Tough Families in Canada

Generation No. 1

ALEXANDER TOUGH (1) was born in Parish of Premnay, Scotland. He married ISABEL DUNBAR 07 March 1815 in Parish of Premnay, Aberdeen, Scotland. She was born in Scotland.

Notes for ALEXANDER TOUGH:
Source: IGI - International Genealogy Index - 18 January 2000
OPR - Old Parochial Records - Scotland - 22 January 2000
Scottish Church Records - marriage date.

Children of ALEXANDER TOUGH and ISABEL DUNBAR are:
i. GEORGE TOUGH (2), b. 1815, Parish of Premnay, Aberdeen, Scotland; d. 1851, Parish of Oyne, Aberdeen, Scotland.
ii. WILLIAM TOUGH (3), b. 27 June 1817.
iii. CHRISTINA TOUGH, b. Premnay, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Generation No. 2

2. GEORGE TOUGH [son of Alexander (1)] was born 1815 in Parish of Premnay, Aberdeen, Scotland, and died 1851 in Parish of Oyne, Aberdeen, Scotland. He married SARAH HAY 19 November 1846 in Parish of Fyvie, Aberdeen, Scotland, daughter of JOHN HAY and JANET MORISON. She was born 13 November 1818 in Parish of Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and died 30 March 1907 in Fergus, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.

Notes for GEORGE TOUGH:
Source: January 2000 Old Parish Records, Origins Web Site, Scotland.
LDS (Later Day Saints) and IGI 18 January 2000

Christened on 12 December 1815 - OPR and IGI.

Parishes of Oyne and Premnay are very close - within 5 km of each other. According to LDS Parish Find.

OPR for Parish of Premnay - County of Aberdeen - TOUGH - Dec. 12th Alexr Tough in Drawkwells and his wife Isabel Dunbar had a son baptised and named George before wittnesses John Taviotidale and William Wearns in Green Tusches.
This Extract is in the hands of Judith Hood - 12 February 2000.

Another Extract of entries in OPR for Parish of Fyvie in County of Aberdeen: Judith Hood - 12 Feb. 2000
November 19th 1846
Touch George Touch in the Parish of Oyne and Sarah Hay in this Parish were regularly married.

Notes for SARAH HAY:
Sarah Hay married George Tough in 1846 and they produced two sons - George and Henry. Shortly after Henry was born in 1851, George Sr. died. The Widow Tough then married John Hendry on December 15, 1855 and had three more children - James, John and Sarah. In 1868, the united families came to Canada arriving in Fergus on May 8. In 1879, they moved to Machar Township where they remained till 1888. Then they moved to Grand Valley. They lived there until Sarah became too feeble to look after herself when she moved to Fergus with her daughter, Sarah (Hendry) Steele. When she died in 1907, Mr. Hendry was in Winnipeg. He was still there when he passed away in 1915.

Source: Sarah Hendry's Obituary which was in the possession of Margaret Jeans - her granddaughter.
Record of death: Vital Statistics Index for Ontario - verifies this date.

Source for marriage of Sarah Hay and George Tou(c)h - Extract of entries in an Old Parochial Register received and in keeping of Judith Hood, February, 2000.

Extract of an Entry in a Register of Marriages - Scotland: held by Judith Hood 12 February 2000
1855 on December Fifteenth at Oyne Marriage (after Banns) was Solemnized between us, according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church of Scotland.
John Hendry Boghead of Torries Oyne Age 28 Agricultural Labourer Bachelor
Sarah Hay Boghead of Torries Oyne Age 34 Domestic Servant Widow - second Marriage

Born and Registered on 1st January 1827 at Alvah
Children by each former marriage: Living - 2: Dead - 1 Born, but not registered, on 13 August 1821 at

Banffshire Parents - William Hendry- farmer, and Margaret Hendry (maiden name, Steel - deceased))
Fyvie Aberdeenshire Parents - John Hay - farmer and Janet Hay (maiden name - Morison)

*NOTE: The birthdate in Obituary is 13 November 1818 not 13 August 1821 as stated in Register of Ma