COLEMAN Chart 0401

This is a Chart for Richard Coleman and Elizabeth Nash

 

married
25th December
1851
Holy Trinity
Guildford
Surrey
registered
December quarter
1851
 Guildford district
Surrey

 

1
RICHARD COLEMAN

born about
1829
 Canterbury, Kent
baptised
 
19th April 1829
Canterbury, Kent
occupation
1861 Iron Founder, 1871, 1874 Moulder, 1881, 1891 Iron Moulder
emigrated
24th June 1870
on
 "Crocodile"
 from 
Portsmouth 
to 
Quebec and Montreal, Canada
 died 
20th November 1893
 Stoney Creek, Wentworth
Ontario, Canada

2
ELIZABETH NASH
born about
27th September 1835
Bramley, Surrey
occupation
1851 Dressmaker
1861 Dressmaker
emigrated
24th June 1870
on
 "Crocodile"
 from 
Portsmouth 
to 
Quebec and Montreal, Canada
 died
27th January 1904
Burlington, Ontario

Standing: Alfred Brigham, George, (Jim) James Henry, (Charlie) Charles Sitting: Richard Sr., (Lil) Elizabeth Ann,
(Lou) Frances Louise, Richard Jr., Elizabeth Nash
 

3
Richard
COLEMAN
born
 21st May 1853
Deptford, Kent
emigrated
24th June 1870
on
 "Crocodile"
 from 
Portsmouth 
to 
Quebec and Montreal, Canada
died
20th June 1923
East Flamboro, Wentworth
Ontario, Canada
Aged 70

married
24th September
1872
Mary 
Ann 
HENDERSON

4
George 
COLEMAN
born
 April 1855
Deptford, Kent
emigrated
24th June 1870
on
 "Crocodile"
 from 
Portsmouth 
to 
Quebec and Montreal, Canada
Aged 63
died 
31st August 1918
Cuyahoga
Ohio
USA
Aged 63

married
17th March 1879
 Wentworth Ontario, Canada
witnesses
William SINCLAIR
R BENNINGTON
Henrietta 
"Nettie" M SINCLAIR
5
Benjamin
(Berry) 
Franklin
COLEMAN
born
3rd March 1858
Council
Bluffs
USA
occupation
1861 Scholar
1901 Farm Labourer
emigrated
24th June 1870
on
 "Crocodile"
 from 
Portsmouth 
to 
Quebec and Montreal, Canada
died
29th
July
1877
Hamilton
Canada
Aged 19
drowned
Burlington
Bay
Hamilton
Ontario
6
Elizabeth
Fontenell
COLEMAN
born
15th September 1859
Greenwich
Kent
died
14th October 1860
Canterbury
Kent
7
Arthur
Bligh
COLEMAN
born 
2nd January 1862
Greenwich
Kent
died
14th January 1863
Greenwich
Kent
8
Frances
COLEMAN
born
27th January 1864
Greenwich
Kent
died
28th January
1864
Canterbury
Kent
9
Alfred 
Brigham 
COLEMAN
born
 8th November 1866, Woolwich
 (marriage entry) (Lewisham District)
 Kent
 (registered December quarter 1865)
 (1911 census-1867)
emigrated
24th June 1870
on
 "Crocodile"
 from 
Portsmouth 
to 
Quebec and Montreal, Canada
died
 23rd October 1938
India Point
 Halton
 Ontario, Canada

married
23rd October 1905
 Wentworth, Hamilton
Ontario, Canada 
as 
Alfd. Bingham COLEMAN
 Samena 
Rose 
DEWITT
10
Charles 
Fenley
(Findley)
 COLEMAN
born
 19th January 1868 Greenwich district 
Kent
registered
March quarter
1868
Greenwich
district
London
occupation
1891, 1901 Painter
1911 Florist
1918
Mayor of
Burlington
emigrated
24th June 1870
on
 "Crocodile"
 from 
Portsmouth 
to 
Quebec and Montreal, Canada
died
8th October
1940
Burlington
Ontario, Canada

married
8th April 1891 
Halton, Ontario, Canada
witnesses
Alfred B COLEMAN
Jessie BOOKLUES?
 as 
Charles Findley COLEMAN
 Ellen 
Maria 
KING
born
 
22nd November 1863
 Mt Charles, Ontario, Canada
 (has
 19th November in death record)
died
13th October 1931, Burlington
Halton, Ontario, Canada
 Age 67
buried
 
16th October 1931
Greenwood Cemetery, Burlington
 Halton, Ontario Canada
11
Elizabeth
(Lil)
Ann
COLEMAN
born
 
