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In order to deduce the specific lineage of any person, persons or branch herein contained backward toward the earliest extant record or first recorded progenitor on the ascending pedigree, one need simply select the relevant parent atop the entry in question whose data as shown includes the identities of his own parents in turn followed by the parenthetical phrase "(to whom refer)"; then proceed alphabetically to the entry for the couple to whom so referred, indexed always for the sake of consistency and clarity under the masculine surname, and again repeat the process.
In order to deduce the specific lineage of any person, persons or branch herein contained forward toward the latest generation of recorded posterity on the descending pedigree, one need simply examine the list of offspring presented in the entry in question and select from amongst same the child or children whose issue it is desired to further trace. If the child thus selected be male, one merely notes the name of his wife, then refers alphabetically in turn to the entry for such couple, indexed always for the sake of consistency and clarity under the masculine surname, and the process is then again repeated. If, conversely, the selected child be female, it is necessary only that one instead note the name of her husband, then refer to that couple's own entry likewise alphabetically under his surname rather than hers, and proceed as before adumbrated.
The Individual Nuclear Family Group Entries are simply listed alphabetically by Husband's surname, and within a surname by Husband's given names. Where the Husband's complete name is identical to more than one individual, such persons are indexed according to order of birth. Information contained within each such entry is arranged internally according to a complex prearranged and standardised formula. Unmarried persons appear only within their parents' entries and require no additional entry for themselves, inasmuch as such would be repetitious, redundant and unnecessarily self-defeating of its purpose, namely the addition of further otherwise unrecorded data for spouse and offspring.
Whilst perfection is neither expected nor in every instance possible, the ideal concept and goal toward which is being striven in this work would of course be for each and every entry throughout this record to ultimately be expanded to contain as much as is now humanly recoverable concerning even the minutest details of each and every life. Inconsequential as some of this data may appear at present, this may well one day prove to be the only such record remaining upon the face of the whole earth wherein certain of these facts, of inestimable interest to countless future descendants in generations yet unborn, may be found preserved. All readers are therefore most earnestly solicited to contribute any such information as now remains at their disposal or accessible to them, for further incorporation into this work.
In addition it is anticipated that as detailed a narrative biography as can be compiled pertaining to each life, whether Husband, Wife or child, should eventually be appended to each individual entry, including every bit as much as can be reconstructed of each person's activities, adventures and personality, as well as any and all surviving anecdotes surrounding same. Such material may be submitted either in the form of rough jottings or a final draft; all necessary adjustments will be accordingly made for publication, with all due care being taken to retain intact the integrity of the account itself. In the case of a personal autobiography the same may also be couched in the first person if so desired.
Finally it is further intended that pictorial sheets may also in due course be reproduced and inserted throughout the text as additional pages, illustrating and depicting each individual at various stages and periods of life, together with those places, objects, buildings, scenes, landmarks or events which may have been familiar to the person or which may have played a role, however great or small, in shaping any aspect of his mortal existence. Where no authentic likeness of the actual person is presently known to exist for possible reproduction purposes there remains still nothing to preclude inclusion of these other relevant items connected with his life or times which may help restore his story to life once more; indeed in such cases, and especially in absence of anything more personal, such other additional visual aids necessarily become to a greater or lesser extent even all the more desirable and useful from the standpoint of placing the bare facts within more suitable and appropriate context and better, more human, perspective.
Readers are wholeheartedly invited to scrutinise the entries contained herein, and to forward any of the following data which may be missing, even though it be but a single item at a time if no more is available. Whilst the format for each entry follows a very rigidly structured and meticulous pattern of arrangement, readers are encouraged simply to contribute data without in any way or sense personally concerning themselves overly much with the integral mechanics of organisation in its final form.
Some of the details thus requested, required and desired would ideally include the following or any part or portion thereof.
1. Full legal name(s) of each and every family member and of each and every spouse, (including maiden surnames)
2. Full legal names of parent(s) of each and every member and spouse, as above, (including maiden surnames)
3. Derivations or reasons for choices of all given names, including specific personages, if any, for whom named, and persons suggesting or influencing said decisions, as well as circumstances surrounding or affecting same
4. All legal changes, alterations, additions to or deletions from full names, as well as in spelling, order or sequence thereof
1. Full date, (day, month and year), of each and every birth, whether of member or spouse
2. Approximate time of day, as precisely as possible, of each and every birth, whether of member or spouse
3. Actual location, as precisely as possible, of each and every birth, whether of member or spouse, together with rural land description, street address or name of building or institution, if any
4. Full names, insofar as possible, of all persons known to have been present in attendance at time of birth, medical or otherwise, together with rank, style, title, office or official or personal relationship as the case may be
5. Weight, measurements, eye and hair colour or other physical characteristics or statistics pertaining to infant at time of birth
1. Full date, (day, month and year), of each and every infant blessing or christening, whether of member or spouse
2. Approximate time of day, as precisely as possible, of each and every infant blessing or christening, whether of member or spouse
3. Actual location, as precisely as possible, of each and every infant blessing or christening, whether of member or spouse, together with rural land description, street address or name of building or institution, if any
4. Full names, insofar as possible, of all persons conducting or officiating at, assisting with, participating in, or acting as Godparents or sponsors at infant blessing or christening, together with rank, style, title, office or official or personal relationship as the case may be
5. Religious denomination under whose auspices the ordinance was performed
1. Same points as above, also noting full names and status of proxies where applicable
1. Same points as for Baptism above
1. Same points as for Baptism above
1. Same points as for Baptism above
1. Full date, (day, month and year), of each and every marriage (and later sealing), also noting full names and status of proxies where applicable
2. Same points as immediately above, with regard to any previous or subsequent marriages of the spouse
3. Approximate time of day, as precisely as possible, of each and every such marriage and later sealing
4. Actual location, as precisely as possible, of each and every such marriage or sealing, whether of member, or other previously or subsequently of spouse, together with rural land description, street address or name of building or institution, if any
5. Full names, insofar as possible, of all persons conducting or officiating at, assisting with, acting as attendants or as legal witnesses to, or otherwise participating in the official party at marriage or later sealing, together with rank, style, title, office or official or personal relationship as the case may be
6. Religious denomination or civil authority under whose auspices the ordinance was performed
1. Full date, (day, month and year), of each and every death, whether of member or spouse
2. Approximate time of day, as precisely as possible, of each and every death, whether of member or spouse
3. Actual location, as precisely as possible, of each and every death, whether of member or spouse, together with rural land description, street address or name of building or institution, if any
4. Full names, insofar as possible, of all persons known to have been present in attendance at time of death, medical or otherwise, together with rank, style, title, office or official or personal relationship, as the case may be
5. Weight, measurements, eye and hair colour, or other physical characteristics or statistics pertaining to deceased at time of demise
6. Certified medical cause of death
1. Full date, (day, month and year), of each and every memorial service, whether for member or spouse
2. Approximate time of day, as precisely as possible, of each and every memorial service, whether for member or spouse
3. Actual location, as precisely as possible, of each and every memorial service, whether for member or spouse, together with rural land description, street address or name of building or institution, if any
4. Full names, insofar as possible, of all persons conducting or officiating at, assisting with or participating in memorial services or portions thereof, together with rank, style, title, office or official or personal relationship as the case may be
5. Religious denomination or civil authority, if any, under whose auspices memorial services were performed
6. Full names, insofar as possible, of all members, both honourary and active, of bearer party, if any, at memorial services
7. Official corporate name of firm, if any, acting as directors of memorial services
1. Full date, (day, month and year), of each and every actual interment or committal, whether of member or spouse
2. Approximate time of day, as precisely as possible, of each and every actual interment or committal, whether of member or spouse
3. Actual legal and official name and designation of cemetery and of municipal unit, urban or rural, within whose boundaries, as then constituted, the same is located, complete with plot number or legal description within cemetery, if available
4. Full names, insofar as possible, of all persons conducting, officiating at, assisting with or participating in interment or committal services or portions thereof, together with rank, style, title, office or official or personal relationship, as the case may be
5. Religious denomination or civil authority, if any, under whose auspices interment or committal services were performed
6. Full names, insofar as possible, of all members, both honourary and active, of bearer party, if any, at interment or committal
7. Official corporate name of firm, if any, acting as directors of interment or committal services
1. Any and all ranks, styles, titles, offices, honours, awards, prizes, appointments or distinctions achieved or attained by a member or spouse from whatever source, whether public, private, social, fraternal, academic, scholastic, athletic, political, diplomatic, religious, corporate, military or otherwise, with all dates of such conferral or bestowal, etc., as precisely as possible
2. Any and all personal characteristics or traits, including average adult weight, height and measurements at prime, eye and hair colour, complexion or any other similarly notable physical attributes
3. Life history, including movements, associations, experiences, interests, recreations, hobbies, talents or abilities, personal habits, preferences or tastes, curious sayings or favourite phrases, or any other similar items, together with any anecdotes and tales which might conceivably aid in reconstructing, reviving or revealing in any way any aspect of the individual personality
1. Where documentation exists apart from personal knowledge alone in support of any of the facts thus indicated or stated, the nature of the document(s) or source(s) from which such information has been gleaned, or by means of which it may be re-obtained or verified
1. Finally, it need only be clarified that throughout this work the specific terminology in reference to place-names follows insofar as possible the usage current in each instance at time of event. Consequently changes in designation, jurisdiction or status for a given locality over a period of time may be reflected either from one entry to another, or even within a given entry. It will therefore not be at all uncommon to find an entire change of name for a community, or alteration in type or order of local government units, as well as various other combinations or permutations which may from time to time appear at first to the uninitiated as possible errors, inconsistencies or omissions; however, every care has been taken to enter such changes consistent with the historically proper style of the moment.
It seems altogether probable that the forebears of the Templetons were numbered amongst those hardy and rustic Normans who, having crossed the English Channel from France to England in the years following the Conquest of 1066, afterward formed part of a general northward migration, particularly during the time of David I., both whilst he was still Prince of Cumbria and later, after 1124, King of Scots. This David, who had in his youth lived and been educated and trained at the Norman Royal Court in England, and who had in fact married Maud, a grandniece to the Conqueror himself, remained ever sympathetic to Norman customs and culture, and he received kindly into his Kingdom over an extended period as many of these people as were inclined to make their way to his borders for whatever reason or cause, be it in season of peace or under plight of oppression. Many of the newcomers settled throughout the Lowland and Borderland regions and more especially westward toward the Firth of Clyde in the area which was destined one day to become the modern County of Ayr. Undoubtedly the Templetons, although not yet actually known by that name, were included amongst these latter, and traditionally the family still claims to have dwelt for a short period of time on one of the Buteshire isles or islets off the Ayrshire coast before resettling ashore.
The one other salient point which has come down persistently across the ages and the generations, apart from their supposed Norman French (and earlier Norse) origin, is that of their connexion with the Great Crusades and their association with the Order of the Knights Templar. Indeed, long after the Crusades had drawn to a close and the Order of the Temple had been finally arbitrarily suppressed and abolished throughout all the world by Papal decree, remnants of it by various names secretly refused to altogether disband or dissolve and continued to linger under patronage and protection of, and in some cases even fed and sheltered by, certain great Scottish nobles. Templeton progenitors were part of this general movement, and continued to not only reside upon former Templar property but also to participate actively in the cause, some of the family even for example accompanying the Norman Chief of Clan Sinclair (or St. Clair), together with members of many other Scottish families, on a quasi-religious errand or expedition in the 1390s to New Scotland, (Nova Scotia), on the North American continent, in a hemisphere officially not yet even "discovered" by Christopher Columbus until nearly a century later, but actually quite well-known for many generations to their Viking ancestors and the sea-going adventurers and fishermen, largely of Norse extraction, throughout the west of Scotland and Ireland.
Surnames of location, based upon and derived in the first instance from places of residence, constituted one of the earliest classes of hereditary appellations, apart from Gaelic-style patronymics, to make their appearance and take root upon Scottish soil; and indeed many were transplanted into the country from other more distant locales by these immigrants themselves, as clearly evidenced by the French preposition "de", meaning "of", followed by the individual's place of origin or ancestral home abroad. Still further such names developed in succeeding years, copying or following this older prevailing pattern or earlier practice, but with the aforesaid preposition being instead often combined in conjunction with already-existing Scottish place-names in those cases of families acquiring surnames at dates some time subsequent to arrival in their new homeland. As has been previously stated and established hereabove, the ancestors of the singular family in question happened, for one reason or another, owing to their allegiance to the Temple, to be settled upon a portion of territory which once had been, if it were not then still, the property and possession of the Templars, and which had accordingly come to be distinguished by the name of that Order. Since in the old Scots dialect a farm or landed estate of any sort was invariably referred to as a "toun", the so-called "Temple lands" soon came to be designated "Templetoun", albeit with many and varied changes of spelling; and from the very fact of residence on such a tract, (in the case in point located part way betwixt Dundonald and Kilmarnock), the family itself was in due course popularly ascribed and accorded the designation "de Templetoun" as well, or at least assorted orthographic variations thereof.
With regard to Gilbertus or Gilbert de Tempiltoun, plausibly the first who assumed or bore it, and who appears to have received that distinction roughly about the mid-to-latter part of the 13th Century, (approximately betwixt the years 1250 and 1290), very little is factually known; and precisely what his or his predecessors' actual affiliation or association with that Knightly Order may have been, and in what capacity, has not come down to us definitively or with any real degree of clarity but for the carefully-preserved and oft-repeated family legends and oral traditions. It may have been Gilbert himself or an earlier progenitor who first came to dwell thereon from the family's first Scottish landfall on the Kyles of Bute, but in any case he was serving about 1295 as rector of the (then still Roman Catholic) church at Rothesay, (such appointment being then yet within the Templars' sphere of influence and auspices), and the following year, 1296, he, together with the neighbouring Lairds, rendered homage for his possessions in Ayrshire in the celebrated "Ragman Roll" wherein his Armorial Seal demonstrates the earliest-known pre-heraldic devices of the family, already clearly containing a distinctly pious religious motif. It was in the following few years that hereditary symbols and designs really became firmly fixed within specific bloodlines and from this earliest advent of true Heraldry we find Gilbert's personal insignia giving way to those ever after borne by subsequent generations, the name's supposed origin and the family's traditional associations having been ever since commemorated by means of the rather prominent display of the image of a temple as the dominant device charged upon the differenced versions of the heraldic escutcheons of its many branches as they have spread.
