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Colonel Charles Walkem was a royal surveyor with the Royal Engineers, and later part of the Militia Department in Upper Canada. In the middle of the 19th century, he set about enquiring as to what amount of property belonging to the British War Office still existed in Upper Canada. As part of his enquiry, he obtained statements and conducted interviews with elderly Kingston engineers on their recollections of structural details and costs of Kingston fortifications and buildings back in the 18th century.

Francis L. Walsh served the Office of Registrar of the Surrogate Court of the District of London before resigning in 1838. He later served as the County Registrar of Norfolk, Vittoria, Talbot District.

Son of Thomas Ward and Mary Playter of Port Hope. George C. Ward was a lawyer and married to Harriet Amelia Brent. They had at least one son, Henry Alfred Ward. George C. Ward served as Registrar and County Master for the District of Port Hope in 1856.

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William Wells was born in 1768 at Sandown, New Hampshire and settled permanently in Augusta Township, Upper Canada in 1787. He was a lumber merchant and farmer, served as a Captain of Militia in the War of 1812-15, was taken prisoner by the Americans and released on parole. He was also a Justice of the Peace. In 1799 he married Sarah Clough and they had eight children: Ruth (b. 1800), Sally (1801-1835), Horace Clough (1802-1876), Maria (1804-1877), William Benjamin (b. 1809), Isaac Brock (b. 1812), Thomas Proctor (1816-1816), and Frances Adaline (b. 1817). Ruth Wells married George Longley in 1824. He was a Maitland lumber merchant and M.P.P. in 1827, as well as a Justice of the Peace.

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Margaret Harvey Wilton was born at Kingston in 1903. She attended Kingston Collegiate Institute and later graduated in Biology from Queen's University in 1922. She taught high school at Carleton Place from 1923 to 1930 before moving to Toronto in 1931. She worked in the Ministry of Health for thirty-two years, in charge of a scientific research library. Throughout her life she wrote poetry, and had many individual poems published, as well as having written and published two chap-books of poetry. She died in 1974.