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Gardiner
Boyd / Mossom
Boyd Family
Boyds of Bobcaygeon Village, Ontario, Canada
Boyds
of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, Canada
One
of the reasons I got intrigued by this family, is that, in an old diary
of my grandmother's (Edith Boyd Turpin, dau. of Jessie Daraxa
Boyd) I came across a newspaper clipping that showed that her
father (my great grandfather) "gave away" Bertha
Caroline Symonds, dau. of Rev. Dr. Herbert Symonds & Emma
Blackall Boyd, at her wedding. The article mentioned "Bobcaygeon"
as the home of some of the Boyd attendees. Apparently the Turpin's
and Symonds' were neighbours on Peel Street in Montreal, Quebec early
last century. I was looking to see if there was any connection
between the two Boyd families.
Apparently
no connection to me at all [at least, on this side of the ocean]. The
ancestor [Col. Gardiner Boyd] of the family appears to have been in
India in the early part of the 1800's with the British East India
Company and the matriarch, "Arabella Chadwick", is documented
in one Chadwick family history. This "Mossom Boyd"
family were considered "lumber barons" of the
mid-1800's, here in Canada.
Diana Binks-Proulx Email >arbitrar"at"allstream.net<
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Boyd of Bobcaygeon
Village, Ontario, Canada
1 Gardiner Boyd b: Abt. 1790
..+Arabella Chadwick b: Abt. 1796
........2 Mossom Boyd b: 1814 in India d: July 23, 1883 in
Bobcaygeon
Village, Emily, Victoria Co., ON Canada
............+Caroline Dunsford m: 1844 d: 1857
................... 3 Gardiner Boyd b: 1845 d: 1898
.............................4 Gardiner "Gardie"
Mossom Boyd b: January30, 1885
.............................4 Mary Olive Boyd b: November
10, 1886
.................................+George Morley
........................................5 Mary Morley
.............................4 Frieda Kathleen Boyd b:
October 10, 1888
.................................+Edward Coltrin Keefer
........................................5 Peter Keefer
................... 3 Anne Boyd b: 1846 d: 1912
.......................+James Moore Irwin d: 1908
.............................4 (Willie) Irwin
.................................+Rose Dunsford
.............................4 Elizabeth (Bessie) Irwin
.................................+Edgar Howes
.............................4 (Carrie) Irwin
.............................4 Mossom Irwin
................... 3 Mary Arabella Boyd b: 1849 d: 1932
.......................+Charles Bonnell d: 1905
.............................4 Wilhelmina Bonnell d: 1948
.............................4 Eva Cust Bonnell
.............................4 Mossom Burwell Bonnell
.............................4 Vera Ellen Bonnell
.................................+Norman B. Taylor
........................................5 Eric Taylor
................... 3 Caroline Boyd b: 1851
.......................+John MacDonald d: 1892
.............................4 Marion Cust MacDonald
.............................4 Ronald Boyd MacDonald
.............................4 Reginald Boyd MacDonald
................... *2nd Husband of Caroline Boyd:
.......................+Willie Baumfelder m: Aft. 1892
.............................4 Leo Baumfelder b: 1901
................... 3 Mossom "Mossie" Martin Boyd b:
January 19, 1855 in Ontario d: June 1914 in Philadelphia, PA
.......................+Ida Lillian (Pinkie) de Grassi b: June 08,
1859 d: 1942
.............................4 Mossom de Grassi Boyd b: June
16, 1884 d: 1948
.............................4 Gardiner Cust Boyd b:
September 21, 1885 d. July 12, 1971 in SAANICH, BC Canada
.................................+Grace Edith Henderson b: 1894
........................................5 Ottilie Grace Boyd
b: 1916
........................................5 David M. Boyd b:
1918
............................................+Sydney Dora Grant
........................................5 Patricia Joan
(Pat) Boyd b: 1921
............................................+John F. Arnoldi
........................................*2nd Husband of Patricia
Joan (Pat) Boyd:
............................................+? Stone
.............................4 Laurence Chadwick (Laurie)
Boyd b: March 21, 1887
.................................+Ethele Findlay b: 1891
.............................*2nd Wife of Laurence Chadwick
(Laurie) Boyd:
.................................+Claire ?