No doubt even long after the final apparent departure of the Templars from the scene, the name lingered on the land, thus still further conferring and confirming itself by prescription upon the occupants thereof; and in proper course of time the intervening preposition itself entirely vanished, its disappearance leaving not individuals loosely of Templeton in right of residence, but, rather, Templetons in their own right who were also of Templeton by virtue of longstanding occupation. However, although there is no longer a Templeton at Templeton, the general consensus is today that the right to be Templeton of Templeton, or of that Ilk, and Chief of the Name, ought rightly and properly to vest in and rest with the Templetons of Hapland in the nearby Parish of Auchinleck as the longest-established and therefore most senior or principal known stock and stem of the race now remaining in Scotland itself; and to that end, and possible eventual erection into organised Clan status, there has even been a move toward formal registration of a distinct Templeton tartan utilising as its basic colours the family's traditional tinctures of blue and silver.
Jacobus, (Latin for James), presumably the son and certainly the successor to Gilbert, held the family property and holdings in Ayrshire in the reign of his fellow Norman, King Robert The Bruce, during the first quarter of the following century. More than a century and a half later still in 1491 there is mention of John, probably the representative at that time, being granted remission for certain deeds or, more correctly, misdeeds, whilst in 1499 David was serving as The King's Sergeant of the Burgh of Irvine in Ayrshire. The Templetons having during the mid 1500s meanwhile by and large joined the mass of their countrymen in embracing the Protestant faith at the time of Reformation, one Janet Templeton was served heir to Hugh Templeton as portioner of Corsehill-Kilwinning in 1676, and by this time the name had begun to ramify substantially and to proliferate vastly throughout much of that area of the West Lowlands of Scotland. For several centuries thereafter the Templetons continued to flourish and spread, becoming a numerous people in the shires of Ayr and Lanark and then beyond, and being known by variants such as Tempiltoun, Tempiltoune, Tempiltone, Tempilton and more before finally conforming exclusively to the present and comparatively more modern rendering. (Except when reference is explicitly made herein to specific individuals recorded by other nominal forms, that of "Templeton" as we know it today will for obvious reasons be the standardised mode to which will be hereafter adhered as a collective generic usage throughout the remainder of this compilation.)
Precisely how, when or why one or more branches of Gilbert's descendants first departed from their Scottish West Lowland patrimony to make their way across the North Channel onto Irish sod is not now definitely known; but Templetons regardless were well established, firmly entrenched and thoroughly rooted in Ulster, Ireland's most northerly Province, principally along the seacoast in the Counties of Antrim and Down, substantially prior to the close of the 17th Century. Traditions variously refer to their arrival with some of the many invasion or occupation forces of that era, or ascribe their migration to that watershed of Irish history, the "Plantations of Ulster"; and in these accounts there very well need be found no great discrepancy, for the Plantations, too, were of course in a very real sense themselves no less invasions or occupations in their own right, fraught as they were with bloody clashes, conflicts and confrontations as well; and, coupled with the incessant corruption and confusion in the telling over many generations, this seems most likely of all to be the true sequence and series of events being thus orally recalled and recounted. It now seems and appears almost indisputable that more than one wave of the family, no doubt closely related and acquainted, in fact made the crossing at slightly different periods and in perhaps slightly varying circumstances during that turbulent and troublous century which also embraced both a bitter civil war at its midpoint and a domestic revolution toward its end, both of which crises brought further influxes of immigrants crossing over afresh into Ireland. Yet, whether first marshalled as bona fide militiamen or imported as "planters", or for that matter a combination of the two or a touch of both, these Templetons have remained domiciled in the Emerald Isle for so great a period of time, - now approaching well nigh 400 years, - that today they have become nearly as plentiful as their Scottish cousins of the same name who elected to remain on their native heath; and, moreover, they have come with the course of time to be as completely immersed in and identified with things Irish and with Irish culture in general as any of the old native sons of Erin.
The Plantations of Ulster were accomplished for the most part in and about the year 1609 during the reign of that mighty Stuart Monarch, King James VI. and I., when, by his decree, the larger portions of the native population in this, the most rebellious of all the Irish Provinces of that time, were systematically and indiscriminately herded up and driven helter-skelter off their ancient landholdings and ancestral territories to be replaced by incoming Scottish Presbyterians together with a lesser smattering of The King's English subjects, - often resented ever after by the descendants of the displaced Irish as a blatant case of wilful confiscation, pure and simple, by brute force of arms, the most unfortunate results of which, in all their tragic ramifications, still remain sadly manifest in the form of continuing brutal sectarian violence even down to our very day. But from His Majesty's point of view, according to his lights and the contests and contexts of his day and age, The Crown sorely and desperately needed the unequivocal and uncompromising support of a united, loyal and above all Protestant Ulster, and this too at a time when the occupied and downtrodden Irish were openly vying for independence with military and other aid from Europe's Roman Catholic rulers who, in turn, posed a constant vexation, harassment and threat to England's security; and when, at the same time, England itself was being literally torn asunder from within by rising political factions and unparalleled religious passions which demanded immediate attention and redress irrespective of whatever unseemly events may have been transpiring beyond the Irish Sea. It was a time of unprecedented difficulties indeed, both for government and governed alike, in all The King's Realms, a situation which would culminate in the treacherous shedding of the blood, through regicide, of his own martyred son some four decades later, the temporary exile of one grandson for a decade more, and the eventual overthrow of yet another grandson and his entire dynasty. Though through the benefit of hindsight the remedy invoked upon the Irish may today seem somewhat harsh and heavy-handed, probably in the heat of the hour very few if any viable alternative options appeared available or practicable in order to prevent Ireland from becoming a European springboard for the launching of attacks upon England herself, and the authorities of the day clearly found it necessary to grasp at whatever solutions most obviously presented themselves at the moment. Such are the burdens which inevitably must accompany the loftiest pinnacles of power in any age, and more especially the lonely eminence of a Throne.
Whatever may be technically defined by later historians as the nominal extent of the Plantations of Ulster per se, the term in popular parlance has come to be commonly assigned and applied to the entire accumulation of invasions, battles and settlements leading up to the final victory of Protestantism over Ireland by William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and quite often to subsequent events as late as the final Scots Jacobite Risings and ultimate destruction of the House of Stuart over the succeeding additional half century or so. This being the case, and although the main thrust of the Plantations, aimed principally at subjugating and subduing the indigenous population by simply subjecting it to and submerging it in an ocean of outsiders, had, by and large, been successfully effected, as stated, by those whose awesome duty and responsibility it was to bear the pressures of the high offices of State, within the first decade of the century, the process of further overcoming and forcing the inhabitants into complete, total and abject submission in this, the land of their nativity, with a tidal wave of additional immigration, was by no means halted at that stage but rather continued in fact for several decades more on a somewhat reduced scale, with other Scottish and English families, for much the same purposes as before, regularly settling, or, more accurately, being settled or "planted" on the soil particularly of North East Ireland. If the rational though hypothetical assumptions thus formulated and suggested hold at all true or bear any semblance of any sort to the historic facts and truths of the matter, the forebears of the Irish Templetons would have been found amongst the ranks of these Scottish "planters" who, during these trying times, left their homeland for distant shores and fields of green across the North Channel, well within sight of their former home in the land of the heather. Here they prospered and assimilated well, becoming in the course of time as adamantly Irish as those they had originally sought or presumed to suppress and supplant; and from here numerous branches have since ventured forth, as have also countless of their Scottish kith and kin as well, shoulder to shoulder, to put down further plantings far and wide throughout the English-speaking world.
As early as the third decade of the 1700s members of the family from Ireland began to make their appearance known and felt in the American colonies, and in all, before that century had passed, as many as some half dozen or so distinct settlements or arrivals of individual groups of Templetons had taken place. The majority of these were directly from Ireland and some of them were already clearly in contact with each other; but a few, one or two at least, emigrated independently from Scotland itself where their earlier forebears had for centuries remained. At the time of the American colonial rebellion or insurrection most of the Templetons residing in the colonies, sad to record, turned traitor and remained south of the present 49th Parallel; but some of their offspring a generation or two later, in more peaceable settings, also displayed opportunistic tendencies and were not shy to remove at a later date once again into the benevolent shadow of the Imperial sceptre. Thus it was that, early in the succeeding century, Irish, Scottish and a small representation or contingent of descendants of the aforementioned American colonist Templetons began entering into British North America where, over time, they have established quite a respectable foothold and presence in the modern Dominion of Canada.
About the same time and from that time forth, also largely in consequence of that vile act of revolution, the southern half of North America being no longer the welcome, hospitable or suitable destination of former times, many emigrants from the British Isles, Templetons included, opted for the sunnier climes of Oceania rather than more northerly Canada, thus forming the root of the many members of the family afterward found widespread throughout both the Commonwealth of Australia and, later, the Dominion of New Zealand. On the darker side, with the loss of the self-styled "United States" as a depository for transported "criminals", development of the South Seas colonies became more urgent and desirable for that purpose, and it appears at least some of the original Templetons arriving there may in the majority of earliest instances have done so courtesy of His Majesty's Government aboard some of the many convict ships of that era; although their alleged offences often remain unrecorded or obscure, very probably involving simple acts of survival such as attempted illicit procurement of basic sustenance in those harsh and difficult bygone days.
In conclusion it can only be added that wherever Templetons have ventured, and by whatever means or for whatever motive, they have consistently flourished and done well in whatever circumstances they have found themselves. As might be reasonably expected and adduced, many personages of distinction and prominence have since borne the name, and these will be further discussed in the appropriate Parts of this larger work, wherein their individual branches are hereafter duly treated and expounded upon. However, at least one has achieved such universal stature and international renown and distinction as to perhaps merit and deserve a more general mention in these overall introductory notes. Sir John Marks Templeton, originally of American parentage but later a naturalised British subject knighted by Her Majesty for his philanthropic and humanitarian endeavours, was the creator of the world-wide Templeton Investment Funds, amongst the earliest and perhaps most successful such global funds ever established. Continuing the ancient family concerns with matters religious, he observed that religion, although a field as broad and significant as any other in terms of human life and development, had been overlooked or omitted as a category of the praiseworthy Nobel Prizes, and sought accordingly to fill the gap. Thus he organised the remarkable Templeton Foundation, with offices in various parts of the world, and its celebrated Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, now the largest annual award on earth, currently valued at well over $1,000,000 to the recipient and consistently far exceeding even the Nobel Peace Prize itself. The Templeton Prize maintains very strict criteria, is determined by a panel of nine eminent judges which over the years has included some of the foremost citizens of the world from many disciplines and professions, Royalty and laymen alike, and is presented at impressive ceremonies each spring in some opulent locale in the presence of internationally distinguished guests, with an individual of widespread acclaim or exalted office presiding and officiating at the proceedings. These outstanding and incomparable honours and accomplishments alone, even had there been no others, would worthily cause the name of Sir John and, by extension, of the ancient and honourable family of Templeton, to be remembered and revered by all generations of mankind in all time coming, all the world over.
Although anciently a Scottish family, ostensibly of Norman extraction, many of the Templetons found their way into Ireland at a very early date, and their descendants remain widespread around County Antrim and throughout the North of Ireland to this very day. A century and a half later, give or take some few decades, when the Irish Templetons had already multiplied and become numerous and well-established in the North Country, one of their progeny, a certain James Templeton, reputedly the senior representative and head of the name in Ireland, and a prosperous merchant of Larne, married Mary Millar, daughter to Hugh Millar, also of good Scots-Irish stock, a lady celebrated far and wide in her time and locality for her exceptional beauty as "Pretty Mary Millar", and who also bore the blood of the great race of Stewart or Stuart through a romantic escapade some few generations previously. Together this couple begat a family of four, the same being comprised of one daughter and three sons, - in order of birth, Mary Jane, James, Hugh and Arthur. The husband and father, James, however, died whilst these children were still quite young, and Mary, the widowed mother, subsequently in 1846 was married again, this time to one John McDowel, or McDowell. One daughter, Eliza McDowel, or McDowell, was the sole offspring of this latter union.
The two elder sons of the first marriage, James and Hugh Templeton, evidently did not always enjoy a completely amicable or harmonious relationship with their new stepfather, and, in either 1849 (according to all sources but one) or 1850 (according to a son's statement in 1913), both being now old enough to reasonably do so together, they set sail for the New World in order to join their maternal aunt and uncle, their mother's sister Eleanor Stevely Millar and her husband James Drummond, who were already settled in The Township of Kitley in the County of Leeds in what was then still part of the division of Canada West in the old United Province of Canada. The Templeton brothers proceeded at once to the Drummond homestead near Toledo, not far distant from the present-day community now known as Smiths Falls, Ontario, and from there, having been unable to leave Ireland with a great many family assets, they occupied themselves as best they could at temporary pursuits in this and other vicinities whilst awaiting the golden opportunities and better life this promising new land presumably afforded.
The Drummond family being already numerous and their accommodations somewhat strained, James after a time arranged to board with certain neighbouring families, most notably that of one Holmes Clow, whilst at one point young Hugh Templeton ranged as far afield as Dundas County, residing for a time near Winchester with the family of James Holmes, presumably a relative of the Clow family of James' acquaintance back in Leeds, both names also later having connexions through marriage with some of the Drummond posterity.
