Who's Who at Leamington Meeting Room, ON

• Leamington Meeting Room, Essex, ON
  • @ Chatham +1878-1999+

Correspondents

• William Burton Dunn +1901-1927+
• Mrs. Charlotte Simpson +1927+
• Loise Simpson +1927+
• Mrs. Bert Simpson +1944-1949+
• Bert Simpson +1951+
• Mrs. L. Sloan +1951+
• Mrs. G. Sloan +1951+
• Eugene Simpson +2005-2019
• Wally Simpson +2005-present
• John Daniel Chovan +2016-2022

Families

Barry family

• Armistead M. Barry, Jr. +1944-1973+

Block family

• Rutherford Block +1903-1911+

Campbell family

• William T. Campbell +1911-1917+

Chovan family

• John Daniel Chovan +2007-2022 (b. 1947 - d. Nov. 18, 2022 Ruthven, Kingsville, ON) see obit). He was Croatian by heritage, raised in Argentina to missionaries, and he also served the Lord in the West Indies. Son of John Chovan, Sr. He and his wife were married at Harrow Baptist Church in 1969.
• Zuska "Susan" Duga Chovan +2007-2022+

Downie family

• J. Downie +1878-1880+

Dunn family

Windsor Star: "William Burton Dunn, 98, retired manager of the Leamington branch of the Royal Bank of Canada, died Thursday at the Catherine Wilson Nursing Home in Windsor. Mr. Dunn was born in West Flamborough Township, near Dundas, Ont., and lived in Windsor for the past 11 years at the Riverdale Manor Apartments.

He began his banking career with a private bank in Brantford, and by 1901 had moved to Rodney where he managed the S.B. Morris & Co. bank. In 1903, he opened a branch of the Union Bank of Canada in Mount Brydges, Ont., and in 1905 moved to Leamington where he opened another branch of the Union Bank. In 1925, the Union Bank was absorbed by the Royal Bank of Canada, and Mr. Dunn continued as manager until his retirement in 1936. In 1958 he moved to Windsor."

Mr. Dunn was a member of the Leamington Public Library Board for many years, and was largely responsible for obtaining a grant from the Carnegie Institute to establish the library. During the First World War, he was in charge of the Canadian Patriotic Fund for the southern district of Essex County. He was a member of the Leamington Lawn Bowling Club for many years."

• William Burton Dunn +1901-1927+ (b. 1870 Sandwich East, Essex, ON - d. 1969 Windsor, ON), son of John Dunn (b. 1835 Ireland) & Annie Dunn (b. 1834 Ireland).
• Annie Olive Bunn Dunn (b. 1864; m. 1892 @ Courtright, ON; d. 1955), daughter of Thomas Bunn (b. 1819 Eng.) & Sarah O'Neill Bunn (b. 1834 Ireland). The Bunn family was PB possibly as early as 1871. In 1871, the family resided in Charlottenburg, Glengarry, ON, and by 1881 resided in Moore Twp., Lambton Co., and setup a table known as the Courtright Meeting Room (TW) which met thru at least 1894.
  • Howard Sidney Dunn. Wife (1924 @ Montreal, QC): Audrey Pearl Paterson Dunn, daughter of J.A. Paterson.
  • Arthur W. Dunn (Windsor, ON). Wife (1929 @ Detroit, MI): Marguerite C. Hueston Dunn, daughter of Eugene H. Hueston & Clara M. Lewis Hueston.

Gardiner family

• W.E. Gardiner +1911-1914+

Hanna family

• Thomas Hanna +1949-1951+

Moir family

• Robert Moir (b. 1820 Scotland). Wife: Margaret Davies Moir (b. 1825 Scot.)

• E.H. Moir +1923+
  • Donald Moir +1985+

Oldershaw family

• Albert Oldershaw +1933+

Pegley family

• C.E. Pegley +1879+

Rennie family

• Gordon Rennie +1999+

Scott family

• J.L. Scott +1889-1903+

Shaw family

• S.G. Shaw +1927-1933+

Simpson family

• Loise Simpson +1927+
  • possibly (b. 1842 Darnley, PEI - d. 1937 Sarnia, ON).

