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The Ties That Bind (Family Histories)

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Home...Virtual ExhibitsThe Township of Warwick: A Story Through TimeChapter 24: The Ties That Bind (Family Histories)
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A group of people sitting outside and standing with bikes.

McKenzie home on Zion Line. Courtesy H Ross.

compiled by Mary Janes

Ever since the Warwick Township History Project started its work in early 2005, the Committee has has been actively searching for the stories of those people who have lived, worked and played in Warwick Township since 1832. The “Family Profiles” have come in by mail, by email, by personal delivery, in books and through personal interviews. Some are long; others are short; some are accompanied by photographs. They are all interesting. Some Warwick families have deep roots, right back to 1832; others are more recent arrivals. Many of the stories here are about events and activities that are not covered in the other chapters.

There have been three main challenges in compiling this chapter. The first is that people living in Warwick today do not consider themselves history. Many wrote about their ancestors, but did not bring their story to the present day. They did not agree with our “argument” that today's population is tomorrow's history.

Another challenge has been to compile the stories into a readable chapter for everyone's enjoyment. This chapter is not meant to be a genealogy; it is history through family stories, with enough genealogical information to set the family in the context of the time frame.

The third challenge was to identify the cases where two or three people submitted stories about the same family. These needed to be identified and combined as accurately as possible.

Our thanks go to Don Brodie, Noreen Croxford, Eleanor Darke, Janet Firman, Linda Koolen, Julia Geerts, Karen Houle, Mary Houle, Maria Janssens, Gary O'Neil, Gwen Watson, and Linsey Wilson, who have helped put these stories together, either by transcribing interviews or by putting the profiles together. In some cases that has meant extra telephone calls or even personal visits to obtain the missing information.

Several books are used as sources for some of these families. The list below gives the full information about each one.

Arkona Women's Institute, Tweedsmuir History Collection, 1909– 1976.

J. Beers & Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Lambton Ontario, 1906.

H. Belden & Co., Illustrated Atlas of the Dominion of Canada, 1880.

H. Belden & Co., edited by Edward Phelps, Belden's Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Lambton Ontario, 1973.

William L. Clink, Lambton and Kent, the Story of the Clink and Connected Families in Lambton and Kent Counties in Western Ontario, 1987.

F. W. Crawford, Thirty-Five Years of Progress at Anoka Farms, 1961.

In Days of Yore: Life and Times in Lambton County, 1994. William Frederick Johnson, Arkona Through the Years 1821–1975, 1976.

Florence Main, Eight Daughters and One Son – The McRories 1871-2001, 2001.

Judge N. F. McWatts, John A. Huey, John A. Hair, History of Lambton County Officials 125 Years 1850-1975.

Eleanor Nielsen, The Egremont Road: Historic Route From Lobo to Lake Huron, Lambton Historical Society, 1993.

Lambton  County  Pioneer  Profiles,  Lambton  County  Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1999.

Lambton Settlers Series: Early Brooke & Warwick, Vol. 3 & 4, Lambton County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1995 & 1997.

Janine Roelens-Grant, ed., From This Place: Recollections of the Lives of Women in the 20th  Century, 2000.

John Thomson Smith, Memories of Warwick Village, 1994.

Miep  Verkley,  The  Lambton  Connection,  Swan  Publications, 1999.

Warwick Women's Institute, Tweedsmuir History Collection, 1909-present.

Watford Centennial 1873-1973

Who Are These People? A Family History

Let me introduce you to the following families. These are some of the people who have shaped the history of Township.

Families listed by Last Name:

A

Aarts

Abell

Acton

Aitken

Anderson

Armstrong

Arnold

Auld

B

Baird

Barnes

Baxter

Bayley

Beacom

Beaton

Beernink

Benedict

Bentley

Bitner

Blain

Boere

Bole

Bork

Bowes

Baekevelt

Brandon

Brett

Brodie

Bryce, James David

Bryce, Robert

Bryson

Burns, Edward

Burns, James

Burwell

Butler, Frederick

Butler, William

Byrns

C

Cable

Caley

Callaghan / Callahan

Calvert

Cameron

Campbell

Caris

Carscaden

Casselman 

Cates

Catt

Caughlin

Chalk

Clark, Hugh

Clark, Russel Alexander

Clark, William

Clay

Coates

Colter

Coneybeare

Connolly

Cook, Henry

Cook, Lloyd Stanley

Cook, Walter Daniel

Cooper

Coristine

Cornelissen

Cornish

Cowan

Cundick

D

Dailey

Dare

Day

de Koning

Detwiler

Dick

Dodds

Dodge

Doherty

Dolan

Douglas

Duncan

Dunham

Dunlop

Durr

E

Eastman, Benjamin

Eastman, Nadab

Eastman, Truman Benjamin

Eccles

Edwards, Richard

Edwards, Thomas

Ellerker

Elliot

Emery

Evans

F

Farrell

Faulds

Fenner

Ferguson

Ferwerda

Firman

Fitzsimons

Ford

Foster

Freear (Freer)

