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Alfred Carlton
Dewhirst
Information from Faye Dewhurst, Dewhurst's of Canada, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.
1901 personal census, Gosfield South Twp, Essex Co., ON, G4-3:
Dewhirst Alfred, M, Married, 14 Jan 1827, 74, born US, immigrated 1832,
origin: English, Can, Bapt, Farmer;
Francis J., F, wife, Married, 15 July
1848[sic], 63, born England, immigrated 1849, origin: English, Can, Bapt;
Alfred C., M, son, Single, 11 June 1878, 22, born Ont, origin: English,
Can, Bapt, Farmer's Son;
Elva J., F, daughter[sic], Single, 18 Jan 1888, 13,
born Ont, origin: English, Can, Bapt, 5 months in school.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 525-526:
Bruner. The name of Bruner, long known in the County of Essex, is worthily borne in the present generation by Amon and Wellington Bruner, two of the most enterprising farmers of the township of Gosfield South.
Henry Bruner, their grandfather, was born Oct. 30, 1785, in Pennsylvania, where he married, Jan. 3, 1809, Elizabeth Ulch, born Oct. 10, 1791. They had children as follows: ... Thomas, born Oct. 18, 1829.
Thomas Bruner, the youngest of the family, was born in the log house on the present J. S. Bruner farm, where he grew to manhood... He married Naomi Tofflemire, born Dec. 18, 1833, daughter of Henry and Catherine (Quick) Tofflemire, and they had children as follows: ... Amon ... and Wellington.
Amon Bruner was born Sept. 24, 1858...
On Nov. 16, 1880, Mr. Bruner married (first) Jane Peterson, daughter of John Peterson, who died aged twenty-seven years, leaving these children: ... Wilhelmina, born May 19, 1884, married Frederick Duhurst...
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