tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49983532893872895812024-03-13T03:04:16.222-07:00The Genealogy X-FilesDavid Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-5042758087121410612024-02-12T01:00:00.000-08:002024-02-12T01:00:00.134-08:00X00286 Burial Record for Eva Wilkinson - Solved!It's been a while since I've posted anything, but there have been some new releases that have come out since my last post. In particular, the Ontario Death Registrations for 1949 have been released. Among other things, I was able to find the death registration for Evangeline Louise Madden Wilkinson (1883-1949).
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I had already know that she was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto through <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195244240/evangeline_louise_wilkinson">Find a Grave</a>, but the death registration confirmed it.
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I found the plot number through the Toronto Trust website and then went to Family Search to search for the burial records for that plot and was able to get the burial record
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In addition I was able to verify other names as well for that plot.
<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-54999904035475743042023-09-25T03:00:00.051-07:002023-09-25T03:00:00.140-07:00X00363 Robert Ashton Investigation - Solved!I was investigating some hints on Ancestry and found that for George Ashton and Alice Butterworth (my 3x great-grandparents), another Ancestry member had listed a child named Robert who was born 1863 and died 1867. The Ancestry member did have GRO Index links for both the birth and the death record. The timing certainly is plausible because the couple did not have any other children born in 1863 (they had children born in 1862 and 1865, from my research). As well, the child would not have lived long enough to have appeared in a census, which is why he could have been missed.Both references are for Blackburn, Lancashire as well, which also makes sense.
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So, now that the GRO allows the purchase of digital records for much cheaper now, I decided to get the records that were referenced in the indexes.
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Here's the birth record:
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The parents are listed as James Ashton and Ellen Blackburn, which clearly doesn't match.
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Here's the death record:
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The death record lists this child as the son of Robert Ashton, a plasterer. So it's not even the same child as was referenced in the birth record, but again is not a match.
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So, neither record is a match and so it would appear that neither record is evidence that George and Alice had a child named Robert.
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David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-55053118244039526372023-09-18T03:00:00.022-07:002023-09-18T03:00:00.145-07:00X00021 James Oatt connection - Solved!Another older query that I was investigating. I had records from a James Oatt and a Kate Simpson Oatt, but hadn't been able to connect them to my family. I did manage to find the family gravestone in Greenwood Cemetery:
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One clue was with the surname "McNaught" which appears in their daughter's middle name. I eventually found that the James C. Oatt who is connected to my tree married a Catherine McNaugt, which had me thinking that there was likely a connection there.
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I then found his death record, which lists his parents name and has confirmed the connection:
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<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-52546082264698366772023-09-11T03:00:00.049-07:002023-09-11T03:00:00.145-07:00X00022 Place-Nightingale Marriage - Solved!I've been going back and having a look at some of the older queries that I had noted in the past with fresh eeyes and new discoveries that have been made since then.
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It looks as if back in 2012 I purchased a marriage certificate between a Thomas Place and an Elizabeth Nightingale (nee Moorby), likely thinkng that it was Thomas Place, son of Robert Place, born 1827 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. But on receiving it, I discovered that the father of Thomas Place in the marriage certificate is Joseph Place:
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So, the question was, was that the wrong information on the marriage record (which I have seen before), or were there two different Thomas Places, born around the same time in the same place.
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As for the Thomas Place, son of Robert Place, the only records that I have been able to definitely verify as being his are baptism records and the 1841 census. I did some digging, however, and managed to find records of the Thomas Place, son of Joseph Place in a baptism record.
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I have also found both of them in 1841 census records. So, it would appear that we are looking at two different individuals and the marriage record is from a different Thomas Place.
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So, mystery solved, but this raises the question of what became of Thomas Place, son of Robert Place? I don't have any definite records for him beyond his appearance in the 1841 census. Other trees on Ancestry have him dying in 1866 and some have him marrying a Sarah Ramsbottom in 1870. Not sure if either of them are true (they obviously both can't be true) but that is a mystery for another day.
