The Griers

James Grier, a Scot descendant of the Macgregor clan, was born in Northern Ireland in 1818. In the late 1830s, he emigrated to Upper Canada (later known as Ontario) and settled in the township of Pakenham. James first worked as a carriage and sleighmaker, a trade that took him to many nearby towns, including Perth. There he met and, on July 4, 1844, married Eliza Anne Patterson, in the Episcopal Church of St. James. Eliza was born in Perth in 1825, daughter of George Patterson and Anne Merrigold. James and Eliza were the parents of ten children. Eliza died October 14, 1884. James married second on June 17, 1886, Susannah Allan Weatherhead. James died May 11, 1892 in Toronto and Susannah died in Perth on April 11, 1909. Descendants are located in California, Canada, Massachusetts, Colorado, Pennsylvania, New York and elsewhere.