The descendants of
George Flint and Elizabeth (Lee) Flint,
of Holbeach, Lincolnshire
Chapter 4
George Flint (III), of Stouffville, Whitchurch Tp., York Co., Ontario
George Flint (III), J.P., son of George and Mary (Inkley) Flint, of Holbeach, Lincolnshire, and later of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (see Chapter 3), b. 7 April 1823 near Holbeach,[1] bapt. 10 April following in Holbeach parish church, d. (testate) 7 July 1906, aged over 83 years, at the home of his daughter-in-law, Ada (Flint) Campbell, 92 Glen Road, Rosedale, Toronto, and buried beside his first wife in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, section E, plot 54.[2] He m. (1) 11 Aug. 1842 in the parish church of SS. Peter and Paul, Wisbech, Mary Rose Teed, b. 6 April 1824, probably at Boston, d. 20 Nov. 1898 at Toronto, and buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery,[3] daughter of Henry and Mary (Madgham) Teed, of Boston, Lincolnshire, later of Wisbech.[4] He m. (2) (as her second husband) probably in 1899,[5] Eleanor (Forsyth) Breuls, b. ca. 12 Sept. 1830, probably at or near Glasgow, d. 28 June 1904, aged 73 years, 9 months, and 16 days, probably at or near Ringwood, and buried beside her first husband in Dixon Hill Cemetery, near Ringwood,[6] widow of Julius Breuls, of Ringwood, Markham Tp., York Co.,[7] and daughter of James and Eleanor (Morden) Forsyth, of Glasgow, Uxbridge Tp., Ontario Co. (now in Durham Region).[8]
George Flint was taken by his parents to Wisbech in 1837-8, where he became a cabinet maker. At the time of his first marriage he was living on the South Brink and his wife on Horsefair (with her parents); the witnesses were his father and his mother’s sister, Ann Teed. In 1851 he had a home and shop on Old Market Street, being described in the census as a master cabinet maker employing four men, and his wife’s sister Sarah was then living with them (although she is designated only a “visitor”).[9] There does not seem to be any entry for him in John Gardner’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cambridgeshire (Peterborough, 1851), which lists his father.
In 1852,[10] sailing from Liverpool, he moved with his family (and possibly with his wife’s sister Sarah, who later lived with them at Stouffville[11]) to Rochester, New York, where at least one of his children were subsequently born. He took a house there on Gardiner Park, and set up a cabinet-making business on State Street.[12] He also taught in the Methodist Sunday School held at Cobbs Hill School, Monroe Avenue, at Brighton, nearby.[13] His sister, Martha (Flint) Smith, likewise settled at Rochester, in 1853.
In 1855,[14] George Flint moved again with his family to Stouffville, on the Whitchurch-Markham townline, York Co., Ontario, where an uncle, Matthew Flint, and an aunt, Elizabeth (Flint) Parsons, had previously settled; and perhaps he went at their encouragement. His family was probably accompanied by his wife’s younger sister, Sarah Rose Teed.[15] In 1856 he purchased for $500 an acre of land and a house (known as the “Hand House” after a previous owner[16]) in town lots 16 and 17.[17] By the following year he had established a carpentry and cabinet-making business,[18] where his early employees included his sons and James O’Brien, husband of his cousin Julia Parsons.[19] He bought more land in the years 1867-1874, some of it lying on the “tannery lot,” where an old tannery stood;[20] and by 1869 he opened a “planing mill”[21] or “rake-and-bending factory”[22] near Edward Street,[23] one of three such factories in Stouffville,[24] where he made sashes and doors, furnishings, implements (such as broom handles) and coffins.[25] (This may have been the “Flint Foundry,” where a revolving horse-drawn rake for pulling and threshing peas was made;[26] but on the other hand this foundry may have been owned instead by “Flint and Holden,” merchants at Stouffville in the 1850s,[27] who had no connection with the present family.[28]) George Flint was helped in this work by his sons.[29] In 1871 his cabinet-making factory, stated to be engaged in the making of “all kinds of furniture,” was evaluated as being worth $1000.[30]
One of George Flint’s friends at Stouffville was a Dr. Lloyd, who lived across the street from the “Hand House.”[31] Another early neighbor was Richard Barnes, whose will George Flint eventually administered,[32] and two of whose daughters married sons of George Flint.
