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Crombie family fonds. – Third accrual. – 1760-[ca. 1981]. – 17 cm of textual records and graphic material.

Series 1
Journals. – 1902-1938. – 5 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series.
Arrangement is in alphabetical order by surname of author and then by date.

BOX 40
F.1       Journal of Vivien Agnes Maud Atkins (1880-1913), September 1902-August 1905.
F.2       Journal of Edward Hamerton Crombie, August 1925 to August 1926. Volume II, pages 137 to 370. Gilston Farm, Paris, Ontario.
F.3       Journal of Edward Hamerton Crombie, August – December 1926.Volume III, pages 370 to 504. Gilston Farm, Paris, Ontario.
F.4       Journal of Edward Hamerton Crombie, June – October 1928.Volume VII, pages 1 to 155. Gilston Farm, Paris, Ontario.
F.5       Journal of Edward Hamerton Crombie, April – December 1934. [No volume number], pages 1355 to 1524. Gilston Farm, Paris, Ontario.

F.6       Journal of Edward Hamerton Crombie, January – December 1935. [No volume number], pages 1525 to 1722.
F.7       Journal of Edward Hamerton Crombie, January – December 1936. [No volume number], pages 1723 to 1926.
F.8       Journal of Edward Hamerton Crombie, January – December 1937. [No volume number], pages 1927 to 2072.
F.9       Journal of Edward Hamerton Crombie, January – August 1938. [No volume number], pages 2073 to 2152.

Series 2
Legal documents relating to the Atkins, Cradock, Crombie and connected families. – 1760-1891. – 2 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series.
Arrangement is chronological.
F.10     1760, 11 February. Commission of Richard Hedges Cradock (1st) [father of Adam Williamson Cradock], appointing him Lieutenant Fire Worker in the Royal Irish Regiment of Artillery. With remains of seal of George II, issued at St. James’s, London. Signed by George II.

F.11     1801, 19 May. Commission of Adam Williamson Cradock, appointing him Captain in the Cheshire Regiment of Fencible Infantry “during the Establishment of the said Regiment only.” With royal seal of George III, issued at St. James’s, London. Signed by George III.

F.12     1826/1830, Commission of Thomas Atkins, appointing him to the rank of Major. The commission was issued by William IV at St. James’s, London, 1 December 1830 but the commission is granted from 22 April 1826. Signed by William IV. Oversize: location Box 39.

F.13     1837, 6 October. Folded page, used as an envelope. Addressed to Captain A.W. Cradock, 15th. Regiment, Albridge, County Kildare [Ireland].

F.14     1868, 29 January. Indenture concerning transfer of lands in the town of Paris, County of Brant, from Nevile and Martha Smith to George Venn. Oversize: location Box 39.

F.15     1891, 27 November. Indenture concerning inheritance and transfer of lands in the town of Paris [Brant County], from Eliza Jane Roberts, executor of George Venn, to Louisa Anne Jefferson. Oversize: location Box 39.

Series 3
Legal and financial documents. – 1846-1939. – 2 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series.
F. 16    H.C. Hammond Executorship. National Trust Company Statement of Accounts, 26 January 1937-26 January 1939.
F.17     Mortgages and Deeds: George William Whaley purchase from William Bean, property in the Township of Brantford, 8 July 1911; purchase from Louisa Anne Jefferson by William Bean, property in the Township of Brantford, 28 June 1910; mortgage between Edward Rubidge and Hilda Crombie and the Agricultural Development Board, 25 November 1929. Also a bond from Laurence Daniel to George P. and Sarah Stratford of Brantford, November 1846 and two letters from Smoke & Smoke, Barristers, October 1916 re Bean and Crombie transactions.

Series 4
Photographs, postcards and other items. – [18-?]-[ca. 1981]. – 8 cm of textual records and graphic material. – Title based on content of series.
F.18     Wedding photograph of Edward Hamerton Crombie and Margaret Reynolds. [194-]
F.19     Hildegard Victoria Crombie, nicknamed “Budge”, born 1907, ca. 1909; Frances Barrett and friends, ca. 1920; Estella Craig at age 100, ca. 1981
F.20     Five album pages with mounted photographs and postcards; includes Edward Hamerton Crombie behind a motor vehicle, [192-?]; Mitzi (a dog); adults and children on horseback and in a sulky, 1956
F.21     Mitzi (a dog), 2 photographs
F.22     General James Wolfe (1727-1759), lithograph, captioned below “Gen. Wolfe” [18-?]

F.23     List of electors, [before 1960], for Queen’s Ward in Paris, Ontario
F.24     Burford Advance, 2 August 1978, pp. 5-8. Oversize: location Box 39

Box 41
Loose photographs placed into archival preserver sheets inside an archival album. They are mostly black and white; a few are in col. Some have captions on the verso.

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