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Fonds Description
Crombie Family
Appendix 1 - Biographical information
compiled from documents in the fonds
Adam
Williamson Cradock (AWC)
born (?17____) died c.1865
- married Honoria Stubbs Slaney Oct. 28, 1805
- married Sarah Atkinson Dec. 01 1814
- son born from this marriage - Richard Hadges Cradock, born 21, Oct.
1815
- declined a knighthood for personal courage displayed 09 July 1841 “repelling
the ferocious gang of coal porters”
- sister? - Cassandra Cradock
- Captain of the 15th Regiment of Foot
- Erasmus Cope Browne was Uncle to Adam Williamson Cradock
- Cradock becomes great-grandfather of Hilda Isabelle Georgina Crombie
- has daughter = Sarah Maria Coffie
- Coffie died ca. 1865 - last will and testament of Coffie in this fonds
- emigrated to Canada but at some point returned to Dublin and died there
in mid 1860s
- Georgina Browne - 3rd wife of AWC
- they had one daughter - Agnes Georgina
- mother - Cassandra Delimerst
- father - Richard Hedges (1st)
Richard
Hedges Cradock (RHC 1) (of Dublin, Esquire)
- married Cassandra Delimerst, 9 February 1767
- Delimerst - of the Parish of St. Michael of Dublin, Spinster
- August 30, 1830 - minutes at City Assembly House Dublin - move that
RHC1 have “the freedom of the city at large” for his long
& gallant service in the 41st Regiment. Motion passed.
Presentation made in a silver box
- was 18 years absent from Ireland in Service - in America, Spain, Portugal,
West Indies, France
Honoria
Stubbs Slaney
- 1st wife of AWC, married on Oct. 28, 1805
- was described as “Spinster, of the Parish of Birmingham”
- ? died of consumption (typhoid)
Sarah
Atkinson
- 2nd wife of AWC
- married AWC December 1, 1814
- son from this marriage - Richard Hedges Cradock - born: October 21,
1815
- Eliza Atkinson - sister - in letters, Richard Hedges Cradock (2) always
writes “give my regards or greeting to E. Atkinson”
- Eliza is aunt to Agnes
Richard
Hedges Cradock (2) (RHC2)
born: October 21, 1815 died: 1882
- baptized at St. Thomas Church Dublin, Ireland, 1815
- wife - Etta Chapp
- settled near Ancaster, Ontario - called his home Millbrook
- son: Charlie / Charly / Charles Hedges
- half-sister: Agnes Georgina Cradock (Wood, Atkins)
- mother: Sarah Atkinson
- father: Adam Williamson Cradock
- sister: Eliza Atkinson
Charles
(Charly) Cradock
- son of Richard Hedges Cradock 2
- had a son (Richard Henry?)
- had a son Ernest Cradock - his intended was Lucia (Garnet ?)
- they had a daughter named Mabel Cradock
- married Catherine
- had 8 children - 7 known names:
1) Richard Henry - born April 3, 1871
2) Catharine - born July 13, 1873
3) Elisabeth - born Feb. 5, 1879
4) Coleman - born Apr. 13, 1876
5) Earnest - born Apr. 5, 1880
6) Robert - born Oct. 29, 1882
7) Agnes - born Dec. 23, 1885
- Richard Henry married Mabel Cecila Guernett of Ancaster on 14th
Oct. 1902
- parents of Mabel - Richard Gurnett and Ellen Moore
- Mrs. Cradock (Catharine) widowed and left with 8 children. In October
1916, she lived with Richard Henry on a farm near Brantford
Georgina
Browne Cradock
born: ? died: 23 October 1846
- mother: Anne Browne
- father: Erasmus Cope Browne - is uncle to Adam Williamson
- son - John - brother of Georgina
- 3rd wife of AWC
- one daughter born: Agnes Georgina (born 19 July 1839) in Hamilton, Ont.
