Tuesday 2 April 2013

And The Dish Ran Away With the Spoon



Robert Maxwell Mitchell 1811 - 1878

Cinderella Marries Her Prince Charming

Once upon a time there lived a dashing coachman who fell in love with his Lord's daughter. 

Robert Mitchell Sr. (b. abt 1792) was in the employ of Lord Maxwell of County Down when he fell in love with the Lord's daughter, Elizabeth Beatty Maxwell.  The feeling was reciprocated and the lovers eloped sometime before their first child was born in 1809.

The fairy tale marriage produced three strapping boys, Henry, Robert, John, all born in County Down, Ireland.     

When the boys were older, around 1830, Daddy brought them to Canada and settled them each on newly purchased homesteads in Cayuga, Mono and Markham.  Robert Sr. then returned to his wife in Ireland where he remained until her death at an unknown date.

Robert Jr., pictured above, married Eliza Lilly in 1834 in Toronto. They had 2 children, Elizabeth  Ann and John but sadly, Eliza died in 1840, age 30, cause unknown.  He married again and had six more children.

A skilled cabinet maker by trade, Robert Jr. built fine furniture and later branched out into houses.  

Robert also took part in the 1837 Rebellion.

So far, nothing has popped up in the search for more information in Lord Maxwell's family and Robert's parents, including the death of his mother.   

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