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.