(Note: we have the Hamilton Journal of that date in this fonds)
Agnes
Georgina Cradock
born: July 19, 1839 died: February 23, 1916
- (77 years) - attack of grippe
- married Henry Archdall Wood - marriage certificate - June 26, 1861
- Wood sisters: Fanny, Julia, also one brother
- Wood died on December 1874 after an illness
- October 23, 1877 - Agnes married George Thomas Atkins - neighbours to
the Cradocks
- two daughters born from this marriage:
1) Hilda Isabelle Georgina - born: August 26, 1878
2) Vivian Agnes Maud - born: October 13, 1880
- buried in St. James Anglican Church cemetery, Brant County
Major
Thomas Atkins
born: 1783 died: 1864
- married 2nd cousin Alice Lynn Hamerton - 10 January 1825
- served with British army in India
- retired to Canada
- settled on Governors Road - Flamborough
- 1859 had paralytic stroke - incapacitated him both physically and mentally
- he suffered stroke a few days before July 11, 1859.
- records show Atkins constantly in debt
- served most of his career in India
- spent 1/4 of inheritance on a Major’s commission
- 1840 - sold his commission
- 1841 - emigrated to Canada
- settled near West Flamborough
- built a home - called it Donneycarney - sold mortgage to son Frederick
- was supporting the family
- buried at Grove Cemetery, Dundas
- had 8 children - names listed under his wife
Mary
Alice Lynn Hamerton
born: 1801 died: 1883
- buried at Grove Cemetery, Dundas
- married Major Thomas Atkins - January 10, 1825
- was Atkins 2nd cousin
- from the village of Donneycarney
- had 11 children - 3 died in infancy - 9 born in Europe, 2 born in Canada
Children
1) Edward Lowen born: 1826 died: ??
- moved to Australia
- married
- 2 daughters - names unknown
2) Frederick William McLean born: 1827 died: 1862
- Captain of Her Majesty’s 20th Native Regiment of Infantry
in India
- 1859 purchased Donneycarney from creditors
- married Laura Bell Carlton in Dharamgan, India, 1862
- died at sea 1862 from wound
3) Elizabeth Alicia born: 1828 died: 1895
- married Dundas lawyer - George Barton
4) Harriet born: 1834 died: 1915
- never married
- aka “Aunt Nolly”
5) Isabella Maria born: 1837 died: 1871
- 1st wife of Dundas lawyer - Alex R. Wardell (Note: see Wardells
for list of children)
6) George Thomas born: 1888 died: 21 August 1916
- married Agnes Georgina Cradock Wood - October 1877
- purchases Donneycarney from Frederick’s widow, Laura Bell Carlton
- lived at Donneycarney until 1883 when his mother died - sold the house
at that time
7) Rosalind Alice born: 1843 died: 1917
- born in Canada
- never married
- aka “Aunt Rosie”
- very deaf
- lived in Ellen Osler Memorial Home at time of death
8) Adelaide Frances born: 1845 died: 1911
- never married
- aka “Aunt Nannie”
- took up nursing
- worked in private hospital in Toronto for a period of time
George
Thomas Atkins
born: 1838 died: August 21, 1916
- married Agnes Cradock Wood - October 23, 1877
- had two daughters:
1) Hilda Isabella Georgina
2) Vivien Agnes Maud
- immigrated to Canada at 2 years of age
- farmer
Alex
Richard Wardell
born: October 18, 1835 died: ?
- married Isabella Maria Atkins - (Maria was sister to George Thomas)
- lawyer
- four children from 1st wife:
1) Thomas Atkins Wardell born: circa 1865 died: 1902
2) Dr. Harry Wardell born: died: ?
- worked in Hamilton - was present at his brother’s death (Thomas)
3) Sidney Wardell - born: - died: ?
4) daughter - Mrs. Wyld - born: ? - died: ?
- Mrs. Wyld was a widow
- was on staff at Brooklyn City Hospital
- children from 2nd wife - Isabella R.:
1) Reginald Stewart - born June 9, 1875
2) Lindsay - born March 13, 1880
3) Isabell M. - born Feb. 26, 1890 (?)
Thomas
Atkins Wardell (TAW)
born: 1864 died: 1902 (37)
(1901 census: June 28, 1865)
- son of Alex R. Wardell and Maria Atkins
- lawyer - set up practice with father
- was MLA for North Wentworth in 1898 and also at time of death
- native of Dundas
- Masonic Fraternity, Canadian Odd Fellows
- avid curler
- Chief Whip of Conservative Party in legislature
- Roman Catholic
- widower - wife (name unknown) died one day after the birth of their
daughter - Isabel “Bee”?