Young James Templeton had, in any case, been well educated across the sea, and, amongst other advantages, had received preparation both as a weaver and a school teacher, a circumstance which naturally rendered his prospective position on the frontier a potentially enviable one of considerable influence and respect. His junior brother Hugh, however, had been too short of years to have completed or qualified in any such formal or professional training or apprenticeship prior to leaving Ireland. As soon as James was able to secure appointment to his first charge he began practising the profession of education, in which calling he continued until after his eventual marriage, later relinquishing it in order to take up land in nearby Oxford-on-Rideau Township in Grenville County where he turned his attention full-time to agrarian pursuits, reared a goodly family and resided as a gentleman-farmer the remainder of his days. All this notwithstanding, he always regardless kept a hand in his first-chosen field, serving for many years as a Trustee of the Board of the local School Section as well as in other public capacities. Hugh Templeton similarly engaged himself in agricultural pastimes and activities most of his adult life, settling on a tract very near that of his brother and within only a few months of James' own purchase.
James and Hugh Templeton had left their elder sister Mary Jane and their younger brother Arthur at home in Ireland, and in due course following their emigration they resolved to send back for these other two siblings to come to them as well. Arthur, for whom they first sent, apparently was taken by the idea and liked the sound of this brave new country, for he came out in response, but he never married and died a very young man. Their only sister Mary Jane, for whom they next sent, had meanwhile developed a romantic interest of her own and refused to leave Ireland, where she remained to eventually marry in 1858 one Samuel Smith, to whom she thereafter bore, it is stated, no fewer than six children. However, Mary Millar had had, as aforementioned, a single daughter by her second marriage, and when Mary Jane spurned even the passage James had finally sent, this half-sister, Eliza McDowel, or McDowell, decided to use the fare instead and accordingly emigrated (according to most accounts) in the year 1871, (or, possibly, according to her first husband's later statement, 1872). James received her very well and treated her very kindly indeed. In fact, his youngest surviving daughter, born the very spring of her (most probable) expected arrival, bore her name and was in large part named for her.
Eliza, like her mother, was twice married, firstly to George Beach who died 18 April 1908, and then to a widower, George Leach, but she never conceived any children. She died 13 July 1927, within three weeks of her 79th birthday, and was buried beside her first husband at nearby South Gower Cemetery, the same cemetery in which her half-brother Arthur also had been laid to rest; her second husband was buried with his own first wife at St. James' Anglican Churchyard on the edge of the neighbouring Village of Kemptville. Eliza was greatly beloved by her kin, as one much given to recounting lively tales of the past, particularly concerning her own family, quite the opposite to her half-brother James who was very quiet and introspective and preferred not to speak of bygone days. She retained all her life certain quaint and distinctively Irish qualities and characteristics, of which one example in particular was her tendency to refer to a railway train as "the cars". Inasmuch as Eliza herself, strictly speaking, did not in fact bear Templeton blood, but was instead related on the maternal Millar side, further record of her life and times cannot properly be included in this Templeton compendium, but such details rather, like those of the Drummonds, quite correctly and appropriately appear instead in separate genealogical compilations and accounts of the Millar family and their descendants.
James Templeton himself had a long and happy marriage spanning well more than half a century. Returning home one night to his place of lodging aboard his cycle after a long and hard day of teaching in The Township of Elizabethtown, Leeds County, so the story goes, he chanced to pass on the trail an attractive young woman cycling in the opposite direction. Rather than risk losing track of the fair maiden, he at once turned about and, reversing his way, pedalled in the same direction, decisively pursuing her all the way to her father's gate. Through enquiries he learned the identity of the lovely lady and arranged a suitable introduction. Thus in December 1857, after a fairly brief courtship, he and Mary Ann Doolan were united in wedlock, and within a short time they settled on the property near East Oxford, (more specifically on the east half of the front or north half of Lot 12 in the Eighth Concession of The Township of Oxford-on-Rideau, some 50 acres in all), where they ever after resided. Subsequent additional purchases in the area included the adjacent 50 acres of the west half of the front (north) half, acquired from John McEvoy on 8 March 1869. Later, on 8 December 1874, they further obtained another 25 acres from Thomas Maguire in Lot 10, Concession 10, in the area known as Limerick, some short distance away.
Precisely how they came to choose a home in Oxford Township, Grenville County, when both had started out from Leeds County where all their closest kin still dwelt, may possibly be best explained by the fact of the transitory nature of James' occupation, that of a schoolmaster, which he was still actively practising up to this time. It may well be that the decision may have been taken whilst he was yet serving at some fairly local charge, - quite possibly during his tenure at the old Adams School at nearby Ventnor in Edwardsburgh Township, - and the couple may have taken prompt advantage of some sudden or unexpected availability of this, one of the finest pieces of farmland in the entire region. It seems evident that they had been residing there for some little while previously, inasmuch as it is well known that their first son James Arthur was born there in December 1860 even though James did not formally acquire title to the original 50 acres from John A. Moad until 18 September 1861, (the total cost amounting to 125 pounds Sterling), and despite the fact that the Census enumerator apparently entirely overlooked them in the spring of the latter year.
In the early 1870s, (or as late as 1887 or 1888 according to the opinion of its eventual occupant, a granddaughter of the building contractor Edward O'Reilly), James and Mary Ann, in view of the rapid expansion of their young family, found it both advisable and desirable to replace their original log homestead with the later commodious red brick family home, which still stands at this writing, slightly more than a century later, a little to the south-east of the rectangular depression which even yet marks the outline and traces the contours of the predecessor building, which in later years had been converted to use as a chicken coop. James Arthur Templeton at an advanced age recalled helping, (by his account in his extreme youth), to drive the wagon loads of bricks from the brickyard near Burritt's Rapids for the O'Reilly work crews. In these two structures, (or in the original building alone if Edna O'Reilly Lavigne's interpretation be correct), were born all eight of their children, of whom three sons and three daughters grew to maturity; and here, too, died within a matter of days a pair of twins, one male and one female, who, soon after birth, had contracted one of the terrible plagues of disease which were then all too prevalent on the Canadian frontier. The family also brought up an orphan girl, Alice Davis, (afterward Van Dusen), who at an early age was employed by them as domestic help during the childhood of their elder children. (It is said that she was in the first place informally "adopted" into the household because Mary Ann began to fear that she would never bear children of her own.)
James Templeton and Mary Ann Doolan were worthy representatives of the classic values and virtues of the true Victorian age when, though labour was intense and respites few, a strong work ethic prevailed, religion took precedence of all else, honour and duty reigned paramount, and family responsibilities and commitments were undertaken with a very real and serious sense of devotion. Standards were rigourously maintained in a manner which precluded deviation or compromise, and in the case of James and Mary Ann these included Presbyterianism, the Conservative Party and of course, as Irish Protestants, the Loyal Orange Lodge of Ontario. Such were their guidelines for living, unbending and permitting and allowing of no exception and no backsliding; and James perpetuated and exemplified them ceaselessly through his tender and loving care during his wife's long incapacitation with a crippling arthritic bone disease more or less hereditary in her family, a condition which rendered her virtually bedridden and in constant distress for the last several years of her life, which drew to its close in the old family home at East Oxford early in February 1912. Exhausted and worn by this lengthy ordeal of supreme self-sacrifice, the unending stresses and trials of his own long life and the loneliness and emptiness of widowerhood, and sensing his own purposelessness now that his final obligations were concluded, James willingly followed her barely a year and a half later, entering peacefully into rest within the same historic brick residence in September 1913.
All their six surviving children yet have living descendants remaining today. The eldest and the youngest of the family, James Arthur and John Wellington Templeton respectively, early in life removed westward to establish lucrative ranching and mercantile empires on the then-opening prairies, and their pioneer business triumphs on the plains of the Golden West are today legendary and commemorated by various tributes including the naming of several streets in their memory in one of the finer residential subdivisions of the booming financial and industrial metropolis of Calgary, Alberta, of which city members of the family once owned vast tracts of the present North Hill before deciding that it was worthless because the city "would never expand that far". The "Big Four" businessmen who founded and financed the world-famous Calgary Stampede in 1912 might well today be known as the "Big Five" or "Big Six" had the Templeton brothers, when invited to participate, not dismissed the idea, after attending only one or two discussions, as being a "flighty" concept which "would never catch on"; but this rejection notwithstanding, their company floats regardless were for many years colourful and familiar sights featured in most of the early Exhibition and Stampede Parades.
(In actual point of fact, owing to a general economic depression and the Great War having intervened in rapid succession, there was not another "official" Calgary Stampede until the "Victory Stampede" of 1919, and it did not become annual until its merger with the Exhibition as the latter's "rodeo component" in 1923, although the traditional Exhibition had continued uninterrupted meanwhile; and in the interim the brothers had relented somewhat, having seen and become persuaded or convinced of its potential. By this time there was a wider range of donors, and sponsorship had become more widespread and general, with Templeton funding and capital pledges also playing a role in such subsequent events, including the "unofficial" August 1916 "Veterans' Stampede" organised primarily by their good friends the Nimmons family. The Templetons were a rather self-effacing lot, never desirous of open publicity and usually conducting their public service efforts and endeavours with a more "behind-the-scenes" attitude and approach.)
James Arthur Templeton as a young man had led an eventful life, and before migrating westward had been a personal acquaintance of some of the great men of his time, including Sir John Alexander Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, who once long before had owned property nearby and who in later years often rode in the Templeton cutter driven by James Arthur when visiting the vicinity for some of his many political meetings. J. Arthur Templeton met his future wife in equally flamboyant fashion, just as had his father before him. When young Mary Eleanor Thompson approached Arthur's father James Templeton, as School Trustee, for her first teaching post, James had about determined to decline the application on the basis of inexperience when Arthur, who had caught a glimpse of her leaving the interview, intervened, requesting his father to recommend her inasmuch as he intended to marry her. Mary was hired and soon afterward she was married, another demonstration of the family's true Irish romantic inclinations.
Prior to leaving Ontario James Arthur Templeton had been engaged on a large scale as, amongst other things, a trader and marketer of produce, and this business led him into contact with most of the early settlers for many miles round about. With another resident of Oxford Township, John Hunter, he once had the misfortune to clash whilst attempting to negotiate a deal for the latter's potato crop. The incident led to a feud which lasted many years, being terminated only by the producer's death in 1923, but "J. A." lived on to be shocked and scandalised by the impending marriage of his only granddaughter to his old rival's grandson and heir, an alliance which sent the elderly Arthur into a fit of horrified rage and which subsequently he indignantly did everything in his power to do to prevent, through every means at his disposal including and alternating betwixt both cajoling and threats, and occasionally other forms of outright intimidation and coercion, all, alas, to no avail! Grudgingly he then dismissed his private nurse and housekeeper and brought the young couple into his own home to reside with him on the pretext of requiring their help in his old age, in reality utilising and relying upon his granddaughter's sense of duty in order to better dominate and control and generally make their early married life as thoroughly and properly miserable as he possibly could during his remaining four and one half years, to which cause he fully dedicated himself thereafter. His fits of violence were largely attributable to the chronic alcoholism to which the two brothers had fallen victims whilst engaging in a bootlegging sideline during the Prohibition era, and which exerted decidedly opposite effects on them, Arthur being rendered either uncontrollable or stupefied, but "Jack" (or "J. W." as even his own children routinely called him) having his senses and business acumen only enhanced and sharpened all the more acutely whilst under its influence.
The other brother William, also a produce-buyer and marketer by trade, was thus left to carry on the prosperous family homestead at East Oxford, which his own son James in turn eventually sold to a descendant of the contractor, Edward O'Reilly, who had originally constructed the brick residence for its first owner, James Templeton. Of the three girls, William's twin sister Wilhelmina, known as "Mina", who had long resided with her Doolan maiden aunts in Leeds County, married William John Scott there and lived out her days in the magnificent stone residence on the old Scott homestead near Athens. She had gone to her Doolan kindred as a small girl on a temporary basis in time of difficulty owing to illness, and when her brother James Arthur was eventually sent to retrieve her she and the aunts were so heartbroken that he could not do it. Her mother was much distressed but eventually relented and reached an agreement with her sisters. Thereafter one of the few occasions when Mina, who grew up to love her Leeds County home and family, was briefly back to East Oxford was the memorable time James Arthur was dispatched for her when her help was needed during the short-lived illness of their ill-fated twin siblings.
The eldest sister, Mary, married William John Gardner and removed to a place near Oxford Station, not more than three miles from her birthplace and parental home, whilst the youngest sister, Eliza Victoria, (more generally known as "Lizzie" or "Liz"), became the second wife of another neighbour, John Johnston, long-time Reeve of The Township of Oxford, and settled almost directly across the road from the property where she was born and reared. It was this John Johnston's father, Mathew or Matthew Johnston, also a native of County Antrim, who had donated the land for the little Presbyterian church at East Oxford which all these people attended, in whose adjacent cemetery many of them sleep their final sleep, and which accordingly came to be called "St. Matthew's" in his honour; and one of his sons and John's brothers, The Honourable William Agnew Johnston, after service as a member of the State House of Representatives and State Senate, and as State Attorney-General, ended his career as Chief Justice of the State of Kansas.
A son of John and Eliza Victoria Templeton Johnston was the Reverend Dr. Agnew Herbert Johnston, who rose to become a Trustee and finally Chairman of the Board of Education of Fort William, (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, where a school now bears his name. Simultaneously, and altogether for more than 50 years, he pastored his flock as minister of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in that community, at that time a Canadian service record, being in June 1973 elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, the highest office which can be bestowed by that faith upon one of its own. His brother was the distinguished scholar, educator, researcher and historical writer Harcourt Templeton Johnston, also a lay preacher in his own right, and donor of various plaques and artifacts still to be seen in the old home area, including a portrait of his famous father which yet hangs in the Township Hall and a memorial tablet to his paternal grandfather mounted on the wrought iron fence of St. Matthew's Churchyard, which fence was erected by the voluntary subscriptions of the families of the former parishioners, significant donations coming from Templeton descendants, the gate being the particular gift of Alice Zelba Gardner Morrison, daughter to the late Mary Templeton Gardner.
