Saturday, December 12, 2009

Phillips, Plante and Price connections today.

1895 – Evan John Price made a bequest to the Phillips sisters

Copied from the Price 200 Year Countdown files compiled by Evan Price, Quebec. 2010.
Images added by Julie Phillips Wood.
If you would like more information about the Price Family in Quebec please email jphillips1710@gmail.com or visit the Price Family Website.


Jane Stewart, William Price's wife, had an older sister called Henrietta Eleanor Stewart. In 1821, Henrietta married William Phillips, a Quebec City grain merchant. (His grandfather, John, had fought with Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham in 1759.)



Henrietta Eleanor Stewart Phillips

Over the next two centuries, the paths of the Price and Phillips families would be often intertwined. Jane and Henrietta are buried within 50 feet of one another at Mount Hermon cemetery in Quebec City.


Henrietta and William Price Headstone at Mt Hermon.


Two daughters of Henrietta and William, the spinsters Mary (Minnie) and Isabella (Bella), were the last surviving members of the Phillips family in Quebec City (they lived into the 1920s). In 1895, Evan John Price bequeathed them the sum of 300 pounds yearly for life in his will.



Endowment board in the Anglican Cathedral, Quebec lists the Phillips Sisters.


Letter from Ted Price mentioning Phillips Spinsters Bella and Minnie, written 1984


A granddaughter of Henrietta and William, Henrietta Keane Bethune married Jane and William Price's second youngest son Edward George Price who moved to England in the 1869 and started what is today the English branch of the family.

Lancelot Charles Lake, a grandson of Henrietta and William born in 1858, went out to Chile in 1875 to visit his cousin Henry Ferrier Price to tutor his children on his ranch near San Carlos. He died within a year of cholera and is buried in the Protestant church yard of Chillan (near San Carlos).

Clara Plante was born on the Island of Orleans, east of Quebec City, in 1868. She studied at the Ursulines Convent in Quebec City. In 1883, Clara, her brothers Alfred and Albert, her sister Cedulie and her brother-in-law Fortunat Martineau left Quebec and became pioneers in the Dakota Territory. There Clara met and married Frank Finlay Phillips, Justice Court Judge, lawyer and former Indian agent. Frank was a grandson of Henrietta and William. Their son Wendell Alfred Langevin Phillips emigrated to New Zealand in 1919.


Clara Plante

In 2005, Paul Phillips, twin son of Wendell A L Phillips, along with his wife Moira and their daughter Julie Phillips Wood, all New Zealanders, travelled to Quebec City in search of their family roots and in particular descendants of Jane Stewart and William Price. Their inquiries led them to Auberge Saint-Antoine where they met Martha Bate “Muffy” Price (Tony’s wife) and her son Evan.

Julie (by then living in Toronto), an avid amateur historian, undertook a subsequent trip to Quebec City in 2007 to find out more about the Plante side of her family and asked Evan for leads. Little did she know that a cousin of Clara’s, Jean-Pierre Plante, had been working for Tony and Muffy since the 1960s and their farm had been purchased from Leopold Plante, yet another cousin of hers. Top: Julie Phillips Wood and Jean-Pierre Plante.


Julie Phillips Wood and Jean Pierre Plante on Isle d'Orleans, Quebec

Friday, December 11, 2009

My relationship to Lieutenant Colonel Charles MacLean 5th Laird of Drimmin in Morven

Julie Phillips Wood
Produced by Legacy on 28 Nov 2005



My link to Charles MacLean goes back 10 generations to Scotland. The MacLeans are back in control of Duart Castle and welcome visits from descendants of the Clan.


1-Lieutenant Colonel Charles MacLean 5th Laird of Drimmin in Morven

b.Drimmin in Morven, Scotland, d. 1746, Culloden Field, Culloden, Scotland

+Isobel Cameron b. , Erracht, par. John Cameron and Mrs Cameron



2-John MacLean b. , Ardton in Mull, d. 18 Jan 1765, Drowned at Duart Point, Scotland

+Margaret Campbell b. , Island of Mull, Scotland, par. Laird Donald Campbell and unknown



3-Donald McLean b. , Ardton in Mull, Scotland, d. 21 Apr 1813, Fort York, York, Upper Canada

+Henrietta MacDonnell d. , York, Upper Canada,

m. 26 Mar 1783, Manhatten Island, New York, par. Captain Allan MacDonnell and Unknown



4-Eleanor Morris MacLean b. 18 Jul 1783, New York, d. 23 May 1832, Quebec

+Charles Grey Stewart b. 10 Oct 1775, Edingburgh, Scotland, d. 24 Dec 1854, Quebec, m. 18 Mar 1801, par.

Charles Stewart and Miss Gray



5-Henrietta Eleanor Stewart b. 6 Feb 1802, Quebec, d. 8 Jan 1875, Quebec

+William Phillips I b. 7 Oct 1789, d. 3 Apr 1849, Quebec, m. 23 May 1821, par. John Phillips III and

Rachel Levy



6-William Finlay Phillips II b. 7 Mar 1822, Bastican, Champlain, Quebec, d. 1866

+Louise Elisabeth Langevin b. 6 Apr 1823, Berthier en Haut, Berthier, Quebec, m. 27 Jul

1851, par. Edouard Langevin and Olivia Armstrong



7-Frank Finlay Phillips b. 1863, Sorel, Richelieu, Quebec, Canada, d. 1904, St Paul,

Minnesota.

+Marie Clara Plante b. 8 Mar 1868, of St Laurent, Isle de Orleans, Quebec, Canada,

d.1952, Wahpeton, , North Dakota, USA, par. Joseph Plante and Marianne Celanire

Cinq-Mars



8-Wendell Alfred Langevin Phillips I b. 30 Jun 1892, Minnesotta, d. 1987,

Auckland, New Zealand

+Constance Jessica Craig b. 22 May 1892, Espom, Auckland, New Zealand, d.

1976, Auckland, New Zealand, m. 15 Oct 1919, St Barnabas Church Mt

Eden, par. Joseph James Craig and Jessie Campbell



9-Paul Brian Phillips b. 18 Nov 1925, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand

+Moira Jean Dunn b. 5 May 1934, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand, m.

17 Oct 1956, St Marks Church, Remuera, Auckland, NZ, par. James

Dunn b Finarvon Scotland and Annie Dorothy Gibbons born Napier, New Zealand



10-Julie Moira Phillips b. 4 Dec 1957, Epsom, Auckland

+ (1) Mark Herbert George Gilbert 22 March 1980 Diocesan School Chapel, Espom Auckland, NZ

+ (2) Phillip Masefield Wood 12 Dec 1998, ST Marks Church, Remuera, Auckland NZ

Julie and Phillip Wood :Residence 2005 Toronto, Canada