TARLTONS IN MONTREAL, P. Q. The following abstract of a letter may be of interest: Dear Sir: Montreal, P. Q., Feb. 20, 1897. In answer to inquiry regarding our ancestry, my father's name was William, and he was sixty years of age when he died and left a family of three boys and three girls. They are all dead but the one who is writing to you. I cannot tell my grandfather's name only heard he was a soldier in the British army. I came out to Canada in 1858, and have a son and daughter named William and Jane. My ancestors came from Ireland, but belonged to England originally. We are a working but respect * able people. My son (living in Montreal) hill clerk with a coal merchant in Scotland, in one place for about twenty years, and has the best of testimonials. Yours truly, JOHN TARLTON. In a newspaper soon after was this item: "Died at Montreal, Apr. 9, 1897, John Tarlton, 80 years." Probably the writer of the above letter, and perhaps his father was the William mentioned in the preceding page as a son of Colonel Tarleton. There are other Tarltons living in Montreal, from whom we have not heard. |
