Ada and Ruby, daughters of Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell, in London 1944. Wow!
C. H. Burwell Cement Products on corner of Tillson Ave. and Pine St. Tillsonburg, 1936. Charley Burwell’s wife, Minnie, and middle daughter Ada standing in front.
Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell with a great-grandbaby in her Belmont apartment, 1969.
Ruby (Burwell) Anger with granddog Casey in June 1991.
Ada (Burwell) and husband Tom Clark, taken in Florida, Jan. 1991.
“Bernice and Emily McAllister. Taken in Florida Feb 1977” – written on front by Emily’s mother Minnie Burwell.
Old photocopy with note by Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell. “This is Mary Rice who married Richard Williams, parents of Lavonia Williams who married Lewis M. Burwell. Their children were Mariah, John R, Hercules, Peter, Amy, Samuel Jas [William], and James Richard. Hercules married Ada Ann Norton. Gertrude Bowes, Mar. 1981.” Hercules and Ada Ann were the parents of Charles Hercules Burwell, Minnie’s husband.
Postcard of Lavina (Burwell) Clark and son Hercules, at 14 Pine Street, Tillsonburg home. House was torn down years ago, according to my mother’s note on back.
Another 1911 postcard, 20 Pine St., Tillsonburg. Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell in front of their first home after marriage. She is 22.
Minnie (Lymburner) and Charley Burwell, with son Dwight on his 1st birthday. Taken at Pollard Studio, Tillsonburg, June 10, 1913.
“This is the wedding picture of Charles Hercules Burwell and Minnie May Burwell (nee Lymburner) married in Tillsonburg December 14, 1910 at the home of the bride’s father Matthias Elmore Lymburner, Tillson Ave, Tillsonburg, Ont. Picture taken at Welland, Ont. Dec. 16/10.” On June 19, 1960 Minnie wrote this on a piece of paper and stuck it to the back of the frame. It’s still there.
Ruby (Burwell) Anger with a feral cat she tamed, in Belmont 1985.
Minnie May (Lymburner) Burwell on her 92nd birthday 1981.
Charles Burwell, standing on his head in his Tillsonburg backyard. Autumn 1943, when he was nearly 63.
At Mildred’s house in June 2007, first cousins Ruby (Burwell) Anger and Mildred (Burwell) Ketchabaw. The cat is, I think, Peaches.
Mildred (Burwell) Ketchabaw, age 76 (at right), and half-sister Mabel (Meadows) Brooks, age 85, summer 1994.
Mildred Ketchabaw, daughter of Fred and Ada Sophie (Leach) Burwell. My mother’s first cousin and my very dear friend. She died May 21 2018, five months before her 100th birthday.
Cousins at Wilford and Madge Burwell’s 50th open house, Eden Baptist Church, May 1995. L-R: Jean Van Natter and Ruth Depew (Merritt Burwell’s daughters), Irene Lovell (d/o Wilson Burwell), Ruby Anger (d/o Charles Burwell), Jim Depew and Jay Van Natter.
Madge (Hodges) and Wilford Burwell, 50th anniversary at Eden Baptist Church, May 1995.
Otto Lymburner (left) with sister Minnie’s husband Charles Burwell (right) and his brother Peter, at Peter’s home in New England ON, Oct. 1960.
At Peter Burwell’s home Oct. 1960. 2nd from right is Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell. 2nd from left is her sister Marguerite Kyte I think. The others I should know, but.
Dwight Burwell, son of Minnie (Lymburner) and Charles Burwell, Oct. 1954, age 42.
Ada (Burwell) Ritchie, left, in childhood playhouse, Tillsonburg ON, July 1959. Woman at right is Ada’s friend Margaret. The others?
Playhouse in backyard of Charley and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell’s Tillsonburg house, July 1950. He built it and it lasted for three generations of kids.
Christmas 1957 from top: Charley and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell, daughter and son-in-law Burnice and Emily (Burwell) McAllister, son David with wife Kit (Vyse) and baby.
