| Next revision | Previous revision |
| rousseau_adolphus [] – external edit 127.0.0.1 | rousseau_adolphus [] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1 |
|---|
| ====== Rousseau, Adolphus ====== | ====== Rousseau, Adolphus ====== |
| (died 26 June 1909, aged 71), contractor. (Adolphus Rousson) In the will he made the month before he died, he describes himself as a “contractor” and as living in Williamstown. At this time he was financially involved in the grist and saw mills at Williamstown but was not their owner. In the Surrogate Court transcript of the will and on his gravestone the surname is spelled Rousson. On 23 Feb. 1879 Adolphus Rousson, Williamstown, wrote to Dr Bergin, MP, and J. McLennan, MP, about a $50 penalty imposed on him in connection with a barge of lumber sent from Moulinette to Montreal. He speaks of the barge as being in charge of “one of my captains” and refers to “My Brother Timothy.” In Oct. 1905, Adolphus Rousson (sp. in record corrected from Rousseau) of Williamstown was made a JP. He evidently never married, or was a childless widower. The //Glengarry News// notices of his death have the spellings Rousseau and Roussen. See also entry for Rousseau BROTHERS. | (died 26 June 1909, aged 71), contractor. (Adolphus Rousson) In the will he made the month before he died, he describes himself as a “contractor” and as living in Williamstown. At this time he was financially involved in the grist and saw mills at Williamstown but was not their owner. In the Surrogate Court transcript of the will and on his gravestone the surname is spelled Rousson. On 23 Feb. 1879 Adolphus Rousson, Williamstown, wrote to Dr Bergin, MP, and J. McLennan, MP, about a $50 penalty imposed on him in connection with a barge of lumber sent from Moulinette to Montreal. He speaks of the barge as being in charge of “one of my captains” and refers to “My Brother Timothy.” In Oct. 1905, Adolphus Rousson (sp. in record corrected from Rousseau) of Williamstown was made a JP. He evidently never married, or was a childless widower. The //Glengarry News// notices of his death have the spellings Rousseau and Roussen. See also entry for [[rousseau_brothers|Rousseau BROTHERS]]. |
| |
| <tab>It is probable that he and his brother Timothy were the very small landholders who, under phonetic spellings of the surname Rousseau made even more uncertain by the handwriting, are listed, respectively, as a carpenter called Dolphus, aged 32, and a yeoman, Timothy, aged 37, in the 1871 Charlottenburgh Township assessment roll. | <tab>It is probable that he and his brother Timothy were the very small landholders who, under phonetic spellings of the surname Rousseau made even more uncertain by the handwriting, are listed, respectively, as a carpenter called Dolphus, aged 32, and a yeoman, Timothy, aged 37, in the 1871 Charlottenburgh Township assessment roll. |
