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Note for: Janet Fraser McLennan, 20 Oct 1873 - 1945 Index

Individual Note:
1. Postmaster from 1918 to 1925 as follows:
Name of office: Pinkerton
Federal Electoral District: Bruce (Ontario)
Dates: Establishment
re-openings Closings
1860-07-01 1969-02-28
Postmaster Information:
Name of postmaster Military status Date of birth Date of appointment Date of vacancy Cause of vacancy
Mathew Pinkerton 1860-07-01 1866-11-24 Resignation
Samuel A. King 1868-10-01 1885-05-18 Resignation
Robert Keyes 1885-07-01 1891-07-11 Resignation
R.W. Geary 1891-08-01 1898-03-26 Resignation
J.B. Campbell 1898-05-01 1912-05-18 Resignation
Albert Pinkerton 1912-05-28 1918 Death
Mrs. Janet Pinkerton 1918-05-30 1925-01-05 Resignation
Herbert Leroy Cramm 1898-05-18 1925-02-16 1965-05-17 Retirement

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Note for: Myrtle Aileen Pinkerton, 14 Nov 1898 - 6 Aug 1982 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Douglas Hill Cemetery, Eden Grove, Ontario, Canada

Individual Note:
     1. Walkerton Aug 12, 1982 - Aillen Connell Was Widely Travelled
    Myrtle Aileen Connell passed away in the Bruce County Hospital after a short illness on August 6th, in her 84th year.

She was born in Pinkerton in 1898, the eldest daughter of Albert and Janet Pinkerton.

Aileen's childhood and early youth were spent in the village which bears her family name. She attended public school at S.S. No. 5, the old stone school west of Pinkerton. She went to High School in Walkerton, and graduated from Stratford Normal School in 1918.

At this point her father having died, Aileen returned to Pinkerton to assist her mother in running the family business, the Pinkerton General Store.

In 1923 she married Thomas Gordon Connell, the CNR Agent at Pinkerton Station (which was actually located in the nearby village of Eden Grove). They lived in Eden Grove untill 1929.

Over the next two decades Gordon, Aileen and family moved several times to other railway postings. They resided in Ayton until 1937, In Ripley until 1943, and then moved to Elmira. During this period Aileen's two children were born, Jim in Eden Grove and Kathryn in Ayton (Hanover Hospital).

Gordon Connell died in 1943 shortly after moving to Elmira. Since her family was now growing up, Aileen began a second career in the business world, which lasted until 1968. She held a series of clerical and payroll positions with several companies in Ontario and abroad.

During the 1950's, she discovered the pleasures of international travel. She journeyed to the British Isles and toured extensively through England, Scotland, Ireland and later France and Italy. She found employment in London, England, and worked there for about two years. SHe then travelled to South Africa, wheere she again explored the country and eventually found a job.

During many of these travels, she was accomanied by her daughter, Kathryn, who also had the urge to see the world. By 1959, however she was ready to return to Canada. Now an experienced traveller, she came back via a cargo boat, which visited Durban Mauritius, Capetown, the Congo, and crossed the Atlantic to Montreal.

Aileen then re-established a home in her favorite spot, the village of Pinkerton. She purchased and renovated the little white house which for many years had been the home of the McCormacks, - "Mrs. Mac" and Jennie. She continued to work in Toronto and used her Pinkerton home as a week-end retreat.

In 1968, having reached her 70th year, Aileen attempted a new career, - retirement. In many ways, this was the happiest period of her life. She made her home in Pinkerton and participated in community affairs. In addition she returned to South Africa every second winter to visit her daughter and son-in-law, and her grandchildren, James and Keith Abbott.

In all, she travelled the long flight to Jahannesburg seven times in these years, and completed her last such journey, though even in failing health, at the age of 81.

Finally and reluctantly she spent the last year and a half of her life in Union Villa Retirement Home in Unionville, Ont.

Death came during a final visit to her home in Pinkerton. Services were held August 9th at Tanner and Pearson Funeral Home in Walkerton, with interment at Douglas Hill Cemetery, Eden Grove.

Aileen had a long and gratifying life. She had many friends at home and overseas. She will sadly be missed by those who knew her.

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Note for: Jessie Marie Pinkerton, 1902 - 26 Jul 1987 Index

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1. Obituary: MARIE PINKERTON - Miss Marie Pinkerton of Pinkerton died on Sunday, July 26, 1987 at the County of Bruce General Hospital, Walkerton. She was 85. Dear sister of Alberta Scott of Walkerton, Gordon and Elwood of Pinkerton. She was predeceased by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pinkerton, one sister and three brothers. Family received friends at the Tanner and Pearson Funeral Home, Walkerton, where funeral and comittal services were held on Tuesday, July 28. Rev William McKaig officiated. interment in Douglas Hill Cemetery, Brant Township.