- 1901 census indicates Thomas Atkins Wardell is a widower and is lodging
in the Dundas home of Albert Ferguson
- the census documents his name as Tom rather than Thomas
- brothers:
1) Dr. Harry Wardell - present at TAW’s operation
2) Sidney Wardell (New York)
- sister:
- Mrs. Wyld (New York) - widow
- half-brothers:
1) Reginald Stewart - born: June 9, 1875
2) Lindsay A. - born: Mar. 13, 1880
- half-sister:
- Isabel M.- born: ?
Marcus
Crombie (MC)
born: ?? died: ca. 1862
- married twice
- first wife was Elizabeth Campbell - 5 children, 2nd wife
was Margaret Bradshaw
- sons born:
1) Keith (Chicago, Detroit)
2) David (St. Catharines) - born 1848
3) Alex B. - born: 1837
4) Edward Beatus - born: 1843 or 1844 - died: Feb. 1875
5) Marcellus
6) Willie - became a priest
7) Regulus aka Reggie
8) Robert - born: Jan. 23, 1846
- was a schoolmaster
- 1st marriage - 4 daughters born
- 2nd marriage - 8 sons born
a daughter, Catherine Eliza, married John George Delhoste Mackenzie, Anglican
minister, founder of St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Toronto. Their
son was the poet George A. Mackenzie (1849-).
David
Crombie
- David Bradshaw - born: Feb. 6, 1848 (according to 1901
census born: 1851)
- died: Mar. 10, 1927 - stroke
- married Lillian May Henderson 1900 - she was born: June 1876
- Lillian died 1919
- bank manager: Thorold, St. Catharines
- son of MC
- had daughter - Catherine Lyall - married James Alexander Wales - Bishop
of Montreal - Dec. 1928
?- daughter - Mrs. Sydney Pierce
?- son - Hugh Crombie (?)
David was uncle to George A. MacKenzie (there are some photographs of
Mackenzies)
Alex
M. Crombie
born: 1837 - Picton, Ontario died: 1914 (77 years)
- employment: National Trust & Deposit Co.
- paralyzed 1912 - from?
- son of Marcus Crombie
Robert
John Crombie
born: Jan. 23, 1846 died: (? 1901)
- son of Marcus Crombie
- married Susan G. (from Chatham, New Brunswick) who was born: June 28,
1859 and died: Nov.2 (19-?)
- children:
1) Bradshaw - born June 27, 1885
2) William - born Sept. 30, 1886
3) Robert - born Dec. 21, 1887
4) Edith - born May 17, 1889 - married name - Cox
5) Charles - born Oct. 3, 1890
6) Margaret - born Jan. 21, 1892
7) Joseph - born July 21, 1893
8) Elizabeth - born Sept. 5, 1894 - “Bebe?”
9) Vincent - born 4, 1897
10) Constance - born June 17, 1899
- was an official with Bank of Montreal
- 2 sons killed in Word War I
Edward
Beatus Crombie (EB)
born: May 27 183/44 (?) died: Feb. 23, 1875
- married Fanny Maria Rubidge in Ottawa - Mar 8, 1870
- bank manager
- 3 children:
1) Fanny Margaret Bradshaw - born Dec. 27, 1870 - aka “Baba”
2) Georgina Maud - born Oct. 22, 1872 - aka “Georgie”
3) Edward Rubidge - born Nov. 4, 1874 - aka “Ted or Ned”
- died of pneumonia
- son of Marcus Crombie
Fanny
Maria Rubidge
born: July 23, 1848 in Montreal died: 1938 (87 years)
- married EB in Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa - Mar. 8, 1870
- 3 children:
1) Fanny Margaret Bradshaw (“Baba”)
2) Georgina Maud (“Georgie”)
3) Edward Rubidge (“Ted”, “Ned”, “Brant
Hammerton”)
- EB died 1876
- married Herbert Carlyle Hammond - date?
- had sister named Eva - she married a McCullough
- 2 children with Hammond:
- Frederick Sydney
- Herbert Renwick (“Chub”) - Lt. Of Canadian Artillery, Capt.
