Gen 2 Ebenezer Rogers Chugg

Census 1901: Place: Quebec, Wright, Dist No: 200, Hull, Sub-Dist: M-2, (Deschenes Mills)
Source: NAC  RG31, Microfilm Reel No: T-6549, Schedule 1, Page 14, Starts Line 13
Family 114:
CHUGG, E.R., Lot 13a Range: 2, Male, Head, Married, Born: 19 Dec 1870 Quebec, Age: 30, Origin: English, Methodist, Dairy Farmer
CHUGG, Mary, Female, Wife, Married, Born: 5 Sept 1870 Quebec, Age: 30, Origin: Irish, Anglican
CHUGG, Nilten I., Female, Daughter, Single, Born: 9 Aug 1895 Quebec, Age: 5, Origin: English, Methodist (Cannot make out First Name)
CHUGG, Edna P., Female, Daughter, Single, Born: 8 Dec 1896 Quebec, Age: 4, Origin: English, Methodist
CHUGG, George, Male, Son, Single, Born: 26 Sept 1899 Quebec, Age: 1, Origin: English, Methodist
CHUGG, Catherine, Female, Mother, Widow, Born: 27 Mar 1933 Ontario, Age: 68, Origin: Irish, Methodist

       Rationale for starting the Ottawa Dairy and a list of Dairymen who rolled their dairies into the Ottawa Dairy.

Note that Eb Chugg was one of the Dairymen who rolled his dairy into the Ottawa Dairy.

Other ties to Mary Fitzpatrick:

Thelma,  I am sending you copies of the pages from the Leavings book  about the Dalton Fitzpatrick story and the Ellis story.

There are interesting connections here, if you have not reviewed the stories before. If you have already considered these then please excuse my redundancy.

There is a Granum news item in which Johnnie and Pearl Demaere, Bill DeMaere  Dave Chugg  and Edgar Chugg visited the Dalt Fitzpatrick family at the time of Mae Anders funeral. The DeMaeres and the Chuggs grew up together along with the Fitzpatrick family.

The Fitzpatrick article tells how Dalt was raised by his grandmother in Gatineau. He came west on Threshing crews and “remembered that he had a cousin, Nellie Lang in Granum”. So he went west to visit her.

As Nellie’s mother was Mary Fitzpatrick and as Dalt was a Fitzpatrick, Dalt’s father must have been Mary’s brother.

Dalton married a DeMaere girl who was either sister or aunt of Johnnie and Billy DeMaere. 

So Aunt Pearl and Dalt Fitzpatrick married into the DeMaere family. This makes the second linkage between the Chugg family and the Fitzpatrick family – a generation earlier through marriage and then the next generation as brother and sister in laws. And to top it off. Dalton lived in the same community as his cousin Nellie Chugg Lang, as well. So Eb’s daughter and Elisha’s daughter were both connected to Dalt.

Additionally the article points out that Dalt worked for awhile for Eb Chugg and also worked for Henry Lang, his cousin’s husband. And in the news article, Elisha’s sons, Edgar (my grandpa) and Dave are visiting members of the Fitzpatrick, Demaere, Chugg and Lang families.

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Edith Mathilda Elliot Chugg - Eb's third wife.  Edith Elliot did not remain married to Ebenezer Chugg. 

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Now on to the Ellis story.

Finally I have more tangible evidence that the Ellis – Chugg connection of Hull did exist, because the Ellis story documents how the Ellis were married in Ottawa. They sold their land and equipment (farmers?) and moved to Fort McLeod in 1900 at the insistence of brother Alf an NWMP officer in MacLeod. The Eb Chugg story above indicates that Eb Chugg  knew the Ellis family before arriving in Alberta.

There is also an interesting connection when you look at the Eb Chugg family history. Nellie records that, at the time of Mary Fitzpatrick Chugg’s death,

Mr. Tom Blair, Mr. J Ellis, Mrs. Sandgathe Sr., and Mrs. Felix Sandgathe were a comfort to her until her death.

First, what a statement and testament to her neighbors and friends. This sentence stands for all time.

Secondly, What was it about this statement the ties the Chugg clan and the Ellis clan?  Mary Fitzpatrick Chugg of Hull is comforted by Jim Ellis of Ottawa.  Talk about a strong connection between the Ellis and Chugg family and Fitzpatrick family!  So I now conclude through two stories that the Chugg family knew the Ellis family of Ottawa and followed them out to MacLeod.  The next question is why was Jim Ellis so close to Mary Fitzpatrick?

