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M Walter Brush Grubb

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Information from Ron Buchanan, Buchanan of Essex, Ontario, Canada, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.

1881 personal census, Colchester South Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS Can 1881 census household record:
Brush John, M, Married, 74, born Ont, origin: English, Church of England, Farmer;
Anne, F, Married, 55, born Scotland, origin: Scottish, Church of England;
Grubb B. Walter, M, 21, born USA, origin: Scottish, Church of England, Farmer.

Marriage record, Colchester South Twp, Essex Co., ON, from Mary Crandall's site:
3071-87 (Essex co): W. B. GRUBB, 27, Po Keepsia NY, Colchester, bachelor, farmer, s/o John & Sarah GRUBB to Lavinia GRUBB, 25, Colchester, Colchester, single, d/o Walter & Nancy GRUBB, wit: Edward E GRUBB & Ardell HUGHAM on 19 Oct 1887 in Colchester South.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 580-581:
     William A. Grubb, Sr., who has been a resident of Point Pelee, in the County of Essex, for over thirty years, and for a long period was the keeper of the Dummey Lighthouse, at Point Pelee, was born March 2, 1850, in Colchester township, County of Essex.
     Mr. Grubb comes of Scotch ancestry. John Grubb, his grandfather, was born in Scotland in the vicinity of Edinburgh, and emigrated to Canada, settling in Weston, near Toronto, where he followed farming and operated a distillery. Later he became the owner of real estate in different parts of Ontario, owning 400 acres in Colchester township, County of Essex....
     Walter Grubb, father of William A. Grubb, was born in Edinburgh, and was twelve years of age when he accompanied his parents to Canada... While still a young man, he came to the County of Essex, and located on a farm of 200 acres which was given him by his father. This land was near Oxley...
     Mr. Grubb married Nancy McCormick, of Colchester township, daughter of the late Alexander and Mary (Lidwell) McCormick, and a granddaughter of the first Alexander McCormick who settled in the County of Essex. Mrs. Grubb died at the home of her daughter at Harrow, Colchester township, at the age of seventy-eight years, and was laid to rest by the side of her husband. Both were consistent members of the Church of England. They had twelve children, and we have record of: John, a resident of Michigan; William A.; Mary, now the wife of Alexander Buchanan, of Colchester township; Miss Susan, of Harrow; Lavina, deceased wife of Walter Grubb; and Edward, of Harrow.

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William Charles Grubb 1790-1878   Catharine Clapperton 1788-/1851    
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John Grubb 1819-1890   Sarah Worrall ca 1823-1865
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Walter Brush Grubb 1859-1941