Profile: Daisy May Smith Morgan [1891-1973]

Daisy May Smith Morgan [1891-1973]

Daisy May Smith was born 24 Mary 1890 in Eugenia Falls, Grey County, Ontario [D04858]. She was the youngest child of Adam Smith and Kate Williams, and like her older three brothers and two sisters was born in family home [D04832].

She married William Earnest Morgan, a bricklayer from Artemesia 5 June 1912 [D04739, D04874]. The wedding was held at her parents' home with a prepared altar set up in the drawing room [D04874]. The service was performed by Daisy's uncle, William Madden and her sister, Georgina played the bridal march [D04874]. Many guests from out of town attending the wedding including Mrs. Dyer from Toronto (sister of Kate Williams Smith), Georgina Smith of Toronto and George Graham of Parry Sound [D04873].

After the honeymoon trip, William and Daisy May moved into the house opposite her parents' house on Inkerman St. N. in Eugenia [D05025].

William and Daisy May had one daughter, Patricia Victoria Morgan, born on 24 May 1913 [D04888] and one son Douglas, born in 1921 [D04882]. Patricia married Glenn Ross MacDonald and died on 3 May 1966 at the age of 66 [D04886].

William Morgan died on 16 September 1930 at the age of 50 [D04883].

In her later years, Daisy May moved to Owen Sound and later Mount Forest in 1969 [D04826]. She died 24 December 1973 at the age of 83 [D04829]. At the time of her death, she had five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren [D04826, D04829].

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Sources:
[D04739] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, 8882, Morgan-Smith; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 21 Oct 2018).

[D04826] Grey County Surname Collection , Dec 28 1973; digital images(accessed 2 Nov 2018), Grey County Surname Collection.

[D04829] Grey County Surname Collection ; digital images.

[D04832] Grey County Surname Collection , 25 Feb 1936; digital images(accessed 9 Nov 2018).

[D04858] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929 Reel 98: 683, 10773, 30; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (28 Oct 2018).

[D04873] "Eugenia Paragraphs," Flesherton Advance, June 6,1912, p. 1, col. 3; digital images(accessed 18 Nov 2018), Grey Highlands Newspaper Collection.

[D04874] "Morgan-Smith," Flesherton Advance, June 13, 1912, p. 4, col. 1; digital images(accessed 18 Nov 2018), Grey Highlands Newspaper Collection.

[D04882] 1921 census of Canada, district 84, sub-district 7, Artemesia, p. 8, dwelling 84, family 84; RG 31; digital images, ancestry.com (accessed 3 Nov 2018).

[D04883] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935, Reel 382: 323, 6526; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages," Ancestry.ca (4 Nov 2018).

[D04886] Mount Forest Cemetery (Southgate, Grey, Ontario).

[D04888] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929, Reel 240: 25934; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (4 Nov 2018).

[D05025] Mildred Young Hubbert, editor, Split Rail Country: A History of Artemesia Township (Owen Sound, Ontario: Stan Brown Printers Limited, 1986).

Profiles: Dora Evalena Smith Graham [1885-1979] and George Wellington "Well" Graham [1877-1928]

Profiles: Dora Evalena Smith Graham [1885-1979] and George Wellington "Well" Graham [1877-1928]

Dora Evalena Smith (or Evalena, as she was later known) was born in Eugenia Falls 30 May 1885, the second daughter and third child of Adam Smith and Kate Williams [D04857]. Like her brothers and sisters, she was born in the family home in Eugenia Falls [D04832].

She married George Wellington "Well" Graham, the second son of George Graham and Elizabeth Ellis on 3 Dec 1915 in Flesherton, Ontario [D04871, D04738].

George Wellington "Well" Graham was born 26 April 1877 in Vandeleur in Grey County Ontario [D04738, D04879, D04887, D04810]. His parents were George Graham and Elizabeth Ellis [D04738, D04887]. His parents were immigrants from Scotland who settled in the Grey Highlands area just south of Eugenia in the 1850s [D05025 p105]. Well worked in a sawmill in his early days [D04738] but later become a photographer of events in Eugenia [D05025 p105, D04879]. The two had two children together: Gordon and Phyllis.

Well died 9 November 1928 of influenza [D04887] and is buried in Flesherton cemetery [D04810].

Dora died 26 Aug 1979 in her 95th year, outliving all of her brothers and sisters [D04834]. At the time of her death she was living in Collingwood and had four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren [D04834]. She is buried in Flesherton cemetery along with her husband[D04834, D04810]

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Sources:
[D04738] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, 5218, Graham-Smith; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 21 Oct 2018).

[D04810] Flesherton Cemetery (Fleshterton, Grey, Ontario).

[D04832] Grey County Surname Collection , 25 Feb 1936; digital images(accessed 9 Nov 2018).

[D04834] Grey County Surname Collection , 1979; digital images(accessed 2 Nov 2018), Grey County Surname Collection.

[D04857] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, 1845873: 27, 10469, 53; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (28 Oct 2018).

[D04871] "Eugenia Paragraphs," Flesherton Advance, 9 December 1915, p. 1, col. 3; digital images(accessed 3 Nov 2018), Grey Highlands Newspaper Collection.

[D04879] 1921 census of Canada, district 84, sub-district 7, Artemesia, p. 8, dwelling 81, family 81; RG 31; digital images, ancestry.com (accessed 3 Nov 2018).

[D04887] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935 Reel 359: 435, 16379, 2; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (2 Nov 2018).

[D05025] Mildred Young Hubbert, editor, Split Rail Country: A History of Artemesia Township (Owen Sound, Ontario: Stan Brown Printers Limited, 1986).

Profile: Georgena Viola Smith (1883-1978)

Georgena Viola Smith (1883-1978)

Georgena Viola Smith was born 22 December, 1863, the second child and eldest daughter of Adam Smith and Kate Williams [D04856, D04833]. In her younger years, she worked as a seamstress in Toronto [D04880] and lived in Buffalo, New York for a time between 1904 and 1905 [D04881]. She later worked as a practicing nurse back in Eugenia Falls where she grew up [D04881]. She also played organ at the Methodist (later United) church, including at her sister's wedding [D04874].

In 1941 she moved to San Leandro, California to live with her aunt Edith Bostaph. A border crossing card from 1941 describes her as being five feet, eight and a half inches in height, with brown eyes, medium complexion and grey-brown hair [D04881]. The card also mentioned a slight scar on her nose [D04881]. Although she never married, she remained close with her family and made frequent visits to see her parents, aunts and uncles [D04873, D04923, D04881]. She died 18 March, 1978 at the age of 95 [D04833, D04811] and is buried in Flesherton Cemetery along with her younger sister, Daisy May [D04811]

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Sources
[D04811] Flesherton Cemetery (Flesherton, Grey, Ontario).

[D04833] Grey County Surname Collection , 1978; digital images (accessed 2 Nov 2018), Grey County Surname Collection.

[D04856] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, 1845867: 622, 9996, 70; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (28 Oct 2018).

[D04873] "Eugenia Paragraphs," Flesherton Advance, June 6,1912, p. 1, col. 3; digital images(accessed 18 Nov 2018), Grey Highlands Newspaper Collection.

[D04874] "Morgan-Smith," Flesherton Advance, June 13, 1912, p. 4, col. 1; digital images(accessed 18 Nov 2018), Grey Highlands Newspaper Collection.

[D04880] 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, district 128, sub-district 87, Toronto, p. 1, dwelling 4, family 4; RG 31; digital images,Ancestry.com (accessed 3 Nov 2018).

[D04881] "Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists 1905-1963," online images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 16 Jan 2019), 3 Feb 1941.

[D04923] "Eugenia," Flesherton Advance, October 22, 1930, p. 1, col. 1; digital images(accessed 17 Nov 2018), Grey Highlands Newspaper Collection.

Profile: Helen Douglas (1852-1936)

Profile: Helen Douglas (1852-1936)

Helen Douglas was born 17 November 1852 in Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario [D00535, D00763, D00744, D01559, D02547, D02555, D03207]. She was the second daughter and second child of John Douglas and Louisa Williams. She moved along with the rest of her family from Guelph to Owen Sound in the mid-1850s and spent the rest of her life in Owen Sound [D00237].

She married Thomas James Decatur on 20 December 1880 in Toronto [D03207]. Thomas was an American-born lawyer living in Orillia, Simcoe County at the time [D02936, D03207, D04726, D05106]. Thomas and Helen lived together in Orillia for a few years [D04726] before Thomas died at the young age of 38 in 1887 [D02963].

After the death of her first husband, Helen moved back in with her mother for a few years [D00763] and then married George Milford, a Toronto merchant on 31 January 1894 [D00744]. They later moved back to Owen Sound where they lived at 970 4th Avenue East, just down the street from the Douglas family homestead [D02509, D02547]. Back in Owen Sound, Helen became heavily involved with the Division Street United Church [D04777].

George died 8 Jan 1925 of acute heart failure at the age of seventy-nine [D01131, D02554, D03816]. After George’s Death, Helen moved into the Douglas family homestead at 962 4th Avenue East [D00237, D02555, D04727, D04776, D04777]. Helen herself died in her eighty-fourth year on 18 June 1936 [D00237, D01131, D02555]. Both Helen and George are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Owen Sound [D01131, D03816].

