TALBOT TIMES
Newsletter of the
ELGIN COUNTY BRANCH
ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
BOX 20060, ST. THOMAS, ON N5P 4H4
ISSN 0827-2816
VOLUME XX ISSUE ONE
MARCH 2001
Extracts of Genealogical information
Chairman’s Message
Our newsletter is being produced a little early this time, to allow you to register for the Regional Meeting hosted by our branch, on April 7 at Central United Church in St. Thomas. More information, along with a registration form, is included in this newsletter. In order to receive lunch with your registration, we need to hear from you by March 24. We have an excellent program lined up and I hope to see many of you there.
We had an executive meeting in January, where many ideas were discussed about publishing, web site content, and future projects. It was decided that in addition to our publications on paper, we will begin to offer some of our material in CD format. More discussion is needed before we decide what information to offer free of charge on our web site.
A committee was formed to investigate the feasibility of microfilming or digitalizing about 10 years’ worth of newspapers, including issues mainly from the 1890's of the St. Thomas Daily Times and the Evening Journal. These issues are not part of the existing microfilm collected, and were thought to be missing. We were made aware recently that they are in storage at the St. Thomas Times-Journal office.
The speaker at our February meeting was Stephen Hale, Land Registrar for Elgin County. During his presentation, he informed us that an agreement between the Land Registry Office and the Elgin-St. Thomas Archives Association regarding transfer of records will be signed very soon. This agreement deals with paper records that were designated for removal from Land Registry Offices, and were consequently saved from destruction by APOLROD (Association for the Preservation of Land Registry Office Documents). The future availability of these records for research is under the jurisdiction of the Elgin-St. Thomas Archives Association.
We have had a number of new faces at our meetings, resulting partially from a series of genealogy courses that Jim Wolfe has been conducting at the St. Thomas Senior’s Centre. I would like to thank Jim for promoting our organization at these courses.
For the March meeting, I will be giving a presentation called “5 Minute Genealogical Gleanings”. In case you are wondering what the actual topic will be, I will be using illustrations and examples pointing to information in records that genealogists sometimes miss, how to interpret records, and tips on finding elusive details. Hope to see you there!
.Jim McCallum
Queries
DAVIES, Norene (WEBB) spent a good number of years in an institution very near St. Thomas. When did she die, possibly between 1970-80? Where is she bur.?
Joseph Kuchta desertsunset@hotmail.com
HOLLYWOOD family from Port Burwell, Bayham - found in the Haggan Papers and in the Historical Atlas.
Linda Lewis LINDALEWISSC@webtv.net
DENNIS- SHERK -SEITZ - Isaac DENNIS - Mennonite, b.24.8.1795 where? d.29.2.1864 S.Dorchester, bur. Aylmer Cemetery? marr. ? SHERK of Arkona, 2nd wife, possibly Mary Ann SEITZ b.16.6.1817, d.1.7.1869 marr 31.3.1835. Son Abraham, b.25.1.1830 where ?, d.8.10.1904 Arkona, marr Emmeline BEARSS Oct. 1854.
Tui Ussher, New Zealand g.t.ussher@xtra.co.nz
WILLSON - McMASTER Looking for information regarding Lydia WILLSON & Caleb MCMASTER marr 6 December 1832 at Regular Baptist Church, Malahide, both were listed as from Yarmouth. She was born in New Jersey ? and he in Nova Scotia.
Kay Chase gchase@voyager.net
SPEAR - MOORE Looking for marriage of Nelson Spear & Sarah Ellen MOORE married on or about November 22, 1850 S. Dorchester.
Jackie Gideon Maike Jmaike@aol.com
SOMMERS - SUMMERS - SOMERS : Need info on: John K. SOMMERS b c1815-16 he marr 16 Oct 1836, Meriam SMITH b c1817-18 both of Malahide at Wesleyan Methodist #258 by Rev Burdick. Wit John Wallace & Isaac SMITH. Children John, Mary, Louis, Sylvester, Isaac, Erastus, Garret, & Anson who went to Michigan about 1858-60.