In later years George Flint was a house-builder; but there is no evidence to distinguish his work from that of his sons, such as a house on Fair Street (now 22 Lloyd Avenue), Stouffville,[33] and the Scarborough schoolhouse.[34]
Likewise there is difficulty in separating his public career from that of his son George; but it was almost certainly he rather than his son who spoke at Stouffville’s celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee in 1867,[35] and was a J.P. for Whitchurch Tp. in 1869-76.[36]
George Flint was a well-known Primitive Methodist lay-preacher,[37] and though never ordained was sometimes honorifically referred to as “Reverend.”[38] He preached at Stouffville, Ballantrae, Goodwood, and other places as many as thirty miles away, usually travelling on foot, to conduct camp meetings and perform marriages, christenings, and funerals.[39] His granddaughter, Edna (Bruels) Congo, who was born in 1890, recalled his “powerful
sermons,” and Revis P. Stouffer, noting that he was “widely known … for camp meeting exhortations,” called him a man of “great native ability and wit.”[40]
It may not be out of place here to say a few words about Primitive Methodist camp meetings, which played a long and pervasive role in the lives of this branch of the Flint family. As we have seen, it is possible that George’s father had preached at such meetings in Holbeach in the 1830s, and they were clearly a formative influence on George’s son Paul, who became a Primitive Methodist minister himself. In Canada, what is unusual is the extent to which these meetings became incorporated into middle-class secular culture. According to a modern historian,
The Methodist camp meeting disappeared as an institution of the rural backwoods and developed as an urban religious gathering closely associated with the growing tourist trade. Summer resorts were chosen as centres for the holding of such meetings, and religious worship was brought into close relationship to the recreational needs of urban inhabitants.[41]
Jackson’s Point on Lake Simcoe (which we shall have occasion to mention several times in the course of this work), would achieve “a surprisingly high social standing” as one of “Ontario’s equivalents of seaside resorts”; but originally it was one of “the great Methodist camp-meeting grounds of the 1870s.”[42] Therefore it is perhaps no accident that one of the few surviving photographs of George Flint shows him visiting his daughter Ada there.[43]
George Flint and his family were still Primitive Methodists in 1871, long after the popularity of the church was beginning to wain;[44] but in 1874 the various Methodist sects were reunited into Canadian Methodism. Probably at this time, and certainly by 1889, the Flints joined the Stouffville Circuit Methodist Church, which had originally been founded by the Rev. Cornelius Flummerfelt as a Wesleyan Methodist congregation.[45] But evidently George Flint did not give up preaching himself as a consequence.
In 1873 George Flint began to buy up land on the west side of Rose Avenue, Toronto,[46] where he is said to have built “a row of seven or eight houses” for himself and his children[47] (though the land had come with certain “tenements” which in some cases he may simply have renovated).[48] These houses were probably identical with, or at least among, the eight even-numbered houses from 86 to 100, which lay on his property and were all used as homes by members of his family at one time or another.[49] He seems to have moved there so early as 1876,[50] and he and his wife were certainly living there in 1881 with their children Simeon, Ralph, and Ada.[51] In 1898 he sold no. 90 to his daughter Ada,[52] and at some point he must also have sold her no. 92, because she in turn sold it in 1905.[53] At his death he still had an interest in houses 94, 96 and 98,[54] and his son Ralph held no. 100 until 1933.[55]
Despite having these houses in Toronto, George Flint spent much time at Stouffville, and appears there several times in 1888-91. The Stouffville Tribune mentions his and his wife’s “visit of a few months to his native land … [with] a very pleasant ocean passage going and returning” in 1881.[56] He can be placed at Stouffville in the spring of 1889,[57] his attendance is recorded at a meeting of 1890 to discuss the fire-fighting system,[58] and he was a J.P. in 1892.[59]
By 1894, however, George Flint had returned permanently to
Toronto,[60] and was living at 86 and 88 Rose Avenue.[61] He retired from business about 1896,[62] and he and his wife lived for some time at the home of their daughter, Ida Bruels,[63] who however died in 1897, leaving among other children a young daughter Edna. George Flint then lost his wife the following year, and he and Ida’s widowed mother-in-law Eleanor Breuls were left to raise their mutual granddaughter. They must have already known one another well, having both been members of the Stouffville Methodist Church.[64] Within a few years’ time they were married, and he moved into her home at Ringwood. A gossipy (and not especially inaccurate) newspaper article published in February of 1902 mentioned him as one of the oldest men in Stouffville, stating that he had entered his seventy-eighth (actually eightieth) year but was “a bridegroom of but one year’s standing,” and that “his bride is but two or three years his junior” (not true).[65] After her death in 1904 he went to live with his daughter Ada Campbell at 92 Glen Road, where he died.[66] It is said, probably correctly, that both their families disapproved of the marriage; she is completely slighted in the ample death notice for him published in the Toronto Globe of 11 July 1906, and neither he nor she is mentioned on the other’s tombstone.[67]
In his will, in which he appointed his son-in-law J. William Campbell sole executor, George Flint directed that his real-estate (which by then consisted only of three properties on Rose Avenue) should be sold as soon after his death as advantageous, and a tombstone erected for his first wife. This real-estate was valued at $3736, but was heavily encumbered by mortgages. He left $125 to his grandson George Leumas Flint and $25 each to his grandsons Harry and Charles Bruels, with half the balance to his son Paul, and a sixth each to the three surviving daughters of his late daughter Ida (Flint) Bruels. He left his watch to his grandson Norman Campbell, and his gold-headed cane to his son George, at whose death it was to pass to the latter’s son Charles W. Flint. He left all his other personal effects to Ada Campbell.[68]
His death notice in the Globe of 11 July 1906 reads, in part: “The death of Mr. George Flint … removes one who had been a prominent figure in political affairs in North York for many years, for Mr. Flint took a very active part in the Liberal interests…. Mr. Flint came out [from England] when about thirty years of age to Rochester, where he remained three years, then removing to Stouffville. Some thirty years ago he came to Toronto, and had since lived part of his time there and part in Stouffville. He was a life-long member of the Methodist Church, being for many years a local preacher, and also holding the office steward. His death occurred … due largely to the decline of old age. He had been ill about three weeks.”