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David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-39907412694801243702023-09-04T02:00:00.028-07:002023-09-04T02:00:00.144-07:00X00089 1911 Census for Ernest Ashton - Solved!I've been trying to find more about <a href="http://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/search/label/Earnest%20Ashton" target="_blank">Ernest Ashton</a> and what became of him after 1916 (see <a href="http://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/search/label/X00317" target="_blank">X00317</a>). I've had some luck with that so far, and have been able to find him in the 1931 census recently.
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Another query that I've had involving Ernest Ashton is finding him the in 1911 census (<a href="http://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/search/label/X00089" target="_blank">X00089</a>). PReviously, I had found this document:
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Where there is an Ernest Ashton working as a labourer on a farm. The age and the birth date are correct (December 1890 vs December 1891). He was born in England and the record shows him as having arrived in Canada in 1910, which corresponds to other records that I have that say the same thing. I also have not found any other possibilities in either the 1911 census of Canada or England. I am therefore prepared to conclude that this is the correct Ernest Ashton.
<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-57693406702929628992023-08-28T02:00:00.051-07:002023-08-28T02:00:00.138-07:00X00303 Update on Who is Martha WilliamsNow that I have a bit more information about the Williams family, I have taken another look at the question of Who is Martha Williams (<a href="https://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/search?q=x00303" target="_blank">X00303</a>).
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As mentioned previously, she is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in the same plot as some of the other members of the Thomas Williams family and I was wondering if there was a connection.
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Martha Williams was born Martha Frost and married Henry H. Williams. She was the daughter of John Frost and Mary Williams and since the surname Williams appears on both sides of the marriage, it's not entire clear as to which side the connection could come from.
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I thought that Mary Williams could be a sister of Thomas Williams, as he did have a sister named Mary. But Mary Williams, the sister of Thomas Williams was born in 1791, likely in Gloucenstershire and the Mary Williams who married John Frost was born in 1815 in Wales according to my research.
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Henry H. Williams is the son of Lewis Williams and Orrilla Healey. It would appear that Lewis Williams was also born in Wales in 1807.
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So both Williams connections to Martha Frost WIlliams originated in Wales and the timing doesn't seem to match with the Thomas Williams family. So it would appear that if there is a connection between the two families, it goes further back than that.
<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-64915394656809003522023-07-17T01:00:00.004-07:002023-07-17T01:00:00.136-07:00X00055: James Farrage and William ChisholmSo, I was doing some thinking. William Chisholm (who signed the George Miller-Margaret Farriage marriage bond) was living in Nelson in the 1830s. He operated a general store and supplied local shipping companies. He later became a ship builder. So could he have been the connection between the Farrages and George Miller?
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Perhaps Margaret’s parents died and so she traveled with James. James knows William Chisholm as a supplier who finds her work in her home town as a domestic, where she meets George. Just a thought.
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David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-63762278748845426262023-07-10T01:00:00.021-07:002023-07-10T01:00:00.145-07:00X00317 Update on Ernest AshtonAn update on the search for Ernest Ashton after 1931. I did check some of the city directories
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I found him in the 1952 City Directory for Toronto living at 128 Jamieson Ave:
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So, while this doesn't prove anything, it is consistent with the death date of 23 January 1953 in the Ashton family bible.
<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-43639993861684752692023-07-03T01:00:00.021-07:002023-07-03T01:00:00.138-07:00X00055: James FarrageThis weekend MyHeritage is offering their Canadian collection free on honour of Canada Day.
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I didn’t find much there that I couldn’t find anywhere else, but I did have a look in the newspapers for the surname Farriage in hopes that I might find some more clues for <a href="https://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/search/label/X00055">X00055</A>. I managed to find a couple of references in the <i>Quebec Gazette</i> in 1834 to a James Farrage, master of a ship called the Eleanor.
