William James Uttley was born June 22, 1883 in Elmira. He was the second of seven children and the second son of John Robert Uttley and Catherine (nee Birmingham).

The birth is not found in the Ontario Birth Indexes of the day. The births of his older brothers are not found there either, so the family was consistent at avoiding the registration of births. The date of June 22, 1883 is found in the 1901 Census. There was a birth announcement in the german-language Berliner Journal on July 5, 1883:

Uttley, John   June 24, 1883     The wife of John [R.] Uttley, in Elmira,     a son

This son was well named for an Uttley. The both names 'William' and 'James' recur back in England and Canada. The 1891 Census lists William as a son of age 7. Ten years later in 1901 the Census includes William J. as a son at age 17.

According to the census of 1901, William J. is employed at fulling, a job at the woollen mills where he was earning $180 per year. His younger brother Robert G. is working as a apprentice boiler maker at the same salary. From his obituary, William was also trained as a Boiler Maker at the Waterloo Woollen Mills.

William disappears from the record in Waterloo and we learn from his obituary that he went to Toronto to work with Inglis and by 1906 he was in Copper Cliff working at the Canadian Copper Company.

Marriage Record

His obituary says that the couple were wed in 1908. Her obituary tells us that they married one year later in 1909. The Ontario Marriage Index doesn't disagree with either because the marriage isn't recorded. The 1908 date is preferable since their first child was born on March 1, 1909.

William J. Uttley and Katherine Stinson

Death

This obituary was printed in the newspaper following his death:

WILLIAM J. UTTLEY     A Copper Cliff resident for 48 years, William J. Utley[sic], of Fesserton, died Sunday in Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, at nearby Orillia, after a long illness. The body is at Jackson and Barnard Funeral Home, 233 Larch St., where funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Born and educated in Elmira, he served a boilermaker's apprenticeship in the Waterloo Woolen Mills. After working with John Inglis Company in Toronto he came to Copper Cliff in 1906 to work for the old Canadian Copper Company. He worked for Inco many years, and recently was associated with the KVP Company, of Espanola. Since 1954, he had lived in Fesserton with his daughter. He attended the United CHurch. His wife, the former Catherine Stinson, whom he married in 1908, died in 1948, in Sudbury. Gordon, of Creighton, and Nathan, of Lively, and four daughters, Mrs. R. H. Tucker, of Fesserton, Mrs. Ernest Bodson, of Toronto, Mrs. Adrien Jobin, of Copper Cliff, and Mrs. Ray Rouleau, of Sudbury, 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; one brother, Russell, of Kitchener, and one sister, Mrs. Hilda Bone, of Port Hope. Interment will be in Park Lawn Cemetery.

A followup to the funeral read:

WILLIAM J. UTTLEY     The funeral of William J. Uttley, of Fesserton, who died in Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, Orillia, was held from the chapel of Jackson and Barnard Funeral Home, 233 Larch St. Rev. G. W. Wright, of All People's United CHurch, officiated at the service. He also conducted the committal at the interment in Park Lawn Cemetery. Pallbearers were Gordon, Nathan and Robert Uttley, Ralph Tucker, Ernest Bodson and Adrien Jobin.