Children, all by his first wife:[69]
- George Flint (IV), b. 7 Nov. 1843 at Wisbech,[70] d. (testate) v.p. 30 Nov. 1904 at Toronto, and buried in Stouffville Cemetery.[71] He m. 4 Oct. 1866 in York Co., Ontario, probably at Stouffville, by Wesleyan Methodist rites, Eliza Barnes (sister of Emmeline below), b. 25 Oct. 1844 at “Gravel Hill,” near Stouffville,[72] d. 9 Sept. 1935, aged over 90 years, at Syracuse, New York, U.S.A., and buried beside her husband.[73] For further details see Chapter 5.
- Sarah Rose Flint, b. between Nov. 1845 and Nov. 1846, probably at Wisbech, d. 3 Nov. 1848 at Wisbech, of rosalia,[74] and buried in Leverington Road Cemetery nearby.[75]
- Matthew Henry Flint, b. 1 July 1849 at Wisbech,[76] bapt. 17 June 1856 in Markham Tp., by Wesleyan Methodist rites, d. 22 Nov. 1930, aged over 81 years, probably at Hollywood, California, and buried in Stouffville Cemetery.[77] He m. 20 Sept. 1871[78] in York Co., probably at Stouffville, Emmeline (“Emma”) Barnes (sister of Eliza above), b. 21 Sept. 1849,[79] probably at “Gravel Hill,” d. 17 May 1928, probably at or near Hollywood, and buried in Stouffville Cemetery.[80] For further details see Chapter 6.
- John Bertram Flint, b. 31 July 1852 at Rochester, N.Y.,[81] bapt. (considerably later) 17 June 1856 in Markham Tp. by Wesleyan Methodist rites, d. 1 Jan. 1922 at Springfield, Mass.,[82] and buried in Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburg.[83] He m. 7 July 1874 at Stouffville,[84] Ruth S. Revis, b. 1854,[85] probably at or near Unionville, Markham Tp., York Co., Ontario, d. 1926 in the U.S.,[86] and buried beside her husband.[87] For further details see Chapter 7.
- Ida Rose Flint, b. 21 or 22 March 1855, probably at Rochester, N.Y.,[88] bapt. 17 June 1856 at Markham Tp. by Wesleyan Methodist rites, d. v.p. 17 Aug. 1897 at Ringwood, Markham Tp., of peritonitis, and buried with her husband’s family in Dixon Hill Cemetery, near Rigwood.[89] She m. (as his first wife) 24 May 1878 at Newmarket, Whitchuch Tp.,[90] William A[ppleton?] Bruels, b. probably 22 April 1857 at Glasgow, Uxbridge Tp., Ontario Co.,[91] d. 1931, perhaps at Ringwood, having m. (2) Catherine Sullivan Clendennen, and buried with his parents and first wife in Dixon Hill Cemetery.[92] For further details see Chapter 8.
- The Rev. Paul Flint, b. 26 July 1857 at Stouffville,[93] d. 22 May 1940, aged over 82 years, at Beaverlodge, Alberta, and buried in Beaverlodge Cemetery.[94] He m. 30 Dec. 1880 at Vandeleur, Artemisia Tp., Gray Co., Ontario,[95] Jane Elizabeth Kells, b. 18 July 1856 at Vandeleur, d. 30 Jan. 1940, aged over 83 years, at Beaverlodge, and buried in Beaverlodge Cemetery.[96] For further details see Chapter 9.