Wm. A. Somers lyannpro@tir.com
GANT - Any GANT information in St. Thomas area related to William A. GANT, born Aug. 24, 1896
Charles W. Harwood hchaprod@aol.com
HUDSON (HUTSON) - WINTERMUTE - John HUDSON Bayham s/o Jonathan & Helena HUDSON. mar April 24, 1870 Malahide Hannah Elizabeth WINTERMUTE b August 10, 1851 Malahide d/o Abraham & Elizabeth (KILMER) WINTERMUTE. Children James Edward HUDSON, b October 3, 1872 Ellen Elizabeth HUDSON, b December 31, 1875
Carol McGrath, CMcg509@aol.com
McNALL- GRIFFIN: : Info on Jeremiah McNALL and his family. His mother Samantha McNALL nee GRIFFIN died in Southwold Twp, Elgin, on April 18, 1885. buried where? d/o ?
Frank franki@mail.techline.com
CLARKE - McCONNELL - GOODING: James CLARKE b. England 1891 d1921 mar Hester CLARKE: 1901 Census Vienna, a cheese-maker and then a retired cheese-maker. He is supposed to be bur in St. Luke’s Cemetery Vienna, no tombstone. Joseph CLARKE: b/o James, marr Mary McCONNELL. 1901 Census her father, John McCONNELL, b. Ireland is living with them. Does McConnell’s Nursery at Pt. Burwell have any relationship? Anne CLARKE GOODING: s/o James & Joseph, d 1909 there is a stone marr James GOODING, butcher and also involved with cheese. James GOODING d. 1921 remarried Maud TISDALE. Anne & James had no children but adopted in 1884 William BABCOCK aged 7, thereafter known as William GOODING. George CLARKE: b/o James, Joseph & Anne, married Martha HAMILTON b. Ireland, & lived in Vienna. There is a family story that concerns the death of Joseph. He ate pork liver and died, and the second wife is supposed to have poisoned him. His death after eating pork is in the Ingersoll paper in 1916. He was working near Mt. Elgin at the time. His wife’s name is not given, but there is no evidence that he was married twice. However the same story is told about James GOODING who was married twice.
Joyce Groves pjgroves@alphalink.com.au
BALL - Thomas BALL b 1792, came to Dummer Twnshp, Peterborough Co., ON in 1831 from Wiltshire, England with 4 brothers who are lost. John BALL chr 1798, Joseph BALL chr 1801, Benjamin BALL chr 1809 and James BALL chr 1815. Old letters state that one brother was in the Shedden area. Believed to be the James BALL, farmer, 1851 to 1891 Census N1/2 of lot 19 in Southwold Twsp, Elgin. HELP. Is there anyone who is a BALL, or is related in any way?
Rae Ball raeball@sympatico.ca
COLVILLE, Dueenie May born in Elgin Co. on a Reservation, somewhere around Fingal, Wallacetown, St.Thomas.area - What Reservation?
Ellen Parker ellen-parker@sympatico.ca
DENNIS - JOHNSON - CRIPS - CLOWSE - Information wanted on Francis DENNIS and Mary Jane (JOHNSON) marr. 6 Aug 1856-1871 Malahide census (not completely legible): DENNIS, Francis, Eng; Carp; 33; mar; E.Meth. Mary Jane, Eng; 31; mar; E.Meth. Children: Anna Jane 14; William 11; John 9;Jessie ? 7; ? 5; James 3; Francis 6 mo's (born Oct); Johnson, Jane 59; m/o Anna Jane (FERGUSON - w/o Cyrenius) also Manly ? 2 in 1861 Census. Francis 2nd wife mar. 9 June 1879 , Eliza Jane (CRIPS) CLOWSE, wid.
Mike Johnson - ajohnson@sympatico.ca
HALEY - AVERILL - Looking for date and place of death for William HALEY b c1836 Bayham mar. Mercy AVERILL 8 Feb 1858 in Dereham, Elgin. Children, Rebecca, George, Theron. Mercy and children moved to Michigan, William stayed behind. William's parents were: Sealed HALEY and Mariah (?)
Dorothy Delaney, 5801 19th Avenue N., St. Petersburg, FL 33710 dothovey@aol.com
RICHARDS - CASWELL - Remembrance RICHARDS , Bayham mar, Mary Ann CASWELL December 24, 1839. by Rev. Samuel BAKER Regular Baptist Church, Malahide, wit. Alfred NEWELL of Bayham & Peter SECORD, Charlotteville. CASWELL family in Bayham 1828-1851 but no record of Remembrance & Mary Ann in the area. Remembrance received a land grant for service in the 1812 war, but not in Elgin. A James RICHARDS settled in the Bayham area after his service with the Royal Navy (d 1879), relationship unknown. Jackson RICHARDS s/o Remembrance b October 7, c1839, mother; Eliza Richards. No idea why there is an apparent anomalie between mothers/dates.