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Sources:
[D00237] "Mrs George Milford Died on Thursday," Grey County Surname Collection , 18 june 1936; digital images(accessed 31 Aug 2019).

[D00535] 1901 census of Canada, Ontario, district 65, sub-district D-8, Owen Sound, Grey North, Ontario, p. 10, family 95; RG 31; digital images(accessed 9 Jul 2017).

[D00744] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, MS932; Reel: 81: 16, 4115, Milford-Decatur; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 10 Sep 2017).

[D00763] 1891 census of Canada, Ontario, district 68, sub-district Owen Sound Center Ward, Owen Sound, p. 35, family 175; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca, Ancestry (accessed 5 Oct 2017).

[D01131] ”Owen Sound Greenwood Cemetery Interments" (typescript, 2005), p. 222.

[D01559] 1871 census of Canada, Ontario, district 37, sub-district 1-G, Owen Sound, p. 67, dwelling 258, family 262; RG 31; digital images(accessed 6 Sep 2018).

[D02509] 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, district 73, sub-district 48, Owen Sound, p. 8, dwelling 72, family 77; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.com (accessed 7 Oct 2018).

[D02547] 1921 census of Canada, district 83, sub- district 45, Owen Sound, p. 2, dwelling 16, family 17; RG 31; digital images,ancestry.com (accessed 7 Oct 2018).

[D02554] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935; Reel:324: 745, 14604, 8; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (29 Sep 2018).

[D02555] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935; Reel:550: 339, 17186; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (29 Sep 2018).

[D02963] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935; Reel: 49: 225, 15838; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (17 Sep 2018).

[D03207] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages190, 13286, Decatur-Douglas; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 29 Sep 2018).

[D03816] Greenwood Cemetery (Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario), G-W34- 4-.

[D04726] 1881 census of Canada, Ontario, district 139, Orillia, p. 117, dwelling 525, family 538; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 17 Oct 2018).

[D04727] Canada, Canada, Voters Lists, vol. 1935: 2690; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Canada Voters Lists 1935-1980," (accessed 31 Aug 2019).

[D04776] "Died," Grey County Surname Collection , 18 June 1936; digital images(accessed 31 Aug 2019).

[D04777] ”Mrs. George Milford Buried on Saturday," Grey County Surname Collection , 22 Jun 1936; digital images(accessed 31 Aug 2019).

[D05106] 1871 census of Canada, Ontario, district 40, sub-district 04c, Cardwell, p. 42, dwelling 142, family 142; RG 31; digital images(accessed 31 Aug 2019).

The Tragic Death of Harold Wright Douglas

Harold Wright Douglas was the eldest son of T.W. Douglas and Winnifred Henrietta Victoria Wright. He was born 23 July 1885 in Owen Sound [D05715, D06025].



In the spring of 1904, at the age of nineteen, Harold Wright Douglas moved to Toronto to work for Purdy Mansell & Co., a plumbing and steamfitting company located based in Toronto at 16 Adelaide St. West [D00236, D06020]. He had previously worked for Owen Sound plumber A.J. Ross [D00236, D06020].

While in Toronto, Harold roomed at 346 Berkeley Street along with his co-worker William Bell [D00236, D01210, D06022].

Around 4:00 in the afternoon of Sunday 4 June 1904, Harold and William borrowed a canoe from Ewan’s boat-house at the foot of Sherbourne street and began paddling out on Toronto Bay [D00236, D01210]. When they were about four-hundred yards out, Harold, who was cold stood up to put on his coat. The action caused the canoe to overturn, spilling both Harold and William into the lake. The two of them clung on to the side of the canoe and waited for help [D00236, D01210, D06022].

Boaters James Cockerell and James Ramsden were also out on the water at the time and came to the assistance of the two young men. The two were able to rescue William Bell, but Harold had let go and had sunk beneath the waters by the time that they arrived [D00236, D01210, D06022].

A search was conducted, and the drowned body of Harold Wright Douglas was recovered the following day around 3:00 in the afternoon by ex-Esplanade Constable George Williams [D01209, D06020].

His well-attended funeral was held on Wednesday, 15 June 1904 at the residence of his parents [D06016, D6021, D06023]. He is buried at Greenwood Cemetery [D01131, D04954].

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Sources:
[D00236] "Harold Douglas Drowned," (Owen Sound) The Advertiser, Owen Sound , 14 June 1904, p. 1, col. 6.

[D01131] "Owen Sound Greenwood Cemetery Interments" (typescript, 2005), p. 81.

[D01209] "Douglas' Body Recovered," Toronto Star, 14 Jun 1904, col. 3; digital images, Pages of the Past (accessed 6 Apr 2019).

[D01210] "Canoes Claimed Two More Victims," Toronto Star, 13 Jun 1904, p. 7, col. 2; digital images, Pages of the Past (accessed 6 Apr 2019).

[D04954] Greenwood Cemetery (Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario), G-S9-1.

[D05715] "Births," (Owen Sound) The Advertiser, Owen Sound, 30 July 1885, p. 2, col. 5.

[D06016] "Interred on Wednesday," (Owen Sound) The Advertiser, Owen Sound , 17 Jun 1904, p. 1, col. 3.

[D06020] (Owen Sound) Owen Sound Times, 17 Jun 1904, p. 1, col. 4.

[D06021] (Owen Sound) Owen Sound Times, 17 Jun 1904, p. 5, col. 5.

[D06022] "Harold Douglas Drowned at Toronto," (Owen Sound) Owen Sound Sun , 14 Jun 1904, p. 1, col. 4&5.

[D06023] (Owen Sound) Owen Sound Sun, 17 Jun 1904, p. 1, col. 2.

[D06025] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929, Reel 70: 11742, 96; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (16 Mar 2019).

Profile: Clarence Williams Douglas & Mary Louisa “May” Leach

Profile: Clarence Williams Douglas [1865-1923] & Mary Louisa “May” Leach [1863-1896]

Clarence Williams Douglas was born on 9 February 1865 in Owen Sound, Grey County [D00329, D00769, D00838, D01559, D04954] and was the youngest child of John Douglas and Louisa Williams.

Clarence grew up in Owen sound and lived most of his there [D02348]. At the age of sixteen he learned the trade of cutter by apprenticing with a tailor in Toronto [D01354] alongside his older brothers, Thomas W. And Frederick G. Douglas. Back in Owen Sound, Thomas W. Douglas opened a tailoring business where Clarence was employed for seventeen years [D02348].

Mary Louisa “May” Leach was born on 20 October 1863 [D00838, D01131, D01236, D01952, D04954] the daughter of Charles Leach and Margaret Delahaye. She grew up in Trafalgar Township in Halton County, Canada West [D01236], later moving to Oakville [D01334]. She likely met Clarence Douglas during the time he was apprenticing in Toronto.

Clarence Douglas and Mary Louisa “May” Leach were married on 27 December 1887 in Toronto [D00838].

Clarence and May lived on Mulholland Street (now 3rd Avenue West) in Owen Sound. They had one daughter, Muriel May Douglas, born 21 May 1889 [D00378, D05264, D05998].

On the morning of Wednesday 26 February 1896, May began experiencing some agonizing pains in her abdomen [D00233]. Several doctors were called in, but they were unable to save her and she died later that day [D00233, D01952]. The cause of the pains and her later death was determined to be an intestinal rupture [D00233].

The entire community was shocked and grief-stricken over her death as she was only thirty-two years of age and left behind a seven-year-old daughter [D00233, D04930, D05999]. Her funeral was held on Friday 28 February 1896 at 3 pm [D00233, D04930, D05999] and being very well-known in the community, drew a procession that was over a mile in length [D04930, D05999]. She is buried in Greenwood cemetery [D00233, D01131, D04954].

After his wife’s death, Clarence sold the house on Mulholland Street to Mr. George W. Patterson [D06017].

Clarence worked as a commercial traveller for a few years in the 1890s before partnering with George Marron to purchase the Paterson House Hotel from W.M. Matthews on 7 April 1903 [D06019]. The Paterson House had been considered on of the best managed hotels in all of Canada just a few years earlier, but took a bit of a downturn after Owen Sound went dry in 1906. Marron and Douglas co-owned the hotel until Clarence’s death in 1923. During their time as co-owners, George Marron and Clarence Douglas became very well-known over all of Western Ontario [D02348].



Clarence and May’s only daughter Muriel May Douglas married Lester Wright Brown on 26 October 1912 in Owen Sound [D00835]. Their first an only biological daughter (as well as Clarence and May’s only biological granddaughter), Frances Eileen Brown, was born 23 August 1918 [D00267, D00345].

In the evening of Thursday, 20 December 1923 passed out while entering his room at the Paterson House. He may have been drinking that evening, leading to the loss of consciousness, as he was known to have been a drinker. As he fell, he cut his leg on the door hinge and knocked over an oil space heater. He was found collapsed on the floor. A doctor was called, but by the time he began treatment, blood poisoning from the cut had already set in [D02348]. Clarence died two days later on Saturday 21 December 1923 [D01951, D02348].