- Fanny’s mother and father lost an only son to drowning prior to
Edward Rubidge’s birth
- her parents had 6 daughters - 5 were married with children - another
daughter Marietta (Fanny’s sister), lived with parents
- Fanny was about 26 when Edward B. Crombie died
Edward
Rubidge Crombie
born: Nov. 4, 1874 died: 1937
- son of EB and Fanny Maria
- married Hilda Isabelle Georgina Atkins on June 25, 1906
- worked at: Bank of Commerce, Paris, Sterling Bank Almonte, before farming
- also banking job in Montreal
- purchased Gilston in 1912 - rented it in 1911
- 3 children:
1) Hildegard Victoria - born: May 24, 1907
2) Edward Hamerton - born: March 31, 1909
3) Vivian Maud - born: Aug. 29, 1911
- maternal great uncle - Henry Kavanagh Battaye - died: 1909
- one brother of Kavanagh - Ulic of New York and brother - Capt. Erasmus
- writer of newsletters, diaries, poems, short stories
- had some poems published under pseudonym Brant Hamerton - some in Saturday
Night
- buried at St. James Anglican Cemetery, Paris, Ontario
Hildegard
Victoria Crombie
born: May 24, 1907 died: unknown
- aka “Budge”
- appears to have never married
- lived at Gilston - Gilston sold in mid-1960s
- continued to live at the farm after the death of both parents
- do not know when she moved out
- daughter of Hilda and Edward Rubidge Crombie
- several photographs
Vivien
Maud Crombie
born: Aug. 29, 1911 died: ?
- aka “Mab”
- sister to Hilda Victoria and Edward Hamerton
- married George Hunter - June 28, 1943, Toronto
- Mab writes “under the circumstances, it is better to get married
now rather than later” (pregnant?)
- mother (Hilda) did not go to “Mabs” wedding - Hilda died
without reconciling with her daughter
- artistic - drew many of the pictures in Gilston diaries
- several photographs
Edward
Hamerton Crombie
born: Mar. 31, 1909 died: 1994
- aka “Ned”
- son of Edward Rubidge Crombie and Hilda Isabelle
- married Margaret Reynolds
- sons:
1) Christopher - donor
2) James Reynolds Crombie
3) Edward
- several photographs
Fanny
Margaret Bradshaw Crombie
born: Dec. 27, 1870 died: ?
- aka “Baba”
- married Eddie Parker, 1900
- children:
1) Edward - born: 1901
2) George Arthur - born: March 1904
3) Margaret - born 1906
4) Herbert - born: 1908
- 2 group photographs of children
- Margaret married Mr. H. Vennor Roper, son of Alfred Roper
- had son David Roper, when David was 21 months of age, he died of burns
- scalded in his own bath water
- 1907 - Eddie Parker (husband) had typhoid - by 1914, Eddie Parker died
Georgina
Maud Crombie
born: Oct. 22, 1872 died: ?
- daughter of EB and Fanny Maria
- aka “Georgie”
- married Mortimer Bogert
- children:
1) Herbert - born: 1908
2) John ? - born: ?
Henry
Archdall Wood
born: circa 1829 died: December 1874
- of Robertstown in the county of Kildare, Ireland
- Inspector of Constabulary
- married Agnes Georgina Cradock - in June 1861
- health declining in last years
- died of pneumonia
- photographs
- sister: Julia
- brother: Edward
Herbert
Carlyle Hammond
born: Oct. 19, 1844 died: 1909 (65 years of age)
- father: Carlyle Pryce Hammond
- mother: Margaret Butler
- married Fanny Maria Rubidge Crombie (widow of EB) - date of marriage:
?
- children - 2 sons:
1) Frederick Sydney
2) Herbert Renwick (aka “Chub”)
- businessman - financial
- appointed President of the Boards for both the Federal Bank and the
Ontario Bank when these institutions were forced into liquidation
- boat named Hamonic (at the time Canada’s largest passenger steamer),
in honour of the president of the Northern Navigation Company - H.C. Hammond
- steamer built by Collingwood Shipbuilding Company
- gave money to Free Hospital For Consumptives
- has a mountain in the Rockies named after him - Mt. Hammond in British
Columbia
- a Jessie Butler was mentioned in his will (she may be a sister, aunt?