David and Katherine (Vyse) McAllister cut wedding cake Oct. 20 1956. I think the head in front is David’s dad Burnice.
David and Katherine (Vyse) McAllister, wedding 20 Oct. 1956, Ingersoll ON. Bridesmaid at left, I think, is Kitty’s sister.
David and Katherine (Vyse) McAllister in car after Oct. 20 1956 wedding.
Reception line at David and Kitty McAllister’s wedding in 1956. From right: Minnie (Lymburner) and Charles Burwell, David’s grandparents; Kitty’s parents and sister; Donald McAllister, David’s brother; Kit (Vyse) and David McAllister, bride and groom; David’s parents Emily (Burwell) and Burnice McAllister.
Burnice and Emily McAllister, David and Kit (Vyse) McAllister, reception line at wedding 20 Oct. 1956.
Emily (Burwell) and Burnice McAllister with baby and sons David, Donald and Douglas, 1945, at home in Salford ON (I think).
Pine Street, Tillsonburg “Winter 1935-36” on back. From left: Charley Burwell and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell, daughter Emily, age 21, with baby David and husband Burnice McAllister, age 28, daughter Ruby Burwell, age 11, and son Dwight Burwell, age 23.
1955 school photos of Donald McAllister, 18, and Doug McAllister, 13. Emily (Burwell) and Burnice McAllister’s sons.
Bruce and Mae (White) Burwell and Madge (Hodgson) Burwell. This and the next two pictures were taken by my mother at the Burwell reunion, Coronation Park in Tillsonburg ON, June 21, 1987. Bruce was son of Peter Burwell and Alberta Davis. Madge was wife of Wilford Burwell, son of Peter’s brother Fred Burwell.
Arol Bowes and Helen (Burwell) Smith of San José, California at Burwell reunion June 1987. Mr. Bowes was husband of Gertrude Allemand, granddaughter of Maria (Burwell) Johnson. (See #60-iv-76 in Burwell tree) I have no information on Helen Smith.
“Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wilson of British Columbia, 1st time at Burwell Reunion, Tillsonburg Ont. June 21 1987. Ancestor Amy’s family,” my mother wrote on the back. In my charts, Mrs. Wilson is Donna May Carley. Russell’s mother was Amy, daughter of Peter H. Burwell who was son of Lewis Mahlon Burwell. (see #62 in Burwell Tree)
Connie (Lymburner) Baker with niece Emily (Burwell) McAllister at Kyte and Lymburner family reunion, 27 June 1987 Coronation Park, Tillsonburg.
Ada (Burwell) Scanlon and her mother Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell, about 1978.
Emily and Burnice McAllister. No date, probably 1970s. Emily was the eldest daughter of Minnie (Lymburner) and Charles Burwell.
Dwight Burwell’s 78th birthday, 1990 Port Burwell. L-R: Emily McAllister, Dwight, Ruby Anger, Ada and husband Tom Clark.
Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell’s kids – Ruby, Ada, Dwight and Emily at Emily’s home in Salford ON, on Dwight’s birthday. Early 1970s?
Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell, seated, with (clockwise) daughters Ruby, Ada and Emily and son Dwight on his 59th birthday, 1971
After Otto Lymburner’s funeral, Jan. 17 1963, at sister Minnie’s house in Tillsonburg. Charles and Minnie Burwell on right, daughters Ada (beside Minnie) and Ruby (in front of Ada). Otto’s sister Connie sitting at table beside Ruby. The others?
Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at home in Tillsonburg, Dec. 1960.
Ada Burwell, in front of parents Minnie (Lymburner) and Charles Burwell’s home in Tillsonburg, about 1940.
Ada, Emily and Ruby Burwell (in front holding cat), Burnice McAllister and Dwight Burwell, early 1930s, Pine Street in Tillsonburg. Children and son-in-law of Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell.
Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell with baby Dwight, about 1913, probably in Tillsonburg.
