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F Diana (Dinah) Atkinson

Mariages et enfants

Notes

Notes individuelles

1881 personal census, Howard Twp, Kent Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Fysh David, M, Married, 58, born England, origin: English, Farmer;
Dinah, F, Married, 58, born England, origin: English;
Frederick, M, Married, 29, born Ont, origin: English, Farmer;
Christena, F, Married, 19, born Ont, origin: Scottish;
Henery, M, 23, born Ont, origin: English;
George, M, 52, born Ont, origin: English, Farmer.

1901 personal census, Howard Twp, Kent Co., ON, D1-9:
Fysh David, M, Married, 3 Jan 1824, 77, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Presb, Farmer;
Dinah, F, wife, Married, 4 Feb 1824, 77, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Presb;
Frederick, M, son, Married, 22 March 1850, 51, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Presb, Farmer's Son;
Cristana, F, daughter-in-law, Married, 18 March 1862, 39, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Presb;
Henery, M, son, Single, 24 July 1887, 13, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Presb, 9 months in school;
George, M, brother, Single, 1 Aug 1828, 72, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Presb, Ret Farmer.

Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 108-109:
David N. Fysh ... is a son of Francis and Ann Fysh, both of whom were born in England, where they grew to maturity and married. Francis Fysh was a skilled workman as a carpenter and joiner. In 1833 he emigrated to Canada, ..., and then bought another farm seven miles east of Brantford, where he lived and died. He improved both these farms, and made them valuable properties. He died leaving a wife and five children, and his widow made her home with her son, David N., until her death, in 1865. The children of these worthy people were as follows: ...
David N. Fysh was but ten years of age when brought to Canada, and hired out to a farmer in the County of Brant, where he worked until eighteen years of age. At the age of twenty-two, he married, in October, 1846, Miss Diana Atkinson, a native of England, born Feb. 4, 1824, daughter of John and Margaret Atkinson, of Brantford. After his marriage Mr. Fysh rented a farm for five years, in the County of Brant, and in 1851 he purchased a tract of 250 acres in Howard township, which is his present home. This he has cleared, making of it two fine farms. His first house was a log cabin, in which he and his family resided until he erected his present comfortable brick residence. He has also built a pleasant home for his son on the same farm, besides erecting good barns, and his property is one of the finest in the county.
The following family has been born to David N. Fysh and his wife: John, the eldest, born in October, 1848, in Brant, died when a young man of twenty-one years. Frederick W., born in the County of Brant, in 1852, married Miss Christiana McCracken, daughter of Alex. and Christianna (Brown) McCracken, born at Glencoe, Canada, and they reside on the old homestead, he being manager of the farm; they have one son, Henry John, a student of the Howard schools, a very bright young fellow. George, born in the County of Brant, married Miss Annie Secord, of Howard, and they reside on a portion of the homestead. They have two children, David N. and Mary. David, born at the present home in 1855, died in young manhood. Henry, born at the present home in 1859, married Miss Emma Bellis, of Glencoe, Canada, and they reside at Detroit, where he is a motorman on the electric railway of that city; they have no family. Fred Fysh and his family are Presbyterians and George Fysh and his family are Methodists. All of the men of the Fysh family have been identified with the Reform party. Fred Fysh is one of the school trustees and is one of the prominent young men of the township. David N. and his son Fred are both member of the Masonic Lodge, No. 245, at Thamesville, while George Fysh is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. and Mrs. Fysh celebrated their golden wedding at their beautiful home in Howard township, receiving many tokens from their numerous friends. Not only is Mr. Fysh himself highly esteemed in the community, but his sons have grown up to be men worthy of their family and parents, of whom all connected with them may well be proud. They are all prominent in advancing measures calculated to prove a benefit to their locality, while Frederick is especially active in school work. Having located in the County of Kent in its early days of development, Mr. Fysh and his sons have nobly borne their part in its advancement and they take a praiseworthy interest in all that concerns their township.