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From 27 June 1834:
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And from 7 July 1834:
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It’s not much, but it’s about the only time that I’ve ever seen the name Farrage mentioned outside of the UK in the 1830s. So, it could be a clue!
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David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-10058241674962725002023-06-20T01:00:00.033-07:002023-06-20T01:00:00.143-07:00George Miller in EsquessingI've book looking through property records in hopes of finding some more clues about George Miller. Unfortunately it is a common name. I did come across a reference to a George Miller living in Concession V in Esquessing, Ontario:
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I figured that it was somewhat unlikely that it would be the same one, but he did live in Halton region at one point.
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So, I managed to look up the record and found that it was Lot 1, Concession V. A George Miller bought the land in 1826 and sold part of it in 1831. THe timing there might be ok, but then part of it was transferred via a will in 1848:
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That makes it very unlikely that it's the same George Miller, because the one in my family died in 1891. I've confirmed that it was transferred via a will.
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So, unfortunately, not the same George Miller. But at least I was able to rule it out
<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-4478930844879774862023-06-12T01:00:00.040-07:002023-06-12T01:00:00.134-07:00X00317 UpdateWell the 1931 Census is available and so I thought i'd see if I could do a little ore research on <a href="https://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/search/label/X00317" target="_blank">X00317 - What happened to Ernest Ashton after 1912?</a>.
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I first managed to find Ernest by himself in the 1931 census, living in Toronto West as a boarder
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But then, where is the rest of the family? So, I decided to do a search for Clarence Ashton, and found him listed as a step-son:
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Clarence is living with his mother, Jennie Massey, it would appear and she remarried a may by the name of William Ashford. To confirm the details, I found the marriage record for William Ashford and Jean Ashton
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As well, I found the reference to a divorce between Ernest and Jennie in 1926, although I have yet to find the original record for that.
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So I have now found them up to 1931.
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<b>Next Steps</b><UL>
<LI> Check for British records to see if Ernest had moved back to the UK
<LI> Continue to check newspapers and cemetery records for the family
<LI> Check Toronto area directories to see if Ernest appears in them
<LI> Consider the possibility that the date of death in the family bible is not accurate</UL>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-90347534894748244032023-06-05T01:00:00.051-07:002023-06-05T01:00:00.134-07:00X00300: Who is Ann Sipin - Solved!So, a few years ago, I posted about <a href="https://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/2019/08/x00300-who-is-ann-sipin.html" target="_blank">X00300, the question of who is Ann Sipin</a> who shows up in the 1861 census living with Thomas Williams and family. She appears to be a member of the family somehow, but the surname was not one that I have found anywhere else.
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I was looking at the 1861 census record again and started wondering if the surname could perhaps have been Tipping, rather than Sipin. It would make sense as one of Thomas William's daughters married into the Tipping family.
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I checked, and Elizabeth Ann Tipping, who would have been born in 1853 did not appear with the rest of the Tipping family in the 1861 census. So it would make sense that the "Ann Sipin' in the 1861 census with the WIlliams family is in fact Elizabeth Ann Tipping.
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David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-45256569151118013462023-05-01T01:00:00.006-07:002023-05-01T01:00:00.152-07:00The Douglas Riddell Brewing CompanyThe study of family history can often lead to unexpected and fascinating discoveries, shedding light on the lives of our ancestors and the world they lived in. Recently, while researching the Douglas family, I stumbled upon some intriguing information about James Douglas, the brother of John Douglas.
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James Douglas married Barbara Riddell, daughter of John Riddell, who founded the Riddell Brewery in 1851. But what caught my attention was a reference to a "Douglas Riddell Brewing Company" that apparently took over an earlier brewing operation in the late 1840s.
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Unfortunately, information about this brewery is scarce, and I couldn't find any further details about it. However, I couldn't help but wonder if this was a partnership between James Douglas and John Riddell, with James eventually leaving to pursue a career as the deputy registrar.
