Catt

(submitted by Jim Ward)

Henry (Uncle Boss) Catt (1816–1899), born in Sussex, England came to Lot 22 on the South Boundary Concession of Bosanquet Twp. sometime before 1850. He was married to Ann Crouch (1823–1890). Their children were born in Bosanquet Twp. Their first daughter was Elizabeth (1850–1882). The other children were Albert (1857–1880), Samuel (1861–), Annie (1862–1915) who married William Shute, and Armina (1867–1910) who married Harry Goldsmith.

In the early 1850s, two of Henry's nephews, Stephen (1834–1905) and Henry (1835–1911), came to Canada and ended up in Bosanquet, working on the Grand Trunk Railroad. They apparently lived with their Uncle Henry for a while.

Stephen Catt, c. 1900. Courtesy J Ward.

Stephen Catt married Mary Ainscough (1845–1917) in 1862. They had 16 children. Their eighth child was Frank Catt (1874–1952), who married Elizabeth Louise Logan. They lived on the home farm in 1911, but later farmed Lot 10, Con. 8 NER, Warwick Twp.

Child number 13 of Stephen and Mary was James Catt (1882–1961), who married Alice Everett and farmed the east ½ of Lot 19, South Boundary Concession, Bosanquet Twp., where their first five children were born, then moved to the west ½ of Lot 10, Con. 7, Warwick Twp., where four more children were born. James and Alice moved from Bosanquet to Warwick sometime between November 1913 and September 1915. Their family of nine were: Barbara (1907–1962); Everett (1908–1996) who married Helen Massecotte in 1969 and farmed with his father, taking over the farm in 1961; Maurice (1910–1975) who married Hilda Curts; Burton (1912–1980) who married Margery Casement and farmed the first farm to the east of his father; Annie (1913–1996) who married Jack Evans and lived in Forest, Ont.; George (1915–1991) who farmed directly across the road from his brother Burton; Emma (1917–1974) who married Arthur Marrison and farmed about the third farm west of her father; Margaret (1919–2001) who married James Ward; and Lillian (1922–) who married Gerald Boyne.

Stephen Catt's brother Henry married Catherine Crawford (1848–1899) in 1869 in Port Huron, Michigan. They had thirteen children. Their fifth child Arthur (1877–1954) married (Elva) Alva Brand.

Arthur and Elva's son Reginald Catt married Rena Minielly and farmed Lot 9, Con. 4 NER, Warwick Twp. Their son Stanley farms there in 2008. Another son Wayne lives in Warwick Twp. on Lot 12, Con. 8 NER, Warwick Twp. A daughter, Ann, who married Bill Jenkins, lives in Watford.

Chapter 24 of 25 - Catt Family

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