Burgess, Bala, Ontario 1901 onwards - Completed but still ongoing

[J.J.]

I imagine you have the Burgess family cemetery, also, then...    You're just having fun

          watching me find stuff you already know, right?
 
                  http://www.mpsgg.com/Cemeteries/Muskoka/Wood001.htm

[KarenM]

Wow, how cool is that and it's still active 

K

[Gadget]

Thanks for that link, J. J.    There are masses of them 

This is the family that I don't know about, although I know about Tom Burgess, snr.  I do have a copy of a letter he wrote in the 1890s to a cousin in Wales. He enclosed a dollar for her (what a sweetie) and was telling her about how lovely his first wife, Margaret McTaggart, was but how his second wife wasn't very nice   

Apparently, he had quite an eye for the ladies 


Gadget

[Gadget]

Do you think that the Catherine W, b.1869 that I can't find is the Kathleen Wilkinson Burgess, b. 1867 - married William Carr in the cemetry link?

Gadget

[J.J.]

Ladies man, was he?  Aren't there just so many of those...?  Methinks mirrors were not well smoothed in those days...

More oral history:
http://mpsgg.com/Communities/Muskoka/BalaHistory.html


also, he'd probably have confessed liberally at the Burgess Memorial Baptist Church  
http://mpsgg.com/MuskokaChurches.html

[J.J.]

Oh probably, I think that name kept coming up on *A* for her ( I don't have full access, but I get around it)
I'd check the 1911 for you but it is out for me now as well!!!! Only allows about 7 users at once so we have it smokin' hehe


Hey it let me on! Carr, Katherine M.
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=98871

children ( note Alexander a few households away):
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=98872

[Gadget]

Not sure about the Methodist Church - I've got a little booklet which says that he founded the Presbyterian Church there - it burnt down in ? 1930s or 40s. Most of the family have 'Presbyterian' as their religion, although Alfred jackson was a methodist, if I recall.

i'll take another look for her tomorrow - getting a bit late this side of the pond.

Thanks for all the info 

Gadget

PS - just seen your new links - will go peruse 

[KarenM]

I think that Catherine W and Katherine W are one and the same.

Karen

[J.J.]

note:
John William BURGESS married Katherine "McTaggart" ESPLEN -mother Catherine "CURRIE" 
a Currie was employed by Thomas in 1881


and that marriage comes up as...
Katherine Wilkinson Burgers ( parents as Burgers  ) / William Carr