Difference between revisions of "Coaticook Meeting Room, QC"

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History

Coaticook Meeting Room, QC, Estrie, Southeast Quebec, Canada was a French exclusive brethren assembly (or an exclusive brother residing) ca. 1881 thru 1894.

Correspondent

• Robert William Herring, Sr. (b. 1833 Bawtry, Nottinghamshire, England - d. 1920 Montreal, QC).
  • Robert Sr. was the son of William Herring & Jane Walsham; He was baptized in 1833 by Robert Kirkus in a Congregational chapel at Ranskill & Bawtry in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, which was founded in 1819 by the Sheffield Itinerant Society. Kirkus pastored it 1831-1840, he studied at Rotherham College, and was from Patrington.
  • 1920 obit from The Ottawa Citizen: "Robert Herring, who claimed to be the first commercial traveler in Canada is dead here. The late Mr. Herring, who was 87 years of age, came to Canada over seventy years ago (1836) from Bawtery, Yorkshire. Mr. Herring entered the dry goods business of Messrs. Winks on St. Paul street. Mr. Herring's territory included Toronto, Hamilton, London, Kingston, Ottawa (which was then called Bytown), and various smaller places along that route."
  • Robert had a son, Robert William Herring, Jr., b. 1862 Ontario.

Alumni

• Who’s Who at Coaticook Meeting Room, QC +1881-1894+

Sources

• EB AAB's 1878-1896
• Ancestry.com
• Kirkus info from "Congregationalism in Yorkshire" by Miall & Scales, pub. 1868.