Hi, I am Mathew Borrett, a grandson of Frank and Alice's only child, Russell. My immediate family's knowledge of my great-grandparents is sketchy at best, and I'm happy to receive this information.
I've wondered a lot about my great-grandparents lately. My cycling route to work takes me past an old walk-up apartment building at Harbord & Palmerston where they lived for some years and were caretakers, and their address on Auburn Avenue is not too far from where I live.
I do know that Frank died after a fall down the stairs while visiting my grandparents, and I think Alice died a year or two later from cancer.
Coincidentally, the morning J.J. contacted me about bgood's search, my wife and I were about to set off on a walk in the beautiful Mount Pleasant cemetary here in Toronto, which is a renowned arboretum. While there I inquired about Frank and Alice and found their grave site. I suspect I'm the first to visit in many decades, for if there is a marker it has since been overgrown and buried. Cemetery staff will be probing for a marker and bringing it to the surface sometime this week.
Last year my father, Alan Borrett, and I met for the first time with relatives in Seaforth, Ontario, who are old enough to have known Frank and Alice in their youth. Its possible they may have more information about Mary/Daisy.
Francis George Borrett