.............................4 Lillian Doris Boyd b:
November 27, 1888
.................................+Ivan MacIntosh
.............................4 Winnett Wornibe (Brownie)
Boyd b: July 15, 1890 d: 1950
.................................+Marjorie Stern (Monnie) St.
George b: 1892
........................................5 St. George Mossom
(Geordie) Puff) Boyd b: 1914 d: 1951
........................................5 Winnett (Binnie)
Boyd b: October 17, 1916
............................................+Jean Sutherland
........................................5 Laurence S.
(Larry) Boyd b: 1921
........................................5 Anne de Grassi (Bridgie)
Boyd b: 1923 d: 2001
............................................+Russell (Gus)
McIntosh
..................................................6 Ena
McIntosh
..................................................6 Beatrice
McIntosh
.............................4 Mildred Collinette Boyd b:
June 12, 1892 d: 1990
.................................+John Nind
........................................5 John Roderick Nind
b: 1920 d: 1921
........................................5 Anne Nind
............................................+William Neilson
.............................4 Annie Sheila Boyd b: April
21, 1894 d: 1982
................... 3 Emma Blackall Boyd b: 1856 d: 1924
.......................+Herbert Symonds d: 1921
.............................4 Hannah Greta Lydia Symonds
.................................+Corbett Francis Whitton
........................................5 Greta Whitton
........................................5 Mary Whitton
........................................5 Patricia Whitton
.............................4 Herbert Boyd Symonds b:
January 02, 1893 d: April 09, 1917 in France
.............................4 Bertha Caroline Symonds
.................................+H. Percy Thornhill m: May 20,
1913 in Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal, QC
........................................5 B. Eleanor E.
Thornhill
........................................5 Sylvia M.
Thornhill
........................................5 Hilda M. Thornhill
.............................4 Hilda Boyd Symonds
.................................+F. Raymond Adelheim b: in of
Philadelpia m: June 21, 1913 in Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal,
QC
........................................5 Raymond Herbert
Adelheim
........................................5 William Lawton
Adelheim
.............................4 Spencer Rupert Symonds b: November
09, 1895
.............................4 Isabel Mary Symonds
.............................4 Victor Kingsley Symonds b:
March 01, 1897 d: 1939
........ *2nd Wife of Mossom Boyd:
............+Letitia McGhee Cust m: Aft. 1857 d: 1881
................... 3 William Thornton Cust (Willie) Boyd b: July
08, 1859 in Ontario d: 1919
.......................+Meta Anne Bridgman b: June 13, 1869
.............................4 Thornton Bridgman Boyd b:
November 14, 1889 d: 1916
.............................4 Paul Magee Boyd b: 1891 d:
1893
.............................4 Kathleen Cust Boyd b: 1892 d:
1893
.............................4 Rosalind Letitia Boyd b:
November 14, 1894
.................................+Thornton Edwyn Charles Dowding
.............................4 Gladys Rosetta Boyd b:
November 14, 1894
.................................+Dudley Orgill
........................................5 Herbert Orgill
............................................+Norma ?
..................................................6 Sheila
Constance Orgill
..................................................6 Janet
Orgill
..................................................6 Peter
Orgill
.............................4 Eric Mossom Boyd b: March 08,
1896 d: 1917
.............................4 Herbert Cust Boyd b: August
19, 1897 d: 1918
.............................4 Meta Aileen Boyd b: April 16,
1899
.................................+Thomas Oakley
........................................5 Thomas Eric Oakley
b: 1923
................... 3 Letitia Kathleen (Kate) Boyd
.......................+(Alfred) Belcher d: 1907
........2 Anne Boyd
Diana
Thanks for sharing this
with us. Although the Bobcaygeon BOYDS are not my ancestors
either, I've always found them an interesting family.
