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16. Ernest Peter HILLMAN [image] ¹ was born ² on 10 Mar 1878 in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. He died on 18 Dec 1950 in Dundas, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. He was buried on 21 Dec 1950 in Dundas, Wntwrt, Ont. He married Leonora Louise Diana NICOLA on 22 Jul 1901 in Millwall, London, England. [Parents]

"He came to Canada as a small boy with his parents about 1884. They remained in the vicinity of Hamilton until Ernest was about 20 years of age when his family moved to England ....

"Ernest remained here for another four years and then also returned to England. It was at this time that he met his wife, Nora, and they were married. They came to Canada before the birth of Frank [where they lived on 12 Alanson Street, Hamilton] and about one year after his birth returned to England to visit their parents. Their second child a baby girl was born in England but she only lived for three months. They then returned to Canada when Frank was about eleven years old and here they remained for the rest of their lives, settling in Dundas, Ontario, at 107 York Road.

"Ernest worked making shoe polish in a small factory on Sanford Avenue South in Hamilton. He used to mix the polish himself in large vats and the bottles were filled by hand and then sent out to the stores. One name it went under was "La Magic". It was alway special to see it in the shoe stores when I was a child. He drove back and forth to work, owning his own car, from Dundas where he owned his own home at 107 York Road.

"I remember ... spending a week or two of summer holidays with them. ... Always at 4:30 it was time to go to meet grandpa at the bottom of the large hill down by the town hall at the end of York Road and there we would wait until his car came. Then we would ride home with him. (Traffic was very sparse. It would be 'I hear another one coming now. Maybe this is him.' But the traffic was never steady like it is now).

"Bedtime was special and exciting. Grandpa (Ernest) would throw us into bed with a 'one, two three, go' and sailing through the air and a great bouncing about we would be on the bed, giggling back for a repeat of the same until Grandma would be fearful that we would get too upset and it would come to a stop. Then Grandpa would go to bring our medicine or 'pills' which were candies he always had for us.

"Christmas was often spent at their home when we were young. Santa always literally came to us. He came through a skylight in the bathroom. We sometimes caught him trimming the tree, or in the hall by the bathroom and sometimes he stayed to give us our presents. When we were older we learned that this was Grandpa so patiently adding this to our Christmas.

"Grandpa and Grandma attended church regularly. They were active in the Masons and the Eastern Star, being worthy Matron and Patron at different times. ...

"Grandpa always had a large garden and he would work in it after supper time almost until dark. He loved his garden. He also did oil painting, quite a number which were all given away. I only have a very small one he gave me when I was married. ....

"They had neighbours across the street who were deaf and dumb and they helped them a lot. ....

"Although my family moved about a great deal Grandma and Grandpa were always there at their home at 107 York Road and this was a stability I liked." ("Ernest Peter Hillman", by JS, 1977).

(?) Born in West Grinstead?

17. Leonora Louise Diana NICOLA [image] ¹ was born ² on 13 Oct 1879 in Lambath, London, England. She died on 4 Feb 1963 in Dundas, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. She was buried on 12 Feb 1963 in Dundas, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. [Parents]

".... She was very frugal and careful with their money. Very organized and methodical. There was a great deal of order to her life. Monday morning was always wash day no matter what the weather. On a good day the clothes would hang outside on a pulley line extending from the back of the house to the garage to dry. If it was raining they would hang in the back kitchen and kitchen itself. Tuesday was ironing and so on through her week. Her house was always spotless and now, in 1977, many of the things she had in her home are a good price and valued very much.

"They had a brass bed, a stained glass light over their dining room table. There was a wood stove in the kitchen for heating and cooking. Things were kept in the cellar to keep them cool. They had no ice box. They had a lovely stove in the dining room, all silver and ornate, with transparent panes in the front doors that you could see the fire through. Grandma and Grandpa would sit in front of this on winter nights. On the wall close by was a coo coo clock that Grandma would wind every night before she went to bed and came out faithfully to announce the hours and half hours.

"Grandma's sister, Aunt Connie, almost without fail came every four o'clock for tea and they would talk together at the kitchen table, a metal topped white one and there were wooden chairs.

"Grandma took pride in her pretty china and often showed it to me .... [They included] A hot chocolate set, salt and pepper dishes, lattuce work dish, blue willow dishes." ("Ernest Peter Hillman", by JS, 1977).