Reverting once again to earlier generations, the original Hugh Templeton's life was not always so aboundingly fortunate as that of his brother James. He settled on Lots 7 and 8 in the Eighth Concession of Oxford, not far from James' successful premises and at about the same time, but his farm, located amongst the sand hills on the north bank of the South Branch of the Rideau River, otherwise referred to as Kemptville Creek, (across which his wife Annie would often ferry weary wayfarers at high water in the days prior to construction of the original Alexander Bridge at the edge of their property), and subject in large measure to annual spring floodings, lacked in quality almost everything in which his brother's was rich. His first 25 acres of land in Lot 7, including the homestead, were acquired from James Connors in December 1861 just three months after James' original purchase, and his next 25 acre tract, immediately adjacent in Lot 8, was obtained from Alexander Cochrane in February 1866. Five additional acres in Lot 7 were ceded in March 1867 by Henry McCargar, totalling a solid block of 55 acres, a farm quite large enough for Hugh to manage in view of the indifferent condition of his health. Curiously enough, in February 1871, Hugh Templeton and John Johnston, (who would one day marry Hugh's niece who was born that very spring), each purchased from Alexander Cochrane land in Lot 10 of the Ninth Concession, the former acquiring 50 acres in the west half and the latter the full 100 acres of the east half, all of which the said Cochrane had received as a Crown Grant only two years earlier in 1869; the purpose of this acquisition some distance from their homes ostensibly being for use as a source of timber and winter firewood supply, as well as a place of summer pasturage for livestock.
In personal terms, Hugh's first wife Jane Fraser died soon after their marriage, and the couple produced no issue. The following year Hugh married, secondly, Ann Cochrane, an accomplished seamstress, and of this union were born one son and two daughters. Hugh Templeton himself, never at any time of a robust physique, perished in an epidemic in 1873, having not yet attained even his 40th year, and his two elder children, James D. Templeton and Mary Jane Templeton, followed him scarcely five years later, both succumbing in September 1878 whilst yet in their pre-teen years, when the dread scourge of diphtheria ravaged the countryside.
Most fortunate of all was the third and youngest, Fannie, who in her youth removed with her mother Annie back to Mountain Township, Dundas County, (where Annie's parents and siblings still resided and where Annie contracted in 1876 a brief second marriage), then to share the home of George and Eliza McDowel Beach in South Gower Township, Grenville County, and still later to occupy the old Cochrane residence at Kemptville, and who defied and survived all odds into her 95th year of age; but who regardless in that long and abundant lifetime witnessed the losses of her mother Annie, her own husband Willie Graham, her only son Charlie, (Reeve of Kemptville at the time of his death), her daughter-in-law Tibbie, her son-in-law the prominent dental surgeon Dr. F. L. Thompson, and her only grandchild George D. Thompson, the last-named cut off quite suddenly in very early childhood when taken severely ill whilst holidaying at the family's remote rural retreat. Thus did Fannie live to see all but one of her immediate family swept away, her lone survivor being an only daughter Wilda Templeton Graham, who, after Dr. Thompson's untimely demise, married his colleague Dr. Lorne E. MacLachlan and resided at Ottawa. There having been no further issue through any of these lines of descent, Wilda's eventual passing, 6 July 1975, at the age of 77, at last brought to an end her entire branch and rendered extinct the last posterity of the late Hugh Templeton barely more than a century after Hugh himself had predeceased them all.
The final resting places of all Hugh Templeton's family through his daughter the venerable Fannie Templeton Graham, including that of Fannie herself, may still be viewed at old South Gower Cemetery, but Hugh, together with his two wives, his brother James and the latter's wife Mary Ann, the young children the two brothers lost, and some of the other children and later descendants of James, lie at rest in tiny St. Matthew's Churchyard at East Oxford within the very shadows of the historic stone church of the same name wherein once they worshipped and which they knew so well in life, but which itself has long since been closed, sold and converted to a private residence.
(There were settled in the same general area of eastern Ontario two other separate groups of Templetons who were not immediate relatives and the precise connexion of whom was not known to James and Hugh Templeton. One family arrived very early on directly from Scotland, whilst the other, the Samuel Templeton family, were of Irish birth and therefore probably more closely related than the former. Of the Scottish contingent two members also removed early in a westward direction, finally settling at Calgary, Alberta. One of these, George Templeton, was at the time of his death the oldest elder and oldest member of Knox United (formerly Presbyterian) Church and a very prominent citizen, having served as Registrar of Deeds and Clerk of Land Titles. The other, his son James Gilmour Templeton, founded a thriving pharmaceutical business in Calgary's earliest days, becoming renowned as the inventor of various popular patent medicines such as Templeton's Pink Powder. J. G.'s son Gilbert in turn added to the line several more including Templeton's TRCs, Templeton's Rub and Templeton's RazMahs, afterward resettling at Toronto to better promote his prosperous and flourishing advertising and sales empire; whilst in the same generation Gilbert's sister, a daughter of the original pharmacist, was noted in equestrian circles as a frequent riding partner of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, afterward the ill-fated King Edward VIII.)
Through all the vicissitudes, past and present, which have unceasingly linked these generations together across the passing cavalcade of time, and their further fragmentation and spread with the expansion of their vast adopted homeland, these Templetons have always managed to establish and maintain a pride of family second to none anywhere, and with abounding cause, as will have been interpolated from the preceding narrative. There has been and remains every reason to suppose, presume, expect and believe that such will inevitably continue to be the case, and that despite the now-dwindling numbers of this branch in the name itself, the progeny of James Templeton, even on the burgeoning distaff side, will rightly proceed as in the past ever to foster, preserve and promote due awareness and pride in their earlier forebears' many victories and successes over the trials and tribulations of pioneer times; and that the same may further serve as an ongoing inspiration to be retained, perpetuated and magnified by additional deeds of future generations in the years and centuries yet to come.
Grant Beaver. His wife Sheryl Templeton was daughter to John Arthur Templeton and Brenda-Joy Chamberlain, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Brittany Beaver; (2) Zachary Beaver.
Frank James Bernicky was born 23 March 1930. His wife Marina Vera Bryan, (to whom he was married 23 September 1952), was born 28 November 1934, daughter to Harold Thomas Bryan and Mary Alice Wilhelmine Scott, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Dale Marie Bernicky, born 30 May 1953; (2) Brian Francis Bernicky, born 28 April 1955.
Frederick Warren Bowen was born 11 March 1961. His wife Sally Marie Templeton, (to whom he was married 8 August 1992), was born 7 January 1966 in Alberta, daughter to William Lincoln Templeton and Eva Mary Heaver, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Jesse William Templeton Bowen, born 31 March 1996; (2) Zoe Marie Grace Bowen, born 22 December 1997.
Donald Harold Bryan was born 2 August 1932, son to Harold Thomas Bryan and Mary Alice Wilhelmine Scott, (to whom refer); married, secondly, Betty Fader, (to whom also refer). His first wife Cora Arvilla Mercer, (to whom he was married 28 October 1949 and from whom subsequently divorced), was born 6 November 1928. Donald Harold Bryan and Cora Arvilla Mercer begat issue: (1) Harold Orville Bryan, born 24 May 1950, who married 5 August 1972, Glenda Susanne Haining; (2) Paul Donald Bryan, born 30 October 1951; (3) Garry Wayne Bryan, born 18 November 1952; (4) Robert Kent Bryan, born 29 July 1955.
Donald Harold Bryan was born 2 August 1932, son to Harold Thomas Bryan and Mary Alice Wilhelmine Scott, (to whom refer); married, firstly, 28 October 1949, Cora Arvilla Mercer, (to whom also refer and from whom subsequently divorced). His second wife was Betty Fader. Donald Harold Bryan and Betty Fader begat issue: (1) Shawn Bryan, born 20 August 1969.
Harold Orville Bryan was born 24 May 1950, son to Donald Harold Bryan and Cora Arvilla Mercer, (to whom refer). His wife Glenda Susanne Haining, (to whom he was married 5 August 1972), was born in January 1949. This couple begat issue: (1) Erica Bryan, who married ---.
Harold Thomas Bryan was born 24 April 1912. His wife Mary Alice Wilhelmine Scott, (to whom he was married 19 December 1928 at Toronto, York County, Ontario), was born 30 September 1910 in Ontario, daughter to William John Scott and Wilhelmina "Mina" Templeton, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Jean Marie Bryan, born antenuptially 17 September 1928, who married Wilfrid Leeder; (2) William Douglas Bryan, born 2 November 1930, died 2 February 2012 at Brockville General Hospital, Brockville, Leeds County, Ontario, buried 6 February 2012 at Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Maitland, Augusta Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married 23 September 1950, Faye Wilkins; (3) Donald Harold Bryan, born 2 August 1932, who married, firstly, 28 October 1949, Cora Arvilla Mercer, (from whom subsequently divorced), and, secondly, Betty Fader; (4) Marina Vera Bryan, born 28 November 1934, who married 23 September 1952, Frank James Bernicky; (5) Bette Wilhelmine Bryan, born 7 November 1937, who married 12 October 1957, John James Wilkinson.
William Douglas Bryan was born 2 November 1930, son to Harold Thomas Bryan and Mary Alice Wilhelmine Scott, (to whom refer)); died 2 February 2012 at Brockville General Hospital, Brockville, Leeds County, Ontario; buried 6 February 2012 at Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Maitland, Augusta Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His wife was Faye Wilkins, (to whom he was married 23 September 1950). This couple begat issue: (1) Valerie Dianne Bryan, born 30 March 1952, who married Gerald Doherty; (2) Vicki Lynne Bryan, born 24 June 1955, who married Donald Crate; (3) Catherine Mary Bryan, born 28 August 1958, who married Kenneth Knapp.
Robert Orrin Alfred Byrd was born 17 March 1933. His wife Lorena Ann Templeton, (to whom he was married 8 September 1956), was born 22 July 1935 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, daughter to James Templeton and Alice Lorena Graham, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Ann Louise Byrd, born 19 April 1960 at Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario; (2) June Lorena Byrd, born 19 June 1962 at Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario.
Edwin John Cooper was born 4 February 1935, son to Edwin John Ralph Cooper and Alice Sloan. His wife Mary Eleanor Gardner, (to whom he was married 20 October 1956 at East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario), was born 26 July 1934 at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, daughter to Robert James Percy Gardner and Lila Johnston Dunlap, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) James Edwin Cooper, born 21 August 1957 at Winchester, Dundas County, Ontario, who married 22 October 1988, Susan Wilson.
James Edwin Cooper was born 21 August 1957 at Winchester, Dundas County, Ontario, son to Edwin John Cooper and Mary Eleanor Gardner, (to whom refer). His wife Susan Wilson, (to whom he was married 22 October 1988), was born 5 August 1956. This couple begat issue: (1) Dennis James Cooper, born 24 June 1990; (2) Edwin John Cooper, born 27 August 1992.
Donald Crate. His wife Vicki Lynne Bryan was born 24 June 1955, daughter to William Douglas Bryan and Faye Wilkins, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Jillian Crate, who married Tyler Reuvers; (2) Andrew Crate.
Gerald Doherty. His wife Valerie Dianne Bryan was born 30 March 1952, daughter to William Douglas Bryan and Faye Wilkins, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Nathan Doherty, who married Lisa Moore; (2) Marc Doherty, who married 14 September 2013, Laura McCloy.
Marc Doherty was son to Gerald Doherty and Valerie Dianne Bryan, (to whom refer). His wife was Laura McCloy, (to whom he was married 14 September 2013). No further records of possible offspring of this marriage are presently available.
Nathan Doherty was son to Gerald Doherty and Valerie Dianne Bryan, (to whom refer). His wife was Lisa Moore. This couple begat issue: (1) Charlotte Doherty.
David William Gardner was born 10 October 1938 at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to Robert James Percy Gardner and Lila Johnston Dunlap, (to whom refer); married, secondly, 22 November 1990, Judy Butchart, (to whom also refer). His first wife Corinne Gail Poapst, (to whom he was married 16 June 1962 at Merrickville, Grenville County, Ontario and from whom subsequently divorced in 1990), was born 4 March 1940, daughter to Lorne E. Poapst and Helen Burton. David William Gardner and Corinne Gail Poapst begat issue: (1) Kevin Brent Gardner, born 26 February 1964 at Brockville, Leeds County, Ontario; (2) Cheryl Lynne Gardner, born 20 May 1965 at Brockville, Leeds County, Ontario.
David William Gardner was born 10 October 1938 at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to Robert James Percy Gardner and Lila Johnston Dunlap, (to whom refer); married, firstly, 16 June 1962 at Merrickville, Grenville County, Ontario, Corinne Gail Poapst, (to whom also refer and from whom subsequently divorced in 1990). His second wife was Judy Butchart, (to whom he was married 22 November 1990). No further records of possible offspring of the marriage of David William Gardner and Judy Butchart are presently available.
Robert James Percy Gardner was born 20 September 1894 at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to William John Gardner and Mary Templeton, (to whom refer); died 21 February 1956 at Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario; buried in 1956 at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His wife Lila Johnston Dunlap, (to whom he was married 21 April 1933 at Prescott, Grenville County, Ontario), was born 21 January 1898 at or near Millar's Corners, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario; died 6 June 1990 in Ontario; buried in June 1990 at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. This couple begat issue: (1) Mary Eleanor Gardner, born 26 July 1934 at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married 20 October 1956 at East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, Edwin John Cooper; (2) David William Gardner, born 10 October 1938 at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married, firstly, 16 June 1962 at Merrickville, Grenville County, Ontario, Corinne Gail Poapst, (from whom subsequently divorced in 1990), and, secondly, 22 November 1990, Judy Butchart.
