The British Side

About 75% of my family originated in various parts of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland and Ireland), at the locations shown above. The main branches of this part of the family include the following surnames.

BRANT-BROWETT  

  • My great-grandfather Jack Brant's (1876-1948) family lines (Brant, Wesson, Richardson and Edwards) came from Leicester, England. 
  • My great-grandmother Edith Jane Browett's (1877-1956) family lines (Browett, Perkins, Rivett and Curtis) came from Northampton, England. Edith immigrated to Canada with husband Jack Brant and their first child in 1905.

ELDER-SUTTON

  • My great-grandmother Jean Elizabeth Elder's (1906-1997) paternal side of the family (Elder, Taylor and Tully) came from Roxburgh, Scotland. The Elders immigrated to the Huntingdon/Beauharnois counties of Québec after the War of 1812 (between 1814 and 1817). Her direct ancestors then moved west to Ontario, and later to Manitoba.
  • My great-grandmother Jean Elizabeth Elder's maternal side of the family (Sutton and Essex) came from Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Hampshire and Kent (and later London) in England. Her grandparents (Henry Charles Sutton and wife Eliza Emma Essex) immigrated to Ontario, Canada in 1870 and later moved to Manitoba about 1890.

HUTCHINSON-COLE

  • My great-grandfather Dougald Joseph Hutchinson's (1887-1952) paternal family lines (Hutchinson, Hornsby, Morley and Briggs) originated in Durham, England. The families lived in the area since at least the 1730s, until Dougald's grandparents (William Hornsby Hutchinson and wife Jane Morley) immigrated to Ontario, Canada in the 1850s. 
  • Dougald Joseph Hutchinson's maternal family lines (McDonald, McCowan, Thomson) came from Argyll, Glasgow and Lanark, Scotland until the McDonalds immigrated to Ontario, Canada in 1848 and later married into the Hutchinson family.

  • My great-grandmother Mary Alberta Cole's (1889-1956) paternal family lines (Cole and Churchill) came from Tipperary and Limerick counties in Ireland. The Cole family were descendants of Irish Palatines, German immigrants who came to the United Kingdom about 1709. After initially settling on the Thomas Southwell estate in Limerick, Ireland, the Cole family moved to Bawnlea in Tipperary and settled on the William Barker estate. By 1825, Mary's great-grandparents Harry Cole and Eliza Churchill had immigrated (with Harry's brother Peter Cole) to Canada in what is now the Streetsville area of Toronto Township in Ontario. 
  • Two other of Mary's paternal family lines (Simpson and Sigsworth) came from Yorkshire, England. Her grandparents, John Simpson and his wife Mary Jane Sigsworth, were Quakers who immigrated to Canada in 1837. By 1839 they settled in Meadowvale, Ontario and became prominent founding members of the community.

  • My great-grandmother Mary Alberta Cole's maternal family lines (Stephenson, Grainger, Hudson) came from Yorkshire, England. The Stephensons (Ambrose Stephenson and wife Mary Jane Grainger) immigrated to Canada in 1846, settling in Constance, Hullett Township, Ontario.

Page last updated on January 21, 2024.