On back: “you don’t need to ask me who my friend is, do you?” (in Aunt Connie’s hand). “He is Charley Burwell and I am Connie Baker” (in Minnie Burwell’s hand). “at 16 Pine St. Tillsonburg. Charley born Oct. 11, 1880. Countess (Connie) Lymburner-Baker born Feb 18 1906. Taken ?” (in Ruby Anger’s hand). My guess, it’s about 1960.
Ruby (Burwell) 1985 at home with her 1973 VW van she named The Flowerpot.
Port Burwell, July 1938. From top of ladder, Harold Kyte (13 yrs), his cousin Ruby Burwell (14), Ruby’s friends Jean Love (15) and Beth Reinwald (13).
Gladys Kyte at front, brother Harold behind her at left, and cousin Ruby Burwell at right, about 1930 at maternal grandparents Matthias and Emily Lymburner’s home in Midland ON.
Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell, with Ruby (6 yrs), in front. At rear, from left, Ada (15), Dwight (18) and Emily (16), Christmas 1928.
Before they lived in the house that he built, Charley and Minnie Burwell lived further along Pine Street. Their son Dwight took this picture of them in front of No. 32 in the early 1920s.
This may be that house, 32 Pine Street, taken about 1915. Charley and Minnie with son Dwight and daughter Emily.
From left: son Merritt Burwell, mother Ada Ann (Norton) Burwell, daughter-in-law Alice (Kennedy) Burwell (Silas’ wife), Joe Kennedy (Alice’s brother), son Silas Burwell, son Charley Burwell, friends Clarence Inman and Fred Millard. 1908.
Ada Ann (Norton) Burwell, age 61, with son Charley, age 28. 1908
Human pyramid, top, Harry Howey and Merritt Burwell, middle, Silas Burwell, bottom, Charley Burwell, Fred Millard, Joe Kennedy Probably about 1908.
My grandfather Charles H. Burwell (seated) and Milo Young, about 1908. Milo’s brother was Charles McDonald Young, first husband of Evellyn Lymburner. Charles died a year after marriage, and Evellyn later married John Hewson.
A postcard with a photograph printed into it. “Xmas wishes” is at bottom. The photo is of my granddad, and my grandmother wrote his name and age on it: “C. H. Burwell, 27 years,” so that would be 1907.
Postcard (no date) Burwell Bros. Lumber Mill. On back, written by my mother, is “Tillsonburg, Silas, Charley, Merritt and Wilson Burwell.” Only three men are in the photo and I don’t think my grandfather Charley is one of them so I’d guess them to be Silas, Merritt and Wilson.
Four brothers at a Burwell family reunion, Port Burwell, 1926. From left: Wilson Garfield Burwell, Fred Burwell (cousin), Peter Dwight Burwell, James Silas Burwell and Charles Hercules Burwell.
Burwell wives at family reunion, Port Burwell 1926. From left: Ada (wife of brother Fred), Hannah (cousin Fred), Minnie (brother Charles), Ella (brother Merritt), Alberta (brother Peter), Florence (brother Wilson) and Alice (brother Silas).
Burwell kids at Port Burwell reunion 1926. From left, back: Dwight (Charley’s son), Howard (head down so view blocked, Wilson’s), Stanley (cousin Fred’s). Middle: Lewis (Wilson’s), Donald and Leroy (Merritt’s), Bill (Peter’s). Front: Fred, Bruce and Charlie (Peter’s), Wilford (Fred’s), Lloyd (cousin Fred’s).
At Burwell reunion, Port Burwell 1926. Front: Mary, Helen and Evellyn Hewson, daughters of Evellyn (Lymburner) Hewson, sister of Minnie Burwell. Back, from left: Mabel and Norma Meadows, step-daughters of brother Fred Burwell; cousin Fred Burwell; Herc Clark, son of Levonia (Burwell) Clark. (Two people in the background are not identified.)
Emily and Dwight Burwell, eldest children of Minnie (Lymburner) and Charles H. Burwell, about 1916.