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Note for: Everett Stanley Pinkerton, 1906 - 21 Dec 1986 Index

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1. Obituary: EVERETT PINKERTON - Everett Pinkerton of Pinkerton, died at the County of Bruce General Hospital, Wlakerton on Sunday December 21, 1986. he was in his 80. Dear brother of Marie Pinkerton, Elwood and Gordon, all of Pinkerton, and Alberta Scott of Walkerton; dear Uncle of Kathryn Abbott of South Africa, Jim Connell of Toronto and Jim Scott of Cambridge. He was predeceased by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pinkerton; one sister Aileen (Mrs. Gordon Connell), two brothers Harvey, Roland. Family received friends at the Tanner and Pearson Funeral Home, Walkerton, where funeral and committal services were held on Tuesday December 23. Rev. William McKaig officiated. Spring interment in Douglas Hill Cemetery. Memorial donations to the Pinkerton United Church would be gratefully acknowledged as expressions of sympathy.

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Note for: Harold Pinkerton, 8 Feb 1892 - 9 Mar 1959 Index

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1. Obituary published in Pinkerton - Harold Pinkerton Dies At Edmonton
PINKERTON - Word was received here recently of the sudden death of Harold Pinkerton in Edmonton, Alta. He was the eldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. David Pinkerton and was in his 67th year.

Mr Pinkerton went overseas in 1914 with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles and was later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. He moved to Edmonton in 1925 and resided there until his death.

He leaves to mourn his wife, one daughter, Patricia and a brother Lloyd Pinkerton.

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Note for: Amy Kathleen Pinkerton, 19 Dec 1894 - 1 Feb 1979 Index

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1. Obituary Feb 1, 1979: PINKERTON - Former Resident Passes Away. Word was received last week of the passing of a former resident in the person of Kathleen Pinkerton, Mrs (Rev) James Gale of Ridgeway. Kathleen was a daughter of David and Jessie Pinkerton and spent her early years in the Village. She married Jim Gale, son of a former pastor, Rev. R. M. Gale, minister of the Presbyterian Church 1914 -18. Jim followed in the steps of his father and studued for the ministry of the Presbyterian Church and after union, the United Church of Canada. He held many Pastorates and at the time of his retirement, was the minister of the historic United Church in Ridgeway with its memorial to the soldiers of the war with the United States in 1812 - 1814. Kathleen like to recall her early years when her father's clydedale drank the container of homeade lemonade they had prepared for the Sunday School Picnic. At the time of her death, Kathleen was 85 years of age. On her last visit to the Village Sister Scholastica (Agnes Knox) recalled that a trio attending the local school - Agnes Knox, Nellie Donnelly and Kathleen, all had connections with the religious way of life. Agnes and Nellie entered Catholic Orders, and Kathleen as a ministers wife helped him serve the United Church. She is survived by Hugh, now retired at Inverhuron, Bill of Port Colborne, and Marion of Ridgeway. Also by a sister Jennie (Mrs. Don Maclennan of Corunna, and a brother Lloyd of this village. Harold Birrell is a nephew, and Marie Campbell of Walkerton is a niece. To the bereaved we extend sincere sympathy in the loss of sister and aunt.

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Note for: David Lloyd Pinkerton, 6 Jul 1899 - 29 May 1983 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Douglas Hill Cemetery, Eden Grove, Ontario, Canada

Individual Note:
     1.Funeral Announcement - PINKERTON - Lloyd; suddenly on Sunday, May 29th 1983 in his 84th year. Lloyd Pinkerton of Pinkerton. Beloved husband of the former Christina Robinson, dear father of Peggy (Mrs. Curtis Johnson) of Palgrave, Jim at home, Chuck and Bob, both of Georgetown and Bill at home. Also survived by twelve grandchildren, four great gradchildren and preseceased by one son Jack. Friends may call at the W. Kent Milroy Funeral Home Paisley Chapel, 216 Queen Street South in Paisley after 2:00 pm Monday. Funeral service in the chapel on Tuesday at 2:00pm. Interment Douglas Hill Cemetery. Memorial Contributions to the Knox Memorial United Church, Pinkerton would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. Dunedin No845 I.O.O.F. of Glammis, will hold a Memorial Service in the Funeral Home this evening at 8:00pm.