His funeral was held on Monday 24 December 1923 at the home of his daughter, 1104 4th Avenue East [D02348]. The pall bearers were his nephews John Wilfred and Dr. Norman K. Douglas, his son-in-law Lester Wright Brown, his brother-in-law, George Milford and business partner, George Marron [D02348]. He was buried in Greenwood cemetery along with his wife [D01131, D02348, D04954].




Sources:
[D00233] "Deaths," (Owen Sound) Owen Sound Times, 27 Feb 1896, p. 5, col. 3.

[D00267] “Birth Announcements," Owen Sound Sun-Times , August 27 1918, p. 5; digital images(accessed 5 Mar 2017). Rec. Date: 5 Mar 2017. 

[D00329] 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, district 73, sub-district 57, Owen Sound, p. 3, dwelling 36, family 36; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.com (accessed 25 Mar 2017).

[D00345] 1921 census of Canada, district 83, sub-district 36, Owen Sound, p. 5, dwelling 62, family 63; RG 31; digital images, ancestry.com (accessed 2 Apr 2017). Rec. Date: 1 Apr 2017. 

[D00378] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929; Reel: 93: 40, 11105, 76; digital image, Ancestry.com, (20 Apr 2017).

[D00769] 1891 census of Canada, Ontario, district 68, sub-district Owen Sound West Ward, Owen Sound, p. 8, family 39; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca,Ancestry (accessed 13 Oct 2017).

[D00835] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, MS932; Reel: 211, 8620, Brown-Douglas; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 9 Dec 2017).

[D00838] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, MS932; Reel: 63, 14388, Douglas-Leach; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 16 Dec 2017).

[D01131] "Owen Sound Greenwood Cemetery Interments" (typescript, 2005), p. 81.

[D01236] 1871 census of Canada, Ontario, district 38, sub-district 2-b, Trafalgar, p. 25, dwelling 91, family 91; RG 31; digital images(accessed 30 Mar 2019).

[D01334] 1881 census of Canada, Ontario, district 150, Oakville, p. 50, dwelling 260, family 260; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 8 Jul 2018).

[D01354] 1881 census of Canada, Ontario, district 134, sub-district G, Toronto, p. 136, dwelling 657, family 713; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 30 Sep 2018).

[D01559] 1871 census of Canada, Ontario, district 37, sub-district 1-G, Owen Sound, p. 67, dwelling 258, family 262; RG 31; digital images(accessed 6 Sep 2018).

[D01951] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935; Reel: 301: 429, 15709, 14; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (16 Mar 2019).

[D01952] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935; Reel: 79: 593, 9512, 17; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (17 Mar 2019).

[D02348] "Prominent Hotel Man Passed Away Quite Suddenly,"Owen Sound Sun-Times, 23 Dec 1923, p. 1, col. 1; digital images(accessed 16 Mar 2019).

[D04930] "Deaths," (Owen Sound) Owen Sound Times, 5 Mar 1896, p. 5, col. 3.

[D04954] Greenwood Cemetery (Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario), G-S9-1.

[D05264] “Births," (Owen Sound) Owen Sound Times, 6 Jun 1889.

[D05998] “Births," (Owen Sound) Owen Sound Times, 13 Jun 1889, p.4, col. 4.

[D05999] (Owen Sound) The Advertiser, Owen Sound, 3 Mar 1896, p. 1, col. 7.

[D06017] "Marriages," (Owen Sound) Owen Sound Times, 26 Mar 1896, p. 1, col. 4.

[D06019] "Deaths," (Owen Sound) The Advertiser, Owen Sound, 18 Mar 1904, p. 1, col. 2.

X00305: Douglass & Williams Brewers in Amhertsberg?

I’ve been doing some more research on historical breweries in Ontario and I’ve found something interesting. Both “The Art and Mystery of Brewing in Ontario” by Ian Bowering [D06545] and “The Directory of Canadian Breweries Past and Present” by Richard L. Sweet [D06546] mention a Douglas and Williams brewery operating in Amherstberg, Essex County out near Windsor, Ontario.

The first source (Bowering) lists:

Douglas and Williams, brewers 1851 [D06545]

and the second one (Sweet) lists:

Douglass & Williams; brewers 1851-1853 [D06546]

I came across the attached record for Amherstberg from an 1851 directory of Canada West. This is presumably where Bowering got his information from.



So, the big question is, are these two brewers in Amherstburg the John Douglas and Thomas Williams who were operating a brewery in Guelph around the same time?

On the one hand, the names could be a coincidence, as Douglas and Williams are both very common names. On the other hand, perhaps this ties in with the fact that John Douglas’ marriage notice says that he was from Detroit. Perhaps they operated out of multiple locations? Perhaps Douglas was working as an agent for the Guelph operations?

The 1851 census would likely give some indication, but unfortunately that portion of the census has not survived for Amherstburg. I've checked the 1861 census for Amherstburg and there doesn't appear to be anyone with the surname of Douglas living there at the time. Nor is there anyone with the surname Williams with an occupation of brewer.

Next step: Check other resources to see if I can find out the first names of the Douglas and Williams of Amherstberg.

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Sources:
[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.

World War One and the Douglas Brothers

In 1914, TW Douglas and Winnifred Henrietta Victoria "Etta" Wright had three surviving sons: John Cameron Douglas born 29 August 1887 [D00379], Thomas Wilfred Douglas born 23 April 1895 [D00307, D00334, D02604, D03212, D04728, D04954, D05659] and Stewart Arnold Douglas born 8 August 1898 [D06213].

Shortly after World War One began, John Cameron enlisted to join the Canadian Expeditionary Forces on 5 November 1914 [D02603]. He was among the first twenty men to enlist in Owen Sound [D05672]. He was assigned to the 20th Battalion [D02603].

John was awarded a good conduct badge on 5 January 1918 and was promoted to Lance-Corporal on 30 March 1918 [D02603].

John’s two brothers, Wilfred and Stewart both eventually enlisted as well on 28th May 1918 and were given the ranks of Sapper [D02604, D04654]. Stewart didn’t see much action in France before developing Rheumatic Fever and was eventually discharged back to Canada in January of 1919 [D04654]. Wilfred’s previous training as an electrician got him assigned to the Canadian Engineers and the 7th Battalion [D02604].

All three of the Douglas brothers survived the war.

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Sources
[D00307] 1901 census of Canada, Ontario, district 65, sub-district D-8, Owen Sound, p. 11, dwelling 89, family 100; RG 31; digital images(accessed 11 Mar 2017).

[D00334] 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, district 73, sub-district 48, Owen Sound, p. 8, dwelling 68, family 83; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.com (accessed 25 Mar 2017).

[D00379] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929; Reel: 81: 534, 10982, 95; digital image, Ancestry.com, (22 Apr 2017).

[D02603] Canada, "Military Service Record - John Cameron Douglas"; digital images, ancestry.ca,ancestry.ca (accessed 1 Sep 2019).

[D02604] Canada, "Military Service Record - Thomas W. Douglas"; digital images, ancestry.ca,ancestry.ca (accessed 1 Sep 2019).

[D03212] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, Reel: 12-333, 12259, Douglas-Barber; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages".

[D04654] Canada, "Military Service Record - Stewart Arnold Douglas"; digital images, ancestry.ca,ancestry.ca (accessed 1 Sep 2019).

[D04728] 1921 census of Canada, district 83, sub-district 45, Owen Sound, p. 1, dwelling 13, family 14; RG 31; digital images, ancestry.com (accessed 17 Oct 2018).

[D05659] “Thomas Douglas,"Grey County Surname Collection, 31 Oct 1975; digital images(accessed 3 Apr 2019).

[D05672] "Life Long Resident John C. Douglas Dies in Hospital,"Grey County Surname Collection, October 1960; digital images(accessed 14 Apr 2019), Grey County Surname Collection.

[D06213] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, Reel 929; Series 142: 175, 119, 14903; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (3 Apr 2019).

Update on X00298 - John Williams Brewing History Part 2

Last week I give an update on X00298 and the research on John Williams. This week I'm going to give an update on two of the other research questions.

2. There was a John Williams who supposedly opened a brewery in 1864 in Flesherton (From Whiskey and Wickedness) [D05727]. Is that the same John Williams?

3. His death record lists him as a brewer living in Owen Sound in 1889 [D03737]. Which brewery could he have been working for?

First, as far as the possibility of him opening a brewery in Flesherton, I managed to find a listing in both “The Art and Mystery of Brewing in Ontario” by Ian Bowering [D06545] and “The Directory of Canadian Breweries Past and Present” by Richard L. Sweet [D06546]. Both were under Artemesia:

The first source (Bowering) lists:

Williams, J., brewer, 1864 [D06545]

and the second one (Sweet) lists:

Williams, John; brewer and maltster, 1864 [D06546]

So, it would seem that there is evidence that a John Williams did open a brewery in the area around 1864 and that it was very short-lived. The question still remains though if this is the same John Williams who was the son of Thomas Williams. There was a John Williams living in the area in 1861 and 1871 who was Dutch but had no evident connection to brewing. It could have been the Dutch John Williams or perhaps it was a different John Williams who moved to the area temporarily. There is still more research to be done.