Ada, Emily and Dwight Burwell, at J. Pollard & Son Studio, Tillsonburg ON, Dec. 16 1918.
Minnie (Lymburner) and Charley Burwell with children Emily, Ada and Dwight outside first house on Pine Street, Tillsonburg, about 1918.
Ada, baby Ruby, Dwight and Emily, children of Minnie (Lymburner) and Charles H. Burwell, J. Pollard & Son, Tillsonburg ON, Sept. 1924.
Dwight Burwell (front), 75th birthday at Long Point ON, 1987, with brothers-in-law Tom Clark (Ada), Burnice McAllister (Emily) and George Anger (Ruby).
Burwell sisters Ada Clark and Emily McAllister, Long Point ON, 10 June 1987, for brother Dwight’s 75th birthday outing. Sister Ruby was taking the pictures.
Burwell picnic, Port Burwell, early 1930s, at back: From left: Dwight, Lewis, Silas’ wife Alice (Kennedy) Burwell, Irene, Ada, Silas Burwell, Emily, ?, Minnie (Lymburner) and Charley Burwell. Kids in front: Beatrice, Doris, Ruby. (Lewis, Irene, Beatrice and Doris are Wilson Burwell’s children. Dwight, Ada, Emily and Ruby are Charley’s.)
1926 Eden, Ont. From left, back: Peter Burwell, son Billy, wife Alberta (Davis) holding Mabel. Front: sons Fred, Charlie and Bruce.
Silas and Alice (Kennedy) Burwell, by J. Pollard & Son, Tillsonburg ON. No date, probably early 1900s.
Charles H. Burwell with sister-in-law Alice (Kennedy) Burwell at her home near Eden ON, Oct. 10, 1960.
Agnes (Stillwell) Moore, no date or location of photograph. Aggie was daughter of Melissa Jane (Norton) and David William Stillwell. Her mother was sister to Ada Ann (Norton) Burwell. Aggie married Charles Lonzo Moore and, second, John Boughner.
Aggie (Stillwell Moore) and John Boughner, middle, on honeymoon in 1940, Pine Street in Tillsonburg. John’s son Harold Boughner and wife flank them.
Hercules Clark, son of Lavinia (Burwell) and Chauncy Clark. At left, with Countess Lymburner, sister of Minnie May (Lymburner) Burwell (no date). At right, with Leta Fulkerson, later his wife (no date).
James Richard (Dick) Burwell, son of Lewis Mahlon and Lavina (Williams) Burwell, uncle of Burwell brothers and sister Lavinia. With 4th wife Sarah, according to my grandmother’s note, perhaps Sarah Ann Young. She was the widow of his brother Peter. They lived in Michigan. Both Dick and Sarah were about 80 years old in this 1926 photo.
Burwell brothers and friends, no date or place. Clockwise from left: Fred Chandler, Wilson Burwell, Clarence Inman, Charles Burwell, Merritt Burwell, Peter Burwell, Carl Scott (at front).
Fred and Silas Burwell with oxen, about 1913.
Ada Sophia (Leach, Meadows), widow of Fred Burwell, age 68 in 1955.
Wilford Burwell, son of Fred and Ada, west of Eden 1962.
Road crew at railway bridge in Straffordville. The men are unnamed, but the photo is wonderful. It and the Burwell photos following, mostly of Peter and Alberta’s branch, were given to me by Kevin Burwell. He and his aunts compiled them from family albums.
Seated, Maria (Burwell) Johnson (1835-1938), sister of Hercules Dwight Burwell. She had son Charles Howard and daughters Amy Jane and Fannie Jeannette. Maybe them in photo?
Charley Burwell, wearing hat 4th from left, Peter Burwell, wearing hat 2nd from right, and Wilson Burwell, standing at right. Others unknown. Maybe about 1910.
Alberta (Davis) Burwell with baby son Bill, about 1918.
Alberta Burwell and son Bill feeding horse, about 1923.
