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Renfrew family

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 Part 1: John Renfrew (c1748 - 1834)

Emigration to Canada

John Renfrew (c1748 - 1834) was from either Glasgow or neighbouring Paisley, Renfrewshire, in Scotland. It is not known who his wife was but she probably died in Scotland. They had two known children, Thomas and Janet. John and his children were likely part of the wave of emigrants who came to Canada after the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 when thousands left the British Isles for what they perceived to be a better life. The Renfrews settled in Quebec City. A wave of cholera epidemics struck Lower Canada (as the province of Quebec was known as then) and in 1834, John and Thomas died of cholera.

 Children of John and unknown

More information about Thomas appears in Part 2.

Janet married a Roger Black (or Back) and died in Quebec 1849.

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