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Cumpston Research
WAS CUMPSTONE LAKE NAMED AFTER WILLIAM?
I am very grateful to Christine Amsden who generously visited the Manitoba Genealogical Soc Office for me and scanned copies of the book The Pioneer Days of William
Cumpstone, Sr & Jr as related by A.A. Patterson.
She also discovered that William is buried at Boissevain and that there is a map of land ownership in the cover of the book.
She found that John Andrew Harrison originally worked for Wm Cumpstone and in 1896 he married Emily Cumpstone, who was Wm's daughter. They had 5 boys and 2 girls....James, Ted, Sidney, Will, Joe, Bessie & Mary.
PIONEER DAYS OF WILLIAM CUMPSTONE SR. AND JR.
As related by A A Patterson
Page 143.
William Cumpstone Sr. was the eldest son of John Cumpston, a farmer and contractor of Montgomeryshire, Wales, where William was born December 9, 1834. He married Mary Poston at Hope Church Shropshire, April 25 1867.
After William had worked on a farm until he was eighteen, he apprenticed himself to a wheelwright. After serving his apprentice-ship, he went to a lead mine as a millwright until 1876 when he rented Santley, a 350 acre farm, from the Earl of Tankerville in Shorpshire. In the early days it was an old stage coach inn on the Shrewsbury-London road. After he lost heavily as a result of disease amongst the sheep and cattle, he decided to go to New Zealand to relatives. When he arrived at Liverpool, he met the Canadian Government immigration agent, who persuaded him to change his plans and join a party of emigrants ready to start for Canada.
In the party were Wm. Lovel, their son Charles, Fred and Herbert Porritt, and E Tobias. The party, under the government guide Armstrong, left the liner 'Circassion' on May 6 1880. The voyage to Point Levis, Quebec, took fourteen days. William Cumpstone was accompanied by his wife and four children, William, Jr, Emily, Sarah, Jane Edward, ranging in age from ten to two years. They travelled by train to Toronto and Collingwood where they made connection with a lake boat which carried them to Duluth. From Duluth, they reached Emerson via the 'Soo line.' At Emerson they bought oxen, supplies, and covered wagons. Their only piece of machinery was a breaking plow. When all was ready they struck west for the Turtle mountains in Southwestern Manitoba along the Boundary Commission Trail.
It was spring with high water and bad roads without bridges on the river crossings. It took them two days to cross the Pembina River south of Manitou as the wagons had to be unloaded, the goods taken across the river on a scow, the oxen swum across, and the wagons reloaded. After three weeks of travel, the party reached Wakopa. From there they went on to 16-2-20 where they pitched their tents to stay while the men looked for suitable land. As the survey of the district was not nearly complete with only two townships completely surveyed and only even-numbered sections open for homesteads, they had to scatter a little to get land.
TO BE CONTINUED
FROM A MESSAGE ON ROOTSWEB
"Beckoning Hills" Boissevain's 75th Jubilee with some family names
This book tells of the pioneer settlement in the Turtle Mountain Souris-Basin area including Deloraine, Ninga, Old Wakopa (1877 LaRiviere) and Fairfax. I have noted where these families came from before they landed in Manitoba.
Charley SANKEY
Neil BELL
Charley DAW
Walter GORDON
W.H. ASHLEY(Ont)
Jas. HENDERSON
Geo. DURSTON (England)
Samuel HALL (England)
Jim BURNS
George C. WRIGHT
Wm. and Margaret LATIMER
Wm. CUMPSTONE (Wales)
A.J. VENABLES (England)
Duncan HENDERSON (Ont)
Jas. Geo. WASHINGTON (ONT)
Thos. CODE (Ont)
John A. MUSGROVE (Ont)
Thos. Ron. ROBERTSON
J.H. Nelin (Ont)
Peter HENDERSON (Scotland)
Jas. GRAHAM (Ont)
W.V. UDALL
Jas. MUSGROVE (Ireland)
Robert RICHARDSON (Ont)
Robert JOHNSTONE (Scotland)
Peter Joseph CANTELON (Ont)
Thos. JOHNSTONE
Harry DUNCAN (Ont)
Wm. PLUNKETT
Ben. DICKSON (Ont)
Wm. STOVIN (England)
Robert KING (Scotland)
Michail FOX (Ireland)married Elizabeth STANLEY
Jas. DOUGALL (Ont)
I.R.F. CHAPMAN (England)
Jas. J. MUSGROVE (Ont)
Samuel GREAVES (England)
Wm. WILLSON (Ont)
H.A. HARRIS (England) married Margaret DICKSON
John Huggard THOMPSON (Ireland)
John PEACOCK (Ont) married Margaret Jane ROBB
Gabriel ORRISS (England)
Thos. PATTERSON (Ont)
Ferdinand COUTURE (Que)
Henry Jas. WOOD (ont) married Eliza BIRBECK
Jas. BURGESS (Ont)
Joe MCKEE
Wm. John MCKINNEY (Ont)
Robt. BASKERVILLE
Robt. HURT
Francis W. LATIMER
Wm. TAYLOR (Que)
John Andrew HARRISON
Frank HOWELL
Walter MILLIONS (Ont)
R.J. LUDGATE
Wallace HILL
Neil MUNROE
A.J. FACEY
Henry Chas. BIRBECK (Ont)
Jas. PATTERSON (Ireland) married Eleanor PARKER
John LINKLATER
Wm. LINKLATER
Jas. MURTON
Chas. H. MCGUINESS (Que) married Edna MURTON
Wm & Edward Cumpstone Manitoba emigrants from Montgomery, Wales
CANADA FAMILY 1
Before reading this page, check out William and his family on the Montgomery page.