William John Gardner was born 22 September 1862 at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Canada West, son to Robert Gardner and Mary Jane Claire; died 10 January 1928 at his residence near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario; buried in 1928 at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His wife Mary Templeton, (to whom he was married 14 June 1893 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario), was born 22 July 1865 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, daughter to James Templeton and Mary Ann Doolan, (to whom refer); died 9 November 1943 in Ontario; buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. This couple begat issue: (1) Robert James Percy Gardner, born 20 September 1894 at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died 21 February 1956 at Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, buried in 1956 at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married 21 April 1933 at Prescott, Grenville County, Ontario, Lila Johnston Dunlap; (2) Alice Zelba Gardner, born 19 August 1897 (not 26 August 1897 as erroneously suggested or indicated in the records of the Registrar-General of Ontario on the basis of mistaken information accidentally supplied by her maternal grandfather) at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died 22 April 1994 at Bayfield Manor, Kemptville, Grenville County, Ontario, buried 25 April 1994 at Alexander Union Cemetery, Bishop's Mills, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married 30 October 1935 at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, Wilfrid Fergus Morrison; (3) John Mansell Kirkwood Gardner, born 7 January 1900 at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died unmarried 23 November 1937, buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario.
John Gavin. His wife Cheryl Anne Leeder was born 21 March 1947, daughter to Wilfrid Leeder and Jean Marie Bryan, (to whom refer). No further records of possible offspring of this marriage are presently available.
Bryan Girard. His wife Ida Suzanne Templeton was born 25 September 1967 in Alberta, daughter to William Lincoln Templeton and Eva Mary Heaver, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Aidan Girard; (2) Ryce Girard.
Charles Byard Dundee Graham (Reeve of The Village of Kemptville, Counties Councillor of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, etc.) was born 7 October 1894 in Ontario, son to William James Graham and Fannie Templeton, (to whom refer); died 30 September 1945 in Ontario; buried at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His wife Elizabeth Ann "Tibbie" Christie, (to whom he was married 19 December 1917), was born 8 July 1896; died 31 January 1956. No children by blood were begotten of this marriage.
William James Graham was born in 1858; died 28 March 1929 in Ontario; buried in 1929 at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His wife Fannie Templeton, (to whom he was married in November 1891 in Ontario), was born 21 September 1870 at Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, daughter to Hugh Templeton and Ann Cochrane, (to whom refer); died 13 July 1965 in Ontario; buried in July 1965 at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario. This couple begat issue: (1) Charles Byard Dundee Graham (Reeve of The Village of Kemptville, Counties Councillor of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, etc.), born 7 October 1894 in Ontario, died 30 September 1945 in Ontario, buried at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married 19 December 1917, Elizabeth Ann "Tibbie" Christie; (2) Wilda Templeton Graham, born 5 January 1898 in Ontario, died 6 July 1975 in Ontario, buried in July 1975 at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married, firstly, 13 September 1930, Frederick L. Thompson, and, secondly, in 1949, Lorne E. MacLachlan.
Donald Wayne Scott Greenham was born 3 December 1942, son to Raymond Stewart Greenham and Marion Eleanor Scott, (to whom refer). His wife Jennifer Elizabeth Gigg, (to whom he was married 21 August 1970), was born 15 February 1946. No further records of possible offspring of this marriage are presently available.
Raymond Stewart Greenham was born 13 November 1922. His wife Marion Eleanor Scott, (to whom he was married 14 May 1941 at Lyn, Elizabethtown Township, Leeds County, Ontario), was born 11 April 1923 in Ontario, daughter to Leonard Templeton Scott and Lillian Erma Dixie, (to whom refer); died in 1989 in Ontario. This couple begat issue: (1) Rae Eleanor Scott Greenham, born 2 October 1941, who married 28 July 1973, Harry Alfred Kingstone; (2) Donald Wayne Scott Greenham, born 3 December 1942, who married 21 August 1970, Jennifer Elizabeth Gigg.
Wilson Lesley Hunter was born 28 September 1916 at Millar's Corners, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to Edward Hunter and Elizabeth Ann "Lizzie" Law; married, secondly, Viola Victoria Lippert; died 18 February 2005 at the Baker Cancer Centre, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta in consequence of double pneumonia following upon cancer; cremated 22 February 2005 at Calgary, Alberta; ashes buried 12 March 2005 at Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Maitland, Augusta Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His first wife Alberta Mary Hazel Templeton, (to whom he was married 31 March 1942 at Grace Presbyterian Church, Calgary, Alberta, with the Reverend Alfred Bright, Presbyterian Church in Canada, officiating and whom he subsequently callously abandoned), was born 9 October 1919 at Templeton Ranch, Norquay (afterward Kneehill) Municipal District, near Acme, Alberta, specifically on the North East Quarter of Section 15, Township 29, Range 25, West of the Fourth Meridian, daughter to Charles Melville Templeton and Gertrude Barraclough, (to whom refer); christened 24 August 1926 at Templeton Ranch, Norquay (afterward Kneehill) Municipal District, near Acme, Alberta, specifically on the North East Quarter of Section 15, Township 29, Range 25, West of the Fourth Meridian, (with the Reverend D. Whyte Smith, United Church of Canada, officiating); died 9 July 1988 at Calgary General Hospital, Calgary, Alberta in consequence of kidney and heart failure coupled with pneumonia following upon general physical and organic decline resulting from a stroke and cancer of the lung and bone structure; buried 13 July 1988 at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, (with her only son, herebelow recorded, officiating). Wilson Lesley Hunter and Alberta Mary Hazel Templeton begat issue: (1) Frederick Charles Hunter, born 3 February 1953 at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie, Simcoe County, Ontario, christened 31 May 1953 at the Base Interdenominational Chapel, Camp Borden Royal Canadian Air Force Base, Essa Township, Simcoe County, Ontario, (with the Base Chaplain for the United Church of Canada officiating), baptised 3 May 1975 at the Calgary Alberta North Stake Centre, Calgary Alberta North Stake of Zion, Calgary, Alberta, (with Richard Lee Collins, duly ordained Elder of Israel and full-time Missionary, officiating), confirmed 3 May 1975 at the Calgary Alberta North Stake Centre, Calgary Alberta North Stake of Zion, Calgary, Alberta, (with Steven C. Booth, duly ordained Elder of Israel and full-time Missionary, officiating).
Donald James Jack. His wife Lola-Joy Templeton, (to whom he was married 20 August 1966 at Riverview United Church, Calgary, Alberta), was born 25 August 1947 at Olds, Alberta, daughter to Arthur Edwin Ray Templeton and Margaret Aileen St. Clair, (to whom refer). In addition to later adoption of children, names and sexes unavailable, who, being "strangers in blood" as regards the treated families, are not to be further noted or documented in these records, this couple also previously begat issue: (1) James Ray Jack, born 25 January 1973, died in infancy, unmarried, 6 April 1973, buried in 1973 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta.
Agnew Herbert Johnston (Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Education of Fort William, Ontario, for whom a school is named at Thunder Bay, longest-serving Presbyterian minister to that time in a single congregation in Canada, 99th Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, etc.) was born 26 October 1906 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to John Johnston and Eliza Victoria Templeton, (to whom refer). His wife Christine MacKay, (to whom he was married 13 October 1951), was born 14 July 1921; died in 1995. This couple begat issue: (1) John Andrew Agnew Johnston, born 15 October 1952 at Fort William, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, who married, firstly, 2 June 1979, Amy Evelyn Gertz, (from whom subsequently divorced), and, secondly, ---; (2) Kenneth Niall Harcourt Johnston, born 26 June 1956 in Ontario; (3) Andrew MacKay Johnston, born 19 June 1958 in Ontario.
Harcourt Templeton Johnston was born 1 October 1902 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to John Johnston and Eliza Victoria Templeton, (to whom refer); fathered out of wedlock, prior to marriage, by one Alice Carson, a female child, (for further records of whom refer to the entry labelled "Alice Carson" in the "Supplementary" Section at the end of Part I. of this work); died in 1991. His wife Margaret Hendry Gibb, (to whom he was married 12 September 1945), was born 31 August 1916. Harcourt Templeton Johnston and Margaret Hendry Gibb begat issue: (1) Margaret Elizabeth Johnston, born 11 July 1955 in Ontario, who married 27 December 1980 at Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Donald P. O'Neill.
John Johnston (Reeve of The Township of Oxford, Counties Councillor of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, etc., one of whose brothers The Honourable William Agnew Johnston served in succession as Member of the State House of Representatives, State Senator, State Attorney-General and finally Chief Justice of the State of Kansas, etc.) was born 23 January 1845, son to Mathew (or Matthew) Johnston (donor of the site for St. Matthew's Presbyterian Church, East Oxford, which was named in his honour, etc.) and Jane Agnew; married, firstly, 22 February 1871 at Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, Elizabeth Anderson; died 6 December 1924; buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His second wife Eliza Victoria Templeton, (to whom he was married 13 March 1900 at Kemptville, Grenville County, Ontario), was born 15 April 1871 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, daughter to James Templeton and Mary Ann Doolan, (to whom refer); died 6 February 1940 at McKellar Hospital, Fort William, Thunder Bay District, Ontario; buried in 1940 at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. John Johnston and Eliza Victoria Templeton begat issue: (1) Harcourt Templeton Johnston, born 1 October 1902 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, fathered out of wedlock, prior to marriage, by one Alice Carson, a female child, (for further records of whom refer to the entry labelled "Alice Carson" in the "Supplementary" Section at the end of Part I. of this work), died in 1991, who married 12 September 1945, Margaret Hendry Gibb; (2) Agnew Herbert Johnston (Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Education of Fort William, Ontario, for whom a school is named at Thunder Bay, longest-serving Presbyterian minister to that time in a single congregation in Canada, 99th Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, etc.), born 26 October 1906 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married 13 October 1951, Christine MacKay; (3) Myrtle Mabel Johnston, born 9 September 1909 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died unmarried 21 October 1957 in Ontario, buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario.
John Andrew Agnew Johnston was born 15 October 1952 at Fort William, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, son to Agnew Herbert Johnston and Christine MacKay, (to whom refer); married, secondly, ---, (to whom also refer). His first wife Amy Evelyn Gertz, (to whom he was married 2 June 1979 and from whom subsequently divorced), was born 18 December 1953 at Buffalo, Erie County, New York, daughter to John Blake Gertz and Diane June Stubinder. John Andrew Agnew Johnston and Amy Evelyn Gertz begat issue: (1) Ann Johnston.
John Andrew Agnew Johnston was born 15 October 1952 at Fort William, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, son to Agnew Herbert Johnston and Christine MacKay, (to whom refer); married, firstly, 2 June 1979, Amy Evelyn Gertz, (to whom also refer and from whom subsequently divorced). His second wife was ---. No further records of possible offspring of the marriage of John Andrew Agnew Johnston and --- are presently available.
Dennis Jones. His wife Mary-Ann Templeton, (to whom he was married 7 November 1981), was born 8 October 1955 at Lethbridge, Alberta, daughter to Arthur Edwin Ray Templeton and Margaret Aileen St. Clair, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Nathaniel Jones, who married Whitney Hemstock.
Nathaniel Jones was son to Dennis Jones and Mary-Ann Templeton, (to whom refer). His wife was Whitney Hemstock. This couple begat issue: (1) Cleopatra Jones.
James W. Kerruish was born 9 November 1939. His wife Eleanor Laurie Scott was born 20 September 1941, daughter to Walter Thomas Scott and Jean Davis McLean, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Laurie Lee Kerruish, born 8 April 1967.
Harry Alfred Kingstone. His wife Rae Eleanor Scott Greenham, (to whom he was married 28 July 1973), was born 2 October 1941, daughter to Raymond Stewart Greenham and Marion Eleanor Scott, (to whom refer). No further records of possible offspring of this marriage are presently available.
Bryan Knapp was son to Kenneth Knapp and Catherine Mary Bryan, (to whom refer). His wife was Courtney Seed. No further records of possible offspring of this marriage are presently available.
Kenneth Knapp. His wife Catherine Mary Bryan was born 28 August 1958, daughter to William Douglas Bryan and Faye Wilkins, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Amanda Knapp, who married Todd Wilson; (2) Philip Knapp, who married Christina Pielow; (3) Bryan Knapp, who married Courtney Seed.
Philip Knapp was son to Kenneth Knapp and Catherine Mary Bryan, (to whom refer). His wife was Christina Pielow. No further records of possible offspring of this marriage are presently available.
Wilfrid Leeder was born 3 February 1922. His wife Jean Marie Bryan was born antenuptially 17 September 1928, daughter to Harold Thomas Bryan and Mary Alice Wilhelmine Scott, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Cheryl Anne Leeder, born 21 March 1947, who married John Gavin.
Lorne E. MacLachlan was born 11 November 1894; married, firstly, ---; died 25 July 1985. His second wife Wilda Templeton Graham, (to whom he was married in 1949), was born 5 January 1898 in Ontario, daughter to William James Graham and Fannie Templeton, (to whom refer); married, firstly, 13 September 1930, Frederick L. Thompson, (to whom also refer); died 6 July 1975 in Ontario; buried in July 1975 at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario. No children by blood were begotten of the marriage of Lorne E. MacLachlan and Wilda Templeton Graham.
Ronald Campbell MacWilliams (like his brothers a renowned championship golfer and athlete, one of which brothers, Andrew Carson MacWilliams, QC, being also noted legal counsel and City Solicitor of The City of Calgary, Alberta, etc.) was born 14 June 1906, son to Andrew MacWilliams (prominent Presbyterian clergyman, civic and community leader, Registrar of Calgary College, etc.) and Effie Martha Carson (well-known Calgary socialite, service club and charity organiser, President of the Local Council of Women, etc.); died 12 October 1953 in the garage at his residence, 1640 14 Avenue South West, Calgary, Alberta (afterward the site of the Sunalta Community Wildflower Garden, otherwise sometimes referred to as Templeton-MacWilliams Park) in consequence of cardiac arrest. His wife Ida Patricia "Pat" Templeton, (to whom he was married 30 December 1940), was born 4 August 1914, daughter to John Wellington Templeton and Ida Josephine Larson, (to whom refer); died in 1995. This couple begat issue: (1) Nora Patricia MacWilliams, born 14 November 1941 at Calgary, Alberta, died 4 January 2015 at Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas in consequence of cancer, who married 7 October 1961, Alan Leslie Short, (from whom subsequently divorced); (2) Ronald James MacWilliams, born 24 August 1946.
