereof,
but shall do my utmost endeavor to discover, oppose, and hinder all and every such counsel andattempt. So help me
God.”

Jeffery and Ann settled in what is now Connecticut, participating in the founding Greenwich, and went on to have
four sons and a daughter -- all of whom showered them with grandchildren, literally by the dozens. Their
grandchildren and great grandchildren fanned out across the Thirteen Colonies, in the vanguard of settlers’
migrations to New York, Ohio, Indiana, the Carolinas, Kentuckly and many other future states. But not all of them
were loyal Americans. When the American Revolution broke out, many Ferris’s remained loyal to the British Crown,
classifying themselves as United Empire Loyalists and heading north for Canada -- mainly the Maritimes and Ontario
during the 1780’s. The revolution appears to have split the Ferris family down the middle. Things were so tense that
many Ferris men favoring the revolt abandoned their Connecticut homesteads and moved across Long Island Sound
to safer ground in New York.

Samuel Ferris shows as another of the early Ferris emigrants from Britain to the New World. Samuel was born in
Reading, Berkshire, England in 1616, and married Jersuha Reed there in 1647. It looks as though they left Britain for
the New World almost immediately after marrying in the middle of a country torn by the Civil War, perhaps for
political or religious reasons. In any event, the couple first settled in Charlestown, Suffolk County in Massachusetts,
where their son Zacheriah was born in 1648. They subsequently moved to Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut,
where the family became a major economic force, landowners and pioneering farmers on a large scale. Their
original home in Fairfield County is still standing and has been designated a national historic site. Another branch
sprang up in New York -- Queens and Herkimer counties. It’s not known if Samuel and Jeffery were related.
Chances are they were, but how closely is not known.

Those who arrived in New Brunswick from Connecticut and New York claimed large acreages of land around Saint
John and Fredericton in 1784 and 1785 -- some nine large tracts in Sunbury County alone -- putting together a series
of substantial farming estates. A man named Abraham Ferris appears to have led the exodus. Many of the children
of the first wave headed into Ontario, and some of them in turn moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the
middle 1800s. They were Red River colonists. Few records survive, but it is clear that the Ferris family settled in the
west for keeps.

In Ontario, lumberman James Marshall Ferris became a major economic force in the Campbellford area in the late
1800s. He expanded from the forest industry into a number of related fields, using the fortune he amassed to acquire
substantial tracts of land on the south side of the town. The Ferris family donated that land to the province of Ontario
in 1962 for the establishment of a park. Today, Ferris Provincial Park is preserved as a recreational area
encompassing a number of attractions -- scenic stone fences, an eye-pleasing mix of field and forest, and historical
sites such as Sheepwash Point and the Shingle Valley, reminders of Ferris and the pioneer era. There is also a
glacier named after a member of the Ferris family in the extreme northwest corner of British Columbia. Ferris
Glacier is on the B.C.-Alaska boundary between Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park in B.C. and Glacier Bay
National Park on the U.S. side. The name was adopted in the summer of 1922 by the International Boundary
Commission, in honor of William Cant Ferris, a member of the Canadian survey party engaged in surveying the
boundary from 1909 until 1914. William Cant Ferris also served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the
Great War -- one of the 132 Ferris men who went to war for Canada, 19 of whom were killed in action. Two other
geographical features are believed to have been named after him in British Columbia: Ferris Creek, near Falkland
northwest of Vernon in the Okanagan Valley, was named after him in 1921 and the name was officially adopted on
Nov. 3, 1932. And a peak northeast of the junction of Ferriston Creek and the Omineca River was named Mount
Ferris in 1917, a name officially adopted on Dec. 7, 1950.

In the United States, the family also survived and thrived. Perhaps the most famous of all the Ferris’ is the man who
invented the wheel. George Washington Gale Ferris, was an Illinois- born steel manufacturer whose lineage traces
directly back to Jeffery Ferris. George dreamed up, designed and built the world’s first Ferris Wheel for the 1896
World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in response to the challenge the previous exposition in Paris had presented
in the form of the Eiffel Tower. There are thousands of Ferris Wheels today all over the world, still utilizing the basic
principles and construction techniques conceived by George Ferris.

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