Fuller, George

Fuller, William

G

Garrett

Gavigan

Geerts, Jack

Geerts, John Peter

Glavin

Goodhand, Alonzo

Goodhand, Joseph

Graham

H

Hall

Hamilton

Haney

Harper, William and Eliza

Harper, William and Elizabeth

Harrower

Harvey

Hastings

Hawkins

Hay, Alexander

Hay, Daniel

Hay, Thomas

Hay, Timothy

Heaton

Hendrickx

Henry

Herbert

Hicks

Higgins, David

Higgins, Thomas

Hilborn

Hindson

Hipkins

Hodgson

Hogervorst

Holbrook, Edward

Holbrook, George

Hollingsworth

Holmes

Holt

Howden

Hume, Francis

Hume, John

Hume, Margaret

Hume, Robert

Hume, Thomas

Humphreys

I

Inman

Irvine

J

Janes

Jaynes

Jenken

Johnson, Alexander

Johnson, Alfred

Johnson, Clayton

Jones

K

Karr

Kelly

Kenward

Kenzie

Kerfoot

Kernohan

Kerr

Kersey, James

Kersey, John

Kincade

King, Ivan

King, James

King, John

Kingston

Kingstone

Klein

Koolen

Kyncl

L

Ladell

Lambert

Lawrence, Jacob

Lawrence, John Edward

Laws

Leach

Lee

Leggate

Lester

Levitt

Lindsay

Logan

Long

Lowrie

Lowry

Lucas

Luckham

M 

Macalpin

MacKenzie, Donald

MacKenzie, William

Maidment

Main

Mansfield

Marrison

Martin

Massender

Mathews

Maxfield

Maxwell

McAdam

McAlpine

McChesney

McCormick

McElroy

McGillicuddy

McGregor

McKay, John Henry

McKay, Joseph Wesley

McKenzie

McKercher

McLaren

McLean

McLeay

McLeay, Elizabeth

McLeay, John

McNaughton

McPherson

McRorie

McTaggart

Meadows

Millier

Miner

Minielly

Moore

Morgan

Morningstar

Morris

Mount Cashell

Muma

N 

Nash, Alfred

Nash, Alfred and Hutchinson

Newell 

O 

O’Neil

Orr

Orrange 

P 

Paisley

Parker

Pastoor

Pearce

Pedden

Perriam

Pierce, Joy and Gerry

Pierce, Oliver Myles 

Q 

Quick

Quinlan 

R 

Ravell

Redmond

Reycraft

Richter

Ridley

Rivers

Robertson

Robinson

Robson

Roche

Roder

Rogers

Rombouts

Ross, David

Ross, Donald

Ross, Hugh

Rothwell

Runnalls 

S 

Saide

Saunders, Joshua

Saunders, Samuel James

Saunders, Thomas

Sayers

Scott

Searson

Seymour

Shaw

Shields

Sitlington

Sitter

Slegers

Smith, Jacob

Smith, James

Smith, John

Smith, Wellington

Smith, Wilfred John

Smith, William

Smith, William and Jane

Smith, William Frederick

Soetemans

Southorn

Spalding

Stalker

Stapleford

Stephenson

Steven

Stott

Straatman

Streets

Sullivan

Sutton

Sweet 

T 

Tait

Tanner

Tanton

Taylor

Thomas, Enoch

Thomas, John

Thompson

Thomson/Thompson

Tindall

Todd

Toffelmire

Traxler

Tribbeck

Turner

U 

Utter 

V 

Van Aert

Van Bree, Frank

Van Bree, Martinus

Van Diepen

Van Haaren

Van Kessel, Henry

Van Kessel, Martin

Van Loon

Van Rooyen

Vaughan

Venhuizen

Verheyen

Vermeiren 

W 

Wallace

Wallington

Wallis

Walsh/Welsh

Wambaugh

Ward

Waterman

Watson

Watt

Waun

Weedmark

West

Westgate

Whelan, Elizabeth

Whelan, William Michael

Whitcraft

Wilcocks

Wilkinson

Willer

Williams, Carol Anne

Williams, John

Williams, Leo James

Williams, Thomas Cuthbert

Williamson, Richard

Williamson, William

Willoughby

Wilson

Wintemute

Woods

Wordsworth

Wright

Wrinkle 

Y

 Young

Z 

Zankey

Zavitz

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