14th
June
1871
Hamilton
 Ontario, Canada
died
16th May
1951
Canada
Aged 79

married
28th November
1894
Nelson
Ontario
Canada
William
Edward
THOMAS
12
James
(Jim)
Henry 
COLEMAN
born
29th March 1874 Wentworth Ontario, Canada
died
1st September
1961
Ontario
Canada
Aged 87

married(1)
12th April 1904
St Mary's
Presbyterian Church
Hamilton
 Wentworth,
Ontario
  Canada
witnesses
John GILLESPIE
Cassie GILLESPIE
Annie 
Helen
GILLESPIE

married(2)
14th July 1926
 Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
witnesses
Clifford HUNTER
Marjory TOLHURST
Mary Elizabeth
 Louise
 TOLHURST
13
Frances 
Louise
 COLEMAN
born
 3rd July 1876
(30th May)
 Hamilton, Wentworth
 Ontario, Canada
died
10th May
1959
Aged 82

married
26th December 1906
 York, Ontario, Canada
witnesses
Frank B BLACKLEY
Annie DeWITT
Thomas
Henry
Lord
BAMFORD
  1. 1861 Greenwich East, Greenwich St Alphege, Kent
    1870 Family listed on Canada Passenger List - Richard (40), Elizabeth (37), Richard (17), George (15), Benj (13), Alfred (4) and Charles (2) 
    1871 St Lawrence Ward, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    (All the family were listed as Congregationalists)
    1881 Ward 4, Hamilton City, Ontario, Canada
    1891 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada
  2. 1841 Mill Lane, St Mary the Virgin, Guildford, Surrey
    1851 6 Market Place, Guildford Holy Trinity, Surrey
    1861 Greenwich East, Greenwich St Alphege, Kent
    1870 Family listed on Canada Passenger List - Richard (40), Elizabeth (37), Richard (17), George (15), Benj (13), Alfred (4) and Charles (2) 
    1871 St Lawrence Ward, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    1881 Ward 4, Hamilton City, Ontario, Canada
    1891 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada
    1901 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada. Living, together with other children, with son Alfred B
    1904 McClaud St, Ontario, Canada (family search)
  3. 1861 Greenwich East, Greenwich St Alphege, Kent
    1870 Family listed on Canada Passenger List - Richard (40), Elizabeth (37), Richard (17), George (15), Benj (13), Alfred (4) and Charles (2) 
    1871 St Lawrence Ward, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    1873 Wentworth, Ontario, Canada (birth of Elizabeth)
    1881 Hamilton City, Ontario, Canada
    Living with them were James SCANLAN (18) born Ireland and John STEWART (19)
    born Scotland, both Moulders
    1891 Not found 
    1901 Burlington, Halton, Ontario, Canada
    1911 Sub-District 30 - Burlington, Halton, Canada
  4. 1861 Greenwich East, Greenwich St Alphege, Kent
    1870 Family listed on Canada Passenger List - Richard (40), Elizabeth (37), Richard (17), George (15), Benj (13), Alfred (4) and Charles (2) 
    1871 St Lawrence Ward, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    1881 Not found 
    (looked in England as well as son John may have been born in England in April 1881)
    1891 Ward 7, Hamilton City, Ontario, Canada
    1900 Cleveland Ward 41, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
    1910 Cleveland Ward 2, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
  5. 1861 Greenwich East, Greenwich St Alphege, Kent
    1870 Family listed on Canada Passenger List - Richard (40), Elizabeth (37), Richard (17), George (15), Benj (13), Alfred (4) and Charles (2) 
    1871 St Lawrence Ward, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada as Berry T
  6. On Ancestry.com there is a Family Tree for this family. On it there is a hand written "photo" which possibly is taken from a Family bible which lists these three children on Note 7, 8 and 9
  7. On Ancestry.com there is a Family Tree for this family. On it there is a hand written "photo" which possibly is taken from a Family bible which lists these three children on Note 7, 8 and 9
  8. On Ancestry.com there is a Family Tree for this family. On it there is a hand written "photo" which possibly is taken from a Family bible which lists these three children on Note 7, 8 and 9
  9. 1870 Family listed on Canada Passenger List - Richard (40), Elizabeth (37), Richard (17), George (15), Benj (13), Alfred (4) and Charles (2) 
    1871 St Lawrence Ward, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    1881 Ward 4, Hamilton City, Ontario, Canada
    1891 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada
    1901 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada
    Living with Alfred and his family was his mother Elizabeth
    1905 Toronto, Ontario, Canada (marriage)
    1911 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada. Living with them was Semence's mother Margaret DEWITT as well as the following: May STOCKER (23) Domestic born Ontario; Lodgers Samuel LUCHER (40) born USA. Manager Hotel; Louise LUCHER (40) born USA; Joseph CAKE (37) Labourer, Hotel
    born England; Fredric BOWNTON (44) Cook Hotel born England; John COULSTING (38) Cook Hotel born England; Willam ROSS (34) Cook Hotel born Scotland; John GILLIES (25) Porter Hotel born Scotland; John ROBERTSON (45) Porter Hotel, born Wales; Charles  FOLLIS (22) Anymer? Hotel born Ontario; Charles BONEN (15) Bell Boy Hotel born Ontario; George PERRISAL (22) Waiter Hotel born Engleterre (sic); Cland PHILLIP (28) Waiter Hotel born Engleterre (sic): Ruttop HENNING (28) Gardener Hotel born Germany and Joseph JOHN (20) Waiter Hotel born Austria. All born Canada unless shown otherwise
