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    This is my main Meddaugh page.  From here you can find:

     Early Meddaugh History
     Abram Meddaugh's biography
     Abram Meddaugh's descendants
     George Washington Meddaugh's biography
     My Haycock family
     Thomas Haycock's biography
     The Johnston Family
     Eliza Jane Johnston's obit
     Wm. Alexander Meddaugh's note on the family
     Jared Meddaugh's biography
     Some unauthorized speculation, don't look

    The Meddaugh family in Lake County came from Canada about 1885.  I have traced the family back to the Kingston area of New York State in the late 1700s but cannot make connection with the numerous Middaughs there.  The original Meddaugh family were the Middags from Holland.  They came to New York in the mid-1600s.  Middaugh & Middagh are alternate spellings of the same name.  The name was originally Middag, Dutch for mid-day (hey, Netscape's spell-checker agrees!), and the spelling Middach or Middagh seems to be the best phonetic one.  Perhaps the present spelling was used to distance some families during the wars with the British; I tend to use Middaugh for Loyalests and Meddaugh for later.

    Much information on this part of the family is available in the books "Grandmas and Grandpas of Yesteryear" by Catherine Meddaugh Deming and "Families of Ulster County,  Volume II: The Meddaugh Family History" compiled by Jack K Middaugh as well as the links below.

    Below is a quick history of what I call "the West Coast Meddaughs" who came to California from Oxford County Ontario.   More will appear later when I get it together.

    G'Father Oscar E. Meddaugh 6 Feb. 1863 in Tillsonberg, Oxford Co., Ontario.  He came to Lake Co. Calif. about 1885.  He married Mary Emmaline Haycock b.18 Sep 1869 in Tillsonburg, Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada.
    His father was George Washington Meddaugh  b. 14 Nov. 1836 in Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario.  G.W. m. Menila Woodard b. 3 May 1834 in Denmark, Watertown, New York.
    G.W.'s father was Abram Meddaugh b.3 Oct. 1812 in Waterloo/Ft.Erie, Ontario m. Elizabeth Sly b. 21 Mar 1817 in St. David's, Ontario.
    Now things get fuzzy as I believe that Abram was adopted but until I find his birth parents, no matter.  Abram's father was James Meddaugh (about here, the spelling Middaugh starts to show up) who was listed as being 79 years old in the 1850 Oxford Co. Census.  The place of origin was clearly N.Y., probably Tumont.  I can't locate Tumont but  there is an area called Lomontville near Kingston N.Y.  Kingston is an ancestral home of the Meddaugh/Middaugh family.  I have a candidate for who James is but no proof whatsoever.  An old family note says the family came to Canada just before the war of 1812 coming into Ontario near St. Catherine's.  I was up there about 15 years ago but did not have much of this info at the time.  See Wm. Alex. Meddaugh's page for info about Abram being adopted which gives another ancestor to consider.

Descendants of Abram MEDDAUGH

Abram MEDDAUGH (b.03 October 1812; d.1860 naaa, we now know better)     We now know more about Abram.  He shows up in Menila's list as being born in "Waterloo, Ft. Erie" just south of Niagra Falls.  A biography of Abram Meddaugh is here.  Early Meddaugh history is found here.  Family records list Abram's death as 05Oct.1860 but why??

    The family of Abram's son, George Washington Meddaugh and G.W.'s son O.E. Meddaugh are on Abram's descendants page.

    Here are links to the Middaugh Family Genealogy Forum,   Ontario resources,   and   a map of Oxford County
   Here is a link to Loree Leatherdale-Wilson's page on the travels of Moses Mott from New York to Ontario.  Neither she nor I are related to them; I think it might be representative of the Meddaugh family's journey.
 

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24 Feb.'03