Alberta (Davis) Burwell, daughter Hazel behind.
Harry and Mary Ongena (on truck left) with daughter Wilhelmine and husband Walter Burwell.
Brothers Bill and Bruce Burwell and friend J. K. Sneade.
Bill Burwell and Luella, surname unknown.
Bill Burwell, Wilhelmine (Ongena) and Walter Burwell.
Hercules Burwell with sister Hazel’s goat. J. K. Sneade standing by car with Burwell kids.
Mae (White) and Bruce Burwell, maybe 1940s in photo booth.
Mable Burwell, right, and unnamed friend. Maybe 1940s.
Mable (Burwell) and husband Pat (John Harvey) Walters and children.
Pat Walters with kids at Pinafore Park, St. Thomas, late 1940s.
Mable (Burwell) and Pat Walters at Pinafore Park in St. Thomas, late 1940s.
Charlie and Edith (McCaulley) Davis, Alberta Burwell’s parents. (Isn’t his smile a treat!)
Charlie Davis’ sister and her daughter.
Viola (Davis) Anderson, Alberta’s sister.
Edith Davis in middle, daughters Bertha (marr. John Sidney Karl) with baby, left, and Ella (marr. Harry Lee Matthews), right.
Pat Walters, middle, and Charlie Davis, right. Man at left unknown.
Charlie Davis.
Nelson Dodge and Walter Burwell (son of Peter and Alberta). Child unknown.
Blake Burwell, son of Peter and Alberta.
In rear, Jim Walters, son of Mable (Burwell) and Pat Walters, and his uncle Walter Burwell. Man and woman in front unknown.
Mable (Burwell) and Pat Walters.
Mable (Burwell) Walters with nephews Guy and Joe, sons of Walter and Wilhelmine (Ongena) Burwell. My mother took this at, I think, a family reunion at Coronation Park in Tillsonburg.
Peter and Alberta Burwell with, from left, their five youngest children. This and the following pictures are from Mable Walter’s albums.
Son Bill, daughter-in-law Mae (White), son Bruce, son Charlie in back at left of Alberta and Peter Burwell. In front, younger children and grandchildren.
Peter and Alberta Burwell with baby (maybe Bill?)
Front, from left, Blake, Hercules and Hazel Burwell. Back, Bruce, parents Alberta and Peter, Fred Burwell.
Alberta and Peter Burwell, with youngest children Hercules and Hazel.
Back from left; Peter Burwell, Charles Haycock, J. K. Sneade, Bill Burwell, Tom Sharpe. Front; Merritt Burwell, Pat Walters, Bruce Burwell.
Bill Burwell behind oxen, and father Peter at right. Man at left is unidentified.
Alberta Burwell and son Bill. You can see on the truck door ‘W. F. Burwell, Eden Ont’ – that’s Bill.
Peter Burwell, May 1958. I think the handwriting is my grandma’s (his sister-in-law).
Wilson Burwell’s family, about 1927. Florence (Wareham) Burwell at left, next (at back) sons Lewis and Howard, then Wilson. Front; daughters Doris, Beatrice, Grace, and Irene.
On Pine Street in Tillsonburg, in front of Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell’s house. Identified only as relatives of Peter Burwell.
Dwight Burwell, about 1927. Eldest child of Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell.
Christmas 1954, London ON: Minnie and Charley Burwell at either end, with children Dwight, Ruby, Emily and Ada.
Charles H. Burwell, in kitchen of Tillsonburg home, 1959.
Burnice and Emily (Burwell) McAllister, 1934, six months after marriage.
Charley and Minnie Burwell and son-in-law Burnice McAllister at Ruby (Burwell) Anger’s house in Belmont, July 1955.
Donald and Hedy (Penner) McAllister on wedding day Nov. 15, 1958. Son and daughter-in-law of Burnice and Emily (Burwell) McAllister.