    There is a lot of information about Alfred Brant COLEMAN, the following is an article from the "Burlington Historical Society"
    The following article by Dorothy Turcotte is taken from Burlington: the Growing Years. It’s one in a series provided by the Burlington Historical Society.
    Alfred B. Coleman was born in Woolwich, England in 1865 and came to Canada with his parents when he was still a boy. The family first settled in Hamilton then came to Burlington.
    At the age of 13, A.B. as he was known, worked on Mr. Bell’s Lockhart Road farm for 50 cents a day. He was always interested in building and as a young man taught himself to make and read blueprints. By the time he was 21, he owned the Ontario Street planing mill, which later became Nicholson’s. Soon he was fulfilling his dream of building homes.
    One of these was the ‘Gingerbread House’ located at 1375 Ontario St., across from St. Luke’s Church. This unusual building incorporates many interesting architectural features. Coleman lived in this house until 1899, when he purchased the Brant House property and built a huge modern hotel on the site and named it the Brant Hotel. It immediately became the holiday resort of choice for many Canadians and Americans. Steamers came from Hamilton to the dock in front of the hotel bringing crowds of guests for picnics and day trips.
    As soon as the hotel was completed, the Coleman family moved to Toronto where A.B. was involved in several major building projects. In 1909, he and his family returned to Burlington. On his return, he bought a small piece of property across the road from the hotel on the lakefront and called it his country club.
    A.B. began to develop the nearby property at the mouth of Indian Creek naming it Indian Point. First he made the development accessible by building a road and foot bridge. Then he laid out a six-hole golf course. Next, he built several large bungalows which he rented to wealthy patrons. This later became an exclusive residential district, with attractive stone gates at each of the two entrances.
    When the federal government expropriated the Brant Hotel as a military hospital in 1917. Coleman turned his attention to his country club. He expanded it into a fine hotel with fine dining and dancing and named it the Brant Inn. In 1937 he hired Murray Anderson and Clifford Kendall as managers. When A.B. Coleman died in 1938 this team purchased the Brant Inn from the estate and went on to make it one of the most famous night spots in North America. 
  10. 1870 Family listed on Canada Passenger List - Richard (40), Elizabeth (37), Richard (17), George (15), Benj (13), Alfred (4) and Charles (2) 
    1871 St Lawrence Ward, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    1881 Ward 4, Hamilton City, Ontario, Canada
    1891 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada
    1901 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada
    1911 Burlington, Halton, Ontario, Canada
    Not happy with the death I had in 1923, I cannot find on Ontario deaths to 1938 and it is on the same day as Richard which is there, could be but it would be rather a coincidence. There is a Family Tree on Ancestry.com that says the death was in 1940.
    Have now found an Obituary in Burlington Gazette which I cannot actually look at without payment but it is for an issue on 9th October 1940 which I think proves that was when he died. (Changed to show he died in October 1940)
    I have found this which relates to Charles Findley, I have put in bold the relevant bit of information. This house appears to have been called "Idlewyld" and was at 1337 Ontario Street, Burlington, Ontario, Canada and was demolished in the end in 2004
    THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON
    BY-LAW NUMBER 1-1982
    A By-law to designate property located at 470 Nelson Avenue, Part Lots 22 and 47, Registered Plan 65, in the City of Burlington, as property having of historic and architectural value and interest.
    WHEREAS by Section 29(6)(a) of The Ontario Heritage Act, 1974 S.O. 1974, Chapter 122, the Council of a municipality shall pass a by-law designating property to be of historic or architectural value or interest.
    AND WHEREAS the provisions of Section 29, The Ontario Act, 1974, have been complied with;
    AND WHEREAS no notice of objection was served on the Clerk of the City of Burlington;
    THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON HEREBY ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
    1. That property more particularly described in Schedule “A” hereto is designated for historic and architectural value and interest.
    2. That this by-law shall take effect from the date of its registration in the Land Registry Office for the Registry Division of Halton (No. 20).
    3. That a copy of this by-law be served on the owner and The Ontario Heritage Foundation.
    4. That a copy of this by-law be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality of the City of Burlington.
    ENACTED AND PASSED this 27th day of February, 1978.
    MAYOR: _____________________________________
    CLERK: _________________________________
