Decendants of James Pentland: 1st to 6th Generation

‘Pentland’,

an account of the descendants of Alexander Pentland and Elizabeth (Elspeth) Wilson, who were married at Carrington, Scotland, about 1540.

We begin this report with James Pentland who married in 1657 to Agnes Frizell at Carrington, Scotland,
because it is very hard to confirm events and dates before this time.

The facts which are made use of, were compiled from many sources by George E. Pentland, M.A. of Hanover, Ontario.

George Ernest Pentland was born in Thornbury, Grey County, in 1874. He taught school at the age of 16 in Collingwood Township. While teaching at Stratford Collegiate Institute, he graduated with a B.A. from Queen's University, the first in the family line to get a degree. He then spent two years at Queen's specializing in Mathematics, and graduated with an M.A. He taught in the West and in Ontario, and finally at his request was transferred to his native Grey County, where he was inspector of schools for 10 years and lived in Hanover. George travelled widely and in 1937-38, travelled around the world. In 1947, he was a professor of Mathematics at Edison College, Fort Myers, Florida.

In 1908, George married Isabella McCall of Agincourt. They had two sons, Ernest Seth, born in 1909, graduated from the University of Toronto with honours in 1940, as a doctor, and practised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Percival George was born at Beamsville in 1915, he was physically strong and a long distance swimmer and hockey player, and was employed in the Life Insurance business in Hanover.

'The Chestnut Family' A branch of the Pentland family is provided by the following.

A great deal of information was provided by Austin Chestnut and his daughters Marilyn and Carol as it pertained to their side of the family. Information and photo's provided by Grace and Howard Cox, along with facts compiled by the author of this report, Barkley Cox, and added to George Pentland's reports to form the following history of the many families of our ancestors.

Since the beginning of this web site there has been contributions by so many and I thank you all.

11. David⁴ PENTLAND

(David³, David², James¹)

He married on 6 Jun 1766 in Newton, Scotland

Grizell

Children of David⁴ Pentland and Grizell were as follows:

17   i   Agnes⁵ PENTLAND
born 17 Jul 1767

18   ii   John⁵ PENTLAND
born 5 Jun 1769

19   iii   Elizabeth⁵ PENTLAND
born 9 Jul 1771

+   20   iv   James⁵ PENTLAND

20. James⁵ PENTLAND

(David⁴, David³, David², James¹)
born 19 Jan 1774 in Newton, Scotland;
deceased 1822 in Banbridge, County Down, Ulster, Ireland.

He married in 1797

Deborah Mitchell

Notes for James Pentland
James and Deborah became engaged and it was proclaimed on Apr 27 1791.
They were not married until early in 1797 and then lived at Burntisland, Fifeshire,
about 5 miles from Edinburgh. James became a coach-master.
Banbridge is in the north, and is on the main road from Belfast to Dublin.
In the Dublin riots of 1922, all old wills were destroyed. No mention as to when Deborah died.

Notes for Deborah Mitchell
Apparently, Deborah's father was a merchant.

Children of James⁵ Pentland and Deborah Mitchell were as follows:

+   21   i   James⁶ PENTLAND

22   ii   Margaret⁶ PENTLAND
born 20 Jul 1800 in Burntisland, Scotland.

+   23   iii   Alice⁶ PENTLAND

24   iv   Elizabeth⁶ PENTLAND
born 1802 in Burntisland, Scotland;
deceased 1868

Elizabeth came to Canada with her brothers James and George and her sisters, settling in Kingston. Not much is accurately known about Elizabeth, but she married a man named Gibson, who died about 1868. She lived in a small house in the lumber yard, just behind where her sister Alice lived. No record of her death, nor the occupation of her husband can be found. The name Elizabeth is a very old Pentland name, and as many of the next generation were named Elizabeth, evidently after her, we may assume that she was popular. George Pentland said in his family report, that a cousin, Mary Sheehan of Seward, Nebraska, mentioned Elizabeth had a daughter, name unknown, was an invalid who had to be wheeled around in a chair, and died about 1870.

25   v   John⁶ PENTLAND
born 29 Dec 1804 in Burntisland, Scotland.
There is no further record of John.

26   vi   George⁶ PENTLAND
born 9 Nov 1806 in Burntisland, Scotland.