The Family of William James Uttley and Katherine Stinson

Name	Birth Information	Marriage Information	Name of Spouse	Death Information	Other Information
William James Uttley	22 June 1883 Elmira	1908 or 1909	Katherine Stinson	26 Jan 1964 Orillia, ON	-
Katherine Stinson	2 June 1887 Petawawa, ON		William James Uttley	15 Sep 1947 Sudbury, ON	-
Robert John Uttley	1 Mar 1909 Copper Cliff, ON	--	Yvonne Menard 1918-1979	26 Jan 1987 Norwich, ON	Children: daughter Gail
Kathleen Elizabeth Uttley	8 Dec 1911 Copper Cliff, ON	Unknown	Ted (Ralph) Tucker 1913-1992	24 June 1976	No children listed in obituary
Bing (Wm James) Uttley	24 Mar 1914 Copper Cliff, ON	unmarried	-	26 Nov 1976	--
Gordon Bernard Uttley	6 Mar 1916 Copper Cliff, ON	Unknown	Laurette Fortin 1922-	11 Oct 1988	Children: Joyce and Byng
Hazel Agnes Uttley	28 Jan 1918 Copper Cliff, ON	1935	Ernest Bodson 1913-1977	17 June 1993	Children: Ernest Jr (1936-1995) and Larry (1938-1998)
Nathan Clifford (Bud) Uttley	14 Oct 1920 Copper Cliff, ON	1941 North Bay, ON	Anne Seppala 1921-	4 Feb 1989 Sudbury, ON	Children: Marlene and Wayne
Evelyn Lucinda Uttley	19 Dec 1922 Copper Cliff, ON/TD>	Unknown	Adrien Jobin 1907-	9 Aug 1979 Sudbury, ON	No children listed in obituary
Ruth Betty Uttley	22 June 1927 Copper Cliff, ON	Unknown	Ray Rouleau 1923-	27 July 1973	--

William James Uttley -- 1883-1964

Katherine Stinson -- 1887-1947

Death

From the Deaths Column is found:

Deaths-- UTTLEY -- Died at St. Joseph's Hospital Monday morning, September 15, 1947, Katherine Stinson, beloved wife of William J. Uttley, of Copper Cliff, in her 60th year. Resting at Jackson & Barnard Funeral Home, 83 Larch St. Service in the chapel Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment in Park Lawn Cemetery, Sudbury.

Katherine Stinson -- 1887-1947

Her obituary followed:

MRS. WM. J. UTTLEY     A resident of the Sudbury district since 1896, Mrs. Wm. J. Uttley, of 26 Railway St., Copper Cliff, died in St. Joseph's Hospital Monday after a long illness. She was in her 60th year. Mrs. Uttley, the former Katherine Stinson, was born at Petawawa, Ont., daughter of Mrs. Agnes Stinson and the late Philip Stinson. From Petawawa she moved with her parents to Larchwood in 1896. Two years later she moved to Copper Cliff and lived there since. She was married at Sudbury to William J. Uttley in 1909. Surviving besides her mother and husband are: four sons, Robert, of Toronto, Gordon of Creighton, William and Nathan, of Copper Cliff; four daughters, Mrs. R. H. Tucker, of Fesserton, Ont., Mrs. E. Bodson, of Toronto, Mrs. A. Jobin, of Sudbury, and Miss Ruth Uttley, of Copper Cliff; five grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. H. Armstrong, of Sudbury, and Mrs. Fred Rogers, of Copper Cliff, and a brother, William Stinson, of Copper Cliff. The body is resting at Jackson & Barnard Funeral Home, 83 Larch St. Funeral services will be held in the chapel on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev F. J. Baine, of the Copper Cliff United Church, will officiate. Interment will be in Park Lawn Cemetery.

A newspaper item on the funeral appeared thereafter:

MRS. WILLIAM J. UTTLEY     Masses of floral tributes banked the chapel of Jackson & Barnard Funeral Home, on Larch St., Sudbury, Wednesday afternoon for the funeral of the late Mrs. William J. Uttley of Copper Cliff. A large gathering of relatives and friends paid final tribute to the prominent Copper Cliff resident during the service conducted by Rev. F. J. Baine, pastor of the Copper Cliff United Church. Mrs. Uttley died on Monday at the St. Joseph's Hospital in Sudbury in her 60th year, following a brief illness. Mrs. T. Perry, of Sudbury, sang "The Old Rugged Cross." Four sons, Robert, Gordon, Nathan and William, and a son-in-law, Ernest Bodson, and a brother, William Stinson, were pallbearers. Interment took place at Park Lawn Cemetery in Sudbury.

• The spelling of Catherine and Katherine seem to be interchangeable.
• The Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid does not list a headstone for Catherine with any spelling. It may be that Park Lawn Cemetery in Sudbury has not been indexed yet as there are no references at all to this cemetery under the U's.

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