Ada Sophia Leach, age 16, and first husband Clarence Meadows on their wedding day in 1902. It was taken by J. Pollard & Son Studio in Tillsonburg. Ada later married Fred Burwell and their daughter Mildred gave me this and the next photo.
Wilford and Madge (Hodgson) Burwell with mothers, Ada (Leach) Burwell, left, and Elisabeth (Mabee) Hodgson, right, 1940s.
Charley Burwell, left, and brother-in-law Otto Lymburner in Tillsonburg. On back, daughter Ruby wrote, “Dad, 81 next day, and Uncle Otto finishing last sundial in garage. Monday Oct. 9/61 Thanksgiving Day”.
In Burwell kitchen in Tillsonburg, Sept. 1959, L-R, (seated) son-in-law George Anger, Charley, Minnie (Lymburner), granddaughter, daughter Ruby and Minnie’s sister Evellyn Hewson.
Ruby (Burwell) Anger with older sister Ada (then Scanlon), autumn 1959 in Ruby’s back yard, London ON.
Charley and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell’s kids in front of Tillsonburg house, 1937: Ruby, 13, Ada, 21, Emily, 23, and Dwight, 25. This and following 4 photos are from Aunt Ada’s albums.
Nov. 15, 1941, wedding photo of George Anger and Ruby Burwell in front of her parents’ home in Tillsonburg. Behind them, from left, Vivian Henry and Robert ‘Scotty’ Moir (their witnesses, themselves later married), Ada Burwell, someone hidden behind Ada, man next to Ada is maybe her friend, Ruby’s parents Charley and Minnie Burwell, young man I don’t know, George’s parents Austin and Merle (Mabee) Anger, maybe Jack Anger, Emily (Burwell) and Burnice McAllister and their sons David and Donald in front.
George and Ruby Anger, Emily and Burnice McAllister, in front of Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell’s house, Tillsonburg 1950s.
Easter Sunday, Apr. 6 1958 Tillsonburg: Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell with daughters Ada, Emily (left) and Ruby (right).
Ella (Chatterton) Burwell, widow of Merritt, and children Donald, Leroy, Ruth and Jean. Taken late 1920s, near Eden maybe.
Marty Walters
19 Dec 2018Awesome Collection Dorothy!
I am the eldest son of Doug & Ann Walters.
Dad is the youngest from Pat & Mable Walters.
Great Job!
Dorothy
19 Dec 2018Thank you, Marty. I can hear your grandmother’s laugh whenever I look at a photo of her. It was wonderful, and she had a personality to match. I’m glad you like the pictures.
Rita Ferguson
30 Oct 2017Hi Dorothy,
I am a niece (by marriage) of Mildred Ketchabaw (daughter of Ada and Fred Burwell). I recognise her hand writing on many of the pictures you have here and have heard about you and many of these relatives. You have done an extensive history here and made it very interesting!
Roger and I live across from where Aunt Mildred was born in the house that her Uncle Silas built. Wilford gave me the book that Silas used to keep track of his expenses and it includes all the items purchased for building the house here in 1915 for a total cost of $317.95.
Aunt Mildred just had her 99th birthday and is doing fairly well. I hope to be able to show her some of these pics although she can’t stand too much eye strain these days. I will definitely tell her all about it and I know she will enjoy it immensely. Thanks.
Dorothy
31 Oct 2017Hi Rita, it is so nice to “meet” you! Mildred told me you were living in Uncle Silas’ house. I knew her birthday was around now but lost track of time. Please give her my belated birthday wishes. She knows, I hope, that she’s always in my thoughts. She gave me some of these pictures when I saw her last year. I was happy I could fill out her side of the family. I found something on the Elgin Co. archives site that my grandmother had written years ago about your house and Wilford’s. I’ll post it as soon as I sort out the connections she mentions with Eden families. Thank you very much for writing.
