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	Background of the Ruttle Family The Ruttles were descendants of German Protestants who lived in the Palatine region of Germany. The original German name was Ruckel or Ruckle.  They migrated from Germany to Great Britain in 1709 and then came to Canada in the 1800’s.  Palatine History The Palatine region where the Ruttles were from was part of Germany that was situated on the upper Rhine adjacent to France.  The Palatinate (or German PFALZ), was the land of the Count Palatine, a title held by a leading secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire.  During the Protestant Reformation, the Palatinate became the foremost Calvinist region in Germany.  After Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in 1517, many of his followers came under religious persecution for their beliefs and many gathered in the Palatine region. These persecuted Protestants came from many parts of Germany as well as Holland and Switzerland and beyond.  The protestant Elector Palatine Frederick V (1596-1632) played a major role in the struggle between Roman Catholic and Protestant Europe. His election in 1619 as King of Bohemia precipitated the Thirty Years War from 1619 to 1648. Frederick was driven from Bohemia and in 1623 was deposed as Elector Palatine. During the Thirty Years War which was based upon both politics and religious hatreds, the Palatine region suffered from the horrors of fire and sword as well as from pillage and plunder by the French armies.  Nearly the entire 17th century in central Europe was a period of turmoil as Louis XIV of France sought to increase his empire.   During the War of the Grand Alliance (1689-97), the troops of the French monarch Louis XIV ravaged the Palatinate, causing many Germans to emigrate. Many of the early German settlers of America (e.g. the Pennsylvania Dutch) were refugees from the Palatinate.  During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Palatine lands on the west bank of the Rhine were incorporated into France, while its eastern lands were divided largely between neighboring Baden and Hesse.  While the land of the Palatinate was good for its inhabitants, many of whom were farmers and vineyard operators  its location was unfortunately subject to invasion by the armies of Britain, France, and Germany.  The winter of 1708 was the harshest in 100 years and many of the vineyards perished.  The situation was set for a mass migration out of the Palatine region.  Through the assistance of Queen Anne of Great Britain (1702-14) in the spring of 1709, about 7,000 harassed Palatines sailed down the Rhine to Rotterdam.  From there, about 3,000 went to America, either directly or via England, under the auspices of William Penn.  The remaining 4,000 were sent via England to Ireland to strengthen the Protestant interest.  The passage down the Rhine took from 4 to 6 weeks.  Early in June, the number of Palatines entering Rotterdam reached 1,000 per week. Later in that year, the British government issued a Royal proclamation in German that all arriving after October 1709 would be sent back to Germany.  The British could not effectively handle the number of Palatines in London and there may have been as many as 32,000 by November 1709. They wintered over in England since there were no adequate arrangements for the transfer of the Palatines to the English colonies.  In 1710, three large groups of Palatines sailed from London. The first and largest group went to Ireland, the second to Carolina and the third to New York with the new Governor, Robert Hunter.  Most of the Palatines who were moved to Ireland settled in the south west of Ireland near Limerick.  Much land was controlled by the English even though 90 percent of the Irish population was Catholic. From 1775-83, which was during and after the period of the American Revolution, English control in Ireland diminished and religious strife increased between Catholics and Protestants.  Many of the Palatine descendants in Ireland, including the Ruttle family, chose to immigrate to Upper Canada.

The Henry Ruttle Family
Henry Ruttle was born in 1789 in Limerick County, Ireland and died June 25, 1836 in Lanark County, Upper Canada. His death at the age of 47 resulted from an accident while hauling logs for a cousin's shanty.  Henry married Catherine Breathour who was born in 1794 in Limerick County, Ireland and died in Lanark County on September 28, 1876.  Both Henry and Catherine were buried at Boyds Settlement.  They migrated to Canada from Ireland and received their patent for land in Canada in 1824. They had 8 sons and one daughter.
 

