Stanzel Family Tree

29 January 2019

   'Now this is where the name change comes in. The registrar said that there was no
one by the name of Stanzel registered in the books, but there was another
gentleman by the name of Stansal who had made an application three years previous.
A heated argument ensued, and the results were that if he wanted to assume the
name of Joseph Stansal, he could prove up then and there. If not, he would have to
return to the farm for another three years and come back again.   [Think about this??]
He assumed the name Stansal.'  [This branch of the family still use this surname]
[Joseph Stansal is the grandfather of the author of the original copy]
'I rather doubt he was all gentlemanly when he talked to the land register officer.
 He moved to Paisley for a number of years before he died in 1908. He is buried
in the Douglas Hill Cemetery at Eden Grove, ON. His oldest son Joseph, [father
of the author] was born in 1853, married a lady by the name of Martha Turner in
1880 and bought a farm just east of  his fathers farm on Elora Road. The author
was born there on 11 April 1898. The author has five brothers and four sisters, all
older than author. All are deceased except Joseph and Sadie, the author is the
youngest.'

This story will be completed with the next post; then

I hope to walk thru the soldier  who took land and settled. I believe
that the majority of the soldiers moved away. There is a group of books,
'Carleton County Copy Books' which deal with land settlement which I
will use. They [5] are in the Ottawa City Archives and all are indexed.
Jim Stanzell