- Simeon Flint, b. in 1858-59, probably at Stouffville, d. between April 1861 and April 1862, probably at Stouffville.[97]
- Simeon Flint, b. between April 1861 and April 1862 at Stouffville, d. 24 Oct. 1950, aged at least 88 years, at Rochester, N.Y., and buried in Hedges Memorial Cemetery, Rochester.[98] He m. 23 Oct. 1884 at Toronto, Ontario,[99] Ella Mary Constance Hatchard, b. 25 Nov. 1861 at or near Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England,[100] d. 3 Dec. 1933, probably at Rochester.[101] For further details see Chapter 10.
- (Sargeant-Major) Frank R. Flint, b. 1863-64 at Stouffville, d. 1940 at Toronto. He m. 4 Oct. 1882 at Toronto,[102] Dorothy (“Dot”) Iliffe, d. perhaps ca. 1929, probably at Toronto, and buried there in the yard of St. John the Baptist Church (Anglican), Woodbine Avenue.[103] For further details see Chapter 11.
- Ralph Flint, b. 26 Feb. 1865 at Toronto,[104] d. 19 Nov. 1947, aged over 82 years, at Toronto, and buried in St. John’s Cemetery.[105] He m. 16 Aug. 1892 at Toronto,at Toronto,[106] Annie Woodward, b. 1871 at London, England, d. 1931 at Toronto. [107] For further details see Chapter 12.
- Mary Ada Flint, b. [1868-69] at Toronto, d. 31 Jan. 1927 at Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.[108] She m. by 1888, Joseph William Campbell, d. 1921, probably at Hollywood.[109] For further details see Chapter 13.
Notes
| 1. | Date from tombstone; place from baptismal record. The statement in his Globe death notice of 11 July 1906 (see below) that he was born in 1822 is unlikely. |
| 2. | Tombstone; cemetery records (kindly communicated by Beth Sheehan); probate papers attached to the registered copy of his will; and death notices in the Toronto Globe, 9 July 1906, p. 12, col. 7 (short notice), 11 July 1906, p. 12, col. 6 (longer notice), and in the Toronto Daily Star, 9 July 1906, p. 4, col. 2. |
| 3. | Birthdate from tombstone; brief death notice, Toronto Globe, 22 Nov. 1898, p. 12, col. 7. |
| 4. | Henry Teed (1793-1868), a master mariner, was a son of Thomas Teed (d. 1834), of Wisbech, by the latter’s wife Susannah Allen; this Thomas Teed having been doubtless of the same family as Sarah Ann Teed, second wife of John Flint, mentioned later in this work. Mary Madgham (1800-1885) was the eldest daughter of John Madgham (1776-1853), a mariner, of Boston, Lincolnshire, by his wife Anne Coulson (1772-1852), and a grand-daughter of George and Mary (Robinson) Madgin [sic], of Heighington, Durham. Anne Coulson was a daughter of Robert Coulson (d. 1775), of Little Steeping, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire, by his wife Mary Mower (b. 1735, living 1774), who was a daughter of Robert and Mary (____) Mower, of Little Steeping. Robert Mower (1698-1757) was a son of John and Elizabeth (____) Mower, of Little Steeping. |
| 5. | Information from Beth Sheehan. No direct record of this marriage has been found, but this date is compatible with the statement, to be quoted below, that in February 1902 they had been married for one year. |
| 6. | Tombstone. There is no copy extant of the issue of the Stouffville Tribune which might have contained the death notice, but the issue of 16 June 1904, p. 4, col. 3, announced that she was “critically ill at the home of her daughter Mrs. C. Wismer,” and that her son, Ralph Breuls, and stepson, Ralph Flint, had rushed from Toronto to see her. |
| 7. | Julius Breuls (1825-1898) was a son of Johann Abraham and Hannah (____) Bruels, of Ringwood, formerly of London, England. By him Eleanor Forsyth was the mother of a large family, including William Appleton Bruels (as he always spelt his surname), husband of Ida Rose Flint, who appears later in this work. |
| 8. | On the Forsyth family see Eleanor Todd, Burrs and Blackberries from Goodwood (Goodwood, 1980), especially p. 16 and p. 119, note 33. According to the researches of Mrs. Vicki Munro, of Palgrave, Ontario, kindly communicated by Mrs. Todd, James Forsyth (1787-1866) and his wife Eleanor Morden (1791-1875) came to Uxbridge Tp. via Niagara, with her father, David Morden, who also settled near the future site of Glasgow. It is said that James and Eleanor Forsyth’s son David was the first white child born in Uxbridge Tp. (Todd, op. cit., p. 16).