Children of Henry Ruttle & Catherine Breathour

Edward	He died at the age of 27. His land in Drummond township was left to his brother John who later sold it to brother Thomas Ruttles of Innisville.
Samuel	Married to Mary Ann Neil and lived on a farm near Innisville. They had a son named Henry who married Minnie Ruttles and moved west to Saskatchewan
Julius	He left the area and was not heard from again.
William	He died in 1887 at Innisville at the age of 69. He worked for either brother Samuel or Thomas. He was somewhat mentally handicapped.
John	Married Mary Kirkpatrick and farmed in the township of Leeds and Lansdowne at South Lake. John and Mary and two of their sons were buried in Pine Grove cemetery in South Lake
Michael	Left to live in Tennessee
David	Died as an infant.
Thomas	Lived from 1822 to 1896 in Innisville, Canada
Anne	Married Sam Williams of Ramsay Township in 1846 and lived in the Lansdowne area

The Thomas Ruttle Family
Thomas Richard Ruttle lived from 1822 to 1896 and was married twice.  His first wife was Agnes Cliffe (1835-57) who was the daughter of John Cliffe (1796-1870) and Elizabeth (Betsy) Ruttle (1807-95). Betsy Ruttles was one of the Lansdowne Ruttles and may have been a distant cousin to Thomas Ruttle.

Thomas and Agnes’ first daughter was Elizabeth (1855-1933) who married Hugh Rorison (1851-1923) and had 7 children named Hugh (1880-1969), Gertrude (1882-1973), Ethel (1884-1902), Agnes (1887-1964), Allan (1892-1951), Basil (1895-1961), and Jean (1903-1985).

Agnes died in 1857 shortly after the birth of her second child Sarah (1856-77) and Sarah was raised by her grandparents, the Cliffes of Lansdowne, and later married Robert Cornett and moved west.

Thomas married a second time to Lucinda Martin (1835-1916) who was the daughter  Richard Martin (1798-1877) and Maria Rose (1803-1884) from the Palatines.  Thomas and Lucinda homesteaded at Innisville and had ten children.
 

Children of Thomas Ruttle & Lucinda Martin

Mary (Minnie)	1859-1916	First marriage to A. McLean and later married H. Robb
Henry	1859-1960	Died as a child.
Thomas	1861-1862	Died as a child.
Maria Adeline	1863-1943	Married John Finlayson in 1897 and had 4 children named: Mary (Maymie), Gladys, Ethel, and Kathleen
Richard (Dick) Martin	1865-1948	Married Jennie Whyte and had 3 children named: Lucinda (Lucy), Richard Cecil, and Edith Lillian.
Catherine Agnes	1867-1941	Married James Finlayson in 1895 and had 6 children named: Lucinda Mary (Lucy May), Charles Mitchell, James, Thomas, Verna, and Edgar
Susan Amanda	1870-1951	Married Arthur Davies (1861-1954) in 1892 and had 11 children named: Emma, Agnes, Adeline, Thomas, Dorothy, Ethel, Harold, Gladys, Allan, Evelyn, and Edward
Allan John	1872-1947	Married Susannah Crampton and adopted one son George Harvey
Emma Louise	1875-1953	Married James Hammond and had 2 sons named William Ernest and James Eric.
Ernest Edward	1879-1950	Married Nellie Holden and moved to Perth, Australia and had 3 children named: Ernest, Richard Allen, and Nellie Dorothy

The John Davies Family
John Davies was a farmer and all his children were born at Wern Vawr farm in St.Mellons. It is just east of Cardiff in the area called Glamorgan in southern Wales. John was born in 1779 in St. Mellons and married Ann who was also born in 1779 in St. Mellons. Both John and Anne lived to old age at the farm and were still living there for the 1861 census with their son Edward and grandson Thomas.
 

Arnold Thomas Davies (cousin to Arthur Llewellyn) married Edith Minnie Harding and had two sons. One was named John Emerson Harding Davies (2nd cousin to Dicker), a Member of Parliament representing Knotsford, Cheshire, England from 1970-1978.  John was born on 8 Jan. 1916, married Vera Georgina Bates in 1943. He died 4 July 1979, and was survived by his wife, a daughter Lynda, and a son Francis who reportedly went to Canada.

