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John Yonge [textual record]

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Date:

1835.

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R5129-0-1-E, MG24-I186, Volume number: 1

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100753

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John Yonge
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1835.

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Extent:

0.2 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Item is a letter from Elizabeth, Lady Colborne, in Toronto, to her brother, the Reverend John Yonge, relating chiefly to the possibility that Duke Yonge, Jr., the son of the Reverend Duke Yonge, might come to Canada as a settler, dated 1 June 1835. The letter gives a lengthy account of the opinions of her husband, Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Colborne, and those of Colonel [Thomas] Talbot on the prospects of impecunious young settlers in Upper Canada, as well as her own rather more sanguine view; also included are remarks on her children, other members of the family, friends and acquaintances. Photocopy, 4 pages.

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Yonge, John, 1788-1877

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Yonge, John, 1788-1877 : The Reverend John Yonge, squire of Puslinch and rector of Newton Ferrers, was head of a long-established Devonshire family of landed gentry, the Yonges of Puslinch. The family intermarried closely with that of Sir John Colborne (1778-1863), Governor-in-Chief of Canada.

In 1813 John Yonge married Colborne's half sister Alethea Henrietta Bargus (1789-1844) and in the following year Colborne married Yonge's sister, Elizabeth Yonge (1790-1872). Colborne's sister Cordelia Anne Colborne (1775-1856) was already the wife of Yonge's first cousin, the Reverend Duke Yonge (d. 1836), Vicar of Antony in Cornwall, whose brother, Captain William Crawley Yonge (1795-1854), later married Colborne's step sister, Frances Mary Bargus (d. 1868). The well-known Victorian novelist, Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), was a child of this last marriage.

Sir George Yonge, Bart. (1731-1812), after whom Simcoe had named Yonge Street, belonged to another branch of the same family.

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General note:

Copied by Professor Alexander Brady from the original held by H.P. Layton of Wimbledon, England, and received in 1980 from the University of Toronto Library.

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Originals with H.P. Layton, Wimbledon, England.

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Clergymen, Canadian, 1788-1877 Lady Elizabeth Colborne, 1835

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MG24-I186
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