As for the third question, multiple sources suggest that there were two breweries in operation in Owen Sound in 1889: Eaton Brothers Brewery and the Schwan Brewery [D06545, D06546, D06547].



Eaton Brothers started in 1883 and it was believed that they took over from the Riddell & Secord Brewery. The Schwan Brewery was founded in 1885 and believed that they took over from Malone's brewery. It's not clear as to which one John Williams could have worked for. Many of the names of the workers at Schwan's have been documented [D06547] and his name is not among them. But that does not necessarily mean that worked at Eaton Brother's.

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Sources:
[D03737] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935 Reel 54: 395, 5588, 1; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (6 May 2018). Rec. Date: 3 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 6 May 2018.

[D03739] 1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Peel, sub-district Brampton, Brampton, p. 15; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 13 May 2018). Rec. Date: 5 Feb 2018. Cit. Date: 13 May 2018.

[D05727] Cotton, Larry D., Whiskey and Wickedness Volume V - Wellington and Grey Counties, Ontario. Self-published, 2017.

[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.

[D06547] Schwan, Terry, The Historic Schwan Breweries with abridged family genealogy. Guelph, 2013.

Update on X00298 - John Williams Brewing History Part 1

I have posted previously about John Williams and researching his work as a brewer. There are a few questions that I have been trying to piece together:

1. The 1861 Census lists his as a brewer living in Brampton [D03739]. Which brewery could he have been working for?
2. There was a John Williams who supposedly opened a brewery in 1864 in Flesherton (From Whiskey and Wickedness) [D05727]. Is that the same John Williams?
3. His death record lists him as a brewer living in Owen Sound in 1889 [D03737]. Which brewery could he have been working for?

To address the first question, I recently visited the Peel Archives to look at some of their records and also to the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library to look through the Directory of Canadian Breweries [D06546]. I've found a few breweries that were in operation in Brampton close to 1861, but none that appear to be in operation in 1861:

• Fletcher, E. & R.; brewers 1853-1857
• Fewson, John; brewer and maltster 1865-1874

There are some others who came later in the 1870s as well.

So, it would appear that there are no clear obvious choices as to where he could have been working in 1861. But there are some other possibilities:

• Brain's Brewery, located one mile east of Hornby was in operation from 1832 to 1916 [D06545].
• Richard Church was brewing at the time and moved his operations between Cooksville in Peel region and Caledon [D06546]. Perhaps he also had operations in Brampton?

Nothing clear, but there are some definite avenues to pursue.

Next week, I'll provide updates the second and third questions.

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Sources:
[D03737] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935 Reel 54: 395, 5588, 1; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (6 May 2018). Rec. Date: 3 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 6 May 2018.

[D03739] 1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Peel, sub-district Brampton, Brampton, p. 15; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 13 May 2018). Rec. Date: 5 Feb 2018. Cit. Date: 13 May 2018.

[D05727] Cotton, Larry D., Whiskey and Wickedness Volume V - Wellington and Grey Counties, Ontario. Self-published, 2017.

[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.

New purchase

My latest purchase: while doing research on historical Ontario breweries I found a place that sells t-shirts with vintage beer labels and they have one with the label of the Eaton Brothers Brewery from Owen Sound, which to my knowledge was in existence from about 1883 to about 1906.



Gotta love it when genealogy and beer come together!

William Robinson Bulleyment and other discoveries

When I was researching the background of Frances Bulleyment, who married Frederick Gabriel Douglas, I found this information written in the 1861 census under the "Deaths in 1860" column for the family [D05007]:



From what I can read of the inscription, it would appear that someone in the family died at age 25 due to the falling of a tree. And since the matriarch of the family (Caroline Bulleyment) is the head, it seems that it would have been the father who died.

According to Frances' death record her parents were Robinson Bulleyment & Caroline Sexton [D05006]. So the father would be Robinson Bulleyment.



I checked with the Greenwood Cemetery listings and found a record for a Robinson Bulleyment who died 15 March 1860, aged 37. I went to the site at Greenwood and found the stone [D06476]:



But next to the stone was a stone with surnames of Sexton and McKay on it [D06489]:

• Caroline McKay (d.1901)
• Robert McKay (d. 1893)
• Jesse McKay (d.1889)
• Arthur Allen McKay (d. 1873)
• William Sexton (d.1892)
• Elizabeth Sexton (d. 1888)

From the gravestone, Jesse and Arthur are the children of Caroline and Robert McKay. I did some more investigation and found a marriage record between a Caroline Bulleyment (nee Sexton) and a Robert McKay in 1862 [D06487].

Next thing to investigate: Who are William & Elizabeth Sexton? Caroline Sexton's parents are William & Francis Sexton according to the marriage record [D06487]. Could Elizabeth and Francis be the same person? Or a remarriage?

Sources:
[D05006] Michigan Department of State - Division of Vital Statistics, Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950, 582, 17762, 8252; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Michigan Death Records," Ancestry.ca (19 Jan 2019). Rec. Date: 30 Sep 2018. Cit. Date: 19 Jan 2019.

[D05007] 1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Grey, district 3, Sydenham, 18; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 27 Jan 2019). Rec. Date: 5 Feb 2018. Cit. Date: 27 Jan 2019.

[D06476] Greenwood Cemetery (Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario), G-BLK- 11-2. Rec. Date: 6 Jul 2019. ID: D06476. Cit. Date: 6 Jul 2019.

[D06487] Ontario, Ontario County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869, 13: 55, McKay-Bulleyment, 1862; digital images, FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch (accessed 6 Jul 2019).

[D06489] Greenwood Cemetery (Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario), G-BLK- 11-1. Rec. Date: 6 Jul 2019. ID: D06489. Cit. Date: 6 Jul 2019.

Arthur Miller (1876-1876)

A distant cousin who is also researching the Miller family pointed out to me that William Miller and Jane Hardy had another son named Arthur Miller whom I was not aware of previously. He was born 25 January 1876 and died 29 January 1876.

I found his birth and death information online [D06473, D06474]:



According to the death registration, Arthur was born prematurely. I had a look at the Greenwood Cemetery burial list and there is an Arthur Miller listed with matching birth and death dates [D01131].

I went to Greenwood Cemetery and had a look for the stone but I couldn't find anything there. So likely the stone is gone or there never was one there.

Sources:
[D01131] "Owen Sound Greenwood Cemetery Interments" (typescript, 2005), p. 222. Rec. Date: 6 May 2018. ID: D01131. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2019.

[D06473] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929; Series: 23: 579, 7501, 18; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (28 Jun 2019). Rec. Date: 21 Apr 2017. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2019.

[D06474] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935; Reel: 12: 751, 4015, 6; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (28 Jun 2019). Rec. Date: 3 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 28 Jun 2019.

X00301: Who is Gertrude Evelyn Nugent?

I came across this naturalization document recently [D06314]:



The person described in the document is a Gertrude Evelyn Nugent and bears a lot of similarities to Gertrude Lavinia Hart. See the comparison below:

Gertrude Evelyn Nugent [From Document D06314]
Born 12 Aug 1883 in Fredericton, NB
Married a man named Percival 21 Sept 1929 at Dorchester, Mass
Currently living in Dorchester, Mass [as of 1 April 1941]
Percival was born on 27 June 1883 in Dorchester, Mass
No children
Previously entered the US on 25 Dec 1923 under the name Gertrude E. Madden


Gertrude Lavinia Hart [Known information]:
Born 12 Aug 1883 in Ontario
Married Henry Percival Madden 2 Feb 1911 in Bayham, Elgin, Ontario
Henry Percival Madden born 5 October 1881 in Minden, Haliburton, Ontario
One known child: Murray Gordon Madden born 19 June 1912 in Hensall, Huron, Ontario
Obituary states that she lived in Ottawa between 1939 and 1943

	Same	Different
First Name	Same
Middle Name		Different
Last Name		Different
Date of Birth	Same
Birth Location		Different
Husband's Name	Same
Marriage Date		Different
Marriage Location		Different
Husband's Date of Birth		Different
Husband's Place of Birth		Different
Child Status		Different
Residence in 1941		Different

As far as I am aware, Gertrude Lavinia Hart and Henry Percival Madden stayed married during their entire lives and I have no evidence of them ever having lived in the United States. Gertrude is buried alongside Henry Madden and it does not appear that she remarried after his death.

This is a tough one to call because it means either one of two things:

1. This naturalization document is filled with inaccurate information
2. There were two women named Gertrude, born on the exact same day who both married someone name Percival and used the surname Madden at some time.

I'm inclined to go with option 2 based on the information available, although it does seem like quite the coincidence. With option two though there are just too many things wrong. Even if it turns out that the two people are the same person, this document would not be much use genealogically because of all the inaccuracies.

X00303: Who is Martha Williams?

Recently I posted about Tattie Williams and the Williams plot at Greenwood Cemetery in Owen Sound. In that post, I mentioned that all of the names in the plot had been identified except for Martha Williams.



The burial listings for Greenwood Cemetery indicate that Martha Williams died 1 April 1873 and was buried 20 February 1874, which seems a little odd. Her age was listed as 0, which might be the case, or it might be that her age was not recorded in the records.

