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| | Beers: Forgie p. 1471 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | His grandfather, Francis Forgie, a son of Scotia, probably of the Highlands, as he spoke the Gaelic dialect, was a soldier in the British army, and on his retirement from the service joined the Irish constabulary. |
 | | They were the parents of six children, viz.: Isabella, married to Thomas E. Bell, of Peterboro county, Ontario; John and James, in Pittsburgh; Mary J., wife of John McCaw, of Hastings county, Ontario; William, the subject of this sketch, and Thomas Edward, who died when young. |
 | | William Forgie, the subject proper of this memoir, was born March 17, 1850, in the township of Thurlow, county of Hastings, Ontario, and his education was received at the common schools of the neighborhood of his birthplace. |
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