Gail Lamont
6 Dec 2021Hi Rita , I just wanted you to know that I use to visit Aunt Alice Burwell as a very young girl with my mother Hazel Brunt nee Burwell ( daughter of Peter Burwell) Peter Burwell is a brother to Silas Burwell . Aunt Alice was an extremely nice person . Her Living room was full of braided rugs , she made them to sell . I was just amazed at the quantity she had and I distinctly remember asking her what she was going to do with all these rugs . LOL , that’s when she told me she sold them. She had an old treadle sewing machine in her living room as well . This house that I visited her at was in the village of Eden where they moved after selling the farm in 1942. She was quite elderly, 80 plus years , but very spry for her age . I have such a vivid memory of her house in Eden and really enjoyed my visits . My mother and her younger brother Hercules use to stay overnight at her house, I’m sure it was when they were on the farm, when they were very young and remembers Aunt Alice heating a brick on the wood stove and wrapping it in a towel to keep their feet warm at bed time . Aunt Alice and Uncle Silas didn’t have any children . So I’m sure they enjoyed the company of Peter’s children . She had the most beautiful picture behind her sofa of a young girl cuddling a kitten . It was an antique then , and the glass was all wavy . I’m sure she had that picture for many years , probably hung in the farm house to. Aunt Alice’s sister Ida Chandler lived in the village of Eden as well not far from Aunt Alice . I always called her Aunt Idy , but not really my aunt and visited her as well . Aunt Alice died in the summer of 1964 and I was 8 years old . I remember her passing . When I moved from Eden in 1966 , I would return occasionally and stay weekends at our neighbours , Gwendoline and Charlie Cowan , who lived on a beautiful farm just on the edge of the village , those were the good ole days , making maple syrup at the Cowans . I would always call Aunt Idy and have lunch at her house in the village , I’m sure she missed her sister Alice when she passed . Aunt Idy was getting up in years . I loved her house to . Lots of antique clocks , chiming all at the same time .you actually stopped talking , the clocks took over . She was as sweet as Aunt Alice . The memories , you have to love them . Gail Lamont
Pamela
4 Mar 2024Hi Gail. My grandmother was Gladys Kennedy, the granddaughter of William Carmichael Kennedy who was the brother of Alice Kennedy. I was so happy to read your reply about Alice and Ida who I never had the pleasure to meet. I loved learning those details. Thank you so much! 🙂
And Dorothy – I was so happy to see photos of Alice Kennedy and Joe Kennedy. Thank you so much for your website.
Leo J Roose
2 Apr 2017I absolutely enjoyed viewing your website. I’m grandson of Bruce and Mae Burwell. Alot of familiar faces in thier youth. Thanks for sharing these great photos.
Dorothy
2 Apr 2017Hi Leo, there are lovely pictures of your grandparents here, aren’t there. Thanks for writing.
Sherwood Burwell
29 Mar 2017Hi Dorothy, love your site. Thanks for all your work on the family tree. I believe we are 2nd. Cousins once removed. I can remember going to Great Uncle Charlie and Aunt Minnie’s place on Pine St. with my dad Fred Burwell , (Peter and Alberta’s son). I remember also visiting him at his cement block shop on the corner of Pine St. and Tillson Ave. I also remember how he would sit in his chair and twirl his thumbs while He and my Dad would visit.
Thanks again !!
Sherwood
Dorothy
30 Mar 2017Hi Sherwood, thanks for writing. A lot of family passed through Grandpa’s shop, I think. It was a nice place to spend time.
Patty Swarts
6 Jan 2017So nice to see pics of so many relatives!♡
Dorothy
7 Jan 2017Hi Patty, glad you like them! Thanks for writing.
Merritt Burwell
14 Dec 2016Hi Dorothy
Merritt would like you to come out for a coffee at some point and chat. He really enjoys seeing the pictures of the family and puts names to those that seem to be unknown. Please join him any time for a coffee.
Dorothy
15 Dec 2016Hi to Merritt. Unfortunately, I don’t live in Ontario any more. If I did, I would love to come for a visit. I will send an email so that you have my email address. I’d love to have the names that I don’t know of people in the photographs. Thanks for writing.