So, I first had a look through the Ontario death records and did not find a Martha Williams who died in 1873. Then I had a look through the Owen Sound newspapers and found the following death notice in the Owen Sound Advertiser for Thursday, April 10, 1873, p2 Col 8:



So then I went back to the Ontario death registrations and then found a record for a Martha Frost who died on 1 April 1873 in Owen Sound and was the wife of Henry H. Williams. She was born about 1858.



This would appear to be the correct Martha Williams that is buried in Greenwood. The only problem is that it still doesn't identify who she is and what her connection is to the Thomas Williams family. So I next tracked down a marriage record between Henry H. Williams and Martha Frost. They were married in Owen Sound on the 14th May 1870.

Henry H. Williams was born about 1854 and was the son of Lewis Williams & Orella Healey.
Martha Frost was born about 1858 and was the daughter of John Frost & Mary Williams.

Now here is where it gets interesting: both of them have parents with the surname Williams. So, could Lewis Williams be the connection with Thomas Williams? Or perhaps it is Mary Williams. Or maybe both of them? Or it could be neither of them and the cemetery recorded the wrong burial location. More research to come.....

Profile: Jane Emily Williams & William Henry Madden

Jane Emily Williams [1851-1936] & William Henry Madden [1853-1936]

Jane Emily Williams was the first born child of Isaac Amos Williams and Caroline Seymour Sanders. She was born in Guelph, Wellington in Canada West on 23 Nov 1851 [D04285] during the time that Isaac was working for his father’s brewery. She grew up in Guelph and attended school in Guelph [D03763] before the family moved to Mount Forest, Wellington County in the 1860s [D03788] and then Lindsay, Victoria County in the 1870s [D03761].

Jane married William Henry Madden, a Methodist minister on 2 July 1879 in Lindsay [D03761]. Prior to her marriage, Jane was a member of the Church of England [D03763, D03788] but converted to Methodism prior to her marriage [D03761].

William Henry Madden was born 4 Jan 1853 in Napanee, Lennox & Addington County [D03761, D04984, D04981] the son of David B. Madden and Anna James. At a young age, his family moved from Napanee to Otonabee, Peterborough [D04984] where he presumably met Jane Emily Williams as Otonabee is not far from Lindsay.

William’s profession as a minister required him to relocate frequently, and as such, the family lived in a number of different places in Ontario. Shortly after they were married, they moved to Eugenia Falls, Grey County [D03836, D04979], but after three years moved on to other charges including Minden, Haliburton County [D03847], Georgina, York County [D03845], Collingwood, Grey County [D03838], Medonte, Simcoe County [D04980], Meaford, Grey County [D04981] and finally Aurora, York County [D04982].

William and Jane’s first child, Clarence Eugene Madden was born 13 March 1880 in Eugenia Falls, Grey County [D03836]. He died of pneumonia on 16 February 1916 at the age of twenty-one as was about to enter the ministry like his father [D03837, D05047].

Henry Percival Madden was born 5 October 1881 [D03848]. He worked as a banker [D05196, D05194, D05201, D05197] and married Gertrude Lavinia Hart on 2 February 1911 [D05194]. He died on 5 April 1937 [D05193].

Jane and William’s first daughter, Evangeline Louise Madden was born 10 July 1883 [D03847]. She married Dr. Hilary N. Wilkinson, a dentist, on 28 September 1910 [D05198] and died 7 January 1949 [D05209].

Frederick Walter Madden was born 26 January 1885 [D03844]. He followed in his father’s footsteps and worked as a minister [D05210]. He married Stella Evelyn Hames on 21 June 1917 [D05210]. He died in 1957 [D04644].

Olive Seymour Madden was born 26 July 1886 [D03845]. She married William John Broley on 10 August 1904 [D03838] and died in 1963 [D03855].

Jane and William’s youngest child, Lillian Southmayd Madden was born 26 January 1889 [D03838]. She died of tuberculosis at the young age of twenty-five on 8 September 1914 [D03839].

Jane Emily Madden herself died 21 April 1936 of cardiac failure at the age of eighty-four [D03792]. She and her husband were living in Aurora, York County at the time. In her obituary she was remembered for being “of a particularly happy and cheerful disposition, her merry laugh often ringing out.” And for being involved with her religion and children’s lives [D05047].

Reverend William Henry Madden died just over two months after his wife on 29 June 1936 in his eighty-fifth year [D03835, D04875].

Both Jane Emily and William Henry Madden are buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto [D03829].



Sources:
[D03761] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, 10516, Madden-Williams; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 15 May 2018).

[D03763] 1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Wellington, Guelph, p. 31; RG 31; digital images,Ancestry.ca (accessed 20 May 2018).

[D03788] 1871 census of Canada, Ontario, district 35, sub-district e, Mount Forest, p. 49, dwelling 173, family 173; RG 31; digital images(accessed 20 May 2018).

[D03792] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935, Reel 534: 351, 3260, 2371; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (26 May 2018).

[D03829] Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Toronto, York, Ontario).

[D03835] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS 935 Reel 576: 433, 40364; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (2 Jun 2018).

[D03836] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929 Reel 43: 8401, 23; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (2 Jun 2018).

[D03837] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935 Reel 01: 579, 5; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (2 Jun 2018).

[D03838] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929 Reel 93: 168, 11764; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (2 Jun 2018).

[D03839] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935 Reel 203: 428, 36193; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (2 Jun 2018).

[D03844] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929 Reel 74: 708, 44798, 13; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (2 Jun 2018).

[D03845] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, 41815, 8; digital image, Ancestry.com, "MS929 Reel 80," (2 Jun 2018).

[D03847] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929 Reel 61: 28254, 1; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (2 Jun 2018).

[D03848] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929 Reel 50: 494, 26905, 10; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (2 Jun 2018).

[D03855] Alliston United Cemetery (Alliston, Simcoe, Ontario).

[D03858] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages451, 19067, Broley-Madden; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 3 Jun 2018).

[D04285] "Births," (Guelph) Guelph Weekly Herald, 2 Dec 1851, p. 3, col. 2.

[D04644] Erskine Cemetery (Durham, Ontario).

[D04875] ”Deaths,"Flesherton Advance, 1 Jul 1936, p. 1, col. 2; digital images(accessed 15 Dec 2018), Grey Highlands Historical Newspapers.

[D04979] 1881 census of Canada, Ontario, district 155, sub-district A-3, Artemesia, p. 13, dwelling 65, family 65; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 2 Dec 2018).

[D04980] 1891 census of Canada, Ontario, district 116, sub-district 6, Medonte, p. 4, family 22; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca, Ancestry (accessed 2 Dec 2018).

[D04981] 1901 census of Canada, Ontario, district 64, sub-district D-2, Meaford, p. 2, dwelling 15, family 15; RG 31; digital images(accessed 8 Dec 2018).

[D04982] 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, district 137, sub-district 31, Aurora, p. 36, dwelling 109, family 113; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.com (accessed 9 Dec 2018).

[D04984] 1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Peterborough, district 12, Otonabee, p. 52; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 15 Dec 2018).

[D05047] ”Mrs. Madden Passes," Flesherton Advance, 22 Apr 1936, p. 1, col. 6; digital images(accessed 2 Dec 2018), Grey Highlands Historical Newspapers.

[D05193] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935 Reel 578: 384, 3465, 2231; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (8 Dec 2018).

[D05194] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, Reel 159, 3524, Madden-Hart; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 8 Dec 2018).

[D05196] 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, district 82, sub-district 40, Hensall, p. 8, dwelling 109, family 109; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.com (accessed 8 Dec 2018).

[D05197] 1921 census of Canada, district 93, sub-district 94, Highgate Village, p. 5, dwelling 71, family 73; RG 31; digital images, ancestry.com (accessed 8 Dec 2018).

[D05198] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, Reel 151: 231, 24712, Wilkinson-Madden; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 9 Dec 2018).

[D05201] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929 Reel 227: 461, 26304; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (9 Dec 2018).

[D05209] "Deaths," Toronto Star, 10 Jan 1949; digital images(accessed 15 Dec 2018).

[D05210] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, Reel 432, 19013, Madden-Hames; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 16 Dec 2018).

Identifying Tattie Williams

Back in June of 2018 I posted about the burial information for Samina Foxwell Williams. In the post, I listed the names of individuals who were buried in the same plot with Thomas Williams and Sybil Foxwell.





The names in the plot are:

• Thomas Williams
• Sybil Foxwell
• Tattie Williams
• John Douglas
• Louisa Williams
• Minnie McInnis
• John Williams
• Martha Williams

Thomas Williams & Sybil Foxwell are the parents of the family. Louisa Williams is their daughter and John Douglas was her husband. Minnie McInnis was identified earlier as Samina Foxwell Williams, another daughter of Thomas and Sybil Williams. John Williams is the son of Thomas Williams and Sybil Foxwell. Martha Williams is yet to be identified (see X00303).

So that leaves Tattie Williams to be identified. According to the burial listing for Greenwood Cemetery, she died March 14, 1882 at age 19. A quick search of the Ontario death registrations for that date shows a record for a Charlotte Ann Williams with a matching age and death date:



This name and birth date matches with a Charlotte Ann Williams, daughter of John Williams and Charlotte Ann Perry. And so "Tattie" is a nickname for "Charlotte".