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18. Charles BOURNE [image] ¹ was born ² on 5 Jul 1872 in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England. He died on 11 May 1959 in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. He was buried on 14 May 1959 in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. He married Rachel Amy SHARPE on 4 Oct 1892 in Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. [Parents]

"Short, stocky, heavy built, strong as an ox, but not very tall" (comments by Bruce E Wilson, no date).

In 1880 he was attending school ("scholar") as an eight year old child living with his parents in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England. His family lived on the road to Hare Farm cottage. (1880 census as per familysearch.org) He moved to Canada as a young man. His ship's passenger list may be one of two listed at http://www.findmypast.com/passengerListPersonSearchStart.action

"It was the practice of a farmer in the [Springford, Oxford County, Ontario] area to provide married farmhands with a house as well as wages for the services that he performed. Charles was one of these workers. The sturdy red brick house that belonged to the owners still stands [1990] but the smaller farmhand's home is long gone. A vacant field is the site of [Emma Bourne's] birthplace now. [Charles] had migrated from England at the age of nineteen and settled in the area. He had hired on as a farmhand with some of the local cattle farmers. At the same time Emma's mother had moved from Houghton, Ontario and started working as a housekeeper for the same farmers. Charles and Rachel married and were provided with a house to live in as part of his wages. ... As Charles worked for different farmers, the family moved from one house to another but it was always in the Springford area. Many of those homes still [1990] stand today.

"As the family grew older and increased in size, Charles sought better employment. He became a railroader. This meant that the family would have to move from the home provided by the farmer so they found a nice two storey frame home in Springford. ....

"After the first world war, the job with the railroad brought a transfer from Springford to Dundas. The family found a home overlooking the Niagara Escarpment - one of the most beautiful views in all the province of Ontario. They became involved in the Baptist Church in town with Emma and her brothers working with the youth." ("Hillman Family Newsletter", Jan 1990, GH).

19. Rachel Amy SHARPE [image] ¹ was born on 23 Aug 1871 in Norfolk, Houghton Twp, Ontario, Canada. She died on 27 Feb 1953 in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. She was buried on 1 Mar 1953 in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. [Parents]

Appears in the 1881 census (Houlton, Norfolk South, Ontario) as a nine year old child, living in her father's Baptist home, and going to school. (See transcript of 1881 census as found on familysearch.org).

In later years she developed severe arthritis that distorted her hands.

[Child]

20. James H. HITCHCOCK Jp [image] ¹ was born ² on 11 Nov 1852 in New Brunswick. He died ³ on 25 May 1937 in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada. The cause of death was heart attack. He was buried ⁴ in Ortonville, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada. He married ^{5, 6} Charlotte Anne MERRITT on 20 Aug 1873 in Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada. [Parents]

Reportedly born in Restigouche County, where his parents lived when he was young, some say at "Flatlands." (According to the late MEM). While he was a child he and his parents and brothers and sisters portaged from the Restigouche to the Andover area.

He always celebrated his birthday on Armistice Day (now Remembrance Day). (CHH November 2003 and earlier).

In adulthood he often read the Gazette and kept himself familiar with politics. He admired Sir Wilfred Laurier and spoke well of him many years after his defeat as Prime Minister in 1911. Laurier favoured reciprocity or a form of free trade with the US, something that many New Brunswick farmers believed might have helped them.

His oldest child Herbert was born in Cliffordvale in 1875. James started a 100 acre farm in Ortonville, New Brunswick after this, and built a house there. The 1881 census showed him a "Free Will C Baptist." (familysearch.org). His third child, born in 1882, was born in Ortonville. Perhaps this farm was the 100 acre grant of land registered on August 30, 1877 in Grand Falls Parish to a James Hitchcock. (Volume: 98, Grant: 16935).

After his wife Charlotte Merritt died, he married Addie (Bishop) Larlee, who lived in her own house in Perth. Her first husband had passed away in 1892.

Though the 1901 census shows James as a Baptist living with his second wife Addie (Bishop) Larlee and her two daughters, at least in later years they lived separately from each other for months. Then James would say "I'm going to visit my old woman" and he would get on the train that went by Ortonville each day, and go down to Perth for several days or more. (CHH 14 March 2004). Even in 1901 he may have been only temporarily at the Perth residence; his occupation was shown as "farmer", and the Perth home was not on farmland. Nor was he a farm labourer on someone else's farm; he was "working on his own account" or in other words employed on his own farm.

