Mar.9, 2010

Added to the Burnetts. They had 2 sets of twin girls. Alice & Ethel in 1886… a 3 year breather… then Olive and Edna in 1889. Olive marries a Brydon.

Feb13/10

 Just the other day I found two Brydon brothers, George and William, who disappeared from Toronto around 1911. Turns out they moved to San Francisco.  This from reading the phonebook during dinner.  

Jan23/10

Had an email from Ron adding and correcting his section of the Robert and Margaret line. Also I connected Thomas Brydon of Carman, Manitoba to his parents James and Jane  from Selkirkshire, Scotland.

Jan07/10

I added a new set of Brydon’s: a couple of brothers that were drug store owners in Toronto.  Robert did quite well for himself in Virginia, USA.  They’re in the list under their parents William and Margaret.

Jan05/10

I’ve joined two lines: James (of James & Jessy) and John K (with wife Mary)  turn out to be brothers; with a sister, Elizabeth Rae of Simcoe, Ontario. Look in the list on the left under their parents name: John and Isabella.

Dec31/09

I got a new years eve email from Glenn adding info to his part of the Robert and Margaret Brydon line. Thanks go to him for that.

Dec17/09

I’ve been adding images to the photos, histories, headstones and documents. Check out this engraving of St. Mary’s Loch, Scotland. This is where my line of Brydons came from. Looks so idyllic you wonder why they ever left. Happy holidays everyone.

Dec01/09

I’ve added in another line of Brydons: John Brydon and Mary Oliver. They do the now familiar Scotland to Ontario for a while then to Manitoba migration.

Nov20/09

Thanks this week to Christina. Her family’s info gets added to the Beatty clan. Also, just a reminder, for a different way to search the info I have check out the database browser tab and within that: the reports. Its tabular listings like Husbands and Wives and the popular, Death dates and places.

Nov7/09

Heard from a member of the Robert Brydon/Christian Douglas clan and added some names at the young end of the list. Thanks Brenda. Also came across the Elgin County Branch of Ontario Genealogical Society which added info to Hannah’s data.

Oct.27/09

Spruced up this page a bit. Hope you like the new look. Plus got a few new names in the “Robert and Margaret” branch of the Brydons. Thanks Sherry.

Aug.1/09

Big chunk of Brydons added yesterday to the William Brydon / Blandina Eby clan. Blandina is from a Waterloo county Mennonite family. Check them out at the Eby site. Anyway Bill and the wife took the kids to Manitoba in the 1870’s and thats where most of my new entries are found.

Jun.13/09

Its been so long since I’ve updated things here. Perhaps I could blame daylight savings time… it seems I’m only doing genealogy when its dark outside.

On topic…

A kind email from the granddaughter of Rev. Robert Brydon has corrected a few names and dates and added a few kids, who are now adults, to the tree.

Feb.8/09

A big addition to the Robert Brydon line via email from Stuart Clarkson (his mom’s stepdad was Walter Glassford Brydon) including some fascinating letters (1,2,3,and 4) written from the parents in Scotland. Also I’m now including Google maps with peoples info. It’ll take a while to get it all done but check out Lucy Brydon to see an example.

Feb.4/09

-All week I’ve been getting Brydons married off. I found out that William Brydon marries Erla, Walter marries Mary, another Mary marries Archie. Then there’s Charles and Emma in 1919. Walter and Jeanie in 1925, and finally George and Sadie tie the knot in 1927. And be sure to take a look at the photo section I put more pics in there.

Jan.28/09

- Yesterday Mary Cooney sent in some pics of
William Algie’s
Alton Mill. Her grandfather, Fred Stubbs, bought the mill in 1935. It then made rubber products for kids and adults until 1982. Here’s a close up from a pic.
The rest are in
Albums
.Thanks Mary.

Check out the mill’s
website for more history.
Also for Algie fans, the remaining notes from Virgina Gould
are now online: meet Jacobo Algeo, born in 1420.

Jan.24/09

This week I found out Walter Brydon left home at seventeen to start a blacksmithing business in Galt. Here’s his bio on Our Roots. A very interesting site. I put that and other useful links
down on the bottom right of this page. I also found a bit more on Bertram Brydon Pinkerton who made a life for himself in Dawson City, Yukon. There’s a W. Brydon up there at the time but I haven’t figured out who he is. I also kind of suspect that this other Walter left his first wife to go the gold rush.

Jan.15/09

- Here’s a pic I found at the
The Glenbow Museum
in Calgary.

William Randolph Brydon of Portage La Prairie, engineer for this train.

This was taken in 1959 in Manitoba, as the train passed a town called Searle.