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Note for: Christina K. Robinson, 28 Jan 1898 - 2 Nov 1985 Index

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1. Obituary: PINKERTON, Christina: On November 2, 1985 at the County of Bruce General Hospital, Walkerton. Mrs. Christina Pinkerton of the village of Pinkerton, in her 87th year. Predeceased by her husband Llyod, a son Jack, a sister Mrs. Elizabeth Hyde, and brothers Alexander, Albert, Charles and Robert. Mrs. Pinkerton is survived by sons Jim and Bill in Pinkerton, Chuck in Georgetown and Bob in Hillsburgh; a daughter Peggy (Mrs. Curtis Johnson), of Palgrave; a sister Mrs. Ethel Brown of Thunder Bay; 12 Grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Born on January 28, 1898, in Bruce Township, she was the daughter of the late Charles Robinson and the late Margaret MacKenzie. Mrs Pinkerton attended the Knox Memorial United Church in Pinkerton, and was a member of the Erna Rebekah Lodge in Paisley, a life member of the UCW, and a member of the Women's Institute. Funeral services were held November 3, from the W. Kent Milroy Funeral Chapel, Paisley with the Rev. William McKaig officiating. Interment was at Douglas Hill Cemetery.

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Note for: Jesse Lloyd, 11 Jan 1787 - 27 Sep 1838 Index

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1. Jesse, the son of William Lloyd and Susannah Heacock was born in Pennsylvania, but travelled to King Township with his parents. There he married Phoebe Crossley, who was only fourteen years of age. They had fourteen children together. Lloydtown, a small community in King Township, was named after Jesse and Phoebe Lloyd, its first settlers. (It was first called Lloyd's Town, but then changed to the present name). In 1824, he built a sawmill in Tecumseh Township to provide the lumber for the grist mill which he erected in King in 1826. In the 1830;s the village became a rallying point of the Mackenzie uprising. Jesse Lloyd was a chief associate of Mackenzie. By this point, he had been expelled from the Quaker Monthly Meeting. He held meetings in his house and helped plan the attack on York. Several Lloydtown men participated in the historic march from Montgomery's Tavern. After the failure of the rebellion, Lloyd fled to the United States, with a price of 500pounds being put on his head. He died a year later at the age of 53.

2. (From: Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online; http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=37626)
LLOYD, JESSE, businessman, office holder, rebel, and farmer; b. 11 Jan. 1786 in Springfield Township, Pa, third son of William Lloyd and Susannah Heacock; m., reportedly in 1813, Phoebe Crossley, and they had at least ten children; d. 27 Sept. 1838 in Tippecanoe County, Ind.

3. There is some evidence to suggest that William Lloyd and his family arrived at Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.) in 1788 but soon returned to the United States. They probably immigrated to Upper Canada at about the same time as their youngest son, Jesse, who arrived early in 1808. Family members settled in King and Whitchurch townships, with Jesse renting a clergy reserve lot in the latter. Descended from a long line of Quakers, he joined the Yonge Street Meeting of the Society of Friends in 1814, but did not take an active role in the meeting. By renting a clergy reserve, he was violating one of the rules of the meeting, which opposed state-supported churches. He did, however, refuse to send his team of horses for use during the War of 1812, when ordered to do so, because of his Quaker beliefs.

In 1824 Lloyd bought a lot in Tecumseth Township on which he is reported to have built a sawmill. By 1828 he had turned his attentions to King Township, where his father had a sawmill and served as a township officer. Over the next five years Jesse leased, bought, or tried to buy several lots, mainly clergy reserves in the northwest part of King. On 60 acres of one lot he constructed mills, which he soon sold, and set aside numerous town-lots which he also sold, thus creating the village of Lloydtown. By the mid 1830s this had become one of the largest and most prosperous communities north of York (Toronto). Lloyd himself built a substantial brick house near the village. His success, however, did have a price. In 1836 his eye for good property involved him in a dispute with an "impoverished" widow over a clergy reserve lot, and he lost money when the Executive Council ruled against him. Five years earlier his membership in the Yonge Street Meeting had been cancelled because of non-attendance. This action appears to have ended his involvement with the Quakers, although he and his wife continued to dress in the simple garments of the members of that faith.

