Emily Jane Nichols
(Abt 1820-1900)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Colonel George Duggan

Emily Jane Nichols 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

  • Born: Abt 1820, Cape of Good Hope, S. Africa 8 9 10 11 12
  • Marriage: Colonel George Duggan
  • Died: 20 Apr 1900, York, Toronto aged about 80 13

bullet   Cause of her death was Concussion of Brain.13

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bullet  General Notes:

1881 Census Place:St John's Ward, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
Source:FHL Film 1375882 NAC C-13246 Dist 134 SubDist D Div 2 Page 61 Family 340
SexMarrAgeOriginBirthplace

E.W. DUGGANMM25IrishOntario
Occ:Hatter & FurrierReligion:Church of England
Sarah DUGGANFM25EnglishEngland
Religion:Church of England
Robt. DUGGANM<1IrishOntario
Religion:Church of England
Born:Jun; 9/12
Emily DUGGANFW60Music teacherAfrica (C. of G.H.)
Religion:Church of England
Effie DUGGANF24IrishOntario
Religion:Church of England
Georgina DUGGANF22IrishOntario
Religion:Church of England
Emily DUGGANF20IrishOntario
Religion:Church of England

bullet  Research Notes:

Emily Jean Nicolls, born 5 Apr 1821, daughter of Lt. Col. Wm Burke Nicolls and Bridget Murphy.
(research by Aline F. Nicholls, 2006)

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bullet  Noted events in her life were:

• Residence: Duke Street, N. Side, 1861, Toronto, Ontario. 12

• profession: Music Teacher, 1871, Toronto East, Ontario. 9

• profession: Music Teacher, 1881, Toronto, Ontario. 8

• Residence: 44 Northcote, 1900, Toronto, Ontario. 13


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Emily married Colonel George Duggan, son of Duggan and Unknown. (Colonel George Duggan was born 1783 or 1782 in County Cork, Ireland 12 17 18 19 20 and died on 19 Oct 1863 in Toronto, Ontario 21 22.)


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Sources


1 University of Toronto Press. (1972), Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume X, 1871-1880. pages 262,263

DUGGAN, GEORGE, lawyer, judge, and politician; b. August 1812, at Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, son of John and Mary Duggan; d. at Toronto, Ont., 14 June 1876.
George Duggan came to Canada as an infant with his parents. They joined John’s brother George*, in York (Toronto), Upper Canada, then settled in Hamilton. The younger George went to York about 1828 and studied law in the office of Simon Washburn. He was licensed attorney and notary public in 1833, and called to the bar in 1837 after an unusually lengthy apprenticeship. On 19 Nov. 1839 he married Phoebe Anne, daughter of James Rogers Armstrong and sister of Mary, wife of Egerton Ryerson*. When his brother John was admitted to the bar in 1840 they formed the partnership of Duggan and Duggan.
The Duggan family was exuberant in its opposition to the rebels of 1837, and George Jr more than the others; he succeeded in being captured by William Lyon Mackenzie*’s men. His uncle George, a Tory and office-seeker of long standing, had risen in Toronto from carpenter to coroner and the younger George, his protégé, showed similar ambition. He must early have been an Orangeman, and was district master by 1840. He sat as alderman in Toronto twice, 1838–40 and 1843–50. In 1840, 1848, 1849, and 1850, he aspired unsuccessfully to the mayoralty.
In January 1838 Duggan attempted to fill the vacant assembly seat in the 1st riding of York, and polled strongly behind John William Gamble, a Tory. A full year before the election of March 1841 his electoral address was out for the 2nd riding of York. The other five seats within the county fell to candidates of Lord Sydenham [Charles Poulett Thomson*]. Duggan sought but did not receive Sydenham’s backing; nevertheless his boisterous loyalism, his Orange order ties, his links with the Methodists through his marriage, and the Roman Catholicism of his opponent gave him an easy victory, and he immediately assured the administration of his goodwill. Election irregularities compelled him to fight the seat again in 1842; this time he decisively defeated Robert Baldwin* himself. In November 1844 he won again as a supporter of Sir Charles Metcalfe* “for British Hearts and Liberal Measures” against the low, scheming, Reform “oligarchy.” His most conspicuous parliamentary activity was in opposition to the bill, directed against the Orange order, outlawing party processions. Conservatives in the riding jockeyed for the nomination in December 1847. Duggan, the city lawyer, was thrust aside. Provincial party leaders then entered him belatedly in Durham against the county’s leading Reformer, James Smith, but he lost decisively.
Duggan hoped to be appointed recorder of Toronto through the offices of the city council and a Tory government, but the incoming Reformers in 1848 refused him patronage despite his assurance, made in confidence, that his lodge membership had lapsed three years before. He made an identical assurance, of his membership having lapsed three years earlier, when he again applied in 1850, even though he had been deputy county master for East York in 1848–49, and junior deputy grand master for British North America in 1849–50. Nevertheless, the Reform government, on the city council’s recommendation, and perhaps trying to buy Orange neutrality if not support, grudgingly appointed him recorder from January 1851.
The recorder tried minor civil cases. In fine judicial tradition Duggan shed much of the partisanship which petitioners had claimed disqualified him for the post. As one of Toronto’s police commissioners ex officio from 1858, he helped to enforce a new policy of refusing employment to all members of secret societies (such as the Orange order), and during the Fenian scares of the 1860s he worked to contain Protestant animus. In 1868 he was promoted judge of the York county court, and he remained in this post until his death in 1876.
By learning effacement and observing decorum in routine magisterial tasks George Duggan reached the lower level of the judiciary, and the two sons who survived him were lawyers. He had not attained the mayor’s chair and could not ensure his renomination as a parliamentary candidate. He was only a makeweight on a number of company boards and was not a member of synod (though churchwarden of St James’ in Toronto, 1862–69). His funeral nevertheless brought out the city’s dignitaries and 70 carriages, and encomiums from newspapers of all political leanings on a man “not brilliant but kind and conscientious.”
Barrie Dyster
City of Toronto Archives, Toronto city council, Minutes, 1838–50. MTCL, Baldwin papers, index entries for Duggan and Gurnett; George Duggan Jr, a.l.s. to J. C. Morrison, 20 March 1848. PAC, MG 26 A (Macdonald papers), 237, G. McMicken to Macdonald, 18 March 1866; RG 5, A1, 30 Sept. 1837; C1, 1850, no.2167. PAO, Toronto city council papers, 1838–50. PRO, CO 42/456, 417–21. Christian Guardian (Toronto), 9–23 Nov. 1842; 9 Oct., 6 Nov. 1844. Evening Telegram (Toronto), 15, 16 July 1876. Globe (Toronto), January 1848; 15 July 1876. Mail (Toronto), 15–17 July 1876. Patriot (Toronto), 30 Jan. 1838.
Arthur papers (Sanderson). British American League, Minutes of the proceedings of a convention of delegates . . . (Kingston, 1849); Minutes of the proceedings of the second convention . . . (Toronto, 1849). Loyal Orange Association of British North America, Grand Lodge, Annual Reports, 1849–50. Town of York, 1815–1834 (Firth). Commemorative biog. record, county York, 397–98. Landmarks of Toronto (Robertson), III, 469. Middleton, Municipality of Toronto.
© 2000 University of Toronto/Université Laval

