James (James) Croil & Christina Elizabeth (Matthew) Richardson

Family Group Sheet

NameJames (James) Croil, GGG Grandson

Birth4 Sep 1821

Death29 Nov 1916, Crysler Farm, Archerfield, St Lawrence River, Canada

ResidenceCrysler Farm, Archerfield, St Lawrence River, Canada

Residence1916, 150 Crescent St., Montreal

EducationEdinburgh New Academy, The Grange, Sunderland and Glasgow University.

Note 1Described as a ‘prominent literary man’ of Montreal. He and his wife are presumably the ‘Dr & Mrs Croil’ who were guests at his daughter’s 1890 Sylvan Glen Camp? Was he the James Croil who wrote ‘Dundas: A Sketch of Canadian History’?

Note 2Was he, James (James) Croil, the James Croil who was author of ‘Steam Navigation’ (among other publications of a nautical nature) or was the author his nephew James (John) Croil?

Note 3In 1841 he joined his brother William on Croil’s Island. In 1845, he bought Crysler’s Farm (500 acres) from the Hon. Peter McGill and Joseph Shutter, of Montreal, for $6,000.

Note 4“The Crysler Farm mansion house was in need of repairs as well as the farm buildings and fences. He called his homestead “Archerfield” and later built a fine new mansion.”

Note 5Both William and his brother James were elders in the Presbyterian church at Woodlands. He was the author of numerous books including “Dundas” or “A Sketch of Canadian History”.

Note 5“-There were four Croil brothers – Thomas, William, James and John, all of whom answered the lure of the new world and settled in Canada.”

Flags***, Croil, Richardson

FatherJames (Thomas) Croil (1777-1826)

MotherJane (William) Richardson (1790-1882)

Marriage8 Jun 1847

Married MemoVenerable Archdeacon Willis. Or married 4 Sep 1847?