Brooke Township, Ontario

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Brooke

Source: The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project:
Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Middlesex, Ont.
Location: Brooke Township, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada
Map Title: Brooke
Date(s): 1880
Source: http://web.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/Images/Maps/TownshipMaps/lam-m-brooke.jpg


Highlighted areas (top, then bottom left to right):

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- Archibald Fisher purchased farm in 1856
- Home of Archibald and Jane (Campbell) Fisher, daughter of Isabella (McLean) Campbell and sister of Sarah Campbell
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- Additional farmland owned by Neil Campbell, son of Isabella (McLean) Campbell
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- Business and farm of John Brannan. Brannan bought the mill originally owned by Archibald Gardner, husband of Margaret Livingston.
- Sarah Campbell, daughter of Isabella (McLean) Campbell, did housework for Brannan prior to her marriage to John Livingston
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- Farm settled in 1857 by Isabella (McLean) Campbell and her unmarried children: Neil, Sarah, Jane, Donald, and John
- The family had been a victim of the Highland Clearances in Scotland
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- Farm settled in 1857 by William and Euphemia Campbell
- Euphemia was Isabella's daughter and Sarah Campbell's sister