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If this theory is correct, it would mean that both John and James had partnerships with their future fathers-in-law, who were both brewers around the same time. This is a fascinating coincidence and provides an interesting insight into the brewing industry during the mid-19th century.
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It's worth noting that John and James would have likely had some exposure to at least the distilling industry through their mother, Margaret Usher. The Ushers were a prominent brewing and distilling family in Scotland.
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Another interesting fact is that John Riddell also originates from Roxburgh in Scotland, the same place as the Douglas family. This suggests that there may have been a pre-existing connection between the two families, further strengthening the possibility of a business partnership.
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Although the details are sparse, the discovery of the "Douglas Riddell Brewing Company" and the potential partnership between James Douglas and John Riddell opens up a world of possibilities and further research opportunities. It's incredible to think that a chance discovery can shed so much light on the lives of our ancestors and the world they inhabited.<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-24393767604203789082023-01-09T02:00:00.023-08:002023-01-09T02:00:00.171-08:00James Douglas' family namesJames Douglas (ca 1820 - 1891) was the son of William Douglas and Margaret Usher. He married Barbara Riddell (1830-1904), daughter of John Riddell and Helen Scott.
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The two had six children together that I am aware of:<UL>
<LI>Margaret Usher Douglas
<LI>Helen Scott Douglas
<LI>William George Douglas
<LI>John Riddell Douglas
<LI>Thomas Lunn Douglas
<LI>Barbara Douglas
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The first four names come from the names of their parents. The last two were named after James' step father (Thomas Lunn) and Barbara. But the interesting thing is where the name George comes from in William George Douglas? Could that be a clue to another family name?
<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-31695776990845260782023-01-02T02:00:00.050-08:002023-01-02T02:00:00.182-08:00James Douglas Tailor?James Douglas (ca. 1822 to 1891) is the brother of John Douglas, my third great grandfather. I had previously thought that he had been a tailor in Owen Sound, largely based on advertisments and directory entries that I had seen:
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James was the Deputy Registrar of Grey County from at least 1870, so this would have been his career prior to that. The ads suggested 1852 as the date of establishment of the business, so he would have been in that profession from 1852 to before 1870. It does make some sense that he might be a tailor as his step-father, Thomas Lunn worked in the garment industry previously and James may have worked with him at some point.
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I started, however, having my doubts and started suspecting that there was a second James Douglas living in Owen Sound at the time. Sure enough I found that there was a James Douglas (1830-1898) also living in Owen Sound at the time:
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I found an obituary for the second James Douglas, and sure enough he was a tailor who came to Canada in 1852. So my hunch was correct - it looks like there are two different individuals named James Douglas and the one connected to my family is not the tailor.
<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-37134534577792092842022-11-28T00:00:00.039-08:002022-11-28T00:00:00.166-08:00X00170 Possible Harry Hook in Directories - Solved!Some time ago I had been searching for appearences of Harry Theodore Hook in city directories including some of these:
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As well as in this directory from Suffolk:<BR>
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As well as some other directories showing a Harry Hook on Malden Road
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I can rule out the Sussex directory appearance, as I have never seen any reference to him living in Sussex.
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As for the Malden Road references, I don't have anything that places him in a certain profession or location in 1899; the closest that I have is 1901 where he was a clerk in Chiswick. Nothing to connect him to Malden Road, or the profession of grocer. So with that, I have nothing to suggest that he is the same Harry Hook as in the directories.
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David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-57647153009860055412022-11-21T00:00:00.019-08:002022-11-21T00:00:00.176-08:00X00122 John Logan Hook Date of Death Solved!I had some information from other family members that John Logan Hook, a son of James Hook had died in Sierra Leone around 1850-1852 but I didn't have any death information.