Sources:
[D01131] "Owen Sound Greenwood Cemetery Interments" (typescript, 2005), p. 332. Rec. Date: 6 May 2018.

[D03740] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935 Reel 33: 412, 21417, 286; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (13 May 2018). Rec. Date: 3 Sep 2017.

Analysis: Birth info TW Douglas

Details/Background:

Different dates of birth have been found for TW Douglas ranging from 1858 to 1859. No records earlier than 1861 (i.e. baptism record or news articles) have been found.

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Analysis:

Ref	Desc	Birth Date Given	Notes
D01597	1861 Census	Abt. 1858	3 years old in 1861
D01559	1871 Census	Abt. 1859	12 years old in 1871
D01354	1881 Census	Abt. 1859	22 years old in 1881
D02623	Marriage Record	Abt. 1858	26 years old on 26 Aug 1884
D00764	1891 Census	Abt. 1858	33 years old in 1891
D00307	1901 Census	24 June 1859
D00334	1911 Census	24 June 1859
D04728	1921 Census	Abt. 1859	62 years old in 1859
D04954	Gravestone	1858
D01131	Burial Registration	Abt. 1858	96 years old on 23 April 1955
D05663	Obituary	Abt. 1858	96 years old on 23 April 1955

The only calendar date of birth given in 24th of June from both the 1901 and 1911 census records [D00307, D00334], so that is most likely the date of birth.

The census records seem to either give dates of birth of 1858 or 1859, but since the census dates are often in the months of May or June, that could be dependant on when the census was conducted. The dates given by people who would better know such as Marriage records or records after death all seem to suggest a birth year of 1858.

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Conclusion:

The most likely date of birth for T.W. Douglas is 24 June 1858.

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Sources:

D00307 1901 census of Canada, Ontario, district 65, sub-district D-8, Owen Sound, p. 11, dwelling 89, family 100; RG 31; digital images(accessed 11 Mar 2017). Rec. Date: 4 Mar 2017. Cit. Date: 11 Mar 2017.

D00334 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, district 73, sub-district 48, Owen Sound, p. 8, dwelling 68, family 83; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.com (accessed 25 Mar 2017). Rec. Date: 18 Mar 2017. Cit. Date: 25 Mar 2017.

D00764 1891 census of Canada, Ontario, district 68, sub-district Owen Sound Center Ward, Owen Sound, p. 36, family 181; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca, Ancestry (accessed 5 Oct 2017). Rec. Date: 30 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 5 Oct 2017.

D01131 "Owen Sound Greenwood Cemetery Interments" (typescript, 2005), p. 81. Rec. Date: 6 May 2018. ID: D01131. Cit. Date: 30 Sep 2018.

D01354 1881 census of Canada, Ontario, district 134, sub-district G, Toronto, p. 136, dwelling 657, family 713; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 30 Sep 2018). Rec. Date: 17 Feb 2018. Cit. Date: 30 Sep 2018.

D01559 1871 census of Canada, Ontario, district 37, sub-district 1-G, Owen Sound, p. 67, dwelling 258, family 262; RG 31; digital images(accessed 6 Sep 2018). Rec. Date: 4 Mar 2017. Cit. Date: 6 Sep 2018.

D01597 1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Guelph, Guelph, p. 14; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 13 May 2018). Rec. Date: 5 Feb 2018. Cit. Date: 13 May 2018.

D02623 Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, MS932; Reel: 47: 494, 8179, Douglas-Wright; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 30 Sep 2018). Rec. Date: 9 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 30 Sep 2018.

D04728 1921 census of Canada, district 83, sub-district 45, Owen Sound, p. 1, dwelling 13, family 14; RG 31; digital images, ancestry.com (accessed 17 Oct 2018). Rec. Date: 1 Apr 2017. Cit. Date: 17 Oct 2018.

D04954 Greenwood Cemetery (Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario), G-S9-1. Rec. Date: 1 Dec 2018. ID: D04954. Cit. Date: 1 Dec 2018.

D05663 Grey County Surname Collection; digital images(accessed 3 Apr 2019). Rec. Date: 2 Nov 2018. Cit. Date: 3 Apr 2019.

X00300: Who is Ann Sipin?

In the 1861 Census of Canada, the Williams family is found living in Guelph. Thomas Williams and his wife Sybil are listed and in the household are their two youngest daughters, Emily and Samina. But there are two others living in the household at the time: Ann Sipin, aged 8 and Maria Hill aged 18.

Maria Hill is clearly not a family member, as she is listed as being a servant and was born in Ireland. But what about Ann Sipin? Is is possible that she might just have been living with the family with no connection, but could she possibly be a clue to a connection?

At the age of 8 in 1861, she would have been born about 1853. She would likely be too young to be another child of Thomas and Sybil Williams. But could she perhaps be a granddaughter? One remote possibility is that she is the daughter of Hester Sophia Williams, who I have not been able to find any trace of after 1841 (see X00291). Perhaps Hester Sophia married a man with the surname of Sipin, and had a child but then the two of them died shortly thereafter, leaving their daughter to be raised by her grandparents.

It's a possibility, but I have not seen the name Ann Sipin show up anywhere else in the records to confirm one way or another.

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Sources:

D01597 1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Guelph, Guelph, p. 14; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 13 May 2018). Rec. Date: 5 Feb 2018. Cit. Date: 13 May 2018.

Profile: Frederick Gabriel Douglas, Mary Ann Coulson and Frances Bulleyment

Profile: Frederick Gabriel Douglas [1855-1916], Mary Ann Coulson [1857-1888] and Frances Bulleyment [1856-1922]

Frederick Gabriel Douglas was born 28 March 1855 in Guelph, Wellington County, Canada West [D00743, D00763, D01354, D01559, D01597, D02738]. He was very likely named after his uncle, Gabriel Williams who had died the year before. He was the third child and first son of John Douglas and Louisa Williams [D00743, D01464]. Although born in Guelph, he was baptized at St. George’s Anglican church in Sydenham (now Owen Sound, Grey County, Ontario) on 6 May 1855 [D02738].

Frederick spent his early years with the family in Guelph and moved to Owen Sound in the 1860s [D01597, D01559]. He began working as a cabinet maker in Owen Sound in the 1870s [D00491, D00743, D01354].

Frederick married Mary Ann Coulson on 13 December 1876 in Owen Sound [D00743]. Mazzie, as Mary Ann was known, was the daughter of hotel-owner John P. Coulson and Susan Venetia Lister [D00743, D05343]. Their first child, Percy John Douglas was born 10 May 1877 [D00491]. Two more sons would follow, Frederick G. Douglas born 29 December 1884 [D05505, D05878], and John Coulson Douglas born 4 September 1887 [D05505, D05666].

Tragically, Mary Ann died on 16 December 1888 of pulmonary phthisis at the age of thirty [D04646, D05343].

Frederick moved to Detroit, Michigan in the 1890s where he continued his career as a cabinet maker [D01464]. He married Frances Bulleyment on 23 June 1893 in Detroit [D01464]. Frances was daughter of William Bulleyment and Caroline Sexton [D05006]. She had previously been married to John Vandrick and they had a child together, Arthur J.B. Vandrick, born in 1883 [D04975].

On 21 May 1916, Fred was working on his boat and scraped his leg on a rough piece of board. The accident let to blood poisoning in the wound [D05345]. At first, the injury was not considered serious, but erysipelas developed soon after. The erysipelas prevented an amputation and it was determined that nothing further could be done. His two brothers, John J. Douglas and Clarence Douglas went to Detroit to see him before he died on 2 June 1916 [D01462, D05345, D05347]. His funeral was held at the home of his brother-in-law, Charles Milford on 5 June 1916 [D05347]. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in the family plot [D01131, D05347].

Frances Bulleyment Douglas died 25 August 1922 of mitral insufficiency [D05006]. She was buried 28 August 1922 in Greenwood Cemetery [D01131, D04994].

As for the three sons of Frederick Gabriel Douglas and Mazie Coulson Douglas, Percy Douglas moved to the United States and worked as an engraver [D05308, D05309, D05311]. He married Frances Eleanor Johnson on 23, October 1911 [D05310] and they had three children, Donald Coulson Douglas (1912-2004), Dorothy Mazie Douglas (1914 -1979) and Fern Mary Douglas (1915-?) [D05311]. Percy died on 17 July 1927 at the age of fifty [D04809, D05300].

Frederick G Douglas moved to Smugglers' Mines, Telluride, Colorado [D05505]. John Coulson Douglas was only a year old when his mother died. He was raised by his aunt and uncle in Sarawak, Grey County [D05350]. He worked as a gardener and fought in World War 1 [D05505, D05666]. He married Ivy Irene Palter in 1954 and lived until 30 August 1971 [D05666].

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Sources:
[D00491] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929; Reel: 27: 431, 6425, 42; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (11 Jun 2017).

[D00743] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, MS932; Reel: 26: 369, 12829, Douglas-Coulson; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 10 Sep 2017).

[D00763] 1891 census of Canada, Ontario, district 68, sub-district Owen Sound Center Ward, Owen Sound, p. 35, family 175; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca,Ancestry (accessed 5 Oct 2017).

