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- . Births Jennie Walker, Born March 11, 1883
. Marriages Jennie Walker & John Felker on March 24, 1918.
Ref: Bible of Jane Matilda McCutcheon Hamilton.
. Ontario Birth Registration # 501402
Jennie Walker, 26 y. b, 11 March, 1883, Erin, Ont.; Mother Ella Hamilton Age 19, Father Charles Henry Walker Age 26, Carriage builder Manufacture, Residence, Erin, Ontario.
Married notations: Declaration by mother, Family Bible record, marriage.
Informant: Annie Walker, 228 Fairman (?) ave, Toronto & Dr. Henry McNaughton, Erin, ON.
. 1883 Mar 22 - Born - In Erin, on Sunday, 5th March, the wife of Charles H Walker, of a daughter.
Ref: Acton Free Press, 22 Mar 1883, page 2, column 2.
Walker, Charles (Daughter), Birth announcement, Acton Free Press, 9 Mar 1893, page 2, column 1.
. Jennie was born in the large red brick house her father, John Walker, built next to his blacksmith & carriage shop at Scot & Main Streets, Erin, Ontario. She help to raise her younger siblings. Jennie & her new husband moved to Toronto where John Felker had a good job with CCM plant. On Thanksgiving & holidays they would go back to Erin to visit her mother & picnicking at Stanley Park in Erin or Belfountain.
Jennie had a hard time providing after her husband died young. Daughter Marie quit high school to help her mother & brothers. She sure loved her hockey & football. Jennie was famous for her apple & especially her mincemeat pies, which she made by hand in barrels for the fancy grocery store in Erin. Her peanut butter cookies were the absolute best & were made with whole half peanuts with a fork impression on top. Although I've tasted many a cookie since, I've never had one better!
The young Jennie Walker had worked in her grandparent's fancy grocery story in Erin. After she married John Felker, she had a grocery store beside her home at 324 Weston Rd., Toronto. They were the first to have large wooden cabinet radio in the store which stood in the middle of the entrance way. Neighbours would come in to listen to the programing. - P J Ahlberg.
> . Jennie Was Given A Gold Pocket Watch For Playing The Piano For The Erin Church. One Winter She Took Her Father's Horse & Cutter Herself On The Back Roads To Play In The Little White Church Where Her Girlfriend Was Getting Married.
. One winter Jennie drove by herself her father's horse & cutter to the Melville White Church where here girlfriend was getting married. Melville White Church is the oldest standing church in the west Caledon. The cemetery at Greenlaw Corners no longer exists, but the remnants of their cemetery can still be seen at the corner of Mississauga Road and The Grange Sideroad.
The church was built by the Daniel McMillan & Bros. of Erin. The church was painted white by them & hence the White Church name. The church was hand hewn squared timer framing, clad with horizontal wood siding & simple, clean lines with natural lighting. McMillan would preach in Gaelic. Some of the names of those early Presbyterian Congregationalists worshippers were: Crichton, Gibson, Frank, Pattulo, Burnet, Kirkwood, Foster, Hunter, McLachlan, MacMillan, McEachern, Campbell & Sharp.
. Ontario Marriage certificate 024328-10 (Wellington Co)
John Wesley Felker, 30, painter, borns Garafraxa Twp., Resides West Toronto,
s/o John FELKER & Mary Patterson,
married Jennie Walker, 27, born & resides Erin, Disciple of Christ.
d/o Charles H. Walker & Ella Hamilton
Witn: J.D. Leach & Frank E. Walker both of Erin, Mar. 4, 1910 at Erin
by Rev. Geo. Black, Baptist.
. 1910 April 7, Thursday. Married. Felker-Walker - In Erin, on Thursday, 28th? March, by Rev G O Black,
John Felker of Toronto, to Jennie, daughter of the late Chas. H Walker.
Ref: Acton Free Press.
. Jennie like to tell the story how one winter her father allowed Jenn to take his horse & cutter to go by herself, on the back roads to play the music at her girlfriend's wedding in the small white church, surrounded by trees. Well the country roads then often had cedar branches bushing you & the narrow washboard were certainly not planed flat like todays paved roads!
Jennie & sisters were always repeating that the snow in Erin used to be has high as the telephone poles.