Kenneth Roy Maresh was born 14 June 1938. His wife Sandra Ruth Scott was born 27 September 1939, daughter to Harold Bedford Scott and Ruth Shields, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Scott Anthony Maresh, born 20 April 1960; (2) Kenneth Roy Maresh II., born 26 November 1961; (3) Pamela Jean Maresh, born 23 February 1963; (4) Edward Alan Maresh, born 1 August 1967; (5) Stacey Allen Maresh, born 7 May 1970.
Wilfrid Fergus Morrison was born 28 November 1895 at or near Bishop's Mills, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to James Morrison and Ellen McCoy; married, firstly, Pearl McClintock; died 24 March 1975 in Ontario; buried in 1975 at Alexander Union Cemetery, Bishop's Mills, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His second wife Alice Zelba Gardner, (to whom he was married 30 October 1935 at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario), was born 19 August 1897 (not 26 August 1897 as erroneously suggested or indicated in the records of the Registrar-General of Ontario on the basis of mistaken information accidentally supplied by her maternal grandfather) at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, daughter to William John Gardner and Mary Templeton, (to whom refer); died 22 April 1994 at Bayfield Manor, Kemptville, Grenville County, Ontario; buried 25 April 1994 at Alexander Union Cemetery, Bishop's Mills, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. No children by blood were begotten of the marriage of Wilfrid Fergus Morrison and Alice Zelba Gardner.
Donald P. O'Neill. His wife Margaret Elizabeth Johnston, (to whom he was married 27 December 1980 at Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay District, Ontario), was born 11 July 1955 in Ontario, daughter to Harcourt Templeton Johnston and Margaret Hendry Gibb, (to whom refer). No further records of possible offspring of this marriage are presently available.
Tyler Reuvers. His wife Jillian Crate was daughter to Donald Crate and Vicki Lynne Bryan, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Olivia Reuvers.
Arthur Allan Scott was born 11 January 1904 in Ontario, son to William John Scott and Wilhelmina "Mina" Templeton, (to whom refer). His wife Glenna Althea Kinch, (to whom he was married 21 September 1926), was born in 1905. This couple begat issue: (1) Fleeta Jacqueline Scott, born 28 April 1928 in Ontario, died early, unmarried, 15 September 1939 in Ontario.
Harold Bedford Scott was born 15 March 1906 in Ontario, son to William John Scott and Wilhelmina "Mina" Templeton, (to whom refer); died 5 May 1980. His wife Ruth Shields died in October 1950. This couple begat issue: (1) William John Scott II., born 1 August 1935, who married Mary Diane Patreka; (2) Sandra Ruth Scott, born 27 September 1939, who married Kenneth Roy Maresh; (3) Robert Newton Scott, born 18 January 1941 at Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, who married 22 October 1960, Georgia Lee Swanson.
Leonard Templeton Scott was born 13 December 1899 in Ontario, son to William John Scott and Wilhelmina "Mina" Templeton, (to whom refer); died 2 March 1985 in Ontario. His wife Lillian Erma Dixie, (to whom he was married 6 July 1921), was born 15 May 1899; died 9 March 1993 in Ontario. This couple begat issue: (1) Marion Eleanor Scott, born 11 April 1923 in Ontario, died in 1989 in Ontario, who married 14 May 1941 at Lyn, Elizabethtown Township, Leeds County, Ontario, Raymond Stewart Greenham.
Robert John Scott was born 21 March 1898 in Ontario, son to William John Scott and Wilhelmina "Mina" Templeton, (to whom refer); married, secondly, 28 August 1943, Mary Delores Moore, (to whom also refer). His first wife was Olive Christie, (to whom he was married in January 1921 and from whom subsequently divorced). No children by blood were begotten of the marriage of Robert John Scott and Olive Christie.
Robert John Scott was born 21 March 1898 in Ontario, son to William John Scott and Wilhelmina "Mina" Templeton, (to whom refer); married, firstly, in January 1921, Olive Christie, (to whom also refer and from whom subsequently divorced). His second wife was Mary Delores Moore, (to whom he was married 28 August 1943). No children by blood were begotten of the marriage of Robert John Scott and Mary Delores Moore.
Robert Newton Scott was born 18 January 1941 at Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, son to Harold Bedford Scott and Ruth Shields, (to whom refer). His wife Georgia Lee Swanson, (to whom he was married 22 October 1960), was born 30 August 1942 at Centralia, Lewis County, Washington. This couple begat issue: (1) Deborah Lynn Scott, born 25 February 1962 at Livonia, Wayne County, Michigan; (2) Kimberly Ann Scott, born 21 February 1964 at Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington; (3) Gayle Christine Scott, born 4 June 1968 at Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.
Walter Thomas Scott was born 9 April 1908 in Ontario, son to William John Scott and Wilhelmina "Mina" Templeton, (to whom refer); died 2 November 1972. His wife Jean Davis McLean, (to whom he was married 15 July 1937), died 15 May 1983. This couple begat issue: (1) a male child, unnamed, born 9 March 1939, died at birth or in extreme infancy, unmarried, same day, 9 March 1939; (2) Eleanor Laurie Scott, born 20 September 1941, who married James W. Kerruish.
William Albert Scott was born 4 January 1902 at or near Addison, Elizabethtown Township, Leeds County, Ontario, son to William John Scott and Wilhelmina "Mina" Templeton, (to whom refer); died 8 December 1977 at Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. His wife Mary Lura Lyons, (to whom he was married 24 October 1926, not in June 1927 as erroneously suggested or indicated in some sources, at Brockville, Leeds County, Ontario), was born 18 June 1903 at or near Newboyne, Bastard Township, Leeds County, Ontario, daughter to Edward James Lyons and Martha Emily Drummond; died in January 1958 at Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. No children by blood were begotten of this marriage.
William John Scott was born 10 August 1861; died 20 March 1945; buried in 1945 at St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Churchyard (otherwise known as New Dublin Cemetery), New Dublin, Elizabethtown Township, Leeds County, Ontario. His wife Wilhelmina "Mina" Templeton, (to whom he was married 25 October 1893 in Ontario), was born a twin 29 June 1868 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, daughter to James Templeton and Mary Ann Doolan, (to whom refer); died 19 July 1940 in Ontario; buried in July 1940 at St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Churchyard (otherwise known as New Dublin Cemetery), New Dublin, Elizabethtown Township, Leeds County, Ontario. This couple begat issue: (1) Lloyd James Daniel Scott, born 29 October 1895 in Ontario, died (killed) on Active Service, World War I., unmarried, 29 September 1918 during the breaking of the Hindenburg Line (not at the Battle of Cambrai as erroneously suggested or indicated in some sources but which actually occurred the previous year), buried in 1918 at Bourlon Wood Allied War Cemetery, Bois de Bourlon, Pas-de-Calais D�partment, Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region, the French Republic; (2) Robert John Scott, born 21 March 1898 in Ontario, who married, firstly, in January 1921, Olive Christie, (from whom subsequently divorced), and, secondly, 28 August 1943, Mary Delores Moore; (3) Leonard Templeton Scott, born 13 December 1899 in Ontario, died 2 March 1985 in Ontario, who married 6 July 1921, Lillian Erma Dixie; (4) William Albert Scott, born 4 January 1902 at or near Addison, Elizabethtown Township, Leeds County, Ontario, died 8 December 1977 at Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, who married 24 October 1926 (not in June 1927 as erroneously suggested or indicated in some sources) at Brockville, Leeds County, Ontario, Mary Lura Lyons; (5) Arthur Allan Scott, born 11 January 1904 in Ontario, who married 21 September 1926, Glenna Althea Kinch; (6) Harold Bedford Scott, born 15 March 1906 in Ontario, died 5 May 1980, who married Ruth Shields; (7) Walter Thomas Scott, born 9 April 1908 in Ontario, died 2 November 1972, who married 15 July 1937, Jean Davis McLean; (8) Mary Alice Wilhelmine Scott, born 30 September 1910 in Ontario, who married 19 December 1928 at Toronto, York County, Ontario, Harold Thomas Bryan.
William John Scott II. was born 1 August 1935, son to Harold Bedford Scott and Ruth Shields, (to whom refer). His wife Mary Diane Patreka was born 17 May 1939. This couple begat issue: (1) Cynthia Ann Scott, born 13 April 1957; (2) William John Scott III., born 10 May 1958; (3) Gregory Robert Scott, born 13 March 1960; (4) Jeffrey Alan Scott, born 24 January 1961.
Alan Leslie Short was born 22 September 1937; died in 1996. His wife Nora Patricia MacWilliams, (to whom he was married 7 October 1961 and from whom subsequently divorced), was born 14 November 1941 at Calgary, Alberta, daughter to Ronald Campbell MacWilliams and Ida Patricia "Pat" Templeton, (to whom refer); died 4 January 2015 at Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas in consequence of cancer. This couple begat issue: (1) Steven Grant Short, born 12 November 1964 at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California; (2) Patricia Lillian Short, born 6 April 1970 at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, who married Eric S. Uvaney.
Samuel Smith was born in or about 1828 or 1829 in Ireland. His wife Mary Jane Templeton, (to whom he was married 4 January 1858 at Joymount Bank Presbyterian Meeting House, Carrickfergus, Carrickfergus Parish, Carrickfergus Barony, Carrickfergus Town County, Ulster Province, Ireland), was born in or about 1828 or 1829 in Ireland, daughter to James Templeton and Mary Millar, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue, allegedly six children, including: (1) Catherine Smith, born 5 September 1860 at or near Carrickfergus, Carrickfergus Parish, Carrickfergus Barony, Carrickfergus Town County, Ulster Province, Ireland; (2) Jenny Smith, born 13 December 1863 at or near Carrickfergus, Carrickfergus Parish, Carrickfergus Barony, Carrickfergus Town County, Ulster Province, Ireland; (3) Samuel Smith, born 16 May 1865 at or near Carrickfergus, Carrickfergus Parish, Carrickfergus Barony, Carrickfergus Town County, Ulster Province, Ireland.
LeRoy Stevenson. His wife Joan McLaughlan (or Carson), (to whom he was married 12 June 1962), was born out of wedlock, daughter to Harcourt Templeton Johnston by one Alice Carson, (to whom refer in the entry labelled "Alice Carson" in the "Supplementary" Section at the end of Part I. of this work), afterward assuming and bearing her stepfather's surname McLaughlan in lieu of that of Carson. No further records of possible offspring of this marriage are presently available.
Arthur Edwin Ray Templeton was born 14 June 1918 at Templeton Ranch, Norquay (afterward Kneehill) Municipal District, near Acme, Alberta, specifically on the North East Quarter of Section 15, Township 29, Range 25, West of the Fourth Meridian, son to Charles Melville Templeton and Gertrude Barraclough, (to whom refer); legally altered his name from Raymond to Ray; died 17 March 1997. His wife Margaret Aileen St. Clair, (to whom he was married 13 July 1943), was born 28 November 1913 in Alberta; died 28 March 2007 at Calgary, Alberta; cremated in 2007 at Calgary, Alberta. This couple begat issue: (1) John Arthur Templeton, born 6 November 1944 at Calgary, Alberta, died 26 December 2011 in consequence of cancer, who married, firstly, 6 May 1967 at Calgary, Alberta, Brenda-Joy Chamberlain, (from whom subsequently divorced), and, secondly, Vi ---; (2) Lola-Joy Templeton, born 25 August 1947 at Olds, Alberta, who married 20 August 1966 at Riverview United Church, Calgary, Alberta, Donald James Jack; (3) Mary-Ann Templeton, born 8 October 1955 at Lethbridge, Alberta, who married 7 November 1981, Dennis Jones.
Cecil Alfred Templeton was born 10 November 1902, son to John Wellington Templeton and Ida Josephine Larson, (to whom refer); died 5 January 1954. His wife Ruth Noreen ---, (to whom he was married 12 October 1923), died in June 1965. This couple begat issue: (1) a child, name, if any, and sex unavailable, born in Autumn 1929, died at birth or in extreme infancy, unmarried, same day in Autumn 1929.
