Catherine — . [Group Sheet]

1. Kevin Allen was born 18 Dec.
2. Noel Allen was born 18 Dec.

Robert married Marjorie Grace Oulton [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AltBirth: 1905
• Occupation: Dec 1936, Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; automobile salesman
• Residence: Aug 1965, Brantford, , Ontario, Canada
• AltDeath: 25 Feb 1973, Brantford, , Ontario, Canada
• Obituary: Aft 25 Feb 1973, Brantford, Brant, Ontario, Canada; Brantford Expositor

Notes:

-RO Self-employed largely

-RO Personality/Interests: Violin, fishing, hunting

-RO varied

-RO At an early age, he moved to Toronto to upgrade his education: high school and college. During the Depression of the 1920s, William worked for a Toronto firm selling life insurance. At some point, he moved back to Baie Verte, NB.

-RO He served in the Canadian Army from 11 May 1942 to 30 July 1946 at Debert Station, Nova Scotia. William served as a departmental clerk in the Royal Canadian Ordnance Core. He received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal at the end of the war.

-RO In civilian life, he had his own car dealership in Amherst, NS called Nash Sales. Later on, he worked as a car salesman for different dealers. He also worked at carpenter work: he build the family home in Debert Station, NS.

-RO In 1950, he and Grace Oulton and family moved from Debert Station, NS to Brantford, Ontario, where they purchased a house at 81, Murray Street. In Brantford, he had his own business in industrial roofing, and worked at the Cockshut Farm plant on Mohawk Street.

-RO In his spare time, he liked to play the violin, to fish and to hunt.

ID= OU 1111426

NAME:.. Oulton - Catherine Dickie, 3/2/94 WIF: moved to Calgary

NAME:William C Oulton BD:1905 DD:1973

Obituary:

Obituary

Oulton - At the Hamilton General Hospital on Sunday, February 25, 1973. William C. Oulton in his 67th year; beloved husband of Grace Smith, 141 Elgin Street; dear father of William H.; Neil, Mrs. Theodore (Ruth) Smerka all of Brantford, Mrs Peter (Dorothy) Hardy of Clarkson, Mrs Robert (Marjorie) Allen of Calgary, Mrs Kenneth (June) Halliday of Fort Saskatchewan, brother of Robert, Reginald, Mrs Minnie Gorvatt and Mrs Ross (Grace) Chapman, all of Nova Scotia, Mrs Wilson (Mame) Allen, New Brunswick; also 12 grandchildren. Resting at Hill and Robinson Limited, Funeral Home, Nelson and Queen Streets until Wednesday. Service in the chapel at 2 o'clock. Interment Mount Hope Cemetery. Reverend John MacCallum will officiate.

[provided by Randal Oulton]

Buried:
Lot # W1/25 19-H

William married Grace Isabel Smith 2 Dec 1936, Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. Grace (daughter of William Renaldo Smith and Lily Victoria Oulton) was born 18 Feb 1912, Shinimicas, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; died Bef May 2006. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AltBirth: 18 Feb 1912, Baie Verte, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada
• Residence: Nov 1961, Brandford, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: Jul 2001, Calgary, , Alberta, Canada

Notes:

-RO Nursing

-RO Went through high school (Cumberland County Academy) in Amherst, and college and received her degree in nursing. As part of her nursing education, she studied at the Royal Victoria in Montreal.

ID= OU 1111973

NAME:Grace Isobel Smith - Catherine Dickie, 3/2/94 PARN: HUS: .. Oulton moved to Calgary

Notes:

Married:
she 25, he 30

Other Events:

• Occupation: farmer and Lumberman
• Residence: Jolicure, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada
• AltDeath: 8 Dec 1872
• AltDeath: 21 Jul 1873, , , New Brunswick, Canada
• Census: 1891, Westmorland Parish, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada
• Occupation: 1891; laborer
• Residence: Bef Apr 1895, Baie Verte, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada
• Occupation: Dec 1931, Baie Verte, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada; a farmer
• Residence: Dec 1931, Baie Verte, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada
• AltDeath: 11 Dec 1931, Baie Verte, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada

Notes:

ID= OU 111142

NAME:Major H Oulton - Catherine Dickie 18/10/92 PARN: BD:1872 DD:1931 MD: MP: WIF: of Baie Verte, NB; married by Rev Benjamin Hills

ID= OU 111141

NAME:Major Oulton - 1891 Census, Westmorland Co, Westmorland P(150-1) PARN: BP: OCC:Laborer age 20; Methodist

-RO other info says burial place is Baie Verte

-RO Farming and timber

-RO Family also had twins, died at birth.

-RO Was cutting wood for a sawmill from his woodlot. Had horse harnessed to pull the woodpile. The horse, spooked by a black bear, bolted, and one of the logs that came down caught him across the back. A year later, cancer set in and he died.

