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Quinlan, Johanna (nee Slay) (c. 1794-1867) widow of Andrew Quinlan, came from Clare County, Ireland during the 1840s and settled with her family in Villa Nova, Townsend Township. Includes three generations in Norfolk, Brant and Lambton Counties. Descendant surnames included: O’Connell, Hanning. 

Ramey/Remy, John Casper (1757-1848) was born to Jacob Remy in Catawissa, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania and married Catherine Jemima VanBlarcombe (c. 1767-1831). During the American Revolution many of the settlers along the Susquehanna maintained their loyalty to the British cause. Casper Ramey was among those who supported the crown and was forced to hide in the woods to elude the patriots but was captured and imprisoned.

Casper Ramey with his wife and two infants arrived in the Gravelly Bay area of Lake Erie in Humberstone Township, Welland County in 1788. Casper and his close friend Henry Zavitz then settled next to each other in Wainfleet Township, Welland County. Caspar Ramey sold his Wainfleet Township farm on 20 Feb 1804 to Michael Graybiel then settled on 200 acres of land in Lot 25 Concession 2 adjoining the west side of his homestead.  This runs from the south side of Concession 2 Road to Killaly Street. Highway 140 and Elizabeth Street run through the east side of the lot and East Main Street runs through the centre. Wellington Street forms the western boundary. During Casper Ramey’s time this property was entirely rural. Much of it has since been subdivided and developed for residential and commercial properties in the City of Port Colborne.

The genealogy includes biographies and six generations from coast to coast in North America. Descendant surnames mentioned: Near, Wilcocks/Wilcox, Doan, Zavitz, McKay, Jacobs, Bowlby, Lewis, Little, Ramage, Jaggers, Aker, Scoyne, Bicknell, Huffman, McLeod, Lemon, Winger, Goodwill, Berry, Brown, Williamson, Fawcett and many more.

Rammage, Henry (1775-1861) came from Dunferline, Fife County, Scotland to Canada and married Jane Russell. They lived at Amherstburg, Essex County then in Trafalgar Township, Halton County. They settled finally in Windham Township by 1842. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Elgin Counties, and in Ohio and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Grieve, Wood, Campbell, Thoroughgood, Saltzberry, Winskel, Jull. 

Rapelje, Abraham A. (1772-1859), born on Long Island, New York, went with his mother and stepfather Cichey and Richard Vanderburgh from New York City to New Brunswick following the American Revolution. After a period in New York he came with his mother and step-father to Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County in 1800 and married Sarah Wyckoff. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk County. Descendant surnames included: Barrett, McNeilledge. Daniel Rapelje (1775-1828) and his wife Elizabeth Van Dervort brought their family from New York to Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County in 1802. They then settled in St. Thomas, Yarmouth Township, Elgin County in 1809. Includes children and grandchildren in Elgin County. Descendant surname included: Foster. 

Rayment, Roswell (c. 1800-) came from New York and with his wife Nancy settled in Townsend Township, Norfolk County by 1850. They moved to Mussey, St. Clair County, Michigan by 1870. Includes children and grandchildren in Michigan. 

Raymond, William (1773-1856) lived in Massachusetts then Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and next in Buffalo, New York. William and his wife Eunice then came to Port Dover, Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County about 1800. About 1812, he settled in Bayham Township, Elgin County. In 1842, he settled finally in Houghton Township, Norfolk County. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Elgin Counties, and in Michigan and British Columbia. Descendant surnames included: Woodworth, Foster, Robbins 

Read, John (c. 1740-1793) married in Pickering Parish Church, Yorkshire, England on 1 Mar 1759 Jane Brown and lived in Brompton By Sawdon, Yorkshire, England where their children were baptized. John Read, according to the Upper Canada Land Petition of his son William Read, brought his family to America from Great Britain in 1773.The American Revolution broke out three years later in 1776 and his sons William and George went to the British post at Fort Niagara where they enlisted in Butler’s Rangers. John Read himself was described as a Loyalist in his daughters’ land petitions. Following the peace of 1783, sons William and George settled in Upper Canada (present Ontario). John and his wife joined them in 1786.

John Read received from the Executive Council a substantial grant of 600 acres of land in a block east of the present City of St. Catharines. The land was described as Lots 6, 7 and 8 in Concession 6 and Lots 5, 6 and 7 in Concession 7. On a modern map the lots on Concession 7 angled along the south side of York Road from the east side of the Welland Canal to east of Niagara Stone Road. Eastchester Avenue forms the northern limit. In the time of John Read and his sons Ten Mile Creek ran through Lots 6 and 7.