Charles Melville Templeton (Trustee, Board of Trustees, Kia Ora School District, Alberta, etc.) was born 25 September 1892 (not 24 September 1892 as erroneously suggested or indicated in some sources) at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to James Arthur Templeton and Mary Eleanor Thompson, (to whom refer); christened Charles Melville (not Charles Melvin as erroneously inscribed upon his tombstone); died 3 September 1942 at Holy Cross Hospital, Calgary, Alberta; buried 7 September 1942 at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta. His wife Gertrude Barraclough (Officer of The Order of the Eastern Star, etc.), (to whom he was married 28 September 1915 at the residence of the Reverend James Luke Jordan, 2130 4 Avenue North West, Calgary, Alberta, with the Reverend James Luke Jordan, Emmanuel Baptist Church, officiating), was born 21 September 1894 probably at or near Centre Vale, Triangle, Sowerby Township, Halifax Parish, West Riding, York County, England, daughter to Edwin Barraclough and Lucy Ann Lumb; christened 27 April 1895 at St. John the Divine's Anglican Church, Thorpe, Sowerby Urban District, West Riding, York County, England; died 10 December 1965 at the residence of her only daughter, Calgary, Alberta; buried 14 December 1965 at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, (with the Reverend Douglas B. Carr, United Church of Canada, officiating). This couple begat issue: (1) Charles Stanley Hugh Templeton, born 22 May 1916 at the English Nursing Home, Calgary, Alberta, died 13 February 1978 at his residence, Calgary, Alberta in consequence of cardiac failure following upon severe respiratory distress resulting from influenza, buried 15 February 1978 at Mountain View Memorial Gardens, Rocky View Municipal District, near Calgary, Alberta, (with the Reverend Douglas B. Carr, United Church of Canada, officiating), who married, firstly, 1 November 1938, Phyllis Isabel Taylor, (from whom subsequently divorced), and, secondly, 1 March 1947 at the Study, Scarboro United Church, Calgary, Alberta, Barbara Helen Woodford; (2) Arthur Edwin Ray Templeton, born 14 June 1918 at Templeton Ranch, Norquay (afterward Kneehill) Municipal District, near Acme, Alberta, specifically on the North East Quarter of Section 15, Township 29, Range 25, West of the Fourth Meridian, legally altered his name from Raymond to Ray, died 17 March 1997, who married 13 July 1943, Margaret Aileen St. Clair; (3) Alberta Mary Hazel Templeton, born 9 October 1919 at Templeton Ranch, Norquay (afterward Kneehill) Municipal District, near Acme, Alberta, specifically on the North East Quarter of Section 15, Township 29, Range 25, West of the Fourth Meridian, christened 24 August 1926 at Templeton Ranch, Norquay (afterward Kneehill) Municipal District, near Acme, Alberta, specifically on the North East Quarter of Section 15, Township 29, Range 25, West of the Fourth Meridian, (with the Reverend D. Whyte Smith, United Church of Canada, officiating), died 9 July 1988 at Calgary General Hospital, Calgary, Alberta in consequence of kidney and heart failure coupled with pneumonia following upon general physical and organic decline resulting from a stroke and cancer of the lung and bone structure, buried 13 July 1988 at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, who married 31 March 1942 at Grace Presbyterian Church, Calgary, Alberta, (with the Reverend Alfred Bright, Presbyterian Church in Canada, officiating), Wilson Lesley Hunter, (by whom subsequently callously abandoned).
Charles Stanley Hugh Templeton was born 22 May 1916 at the English Nursing Home, Calgary, Alberta, son to Charles Melville Templeton and Gertrude Barraclough, (to whom refer); married, secondly, 1 March 1947 at the Study, Scarboro United Church, Calgary, Alberta, Barbara Helen Woodford, (to whom also refer); died 13 February 1978 at his residence, Calgary, Alberta in consequence of cardiac failure following upon severe respiratory distress resulting from influenza; buried 15 February 1978 at Mountain View Memorial Gardens, Rocky View Municipal District, near Calgary, Alberta, (with the Reverend Douglas B. Carr, United Church of Canada, officiating). His first wife Phyllis Isabel Taylor (aunt to The Honourable Robert Curtis Clark, Member of the Legislative Assembly, a Minister of The Crown in the Provincial Cabinet and finally Provincial Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in and for the Province of Alberta, etc.), (to whom he was married 1 November 1938 and from whom subsequently divorced), was born 8 March 1919 at Calgary, Alberta, daughter to William Edgar Taylor and Mary Ellen James; married, secondly, Bertram Plastow; died 5 June 1981 at Calgary, Alberta in consequence of cancer; buried 9 June 1981 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta. No children by blood were begotten of the marriage of Charles Stanley Hugh Templeton and Phyllis Isabel Taylor; however this couple adopted one male child who, being a "stranger in blood" as regards the treated families, is not to be further noted or documented in these records and whose custody in any case reverted to the adoption authorities consequent upon the couple's divorce.
Charles Stanley Hugh Templeton was born 22 May 1916 at the English Nursing Home, Calgary, Alberta, son to Charles Melville Templeton and Gertrude Barraclough, (to whom refer); married, firstly, 1 November 1938, Phyllis Isabel Taylor, (to whom also refer and from whom subsequently divorced); died 13 February 1978 at his residence, Calgary, Alberta in consequence of cardiac failure following upon severe respiratory distress resulting from influenza; buried 15 February 1978 at Mountain View Memorial Gardens, Rocky View Municipal District, near Calgary, Alberta, (with the Reverend Douglas B. Carr, United Church of Canada, officiating). His second wife Barbara Helen Woodford, (to whom he was married 1 March 1947 at the Study, Scarboro United Church, Calgary, Alberta), was born 24 March 1922 at Northampton, Northampton County, England, daughter to Herbert G. "Bert" Woodford and Ellen Elsie "Nellie" Field (whose second husband Harry Bowell was grandnephew to The Honourable Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Member of The Queen's Honourable Privy Council for Canada, Knight Commander of The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Member of Parliament in the Federal House of Commons, Senator, Minister of The Crown in the Federal Cabinet and eventually Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, Grand Master of the Loyal Orange Lodge of British America, etc.); died 7 March 1987 at Calgary, Alberta in consequence of cancer; buried 12 March 1987 at Mountain View Memorial Gardens, Rocky View Municipal District, near Calgary, Alberta. No children by blood were begotten of the marriage of Charles Stanley Hugh Templeton and Barbara Helen Woodford; however this couple adopted one male and one female child who, being "strangers in blood" as regards the treated families, are not to be further noted or documented in these records.
Harold James Templeton was born 18 June 1906, son to John Wellington Templeton and Ida Josephine Larson, (to whom refer); died 10 April 1979 at Lethbridge, Alberta; buried 12 April 1979 at Mountain View Cemetery, Lethbridge, Alberta. His wife Nellie Louise Osborne, (to whom he was married 27 April 1935), was born 16 March 1908. In addition to later adoption of twin female children who, being "strangers in blood" as regards the treated families, are not to be further noted or documented in these records, this couple had earlier begotten issue: (1) Carl Alfred Templeton, born a twin 7 August 1937, died in infancy, unmarried, 8 August 1937; (2) William Thomas Templeton, born a twin 7 August 1937, died in infancy, unmarried, 8 August 1937; (3) Barbara Louise Templeton, born 15 April 1939, died early, unmarried, 3 January 1941 in consequence of leukemia.
Hugh Templeton was born in or about 1835 or 1836 in Ireland, son to James Templeton and Mary Millar, (to whom refer); married, secondly, Ann Cochrane, (to whom also refer); died in 1873 in Ontario; buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His first wife Jane Fraser was born in or about 1834 or 1835; died in 1864 in Canada West; buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Canada West. No children by blood were begotten of the marriage of Hugh Templeton and Jane Fraser.
Hugh Templeton was born in or about 1835 or 1836 in Ireland, son to James Templeton and Mary Millar, (to whom refer); married, firstly, Jane Fraser, (to whom also refer); died in 1873 in Ontario; buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His second wife Ann Cochrane was born 6 August 1829 at or near Lachute, Argenteuil Seigneurie, Montr�al District, Lower Canada, daughter to James D. Cochrane and Bella --- or Fannie Hanly (or Handy) (depending upon sources); married, secondly, 28 February 1876 at Mountain Township, Dundas County, Ontario, Andrew Houston; died 22 December 1920 (not in 1922 as erroneously inscribed upon her tombstone) at Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario in consequence of heart failure following upon approximately three and one-half weeks' suffering with a fractured hip and related injuries sustained as a result of having fallen; buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. Hugh Templeton and Ann Cochrane begat issue: (1) James D. Templeton, born in October 1865 at Oxford Township, Grenville County, Canada West, died early, unmarried, 16 September 1878 at Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario in consequence of the great diphtheria epidemic, buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario; (2) Mary Jane Templeton, born in July 1867 at Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died early, unmarried, 18 September 1878 at Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario in consequence of the great diphtheria epidemic, buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario; (3) Fannie Templeton, born 21 September 1870 at Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died 13 July 1965 in Ontario, buried in July 1965 at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married in November 1891 in Ontario, William James Graham.
James Templeton was born in Ireland; died prior to 1846 at Antrim County, Ulster Province, Ireland. His wife Mary Millar, (to whom he was married in or prior to 1828 in Ireland), was born in Ireland, daughter to Hugh Millar and ---; married, secondly, 13 January 1846 at the Presbyterian Meeting House, Broad Island Parish (otherwise known as Templecorran Parish), Lower Belfast Barony, Antrim County, Ulster Province, Ireland, John McDowel (or McDowell); died after 1848 in Ireland. James Templeton and Mary Millar begat issue: (1) Mary Jane Templeton, born in or about 1828 or 1829 in Ireland, who married 4 January 1858 at Joymount Bank Presbyterian Meeting House, Carrickfergus, Carrickfergus Parish, Carrickfergus Barony, Carrickfergus Town County, Ulster Province, Ireland, Samuel Smith; (2) James Templeton (Trustee, Board of Trustees, Patterson's Corners School District, Ontario, etc.), born 12 March 1831 (according to some sources and his son's statement) or 23 March 1831 (according to some sources and his own statement) or in March 1832 (according to some sources) at or near Larne, Inver Parish or Larne Parish, Lower Belfast Barony or Upper Glenarm Barony, Antrim County, Ulster Province, Ireland, died 4 September 1913 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married in December 1857 in Canada West, Mary Ann Doolan; (3) Hugh Templeton, born in or about 1835 or 1836 in Ireland, died in 1873 in Ontario, buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married, firstly, Jane Fraser, and, secondly, Ann Cochrane; (4) Arthur Templeton, born in Ireland, died unmarried in Canada West, buried at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Canada West.
James Templeton (Trustee, Board of Trustees, Patterson's Corners School District, Ontario, etc.) was born 12 March 1831 (according to some sources and his son's statement) or 23 March 1831 (according to some sources and his own statement) or in March 1832 (according to some sources) at or near Larne, Inver Parish or Larne Parish, Lower Belfast Barony or Upper Glenarm Barony, Antrim County, Ulster Province, Ireland, son to James Templeton and Mary Millar, (to whom refer); died 4 September 1913 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario; buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His wife Mary Ann Doolan, (to whom he was married in December 1857 in Canada West), was born 8 March 1834 (according to some sources) or 8 March 1835 (according to some sources and her own statement) at Elizabethtown Township, Johnstown Municipal District, Upper Canada, daughter to William Doolan and Mary Barrington; died 9 February 1912 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario; buried in 1912 at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. In addition to the upbringing of an unrelated servant girl, Alice Davis, (afterward Van Dusen), who, being a "stranger in blood" as regards the treated families, is not to be further noted or documented in these records, this couple also begat issue: (1) James Arthur Templeton (together with his youngest brother John Wellington Templeton, a pioneer Alberta rancher, land speculator, business magnate, financier, philanthropist, etc.), born 30 December 1860 (according to some sources and his own statement) or 31 December 1860 (according to some sources and both his parents' and his cousin's statements) at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Canada West, died 24 September 1946 at Calgary General Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, buried in September 1946 at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, who married 26 April 1887 at Kemptville, Grenville County, Ontario, Mary Eleanor Thompson; (2) Mary Templeton, born 22 July 1865 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Canada West, died 9 November 1943 in Ontario, buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married 14 June 1893 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, William John Gardner; (3) William Templeton, born a twin 29 June 1868 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died 16 July 1925 in Ontario, buried in July 1925 at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married 14 March 1900 in Ontario, Bertha Edna Gardner; (4) Wilhelmina "Mina" Templeton, born a twin 29 June 1868 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died 19 July 1940 in Ontario, buried in July 1940 at St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Churchyard (otherwise known as New Dublin Cemetery), New Dublin, Elizabethtown Township, Leeds County, Ontario, who married 25 October 1893 in Ontario, William John Scott; (5) Eliza Victoria Templeton, born 15 April 1871 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died 6 February 1940 at McKellar Hospital, Fort William, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, buried in 1940 at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married 13 March 1900 at Kemptville, Grenville County, Ontario, John Johnston (Reeve of The Township of Oxford, Counties Councillor of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, etc., one of whose brothers The Honourable William Agnew Johnston served in succession as Member of the State House of Representatives, State Senator, State Attorney-General and finally Chief Justice of the State of Kansas, etc.); (6) a male child, name, if any, unavailable, born a twin at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died in infancy, unmarried, at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario; (7) a female child, name, if any, unavailable, born a twin at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died in infancy, unmarried, at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, buried at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario; (8) John Wellington Templeton (together with his eldest brother James Arthur Templeton, a pioneer Alberta rancher, land speculator, business magnate, financier, philanthropist, etc.), born 11 February 1877 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died 16 December 1936 at Calgary, Alberta, buried at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, who married 18 December 1901, Ida Josephine Larson.
James Templeton was born 28 March 1906 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to William Templeton and Bertha Edna Gardner, (to whom refer); married, secondly, 27 January 1968 at St. John's United Church, Kemptville, Grenville County, Ontario, Hildred Jane "Hilda" Hough, (to whom also refer); died 16 December 1989 in Ontario; buried at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His first wife Alice Lorena Graham, (to whom he was married 10 June 1931 at or near Millar's Corners, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario), was born 7 November 1910; died 29 December 1964 in Ontario; buried at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario. James Templeton and Alice Lorena Graham begat issue: (1) Victor William Templeton, born 20 September 1932 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died 17 December 1977 at Scarborough, Metropolitan Toronto Municipality, Ontario, buried at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married 6 August 1955 at Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, Frida Evelyn Emmerson; (2) Lorena Ann Templeton, born 22 July 1935 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married 8 September 1956, Robert Orrin Alfred Byrd.
James Templeton was born 28 March 1906 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to William Templeton and Bertha Edna Gardner, (to whom refer); married, firstly, 10 June 1931 at or near Millar's Corners, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, Alice Lorena Graham, (to whom also refer); died 16 December 1989 in Ontario; buried at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His second wife Hildred Jane "Hilda" Hough, (to whom he was married 27 January 1968 at St. John's United Church, Kemptville, Grenville County, Ontario), was born 4 June 1902 at or near North Augusta, Augusta Township, Grenville County, Ontario; married, firstly, Charles Crawford. No children by blood were begotten of the marriage of James Templeton and Hildred Jane "Hilda" Hough.