Farewell, in his County of Ontario (Whitby, 1907), p. 45, includes the Forsyths and Mordens in a list of settlers of 1808, of whom he suggests that “some … doubtless descended from the Germans from the Pult[e]ney settlement in New York State, sixty families of whom, becoming dissatisfied with Captain Williamson, who held a large parcel of land of which he was a sort of feudal lord, came to Markham under the leadership of William Berezey [recte Berczy] in 1794.” Williamson, who has tended to be whitewashed in American sources such as W.H. McIntosh’s History of Ontario County, New York (Philadelphia, 1876), is treated more realistically in John Andre’s William Berczy… (1967) and Infant Toronto (1971). |
| 9. | 1851 census of England, Lincolnshire, registration district: Wisbech, subdistrict: Leverington, enumeration distrcit 1d, p. 1; HO107/1766, folio 260 [Family History Library microfilm no. 193,660]. The entry reads:
George Flint head mar. 28 cabinet maker Lincs.: Holbeach
(mar. employing 4 men)
Mary " wife mar. 27 ---- Lincs.: Boston
George " son --- 7 scholar Cambs.: Wisbech
Matthew " son --- 1 ---- "
Sarah Teed visitor unm. 16 mariner's daur. Lincs.: Boston
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| 10. | See the memoir of his grandson, the Rev. Dr. Charles Wesley Flint, in the National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (New York: James T. White, vol. E (1937), p. 450. |
| 11. | In March 1856 she was married at George Flint’s house at Stouffville to Robert Gray, of Ballantrae, Whitchurch Tp.; see the notice in the Christian Guardian (Toronto), 19 March 1856, p. —. Several of Mary Rose Teed’s other siblings later followed them to Ontario, including Henry Madgham Teed (by 1866), Charlotte (Teed) Spikings (by 1871), and George Teed (in 1868 or 1869); they all settled in Grey Co. |
| 12. | Information from unspecified Rochester registers, kindly communicated by Mrs. Carol Emrich, of the Rochester Public Library. The A. Gordon Flint MS also mentions the Gardner Street address, but erroneously attributes it to George Flint’s father, whom it makes the immigrant. |
| 13. | Information from Marjorie Higgins, who, during a visit there as a child, saw his name on a plaque in the school, which may have since disappeared. The new red brick house, built in 1842, still stands. In 1843 a religious society was started there, and Sunday School classes were held uninterruptedly. It later became the Alexander Street Methodist Church, and still later merged with the Monroe Avenue Methodist Church. It was still active in the 1920s. See “Brighton District School 8 in Monroe Avenue…,” Rochester Times-Union, 20 Oct. 1922, p. —. |
| 14. | Two nearly-contemporary sources agree explictly on the year: the entry for his son George in the 1901 census, and the entry for his son Matthew in the patrons’ list in Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of York (Toronto: Miles & Co., 1878), p. 62, which gives 1855 as his “year of settlement in [the] Co[unty] or Establishment in Business.” His daughter Ida was born in March of 1855, probably at Rochester. Also, George Flint’s own death notice in the Globe of 11 July 1906 states that he “remained three years” at Rochester. |
| 15. | She was certainly at Stouffville by March 1856, when she was married at George Flint’s home to Robert Gray, of Ballantrae, in Whitchurch Tp. Three other siblings, Henry Madgham Teed, Charlotte (Teed) Spiking, and George Jordan Teed, all settled in Grey County. |
| 16. | Presumably James Hand, a school-master, on whom see Jean Barkey, Stouffville 1877-1977 (Stouffville Historical Committee, 1977), pp. 152 ff.; and Markham 1793-1900, ed. Isabel Champion (Markham Historical Society, 1979), p. 291. |
| 17. | Archives of Ontario, Whitchurch Tp. Abstract Index, vol. I, 9th concession, lost 1, instrument 76223; cf. mortgage 76225 and release 395 (numbers are not consecutive). |
| 18. | Lovell’s 1857 Directory. |
| 19. | Obituary of James O’Brien, Stouffville Tribune, 11 Jan. 1917, p. — (collection of Franklin P. O’Brien). |
| 20. | Ontario Archives, Markham Tp. Abstract Index, vol. C, plan 51, block C, lot 1, citing instruments 165 (presumably representing a sale, though part of this item is illegible), 659, 2088, 2089, 2187, and 2605; also vol. C, plan 51, block C, tannery lot, citing instruments 2088, 2089, 2187, 2605. The tannery lot was an unnumbered lot to the west of lot 1, the location of which is clarified by the map of Stouffville printed in Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of York (Toronto: Miles & Co., 1878), p. 29. |
