Coristine

(from newspaper articles)

Willard (Bill) Coristine (1927 -) has spent countless hours tracing all four branches of his family roots. 

Bill Coristine has combed through back issues of the Watford Guide-Advocate to catalogue the births, marriages and deaths of Warwick Township residents, in ten year increments from 1885 to 1945. He also catalogued the marriages and deaths in the Watford area from 1875 to 1995. In addition, Bill has spent a great deal of time copying and re-binding the annual volumes of the Watford Guide-Advocate.

Bill's research and tireless work were of great assistance to John Smith when John wrote Memories of Warwick Village. Coristine also arranged an accumulation of interesting "odds and ends" on Warwick and Watford from the Sarnia Canadian Observer (on microfilm) for his personal records.

His interest in photography started in 1960, when he purchased much of hi equipment. A suggestion to participate in the Ontario Genealogical Society display at the International Ploughing Match and Farm Machinery Show in Enniskillen Twp. increased that interest. For that show, he created 50 prints of candid, early rural Lambton photos copied from old originals. They were reproduced in the upper studio of his Warwick Village home that was built in 1856 and at one time housed a doctor's office and store. 

Willard Coristine was also well known in the community for his ability to tune pianos, and occupation he held for many years. 

Chapter 24 of 25 - Coristine Family

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