In 1911, 60 year old James was a married man living with his single son Albert and daughter at the Ortonville farm. His wife's name doesn't appear and we believe she never lived at the Ortonville farm. (See

James Hitchcock was appointed a Justice of the Peace August 7th 1918 for Victoria County (see Justice of the Peace Register Index, which is found on microfilm F8504, p. 236, at PANB). We know nothing of the work he did as a JP.

He liked to dress up even when he was not going out. The photo shown here has him wearing a vest from a suit while posing for a family photo.

An eyewitness account of his funeral:
"It was a Baptist funeral, and nobody had arranged it so that the family could sit together, I sat on Papa's lap though I was 11 years old. All the neighbours [came]. It was at the Ortonville Baptist church. And it was a Church of England minister, his name was Nicholo Franchetti. And the coffin was open all during the service.

"I remember how he looked, he was very fair. His face was very white. And he had what appeared to be a smile on his face, lying there in his coffin. I could see that as clear as anything.

"You know having been in that church that it was not very big. Now at Papa's funeral someone had put aside seats and I was told you are to sit right here. But not at Grampy's funeral." (CHH November 2003).

We don't know what the middle initial "H" represents; it appears only in the civil death registration.

Was not an Orangeman.

21. Charlotte Anne MERRITT was born ¹ on 25 Feb 1856 in New Brunswick, Canada. She was christened on 18 May 1856 in Andover, Victoria County, New Brunswick. She died ² on 5 Jul 1894 in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada. The cause of death was consumption. She was buried ³ in Ortonville, Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada. [Parents]

"She died when she was 39, Papa was 12 years old." (CHH November 2003). "Mom believed it was tuberculosis, but in those days it was called consumption." (CHH 7 Dec 2003)

[Child]

22. Charles WALDRON [image] was born ¹ on 14 Feb 1856 in Tower Hill, Charlotte, New Brunswick. He died ^{2, 3} on 30 May 1933 in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada. The cause of death was a collision between a truck and his horse-drawn carriage. He was buried in Moore's Mills, Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canada. He married ^{4, 5} Mary Helen LORING on 18 Aug 1886 in Prince William Station, York Co., New Brunswick, Canada. [Parents]

"Charles had a farm, living in a house near the top of Tower Hill not far from the home of Henry Pollard [his grandfather]. Charles drove the mail in Tower Hill." (St. David's Parish rootsweb site).

He appears as the oldest child of his father "Westbrook" and stepmother Margaret in the 1871 census.

He was a farmer and employer and "Working on own account," and an Anglican (1901 census). His home had been built by the honorable James Brown and bought from the Brown family. It was in the process of being renovated in 1981. (CHH April 2004).

"I can remember him smiling and holding me on his knee and asking "how do you like having your nose broken?" I had no idea what he meant but Mama told me afterwards. [Charles thought she had just been displaced as the youngest and "favourite" child.] ... He must have been confused because there were two younger than me at the time. That must have been about 1930. Grandma would have been dead by that time. (CHH 14 March 2004).

"After his wife's death "Charles Waldron and Helen Demerchant (CHH's cousin) went over to Calais which is in the state of Maine which is across the river from St. Stephen, [New Brunswick] I guess they went over shopping or something, they were hit by a truck. They were on a bridge that was crossing the St. Croix River. And Helen being just a young teenager at the time, was spry enough, she saw the truck coming at them, she jumped out and she didn't get hurt at all. But grampy being 72 years old he wasn't able to jump and he stayed where he was and he got paralzyed, his legs didn't work anymore. He was disabled. And I suppose that led up to his death which I think was about a year after this happened when he died. He always owned horses, he liked horses. I don't know how many maybe by that time he only had one. He liked nettlesome horses, which means the kind that reared up and misbehaved themselves, he liked the ones that were a little bit prancy. You know the ones you see in the movies where they move about and can't stay still.

"After his wife died (and after the accident) Aunt Myrtle and her family came to live with grampy. Uncle Hiram lived with them too, but he wasn't with them on the trip. I don't know how long it would take but probably no more than half hour trip by car now." (CHH 15 Sep 2003).