Notes for further research: Estimated years might be between 1899 to 1910 when Jenn was married in Erin Village herself. One might suppose the country church could have been a Disciples of Christ that Jenn attended in Erin Village but the Melville White Church, a mile & half (3 Kms.) south of Belfountain, today on the west side of 15962 Mississauga Road, south of The Grange Sideroad, would resemble the church. Gramma would point out the church when we passed it, but to be honest, it is difficult to reconcile the modern roads & settings. - PJ Ahlberg
. Uncle James Walker came every Sunday with his family to Sunday dinner on Weston Road with his niece, Jennie Walker Felker. James was a short man. - P J Ahlberg, 2010, Toronto.
. 1911 Jun Census, Toronto 47/45? Dundas St., 2nd CENSUS FOR THIS YEAR!
Felker John Wesley, b Dec 1879, Ontario, age 31, painter, Wages 50 hr/week, $910.
Felker, Jennie Walker, b Mar 1883, Ontario age 28
ERIN ADVOCATE Newspaper, ONTARIO:
. 1909 Aug 25, Wed. - Mrs. Chas. W Walker, of West Toronto, who has been spending a 2 weeks vacation with friends & relatives here, returned home on Saturday evening, sorry to leave, but looking forward to a return visit next year.
. 1909 Oct 27 - Miss J. Walker, visited Toronto Friends, on Thanksgiving Day.
. 1909 Sep 22 - Mr. J. Felker, Toronto, spent Sunday with friends in town.
. 1911 Jan 25 - The first Carnival of the season held at the Rink on Thurs. evening was a success & was much enjoyed by many skaters. Prize winners were Best Boy skater under 9, Clayton Justice, Best Girl., Best Dressed Lady: 1st Mrs. Baird, 2nd, Miss R. Walker.
. 1911 May 24 - Mrs. J. Felker, Toronto; & Mrs. T. Justice & daughter, of Dauphin, Manitoba, are here on a visit to their mother, Mrs. C. Walker.
. 1911 May 31 - Mrs. J. Felker, who has been here on a visit to her mother, Mrs. C. Walker, returned to her home in Toronto last week, accompanied by her sister Ruby.
. 1911 July 12 - Mrs. J. Felker, Toronto, is here on a visit to her mother, Mrs. C. Walker.
. 1911 Oct. 18 - Erin Fair Visitors: Mr & Mrs. J. Felker, Toronto, at Mrs. C. Walker's, 6,000 people attended the Fair last Friday.
. 1911 Nov. 22 - Mrs. R. Hamilton is visiting her granddaughter, Mrs. J. Felker, Toronto [i.e. Jane Matilda McCutcheon].
. 1911 Dec. 27 - Christmas visitors, Mr. Neil Felker, of Toronto & formerly of the Advocate with friends in town.
Mr. & Mrs. J. Felker, of Toronto; Mr. Frank Walker, of Smiths Falls; Miss I. Walker, with their mother, Mrs. Walker.
. 1932 Jan 7 - Erin, Mrs. J. Felker & Family, & Misses Irene & Ruby Walker of Toronto; Mr. Hughes of Regina, Sask. spent Christmas with their mother, Mrs. Ella Walker.
Ref: Acton Free Press.
Ontario Land Registry Office Abstract Book 215, Plans 61 & 282:
. Village of Erin., Wellington County
Lot 12, Con 9, p68, (NE halt of divided Lot 14), Saw Mill Lot, South West Side, Main Street:
. 1891 May 1, Bargain&Sale, Chas Staples & wife, to Jane Matilda Hamilton, NA pt 1/17 Acres, with right of lane. [ 3 rooms in house situated on Lot 12, ft. in 15.3 frontage /1874.1.31];
. 1918 Jany 9, B&S, Ella H Walker, Extx. of Jane M Hamilton, ded. & inner personal capacity & Jennie Felker. to James Small NWPart 1/17A. $1,000.
. 1918 Jan 9, Mortgage, James Small & wife, to Jennie Felker, NW, $800, Discharged 1956.12.4.
. Jennie had a photo taken of her standing in in the doorway of her grandparent's Hamilton store in Erin. Later she ran her own grocery store on Weston Rd., Toronto.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - - [1]
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1883 - 1959 (76 years)