My Trails into the Past

In the last post about the Tierney family, Margaret (Tierney) Gleeson had grown up in Carleton County with her parents, John Tierney and Ann Murray, and was one of eleven children born to them. The earliest census that John Tierney was enumerated in was 1842, the census of Canada West in the Upper Canada Province. By this time, John owned 100 acres of property and was a farmer. So, property records should show when he acquired this land. Land Records The earliest deed I located was dated 3 August 1830. William Hamilton of Nepean, sold about 100 acres of land located in the rear half of lot number 29 in the 6th concession, to Denis Tierney and John Tierney, both of Nepean. They paid £87.10 (87 pounds, 10 shillings) of lawful money of Upper Canada. It is very likely that Denis Tierney was John’s father. [1] Before going further, the layout of concessions needs to be discussed. Land was surveyed and divided into concessions and then into 35 lots. Each lot was about 200 acres unless so...