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I have since come across this article from <i>The Morning Chronicle</i> from 1852
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So I have now been able to confirm that he died 30 September 1852
<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-60779249540073743662022-11-14T00:00:00.009-08:002022-11-14T00:00:00.167-08:00X00361 Is this Tew family connected?I came across this article in the Oakville Record from 1960
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I don't recognize any of the names, and this Tew family looks to have come from England, whereas mine came from Ireland. But it's worth investigating
<BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-87570939356724724792022-11-07T00:00:00.034-08:002022-11-07T00:00:00.161-08:00Willard Eugene Madden<BR>
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On 23 February 1941, PO Willard Eugene Madden was flying in a Harvard II A.J. 559, about four miles north-west of Collins Bay, near Odessa, Ontario with pupil pilot Walter Herbert Riddett from Wiltshire, England. At the same time, Lead Airman Claude Anthony Trebel, from Hampshire, England was also piloting a training aircraft, and the two planes collided in mid-air, killing all three airmen <b>[D05215, D05220]</b>.
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Willard Eugene Madden is buried in the Erskine Cemetery in Dunbarton Ontario. Walter Herbert Ridett and Claude Anthony Trebel are buried in Cataraqui Cemetery in Kingston, Ontario. All three are memorialized in the Book of Remembrance.
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<b>Find a Grave Links:</b>
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<LI><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161568329/willard-eugene-madden" target="_blank">Pilot Officer Willard Eugene Madden</a></LI>
<LI><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182199167/claude-anthony-treble" target="_blank">Leading Airman Claude Anthony Trebel</a></LI>
<LI><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182191089/walter-herbert-riddett" target="_blank">Leading Airman Walter Herbert Ridett</a></LI>
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<B><BIG>Sources:</BIG></B><BR>
<b>[D05215]</b> Canada, "Canada World War II Service Files," Madden, Willard Eugene; digital images, ancestry.ca,ancestry.ca <BR><BR>
<b>[D05220]</b> "Eight Airmen Are Killed In Ontario in Two Days,"Globe and Mail, 25 February 1942, p. 1, col. 2.<BR><BR>
David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-49346062514885963602022-10-31T00:00:00.081-07:002022-10-31T00:00:00.173-07:00Profile: The Honourable William Finlayson<BR><BR>
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William Finlayson was born 12 Dec 1873 in Brantford, Ontario <b>[D08326]</b> the son of Alexander Finlayson and Anna Mary Tupper. He attended Wellesley Public School and Jarvis Collegiate in Toronto and the Osgoode Hall where he received his law degree <b>[D08317, D08321]</b>. William was called to the bar in 1898 <b>[D08317, D08321]</b>. He moved to Midland, Ontario where he set up a partnership with politician William Humphrey Bennett <b>[D08317, D0821] </b>in 1897.
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He married Ethel Cordner Sinclair, the second child and second daughter of Henry and Emily Sinclair <b>[D08289, D08279, D05480]</b> on 6 July 1904 in Orillia <b>[D05484]</b>.
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William first entered politics in 1906 and served as mayor of Midland for two years <b>[D08317, D08321]</b>.
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William and Ethel had their first child, a son, R. William Finlayson about 1907 <b>[D08278, D08279]</b>. A daughter, Mary Frances Sybil Finlayson was born in 1910, followed by Phyllis Constance Sinclair Finlayson in 1912 <b>[D08278, D08279]</b>.
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William served in the militia with the 35th Simcoe Foresters prior to World War One. When the war started, he enlisted on 7 January 1916 in Barrie, Ontario <b>[D08281]</b>. He was first assigned to the 157th Battalion, but was transferred to the 10th Brigade, Canadian Field artillery in January of 1917 where he served as Captain until demobilization in March of 1919 <b>[D08281, D08317, D08321]</b>.
