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Bruce BROWN

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Bruce BROWN (son of Horace BROWN and Bernice STRATHY).

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Stephen BROWN

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Horace BROWN died before 1980?.

    Horace married Bernice STRATHY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Bernice STRATHY (daughter of Robert STRATHY and Janet Maud JEFFREY).
    Children:
    1. 1. Bruce BROWN
    2. Robert BROWN


Generation: 3

  1. 6.  Robert STRATHY

    Robert married Janet Maud JEFFREY on 26 May 1891. Janet (daughter of John JEFFREY and Mary SUTHERLAND) was born on 6 Jun 1867; died on 4 May 1939 in Toronto. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 7.  Janet Maud JEFFREY was born on 6 Jun 1867 (daughter of John JEFFREY and Mary SUTHERLAND); died on 4 May 1939 in Toronto.

    Notes:

    Lived in Welland in May 1900 - see Mary Hutchison wedding news report

    Lived at 78 Warren Road, Toronto, in 1906, according to notation in the front of her bible in the possession of John Cowan in 2018.

    Children:
    1. 3. Bernice STRATHY
    2. Jeffrey McVicar STRATHY was born about 1892; died on 14 Sep 1916 in France.


Generation: 4

  1. 14.  John JEFFREY was born on 14 Feb 1844 in Cobourg, Ontario (son of Honourable Andrew JEFFREY and Janet HALL); died on 4 Mar 1890 in Owen Sound, Ontario; was buried on 7 Mar 1890 in Cobourg Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario.

    Notes:

    Businesses

    1873 he was in business in Cobourg with FJ Hall as Jeffrey& Co (see Library/Misc Stuff/Item 22-D).

    1874 he was issuing marriage licenses at his hardware store (see Library/Misc Stuff/Item 22-E).

    1875 News article describes him as "one of our most successful (hardware) merchants." (in Cobourg) (Library/Misc Stuff/Item 22-F)

    1883 "Jeffrey & MacNachtan" hardware was operating on King Street (see History published in 1937 - Library/Misc Stuff/Item 21. Note that Library/Andrew Jeffrey/Item 27b states Jeffrey sold in 1881 and spelling was slightly different.)

    Business Manager of the Polson Iron Works in Owen Sound at the time of his sudden death. Funeral was at the CPR station in Owen Sound.


    He visited and signed the guest book of sister Janet (Jessie) Jeffrey (see Janet Jeffrey Libary Item 4 Page 3). Another copy of his death notice is in this book.

    William Campbell's files say marriage was Aug 24th, not Oct 24th 1866

    1875 Cobourg newspaper reports he was building "a fine new mansion on Ontario Street" (see Library/Misc Stuff/Item 22-F). This is now 110 Ontario Street, a private residence. It was known for a while as Ilahee Lodge. He sold it to William R. Ridell in 1877 See also Library Item 7. https://townofcobourg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=983947c13df94ff69563e8c2378c0eab%20

    He commissioned the building of a 43 foot steam yacht ('Fairy') in about 1880 to be operated by Frank Polson. See Library/John Jeffrey/Item

    1871 Census shows the John Jeffrey household(see Library/Misc Stuff/Item 28 P2)

    John married Mary SUTHERLAND on 24 Oct 1866 in Port Burwell, Ontario. Mary was born on 19 Aug 1846 in Cobourg, Ontario; died on 4 May 1924 in Toronto; was buried on 6 May 1924 in Cobourg Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 15.  Mary SUTHERLAND was born on 19 Aug 1846 in Cobourg, Ontario; died on 4 May 1924 in Toronto; was buried on 6 May 1924 in Cobourg Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario.

    Notes:

    Related to John Sutherland??? who was shown as a "grocer" (on page 146 of P.Clemo's book "early Cobourg")

    Children:
    1. 7. Janet Maud JEFFREY was born on 6 Jun 1867; died on 4 May 1939 in Toronto.
    2. Alexander Hall JEFFREY was born on 8 May 1869; died on 11 Apr 1942 in Toronto, Ontario; was buried in 1942 in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario.
    3. Mary Ethelwyn JEFFREY was born on 14 Dec 1873; died on 21 Mar 1952 in Montreal.
    4. John Russell JEFFREY was born on 15 Nov 1874; died on 10 Feb 1960 in Toronto; was buried in Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
    5. Daughter JEFFREY was born on 11 May 1879; died on 12 May 1879.
    6. Douglas Sutherland JEFFREY was born on 13 Sep 1880; died on 26 Aug 1881; was buried in Cobourg Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario.
    7. Fraser JEFFREY was born on 23 Jan 1884 in Cobourg, Ontario; died on 24 Mar 1960 in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; was buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
    8. Jessie Belle JEFFREY was born on 22 Jul 1885 in Cobourg, Ontario; died about 1975 in Toronto; was buried in 1975 in Cobourg Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario.