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Henderson, George (1786-1865) was born to George and Isabella Henderson in Fallside, a hamlet within Gordon Parish in Berkshire, Scotland. Following their marriage the couple lived in Rumbleton Law, a hamlet also located in Gordon Parish. George and Elizabeth Henderson immigrated from Berwickshire, Scotland to Canada and settled in Guelph Township, Wellington County, Upper Canada in 1833. George Henderson purchased a fifty acre farm in Lot 6 Concession 3B on the north side of Paisley Road and the west side of Wellington Road 32 west of the City of Guelph. This area was locally known as “The Paisley Block” for its location on Paisley Road and the predominance of Scottish settlers.

The genealogy includes ancestry in Scotland and six generations in Wellington County, Ontario and western Canada. Descendant surnames included: McIntosh, Whitelaw, Roberts, Derby, White, Forsythe, Hood, Aitcheson, Renkolt, Frederick, Thirsk, Clarke, Kelly, Kinninburgh, Sampson, Cleghorn, McKenzie, Shields, Dunham, Thomas, Adrian, McCowan, Sauve, Brabboms, Lauerman and many more.

Henderson, Robert (c. 1755-) came from Murrayshire, Scotland to New Jersey in 1773. During the American Revolution, he served in the Loyalist forces. In 1796, Robert traveled with the McCall settlement party and settled in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County near the village of Vittoria. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk County and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Toms, Roach, Scott, Winters, Young, Williamson, Hodgson, Chrysler, Mills

Henry, John Butler (1787-1838) was a son of Capt. James and Catherine (House) Henry. He married Ann Walker, daughter of pioneer William Walker of Clinton Township and a sister of the Walker brothers of Townsend Township, Norfolk County. The couple lived in Clinton Township near Beamsville. Includes four generations of descendants in Lincoln, Wentworth and Halton Counties and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Swackhammer, Smith, Miller, McCarthey, Osborne, Wilson, McClure, Ham, Forster, Hammes

Hepburn, William (1790-1856) came from Berwick County, Scotland to the United States. He and his wife Margaret came to Upper Canada in 1828 and lived at Thorold Township, Welland County then by 1841 settled in Walsingham Township, Norfolk County near the village of Spring Arbor. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk County. Descendant surname included: Hutchison

Hewitt, William (1794-1883) and his wife Elizabeth Richardson emigrated from England before November 1827 and settled in Vittoria,  Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County. William was a druggist, harness maker and clerk of the divisional court. Includes ancestry, children and grandchildren in Norfolk County and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Pullen

Hibler, Simeon (c. 1783), born in Bethlehem Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and his wife Mary Decow lived in New Jersey then in 1832 came to Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County. Includes Simeon’s parents, children and grandchildren in Norfolk County. Descendant surnames included: Powell, Dennis

Highland -- See Hyland

Hilliard, Peter (1821-) and his wife Catharine Wiersch emigrated from Germany to Upper Canada in 1851 and lived in Cayuga, Haldimand County. After Peter died, his widow took her family to Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County. Includes children and grandchildren in Haldimand and Norfolk Counties. Descendant surnames included: Abraham, Armstrong. William Hilliard (1823-1902), unrelated, and his wife Ann Davidson came from Ireland and settled in Windham Township. Includes children.

Hilton, William (c. 1749-1801) served as a sergeant in the King’s American Dragoons during the American Revolution, then settled in Nova Scotia. In 1797, he and two young sons came to Charlotteville Township where widower William married widow Levinah (Pelham) Mabee. Two page biography

Hilts, Joseph (c. 1772-1852), son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Petrie) Hilts, was born in German Flatts, Herkimer County, New York. He was left orphaned as a child in New York then raised by his maternal grandfather (and also uncle by a second marriage) Joseph Petrie. During the American Revolution, Petrie served as a Loyalist soldier in Butler’s Rangers at the British stronghold of Fort Niagara. Following the war, lands opened up on the west side of the Niagara River in present Niagara Township, Lincoln County, Ontario. Joseph Hilts married Elizabeth Price, daughter of Joseph Price and lived in Queenston, Niagara Township then in Louth Township, Lincoln County west of the present city of St. Catharines. After Elizabeth died, Joseph married Lucy Cooper (c. 1790)

This genealogy begins with Joseph’s great-grandfather Christophel Hüls (c. 1670-1757) and his wife Eva Catherina Engel who emigrated from Marth in Saarland, Germany to New York in the Palatine Migration of 1709 then his grandfather Christophel Hilts (c, 1717-1769) and his wife Catherine who lived in Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York. In the next generation are Joseph’s parents Joseph Hilts Sr. and his wife Elizabeth Petrie.

The Hilts genealogy includes five generations of descendants from Joseph Hilts. His sons lived in Louth Township, Lincoln County and in the area of the hamlet of Ballinafad on the townline between Erin Township, Wellington County and Esquesing Township, Halton County. Descendants lived coast to coast in Canada and the United States. Descendant surnames included: Campbell; McGarvin, Coliten, Kaly, Reid, Jones, Moss, Headley, Yokum, Bliss, Stull, Burnside; Kentner, Havill, Hamilton, Blake, Merrifield, Colburn, Morris, Cherney, Bennett, Marte, White, Bricker, Prentice, Brown, Marshall, Mingle, Nevills, Albright, Stuckey, Hornby, Curd, Powell, Sandford, Miller, Preston, Zimmer, Ross, Kearns, Johnson, Anderson, Smuck, Kindree, Crandell, Price, Smith, Dayton, Coulter, Alexander, Allan, Warne, Colbeck, Blair, Lane, Brand, McNeill, Park, Kemp, Young, Eansor, McKinley, Mulville, Sieg, Pfefferkorn, Hill, Dobbin, Reid, Haworth, Holmes, Brookfield, McMannis, Harris, Markle, Blackman, Avenell, Sandvig, Huffman, Santos, O’Looney, Barber, Alyea, Wall, Casey, Diggins, Millis, Lampman, Yates, Sherk, Neill, Furler, Voll, Stang, Albrecht, Durkey, Barney, Greves, Hollingshead, Rathwell, Jenkins, Halladay, Haight, Lonsway, Harwood, Carmichael, Rowe, Sanford, Ritchie, Townsend, Barker, Gatzka, Mettler, McIntyre, Brimmell, Mills, Stuart, Julien, Penfold, Ibbotson, Galloway, Parker, Keirns, Middaugh, Smailes, Hunter, Sanford, Clark, Stark, Stover, Yager, George, O’Brien, Dale, Priebe, Sheffer, Zipp, Pautke, Roediger

