Résultats

      Research indications are that these sisters were not twins but close in age.

      The little boy holding the whip is Victor Wilson of Sheridan. Circa 1913. The train was used by area farmers to take produce into the large Toronto market. Victor's parents and grandparents owned farms in Sheridan, Trafalgar Township, just a few kilometres west. The Clarkson station was just slightly north …

      Pictured here are Leonard Wilson in the passenger seat, and Gordon Wilson driving. The future Dr. Howard Savage is seated in the back, and Victor Wilson is crouching in front of the car.

      Photo taken at Wilson farm in Sheridan. Their sons were Alfred and Thomas.

      Hat interior inscription on leather interior band: British Manufacture. Inscription on silk of hat: Finest Finish - British Make - London. A band of newspaper has been folded just inside and above the leather interior band to fit the hat tighter to Dr. Hardy's head. I didn't want to damage …

      Family member Neil Hoover has created a website, linked here with his permission, so you can explore the Alton, Hardy and Wilson family heritage further. Click on the link "Alton-Hardy-Wilson" to the right in this record to see the extensive information.

      In the attached, linked 1909 view of the Hardy house, the woman on the porch is unknown.

      Front row, right are Emily and Emma (Gilby), the two sisters who had come with their parents from England in 1850. Emily married George Hardy. Alisemon Hardy, their daughter, married Alfred Wilson in 1899.

      The post mark says SHERIDAN SEP 17 ONT. The stamp is a 1 cent Canada Postage stamp of King Edward VII wearing the Ermine Robes of State.

      George's parents were George and Mary Hardy. Emily's parents were John and Alisimon (or Alisemon) Elizabeth Gilby of Sheridan. Her close sister was Emma Gilby. Emily and George are buried at Springcreek Cemetery, Clarkson Road North, Mississauga, Ontario. The Hardy home and farm was on the 9th Line, Upper Middle …

      Gordon Wilson is the younger. The farmhouse of his family was on what is now Winston Churchill Boulevard, Oakville. At the time, it was Sheridan, Trafalgar Township. George Henry Hardy, b. 1843 d.1933: as per the 1872 marriage registry of Halton County, "21/135 (Halton Co) : George Henry HARDY, 29, …