[D01131] “Owen Sound Greenwood Cemetery Interments" (typescript, 2005), p. 81.

[D01354] 1881 census of Canada, Ontario, district 134, sub-district G, Toronto, p. 136, dwelling 657, family 713; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 30 Sep 2018).

[D01462] Michigan Department of State - Division of Vital Statistics, Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950, 5329; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950," Ancestry.ca (30 Sep 2018).

[D01464] Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952, 2805, Douglas-Bulleyment; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867- 1952," Ancestry.ca (accessed 30 Sep 2018).

[D01559] 1871 census of Canada, Ontario, district 37, sub-district 1-G, Owen Sound, p. 67, dwelling 258, family 262; RG 31; digital images(accessed 6 Sep 2018).

[D01597] 1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Guelph, Guelph, p. 14; RG 31; digital images,Ancestry.ca (accessed 13 May 2018).

[D02738] St George's Anglican (Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada), "Baptism Record - Frederick Gabriel Douglas," p 8.

[D04809] Michigan Department of State - Division of Vital Statistics, Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950, 5707, 537; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Michigan Death Records," Ancestry.ca (20 Jan 2019).

[D04646] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935 Reel 50: 517, 6080, 89; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (23 Sep 2018).

[D04975] 1901 census of Canada, Ontario, district 65, sub-district D-7, Owen Sound, p. 4, dwelling 47, family 47; RG 31; digital images(accessed 19 Jan 2019).

[D04978] 1910 U.S. census, population schedule, Detroit, enumeration district (ED) 0108, sheet 5B, dwelling 93, family 92; digital images,ancestry.com (accessed 20 Jan 2019); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T624, roll T624_683.

[D04994] Greenwood Cemetery (Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario).

[D05006] Michigan Department of State - Division of Vital Statistics, Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950, 582, 17762, 8252; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Michigan Death Records," Ancestry.ca (19 Jan 2019).

[D05300] Riverside Cemetery (Kalamazoo, Michigan).

[D05308] Muskegon, Michigan, City Directory 1924 , 1924:, 585; digital images, ancestry.ca (ancestry.ca : accessed 6 Feb 2019).

[D05309] Muskegon, Michigan City Directory 1926 , 1926 vols., 1926:, 598; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 6 Feb 2019).

[D05310] Cook, Illinois, Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920, 579191, Douglas-Misbach, 23 Oct 1911; digital images, Family Search,Family Search (accessed 6 Feb 2019).

[D05311] Cook, Illinois, 3974; digital image, FamilySearch, "Illinois, Cook County Birth Certificates 1871-1922,"FamilySearch (Familysearch.og: 6 Feb 2019).

[D05343] "Deaths," (Owen Sound) The Advertiser, Owen Sound, 20 Dec 1888, p. 1, col. 4. Cit. ID: D05343.

[D05345] ”Deaths,"(Owen Sound) Owen Sound Sun, 2 Jun 1916, p. 5, col. 4.

[D05347] “Deaths," (Owen Sound) Owen Sound Times, 6 Jun 1916, p. 5, col. 5.

[D05350] 1901 census of Canada, Ontario, district 65, sub-district E-3, Sarawak, p. 2, dwelling 17, family 17; RG 31; digital images(accessed 19 May 2019). Rec. Date: 4 Mar 2017. Cit. Date: 19 May 2019.

[D05505] ”Deaths," (Owen Sound) Owen Sound Times, 9 Jun 1916, p. 1, col. 2.

[D05666] "John C. Douglas dies in hospital," Grey County Surname Collection , 30 Aug 1971; digital images(accessed 9 Mar 2019).

[D05878] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929 Series 70: 249, 11651, 3; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (10 Mar 2019).

Analysis: Birth info Winnifred Henrietta Victoria Wright Douglas

Details/Background:

Different dates of birth have been found for Winnifred Henrietta Victoria Wright (Douglas) ranging from 1864 to 1865. No records earlier than 1871 (i.e. baptism record or news articles) have been found.

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Analysis:

Ref	Desc	Birth Date Given	Notes
D06232	1871 Census	Abt. 1864	Age 6 in 1871
D06233	1881 Census	Abt. 1864	Age 16 in 1871
D02623	Marriage Record	Abt. 1864	Age 20 on 26 Aug 1884
D00764	1891 Census	Abt. 1864	Age 26 in 1891
D00307	1901 Census	11 November 1865
D00334	1911 Census	11 November 1864
D04728	1921 Census	Abt. 1864	Age 56 in 1921
D05634	Death Registration	11 November 1864
D04954	Gravestone	1865
D01131	Burial Records	Abt. 1864	Age 82 on 23 July 1947

Only three of the sources [D00307, D00334 and D005634] give a calendar date and all three give the date of November 11th. So, it is safe to assume that November 11th is the calendar date and that she was born either November 11, 1864 or November 11, 1865.

So, if we assume that her birthday was in November and most of the censuses were taken in the middle of the year, most of the records support a birth year of 1864; the only exceptions being the 1901 census and the gravestone which suggest a birth year of 1865.

The 1901 census record is difficult to read, however, and there were a lot of cases where the 1901 census was off by a hear. And the gravestone was carved after her death. So, I would conclude that those two records are outliers.

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Conclusion:

The most likely conclusion is a date of birth of 11 November 1864.

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Sources:

D00307 1901 census of Canada, Ontario, district 65, sub-district D-8, Owen Sound, p. 11, dwelling 89, family 100; RG 31; digital images(accessed 11 Mar 2017). Rec. Date: 4 Mar 2017. Cit. Date: 11 Mar 2017.

D00334 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, district 73, sub-district 48, Owen Sound, p. 8, dwelling 68, family 83; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.com (accessed 25 Mar 2017). Rec. Date: 18 Mar 2017. Cit. Date: 25 Mar 2017.

D00764 1891 census of Canada, Ontario, district 68, sub-district Owen Sound Center Ward, Owen Sound, p. 36, family 181; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca, Ancestry (accessed 5 Oct 2017). Rec. Date: 30 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 5 Oct 2017.

D01131 "Owen Sound Greenwood Cemetery Interments" (typescript, 2005), p. 81. Rec. Date: 6 May 2018. ID: D01131. Cit. Date: 1 Dec 2018.

D02623 Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, MS932; Reel: 47: 494, 8179, Douglas-Wright; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 30 Sep 2018). Rec. Date: 9 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 30 Sep 2018.

D04728 1921 census of Canada, district 83, sub-district 45, Owen Sound, p. 1, dwelling 13, family 14; RG 31; digital images, ancestry.com (accessed 17 Oct 2018). Rec. Date: 1 Apr 2017. Cit. Date: 17 Oct 2018.

D04954 Greenwood Cemetery (Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario), G-S9-1. Rec. Date: 1 Dec 2018. ID: D04954. Cit. Date: 1 Dec 2018.

D05634 Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935 Reels 1-694: 23610; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (14 Apr 2019). Rec. Date: 3 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 14 Apr 2019.

D06232 1871 census of Canada, Ontario, district 54, sub-district 02, Hamilton, p. 24, dwelling 77, family 79; RG 31; digital images(accessed 12 May 2019). Rec. Date: 4 Mar 2017. Cit. Date: 12 May 2019.

D06233 1881 census of Canada, Ontario, district 124, sub-district C-3, Hamilton, p. 44, dwelling 196, family 202; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 12 May 2019). Rec. Date: 17 Feb 2018. Cit. Date: 12 May 2019

Analysis: Birth Info for Clarence Williams Douglas

Details/Background:

Different dates of birth have been found for Clarence Williams Douglas ranging from 1864 to 1867. No records earlier than 1871 (i.e. baptism record or news articles) have been found.

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Analysis:

Ref	Desc	Birth Date Given	Notes
D01559	1871 Census	Abt. 1865	Age 6 in 1871
D01354	1881 Census	Abt. 1864	Age 17 in 1881
D00838	Marriage Record	Abt. 1865	Age 22 on 27 Dec 1887
D00769	1891 Census	Abt. 1865	Age 26 in 1891
D00329	1911 Census	Feb 1865
D00348	1921 Census	Abt. 1868	Age 53 in 1921
D01951	Death Registration	9 Feb 1867	Recorded 1923
D04954	Gravestone	1865
D01131	Burial Records	Abt. 1867	Age 56 on 22 Dec 1923

Most of the records imply a year of birth of 1865. There are a couple of census records (1881 and 1921) that are outliers. The death registration and burial records both suggest a birth year of 1867, but those likely could have used the same source for their information.

Also, since his next oldest sibling was born in 1860, a birth year of 1865 would be more likely than 1867.

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Conclusion:

Based on the evidence found, the most likely date of birth for Clarence Williams Douglas is 9 February 1865.

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Sources:

D00329 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, district 73, sub-district 57, Owen Sound, p. 3, dwelling 36, family 36; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.com (accessed 25 Mar 2017). Rec. Date: 18 Mar 2017. Cit. Date: 25 Mar 2017.

D00348 1921 census of Canada, district 83, sub-district 46, Owen Sound, p. 9, dwelling 98, family 100; RG 31; digital images, ancestry.com (accessed 31 Mar 2019). Rec. Date: 1 Apr 2017. Cit. Date: 31 Mar 2019.