Paul Richards, Ottawa paul.lenore.richards@sympatico.ca
OAKES : Info on Catherine/Katherine wife of Robert Bruce OAKES, residing in Elgin Co. 1880 census Pierce Co. WI Catherine age 38, 10 yrs younger than Robert, place of birth Canada, father b Scotland & mother b Canada.
Irene Sharpe sontagsharpe@jps.net
MINER / MINOR Information wanted on James William MINER died January 2 1881 in St. Thomas, Elgin County, Ontario: Reg. # 003498
Rick Miner, rdminer@home.com
ARNOLD - CLARKE- Samuel (the Elder) ARNOLD b c1775- N.S. d 1867 & his wife Phoebe Ann ? b c1813 NY d. 1884 marr Where ? Children: Sarah b 1844 Bayham marr Springfield in 1873; William CLARK(E), resident Malahide, Samuel ; Edward; John; Jane; Rachel & Thomas (b 1846). In the 1861 Census there was another Samuel ARNOLD living near by - is this a son - marr to Effie WEAVER? Looking for Baptist records. Samuel was quite a bit older than Phoebe Ann. There is a strong suspicion that Samuel had been married previously and that the older children were by his 1st marriage but to whom & where?
Jocelyn jocelynhowat@home.com
GODFREY- WELDRICK, Anna Bell GODREY b. c1866 St. Thomas d. April 18, 1933, St. Augustine, Florida, marr c1883-4 where ?, Charles WELDRICK d.1913 lived in Windsor, died in a train accident. Anna Bell remarried 1930 Jack McCAUGHEY moved to Florida. Children: George, Edward, Charles & Olivia Pearle. Any help with the GODREY & WELDRICK families would be appreciated.
Nancy Jones, Florida nljones@intnet.net
SMITH - TOBYNE ? parents of Montomery SMITH b05 Mar 1801 Hartford CN d25 Jan 1888 Belvidere IL marr 31 Jan 1826 Elgin Co. Elizabeth WATSON, b1809 d20 Dec. 1871 Belevidere IL Their children born Canada Louisa 1830-1906; Elvira 1834-?; Allan 1836-?; Zenas W. 1840-? and Martha 1842-?. George Willis SMITH b28 Apr. 1805, d22 Jul. 1887, Rockford IL. marr.18 Mar 1834 Ont. Mary WATSON b19 Nov. 1817 Ont. d26 Sept. 1889 Rockford IL Their children born Ontario: Calvin Zenas 1835-1869; and Emeline 1836-1854. Elizabeth and Mary where children of David & Sarah WATSON in the area of Fingal and Watson's Corners, arriving in 1811. Aaron SMITH; Sophrona SMITH mar. ? BENEDICT; Allen SMITH 1807-1877 marr Helen ? 1844-1932; Alvin SMITH, Susan SMITH mar William TOBYNE; Zenas SMITH; Chester SMITH; Elvira SMITH mar William SAWYER; Marilla SMITH marr ? BRONSON; and David SMITH b1803 mar Caroline ? b1807. All information wanted.
Jim Thomas, 5718 Moccasin Run, Rockford, IL 61109-6104 jhthomas47@home.com
ROBERTS -looking for Information on John (Jack) West Roberts who was a tailor on Flora St & may have died in & around 1937.
Bev. Devos roger.devos@sympatico.ca
SAMSON - Barzilla SAMSON--of the Talbot Settlement. Looking for proof to connect Samson to Willard SAMSON. Barzilla SAMSON marr Persis WHITT b.c1776 dApril 3 1838 Yarmouth d/o John WITT & Elizabeth ? Child William SAMSON marr 25 July 1825 in Port Talbot Henrietta LOCKWOOD.
Fred Samson . cassin1@marsweb.com
Henry Malcolm Oliver SMITH b2 Jan 1863 s/o Oliver SMITH & Sarah Ann ? marr 10 July 1889 in Bayham Clara Jannette DAVIS b7 Oct 1873 daughter of Thomas DAVIS & Mary Ann ? Children Ethel May b 8 Feb 1891 and George Henry b24 July 1892 in Bayham. Moved to Houghton Township where they continued their family of 16. Need info on Henry's family and Clara's family
Lori Oatman loatman@execulink.com
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