| 21. | ? Nason’s East and West Ridings of the County of York (Toronto, 1871). |
| 22. | […York 1870], p. —; Fisher and Taylor, County of York Townships Directory, 1876… (Toronto, 1876), which gives his address as the east half of lot 37, concession 9, Markham Tp. |
| 23. | Barkey, Stouffville, p. 11. |
| 24. | Barkey, in Canadian-German Folklore, vol. 6 (1977), p. 82. |
| 25. | Barkey, op. cit., p. 11; Barkey, in Canadian-German Folklore, vol. 6 (1977), p. 82; death notice of Simeon Flint, as above. |
| 26. | Barkey, op. cit., p. 46 |
| 27. | Smith’s Canada, Past, Present and Future (Toronto, 1851), vol. I, pt. ii, p. 71. |
| 28. | It is uncertain whether the “Holden” in this partnership was James Holden (1828-1881), of Stouffville, or Ezra W. Holton (living 1880), of Belleville. The Flint partner (who could not have been a member of the present family) was perhaps the Hon. Billa Flint, M.P.P., of Belleville, who owned grist and saw mills (Lovell’s Canadian Directory, 1857), and whose adopted son, J.J.B. Flint, who married Ezra Holton’s daughter, was “connected with the firm of Flint & Holton in the lumbering and milling business,” according to a sketch of him in Rose, Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography, vol. I, pp. 184-5. See also the entries on Billa Flint in The Canadian Biographical Dictionary — Ontario Volume (Toronto, 1880), pp. 590-1, Burke’s Colonial Gentry, vol. I, p. 193, the Dictionary of Candian Biography, vol. 10 (which cites several other sources), and the Belleville Intelligencer, 19 April 1978 (this last reference being provided by Beth Sheehan). |
| 29. | His business is called “George Flint & Son, cabinet makers” in the Province of Ontario Gazetteer and Directory for 1869 (Toronto: Robertson & Cook), p. 456, and in the County of York Gazetteer and Directory for 1870-71 (Toronto: McEvoy & Co., 1870); and “George Flint & Sons, cabinet-makers” in the Province of Ontario Directory for 1871 (Montréal: John Lovell), p. 7878. |
| 30. | 1871 Census of Canada, C-9965, district no. 43, subdistrict B, division 3, schedule 6 (Return of Industrial Establishments). |
| 31. | Death notice of Simeon Flint, Stouffville Tribune, — Oct. 1950 (from a copy kindly provided by Priscilla (Gill) Flint, and identified by Mr. Frank Johnson. |
| 32. | York County Surrogate Court Wills, no. 11841 (1897). |
| 33. | A drawing of this house is reproduced in Barkey, op. cit., p. 112. |
| 34. | A photograph of this school-house is reproduced in Barkey, op. cit., p. 112. |
| 35. | Barkey, op. cit., p. 127. |
| 36. | See the directories for 1869, 1870 (McEvoy’s), 1871 (Lovell’s), 1871 (Nason’s), and 1876 (Fisher and Taylor’s), all cited above. |
| 37. | And not a “Wesleyan local preacher,” as stated in a memoir of his grandson, Charles W. Flint, in Leete’ Methodist Bishops, p. 68. |
| 38. | The Province of Ontario Gazetteer and Directory (1869), cited above (which specifically calls him a Primitive Methodist, and the County of York Gazetteer and Directory (Toronto: W.H. Irwin & Co., [1881]). |
| 39. | Death notice of Simeon Flint; memoir of Charles Wesley Flint by Revis Parsons Stouffer, in the University of Toronto Monthly, vol. 22, no. 5 (Feb. 1922), p. 213. Ballantrae and Goodwood, it will be recalled, were respectively the homes of his first wife’s sister Sarah (Teed) Gray, and of his second wife. |
| 40. | Stouffer, loc. cit. |
| 41. | S.D. Clark, Church and Sect In Canada (Toronto, 1948), p. 336. cf. Roy I. Wolfe, “The Summer Resorts of Ontario in the Nineteenth Century,” Ontario History, 54 (1962), pp. 149-61, at pp. 141, 152. |
| 42. | Wolfe, op. cit., p. 158. |
| 43. | This photograph was kindly given to the compiler by Beth Sheehan. |
| 44. | The decline of the Primite Methodist church would appear to date from about 1860; see S.D. Clark, op. cit., pp. 335, 339. |
| 45. | Stouffville Circuit Methodist Church Financial Report … for the year ending July 1st, 1889; reproduced in Barkey’s Stouffville, p. 141. For some notes on the origin of the congregation see George H. Cornish, Cyclopaedia of Methodism in Canada, vol. I (Toronto, 1881), p. 303; History of Toronto and [the] County of York, 2:306, and Barkey, “History…”, p. 85 (?). |
| 46. | City of Toronto, Abstract Index D 283, plan 198, block 5, lots 7-8, p. 3; lot 9, p. 4; and original deed no. 7859A. He purchased all of lots 7 and 8 and the north half of lot 9, bounded on the south by the lane running north of Wellesley Street. By 1898 he owned part of the adjacent lot 6 (Ibid., plan 198, block 5, lot 6, p. 8), but no record of its puchase has been found. |