George Pentland the author of much of this history, and who was the great-nephew of this George made the following observations.

   George, brother of James, was the last of the family to have been born in the land of the heather. He came to Canada with his brother James and the rest, about 1822 and settled in Kingston.

   He became a sailor on the Great Lakes. George never married. He was accustomed to come up to the Caven farm to visit his brother James, and to Port Hope to visit his sister Jane, who married Benjamin Chestnut, but as he left no descendants, and as none of the authors living family ever saw him, not much is known.

   Aunt Fannie Baker, however, remembers him, she said he was a tall man, slim, blue-eyed, and was like his brother James. There are also plenty of legends about his Uncle George among the Chestnut families, as he was well-known to the last generation.

   There was also a legend that he was burned to death in a ship which was destroyed by fire on the Great Lakes, but try as he could, the author could not find any ship that was burned that mentions his name as being among the lost. The date of his death is as a consequence, not known. No one ever saw him or heard of him after about 1859.

   It is a fact, however, that he came to the Caven farm after the death of his brother James, which took place as recorded, in December 1856. He was not in time for the funeral, as it was impossible in those early times to get word to family and friends, but Aunt Fannie says he came as soon as he got word.

27 vii David⁶ PENTLAND
born 1810.

+ 28 viii Jane⁶ PENTLAND

21. James⁶ PENTLAND

(James⁵, David⁴, David³, David², James¹),
born 27 Jan 1798 in Burntisland, Scotland;
deceased 11 Dec 1856 in Buried at Millbrook, Ontario.

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He married (1) on 2 Dec 1823

Catherine Boyd

deceased Aug 1834 in Kingston, Ontario.

He married (2) in Dec 1837

Ann HAMILTON

born 1814 in England;
deceased 4 Dec 1888.

Notes for James Pentland
James along with his parents and siblings moved from Scotland to Ulster around 1806-7, and in early life learned the trade of cord-wainer, or shoe-maker or worker in leather. He came to Canada about 1822, his brother George and his sisters Alice, Elizabeth and Jane accompanying him. They settled in Kingston, Ontario. They had walked from Quebec City through the unbroken wilderness.

Notes for Catherine Boyd
Died of cholera.

Notes for Ann Hamilton
Anne Hamilton and her husband had been neighbours of James and Catherine.
Both Catherine and Anne's husband died of the plague in the mid 1830's.

Anne had 3 children with her first husband;
1.Jane, known by members of the Pentland family as Aunt Jane Herron,
2.William, as Uncle Bill Hamilton .
3.Annie, who later married William Lee.

Children of James⁶ Pentland and Catherine Boyd were as follows:

29   i   Edward⁷ PENTLAND
born 12 Jul 1825 in Kingston, Ontario;
deceased 1845.

30   ii   David⁷PENTLAND
born 13 Aug 1827 in Kingston, Ontario.
David died at a very young age,
but there is no record of the date of death.

31   iii   Eliza Jane⁷ PENTLAND
born 9 May 1829 in Kingston, Ontario;
deceased 29 Jul 1873 in Toronto, Ontario,

+   32   iv   David⁷ PENTLAND

+   33   v   Margaret⁷ PENTLAND

Children of James⁶ Pentland and Ann Hamilton were as follows:

+   34   i   George⁷ PENTLAND

+   35   ii   John⁷ PENTLAND

+   36   iii   Frances⁷ PENTLAND

+   37   iv   James⁷ PENTLAND

+   38   v   Edward⁷ PENTLAND

+   39   vi   Elizabeth⁷ PENTLAND

40   vii   Mary⁷ PENTLAND
born 29 Jan 1851 in Cavan Farm;
deceased 5 Oct 1923 in near Collingwood, Ontario.
Mary and Martha were twins. Mary never married.

+   41   viii   Martha⁷ PENTLAND

+   42   ix   Joseph⁷ PENTLAND

23. Alice⁶ PENTLAND

(James⁵, David⁴, David³, David², James¹),
born 1802 in Burntisland, Scotland;
deceased 3 May 1900 in Kingston, Ontario.

She married on 10 Jan 1839 in Kingston, Ontario,

John Noon

deceased 16 Jan 1891 in Kingston, Ontario.

