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Clusters database.

E-mail from Brenda Dougall Merriman to Susan Bellingham, accompanied by a printouts of the "Clusters" databases.

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Isle of Wight.

Material relating to the settlement of emigrants from the Isle of Wight in Canada. Consists of Brenda Dougall Merriman's ms. and ts. research notes, e-mail correspondence, photocopies from manuscript and published sources.

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Byron : maps 2000.

Material relating to English maps by Susan Rowland and Canadian maps by Byron Moldofsky. This folder contains correspondence, draft maps and working papers.

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Research : Canada : Brenda Dougall Merriman

This series consists of research files belonging to Brenda Dougall Merriman whose work concentrated on settlements of Petworth emigrants in Canada. There is correspondence with the other project members in both Canada and England, as well as correspondence with descendants of and informants on Petworth emigrants and their settlement in Canada. A good deal of the research is on settling details of biography and genealogy of individual family names associated with the various geographical clusters of settlement.

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Upton.

Material relating to the family of Frederick Upton, a Petworth emigrant who settled in Toronto township, Ontario. Consists of ts. notes and correspondence with descendants.

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Publication Process

Series consists of files which appear appear to be Mary McDougall Maude's files and Wendy Cameron's files. The folders contain material relating to editing the manuscript and correspondence, faxes, e-mails and other working papers circulated among the primary researchers for comment and correction. The "primary researchers" in this case are Wendy Cameron, Mary McDougall Maude, Shela Haines, Leigh Lawson, Brenda Dougall Merriman and sometimes Gwen Peroni.

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Families Files

This series supplements Series 2 and contains correspondence to and from Wendy Cameron, Mary McDougall Maude, Brenda Dougall Merriman, Sheila Haines and family correspondents, photocopies of original documents, articles and other sources. It is organized alphabetically by family name.

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Emigration committees : Chrippes and Knight.

Material relating to individuals assisting Petworth emigrants. Contains two information sheets completed by Sheila Haines (photocopies), correspondence to Wendy Cameron from Sheila haines and Alison McCann.

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Miscellaneous emigrants.

Material relating to the settlement of Petworth emigrants. Consists primarily of correspondence to the researchers regarding names of possible Petworth emigrants and settlement in places other than Ontario.

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St. Catharines group.

Material relating to the settlement of Petworth emigrants in the St. Catharine, Ontario area. Consists of Brenda Dougall Merriman's ms. and ts. research notes, family information sheets completed by her, correspondence, photocopies from manuscript sources.

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The Petworth Project fonds.

  • SCA162-GA136
  • Fonds
  • 1979-2000

Consists of material relating to the research for, writing and publication of two volumes relating to the Petworth Emigration Scheme: Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada : the Petworth Project, 1832-1837 / by Wendy Cameron and Mary McDougall Maude, and English immigrant voices : labourers letters from Upper Canada in the 1830's, both of which were published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2000.

The files retained by the Project fall into three broad categories :

1) the "results of genealogical research in England and the family history files used in creating the list in Part 2 of Assisting emigration;
2) files relating to research in Canadian genealogical resources;
3) files dealing with the process and creation of the books."

Included are correspondence among the primary researchers and to and from individuals relating to families and individual emigrants, data sheets and electronic databases relating to Petworth emigrants and sponsors, photocopies of original correspondence and documents, research notes, drafts and working papers relating to the editing of the final manuscripts.

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Brantford.

Material relating to the settlement of Petworth emigrants in the Brantford, Ontario area. Consists of Brenda Dougall Merriman's ms. and ts. research notes, family information sheets completed by her, correspondence, photocopies from published sources.

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Adelaide settlement.

Material relating to research on the settlement of Petworth emigrants in Adelaide Township, Middlesex County, Ont. This folder contains ms. notes.

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Petworth database, disk 2.

Disk 2 contains five WordPerfect 7 files on one floppy disk, 3.25":
1832-37-base: 199 p. document with endfield and endrecord tags, no field names.
Basefile.tmp: could not open.
baselist.mrg.frm: list of fields for database, 1 p.
Note from donors: "The 1832-37-base represents the database for just the 1832-1837 emigrants. Our printed list was generated from this base."
sponsors.bas: 26 p. document, field names do not show, endfield tags and endrecord tags show.
sponsors.mrg: list of field names, 1 p.
Note from donors: "Information on sponsors of the emigration was kept on a separate data base. This data base is not complete".

