April 1959 - Newspaper clipping, publisher unknown
Golden Wedding Marked - Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Connell, of Kemptville, are pictured during the celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary recently. They were married at Jellyby on April 21, 1909, but have been living in the Kemptville area for some time. Mrs. Connell is the former Ethel Richards, [...]
On November 15, 1920 - eight months to the day from my grandmother Helen Charlton’s death, Frances Smurthwaite (nee McPherson) married my grandfather Robert Charlton.
The marriage took place at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Sunderland on the east coast. They likely left for Canada soon after the ceremony in order to make the ocean and [...]
Not the official registry but a keepsake handed down through the family.
This Certifies that Robert Charlton of Maklin Sask. and Helen Lottie Good of Fillmore, Sask. were united in Marriage according to the ordinance of God, and the laws of Saskatchewan at Fillmore on the Seventh of August in the Year of our Lord (1912.)
By [...]
Jan. 14th, 1830 Robert Connell and Julia Coon, both of Yonge,
banns, witnesses J. Coon, S. Smith.
A Record of Marriages Solemnized by William Smart, Minister of the Presbyterian congregartion, Brockville, Elizabethtown, Upper Canada ~ Originally published by: Ontario Historical Society, “Papers and Records” Volume 5, Published in Toronto in 1904, Pages 187-236. Digitized version of original [...]
I’ve just uncovered evidence indicating Sarah Loretta Bradley was born in Howick, in Huron County, Ontario and not Leeds County as I had suspected. This could well open up the possibility of finally locating her parents, Samuel Bradley and Charlotte Tackaberry.
For many years I have searched in vain for Sarah’s parents in Leeds and surrounding [...]