Descendants of David & Agnes Ann VALENTINE
 Second Generation 
3. Thomas William VALENTINE (David (Capt.)1) was born on July 9, 1813 in Montrose, , Angus, Scotland2 and died in 1893 in London, Middlesex Co, Ontario, Canada aged 80.
Events
• Residence: Lot 15, Sixth Concession, 1881, Nichol Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada. 4
Thomas married Elizabeth CARSON, daughter of William CARSON and Elizabeth HYSLOP, in 1836. Elizabeth was born on June 10, 1819,5 was christened on June 13, 1819 in , , Dumfrieshire, Scotland,2 and died in 1900 in London, Middlesex Co, Ontario, Canada aged 81.
Children from this marriage were:
6 M i. William VALENTINE was born in 1837 in , Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada.6
7 M ii. John VALENTINE was born in 1839 in , Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada.6
+ 8 M iii. David Carson VALENTINE was born on April 14, 1840 in Nichol Twp, Halton Co, Gore Dist, Upper Canada,4,6,7,8 died on February 10, 1901 in Burleigh Falls, Peterborough Co, Ontario, Canada8 aged 60, and was buried in St. Thomas, Elgin Co, Ontario, Canada.
9 F iv. Elizabeth Carson VALENTINE was born in 1844 in Nichol Twp, Halton Co, Gore Dist, Upper Canada.4,6
Elizabeth married Alexander John B. McDONALD, son of Alexander McDONALD and Mary Ann (__?__), on April 22, 1864 in Nichol Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada.9 Alexander was born in 1841 in , , Ontario, Canada.4
Events
• Occupation: barrister, 1881, Petersville, Middlesex East, Ontario, Canada. 4
10 F v. Madeline VALENTINE was born in March 1850 in Nichol Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada,4,6 died on April 15, 1924 in London, Middlesex Co, Ontario, Canada10 aged 74, and was buried in Fergus, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada.
Events
• Residence: her parents home, 1881, Nichol Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada. 4
• Residence: the home of her neice Mabel Valentine-McEwen, 1911, St. Thomas, Elgin Co, Ontario, Canada. 11
11 M vi. Alexander VALENTINE was born about 1851 in Nichol Twp, Halton Co, Gore Dist, Upper Canada.
+ 12 F vii. Agnes VALENTINE was born in 1853 in Nichol Twp, Halton Co, Gore Dist, Upper Canada.4
13 M viii. Thomas George VALENTINE was born in 1853 in Nichol Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada.
Events
• Occupation: labourer, 1880, Summit, Jackson, Michigan. 12
14 F ix. Mary VALENTINE
+ 15 F x. Helen Aglianby Carson VALENTINE was born about 1857 in Nichol Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada.
16 M xi. James Beattie VALENTINE was born about 1859.
5. John VALENTINE (David (Capt.)1) was born on March 28, 1817 in Montrose, , Angus, Scotland,2 died on August 12, 1872 in Greenock Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada3 aged 55, and was buried in Paisley Cemetery, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
The first store to open in Walkerton was started by John Valentine in the early 1850's and was located opposite to Joseph Walker's log tavern at the corner of Durham and McNab streets. This general merchandise store carried anything and everything to supply settlers' needs, from flour to bear traps.
From "History of Walkerton" Web Site
From: An Historic Album of Paisley - 1974, article submitted by Larry Stark
Today Stark's Mill stands on the western outskirts of Paisley. It is the oldest industry in this area. For a century Stark's Mill has faithfully served its customers of Paisley and the district. It has been operated by members of the Stark family for the hundred years.
John Valentine a native of Montrose Scotland was born in 1817. He came to Walkerton in 1851 and opened a store in partnership with George Jardine. Securing a mill privilege on the Teeswater River at Paisley, he built a sawmill in 1852 and a grist mill in 1855. When Mr. Valentine was going down the Saugeen River, he happened to meet Mr. John Megraw. He persuaded him to leave his farm and come to the building of the dam and sawmill. Mr. Megraw did this and moved his family into a log shanty where the railroad station stood.
The first dam was built about six hundred feet upstream from the present dam. Parts of the dam were constructed of pine and cedar logs held together by rock elm pins which were driven in holes bored in the logs. This construction was then covered with earth. The dam was necessary to provide power for the sawmill, which was built to saw the lumber for the flour mill, built in 1854 on the site of the present mill. The logs that were used in the framework of the first flour mill and the present mill were hand hewn into square timbers with broad axes, by early pioneers. They were cut from the virgin timbers within a half mile of the site.
The sawmill operated until 1929. Some of the logs were floated down the Teeswater River from as far away as the Greenock swamp or hauled to the mill on sleighs to be cut into lumber.
The early settlers who in most cases had no way of transporting their wheat to the mill, for grinding into flour, carried it long distances in sacks on their backs. These people seldom left crusts uneaten.
Mr. Valentine provided a market for logs and wheat to the early pioneers until 1872 when the business was bought by Mr. James Stark who had formerly owned and operated a flour mill at Dunblane. In 1884 the flour mill burnt down but was replaced the next year by the present mill.
The early mill stones were replaced by a new roller system. The wheat was steamed then crushed by rollers. From there it entered the cups of an elevator belt which carried it to the top of the mill where the separation process began. The crushed grain was fed through five different machines which used silk cloths to separate the bran shorts and low grade flour from the desired finished product.
The by-products, that is, bran, shorts, and low grade flour were 501d to the local farmers for feed. The flour was sold locally and exported to England, Scot Gibraltar and the middle east, under the trade names of Excelsior, Prairie Rose, and Pure Cream.
Events
• Occupation: merchant and miller (as noted in the Canadian Directory of 1857-58), Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
John married Annie Irving CARSON, daughter of William CARSON and Elizabeth HYSLOP, on December 24, 1838 in Nichol Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada 5.,13 Annie was christened on June 23, 1821 in , , Dumfrieshire, Scotland.2
Marriage Notes: Valentine, John Waterloo and District of Wellington & Province of Upper Canada and Annie Irving Carson, Single Lady, of the Township, County and District and Province aforesaid, were determined to enter into the Holy Banns of Matrimony and have for this purpose procured the necessary License as required by Law:
Now these are to certify that the said parties, John Valentine, and Annie I. Carson, were regularly married together and the same are legally contracted to each other, in presence of Al Dingwall Fordyce, Sen. And James Webster, both in the Township, County, District & Province aforesaid: This Twenty Fourth Day of December, One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Forty years, by me A. Gardiner, Minr.
Children from this marriage were:
17 F i. Elizabeth VALENTINE .
+ 18 M ii. David Leighton VALENTINE was born on June 30, 1841 in Nichol Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada,7 died on February 24, 1889 in Vavasour, , South Dakota, USA14 aged 47, and was buried in Paisley Cemetery, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
19 F iii. Fanny VALENTINE .
+ 20 M iv. William Carson VALENTINE was born in 1846 in Nichol Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada.4
+ 21 F v. Agnes Ann Aglianby VALENTINE was born on July 23, 1849 in Nichol Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada and died on July 30, 1938 in Brandon, , Manitoba, Canada aged 89.
+ 22 F vi. Mary Jane VALENTINE was born on July 16, 1851 in Fergus, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada, died on November 24, 1884 in Elderslie Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada15 aged 33, and was buried in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
23 M vii. Alexander "Sandy" VALENTINE was born on June 23, 1857 in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada,4,16 died on January 12, 1922 in Walkerton, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada15 aged 64, and was buried in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada. He was usually called Sandy.
+ 24 F viii. Ellen Frances VALENTINE was born in 1859 in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
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