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Letters : MS edit.

Material relating to editing the letters. Consists primarily of dated tables of editing progress, lists of "Comments" and printed e-mail correspondence to and from Wendy Cameron, Mary McDougall Maude and Brenda Dougall Merriman.

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Emigrants to U.S.A.

Material relating to the settlement of Petworth emigrants in the United States, particularly in New York, Michigan and Ohio. Consists of ts. notes (computer output) and photocopies from a published source of extracts of letters from individual emigrants.

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Assistants.

Material relating to individuals assisting Petworth emigrants in Canada. Consists of ms and ts. notes and photocopies from manuscript sources.

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Family Information Sheets: Master Files

Series consists of masters of the Family Information Sheets used to compile the list of "Emigrants on Petworth ships, 1832-1837", which comprises Part 2 of Assisting Immigration. These sheets were "intended as a snapshot of families at the time of emigration" and were used to compile an electronic database as well as the published list. The "masters" in this case actually consist of dated and initialled copies of all the sheets created for each name over time, and are chronologically organized within each name so that the progress of accumulation or duplication of information can be followed.

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Egremont Road : drafts.

Material relating to the settlement of Petworth emigrants. Includes ms. and ts. notes, printouts of biographical information, photocopies from published sources.

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Waterloo/Wellington.

Material relating to the settlement of Petworth emigrants in Waterloo/Wellington. This folder contains photocopies from published sources, working papers.

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Oxford County : Blandford.

Material relating to the settlement of Petworth emigrants in Oxford County. This folder contains ms. notes on published sources.

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Petworth Emigration Project : Part two : a list of Petworth emigrants, 1832-1837 : 1832-7~pri.wpd.

Part two as it went to the publishers. Consists of a 394 p. WordPerfect file on one floppy disk, 3.25". Note from the donors : "This version does not contain any changes made in proof. The list was compiled from our main database (English research); information from the Canadian research was added by Mary and reviewed by Brenda."

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Corrections to letters.

Material relating to editing the letters, including details to be verified. Includes correspondence to and from the primary researchers in England and Canada, annotated drafts and working papers.

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Sponsors, Sussex : Hampton, John, Sullington.

Material relating to individuals assisting Petworth emigrants. Contains one information sheet completed by Sheila Haines?, 1 p. ms. notes (all photocopies)
Notes on folder: large landowner, yeoman; his flock provided the sheep sent to Mr. Riddle of Zora and George Sockett in 1835.

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Sponsors, Sussex : Mason, William, East Street, Chichester.

Material relating to individuals assisting Petworth emigrants. Contains one information sheet completed by Sheila Haines (photocopy)
Note on folder: bookseller and printer; William Hayley Mason published Letters from Sussex emigrants gone out from the south side of the hills to Upper Canada, 1837; addit.

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Petworth project questionnaire.

Copies of the original questionnaire distributed by Wendy Cameron and Mary McDougall Maude to locate sources of information about the Petworth emigrants.

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Woodstock : research correspondence.

Material relating to the settlement of Petworth emigrants in Woodstock, Ontario. Consists of Brenda Dougall Merriman's ms. and ts. research notes, family information sheets completed by her, correspondence, photocopies from published sources.

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Waterloo, Wellington.

Material relating to the settlement of Petworth emigrants in Waterloo and Wellington Counties. Consists of Brenda Dougall Merriman's ms. and ts. research notes, family information sheets completed by her, correspondence, photocopies from manuscript and published sources.

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Goldring.

Material relating to individuals with the name Goldring, Petworth emigrants, who settled primarily in York (Toronto). Consists of ts and ms. notes, photocopies from published sources.

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Chantler.

Material relating to the Chantler family, Petworth emigrants. Includes Brenda Dougall Merriman's ms. and ts. notes, correspondence, photocopies from manuscript and printed sources.

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Harwood history.

Photocopy of a monograph privately printed in 1979: Harwood history, in particular the story of the Henry Harwoods of Lewes, Sussex and their descendants [by] John Harwood.

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Research Files : England

This series consists of research files from county record offices and other archives, primarily in England. It also contains copies of emigrant letters home to England, sorts of master list of emigrants and research on sponsors. The files contain correspondence, memos, notes, material shared and passed to and from researchers in England and in Canada.

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