A.C. Buchanan, Emigration Agent in Montreal, 1800s

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A.C. Buchanan, Emigration Agent in Montreal, 1800s

Post by smcarberry » Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:17 pm

Although in postings on other online lists/news groups I have mentioned
A.C. Buchanan as an emigration agent working out of Montreal, there was
no biographical background on him to include because my source was
official or newspaper articles. Today though I bumped into a definite
Clare connection of his family in the same time period as the wave of
emigration, through the emigration agent's sister Sarah. I now post that below, and I have to wonder if this man's role may be the reason that some immigrant Clare families have a son named Alex quite far down the birth order.

Sharon Carberry
Georgia USA

The Buchanan Book: The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal...
by A. W. Patrick Buchanan
p. 234 - 236
VII. Alexander Carlisle [Buchanan], who was born 25th December 1808, on Common Green, was named after Alexander Carlisle, an Irish solicitor. He accompanied his father to America, but in 1819 went back to Ireland and was educated at a school in Londonderry. In 1825 he returned to New York, and in the same year went to Montreal, where he was for some years in business wit his brother Robert, the firm being known as Buchanan & Co. In 1835, he took charge of the Emigration Office at Quebec, and on the 1st July, 1838, was appointed by the British Government Chief Emigration Agent in succession to his uncle, Alexander Carlisle Buchanan. He married at Quebec, on 3rd November, 1840, Charlotte Louise Cardwell, daughter of the Hon. Edward BOWEN, Chief Justice for the District of Quebec. He died on 2nd February, 1868, at Quebec. She died on 20th November, 1894, at the same place. They
had issue:
1. Carlisle Edward, born 4th May, 1846; entered service of the Bank of
Montreal, and died 15th March, 1867, at Port Hope, Ont.;
2. Ernest Bowen, of Australia, born 4th April, 1855...
....
VIII. Sarah, born on 24th March 1810, at Common Green, and named
after her grandmother Sarah SPROULE...She came to New York with her father, but went back to Ireland in April, 1829. On the 23rd September, 1829, she as married in the church of Cappagh, Omagh, to Robert Blackwell, son of Alexander BLACKWELL, of Holywood, near Belfast. She died on 18th February, 185, at Lower Mount Street, Dublin. They had issue:
1. James Buchanan, born 13th October, 1830, and died 22nd July, 1831.
2. Alexander, born 16th April, 1834...
3. James Buchanan, born 3rd August, 1837, and died 1st April, 1841 at New York.
4. Robert, born 1846, and died 8th November, 1888.
[New set of numbers for the daughters, with no birth dates given]
1. Anna Arthur, married 8th February 1854, Thomas STUDDERT of Kilkishen House, County Clare, Ireland.
2. Elizabeth Buchanan, married James B. IEVERS of County Clare, and died 1st Feburary, 1898.
3. Margaret Eleanor Whitla, married Hodder ROBERTS of Mount Reber,Cork, and died in 1880, in Ireland, leaving issue.
4. Sarah Caronline, died 4th March, 1860.

[surnames capitalized in the transcription here only]

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Buchanan (emigration agent) and Donnellan, Montreal

Post by smcarberry » Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:43 pm

p. 110
"Alexander Buchanan was at one time officer of the original St. Patrick's Society of Montreal. Mr. D. R. McCord writing in 'Old and New' said:
'The St. Patrick's Society was founded on the feast day of its patron saint in the year 1834...Its objects were stated to be the advancement and welfare of Irishmen, assisting their immigration to and promoting their settlement in the province...The first office bearers were as follows: John Donellan and A.
Buchanan, respectively president and vice-president..."

From the same book as in the original posting

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