2 National Archives of Canada. :
1881 Census Place:St John's Ward, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
Source:FHL Film 1375882 NAC C-13246 Dist 134 SubDist D Div 2 Page 61 Family 340
SexMarrAgeOriginBirthplace

E.W. DUGGANMM25IrishOntario,Occ:Hatter & FurrierReligion:Church of England
Sarah DUGGANFM25EnglishEngland,Religion:Church of England
Robt. DUGGANM<1IrishOntario, Religion:Church of England, Born:Jun; 9/12
Emily DUGGANFW60Music teacherAfrica (C. of G.H.),Religion:Church of England
Effie DUGGANF24IrishOntario,Religion:Church of England
Georgina DUGGANF22IrishOntario,Religion:Church of England
Emily DUGGANF20IrishOntario,Religion:Church of England

3 National Archives of Canada. film C-9972. page 33-34, family 125

Oliver, George, male, age 31, place of birth: Ontario, C. of England, English origin, Insurance Agent, married
Oliver , jessie, female, age 26, Ontario, C of England, English origin, married
", Geo, male, age 6, Ontario, C of England, English, not married
", Douglas, male, age 3, Ontario, C of England, English, not married
", Margt., female, age 60, place of birth: Ireland, Ch of England, Irish, Widow
", Stephen, male, age 34, Ontario, Ch of England, English, Clerk, not married
" , Elizabeth, female, age 29, Ontario, Ch of England, English, not married
", Emily , female, age 20, Ontario, Ch of England, English, not married
Clancy, Kate, female, age 20, Ireland, Catholic, Irish, Servant, not married


page 64, family 230

Duggan, Emily Jane, female, age 51, place of birth: Africa, Ch of England, Irish origin, Music Teacher, Widow
", Edwin, male, age 16, place of birth: Ontario, Ch. of England, Irish, going to school
", Effie, female, age 14, place of birth: Ontario, Ch. of England, Irish, going to school
", Georgina, female, age 13, place of birth: Ontario, Ch. of England, Irish, going to school
", Ellen, female, age 11, place of birth: Ontario, Ch. of England, Irish, going to school

4 Duggan - Powell , marriage 1879. :
12680-79 Edwin Willoughby DUGGAN, 24, store keeper, Toronto, same, s/o George & Emily Jane, married Sarah Batcheler POWELL, 24, England, Brampton, d/o Robert & Jane, witn: Hugh George LANGLEY & Ellen Jane BROWNING, both of Toronto, 17 June 1879 at Church of Holy Trinity

5 Ontario Archives. :
County of York, Division of Toronto
No. 1461
Duggan, Edwin Willoughby
Place of death: 4 First Ave.
Male, Irish, Married
age 70 years
Place of birth: Toronto
Date of Birth: July 17, 1854
Occupation: Hatter
Father: George Duggan, birthplace: Ireland
Mother: Emily Nichols, birthplace: South Africa
Informant: Frank Duggan, 223 James Street,
Relation to deceased: Son
Place of Burial: St. Johns
Undertaker: A. E. Ingram, 761 Queen E
Date of Death: March 20. -24
Cause of Death: Angina Pectoris
Physician: M M Crawford, Coroner

