henderson
Family 
Henderson: son of Hendry or Henry [1]
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Part 1: Charles Henderson (c1794 - 1856)
Charles Henderson was born c1794. There is a record of a Charles Henderson christened 05 January 1794 in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, son of John Henderson and Alison Grinlay and this may be him. Charles married Lillias Kirkwood January 1819 in Dunipace Parish Church (Church of Scotland). The village of Dunipace is situated between Stirling and Falkirk in Stirlingshire, Scotland.
Lillias Kirkwood was the second oldest child of James Kirkwood and Bruce Douglass. (The use of 'Bruce' as a female name was carried on for a couple more generations.) Lillias was born 14 February 1795 in Dunipace. Charles and Lillias had five known children: Bruce (a girl born 1819), John (born January 1821), Alison (born c1822), Margaret (born c1825) and James (born 27 October 1827).
Charles
emigrated to Canada in 1838 and James followed in either 1840 or 1842.
Bruce Henderson (1819 - 1895) married John Grindley and they had five daughters: Lillias, born in 1842, Ellison (known as Elsie and born c1844), Bruce Douglass (born c1845), Mary Janet (born 1848) and Ellen R (born c1850). John probably died before 1861 and Bruce 15 November 1895.
John Henderson (1821 - 1937) married Catherine Jane Seger who had been born in Crowland 18 October 1823. They had six children, Charles H (1852 - 1856), William (born and died in 1854), John Kirkwood (1857 - 1937), Sarah Lillias (1860 - 1957), Jane Ann (known as 'Jennie') (1863 - 1913) and Margaret B (known as 'Maggie') (1868 - 1966). Jennie and Maggie married brothers Lewis Balfour and John Allen Zavitz respectively while Sarah never married. John Senior died 20 August 1876 and Catherine 1892. It was son John Kirkwood who took over the running of the family farms located just south-east of the town itself. He had fifty acres of land that bordered William Brookfield and E.W. Brookfield, which probably contained the family home. On the other side of E.W. Brookfield, were two seventy-five acre lots owned by John and Alem Bender. John Kirkwood would later marry Alem’s daughter Emma on 11 June 1884. They had three children, Belle, Effie and Hugh John. John Kirkwood died in 1937 and Emma 1942.
It is not known what happened to Alison and Margaret as they do not appear in any census. They may have died in infancy or married young.
More information about James Henderson appears in Part 2.
Many of the Henderson family were buried in Doan's Ridge Cemetery, Section D, and their graves can be viewed on findagrave.com. [2]
Next: James Henderson
Catherine Jane
Henderson neé Seger and John Henderson
Photo © Sharon-Knox-Robinson-Hammond family
Footnotes
[1]
www.surnamedb.com/Surname
[2]
International
Genealogical Index [IGI]; Biographical
sketches section of ‘The History of
Welland County Ontario, 1887’, transcribed by Richard Hirst
(http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onniagar/welland/crowland/crowland_bios_all.htm);
Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1924; Census
of Canada 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 (Ancestry.co.uk and
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca); Illustrated historical atlas of the
counties of