Political activities had increasingly occupied Lloyd's time. Between 1829 and 1836 he held elected office in King every year but one, serving as an overseer of highways or poundkeeper or township commissioner. He also became involved in provincial politics. In 1834 he was elected to a convention to choose reform candidates for the upcoming general election. Exactly when and where Lloyd had met and become a supporter of William Lyon Mackenzie* is not known, but it probably occurred during the latter's electoral campaigns of the early 1830s. Mackenzie was familiar with Lloydtown as early as 1831, and Lloyd, a leading voice in the area, was definitely a close friend and partisan of the reform leader by the mid 1830s.

In 1837 reformers, disillusioned with the actions of Lieutenant Governor Sir Francis Bond Head*, instigated under the impetus of the Toronto group the formation of political unions to voice the desire for reform. Lloyd was active in the King society and in forming societies in neighbouring townships. He appears to have been involved from the beginning once Mackenzie had decided there had to be a rebellion. When John Rolph* needed evidence, in October 1837, that Lower Canadian reformers were prepared to rebel, Lloyd was dispatched to Montreal to secure proof. The letter he brought back from Thomas Storrow Brown* did not contain the needed statement but Mackenzie read between the lines, insisting that there was a hidden message of rebellion. Since Lloyd made no denial, it would appear that he was cooperating with Mackenzie in his plan to push their supporters into rebellion by misinforming them.

Mackenzie met in mid November with several leading men from the Home District to convince them that there was support for an uprising and that a demonstration of forceful resolve was all that was needed to change the government. Lloyd was there, presumably supporting Mackenzie's claims. He also helped to raise and lead a large contingent from the Lloydtown area, which became known as a hot-bed for rebellious activity. This group was said to be the best trained and most determined of the rebels who gathered at Montgomery's Tavern north of Toronto.

Following their defeat on 7 December, Lloyd fled to the United States. A government notice offering �500 for his capture described him as having "long straight hair rather thin and turning gray - stoops very much in his gait, has scarcely any teeth left - one remarkably prominent, which is much observed when he speaks, very round-shouldered, and speaks with a strong Yankee accent, height about five feet ten or eleven inches; generally dresses in a drab or brown homespun clothing." Lloyd's name was so well recognized that Mackenzie used it when he drew up a list of "Provisional Government" officials on Navy Island later in December. Lloyd, however, took little or no part in events along the border. In 1838 he went to live in Indiana, where in the fall he caught a fever and died. Although he had been successful in developing Lloydtown, his estate was modest, consisting mainly of livestock, and the farm itself was only partially paid for. Since Lloyd had been an absconding rebel, his wife had to petition for the right to pay off the remainder owed so that she could retain it.

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Note for: John Pinkerton, 22 Aug 1844 - Index

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1. 1901 Canada Censu: Ontario,Essex Southt Dist no 60, Colchester North Sub Dist c1, Page 6:
Line 21, Family 55, Pinkerton, David, Male, White, Head, Widowed, Born 1 June, 1841, Age 59, Born Ontario, Ethic Background Irish, Citizenship Canadian, Religion Presby, Farmer.
Line 22, Family 55, Pinkerton, Ralph, Male, White, Son, Single, Born 7 Nov, 1872, Age 28, Born Ontario, Ethic Background Irish, Citizenship Canadian, Religion Presby.
Line 23, Family 55, Pinkerton, Ella, Female, White, Daughter, Single, Born 16 April, 1875, Age 25, Born Ontario, Ethic Background Irish, Citizenship Canadian, Religion Presby.
Line 24, Family 55, Pinkerton, John, Male, White, Brother, Widowed, Born 22 Aug, 1844, Age 56, Born Ontario, Ethic Background Irish, Citizenship Canadian, Religion Presby, Farmer.
Line 25, Family 55, Pinkerton, Levi, Male, White, Brother, Single, Born 15 Dec, 1852, Age 48, Born Ontario, Ethic Background Irish, Citizenship Canadian, Religion Presby, Farmer.

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Note for: William Pinkerton, 12 Dec 1842 - Index

Baptism:
     Date:   22 Feb 1844
     Place:   King Township, York County, Ontario, Canada

Christening:
     Date:   22 Feb 1844
     Place:   King Township, York County, Ontario, Canada

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     1. Westleyan Methodist Baptisms, transcribed by Ida Reed, Volume 1, Page 408, Simcoe District, W. Gilliambury Twp, William Pinkerton, father Matthew, mother Margaret, residence King, born King, birth date 1842-12-27, baptism date 1844-02-22, Bapt. Place - W. guilliambury, Minister Mcnab, Rev Alex

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Note for: David Brown Pinkerton, 1 Jun 1841 - Index