| 47. | Information from the notes of Ida Flint, communicated by Beth Sheehan; the sometimes unreliable A. Gordon Flint MS. goes further and says that he “built Old Rose Ave.” |
| 48. | Great care is needed to distinguish his family from that of another George Flint (1820-1899) who settled immediately beside him on the west side of Rose Avenue; especially since when the latter left Toronto, probably in 1886, his son, George H. Flint, a journalist and man of letters, lived for a few years with the present Flint family. See the introduction to this work for a comment on the possibility of a relationship between these two families. |
| 49. | George Flint (Sr. or Jr.?) lived at no. 50 during 1881 and at no. 56 from 1882 to 1888. George Flint (Sr. or Jr.?) lived at no. 96 in 1881, George Flint Jr. lived at no. 100 in 1882, at nos. 86 & 88 in 1884-86. These last houses were later occupied by Simeon Flint (who in 1886 had lived at nol. 90) in 1887-92, by George Flint Sr. in 1894-1900, and by Frank Fliunt in 1902-1912. Ralph Flint was boarding there in 1887-1890, and William and Mary Ada (Flint) Campbell during 1897. Frank Flint lived at no. 80 in 1895-1901, before moving to nos. 86 & 88. Ralph Flint lived at no. 100 in 1910-11. (Information from various city directories in the collection of the Metropolitan Toronto Library.) |
| 50. | The County of York Townships Directory, 1876, cited above, lists him under Stouffville but gives his address as Toronto. |
| 51. | 1881 Census of Canada, Ontario, York Co., Toronto, St David’s Ward, district 134, subdistrict B, division 3, p. 33; PAC microfilm no. C-13246 [FHL microfilm no. 1,375,882]. |
| 52. | Abstract Index D 283, plan 198, lots 7-8, p. 8, citing instrument 8440R (a grant); p. 9, citing instrument 8441R (a mortgage). She sold the property in 1903. |
| 53. | Plan 198, lots 7-8, p. 12, citing instrument no. 30297 (a grant). How she originally acquired the property is not clear from the abstract-index. |
| 54. | Probate papers attached to the registered copy of his will. |
| 55. | City of Toronto Abstract Index D 283, plan 198, block 5, lot 6, p. 12; and Ibid., lots 7-8, p. 13, citing instrument 10287M (a mortgage). |
| 56. | Stouffville Tribune, 167 Nov. 1888, p. 1, col. 4. (This is, incidentally, the first issue of the paper now extant.) |
| 57. | The following statement appears in the Stouffville Tribune, 5 April 1889, p. 1, col. 3: “Mr. George Flint Sr. has again taken up house-keeping.” |
| 58. | Stouffville Tribune, 9 May 1890, p. __. (This issue of the paper, which is unfortunately not included in the microfilm edition, was discovered in the Baldwin Room of the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library.) |
| 59. | Ontario Gazetteer and Directory, 1892-93 (Toronto: Might’s Directory Co.), p. 1091. |
| 60. | The 1895 assessment roll of Stouffville, where he still held some unspecified property, gives his address as Toronto; and there is no listing for him at Stouffville in the Province of Ontario Gazetteer and Directory, 1895 (Toronto: Might Directories), p. 726. |
| 61. | City directories, as cited above. |
| 62. | When his occupation ceases to be listed in the directories. |
| 63. | Information from the latter’s daughter, Edna (Bruels) Congo, communicated by Beth Sheehan. |
| 64. | Their names both appear in the financial report cited above. |
| 65. | “A Big Gathering at Stouffville,” Toronto Daily Star, 24 Feb. 1902, p. 3, cols. 3-5. |
| 66. | Death notice, cited above. |
| 67. | As pointed out to the compiler by Beth Sheehan. |
| 68. | Will of George Flint, dated 27 Oct. 1904, Ontario Archives, R.G. 22, York Co. Surrogate Court, will no. 19050 (1906). To the extent of $2025, as the probate papers attached to the registered copy of his will indicate that his real estate was encumbered by mortgages to the amount of $2025. |
| 69. | The large gap between his second and third children lends credence to the statement in the death notice of his son Simeon Flint that there were twelve children. But certainly none who reached the age of ten years can have been missed from the following list, due to the regular appearance of the family in the census. They appear in the 1861 census of Stouffville (C-1090), district 10, fo. 141; in the 1871 census (C-631), district 43, subdistrict B, division 2, schedule 1, p. 61; and in the 1881 census (C-13249), piece no. 137, part B (Stouffville Village), p. 3.