Includes biographies and five generations in Lincoln and Essex Counties, Ontario, in western Canada and in Michigan and Minnesota in the United States.

Descendant surnames mentioned: Bessey, Ten Broeck, Phoenix, Young, Secord, Neelon, Drake, Mattison, Dwyer, Campbell, Muir, Carpenter, Harley, Armstrong, Venners, Maclaren, Brodrick, Paterson, Marten, Robertson, Nickerson, Gilleland, Parnell, Webster, Clench, Carr, James, Neil, Wilson, Paxton, Anderson. 

Reagh, Joseph (c. 1776-) and wife Ann lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia and came to Upper Canada by 1814 and settled in Middleton Township, Norfolk County. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Elgin Counties, and in Michigan. Descendant surname included: Lafey. 

Redker, William (c. 1801-), a tailor, came from Pennsylvania by 1826 and married Elizabeth Glover. The couple settled in Waterford, Townsend Township in 1826. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk and Elgin Counties and in Michigan. Descendant surnames included: Savage, Hallam, Postie. 

Rees/Reece, Jacob (c.1740) was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and married in Lancaster County Elizabeth Shultz of East Lampeter, Lancaster County. On his 1797 Upper Canada Land Petition, Jacob signed his surname “Rees.” His sons’ petitions also used this spelling. During the early 1800’s the spelling “Reese” was generally adopted.The Upper Canada Land Petition of Jacob Rees stated he came to Upper Canada in 1788 with his wife and six children and settled on Lots 14 and 15 Concession 3, Pelham Township. The Upper Canada Land Petition of his son Jacob Jr. dated in 1803 said his father then had ten children.

The homestead located in Lots 14 and 15 Concession 3, Pelham Township, Welland County comprised 200 acres of land between present Sixteen Street in the south, Roland Road in the north, Balfour Street in the east and Maple Street in the west. It is on the Niagara Escarpment above the village of Jordan and north of the hamlet of North Pelham. Niagara Regional Highway 24 runs a short distance the west of the location.

Jacob’s sons George and Henry Reece succeeded to the homestead in Lots 14 and 15 Concession 3 and it was then subdivided among their sons. The farm continued in the Reece family for more than a century.

Descendants lived in Lincoln, Welland, Haldimand and Norfolk Counties and elsewhere in Ontario and in New York, Michigan, Ohio, Washington and elsewhere in the United States.

Descendant surnames included: Conklin, Walters, Moore, Chambers, Cushing, Forsythe, Pegg, Turnbull, Parks, Leppert, Stirtzinger, Dawson, Eastman, Lundy, Phillmore, Althouse, Menagh, Oades, , Hutt, Butler, Brewer, Doughty, Thurston, Swayze, Phillips, Peace, Barber, Brown, Johnson, Rhoades, Allen, Alger, King, Honsberger, Christie, Mansz, Boyes, Baatz, Parker, Grant, Palmer, Bennett, Plants, Salvner, Yancer, Lervold, Erbs, Cummings, Jones, Beamer, Truman, Smyth, Caldwell, Chater, Lancaster, Trelford, White, McQuade, Delametter. 

Reid, James (c. 1800-1874) and his wife Jennet Reid emigrated from Scotland to New York then came to Upper Canada in 1831 and lived in Dundas, Wentworth County then in 1839 settled at Lynedoch, Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County. Includes three generations of descent in Norfolk and York Counties, and in Michigan and California. Descendant surnames included: Wilson, Wells, Swart, Dennis, Wood, McKiee, Linn. 

Reid, Robert (1802-1887) and his wife Margaret, and William Reid (1805-1859) and his wife Sophia Tubman came to Canada in 1840 from Cavan County, Ireland and settled in Walsingham Township, Norfolk County west of the village of Lynedoch. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk, Elgin and Lincoln Counties, and in Michigan and Illinois and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Dalton, Townley. 

Renner, John (c. 1805-) married Sarah Huston/Hughson in 1836 and settled in the village of Hartford in Townsend Township, Norfolk County. Adam Renner (c. 1815-) married Catherine Brooks in 1839 and settled in Hartford. William Renner married Hannah Olmstead in 1837 and lived in Hartford. Jacob Renner (1819-1859) married Mariah F. (Williams) McGregor and lived in Hartford. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Haldimand Counties. Descendant surnames included: Messecar, Elliott. Challen. 