D00769 1891 census of Canada, Ontario, district 68, sub-district Owen Sound West Ward, Owen Sound, p. 8, family 39; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca, Ancestry (accessed 13 Oct 2017). Rec. Date: 30 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 13 Oct 2017.

D00838 Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, MS932; Reel: 63, 14388, Douglas-Leach; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 16 Dec 2017). Rec. Date: 9 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 16 Dec 2017.

D01131 "Owen Sound Greenwood Cemetery Interments" (typescript, 2005), p. 81. Rec. Date: 6 May 2018. ID: D01131. Cit. Date: 30 Sep 2018.

D01354 1881 census of Canada, Ontario, district 134, sub-district G, Toronto, p. 136, dwelling 657, family 713; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 30 Sep 2018). Rec. Date: 17 Feb 2018. Cit. Date: 30 Sep 2018.

D01559 1871 census of Canada, Ontario, district 37, sub-district 1-G, Owen Sound, p. 67, dwelling 258, family 262; RG 31; digital images (accessed 6 Sep 2018). Rec. Date: 4 Mar 2017. Cit. Date: 6 Sep 2018.

D01951 Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935; Reel: 301: 429, 15709, 14; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (16 Mar 2019). Rec. Date: 3 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 16 Mar 2019.

D04954 Greenwood Cemetery (Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario), G-S9-1. Rec. Date: 1 Dec 2018. Cit. Date: 1 Dec 2018.

Profile: Isaac Amos Williams and Caroline Seymour Sanders

Profile: Isaac Amos Williams [1820-1886] and Caroline Seymour Sanders [1826-1896]

Isaac Amos Williams was born 11 October 1820 in Gloucestershire, England [D01545] the first-born child of Thomas Williams and Sybil Foxwell. He was baptized 5 Nov 1820 in Bristol, Gloucestershire. He grew up in Gloucestershire, and moved with the rest of the family to Liverpool around 1841 and then to Canada, eventually settling in Guelph, Wellington County. In Guelph, Isaac worked as a brewer in his father’s firm of Williams & Taylor along with his younger brothers and brother-in-law [D04285].

Caroline Seymour Sanders was born 13 September 1825 and was baptized 15 March 1826 in Bathwick, Somerset, England [D03874]. She was the daughter of John Arnold Sanders and Fanny Hippisley [D03874]. It is not known when the Sanders family emigrated to Canada but they had definitely arrived in Canada by the 1850s as Isaac Amos Williams and Caroline Seymour Sanders were married on 21 October 1850 at St. George’s Anglican Church in Guelph [D04283].

Isaac and Caroline remained in Guelph and they had their first children while living there. Their first daughter, Jane Emily Williams was born 23 November 1851 [D04285] followed by their second, Fanny Sophia Williams on 27 March 1853 [D04846, D04848, D04849]. Three more daughters would follow: Kate Julianna Williams born 4 December 1854 [D05337], Amy Seymore Williams born in 1856 [D03763, D03788, D03789] and Edith Mary Williams born 4 July 1858 [D05008]. It wasn’t until their sixth child that that they had their first son, George Williams, in 1860 [D03763, D03788, D05091].

By 1861 the family was still living in Guelph, but Isaac had left the brewing business and had moved into farming [D03763]. By 1862, however, the family had moved to Mount Forest, also in the County of Wellington, where they would remain for the next ten year. In Mount Forest, Isaac and Caroline’s last three children would be born: Elizabeth Williams was born on 25 November 1862 [D03788, D03789], Frederick Amos Williams was born on 9 April 1865 [D03788, D03789, D06182] and Edwin Lawrence Williams was born in 1868 [D03788, D03789].

The family moved to Port Perry, Ontario County in the mid 1870s [D04846] before moving on to Lindsay, Victoria County [D03789] where Isaac would live for the rest of his life. In Lindsay, Isaac worked as a bookkeeper for a Mr. Blackwell [D05448, D05469] and was employed by the Ontario Government as a sessional writer in the winter [D05469]. He also worked as a librarian at the Mechanics’ institute in Lindsay [D05467, D05469].

On the evening of 28 December 1885 Isaac was working at the Mechanic’s Institute. He was making his rounds and about 8:30 in the evening a noise was heard from the hallway. The two men who were in the reading room at the time, Dr. DeGrassi and Mr. J. Kennedy heard the noice, but didn’t think anything of it, thinking that it was the caretaker bringing up wood. The two left the reading room about nine o’clock in the evening and found Isaac lying at the foot of the stairs. The two tried to pick him up but found that he was dead with a wound on his right temple, his left thumb was broken and he had bruises all over his limbs. He had likely died instantly having fallen head first down the stairway and dying from a concussion [D03762, D05467, D05469].

A well-attended funeral was held for him on Wednesday 30 December 1885. The directors of the Mechanics’ institute all attended [D05469]. He was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Lindsay [D05469, D06182].

After the death of her husband Caroline Williams moved in with her daughter and son-in-law, Fanny and Lewis Dyer in Uxbridge, Ontario county [D05263]. She herself would pass away at the age of 70 on 7 April 1896 [D05298, D05446, D05471, D05470] and is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Lindsay with her husband [D06182].

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Sources:
[D01545] St Thomas (Bristol, Gloucestershire, England), England, Bristol Parish Registers, 1538-1900, "Baptism Record - Isaac Amos Williams," 271; digital images, FamilySearch, FamilySearch.org (accessed 23 Dec 2018).

[D03762] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935, Reel 42: 560, 35, 16571; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (15 May 2018).

[D03763] 1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Wellington, Guelph, p. 31; RG 31; digital images,Ancestry.ca (accessed 20 May 2018).

[D03788] 1871 census of Canada, Ontario, district 35, sub-district e, Mount Forest, p. 49, dwelling 173, family 173; RG 31; digital images(accessed 20 May 2018). Rec. Date: 4 Mar 2017. Cit. Date: 20 May 2018.

[D03789] 1881 census of Canada, Ontario, district 129, sub-district B-2, Lindsay, Victoria, p. 99, dwelling 458, family 469; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 20 May 2018).

[D03874] (Bath, Somerset, England), England & Wales Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, "Baptism - Caroline Seymour Sanders," 55; digital images, Ancestry.ca, Ancestra.ca (accessed 24 Jun 2018).

[D04283] ”Marriages," (Guelph) Guelph Weekly Herald, 22 Oct 1850, p. 3, col. 1.

[D04285] "Births," (Guelph) Guelph Weekly Herald, 2 Dec 1851, p. 3, col. 2.

[D04846] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, Reel 18: 339, 6765, Dyer-Williams; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 26 Dec 2018).

[D04848] 1901 census of Canada, Ontario, district 120, sub-district C-8, Lindsay, p. 8, family 82; RG 31; digital images(accessed 27 Dec 2018).

[D04849] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS940 Reel 16: 2099; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (27 Dec 2018). Rec. Date: 3 Sep 2017. Cit. Date: 27 Dec 2018.

[D05008]

[D05091] 1881 census of Canada, Ontario, district 134, sub-district F, Toronto, p. 164, dwelling 681, family 780; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 29 Nov 2018). Rec. Date: 17 Feb 2018. Cit. Date: 29 Nov 2018.

[D05263] 1891 census of Canada, Ontario, district 102, Uxbridge, p. 30, family 152; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca, Ancestry (accessed 27 Dec 2018).

[D05298] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935; Reel: 81: 355, 19363, 15; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (19 Jan 2019).

[D05337] ”The Late Mrs. Adam Smith," Markdale Standard, 28 Nov 1940, p. 3, col. 3; digital images(accessed 6 Feb 2019), Grey Highlands Historical Newspaper Collection. Rec. Date: 9 Nov 2018. Cit. Date: 6 Feb 2019.

[D05446] "Obituary," The Canadian Post, 20 Apr 1896, p. 5, col. 2; digital images, Kawartha Lakes Public Library Digital Collections (accessed 9 Feb 2019).

[D05448] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS 929 Reel 1-245: 590, 35359, 31; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (5 Feb 2019).

[D05467] “A Fatal Accident," The Canadian Post, 1 Jan 1886, p. 5, col. 1; digital images, Kawartha Lakes Public Library Digital Archive .

[D05469] "Sad and Fatal Accident," The Victoria Warden, 1 Jan 1886, p. 5, col. 4; digital images, Kawartha Lakes Public Library Digital Archive (accessed 9 Feb 2019).

[D05470] "Deaths," The Victoria Warden, 10 Apr 1896, p. 4, col. 7; digital images, Kawartha Lakes Public Library Digital Archives

[D05471] "Death," The Victoria Warden, 10 Apr 1896, p. 3, col. 2; digital images(accessed 9 Feb 2019), Kawartha Lakes Public Library Digital Archives.

[D05651] Riverside Cemetery (Lindsay, Victoria, Ontario), 3759 monumental inscription. Rec. Date: 10 Mar 2019. ID: D05651. Cit. Date: 10 Mar 2019.

[D06182] Rest-Haven Memorial Park (Eugene, Lane, Oregon). Rec. Date: 30 Mar 2019. ID: D06210. Cit. Date: 24 Mar 2019.