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BACON -- Seeking information about ancestors and descendants of Benjamin Bacon 1767-1847 buried Bloomsburg, married Mary “Polly” Howe. Children: Ira Howe 1803-1889, Gad Scott 1805-1886, Abiger Merrill c1809, Phebe Mariah 1810-1850, Phila. 1810-1840, Amanda Lois 1815-, Barnabus Jacob 1817-1888, Charlotte 1818-1855, Elias Nelson c1822, Mary Ann.  Contact: Marilyn Cross, Brantford, Ontario [Query renewed Jun 2010]

BAYS -- Seeking information about Thomas Bays of Charlotteville (1830-1905), his wife,  children and descendants. 
Contact: June Bays Faber of Buffalo, New York [Query posted Jul 2009]
  

BEAM -- Lornie Beam Lawrence born 11 Jul 1888 in Windham township, was the son of Sylvester Lawrence and Rebecca Catherine Beam. Lornie was raised by his grandparents, Aaron Beam and Sarah Ann Miller, after his mother died in childbirth and appears living with them age 12, on the 1901 Census. What happened to Lornie? Did he marry? When did he die? Where is he buried? Contact: Howard Ray Lawrence of Sierra-Nevada Mountains, California [Query renewed Jun 2010] 

BEECRAFT -- Seeking information about William Henry Beecraft (born 1845, died 14 Oct 1915) who married Harriet Bye (born 1849, died 11 Jul 1929). They are buried in Walsh United Cemetery. Their daughter Erie Mabel Beecraft married Robert Hagyard. 
Contact: Allan Loder of Hamilton, Ontario [Query posted Feb 2009] 

BELL -- Seeking information about John Bell of Charlotteville Township who in 1812 received a grant of 400 acres in Lots 3 and 6, Concession 3, Rainham Township. Also seeking information about John Bell (c. 1805-1884) who is buried in Chalmers Cemetery in Walpole Township and his wife Elizabeth Jackson (died 1891) and his son John T. Bell (1853-1935) and his wife Maria Williamson (1859-1923) in Rainham Township, Norfolk/Haldimand County. Contact: Norman A. Bell, Owen Sound, Ontario [Query renewed Jun 2010]

BERDAN -- Seeking information about Albert Berdan and family, New Jersey, New Brunswick and Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County, pre-1753 to present; and their descendants. Contact: Mrs. Darlene Ruch, Fort Erie, Ontario [Query renewed Jun 2010]

BERDAN -- Seeking information about Daniel Berdan born 1792, Totowa, Bergan County, New Jersey, son of Albert Berdan and Susannah Secord, who married Nancy [Butler?]. Lived in Woodhouse, Norfolk County 1812- about 1820.  Sold his Crown Grant in Yarmouth, Elgin County 1820, then disappears, possibly to New Jersey. Son Jacob Berdan, born 1824 in USA, in Malahide, Elgin County in 1850. Where did Daniel go? Were there other children?
Contact: Mrs. Darlene Ruch U.E, Fort Erie, Ontario [Query renewed Jun 2010]

BEZZO -- Seeking information about the birth family of Charles Messias Bezzo who was born 11 May 1831 in Port Dover, Norfolk County. Charles married Mary Ann Smith of Windham Township, Norfolk County 24 Nov 1856 at Forestville, Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County. They had six children. Charles died 16 Jun 1912 in Clinton, Huron County, Ontario. Who were Charles' parents? 
Contact: Heather Morton, Toronto, Ontario [Query posted Apr 2010]

BLOOMFIELD -- Seeking information about David Bloomfield time in Norfolk. Born circa 1795 in New Brunswick, David's arrival date in Norfolk County unknown, as is the name of his children's mother and their residence in Windham Township. Children: John, Clarissa, Eliza, David and Sarah were born 1825-1842. David (with no wife) and children are in Brantford Township, Brant County for the 1851-52 census. John and Clarissa may be twins. Seeking details and descendants. Contact: Frances Bishop, Kamloops, B.C. [Query revised Jun 2010]

BOSTWICK -- Seeking information about Colonel John Bostwick of Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County and Port Stanley, Elgin County, Ontario (1810-on), his wife Polly Ryerson, their seven children and any descendants.
Contact: Thomas A. Ryerson, Ingersoll, Ontario. Mr. Ryerson co-authored the 1994 genealogy coffee table book: Ryerse-Ryerson Family
[Query renewed Jul 2011]

BRADLEY -- Seeking descendants from the family of Henry Bradley who married Abigail Freeman in New Brunswick then moved to Windham Township, Norfolk County before 1851. Their children’s names: Angus, Victoria, Amelia, Matilda, and Henry, some born in NB some in Maine. Contact: Rose Staples UE, Maple Ridge, New Brunswick [Query posted Jun 2010]

BROCK -- Seeking information on all Norfolk County members of the Brock family, especially those of Port Dover. Contact: Daniel J. Brock, London, Ontario [Query renewed May 2010]

BROUGHTON -- Seeking information about the descendants of Asa Broughton (born 1768) and his wife Mary (born 1788), a daughter of UEL Isaac Horton. Asa and Mary's son John Broughton (born 1824) married Catherine Wiley (born 1821). John and Catherine's son Joseph Nelson Broughton (1867-1940 in Norfolk County) and his wife Bertha A. Beecraft (died 23 Aug 1928 in Norfolk County). I think Joseph and Bertha were buried in Walsh United Cemetery (no stone survives). Also seeking information about Joseph's son William Broughton, born 1 Feb 1898 in Windham Township. William was an Evangelist/Methodist. He married Laura J. Lalonde (1924-1955) in Ottawa. He lived on Windham Street, Simcoe in the 1930s. He left his family and rumor has it he went to Alberta. I would like to find his final resting place to complete this family history. Contact: Russell Smith of Burlington, Ontario 
[Query renewed Jun 2010]

BROWN -- Seeking information about Holden Brown (1811 - ) and his wife Elizabeth Kennedy (1821 - ) who appear on the 1851 census living in Charlotteville Township. It's believed that they were married 28 Aug 1843 at St. John's Anglican. Would like information on their parents/siblings and when they died. Their children were living with William and Eliza Cope on the 1861 census of Charlotteville Township, so I'm assuming Holden and Elizabeth died between 1856-1861. Would also like info on what happened to their four youngest children. Their children were: 
Margaret Brown (1845- ) who married Thomas Gamble; 
Elizabeth Brown (1848-1942) who married Daniel William Buckley (my ancestor); 
Samuel Brown (1849- ); Sarah Brown (1850- ); Mary Ann Brown (1853- ) and Dorothy Brown (1856- ). Contact: Jo Rosseter of North Bay, Ontario [Query posted Oct 2009]

BUTLER -- Seeking information about the family of Robert Butler who married Catherine Hogan on 10 May 1892 at Our Lady of LaSalette Church. 
Contact:  Greg Hogan, Sarnia, Ontario [Query renewed Jun 2010]