Reynolds, Robert (1796-1870) was born to Robert and Jane (Edwards) Reynolds) in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England on 21 Jun 1796. He married first Elisabeth Reynolds, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Godwin) Reynolds (1798-1837) and lived in in Rodbourn Cheney near Malmesbury.

Robert sailed from Bristol, England on the ship Cosmo on 27 Mar between 1843 and 1845. After a seven week voyage he landed in New York. Robert Reynolds bought land in Rush Township, Grangerville District #7, Pennsylvania along Wyalusing Creek next to widow Mrs. E. Horton.

Three of Robert’s children settled in Norfolk County, Ontario where their Woodward cousins had settled. Henry Thomas Reynolds (1816-1868) farmed in Woodhouse Township northwest of the town of Port Dover. Margaret Reynolds (1820-1909) married Benjamin Wood Collett a harness maker in Walsingham Township and moved to New South Wales, Australia. Uriah Reynolds (1830-1912) married Melissa Woodward (1832-1882) and lived in Walsingham and Houghton Townships.

Includes extensive ancestry in England and seven generations of descendants. Family members lived in England, Norfolk and Haldimand Counties in Ontario, in Australia, and in Pennsylvania, Iowa and Michigan in the United States. Descendant surnames included: Godwin, Bryant, Hiscock, Dyer, Baker, Horton, Manners, Pineger, Ellison, Woodward, Applegate, Collett, Wilson, Bowen, Bird, DuRoss, Hutchings, Stuart, Rugg, , Wellendorf, Skinner, , Williams, Finch, Watson, Secord, Underhill, Armstrong. 

Rice, Maiden Stacy (c. 1735-1810/11) and her children were abducted from their Virginia home by Indians at the end of the American Revolution and taken to Fort Detroit, at that time in British hands. Her first husband (surname Rice) was killed in the Indian raid and she remarried at Fort Detroit to John Stacy. The couple settled in Stamford Township, Welland County in 1786 then settled west of Turkey Point in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County in 1790. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County and in Indiana.  

Rice, Jesse (c. 1770-) settled in Townsend Township near the village of Waterford in 1796. Includes four generations of descendants in Norfolk County. Josiah Rice (c. 1790-), possibly related, and his wife Eleanor Holmes, lived near Waterford. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk County. Descendant surnames included: Gable, Porter. Edward Rice (c. 1800-) came from Pennsylvania and settled in Chinguacousy Township, Peel County. Four of his children settled in Norfolk County. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County and in Michigan. Descendant surnames included: Bowen, Root. 

Richardson, Richard (c. 1819-1900) came from England about 1845 and married Louisa Munroe. Richard was a blacksmith in the village of Port Rowan, Walsingham Township. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County. Descendant surname included: Hands. 

Riddell, Margaret (Donald) (c. 1776-1852), widow of John Riddell lived in Scotland and in 1844 came with her family to Port Dover, Woodhouse Township. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Grey Counties, and in New York and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Innes, Fuller, Lymburner, Platt, Reid, Smith. 

Risch, John Philip (c. 1750) came to America with the German troops under the British Army during the American Revolution. He married Martha and came to Woodhouse Township in 1796. One page biography. 

Riselay, Christian (1755-1828) was born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York to Andreas and Riselya (Reuschle) and his wife Maria Barbara (Kohlback) Riselay). A Loyalist during the American Revolution, Christian Riselay left his home in Rhinebeck and traveled to the British Post at Fort Niagara at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario. He joined Butler’s Rangers and served as a corporal.

He was given a 200 acre land grant in Lot 8 Concessions 3 and 4 Bertie Township located along the south side of Phipps Street and the east and west sides of Thompson Road. He had an additional grant of 50 acres in Lot 1 Concession 1, Bertie Township along the Niagara River north of Fort Erie.

The genealogy includes ancestry, biography and six generations in Welland County, Ontario, and coast to coast in the United States.. Descendant surnames mentioned: Young, Powell, Willson, Bowen, Thompson, Haun, Moore, Stoddard, Durkee, Stevenson, Graham, Kivel, Miller, Coppins, Wardwell, Kundinger, Heppner, Bond, Ptolemy, Budd, Curtiss, Hebard, Thomas, Cardit, Rudy, Willson, Meisel, Roth, Yambrick.

Robertson, William (1806-1854) and his wife Sarah Averill farmed near the village of Mount Pleasant, Brant County, Upper Canada. Includes three generations of descendants in Brant and Norfolk counties, and in Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Campbell, Cummins, Bellhouse.