DCB/DBC Mobile beta   I’ll take the survey now.  Remind me
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answered the survey.  BELLINGHAM, SYDNEY ROBERT, merchant, jp,
militia officer, lawyer, editor, politician, author, and farmer;
b. 2 Aug. 1808 in Castlebellingham (Republic of Ireland), fourth
son of Sir Allan Bellingham and Elizabeth Walls; d. there
9 March 1900.  Sydney Robert Bellingham was born into a family
of the Protestant Ascendancy but of modest means. His father
being unable to support him, at age 15 he immigrated alone to
Lower Canada in the spring of 1824 to seek his fortune. During
the next three years he travelled widely in Upper Canada. In
1827 he accepted employment with James Hamilton, a Quebec timber
merchant, and opened an office for him in Montreal. Four years
later he formed an import-export partnership in Montreal with
James Wallis. On 28 Oct. 1831, at Quebec, he married Arabella
Holmes, daughter of Dr William Holmes* and widow of Dr William
Larue. Bellingham continued in