George Flint’s offspring, except for Sarah and the first Simeon who died young, are well covered by Ida Flint’s MS pedigree of the family, which gives the names of almost all of their spouses and children correctly. |
| 70. | Civil vital records, Fenland Registration District. |
| 71. | Tombstone; obituary in Stouffville Pilot (microfilmed with the Stouffville Tribune), 1 Dec. 1904, p. 5, col. 3. |
| 72. | Note by her son, the Rev. Dr. Charles W. Flint, dated 21 May 1959 (from a copy kindly provided by Leslye Greaves). This date is compatible with census records. |
| 73. | Tombstone; obituaries in Toronto Telegram, 10 Sept. 1935, Toronto Mail, 10 Sept. 1935, New York Times, 10 Sept. 1935, p. 21, col. 5. |
| 74. | Civil vital records, Fenland registration district; the date is also given in the bible record kept by her maternal grandmother, Mary (Madgham) Teed. |
| 75. | Leverington Road Cemetery burial register, which however erroneously calls her a daughter of “M. Flint.” |
| 76. | Civil vital records, Fenland registration district; the date is also given in his baptismal record and in the Matthew Flint family bible record. His baptismal record erroneously states the place as Markham Tp. |
| 77. | Tombstone, and Matthew Flint family bible record. |
| 78. | Matthew Flint family bible record. |
| 79. | Matthew Flint family bible record. |
| 80. | Tombstone, and Matthew Flint family bible record. |
| 81. | The date given in his baptismal record agrees with that given in Mary (Madgham) Teed’s bible record, but states the place as Markham Tp., which is impossible on chronological grounds. His birthplace is given as Rochester in his marriage recrod, and in the reliable Ida Flint MS. |
| 82. | Simeon Flint bible record. |
| 83. | Information from granddaughter, Jane (Ralston) (Delahunty) Brant. |
| 84. | York Co. marriages, no. 011166-74. |
| 85. | Information from grandson, Dr. Edwin G. Flint. |
| 86. | Information from Edwin G. Flint. |
| 87. | Information from Jane Brant. |
| 88. | The date is given as 21 March in her baptismal record, but as 22 March 1855 in Mary (Madgham) Teed’s bible record. The place is given as Markham Tp. in her baptismal and marriage records, but as Rochester in the generally reliable Ida Flint MS. |
| 89. | Tombstone; and civil vital records of Stouffville, which erroneously give her first name as Ada and does not give her age correctly. |
| 90. | York Co. marriages, no. 012837-78. |
| 91. | He could have been born either in 1856 or 1857; his tombstone says the latter. The month and day of his birth appear in Ida Flint’s notes (as kindly communicated by Beth Sheehan), as well as the place, which is a plausible suggestion as it was his mother’s home town. |
| 92. | Tombstone. |
| 93. | Information from Beth Sheehan. The month and year are given in Mary (Madgham) Teed’s bible record, and the place is given in the Ida Flint MS. |
| 94. | Obituary, Grande Prairie Herald-Tribune, 30 May 1940 (from a copy kindly provided by Beth Sheehan). |
| 95. | Information from granddaughter, Beth Sheehan, who has done much research on this branch of the family. |
| 96. | Information from Beth Sheehan. |
| 97. | He is listed as a two-year-old child in the 1861 census, taken in April, but had died by April 1862, which is the latest possible birth date for the second Simeon. |
| 98. | Obituary, Stouffville Tribune, __ Oct. 1954 (from a copy kindly provided by Priscilla (Gill) Flint, and identified by Mr. Frank Johnson). |
| 99. | Simeon Flint bible record. |
| 100. | Hatchard family bible record, from a copy kindly forwarded by David G. Flint. |
| 101. | Simeon Flint bible record. |
| 102. | York Co. marriages, no. 014101-82, which however which inexplicably gives the bride’s name as “Marion Elizabeth Iliff.” |
| 103. | Information from a grandson, F. Lionel Flint. |
| 104. | Information from Audrey Doswell. |
| 105. | Death notice, Toronto Globe and Mail, 20 Nov. 1947, p. 26, col. 2. |
| 106. | The year and place are given in the birth record of their son Arthur. |
| 107. | Information from … |
| 108. | Simeon Flint bible record, which however falsely gives her age at death as 59 years. |
| 109. | The year is given in the Ida Flint MS. |
From the Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson
URL = cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/people/Dobson/genealogy/ff/Flint1989/Flint-04.cfm
This page placed on the website May 2003
Last revised 17 October 2006