Hugh Adams

Hugh Adams

• Father: Hugh Adam b. 4 February 1796, d. 21 September 1845
• Mother: Isobel Philip b. 19 March 1795, d. 1879

• Hugh Adams was born on 10 October 1830 in Newton Engine, Parish of Newton, Midlothian, Scotland.
• He was baptized/christened on 14 November 1830 in Parish of Newton, Midlothian, Scotland.
• His name was recorded as Hugh Adam in the record of his baptism.
• Hugh Adam and Isobel Philip appeared in the British census of 6 June 1841 in Newton Engine, Midlothian, Scotland. Other members of the household included Hugh Adams, John Adam, David Adam, Christian Adam and William Adams. Also in the household were children John (age 19), David (12), Christian (7) and William (5).
• Hugh Adams appeared in the British census of 30 March 1851 in Middlefield Buildings, Parish of St. Cuthbert's, Midlothian, Scotland, enumerated as a visitor in the household of gardener's wife Jane McLellan.
• He was a coachsmith journeyman, according to the 1851 census.
• Marriage banns for Hugh Adams and Barbara Lyall were proclaimed on 3 August 1851 at in the Parish Church of St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. At the time of their marriage, both were residing in Edinburgh — he a coachsmith at No. 2 Pilrig Model Buildings, Leith Walk, and she at No. 17 Fettes Row, St. Stephen's Parish, Stockbridge, second daughter of the late William Lyall, painter, Stockbridge.
• He married Barbara Lyall, daughter of William Lyall and Barbara Mill, on 8 August 1851 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, by the Rev. Robert Ferguson, Minister of Free St. David's Church.
• Hugh Adams and Barbara Lyall, accompanied by Margaret Adams and Isabella Adams, departed on 13 May 1857 from Scotland departing Glasgow on the Glasgow & New York Steam Navigation Company Steamship Glasgow.
• Hugh Adams and Barbara Lyall arrived in the Port of New York on 29 May 1857, accompanied by Barbara Mill Adams, Isabella Adams and Margaret Adams and the family went on from there to Canada.
• Hugh Adams appeared in the 1861 Toronto, Canada West (later Ontario), City Directory at 11 Agnes Street listed under Grocers..
• Hugh Adams and Barbara Lyall appeared in the 14 January 1861 provincial census of "Canada" in Toronto, York County, Canada West (later Ontario), at Sayre Street, St. John's Ward. Other members of the household included Isabella Adams, Margaret Adams, William Phillip Adams and William Adams. It seems very likely that servant William Adams (age 25) is Hugh's brother William, enumerated as a five-year-old in the family's 1841 household.
• He was a grocer, according to the 1861 census.
• Hugh Adams and Barbara Lyall appeared in the __ ___ '1862-1863 Toronto, Canada West (later Ontario), City Directory at 17 Denison Avenue listed as a machinist..
• Hugh Adams and Barbara Lyall arrived in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, circa 1863, accompanied by Isabella Adams, Margaret Adams, William Phillip Adams and Barbara T. Adams.
• Hugh Adams and Barbara Lyall appeared in the New York state census of 1 June 1865 in Buffalo, New York. Other members of the household included Isabella Adams, Margaret Adams, William Phillip Adams and Barbara T. Adams.
• He was a machinist, according to the 1865 census.
• Hugh Adams died on 27 September 1865 at age 34 in Buffalo, New York, according to a published obituary, but according to a Forest Lawn records index he died 29 April. Requires further research.
• Barbara Lyall became a widow at his death.
• He was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie County, Canada West (later Ontario). Some confusion and notations in Forest Lawn burial register between Andrew Adams (born in Maine about 1797), who died in April 1865, and Hugh Adams' burial.
• The following appeared in a local newspaper: [Died] Hugh Adams, late of Edin., Scotland, Buffalo, Machinist, Sept. 27, 1865, age 35.
• Photographs of present-day Newton Parish.

• Last Edited: 10 Aug 2016