Willam Welsh

WELSH, WILLIAM, merchant, shipowner, and importer-exporter; b. 22 November 1822 in Lot 49, son of Charles Welsh and Lois Bell; m. 31 January 1854 Maria Jones Pethick, and there were no children; Anglican; d. 22 June 1905 in Charlottetown. Welsh, an Independent Liberal, was first elected to the House of Assembly in a by-election held September 1873 for 4th Queens. He was reelected in the general election of 1876. He resigned from the House of Assembly in 1878. Welsh was elected to the House of Commons in 1887 for Queen's County, and was re-elected in 1891. He was defeated in the federal election of 1896 for East Queen's. Welsh received his education at Central Academy in Charlottetown. He was a merchant and shipowner, in partnership with Lemuel C. Owen*, in the firm Welsh and Owen. This firm acted as an importer-exporter for the Island in the late 1860s until the late 1870s. John McDougall* built some vessels for Welsh. William Welsh died 22 June 1905. Maria Welsh, the daughter of Thomas Pethick and Henrietta Webster, was born in 1828 and died 15 July 1890. William Welsh's younger sister, Lois, was married to Lemuel Cambridge Owen".