James Arthur Templeton (together with his youngest brother John Wellington Templeton, a pioneer Alberta rancher, land speculator, business magnate, financier, philanthropist, etc.) was born 30 December 1860 (according to some sources and his own statement) or 31 December 1860 (according to some sources and both his parents' and his cousin's statements) at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Canada West, son to James Templeton and Mary Ann Doolan, (to whom refer); died 24 September 1946 at Calgary General Hospital, Calgary, Alberta; buried in September 1946 at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta. His wife Mary Eleanor Thompson, (to whom he was married 26 April 1887 at Kemptville, Grenville County, Ontario), was born 15 June 1863 (not 15 June 1864 as erroneously suggested and indicated in some sources) at Oxford Township, near Kemptville, Grenville County, Canada West, daughter to Thomas Thompson and Eleanor Rickey; christened 8 November 1863 at St. James the Apostle's Anglican Church, Kemptville, Grenville County, Canada West; died 25 December 1938 at approximately 8:25 o'clock in the evening at her residence, Calgary, Alberta in consequence of brief and painless affliction with heart disease; buried at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta. This couple begat issue: (1) William Arthur Templeton, born 19 March 1888 (not 19 March 1889 as erroneously suggested or indicated in some sources) at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died 11 March 1966 at Holy Cross Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, buried in March 1966 at Acme Cemetery, Acme, Alberta, who married Margaret Lucy Jaquith; (2) Charles Melville Templeton (Trustee, Board of Trustees, Kia Ora School District, Alberta, etc.), born 25 September 1892 (not 24 September 1892 as erroneously suggested or indicated in some sources) at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, christened Charles Melville (not Charles Melvin as erroneously inscribed upon his tombstone), died 3 September 1942 at Holy Cross Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, buried 7 September 1942 at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, who married 28 September 1915 at the residence of the Reverend James Luke Jordan, 2130 4 Avenue North West, Calgary, Alberta, (with the Reverend James Luke Jordan, Emmanuel Baptist Church, officiating), Gertrude Barraclough (Officer of The Order of the Eastern Star, etc.).
John Arthur Templeton was born 6 November 1944 at Calgary, Alberta, son to Arthur Edwin Ray Templeton and Margaret Aileen St. Clair, (to whom refer); married, secondly, Vi ---, (to whom also refer); died 26 December 2011 in consequence of cancer. His first wife was Brenda-Joy Chamberlain, (to whom he was married 6 May 1967 at Calgary, Alberta and from whom subsequently divorced). John Arthur Templeton and Brenda-Joy Chamberlain begat issue: (1) Deanna Templeton, who married Trevor von Rothkirch; (2) Sheryl Templeton, who married Grant Beaver; (3) Trevor John Templeton, born 25 June 1975 at Calgary, Alberta, who married Alexis ---.
John Arthur Templeton was born 6 November 1944 at Calgary, Alberta, son to Arthur Edwin Ray Templeton and Margaret Aileen St. Clair, (to whom refer); married, firstly, 6 May 1967 at Calgary, Alberta, Brenda-Joy Chamberlain, (to whom also refer and from whom subsequently divorced); died 26 December 2011 in consequence of cancer. His second wife was Vi ---. No children by blood were begotten of the marriage of John Arthur Templeton and Vi ---.
John Ernest Templeton was born 22 November 1936, son to William Lincoln Templeton and Miriam Jean Goulding, (to whom refer). His wife Diana Mary Jamieson was born 22 January 1939. This couple begat issue: (1) Russell Kelvin Templeton, born 18 December 1962; (2) Leanne Jane Templeton, born 7 June 1967.
John Kingsley Templeton was born 11 July 1908, son to John Wellington Templeton and Ida Josephine Larson, (to whom refer); died 12 April 1976; buried in 1976 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta. His wife Lottie Victoria "Cherie" Boyce was born 19 October 1912; died 13 March 1971. No children by blood were begotten of this marriage; however this couple adopted twin male children who, being "strangers in blood" as regards the treated families, are not to be further noted or documented in these records.
John Wellington Templeton (together with his eldest brother James Arthur Templeton, a pioneer Alberta rancher, land speculator, business magnate, financier, philanthropist, etc.) was born 11 February 1877 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to James Templeton and Mary Ann Doolan, (to whom refer); died 16 December 1936 at Calgary, Alberta; buried at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta. His wife Ida Josephine Larson, (to whom he was married 18 December 1901), was born 22 August 1875 at or near St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota; died 8 April 1944; buried in 1944 at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta. This couple begat issue: (1) Cecil Alfred Templeton, born 10 November 1902, died 5 January 1954, who married 12 October 1923, Ruth Noreen ---; (2) Arthur Carlyle Templeton, born 8 July 1904, died unmarried 20 August 1964, buried in 1964 at Calgary, Alberta; (3) Harold James Templeton, born 18 June 1906, died 10 April 1979 at Lethbridge, Alberta, buried 12 April 1979 at Mountain View Cemetery, Lethbridge, Alberta, who married 27 April 1935, Nellie Louise Osborne; (4) John Kingsley Templeton, born 11 July 1908, died 12 April 1976, buried in 1976 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, who married Lottie Victoria "Cherie" Boyce; (5) William Lincoln Templeton, born 10 October 1910, died in March 1990 at Calgary, Alberta, who married, firstly, 20 June 1934, Miriam Jean Goulding, and, secondly, 5 June 1964 at the Anglican Cathedral Church of the Redeemer, Calgary, Alberta, Eva Mary Heaver; (6) Ida Patricia "Pat" Templeton, born 4 August 1914, died in 1995, who married 30 December 1940, Ronald Campbell MacWilliams.
Trevor John Templeton was born 25 June 1975 at Calgary, Alberta, son to John Arthur Templeton and Brenda-Joy Chamberlain, (to whom refer). His wife was Alexis ---. No further records of possible offspring of this marriage are presently available.
Victor William Templeton was born 20 September 1932 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to James Templeton and Alice Lorena Graham, (to whom refer); died 17 December 1977 at Scarborough, Metropolitan Toronto Municipality, Ontario; buried at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His wife Frida Evelyn Emmerson, (to whom he was married 6 August 1955 at Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario), was born 2 August 1923. This couple begat issue: (1) William David Templeton, born 21 June 1961 at Metropolitan Toronto Municipality, Ontario; (2) Carma Lynn Templeton, born 1 December 1965 at Metropolitan Toronto Municipality, Ontario.
William Templeton was born a twin 29 June 1868 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to James Templeton and Mary Ann Doolan, (to whom refer); died 16 July 1925 in Ontario; buried in July 1925 at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. His wife Bertha Edna Gardner, (to whom he was married 14 March 1900 in Ontario), was born 3 February 1878 (according to some sources and the Gardner Family Bible) or 13 February 1878 (according to some sources and her own statement) at or near Oxford Station, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, daughter to Robert Gardner and Mary Jane Claire; died 2 March 1935 in Ontario; buried in 1935 at St. Matthew's Presbyterian Churchyard, East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. This couple begat issue: (1) James Templeton, born 28 March 1906 at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, died 16 December 1989 in Ontario, buried at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario, who married, firstly, 10 June 1931 at or near Millar's Corners, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, Alice Lorena Graham, and, secondly, 27 January 1968 at St. John's United Church, Kemptville, Grenville County, Ontario, Hildred Jane "Hilda" Hough.
William Arthur Templeton was born 19 March 1888 (not 19 March 1889 as erroneously suggested or indicated in some sources) at or near East Oxford, Oxford Township, Grenville County, Ontario, son to James Arthur Templeton and Mary Eleanor Thompson, (to whom refer); died 11 March 1966 at Holy Cross Hospital, Calgary, Alberta; buried in March 1966 at Acme Cemetery, Acme, Alberta. His wife Margaret Lucy Jaquith was born in 1886; died 11 April 1952; buried in 1952 at Acme Cemetery, Acme, Alberta. No children by blood were begotten of this marriage.
William Lincoln Templeton was born 10 October 1910, son to John Wellington Templeton and Ida Josephine Larson, (to whom refer); married, secondly, 5 June 1964 at the Anglican Cathedral Church of the Redeemer, Calgary, Alberta, Eva Mary Heaver, (to whom also refer); died in March 1990 at Calgary, Alberta. His first wife Miriam Jean Goulding, (to whom he was married 20 June 1934), was born 14 May 1912; died 29 August 1959 in consequence of injuries sustained in an automobile crash; buried in 1959 at Calgary, Alberta. William Lincoln Templeton and Miriam Jean Goulding begat issue: (1) John Ernest Templeton, born 22 November 1936, who married Diana Mary Jamieson; (2) Judith Lea Templeton, born 20 February 1946, who married, firstly, ---, (from whom subsequently divorced), and, secondly, ---.
William Lincoln Templeton was born 10 October 1910, son to John Wellington Templeton and Ida Josephine Larson, (to whom refer); married, firstly, 20 June 1934, Miriam Jean Goulding, (to whom also refer); died in March 1990 at Calgary, Alberta. His second wife Eva Mary Heaver, (to whom he was married 5 June 1964 at the Anglican Cathedral Church of the Redeemer, Calgary, Alberta), was born 14 February 1926 at or near De Winton, Sheep Creek Municipal District, Alberta, daughter to William Gordon S. Heaver and Bessie G. Pitchford; died 16 September 2012 at Calgary, Alberta. William Lincoln Templeton and Eva Mary Heaver begat issue: (1) Sally Marie Templeton, born 7 January 1966 in Alberta, who married 8 August 1992, Frederick Warren Bowen; (2) Ida Suzanne Templeton, born 25 September 1967 in Alberta, who married Bryan Girard.
Frederick L. Thompson was born 11 December 1894; died 5 September 1947. His wife Wilda Templeton Graham, (to whom he was married 13 September 1930), was born 5 January 1898 in Ontario, daughter to William James Graham and Fannie Templeton, (to whom refer); married, secondly, in 1949, Lorne E. MacLachlan, (to whom also refer); died 6 July 1975 in Ontario; buried in July 1975 at South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Township, Grenville County, Ontario. Frederick L. Thompson and Wilda Templeton Graham begat issue: (1) George D. Thompson, born 22 April 1932; died early, unmarried, 5 July 1937.
Eric S. Uvaney. His wife Patricia Lillian Short was born 6 April 1970 at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, daughter to Alan Leslie Short and Nora Patricia MacWilliams, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Emily M. Uvaney; (2) Megan W. Uvaney.
Trevor von Rothkirch. His wife Deanna Templeton was daughter to John Arthur Templeton and Brenda-Joy Chamberlain, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Hannah von Rothkirch; (2) Tyler von Rothkirch.
John James Wilkinson was born 31 October 1939. His wife Bette Wilhelmine Bryan, (to whom he was married 12 October 1957), was born 7 November 1937, daughter to Harold Thomas Bryan and Mary Alice Wilhelmine Scott, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Deborah Lynne Wilkinson, born 9 May 1958; (2) Kimberly Anne Wilkinson, born 17 August 1959; (3) Peggy Jean Wilkinson, born 16 July 1962; (4) Shelley Diane Wilkinson, born 17 February 1963.
Todd Wilson. His wife Amanda Knapp was daughter to Kenneth Knapp and Vicki Lynne Bryan, (to whom refer). This couple begat issue: (1) Ella Wilson; (2) Rachel Wilson.
Alice Carson was born at Grenville County, Ontario; married David McLaughlan. Alice Carson produced out of wedlock, prior to marriage, by Harcourt Templeton Johnston, (son to John Johnston and Eliza Victoria Templeton, to whom refer), issue: (1) Joan Carson (or McLaughlan), afterward assuming and bearing her stepfather's surname McLaughlan in lieu of that of Carson, who married 12 June 1962, LeRoy Stevenson.
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RECENT ERRATA AND ADDENDA
22 June 2005: Templeton, Trevor John / ---, Alexis
19 December 2005: Templeton, Harold James / Osborne, Nellie Louise
12 September 2007: Beaver, Grant / Templeton, Sheryl
12 September 2007: Jones, Dennis / Templeton, Mary-Ann
12 September 2007: Jones, Nathaniel / Hemstock, Whitney
12 September 2007: Von Rothkirch, Trevor / Templeton, Deanna
25 March 2009: Templeton, James Arthur / Thompson, Mary Eleanor
10 May 2011: Johnston, Agnew Herbert / MacKay, Christine
10 May 2011: Johnston, John Andrew Agnew / Gertz, Amy Evelyn
10 May 2011: Johnston, John Andrew Agnew / ---
31 December 2011: Templeton, Arthur Edwin Ray / St. Clair, Margaret Aileen
31 December 2011: Templeton, John Arthur / Chamberlain, Brenda-Joy
31 December 2011: Templeton, John Arthur / ---, Vi
5 March 2012: Bryan, Harold Thomas / Scott, Mary Alice Wilhelmine
5 March 2012: Bryan, William Douglas / Wilkins, Faye
11 December 2012: Bryan, Harold Orville / Haining, Glenda Susanne
11 December 2012: Crate, Donald / Bryan, Vicki Lynne
11 December 2012: Doherty, Gerald / Bryan, Valerie Dianne
11 December 2012: Doherty, Marc / McCloy, Laura
11 December 2012: Doherty, Nathan / Moore, Lisa
11 December 2012: Knapp, Bryan / Seed, Courtney
11 December 2012: Knapp, Kenneth / Bryan, Catherine Mary
11 December 2012: Knapp, Philip / Pielow, Christina
11 December 2012: Reuvers, Tyler / Crate, Jillian
11 December 2012: Wilson, Todd / Knapp, Amanda
15 January 2015: MacWilliams, Ronald Campbell / Templeton, Ida Patricia
15 January 2015: Short, Alan Leslie / MacWilliams, Nora Patricia
15 January 2015: Templeton, John Wellington / Larson, Ida Josephine
15 January 2015: Uvaney, Eric S. / Short, Patricia Lillian
28 March 2016: Bowen, Frederick Warren / Templeton, Sally Marie
28 March 2016: Girard, Bryan / Templeton, Ida Suzanne
28 March 2016: Templeton, William Lincoln / Heaver, Eva Mary