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The Meldrum Family The group picture is of 7 of the 9 children born to George Meldrum (1853-1937) and his wife Maggie Fleming (1860-1948). The picture was taken about 1898 in Berwick, Ontario where the family lived. Shortly after this picture was taken a set of twins was born. According to family lore, Maggie said "When they start coming in twos, it's time to stop." In the group photo there are Mamie (1884), Flossie (1886), Katie (1888), Melvin (1890), Tom (1892), Lindsay (18...95), and Rupert (1897 and would be the youngster in what appears to be a romper of some sort). Twins Ivan and Ethan were born on Christmas Day, 1898. Tom would be the young boy in them middle of the front row and he is my husband's grandfather. The second picture is of Tom taken in 1913 when he was playing hockey in Saskatchewan. Tom eventually returned to Ontario and married Mabel Manders in 1917.

Gowanlock Family, 1896 This picture is of my great grandparents and their family. It was taken in Maple Hill, Ontario in 1896. Adam Gowanlock, the son of Robert Gowanlock and Jane Ann Armstrong, was born in 1856 and died, in Hanover, Ontario, in 1922. Sarah Ann Ellis Gowanlock (Adam's wife), the daughter of Thomas Ellis and Jane Running, was born in 1861 and died in Hanover, Ontario, in 1927. This picture shows Adam and Sarah with four of their five daughters, Bertha, Clara,... May and Isobel (my grandmother). A fifth daughter, Marguerite, was born in 1899. On the right hand side of the picture a large, framed picture is hanging on the wall. Today that frame, but now with a mirror in it, hangs in our guest bedroom. Just based on the date of the photograph, that frame is now over 120 years old.

LEST WE FORGET Below is a picture of George Joffre Huddart. George was born, in Toronto, in 1916. He was the son of William James Huddart and Annie (Daisy) Fulton. George was killed in action on April 27, 1944. Below is a letter he wrote to his aunt on July 10, 1943...a scant nine months prior to his death. It seems he might have had a premonition that he wouldn't live to see the end of the War. You be the judge. July 10,1943...Continue reading

Mary Elizabeth Roach was born in Ireland, December 8, 1861. She was the eldest of 10 children born to John Roach and Catherine Murray. It is thought the family came from Tipperary. John and Kate arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, with their three children between 1864 and 1867. John was a bricklayer and around 1888 he was working with a young man from Toronto, Lindow William Huddart. Lindow and Mary began a courtship and married, in Cleveland, on September 18, 1890. The young coupl...e remained in Cleveland into 1892 when their first of eight children was born. Sometime in 1892, Lindow and Mary and their daughter arrived back in Canada to make a home and a life in Toronto. They went on to have seven more children, losing one in infancy. Mary lived until March 1, 1928. Her husband lived on until September 30, 1943. **As noted above, Mary's father was a bricklayer. That was also the trade of her husband, Lindow. A family story has it that Lindow was an exceptional bricklayer and worked on the building of the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. One day he apparently decided to see how may bricks he could lay in a day and on this particular day laid 2000 bricks. The other bricklayers he worked with took exception to his "efficiency" and suggested that he not do it again as it made them look bad! Built in 1929, the Royal York was the tallest building in Toronto for four decades, and for much of this time the largest hotel in the Commonwealth. This graceful landmark is one block from the convention centre, and was renovated and restored in 1995 at a cost of $120 million.

Robert Meldrum Robert Meldrum, one of the first of the Meldrum family arrived in Canada in 1847 at the height of the Irish Potato Famine. He joined an older brother, Charles Meldrum, who arrived in Canada before 1839. Although the name Meldrum is typically thought of as Scottish, this branch of the family lived in Fermanagh, Ireland as early as 1823. It is very likely that Robert Meldrum made the 3,000 mile journey to Canada on what was known as a coffin ship. These ship...Continue reading

John and Margaret (Maggie Harvey) Crampsey John was born in Culdaff Parish, Donegal, Ireland in 1855. In July of 1880 John & Maggie married in Carndonagh, Donegal. A few short weeks later the young couple set sail for America where they went to Philadelphia. John & Maggie remained there for about six years and is where their first three children were born. Whether due to homesickness, or some other reason, the family moved back to Carndonagh, eventually settling in Derry City..., Londonderry in what is now Northern Ireland. Over the next few years John and Maggie had four more children. Sadly, however, Maggie died at the age of 36 as a result of childbirth complications with their eighth child (who also did not survive). Of the couple's four sons, three were killed in either WWI or WWII. Their youngest daughter, and my paternal grandmother (for whom I am named) made her way to Canada in 1919...the only one of the seven children who left Ireland.