Holland, George (c. 1816-  ) came from England to Vaughan Township, York County Upper Canada (Ontario) before 1834 and married Olivia Kellam (daughter of George and Mary (Kemp) Kellam. Olivia came with her parents from Wymondham, Leicester County, England to Vaughan Township in 1829. Following their marriage the couple lived in Vaughan Township then moved to a farm in Rainham Township, Haldimand County by 1849. George Holland was living in 1861 and died before 13 May 1862 when his widow remarried to Alfred Thurlow and lived in Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County then in Walpole Township, Haldimand County. Includes four generations of descendants in Haldimand County, Ontario and in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Descendant surnames included: Redhouse, McClung, Saunders, Hind, Swent, Featherstone, Anger, Bessey, Kramp, Steen, Allen, Parmalee, Fails, Kightlinger, McKenzie, Johnson, Tory, Marr, Busch, Edy.

Hollowood, Thomas (c. 1770-1863), son of a soldier in the King’s American Regiment who was a casualty in the American Revolution. Went with his mother to New Brunswick. Thomas and his wife Sarah Dunmeade came to York County, Upper Canada then in 1808 settled in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County west of the town of Simcoe, and finally moved to Bayham Township, Elgin County near the village of Vienna. Includes children and grandchildren in Elgin County, and in Michigan and Missouri. Descendant surname included: McKinnon

Holmes, Asa (1745-  ). Asa Holmes was born to Captain Doctor David Holmes and his wife Mehitable Mayhew in Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut on 12 Aug 1745. He left a comfortable way of living in his father’s home to pioneer in the more adventurous frontier of Greensboro, Orleans County in the undeveloped rugged hills of north central Vermont.

During the American Revolution he “served under General Burgoyne during the American war and was frequently employed in secret survice.... property destroyed and plundered by the German troops when he was absent on such service...”

Not long after 1777, probably in early 1778, Asa married Betsy Loomis, daughter of Nathaniel Loomis, a private in Butler’s Rangers at Fort Niagara in present Youngstown, New York. Following the war, the couple lived for a time at Fort Detroit then in the Long Point Settlement before the survey. They settled finally in Wainfleet Township, Welland County.

Includes biographies, extensive colonial ancestry and children.

Holtby, Matthias (1799-1880), a Wesleyan Methodist Minister, and his wife Esther Elizabeth Vickerman came from Yorkshire, England about 1830 and lived in Toronto Township, Peel County. Matthias remarried to Margaret Crawford in  1834 and they lived at Chinguacousy Township, Peel County then in Simcoe, Norfolk County and finally in Wycombe, Walsingham Township. Includes three generations of descendants in Peel and Norfolk Counties and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Jones, Ellison, Pickersgill, Tweedale, Seligman, Eaton, Bull, Chapman, Crawford

Honey: Includes three families with this surname of unknown relationship, all from Cornwall County, England. Nimrod Honey (1805-1874) and his wife Mariah came to Upper Canada about 1835 and settled in Boston, Townsend Township. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk County. Descendant surnames included: Kitchen, Johnson, Campbell, Walker, Easton Henry Honey (1813-1909) and his wife Elizabeth Moys Blewett came to Canada about 1852 and settled near Villa Nova, Townsend Township. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County. Descendant surnames included: Lemon, Kenney, Hall. John Honey (c. 1834- ) and his wife Mary Sophia Shaw settled in Middleton Township, Norfolk County. Includes children in Norfolk County.

Horning, Isaac (c1766-1852) came from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 1787 and settled in Ancaster Township, Wentworth County and married Charity Gertrude Kribs. Their son Aaron Horning (1797-1885) and his wife Anne Kelly came to Windham Township, Norfolk County about 1828 and farmed near the village of Lynnville. Includes four generations of descendants in Norfolk and Middlesex Counties, and in Michigan and elsewhere. Also includes others of this surname of unknown relationship. Descendant surnames included: Mussell, Magee, Graham, Tomblin, French, Dundas, McDonald, Pinneo, Smith, Neveaux, Foster, Hartley

Horton, Samuel (c. 1770-) and his wife Margaret Consseellour came from Sussex County, New Jersey to Upper Canada by 1797 and settled first in Walsingham Township, Norfolk County then in Windham Township. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County. Descendant surnames included: Taylor. Samuel Horton (c. 1794-), of unknown relationship, and his wife Elizabeth Cozart farmed west of the village of Frome, Southwold Township, Elgin County. Includes children and grandchildren in Elgin County.

Hoskin, Peter (c. 1825-) came from England and settled with his wife Martha in Townsend Township near the village of Rockton. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County. Descendant surnames included: Lofthouse, Edwards.