Western Land Grants (1870-1930) Legal Land Description Part Section Township Range Meridian
NW 19 3 20 W1 Reference: Volume: 117Folio: 212Microfilm reel number: C-6027
Names: Edward Cumpstone [is this Edward the Ted mentioned in the end column?]
Western Land Grants (1870-1930) Legal Land Description Part Section Township Range Meridian
NE 19 3 20 W1 Reference: Volume: 109Folio: 23Microfilm reel number: C-6020
Names: William Cumpstone - is this William from Wales [opposite]
Western Land Grants (1870-1930) Legal Land Description Part Section Township Range Meridian NW 34 2 20 W1 Reference: Volume: 14Folio: 163Microfilm reel number: C-5951
Names: William Cumpstone
Western Land Grants (1870-1930) Legal Land Description Part Section Township Range Meridian
SW 34 2 20 W1 Reference: Volume: 14Folio: 160Microfilm reel number: C-5951
Names: William Cumpstone
Western Land Grants (1870-1930) Legal Land Description Part Section Township Range Meridian
NE 30 3 20 W1 Reference: Volume: 87Folio: 76Microfilm reel number: C-6004
Names: William Cumpstone
Western Land Grants (1870-1930) Legal Land Description Part Section Township Range Meridian
SE 30 3 20 W1 Reference: Volume: 81Folio: 442Microfilm reel number: C-5999
Names: William Cumpstone
Western Land Grants (1870-1930) Legal L and Description Part Section Township Range Meridian
NW 30 3 20 W1 Reference: Volume: 140Folio: 149Microfilm reel number: C-6043
Names: Wm Cumpstone Jr note this is Junior
FROM THE LATTER DAY SAINTS WEBSITE:
Title The Cumpstone, Chambers ancestry
Stmnt.Resp. Eva Gooden (nee Patterson), Eleanor Seafoot (nee Patterson)
Authors Gooden, Eva Patterson (Main Author) Seafoot, Eleanor Patterson (Added Author)
William Crumpstone was born 9 December 1834 in Montgomeryshire, Wales. His father was John Crumpstone. He married Mary Poston 25 April 1867 in Shropshire. They had four children. They emigrated in 1880 and settled in Manitoba. He died 11 April 1911.
Their son, William (1869-1940), married Eva Matilda Chambers (1871-1918), daughter of Edmund Chambers and Sarah Elizabeth Miles, 8 August 1898. They had three children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Manitoba and British Columbia. Includes Patterson, Hammond and related families.
Archives of Manitoba 130-200 Vaughan St. Winnipeg, MB have a holding for William's records
Patterson, Albert A. Pioneer Days of William Cumpstone, Senior and Junior
M202 35mm MG9 A87.
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I have found the following message in a Rootsweb archive dated Sep 24, 2000 Name:
l Lees
Email: lees@seaside.net Surname: cumpstone
Query: My g uncles ted and Will Cumpstone settled in the Boisssevain area in the late 1800`s and I am trying to locate any information on them they may be connected to the Moise family.
Lynn if you read this please contact me.
1911 Census of Canada Home / 1911 / Manitoba / Souris / 42 Townships 1 /
Transcribed by: Lois East
4 18 Cumpstone William M Head M May 1869 42 1901
5 18 Cumpstone Eva M. F Wife M Mar 1871 40 1901
6 18 Cumpstone Edmund W. M Son S Nov 1899 11 1901
7 18 Cumpstone Edith E. F Daughter S Jul 1901 9 1901
8 18 Cumpstone Annie E. F Daughter S Nov 1902 8 1901
1906 CENSUS
9 103 Compstone W.N. Head M M 37
10 103 Compstone Eva Wife F M 35
11 103 Compstone Edmund Son M S 6
12 103 Compstone Edith Daughter F S 5
13 103 Compstone Annie Daughter F S 3
1901 CENSUS (stet) for William Junior and his family
31 60 Cunpstone William Jr M Head M May 15 1869 31
32 60 Cunpstone Eva M F Wife M Mar 3 1871 30
33 60 Cunpstone Edmund M Son S Nov 10 1899 1
FAMILY 1 1881 Census Family of William and Mary CUMPSTONE Manitoba
Cumpstone, Wm. Age: 47 born England farmer married Episcopal Province: Manitoba District: Western Extension & South Western Extension Turtle Mountain
Cumpstone, Mary Age: 44 born England Province: Manitoba District:
Cumpstone, Wm. Age: 12 born England Province: Manitoba District:
Cumpstone, Emily Age: 8 born England Province: Manitoba District:
Cumpstone, Edward Age: 3 born England Province: Manitoba District:
Cumpstone, Sarah Age: 5 born England Province: Manitoba District:
The same family in 1901
Surname Givens Age Province District Subdistrict Number Page Line
Cumpstone Edward 23 MB BRANDON Morton i-3 7 15
Cumpstone Mary 64 MB BRANDON Boissevain (Village) r-2 5 19
Cumpstone Sarah J. 25 MB BRANDON Boissevain (Village) r-2 5 20
Cumpstone William 67 MB BRANDON Boissevain (Village) r-2 5 18
FAMILY 1 1881 Census Family of William and Mary CUMPSTONE Manitoba
CHECK OUT THE LINK WHERE YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT THIS FAMILYFROM WALES
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