X00251 Death Date for Jonadab Hardy - Solved!

For the longest time, I had figured that Jonadab Hardy (son of Lancelot Hardy and Ann Wood) had died sometime between 1891 and 1901. This was based on the fact that I had found him the 1891 census [D02255], but in the 1901 census his wife, Mary Ann Foster Hardy appears without him [D03280]. But I wasn't able to find a death record for him in that range. Nor was I able to find any cemetery record indicating when or where he might be buried.

I came across a death record from 1906 that could be a possible fit [D03297].

It was indexed as "John Adolph Hardy", but on closer inspection, it could well be Jonadab (or a spelling variant of it). The date of death was 12 March 1906.

Looking at the death record, there are a few arguments in favour:

• The name matches (or at least it's a close approximation)
• The location of the death (Toronto) makes sense, because previous records indicate he had been living there.
• The age at death (73) indicates a year of birth around 1833, which matches what is known about Jonadab
• I haven't seen any other occurrence of the name Jonadab Hardy in southern Ontario at the time.

There were a few problematic areas as well:

• The given occupation (speculator) does not mach previous records indicating that he was a carpenter and operated a saw mill in later years.
• The birthplace (Canada) does not match all other records indicating that he was born in England
• The fact that he doesn't appear in the 1901 census with his wife is suspicious. The census record does not indicate whether or not she was a widow.

I did some digging in the Peel archives and found an death notice in the Streetsville Review dated 15 March 1906 [D04565].

Not only does it confirm the name, but it also indicates that he formerly operated a sawmill in the area. Based on that, I'm going to conclude that this is the same person and that the birth location given on the death registration was an error. I still haven't found him in the 1901 census but that might likely be because of the various mispellings of his name. Another plus: it gives the location of where he was buried, in Erindale Cemetery. That being said, he doesn't appear in the transcriptions for Erindale so, it is most likely that either there was no stone, or the stone hasn't survived.

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Sources:
[D02255] 1891 census of Canada, Ontario, district 119, sub-district St. Stephen's Ward, Toronto City, p. 150, dwelling B2/6, family 678; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca, Ancestry.

[D03280] 1901 census of Canada, Ontario, district 103, sub-district D-3, Toronto Township, p. 2, dwelling 19, family 19; RG 31; digital images.

[D03297] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935 Reel 124: 55, 1742; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca. [D04565] (Streetsville) Streetsville Review, 15 March 1906, p. 1, Col 6.

X00242 Who is Mary Hardy - Solved!

While searching the Hardy family, I came across a death registration from 1878 for a Mary Hardy:

There were a few things about this death registration that caught my attention and had my thinking that there might be a connection:

• Obviously the Hardy surname
• The location of Toronto Township, which is where the Hardys were living in 1878
• The religion of Methodist, which matches the Hardy family
• Her profession being listed as a carpenter's wife and the informant being a John P. Hardy.

The last bullet point in particular caught my attention because Jehonadab Hardy, who is part of my Hardy family was a carpenter and did sometimes go by the name John. And he was married to a Mary Ann Foster. But Mary Ann Foster appears in later records beyond 1878. So, it had me thinking, did I have something wrong in my research? Could Mary Ann have died earlier? Or could Jehanadab been married to a different Mary at some point?

Double checking my research I found that there was a different John P. Hardy living in Streetsville at the time who was a carpenter and was married to a Mary at one point. This John P. Hardy was the son of a William Hardy (again, different from the one in my Hardy family). So the issue has been solved. But from a lot of derivative sources out there, I see that there is some confusion out there between the John/Jehodab Hardys and the William Hardys that I'll need to be conscious of.

X00315 Solved!!

Back some time ago I posted about X00315 where I mentioned that in the marriage record for Amy Seymore Williams and William Gaskill in Globe, Gilla, Arizona in gives the witnesses as a B. Eastman and an S.C. Eastman. It also mentions that the ceremony was performed by an F.S. Eastman. The question was whether they could all be from the family of Amy's sister-in-law, Maude Alfreda Eastman. And if so, what were they all doing in Arizona?

Since then, I have done some newspaper searching and have made some discoveries that indicate that the witnesses and reverend are in fact the same Eastman family.

I found the article below from May of 1902 indicating that the Eastmans in Arizona were originally from Canada and were returning there shortly [D07138]:

From around the same time, I found Reverend F.S. Eastman's farewell letter [D07134]:

Through some other articles I found that he had been assigned to the church in Globe, Arizona by the bishop in August of 1899, which agrees with his statement that he had been there for a year and a half. I also came across an article from 1900 mentioning that he had married a woman from Quebec [D07132]:

I found the marriage in the Drouin collection, and it is indeed the same Frederick Soloman Eastman in the marriage record.

So, I've confirmed not only that the Eastmans in Arizona are the same in-laws of Amy S. Williams, but I've also been able to figure the times at which they were in Arizona (roughly August 1899 to May 1902). As well, it gives a likely explanation as to why Amy S. Williams would have also been in Arizona at the same time.

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Sources:
[D07132] "Local News," Arizona Silver Belt, 16 August 1900, p. 6, col. 1; digital images, newspapers.com.

[D07138] "Local News," Arizona Silver Belt, 8 May 1902, p. 5, col. 1; digital images, newspapers.com.

[D07134] F.S. Eastman, "Farewell of F.S. Eastman,"Arizona Silver Belt, 1 May 1902, p. 5, col. 3; digital images, newspapers.com.

X00305 Update

I have posted previously about X00305 and how I found listings for a Douglas and Williams brewery in Amherstberg, Essex, Ontario and was wondering if it was the same John Douglas and Thomas Williams who were operating a brewery in Guelph around the same time.

I have since contacted the Essex Branch of the Ontario Genealogy Society to see if they had any more history about a brewery operation in Amherstburg operating aroun 1851. They weren't able to find anything in their collections or in the Marsh Collection about a Douglas and Williams Brewery in Amherstburg.

Recently, however, I was looking at the death registration for Mary Sophia Douglas, John Douglas' first daughter [D01451]. It states that she was born in 1851 in Amherstburg:

If this is the case, it definitely puts John Douglas living in the area at the time. Unfortunately the 1851 census for Amherstburg didn't survive, so it can't be verified that way. And to make things difficult, different documents give different birth years and locations for Mary Sophia Douglas, including Detroit and Guelph. So more further analysis is needed before I can definitely conclude anything.

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Sources:
[D01451] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935, Reel 336: 815, 15873, 14; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca.

[D06545] Bowering, Ian, The Art and Mystery of Brewing in Ontario. Burnstown, Ontario, 1988.

[D06546] Sweet, Richard L., Directory of Canadian Breweries (Past and Present); Second Edition. Saskatoon, 1996.