Notes for Alice Pentland
George Pentland had for sometime thought that Alice and Elizabeth were twins. The reason for this thought was, they were born very close together, and there was no record of the exact dates. Anyhow, it was just a feeling they were!

Alice and her family are all buried in the cemetery at Cataraqui, and the grave is marked with a stone giving their names.
There are thus no descendants of hers.

Children of Alice⁶ Pentland and John Noon were as follows:

43   i   Emily⁷ NOON
(Emily died in early childhood, at the age of
eight months, dates are unknown.)

44   ii   William⁷NOON
born 1840;
deceased 15 Oct 1864 in Kingston, Ontario.
William died in his 25th. year.

45   iii   Eliza Jane⁷ NOON
born 1843;
deceased 2 Jul 1870 in Kingston, Ontario.
Elilza never married and died in her 27th. year.

28. Jane⁶ PENTLAND

(James⁵, David⁴, David³, David², James¹),
born 3 Sep 1813 in Banbridge, County Down, Ulster, Ireland;
deceased 3 Jun 1865 in Port Hope, Ontario.

She married on 21 Mar 1834 in St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Kingston, Ontario,

Benjamin CHESTNUT

born 1805;
deceased 17 Mar 1884 in Port Hope, Ontario.

Notes for Jane Pentland
Jane was the youngest of seven children. She and Benjamin are buried in an unmarked grave in Port Hope, There is a map of St. John's Cemetery and from that map, Austin Chestnut was able to place a metal marker on the grave in 1978. According to Austins' investigation, Jane came to Canada about 1822 with her brothers and sisters and settled in Kingston, living with her oldest brother James in Barriefield.
George E. Pentland says, as the rest of the family came to Canada, we think in 1822, Jane would be a very small girl at the time. (9). It is possible she did not come out with the others. In some of his research, he had learned that a Janie Pentland lived with relatives named Montgomery, and came out later to Canada. This may be James' sister Jane, but he wasn't certain.

In any case, Jane did come to Kingston and lived with her brothers and sisters, and in 1834 married Benjamin Chestnut.

Notes for Benjamin Chestnut
Buried in Port Hope, (see details in comments for Jane Pentland.) After Benjamin and Jane were married they lived at the old Chestnut Farm in Pittsburg Township, Lot 13, Conc. 1., After their first 3 children were born, they started a move towards Port Hope, on the way their 4th child David was born in Napanee, all the rest were born in Port Hope. On their arrival in Port Hope, they bought from David Buchan of Toronto, (bursar of the University and College at Toronto) a parcel of land , Part Lot 4 in the first Conc. of Hope Township, County of Durham, which had just lately been laid out in town lots by John K. Roche, deputy provincial surveyor, and was registered in the Registry office of the County of Durham, as Lot 12 on the east side of Elgin St. and south of Ward. In 1973 known as 121 and 125 Elgin St. S.

+   46   i   Alice Pentland⁷ CHESTNUT

     47   ii   Samuel⁷ CHESTNUT

born 10 Jan 1837 in Kingston, Ontario, .
Samuel spent his early life in Port Hope. When quite a young man,
he left home, after which he never communicated with his family.
About 1864, two of his brothers, by pure chance, met him in Chicago,
at that time he said he was about to leave for China.
He was never heard from again.

+   48   iii   Elizabeth Jane⁷ CHESTNUT

+   49   iv   David George⁷ CHESTNUT

+   50   v   James⁷ CHESTNUT

+   51   vi   John⁷ CHESTNUT

+   52   vii   Martha⁷ CHESTNUT

    53   viii   William⁷ CHESTNUT

born 1 Jan 1850 in Port Hope, Ontario;
deceased 29 Aug 1916 in Port Hope, Ontario.
He married on 17 Sep 1879 in Port Hope, Ontario,

Ann Jane DOUGLAS

born 1837 in Port Hope, Ontario;
deceased 25 Apr 1935 in Port Hope, Ontario.

Note: William Chestnut worked as a painter, mainly in Port Hope.
He married Ann Jane Douglas
(who was an older sister of Mary Douglas, who married David George Chestnut) They had 4 children, none lived.
At the time of her death Ann Jane had lived to be the oldest member of the family connection, dying on Apr. 25, 1935 at the age of 98 years,
7 months and 4 days.

+   54   ix   Frederick⁷ CHESTNUT

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