Jennie Kidd Gowanlock Trout is a very distant relative to me. She is my first cousin, 4 times removed on my Gowanlock line. However, historically, she is an important woman. The following information is taken from Wikipedia. Jennie Kidd Trout From Wikipedia Born Jennie Kidd Gowanlock, April 21, 1841, Kelso, Scotland... Died November 10, 1921 (aged 80), Los Angeles, California Nationality Scottish Occupation Physician Jennie Kidd Trout (née Gowanlock, April 21, 1841 November 10, 1921) was the first woman in Canada to become a medical doctor legally, and was the only woman in Canada licensed to practise medicine until 1880, when Emily Stowe completed the official qualifications. Born in Wooden Mills, Kelso, Scotland, Jennie (whose name is variously spelled 'Jenny') moved with her parents to Canada in 1847, settling near Stratford, Ontario. Trout had taken a course in teaching after graduation, and had taught until her marriage to Edward Trout. She married Trout in 1865 and thereafter moved to Toronto, where Edward ran a newspaper. Motivated by her own chronic illnesses, she decided on a medical career, passing her matriculation exam in 1871 and studying medicine at the University of Toronto. Trout and Emily Jennings Stowe were together the first women admitted to the Toronto School of Medicine, by special arrangement. Stowe, however, refused to sit her exams in protest of the school's demeaning treatment of the two women. Trout later transferred to the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, where she earned her M.D. on March 11, 1875 and become the first licensed female physician in Canada. Trout then opened the Therapeutic and Electrical Institute in Toronto, which specialized in treatments for women involving "galvanic baths or electricity." For six years, she also ran a free dispensary for the poor at the same location. The Institute was quite successful, later opening branches in Brantford and Hamilton, Ontario. Due to poor health, Trout retired in 1882 to Palma Sola, Florida. She was later instrumental in the establishment of a medical school for women at Queen's University in Kingston.[2] Her family travelled extensively between Florida and Ontario, and later moved to Los Angeles, California, where she died in 1921. In 1991, Canada Post issued a postage stamp in her honour to commemorate her as the first woman licensed to practise medicine in Canada.

Angela "Dolly" Huddart, 1894. Dolly was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved, with her parents, to Toronto by the time this picture was taken. (Dolly's father, my great grandfather, was a Canadian who went to Cleveland to work and met and married his wife there.) Dolly married a man by the name of Bertram Youde, in Toronto, in 1917. There is suspicion that the marriage was never legally dissolved. We find her back in Cleveland in the early 1920's. The reason she left Toronto ...can only be speculation and she likely went to the home of her maternal grandfather, John Roach. In 1924 she married her second husband, Carl Seabrandt. They had one child, a son, named Lindow Rudolph Seabrandt. Lindow was my father's cousin and around the time of WWII Lindow joked to my dad about having a tough time in a war with Germans with a name like his. (My father was in the RCAF and Lindow in the American army). Carl Seabrandt died in 1953. A few years later Dolly married for a third time to a man named Roxie Marotta. They were only married a few years when he passed away. My recollection of Aunt Dolly was that of a somewhat Imperious lady, passing away in 1971. Her antique umbrella stand now graces my front entrance.

A wedding party in 1933 England

Angela "Dolly" Huddart, 1894. Dolly was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved, with her parents, to Toronto by the time this picture was taken. (Dolly's father, my great grandfather, was a Canadian who went to Cleveland to work and met and married his wife there.) Dolly married a man by the name of Bertram Youde, in Toronto, in 1917. There is suspicion that the marriage was never legally dissolved. We find her back in Cleveland in the early 1920's. The reason she left Toronto ...can only be speculation and she likely went to the home of her maternal grandfather, John Roach. In 1924 she married her second husband, Carl Seabrandt. They had one child, a son, named Lindow Rudolph Seabrandt. Lindow was my father's cousin and around the time of WWII Lindow joked to my dad about having a tough time in a war with Germans with a name like his. (My father was in the RCAF and Lindow in the American army). Carl Seabrandt died in 1953. A few years later Dolly married for a third time to a man named Roxie Marotta. They were only married a few years when he passed away. My recollection of Aunt Dolly was that of a somewhat Imperious lady, passing away in 1971. Her antique umbrella stand now graces my front entrance.

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Albert Gillham (1874-1936) and Mary Ann Neller Gillham (1871-1947). Albert and Mary Neller married August 3, 1896 in Ashford, Middlesex, England. The couple had 10 children and remained in the Ashford/Staines area of Middlesex their entire lives.

Margaret (Fleming) & George Meldrum with Mary Elizabeth (Mamie) in Berwick, Ontario. 1885.