0.2. William Rutherford, 1856-1958, beiore emigration to Can- ada.

0.2. Margaret Martin Leos Rutherford, 1854-1918, in Edin- burgh, Scotland.

13 Nov. 1856 - 26 Jan. 1958 26 Oct. 1854 ~ 9 Aug. 1918

7 31113; 1877 ~ 18 Nov. 1900 5 Apr. 1879 ~ 3 Apr. 1958

13 Maj/1881 -16 July1967 27 Dec. 1882 — 15 Mar. 1957 25 Aug. 1884 ~ 22 Oct. 1960 5 Feb. 1886 — 17 Sept. 1965 7 Apr. 1888 - 16 Apr. 1973 14 Jan. 1890 - 5 Nov. 1958 23 Mar. 1892 ~ 6 Mar. 1963 20 Aug. 1894 — 13 Mar. 1939

0.2 William RutherfordIMargaret Lees Family: William Rutherford Margaret Martin lees Married 19 Sen. 1877 0.2.1 Rutherford, Louisa Caroline Johnstone 0.2.2 Rutherford. Agnes Johnstone 0.2.3 Rutherford, Isabella Lees 0.2.4 Rutherford, Janet “Jean” 0.2.5 Rutherford, Annie Mary 0.2.6 Rutherford, Andrew 0.2.7 Rutherford, George 0.2.8 Rutherford, Alexander Lees 0.2.9 Rutherford, William (Gordon) 0.2.10 Rutherford, David Aitken 0.2.11 Rutherford, Margaret “Madge”

0.2 William RutherfordfMargaret Lees Eamily:

Like his father before him, William was a skilled carpenter, trained in the Buccieugh Estate workshop, and the apple of his parents’ eye since they had lost tiuee other children by the time young Will was six. On January 19, 1877 M11 married Margaret Martin Lees, the daughter of a border shepherd, at St. Ber- nard’s Church, Claremont Street, Edinburgh. Both Will and Maggie had tried working in the city for a time, where their Uncle George was a successfui gardener.

By the time that Wili (23) and his brother John (18) were ready to begin life in a new land, Maggie had two small daughters —— Louisa (2 vi) and Agnes (1). These five, as forerunners of the main famin migration. joined a party of Selkirk friends and neighbors, at ieast one of Wham —— John Harper w had already seen what the Canadian west was like. Others were Hugh and John Ramsay, Alex and Thom Thomson, and Alex’s wife who was also travelling

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with two small children. They sailed from Greenock, Scotland, on April 14, 1880 aboard the 5.5. Prussian and docked at Quebec City on April 30, 1880, “the first ship in that year”. Thom Thomson’s diary de- scribes their journey: the docking at Quebec, taking the train to Sarnia and the lake steamer up the lakes to Duluth where they boarded the train again via St. Paul and St. Cloud to Winnipeg.

Here the Selkirk group divided as they rented a small house on Water Street for the women and children for the summer. Will stayed with them to hire out as carpenter and pick up some much needed cash during the summer construction boom. John went on with the others and located land in Township 11 and 12, Range 22 west of the principai meridian. In October Alex Thomson returned to Winnipeg for the rest of the party.

They travelled by wagon with oxen, tools, flour - basie supplies — and bedded down the first night out of Winnipeg at Rat (now Willow Bend) Creek near its mouth on the Assiniboine. They reached their