Were they neighbors in Ottawa, were they cousins, were they school friends, or other. More research into the Ellis family will reveal the clues.

The other connection is that of the Blair family. Eb Chugg knew the Blairs from the Ottawa region. Thomas Blair owned a dairy in the Billings Bridge region of Ottawa and delivered milk to the city of Ottawa. The Blairs were the first people to take care of Mary Fitzpatrick Chugg when she got off the passenger train in Leavings, Alberta.Her first evening was spent at teh Thomas Blair Family home in Leavings. She may also have known the Blairs while in Ottawa, as well, or had just known the association between he husband and the Blair family. Regardless, this contact demonstrates the bond between the Blairs and the Chugg family, as they remained close to Mary even to her death in 1908.  In tribute to this connection between these two families, the Thomas Blair family story is included below:

The Sandgathe family was also very loyal to her. Eb had purchased land from Felix Sandgathe and Mrs. Felix Sandgathe provided consolation and support for Mary as well.

 Dalt Fitzpatrick Story

Ellis Family story

Nellie Chugg Langs "Mama", Mary Fitzpatrick Chugg wife of Ebenezer

Rogers Chugg, who was buried as the first burial in Granum, Alberta.

She rests outside the surveyed land of the graveyard, as it was not yet surveyed.

Story of Ebenezer Rogers Chuggs collie,

that went to church when Eb was away.

Eb had the collie as a type of seeing eye dog,

due to his cataracts.  Michael Chugg and

family in CT also have a collie, Prince.

How intersting that such similarities exist.

90th birthday of Ebenezer Rogers Chugg -

Eb with 18 horse rig for cultivating.

July 2008 email from Thelma Hartman - Calgary, Alberta:

The 1871 Census led me in a new direction for the Davis family. Catherine Chugg’s mother and sister are visiting them (perhaps because Catherine is close to giving birth to Charles Robert Chugg). No surprises for Sarah Davis but Mary Davis (Cathrine's sister) [note by MPC] and her daughter Jemina sent me back to read Aunt Nelly’s book again.

Aunt Nelly said that one of Ebenezer Chugg’s favorite cousins was Mina Kennedy, daughter of Margaret Davis and Mr. ?? Kennedy. Aunt Nelly said that Mina Kennedy married Bill Nichols and had two children.  Until now I have never been able to find any more information on Mina Kennedy. Turns out that his favorite cousin was likely Jemina Davis, daughter of Mary Davis and James Davis.

I found a marriage certificate for Jemima Davis, daughter of James Davis and Mary Davis Davis, born 1866 in Quebec. She married William Nichol on Jan 10, 1889 in Carleton County, Ontario. Jemima and William Nichol had two children, Elsie Lindsey Nichol (born Feb 22, 1890) and Frederick William Nichol (born Mar 8, 1892).  Jemima Davis Nichol died on Jan 25, 1917 in Lady Grey Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario.

The family is in the 1901 census as follows

Nichol William M Head M Jul 15 1862 38

Nichol Jerinema F Wife M Nov 19 1866 34

Nichol Elsie F Daughter S Feb 22 1880 11

Nichol Fredrick M Son S Mar 8 1892 9 

Source Information: 1901 Census of Canada

Subdistrict: Central (Ward/Quartier), OTTAWA (City/Cité), ONTARIO

District Number: 100

Subdistrict Number: b-8

Archives Microfilm: T-6488

And the 1911 Census as follows

1911   / Ontario   /  Ottawa   /  15   Central ward / page 11

Nichol Wm. M Head M Jul 1863 47

Nichol Mina F Wife M Nov 1865 46

Nichol Elsie F Daughter M Feb 1890 21

Kennedy John M Roomer Mar 1824 87

Kinnaer Ira M Roomer M Dec 1890 20

Kinnaer Rebecca F Wife M Apr 1889 22

Kinnaer Gladis F Daughter S 1910 5 mo

Elsie Lindsey Nichol married William Price Lucas (born Sept 1884 in Quebec) on June 17, 1910. They seem to have separated as she is listed in 1911 Census as Elsie Nichol. The John Kennedy in the 1911 census has me wondering if Mary Davis may have married a second time. I can find no trace of Mary and Jemina Davis or Kennedy in the 1881 Census of Canada or the USA.

Frederick William Nichol ends up New York where he dies in Oct 1955. I have put a note next to his death date at this site. On a WW2 draft notice he lists his next of kin as Rose Nichol of New York.

http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?lastname=nichol&firstname=frederick&nt=exact