    SCHEDULE “A”
    REASONS FOR THE DESIGNATION
    The exterior of this property is recommended for conservation as property having historical and architectural value and interest by the Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee of the City of Burlington.
    The property was purchased by Mr. Charles Findley Coleman in 1890 and a building was subsequently erected. Mr. Coleman was a house and sign painter, paperhanger, decorator, grainer and florist. In 1918, he became Mayor of Burlington.
    The house is two and one-half storeys, flat gabled end. The four inch channel groove clapboard has been restored. The entrance is double-doored with glass insets capped by a transom light and stained glass. The window and door trim are of Greek or Classical Revival showing an angled pediment above the lintel and plain sideboard trim on the jambs.
    The round top window in the peak of the gable is interesting and the carvings above illustrates the "Gaiety of Gables" and is included in Anthony Adamson's book of that title.
    SCHEDULE “B”
    ALL AND SINGULAR that certain parcel or tract of land and premises situate, lying and being in the City of Burlington, in the Regional Municipality of Halton, formerly in the Town of Burlington, in the County of Halton, and being the northwesterly fifty (50') of even width throughout from front to rear of Lots forty-seven (47) and twenty-two (22) Eager's Survey, Plan Number 65;
    SAVE AND EXCEPT the lands described in Deed from Gordon Hall and Lillian Mary Hall to the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario dated on the 9th day of December 1952 and registered as No. l666l-Q for Burlington, as shown on Plan No. 203-4939 attached thereto.
    ALSO SAVE AND EXCEPT that part of the said Lot forty-seven (47) occupied by The Canadian National Railways.
    The above lands are as described in Deed dated the 12th day of October 1973 and registered in the Land Registry Office for the Registry Division of Halton (No. 20) on the 1st day of November 1973 as Instrument Number 376687.
    There is also information as follows which is for demolition of a Greenhouse built by Charles Findley COLEMAN, there is a picture accompanying the article of the Greenhouse.
    This appears to be one of the greenhouses originally owned by Charles Findlay Coleman, whose house was “Idlewyld” at 1337 Ontario Street. It was demolished in 2004 for low-rise residential redevelopment.
    Charles Coleman was in 1902 “one of the leading painters and decorators in this County”.
    "Mr Coleman also carries on a large and successful Florist business. He has a number of hot houses, giving employment to a number of men, and does a wholesale and retail business, finding a wholesale trade in the cities of Hamilton and Toronto, and a retail trade at home, Burlington. The principal flowers he grows being violets, roses, carnations and chrysanthemums.
    Mr Coleman is a young man, being 33 years old. His first work when a boy was with a florist, which business he learned, at the same time working at the painting after business hours. ...
    After a few years of hard work he bought a beautiful home with extensive grounds and there started the hot house business. His residence is one of the prettiest and most beautifully situated homes in Burlington." ("The Garden of Canada", p. 21)
    In 1918 he was elected Mayor of Burlington. His residence – like his brother’s residence, "the Gingerbread House” – was a masterwork showpiece of their building and decorating skills.
    Information for Ellen Maria KING
    1891 Burlington, Mt Charles, Ontario (address at marriage) Parents Chas and Sarah KING)
  11. 1881 Ward 4, Hamilton City, Ontario, Canada
    1891 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada
    1895 Burlington, Halton, Ontario, Canada (birth of Alfred Edward)
    1901 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada. With them is a Walter J LANGE, a Servant born 30th March 1882 Ontario, Canada, a Farm Labourer and Elizabeth McCULLOUGH born 21st April 1843 born Scotland a Domestic Servant.
    1911 Harwich, Kent West, Ontario, Canada. 
  12. 1881 Ward 4, Hamilton City, Ontario, Canada
    1891 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada
    1901 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada
    Living together with other family members with brother Alfred B
    1911 Burlington, Halton, Ontario, Canada
    1930 Palm Harbour, Pinellas, Florida, USA
    1940 Pinellas, Florida, USA
  13. 1881 Ward 4, Hamilton City, Ontario, Canada as Frances T
    1891 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada as Lula
    1901 Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada as Frances L
    Living together with other family members with brother Alfred B
    1906 Toronto, Canada (at marriage)
    1907 Port Nelson, Halton, Ontario, Canada (birth of Jack Arthur
    1911 Burlington Halton, Ontario, Canada
    1911 Water Street, Burlington, Halton, Ontario, Canada (birth of Frances Louisa)

    The picture above has been taken from a Family Tree on Ancestry.com for which I thank them. Most of the information we have found but some of it again has been taken from the same Web Site..

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