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After the war, William formed a new law partnership with George Dudley, Finlayson and Dudley Barristers and Solicitors in Midland. He entered politics again and was elected as the Member of Provincial Parliament for Simcoe East in 1923 <b>[D08285, D08321]</b>. In his first term he chaired the public accounts committee and then the municipal committee in his second term <b>[D08285, D08317, D08321]</b>. He was elected to the position of Minister of Lands and Forests and held the position until 1934 when he lost his seat in the legislature <b>[D08285, D08317, D08321]</b>. He was reelected in 1937 but resigned two years later to allow George Drew, the new Conservative party leader, to enter the assembly <b>[D08285, D08317, D08321]</b>.
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During his time in the provincial legislature, he worked to develop Northern Ontario and expand the provincial parks system <b>[D08285, D08317, D08321]</b>. He travelled extensively to the remote areas of Northern Ontario, particularly around Hudson Bay and James Bay <b>[D08288, D08317, D08321]</b>. Two places in Ontario are named after William Finlayson: Finlayson township in the District of Nipissing (now part of the Township of Lake of Bays) and Finlayson Point in Temagami, which later became Finlayson Point Provincial Park.
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William Finlayson died 14 November 1943 or pulmonary embolism <b>[D08280]</b>. His wife died a few months later on 19 May 1944 <b>[D05480]</b>. Both WIlliam and Ethel are buried in St. Mark’s Anglican Church in Midland <b>[D08324]</b>
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<BIG><B>Sources:</B></BIG><BR>
<b>[D05480]</b> Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, 29392; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca<BR><BR>
<b>[D05484]</b> Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, Reel 116: 375, 17188, Finlayson-Sinclair; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"<BR><BR>
<b>[D08278]</b> 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, district 119, sub-district 32, Midland, p. 17, dwelling 179, family 192; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.com <BR><BR>
<b>[D08279]</b> 1921 census of Canada, district 126, sub-district 27, Midland, p. 6, dwelling 59, family 59; RG 31; digital images, ancestry.com<BR><BR>
<b>[D08280]</b> Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, 212, 34407; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca <BR><BR>
<b>[D08281]</b> Canada, "Military Service Record - William Finlayson"; digital images<BR><BR>
<b>[D08285]</b> "Wm.Finlayson Dead," The Montreal Gazette, 15 Nov 1943, p. 14, col. 3; digital images, Newspapers.com<BR><BR>
<b>[D08317]</b> "Former Ontario Minister William Finlayson Dies,"Toronto Star, 15 Nov 1943, p. 18, col. 3; digital images<BR><BR>
<b>[D08321]</b> "Wm. Finlayson: Was Minister in 2 Ontario Governments,"Globe and Mail, 15 Nov 1943, p. 7, col. 3; digital images<BR><BR>
<b>[D08324]</b> Saint Mark's Anglican Church (Midland, Simcoe, Ontario)<BR><BR>
<b>[D08326]</b> Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, Reel 9, Record Group RG 80-2: 459, 28728, 95; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births,"<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-71706730116973532382022-10-24T00:00:00.013-07:002022-10-24T00:00:00.180-07:00X00327 UpdateI posted previously about <a href="https://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/search/label/X00327" target="_blank">X00327: Joseph Wood Hardy</a>. I have since found an article that talks about the suicide:
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It gives a little more information but doesn't give any more information either way.
<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-57438610077445964432022-10-17T00:00:00.024-07:002022-10-17T00:00:00.162-07:00X00008 Is the person in this photo Lawrence Ashton - Solved!I have previously posted about <a href="http://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/search/label/X00008" target="_blank">a photo of a 75th Battalion soldier that I found on ebay</a> that I was wondering whether or not was Lwarence Ashton or not.
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Here's the photo from ebay:
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Recently someone posted a different photo of Lawrence Ashton that I hadn't seen previously:
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This photo is nice a clear and I can definitely see that it is the same person as in the other known photos of him. But the person in the ebay photo is definitely someone else.
<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-44261180377796700482022-10-10T00:00:00.049-07:002022-10-10T00:00:00.180-07:00William Miller & Jane Hardy Marriage LocationRecently, Newspapers.com has added some Owen Sound papers to their collection and it has been very beneficial as it is has allowed me to find the full text articles to some things where I have previously only had the transcription. But a side benefit is that I have been able to find some other articles through searches that I would haven't likely been able to find otherwise.
