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M Thomas Vollans

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Custom & Merchant Miller, Farmer; Built 2 grist mills, one at Horseshoe, one at west Windsor.

Information from Dorothy Vollans Iler.

1861 personal census, Sandwich West Twp, Essex Co., ON, transcribed by the Essex Branch of the OGS:
Vollens Thomas, M, Married, 32, born UC, EP, Lawyer;
Jane, F, Married, 24, born UC, EP;
Mary, F, 1, born UC, EP.

1871 personal census, Sandwich West Twp, Essex Co., ON, H-80:
Vollans Thomas, M, Married, 42, born Ont, origin: English, Episcopal, Leieur?;
Jane, F, Married, 34, born Ont, origin: English, Episcopal;
Emalia, F, 9, born Ont, going to school;
Herbert, M, 7, born Ont, going to school;
Cora, F, 3, born Ont;
Ema, F, 1, born Ont.

1881 personal census, Windsor, Essex Co., ON, M3-25:
Vollins Thomas, M, Married, 51, born Ont, origin: English, Church of England, Miller;
Jane, F, Married, 43, born Ont, origin: English, Church of England;
Amelia, F, 19, born Ont, origin: English, Church of England;
Herbert P., M, 17, born Ont, origin: English, Church of England, going to school;
Cara, F, 13, born Ont, origin: English, Church of England, going to school;
Amy, F, 11, born Ont, origin: English, Church of England, going to school;
Frank R, M, 7, born Ont, origin: English, Church of England, going to school;
Thomas S., M, 5, born Ont, origin: English, Church of England.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers, 1905, p. 452-453:
Thomas Vollans, proprietor of the Vollans Mills, and also of the Champion Mills, at Windsor, is not only one of the leading businessmen, but is also a descendant of an old and much respected English family.
His paternal grandfather was a well established agriculturist in England, where his whole life was passed in the peaceful pursuit of his calling. His two sons, William and George, sought a more active life. William became a soldier in the regular army, and came to Ontario with the troops, and later went to the Bermuda Islands, where he died. George is mentioned below.
George Vollans, the younger son of his father, came to Ontario in 1829, and located on a farm in the bush, in South Sandwich, Concession 5, Lot 5, and at once started to clear the same. This he accomplished prior to his death, in 1887, at the age of eighty-three years. He had become a man of affairs, and had served as assessor of Sandwich township before the present three-fold division was made. He married Mira Page, born in Yorkshire, England, daughter of Edmund Page, and to this union was born a family of eleven children, as follows: Thomas; William, deceased; Edward, deceased; Isaac, a farmer of Sandwich West; Samuel, a farmer of Sandwich West; Robert, a farmer of Sandwich West; Mary Ann, deceased; Harriet, Mrs. George Gray, of Sandwich; Barbara, Mrs. Alexander O'Neil; Jane, Mrs. James Alden, of Sandwich South; and Elizabeth, Mrs. John O'Neil, of Sandwich South.
Thomas Vollans was born Nov. 29, 1829, at Prescott, Ont., and he was between eight and nine years of age when his parents settled in the County of Essex. As he grew in strength, he assisted his father in the clearing of the farm of 300 acres. In 1856 he started into business for himself, embarking in the saw mill business in Sandwich West, where he continued for twenty years. Prosperity attended his industry, and in 1877 he completed the great Champion Flouring Mill, which was followed in 1891 by the still greater Vollans Flouring Mill, both embodying the latest ideas, devices and facilities for the clean, sanitary, rapid and economical conduct of this very important line of activity. As proprietor of both these important industries, Mr. Vollans displays unusual business ability as well as technical knowledge. His political sympathy is with the Liberal party and served for nine years as a member of the Sandwich council. His religious connection has always been with the Church of England.
In 1856 Mr. Vollans was married to Jane Ratcliff, a native of the County of Essex, and these children have been born to them: Amelia, who married Alexander McDowell, and has one daughter, Elsie; Cora, who married William Smith, of Toronto, and has children, Mildred and Marjorie; Herbert Page, who is in business with his father; Frank R., married and in business with his father; and Thomas Ernest, who is engaged on the Lakes. The comfortable family residence is at No. 144 Ouelette Avenue. The family is prominent in social and religious life in Windsor.

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George Vollans ca 1808-1890   Miriam Page ca 1805-
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Thomas Vollans 1829-1912