-RO MD:1894 MP:Baie Verte, NB BD: BP: DD: DP:

Birth:
year only on headstone

Census:
20 in 1891 census

AltDeath:
year only on headstone

Major married Maretta Jane Mills 29 Apr 1895, Pugwash, , Nova Scotia, Canada. Maretta was born 22 Jun 1872, Linden, , Nova Scotia, Canada; died 30 Aug 1965, Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried , Baie Verte Cemetery, Baie Verte, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AltBirth: 1875
• Misc: Aug 1965; 22 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; and six great great grandchildren
• Obituary: 31 Aug 1965, Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Chronicle Herald, p.23

Notes:

-RO Housewife

-RO Also had twins who died at birth

NAME:Marette J Mills - Catherine Dickie 18/10/92 BD:1875 DD: MD: MP: HUS: of Linden; name also given as Neretta J Mills; married by Rev. Benjamin Hills

Obituary:

Obituary

MRS. F. F. CHAPMAN
AMHERST - Mrs Frank F. Chapman, 90, of Baie Verte, N.B. died Monday
morning at Highland View Hospital, Amherst. She was in poor health for
the past year. The former Maretta Jane Mills, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Mills of Linden, she lived all her adult life in Baie Verte. Due to ill health she spent the past year in Amherst with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr and Mrs Ross Chapman. She was a member of the United Church of Upper Tidnish, the United Church Women's Unit of Tidnish Bridge, and a former member of the Women's Institute of Baie Verte. Her first husband, Major H. Oulton of Baie Verte, died in 1931, a daughter Alberta (Mrs. R. A. Davey) of Toronto and a son Herbert Oulton of Hudson, Mass., both died in 1960. Besides her second husband, Frank F. Chapman, she is survived by three daughters, Mayme (Mrs. Wilson Allen) of Baie Verte; Minnie (Mrs. Roland Gorveatte); Grace (Mrs. Ross F. Chapman) both of Amherst; three sons, William Oulton of Brantford, Ont.; Robert and Reginald Oulton of Amherst; a sister, Mrs. Alma Wood of Amherst; 22 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; and six great great grandchildren. Her body is at Furlong's Funeral Home. The funeral service will be at St. James United Church, Baie Verte, Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., conducted by Rev. Nathan Mair. Burial will be in the Baie Verte Cemetery.
(From the Halifax Chronicle Herald Newspaper, published Tuesday, 31 August 1965, page 23.)

Died:
year only on headstone

Notes:

Married:
he was 22; she was 21

Other Events:

• Occupation: lumberman
• AltBirth: 15 Feb 1885
• AltBirth: 4 Feb 1886, Shinimicas, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Residence: Bef 1921, Baie Verte, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada
• Residence: Between 1921 and Nov 1961, Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Obituary: 25 Nov 1961, Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; the Chronicle Herald

Notes:

NAME: - Catherine Dickie, 3/2/94 PARN: BD: DD: WIF:

-RO Owner of a limber mill

-RO Their house in Amherst was near intersection of Willow and Victoria East. They lived there for 25 years or more. He married Reena sometime after 1950. By this time, all the children had moved out.

Obituary:


Obituary

AMHERST - The death of William Renaldo Smith occurred suddenly at his home on Eddy Street. He was 75 and a well known lumberman. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Smith of Shinimicas. Besides his second wife Rena, he is survived by three daughters, Maude (Mrs. B.C. Gray) Edmundston, N.B.; Mrs. W.C. Oulton, Brantford, Ont.; Mrs. H.M. Ogden, East Amherst; six sons, Layton, Halifax; Arnold, Shinimicas Bridge; Victor, Tyndal Road; Austin, Shinimicas Bridge; Harold, Amherst and Allison, Oxford; three step-children Todd T. Trenholm, Baie Verte Road, Mrs. Robert Oulton, Amherst and Mrs. Layton Cameron, Amherst. The late Mr. Smith will rest at Furlongs Funeral Home. The funeral service will be held in the Shinimicas Bridge Church Sunday afternoon at 2:30.

[From the Halifax Chronicle Herald Newspaper, 25 November 1961.]

William married Lily Victoria Oulton 31 Jul 1907, , Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. Lily (daughter of Rufus Manuel Melvin Oulton and Sarah Jane Weeks) was born 17 Apr 1887, Baie Verte Road, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada; died 6 Oct 1947, Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried 8 Oct 1947, United Church Cemetery, Shinimicas, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1891, Westmorland Parish, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada
• Residence: Jun 1942, Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada
• AltDeath: Sep 1947
• AltDeath: 18 Oct 1947, Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Notes:

-RO buried next to husband

-RO Housewife

ID= OU 111197

NAME:Lillie Oulton - 1891 Census, Westmorland Co, Westmorland P (203-1) PARN: BP: age 4; Methodist

NAME:Lillie Victoria Oulton - Catherine Dickie, 3/2/94 BD: DD: HUS:

-RO Lily Victoria Oulton

Census:
4 in 1891 census