Greg McAllister
25 Apr 2016Thank you so much for the great pictures. My grandfather was Burnice McAllister (Emily) and it was great to see a picture (and colour!). Both of my parents are gone now (Don and Hedy) but so nice to see these pics. I thank my God for His saving grace when I see these picture of those who have lived and died and for many are in heaven now and look forward to seeing them again!
Dorothy
27 Apr 2016Hi Greg, nice to hear from you. I’m glad you like the pictures and I’m so sorry about your mother. I went through some more of Mom’s pictures and found one of your parents on their wedding day. I’ve posted it here (bottom of page) and a few more that have your grandparents in them.
Merritt Burwell
11 Feb 2016Hi Dorothy
I sit here with Merritt Burwell son of Peter D Burwell he would like to contribute to the family tree if you need any information he is eager to help Merritt is 87. He is very knowledgeable with the family He would like to include his family and up date his branch of the Burwell tree. He and his sister Hazel are the only remaining Children of Peter & Alberta (Davis) Burwell. Many of the Burwell children are Buried in Springford. Please get in contact with him so that he can give you more information. Also How do I go about get his UEL certificate. He is quoting CH Burwell Poems by heart Merritt remembers his uncle Charlie very well.
Thanks
Merritt
Dorothy
12 Feb 2016Hi Merritt, so nice to hear from you. I will email you for more on your family. I have some information but I don’t put anything on living people on the family tree here just for privacy and security reasons.
I’ve looked at the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada website about getting UEL certificates. First, you have to join the association. There are branches across Canada. The closest to you would be either the Grand River Branch, that covers Kitchener, Brantford and Simcoe areas, or London and Western Ontario branch. Then you apply, giving proof that your ancestor was UEL and also providing birth certificates or baptism records to show that you are descended from that person. The link above is to the page that describes the process. There are links on it that show examples of the completed forms. There are a few Burwell ones there.
I hope you’re well, and I’ll email you very soon. Thanks.
Adam Burwell
18 Jan 2020Hey there, my dad is Mark Burwell, son of Blake Burwell who was shot and killed at age 37, in St.Thomas Ontario. I am Marks son, Adam, doing some digging to find out where my roots are.
If you have any other information that would be greatly appreciated!
Adam
Trudy Gee
9 Feb 2016Hi Dorothy I see with my dad Blake you have him with 2 children (boys) with his wife Judy. Can you send me a address so I can update you with his other 5 children before his marriage with Judy. Thanks Trudy
Trudy Gee
6 Feb 2016Hi my name is Trudy (Burwell ) Gee, daughter of Blake Burwell . This is very interesting , Peter and Alberta were my grandparents.
Dorothy
6 Feb 2016Hi Trudy, I’m still going through the photos and will post more. I’ll keep an eye out for ones with your dad. Glad you wrote and that you like them. Thanks.
Barbara Faye Roose (Burwell)
5 Feb 2016Really enjoyed your site! Youngest daughter of Bruce Burwell.
Dorothy
5 Feb 2016Hi Faye, glad you like the pics. I’m getting more ready to post, maybe tomorrow or Sunday. Thanks for writing.
Ada (Burwell) Blakley
5 Feb 2016Hi my name is Ada (Burwell) Blakley. I am the daughter of Bruce Burwell. Peter and Alberta were my
Grandparents. Find Your site very interesting
Dorothy
5 Feb 2016Hi Ada, on the same disk there are some gorgeous pictures of you and your siblings when you were kids. Also more of your parents that I will post as soon as I can. Keep checking, and thanks for writing.
Marilyn May
21 Nov 2015My mother was a Burwell. My uncle said we were related to the Burwell’s from Port Burwell. My great…….grandfather settled here in the states, his brother settled Port Burwell. At least that’s how the story goes. It was fun looking at your website.
Thanks, Marilyn May
Dorothy
22 Nov 2015Hi Marilyn, it’s nice to connect with other parts of the family. Thanks for writing.