Butler is his mother’s maiden name)
Frederick
Sydney Hammond
born: ? died: May 2, 1915
- married Kathleen Saunders McParland - Sept. 30, 1909
- Frederick died on board Luisitania
- Kathleen pulled from water, never fully recovered from injuries - died
in 1920
- Frederick’s body never found
- was going to England to take a commission in an English Regiment
- half-sister “Baba” and family tried to secure passage on
the Luisitania, however, tickets were sold out
- Frederick and Kathleen lived in Toronto
- Frederick was a stock broker
- photographs in a Crombie album of Frederick as a young boy, along with
his mother Fanny and brother Herbert
Herbert
Renwick Hammond
born: circa 1887 died: 1930 (43 years)
- aka “Chub”
- married: Audrey Lemmon
- was a lieutenant then Captain in World War I
- awarded Military Cross for bravery in action
- graduate of Royal Military College, Kingston
- lived in Victoria, British Columbia when World War I began
- attached to the 15th Battery, 6th Artillery Brigade
- children:
1) Mary Carlyle - born: Apr. 5, 19??
2) Herbert Carlyle
3) Diana Carlyle
- served in Belgium and France in World War I
- after “Chub” dies, a rift between Fanny and Audrey develops
- it seems the family did not see much of Audrey and her children in subsequent
years
Richard
Lee Craig
born: April 28, 1849 died: Jan. 30, 1921 (at Calgary)
- father: James Craig
- mother: Eliza Lee Thurber
- they were married in Nov. 1840
- was an auctioneer in Alberta
- sisters:
- Belinda Frances - born Sept. 8, 1845
married William Jamieson - died Nov. 13, 1918
- Emma Elizabeth - born: Oct. 23, 1852
married George T. Robertson - died: ?
- Mary Harriet - born: Aug. 15, 1854
married W.B. McCutcheon - died: ?
- Alice Jane - born: June 28, 1861 - died: Mar. 27, 1862
- Annie Amelia - born Mar. 23, 1863 - died: ?
- brothers:
- James Craig - born Feb. 14, 1843 - died: Apr. 28, 1851
- Samuel James - born May 9, 1857
- moved to Olds (?), Alberta 1902 - died: Aug. 14, 1928
- married Maria Georgina Drake - born: ? - died: July 3, 1911
- William Montague - born: Apr. 29, 1868
- lived in Vancouver (?) - died: Feb. 24, 1924
- married Ethelinda Church - born: Apr. 16, 1850 - died: Nov. 17, 1910
- children:
1) John Alexander - born: 1879 - died 1980 - married Anne Close in 1905
2) Roland Andrew - born: Feb. 12, 1877 - died: Mar. 24, 1939
3) William Cauldwell - born: 1883 - died: ?
4) Richard Lyman - born: 1885 - died: ?
5) Estella Mary - born: Mar. 1, 1881 - died: circa 1982
6) Samuel James - born: 1887 - died: 1887
7) Isabella Alice - born: 1888 - died: ?
Estella
Mary Craig
born: Mar. 1, 1881 died: circa 1982
- parents: Richard Lee Craig and Ethelinda Church
- she was a nurse
- married Ernest Reynolds on Dec. 25, 1913
- met Ernest in Edmonton, Alberta
- Ernest sent overseas for World War I
- parents of Ernest - Judge James Reynolds and Mrs. Reynolds (maiden name
unknown)
- Ernest’s mother died before Ernest returned from war
- Ernest and Estella had one child:
- Margaret Reynolds - born: Feb. 18, 1918 - died: Aug. 23, 2003
Margaret
Reynolds
born: Feb. 18, 1918 died: Aug. 23, 2003
- aka “Margie”
- married Edward Hamerton Crombie
- children:
1) Edward James - born: Feb. 1946
- married Louise
- lives at Churchpoint, Nova Scotia
2) Christopher - born: ?
- married Pam
- lives in Burford, Ontario
- grandchildren:
- Stephanie
- Christopher
- Robert
- Sophie
- Edward - deceased
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