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One such example is an obituary of Jane Hardy from the Owen Sound Sun, 24 April 1917:
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The article implies that she and William Miller were married in Meadowvale about 1856. I had previously found their marriage reistration record showing a date of 22 June 1857 in Wellington County. The marriage was performed by Matthew S. Grey.
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So, the date of the marriage is confirmed, but the question is where did the marrige take place? The marriage register doesn't give a definite place of marriage, but can a news article written sixty years after the fact (and after both the husband and wife are deceased) be trusted to give accurate information?
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The next step is to see if there are additional church records that might give some indication as to the location
<BR><BR>David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-85487192255693257982022-10-03T00:00:00.093-07:002022-10-03T00:00:00.168-07:00X00296 William Henry Muckle Solved!It's always fun when you solve a mystery that you hadn't been looking to solve.
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<a href="http://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/search/label/Edith%20Mary%20Williams">Edith Mary Williams</A> was the fifth daughter of <a href="http://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/search/label/Isaac%20Amos%20Williams">Isaac Amos Williams</A> and <a href="http://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/search/label/Caroline%20Seymore%20Sanders">Caroline Seymour Sanders</A>. I have found two marriage records for her; the first is a marriage to a Willian Henry Muckle on 15 March 1882 in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. The second marriage was to <a href="http://genealogyxfiles.blogspot.com/search/label/Bastoph">William Bastoph</A> on 7 November 1895 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
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There were a few interesting things about these findings. The first one is the question of how Edith got from Lindsay, Ontario in 1882 to Omaha, Nebraska in 1895. I was not able to find a death record for William Henry Muckle - assuming that he died somewhere between 1882 and 1895 - checking in Ontario, Manitoba and the US as well. But one of the most interesting things is that in the second marriage record, Edith's last name is listed as Williams and not Muckle. It was as if the first marriage hadn't happened at all.
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Some time ago, I was looking into William Bastoph's Civil War history and requested a copy of his pension file. I certainly was not expecting to find an explanation to all of that in a pension file, but sure enough I did.
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Included in the pension file was a copy of the decree of divorse from Edith's first husband:
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The decree was from the State of North Dakota and evidently William Henry Muckle deserted his wife on 17 January 1889 and went to Seattle. The divorce was granted 4 August 1890.
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That certainly explains why she reverted back to her maiden name and why I couldn't find any death information for William Muckle. As for how she got to Nebraska, it's still not confirmed, but after the divorce, she could have moved in with some of her relatives and moved around.
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David Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482201307120590763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998353289387289581.post-50370318619392199962022-09-26T00:00:00.073-07:002022-09-26T00:00:00.165-07:00X00326 What happened to Sarah Agnes Hyatt after 1901Sarah Agnes Hyatt was born 28 March 1877, the daughter or Matthew Ostrander Hyatt and Mary Hardy. I've found her in the 1901 Canadian census. She is working as a domestic servant in Toronto in 1901. But there is nothing that I could find beyond that in Ontario. No death record, marriage record or census record. No cemetery record either.
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I have recently found a Sarah A. Hyatt working as a domestic servant in Detroit, Michigan in the 1910 US Census. According to the census record, she was born in 1877 in Canada and emigrated to the US in 1903. So it does fit.
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I have found her again in latest census years in Traverse City, Grand Traverse, Michigan at the Traverse City State Hospital for the Insane. She was still alive in 1940, but I haven't been able to find anything to definitely link her to the same Sarah Agnes Hyatt, other than the fact that the name, date and place of birth and profession match.
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Michigan death records are only available up to 1952 and I haven't yet found her death record. So it could be that she died after 1952 in Michigan. unfortunately this doesn't give us much to go on to link her to my Ontario Hyatt family so far.
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