I lived for many years about 10 miles from Bobcaygeon Ontario & the
BOYD house there dominated the Bobcaygeon landscape.
Bobcaygeon is a small village of about 3000 I think-maybe not that many
& there overlooking the lake was a huge property with a huge house
behind a stone fence.
The last direct
descendent of the original owners of the home-that would be Mossom, I
think, was a very eccentric old lady who never left the property &
had a caregiver who took care of her. They lived in only 2
rooms in one wing of that huge house. She died in, I think,
the late 1970's & there was a hunt for relatives. I
understand some distant relatives were found but none were interested in
the property. It was sold to the doctors who owned the local
Bobcaygeon clinic but they found the home was in disrepair & after
some years trying to get funds to turn it into a Historical sight
without any success, the old home was torn down & senior apartments
were built on the property.
I was greatly saddened to
see it destroyed.
In the meantime, there
was a huge auction of all the BOYD estate-it took quite a few days to
auction off all the property. The BOYDS were pack rats
which is, to my mind a good thing. I have the Auction
catalogue here somewhere but was unable to afford any of the
items-bidding was hot & I had young children to feed. While
everyone was trying to figure out what to do with the house, the local
historical society did arrange for guided tours of the property. The original house was just a one room log cabin & as the BOYD
fortunes improved they just added on to the original log cabin.
The house was a hodge podge of styles & not all the addition walls
met exactly as they should. There was also a blank stairwell that was built & just ended in a wall
when the building stopped. But it all seemed to work &
was an amazing mansion. The house still had a Victorian kitchen &
there was one bathroom in the whole place-yes, real vintage Victorian
too.
The kids taking the tour
all liked the "talking tube" which allowed the family to
call the servants to them. I remember the Guide telling us that
the caregiver had to walk from the 3rd floor rooms they lived in down to
the kitchen & cook in that old Victorian kitchen every time they
needed a meal & that Miss Boyd went through a lot of caretakers
before she found one who'd stay. Oh & they used candles &
lanterns-only had lights in the 2 occupied rooms.
So thanks for the trip
down memory lane Diana. Hope everyone doesn't mind
me going on about this wonderful old house & family that is no more.
BTW In the
genealogy Emily refers to Emily township Also I see Mossom Boyd married
a Dunsford. Dunsford is the name of another small town south of
Bobcaygeon. Wonder if he married into Dunsford's founding family
Linda
Myers
previously of Pleasant Point, Ontario, Canada
now of Phoenix AZ
Hi Linda -
What a marvelous picture you painted!!!! Here are the newspaper clippings of
Emma Blackall [Boyd] Symonds daughters:
from Montreal newspaper, Wed. May, 21st, 1913:
The marriage of Miss Bertha Caroline Symonds, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Symonds, to Mr. H. Percy Thornhill, was celebrated at
half-past four yesterday afternoon in Christ Church Cathedral. The altar
was simply decorated with white flowers and greenery. The bride's father
officiated at the service, which was fully choral, Mr. Linwood Farnham, presiding at the organ. The choir rendered "O Perfect Love" as an
opening
hymn, and Mr. Merlin Davies sang during the signing of the register.
The bride, who was given away by Mr. W.J. Turpin, was gowned in ivory
Duchess satin, with panels of silk embroidered net, with which she wore a pearl
and diamond pendant, the ? of the bridegroom, and a Limerick lace veil, over
two hundred years old, arranged in cap effect. Her bouquet was a shower of
white roses and lilies-of-the-valley. Mrs. Corbet Whitton, of Hamilton,
was her sister's matron of honour, wearing a robe of oyster whitesilk repp
and white hat trimmed with blue tuile, and carrying a bouquet of pink roses
and sweet peas. The brides-maids, Miss Isabel Symonds and Miss Doris Boyd
of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, who wore white lace gowns, with blue satin girdles
and touches of pink in the trimming, had white hats with pink and blue trimming.