23. Mary Helen LORING [image] was born ¹ on 7 Feb 1858 in Calais, Maine, Us. She died ² on 21 Apr 1930 in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada. She was buried in Moore's Mills, Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canada. [Parents]

After her mother's death, she and her younger brother, Walter, lived with their Aunt Annie M. Hatch and Uncle William G. Hatch, a storekeeper, in Manners-Sutton (or Prince William Station), York, New Brunswick, where the census taker found her as late as 1881.

Young Mary Helen wanted to have her ears pierced, but "Auntie Hatch" wouldn't allow it. Disobediently, she had her ears pieced anyway by a neighbour woman, who inserted a needle into each earlobe with a piece of wool on the end, leaving the wool in place. When she returned home, her Aunt saw that the deed was done, and the Hatch family obtained two large gold coins and had holes punched in them and gold wire attached, and these became her earrings. (Family tradition as conveyed through Ethel Mary (Waldron) Hitchcock through CHH). These earrings descended through the family to Ethel Mary (Waldron) Hitchcock, then to Jasper Hitchcock to give to his bride, and when he never married, passed to a favorite niece, R S, Mary Helen Loring's great grand daughter. She reports they are very heavy to wear.

"These earrings are NOT heavy to wear", disagrees LKI. "I wore them for a while, until R made a special trip to claim them. Oh, how my heart yearns for them! I wore them to church, and people were awed by their antiquity! You should include in your history, that your sister asked for those earrings from Aunt Muriel, and took them out west to the heir, to make sure she got them ( and wore and enjoyed them until they were claimed)."

It is impossible to tell what year the coins were made - the gold had been pounded to obliterate the images on the coins when they were made into earrings.

Mary Helen attended the provincial Normal school at Fredericton, New Brunswick while still living at Prince William Station.. She obtained her 'First Class' teaching license 1 October 1878, and taught for 34 years. The 1881 census shows her occupation as "schoolteacher." She was of course still teaching at the time of the 1901 census twenty years later, a working wife and mother in an age when schoolteachers generally were single women without families. Her income assisted her several daughters to in turn train as teachers, and her youngest to graduate from Acadia University.

Her letter addressed to Charles Waldron, accepting his marriage proposal, with a long-deteriorated Lily, is in the possession of CHH.

Death:
"She said I'm tired I'm going to bed. And I guess Grampy noticed she wasn't feeling too well, because (when she said that) he said I'll send for Molly (which was Aunt Myrtle). I think it was two days later that she died. ... But I don't know what she died of." (CHH 6 Dec 2003).

"I can't remember ever seeing my Grandma Waldron, though apparently I did. We lived about 200 miles away." (CHH)

[Child]

24. Francisco ACMA was born ¹ in Bohol, Philippines. He died ² calculated 1940 in Bohol, Philippines. He married Eusebia LAGARE.

A farmer in Valencia, Bohol, Philippines. (IPA and VRA March 2007)

25. Eusebia LAGARE ^{1, 2}.

... or Laguera?

[Child]

26. PALACA ¹. married Juliana NALLA.

Passed away early, and his widow remarried. This is why his first name was not remembered for the 1995 pedigree chart.

27. Juliana NALLA ^{1, 2}.

Married a second time to Marciel Tagud.

[Child]

28. Justino or Manuel REFAMONTE was born ¹ in Antequera, Bohol, Philippines. He died ² before 1954 in Calbayog, Samar, Philippines. He married Feliciana MANUTA.

Noted as Manuel Refamonte in the 2007 pedigree chart (29 March 2007). Justino in the 1995 pedigree chart.

29. Feliciana MANUTA ¹ was born ² about 1896. She died ^{3, 4} on 16 Mar 1961 in Antequera, Bohol, Philippines. [Parents]

Moved to Bohol from Samar after World War II, and stayed with her son Pedro's family until after 1954. (F M A, 17 Jul 2005)

[Child]

30. Francisco FLOR ¹ was born ² in Bohol, Philippines. He died ³ about 1950 in Calbayog, Samar, Philippines. He married Sevirina INDINO.

This family moved from Bohol to Samar and did not return until after Francisco's death. (VRA 11 Apr 07)

31. Sevirina INDINO ^{1, 2} died ³ about 1950 in Calbayog, Samar, Philippines.

Severina was "silent" and did not talk much. (VRA March or April 2007)

[Child]

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