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M William Bray

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Descendants of John Pardo of Kent, Frederick T. Pardo.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 651:
Mrs. Margaret (Thomson) Bray, a highly respected resident of Amherstburg, is descended from one of the early pioneer families of County Essex.
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     Charles Lennox Thomson was born in Ireland, Feb. 5, 1809, but came to Ontario with relatives when but a boy. On attaining his majority he taught school for many years, and also conducted a fine farm in Colchester South. He married Margaret Lockhart, a daughter of James Lockhart, who was of Scottish extraction, and their married life was spent in Colchester South, where he died Dec. 12, 1884; his widow passed away June 12, 1890... To himself and wife were born the following children: ... Margaret is Mrs. Bray...
     Mrs. Margaret (Thomson) Bray was born in Colchester South, in 1838, and married George Hughson. They had no family. Mr. Hughson was born in 1834 and died in 1868, while they were living in Colchester South. In 1876 Mrs. Hughson married William Bray, who was born in England in 1836, and after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bray settled at Caledonia, Haldiman County, where Mr. Bray became a manufacturer of wooden goods. To this union came one son, Lennox Thomson, born in 1877, who is well educated, and is now a civil engineer and land surveyor in Berlin, County of Waterloo. Mr. Bray died in 1877, after which Mrs. Bray returned to her native county, and is now passing her declining years at Amherstburg, surrounded by a host of acquaintances and friends, by whom she is greatly beloved for her many excellent traits of character.