Their bouquets were also of pink sweet peas and roses. Mr. Alfred Dann was
best man and the ushers were Mr. Adelhelm, Mr. Trevor Evans and Mr. Spencer
Symonds. The bridegroom's gifts to the bride's attendants were antique pendants, to the best man enamel cuff-links, and to the ushers amythest
tie-pins. Mrs. Symonds, the bride's mother, was gowned in purple charmeuse
trimmed with ecru lace, wore a black hat trimmed with red roses and carried
a bouquet of red roses. Following the ceremony a reception was held at the
residence of the bride's parents, where the decorations were done in lilacs,
American Beauty roses and carnations, the table being arranged with pink
and white roses. Later Mr. and Mrs. Thornhill left for Boston. They will
reside on Dorchester Street on their return from their honeymoon. Among
the out-of-town guests were Mrs. W.T.C. Boyd of Bobcaygeon, aunt of the bride,
with Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Thornton Boyd; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lamprey, of
Berlin, Ontario, and Miss Ethel White, of Ottawa.
Montreal Newspapers - Monday, Feb 12 [or 13] 1912
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Symonds announce the engagement of their third
daughter, Hilda Boyd, to Mr. F. Raymond Adelheim, of Philadelphia.
>From Montreal newspaper, Sat., June 21st, 1913:
In Christ Church Cathedral this morning, at half past eleven o'clock, the
marriage was solemnized quietly of Miss Hilda Boyd Symonds, daughter of
the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Symonds, to Mr. F. Raymond Adelhelm, of Philadelphia. The marriage service was conducted by the vicar, father
of
the bride, and Mr. Lynwood Farnam played the organ. A solo "O perfect love", was sung by Mrs. Corbett F. Whitton, the bride's sister. Miss
Esther
Kerry was bridesmaid and Mr. Whitham Taylor-Bailey, best man, while Mr. Trevor Penny, Mr. Corbett F. Whitton and Mr. Spencer Symonds acted as
ushers. The bride, who was escorted up the aisle of the church by Mr.E.Goff Penny, wore a dainty gown of white satin and chiffon brocaded in a
pansy design, trimmed with Carrickmacross lace and pearls. She wore a veil
of lovely old Limerick lace, the same wedding veil that had been worn by
her sisters, and carried a shower bouquet of white roses and sweet peas.
The bridesmaid was gowned in white satin with gold beaded embroidery on the
bodice and extending down on the draped skirt; she wore a large cream
coloured hat trimmed with old lace and yellow roses, and her bouquet was
of yellow roses and white sweet peas. Following the service in the church,
Mrs. Symonds held a small reception at 261 Peel Street for the bride's most
intimate friends. The only out of town guests were Miss Olive Boyd and Miss
Gladys Boyd, cousins of the bride from Bobcaygeon, Ont. Mrs. Symonds wore a
dark blue chiffon over satin with lace garniture, and a black hat trimmed in
cerise, and she held a bouquet of red peonies; Mrs. Thornhill, the bride's
sister, was wearing a Dresden silk gown and a white hat trimmed with blue
and ? roses; Mrs. Whitton, cream brocaded poplin and white hat with blue
and pink trimmings; Miss Isabel Symonds, white net and lace with hat to
match trimmed in blue. Mr. and Mrs. Adelhelm will spend their honeymoon in
the Adirondacks, the bride going away in a grey striped suit and white hat,
with crown covered with shot grey and rose ninon, trimmed with small pink
flowers. They will reside in Montreal.
[Posted with permission]
Cheers,
Diana Binks-Proulx >arbitrar"at"allstream.net< Ottawa, Ontario
Many
Thanks to Linda Myers and Diana Binks-Proulx
New
Bobcaygeon Boyd data and photos
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