• Thomas Simpson (b. 1671 Alves, Moray, Scot.). Wife: Bessie Taylor Simpson (b. 1670 Moray, Scot.)
  • Walter Simpson (b. 1707 Haugh Arndilly, Scot. - d. 1819 Cavendish, PEI). Wife: Elspet Man Simpson (b. 1685 Haugh of Arndilly, Scot. - d. 1780 Cavendish, Scot.), daughter of John Man (1632-1740) & Elspet Shand Man (b. 1668).
    • William Simpson (b. 1733 Haugh Arndilly, Scot. - d. 1819 Cavendish, PEI). Wife: Janet Winchester Simpson (b. 1735 Frochabers, Elgin, Scot. - d. 1818 Cavendish, PEI).
      • James Simpson (b. 1770 Gerbity Moray, Scotland - d. 1850 Hope River, Queens, PEI). Wife (1798 @ Hope River, PEI): Agnes Nancy Woodside Simpson (b. 1778 Prince Town, PEI - d. 1841 Hope River, PEI), daughter of James Woodside (b. 1736 Irvine, Strathclyde, Scot. - d. 1824 Princetown, PEI) & Ann Love Woodside (b. 1741 Campbellton, Scot. - d. 1829 Princetown, PEI).
        • Robert Simpson (1799-1853). Wife: Janet May McNeill Simpson (1798-1878), daughter of John Malcolm McNeill (1750-1815) & Margaret Simpson McNeill (1759-1849). Margaret was a daughter of William Simpson (1733-1819) & Janet Winchester Simpson (1735-1818).
        • Hon. Jeremiah Simpson (1803-1877). Wife: Margaret McNeill Simpson (1807-1896), daughter of William Simpson McNeill, Sr. (1782-1870) & Eliza Bliss Townsend McNeill (1788-1869). William McNeil was a son of John Malcolm McNeill (1750-1815) & Margaret Simpson McNeill (1759-1849).
        • Ann L. Simpson Clark (1806-1856)
        • Alexander Simpson (1809-1884). Wife: Eliza McNeill (1814-1879), daughter of Malcolm McNeill (1784-1863) & Sarah Caroline Campbell McNeill (1786-1872).
        • John Simpson (1810-1900). Wife: Barbara Woodside Simpson (1812-1908), daughter of William Woodside (1794-1848) & Helen Montgomery Simpson (1794-1848).
        • William Simpson (1812/1818-1900).
        • Charlotte Simpson McNeill (1812-1885). Husband: Thomas McNeill (1816-1904)
        • Christy Simpson (b. 1814)
        • Margaret Simpson (1816-1865)
        • James Simpson (b. 1807 PEI - d. 1891). Wife: Jane Clark Simpson (b. 1813 PEI - d. 1893)
          • James Albert Simpson (1837-1840)
          • William Howard Simpson (b. 1839 Bayview, PEI - d. 1888 Chatham-Kent Co., ON). Wife (1871): Matilda Zimmerman Simpson (b. 1843 Nelson Twp., Halton, ON - d. 1912 Hamilton, ON). In 1871, William was a Presbyterian pastor in Nelson, Halton, ON. In 1880, he pastored in Madison, Jefferson, Indiana. By the time of his death, he had returned to Ontario.
          • Louisa Simpson (b. 1842 Darnley, Prince, PEI - d. 1937 Sarnia, Lambton, ON).
          • Albert Benjamin "A.B." Simpson (b. 1843 Bayview, PEI - d. 1919 Nyack, Rockland, NY). He was saved during the 1859 revival under the ministry of Henry Grattan Guinness, who in the 1870's published the Missionary Echo, the first open brethren missions newsletter. He spent some time in Chatham, Ontario, and studied Presbyterian theology at Knox College at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1865, as per his wiki, and was subsequently ordained by the Canadian Presbys. At the age of 21, he was pastoring the large Knox Presby. in Hamilton, Ontario. He subsequently pastored other Presby. churches including at Chestnut St. in Louisville, Kentucky starting in 1873, and Thirteenth St. in NYC by 1880. In 1881, he experienced a shift in theological positions to more of an evangelical one with continuationist leanings, and subsequently founded what became Nyack College and the Christian Missionary & Alliance denomination (now Alliance World Fellowship, and in 1882, allegedly published the first missionary journal with pictures. Wife (1865): Margaret Louis Henry (b. 1841 Toronto, ON - d. 1924 Nyack, NY), daughter of John Henry & Jane Martin Henry.
          • Margaret Jane Simpson (b. 1845 Bayview, PEI - d. 1847)
          • James Darnley Simpson +1881-1901 (1848-1901 Chatham, ON). In 1891, James was registered with the Presbys, but 1881 & 1901 as PB.
          • Peter "Gordon" Simpson +1881+ (1850-1897 Chatham-Kent, ON). Wife: Charlotte Amelia Moir Simpson +1881-1927+ (b. 1851 QC - d. 1938 Essex Co., ON), daughter of Robert Moir (b. 1820 Scotland) & Margaret Davies Moir (b. 1825 Scot.).
            • Amy Elizabeth Simpson Sloan +1881+ (b. 1876 ON - d. 1972). Husband: Lemuel Wendell Sloan (b. 1875 Mersea Twp., Essex, ON - d. 1961 Windsor, Essex, ON), son of James Thornton Sloan (1838-1888) & Isabella Fox Sloan (1837-1903).
            • Allan Gordon Simpson +1881+ (b. 1879 ON). Wife (1906): Margaret Eva Hodgkin Simpson (b. 1880 Merlin, Chatham-Kent, ON - d. 1947 Highland Park, MI), daughter of James Hodgkin & Margaret Mills Hodgkin. In 1906, Allan was employed as a printer, and residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1898. By 1910, he resided in Detroit, MI, still working as a printer.
              • James Gordon Simpson (1907-1925 Highland Park, Wayne, MI) died at the age of 17 of heart disease.
            • Albert "Bert" James Simpson +1951+ (1881-1957). Wife: Jean McMurdo Simpson +1944-1951+ (b. 1884 - d. 1982 Leam., ON).
              • Allan Fleming Simpson (b. 1910 Glendale, AZ - d. 1995 Leam., ON). Wife: Viola Hetherington Simpson (b. 1911 Fort Macleod, Claresholm, AB - d. 1992 Leam., ON), daughter of Thomas Ridley Hetherington (b. 1869 Allendale, Northumberland, Eng. - d. 1940 Leam., ON) & Melissa Ann Mifflin Hetherington (b. 1878 Tilbury East, Chatham-Kent, ON - d. 1949 Mersea Twp., Essex, ON).
                • Eugene Simpson +1962-2019 (1940-2019). See obit. Saved in 1963.
          • Elizabeth Eleanor Simpson (1852-1856 Bayview, PEI)

Sloan families

• Mrs. G. Sloan +1951+
• Mrs. L. Sloan +1951+

Sparks family

• Jacob Sparks +1889-1933+

Stewart family

• Alexander Stewart +1944+

Stringer family

• Nelson Stringer +1914-1927+

Ward family

• Wilfred Ward +1933+

Weston family

• Ronald Weston +1944-1985+

Sources

• EB/TW AB's 1878-2021
• Ancestry.com
  • Windsor Star: 1969-1-24, p. 7