The Rev. Thomas Davies Family
Thomas Davies was born on 12 Nov. 1812 at the Wern Vawr Farm, St.Mellons, Glamorgan, Wales. He was a minister and pastored the High Street Baptist Church in the city of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales from 1836 to 1856. Then he pastored the Bethesda Baptist Church in Haverfordwest, Pembrokshire, Wales from 1856 to his death on 10 March 1895.

Rev. Thomas Davies first married Jane Williams sometime between the census of 1841 and the birth of Anne in 1844. Jane was born 1821 in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan and was the daughter of Lewis Williams. His second marriage was to Emma Rebecca sometime between the census of 1851 and the census of 1881. Emma was born in 1826 in Hailsham, Sussex. The family is represented as follows:

Children of Rev. Thomas Davies

Anne	1844- ?	Born to Jane in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales
William Medway	1845- ?	Born to Jane in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales
Mary Mildred	18??- 195?
Gertrude	?
Thomas H (Harold?)	1860- ?	Born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokshire, Wales
Arthur Llewellyn	1861-1954	Born 21 August 1861 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokshire, Wales. Emigrated to Canada in 1882 and married Susan Amanda Ruttle in Moose Jaw
Agnes E. Dicker.	1867- 1957	Born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokshire, Wales and was principal of the Hill House College until hger death on 5 Nov. 1957
Ernest Salter	1872- 1955	Born in Haverfordwest and moved to England where he was Dir. of Education for Kent. Married and had two sons, Geoffrey a lawyer who died in 1965 and Dicker an educator in England (1906-1984).

Ernest's son Roy Dicker Salter Davies (1906-1984) married Olive (born 1914) and he died on 6 May 1984 at the Wick House, Stogumber 422, Taunton, Somerset, England TA4 3SZ (phone 098-46-422)

The Arthur Davies Family
Arthur was born  on 21 August 1861 in Haverfordwest, Wales and came as a young man to Canada in 1882 where he settled in Moose Jaw.  He died at 92 on 26 Jan 1954.  Susan Amanda Ruttle was born 4 February 1870 and died at 81 on 24 Dec. 1951. She married Arthur on 6 December 1892 and they had 11 children.
 

Children of Susan Amanda Ruttle & Arthur Llewellyn Davies

Emma Lucinda	1892-1934	Married Ellis Alvin Johnstone (1897-1989) and had one child Kenneth Alvin born in 1930.
Agnes Mildred	1895-1988	Married Edward C. Lee (1894-1967) and had a daughter Kathleen (1920-1997) and a son Raymond born in 1924.
Adeline Gertrude	1896-1985	Married Percy Tinline (1882-1945) and had 5 children named: William (1913-91), Jean born in 1923, Robert born in 1925, Edward Llewellyn (1930-1955), and Ronald John born in 1937.
Thomas Llewellyn	1898-1968	Married Phoebe Gough (1901-1988) and had 4 children named: Harold born in 1922, Kenneth James (1923-1982), Arthur born in 1926, and Majorie (1930-1988).
Dorothy	1900-1902	Died as a child.
Ethel Mary	1902-1992	Married William Beamish (1895-1972) and had 5 children named: William Richard born in 1924, Robert Allan born in 1927, Beverly Joan born in 1929, Gerald Kenneth born in 1934, and Nancy June born in 1938.
Harold Richard	1904-1987	Married Ann Cook (1916- ) and had 3 children named: Charles born in 1939, Robert born in 1943, and Jill Diane born in 1946.
Gladys Winnifred	1906-1990	Married Norman Bristow (1903-1987) and had a daughter Mildred born in 1924 and a son James born in 1928.
Allan Ernest	1908-	Married Kathleen Stevenson (1909-1994) and had a daughter Karen Lynne born in 1944
Evelyn	1910-1999	Married Kenneth Bryce (1906-1986) and had 4 children named: Sue Ann born in 1941, Sally born in 1943, David Kenneth born in 1949, and Judith born in 1952.
Edward	1913-1926	Died at an early age on 20 June 1926.

Anyone having additional family information or corrections is encouraged to contact:
Dave Lindsay at 2120 High Meadow Rd., Naperville, IL 60564  lindsay47@aol.com