My name is Marian Reid Heiman this is my family.Our ancesters are Mary &  Joseph Reid.We descend from their son William E H Reid.William's son George  Edmond was my Great-Grandfather. George moved to Ladysmith on Vancouver Island  British Columbia.George's son Earl moved to Port Alberni and this is where my  Father Edmond was born,I was born,my children were born and my grand sons and granddaughter Clover  were born.My grandmother Ruby(Earl's wife)moved to Port Alberni when she was 2  years old(1910)So Port Alberni has been a start for our family.My sister Janie and my daughter  Brenda still live in Port Alberni Valley,the rest of us live over the Hump in sunny  Parksville.The Reid’s came from Scotland to Ireland about 1818 and stayed there until  1844.		
 	                                                                                                                                                                          Joseph Reid or “Little Grandfather Reid”,buried at No. 6 Mono College’ fought in  Belguim during the battle of Waterloo.In recompense for military service he was given  a grant of land or freehold—adjoining the Lord Jarvis estate.Little Grandfather  Reid ‘took to’ making illicit whiskey and his son Joseph II paid foue shillings for a  farm in Ireland beside the Jarvis estate.Joseph II was not popular with Lord Jarvis,  and when the farm came up for sale, Lord Jarvis bid it high and bought it to get rid  of Joseph.Then Joseph paid 50 pounds for reservations to sail to America.He went to  the dock to see the sailing vessel and jabbed his penknife into her side in a  attitude of dislike.The captain seeing this refused him passage.He later managed to  sail in a boat on her maiden voyage(She sank on her second trip). It was a stormy  voyage and they had to batten down the hatches.They were 16 weeks on the ocean(1844).  Their baby girl Margaret, died of whooping cough and was buried at sea.Burning with  fever she could not understand why they had no water for her parched lips. “We’re  away a wat”.				
 	                                                                           They landed at Quebec and stayed ther for a short time.Their youngest child was born  there.They then arrived in Toronto and I feel sure they would walk to Brampton area  where David Buchanan and wife Nancy Reid were living.They had come out a few years  before.The two fathers, John Buchanan and Joseph Reid Sr. had come out with David and  Nancy.						                                  
 Mary (Molly) Buchanan, wife of Joseph Jr. is supposed to have walked to Orangeville,  carrying a baby and a bake kettle.						
 						                                 
 Joseph Reid bought lot 10, on the west side of the Prince of Wales road or Highway  10  from a man who had bought it from the government.				
 					                                          
 Mary (Molly) Buchanan,the attractive governess, taught the children belonging to the  tenants on the Jarvis Estate.Lady Jarvis discovered Joseph Reid Jr. kissing ‘Molly’  on the bridge and insisted that they marry at once.				
 								                  
 Mary Buchanan Reid had two brothers, John and David, who were well educated.David  wrote poetry.									
 					                                         
 David Buchanan’s mother interfered in the marriage of her son and his first  wife.Nancy Reid, Joseph’s sister thronged her for doing this.The first wife died,  then David married Nancy.A brother and sister married a brother and sister.	 									        
 Joseph Reid Jr. had 2 brothers who were supposed to go to new York. A son Wardlaw, of  one of the brothers, was a newspaperman and once visited Mono in the 1870’s or early  80’s.
  Our Buchanan’s									
 				                                                    
 In Ireland, David Buchanan married his second wife, Nancy Reid.			 			                                                           They came to Canada in 1840.(from census records 1861) The 1851 census for Mono twp.  Simcoe Co: were destroyed. Minerva Reid’s  records say it was in 1831.		 				                                                 
 David Buchanan settled in Chinguacousey twp. Peel Co. likely in Brampton area.He was  a school master as stated on the land deed when he bought land in Mono twp, west half  of lot 5, con. 3 of E. Mono in December 1845 for 65 pounds and ten shillings. The  property had been bought from the crown by Polly Mitchell in May 1845.		 									        
 David’s father, John Buchanan, and Nancy’s father, Joseph Reid Jr , had come out with  them.		                                                                   David Buchanan is buried in Mitchell’s church yard in Mono twp. There is a large  stone. David died 22/02/1881 age 88. Wife, Ann died 06/07/1882 age 82- both born in  Tyrone, Ireland. Only daughter, Isabella Campbell, died 15/06/1887 age 19 years,6  months old.					                                    
 In reading the census, 1861, 1871, 1881, I find that Isabella always remained with  her parents. Her husband isn’t listed there but her two daughters are, Hannah and  Martha Ann. On one land transaction it mentions her husband James Campbell, as a  delivery stable keeper in Orangeville. He may be in the Orangeville census. In  another transaction it mentions, my daughter Martha , wife of Robert Corbet.	 										
 			                                                           From an 1887 Orangeville paper, Isabella is living at 60 Northcote Ave., Toronto.From  another land transaction I find she lived in Arthur twp. And died in Chicago.In her  will, filed in Orangeville, her only surviving heir was Martha Myers, wife of Arthur  Myers of the village of Evast (? The writing isn’t clear), in county of Osceola,  State of Michigan. Osceola is about the center of Michigan.It is along way from  Chicago.									
 				                                                   
 The Buchanan farm had been sold to John Reid gen 3, son of Samuel Reid gen 2, in 1890  and the deed finally registered in 1905 and signed by Martha Myers.		 					                                            
 In the 1861 census old John Buchanan had moved in with his daughter Mary and her  husband, Joseph Reid jr. He is 89 years of age. Their daughter, Sarah is the only  child at home and she is 16.		                                           John Buchanan is buried in Mono College cemetery beside his friend, Joseph Reid Sr in  unmarked graves.								
 				                                                     
 I have not been able to trace down any sons. If any, they may have stayed in Peel  County or moved elsewhere.							
 					                                            
 It seems the Buchanan’s in Mono twp. came from Sligo County, Ireland and not Tyrone  County. 		                                                           Beth (Reid) Marshall gen 4, a descedent of John Reid gen 2, has in her possession a  book belonging to John Buchanan with his signature in it.He was the father of Mary  Buchanan.			                                               
 Kathleen Potter Rawn recalls her mother,Martha and her sister Hannah Reid , talking  often of bygane days.Hannah had said the Buchanan’s were related to president  Buchanan of the USA and she knew the connection but these conversations were never  written down.						                        
 Material completed in 1979 by Nina Lucinda Black, assisted by Beatrice McMillan.  Generation 5