6 1861 census, St. Davids Ward, Toronto. :
1st District, page 52
Duke Street, N. Side

George Duggan, Coroner, Ireland, Church of England, age 78, male, married, Brick house, two stories
Jane Emily Duggan, Cape of Good Hope, Church of England, age 48, female, married
Eliza Ann Duggan, Toronto U.C. Church of England, age 42, female, single
Edwin Willoughby Duggan, Toronto U.C. , Church of England, age 6, male, single
Effie Elena? Duggan, Toronto, U.C., Church of England, age5, female, single
Georgina C. J. Duggan, Toronto, U.C., Church of England, age 3, female, single
a Baby, Toronto, U.C., Church of England, age 1, female, single
Ellen Donavan, Servant, Ireland, Church of England, age 21, female, single

7 Ontario Marriages, 1857-1924. :
001559, No. 559
Groom
Kirkpatrick, William, age 60, residence Toronto, Place of birth: Canada, Bachelor, Occupation: Gentleman, parents: John Kirkpatrick , Maria Cocroft, Religious Denomination: C.E.
Duggan, Effie Elena, age 42, residence Toronto, Place of birth: Canada, Spinster, parents: George Duggan, Emily Jane Nicols, Religious Denomination: C.E.


witnesses: F. G. Lloyd, residence: Toronto, , Edith F. Lloyd, Toronto
Marriage Date: May 15, 1900, Place of marriage : Toronto,
by whom married: J. Mc? Ballard, by Licence, registered May 17, 1900

8 National Archives of Canada.

9 National Archives of Canada. film C-9972.

10 Ontario Archives.

11 Ontario Archives. :
County of York, Division of Toronto

No 1089
Duggan, Emily Jane, Female,
died April 20, 1900, age 79
address: 44 Northcote
married, occupation : Housewife
born: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Cause of death: Concussion of Brain
Physician: Dr. Lynde
Religion: E.C.
Informant: Ida E Lynde
Registered: April 21, 1900

12 1861 census, St. Davids Ward, Toronto.

13 Ontario Archives.

14 University of Toronto Press. (1972), Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume X, 1871-1880.

15 Duggan - Powell , marriage 1879.

16 Ontario Marriages, 1857-1924.

17 University of Toronto Press. Index at back of Volume X

Duggan George, (1783-1863)

18 City of Toronto, Archives. page 45
Shephard Street and York Street, St. Andrew's Ward

No. 1029
Occupant: George Duggan Jnr.
Profession: Recorder
Owner: George Duggan Jnr.

page 5
Duke Street, Northside, St. David's Ward
No. 116
Occupant: Geo. Duggan, age 60
Profession: Coronor
Owner: Geo. Duggan

19 Bible is presently in the possession of Richard Duggan of Kelowna, B.C.. :
FAMILY RECORD.
DEATHS
1-George Duggan Oct 19th 1863, age 81
2-Mary Duggan [blank]
3-George Thos. Duggan January 22nd 1853
4-Eliza Duggan July 13th 1855
5-Ann Jane McKay Jany 21st 1872, age 47 years
6-Thomas Duggan son of 1&2, March 4th 1874 at 4:15 P.M. aged 61 yrs, 5 mths & 8 days
7-Margaret Mitchell Duggan, Wife of 6, 19th Septr 1877 at 7:15 P.M.
8- Myra Irene Duggan, daughter of 9, 22nd July 1889, age 4 months
9- James Edwin Duggan, son of 6 & 7, 29th April 1894, aged 36 years 10 mths & 17 dys
10- Richard John Duggan, Son of 6 & 7, July 6th, 1897, aged 44 yrs, 1 month & 15 dys.
11- John W. Barnard Sept 4th, 1898
12- Mabel Barnard, Daughter of 11 & 13, April 28th 1900, age 4 years, 3 wks and 5 days
13- Eva Alice Rusland, Daughter of 6 & 7, November 17 1908 age 47 years 7 months & 17 days
14- Thomas Albert Duggan, Son of 6 & 7, November 20th, 1919, aged 63 years 6 months & 2 days
15- Margaret Eliza Ann Jane Stuart, Mar 9th, 1925, aged 66 years 9 months & 8 days
16- Charles Henry Duggan, June 4th 1925, Aged 65 years 12 months & 4 days
Alice Maude Duggan, January 23 - 1952
17- Mary Jackson Duggan, Aug 23 - 1935 8 pm, aged 81 yrs 1 mth 27 days
May Adeline Roddy (Duggan) July 23 1958
Charles Edward Duggan, April 19 - 1962

20 Family bible of Dr. Thomas Duggan of Hamilton, Ontario presently in possession by Richard (Dick) Duggan of Kelowna, B.C..

21 University of Toronto Press.

22 Bible is presently in the possession of Richard Duggan of Kelowna, B.C..


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