Who's Who at Clinton Township Meeting Room, ON

Clinton Township Meeting Room aka Beamsville Meeting Room, Pelham Union, Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada

(EB) +1861+

Notable Alumni

Bradt family +1861+

Listed as "Disciple" in 1851. There was a farming family nearby named Jacob Overholt who was listed as an Evangelist in 1851, as well as Jacob Grott.

• Joseph H. Bradt (b. 1807 - d. 1861 Beamsville, Niagara, ON) +1861 laborer
• 1832 m. Deborah King Bradt (b. 1811 ON - d. 1900 Detroit, MI) +1861+;
  • Deborah lived in Detroit by 1880.
  • Deborah was the dau. of Jno. King (b. D.C.) & Sary Huntsberry King (b. PA)

Children

• Joseph Simon Bradt (b. 1834 Beamsville, ON - d. 1903 Detroit, MI) +1861+ carpenter
  • 1867 @ Lincoln m. Mary Ann Ryms (b. 1835 Switzerland), dau. of James & Mary Ryms. Ch:
    • Owen L. Bradt (b. 1869 St. George, ON) printer
      • 1893 m. Minnie M. Kerwin (b. 1872 Detroit, MI), dau. of John M. & Josephine Kerwin; Owen was Congregationalist & Minnie was Catholic; div. 1910.
    • Emma J. Bradt Allen (b. 1872) m. Samuel George Allen (b. 1870 Pittsburgh, Frontenac, ON)
    • Mary Belle Bradt (b. 1867) m. J.M. Spaulding
• Elizabeth Jane Bradt Mellick (b. 1833 ON) m. Peter Mellick (1822-1878 Detroit, MI)

Parsons family +1861+

William Newton Parsons' parents were James Parsons (1777-1854) and Sarah Newton Parsons (d. 1832), who were "committed non-conformists" living in Milborne Port, where Sarah was raised. For many years, James was a deacon at a large Independent Chapel there. bapt. 1811 by Rev. Sam Newton.

William had one sibling, Dr. Samuel Newton Parsons (b. 1804 Milborne Port - d. 1881 Kingsbury Regis, Milborne Port) was a general medical practitioner in Wincanton for many years where he founded a Methodist Chapel, and later practiced in Milborne Port. He was a non-conformist like his father, and in 1852, took ownership of the Independent Chapel on Mill Street in Milbourne Port, which (in 1851) was attracting an average of 180 in the mornings, 386 in the evenings, and 120 SS children. Dr. Parsons took ownership of the Chapel "upon trust that the chapel be used by the congregation of Independent Dissenters as a place of religious worship". See mikeparsons.org.uk for more data.

After marrying Mary Bowers Lewis in 1836, William relocated to Ringwood in Hampshire where he went into partnership as a beer and wine merchant and brewer, as "Parsons and Mills", with William Mills. In 1842, he took sole ownership of this business as "Parsons and Co." William and Mary emigrated to Canada in 1854 after William's father died. Their two youngest children died on the voyage to New York.

• William Newton Parsons (b. 1809 Milborne Port, Eng. - d. 1888 Ingersoll, Oxford, ON) +1861+ RR station master; RR station master @ Great Western Rlwy. in Clinton township, then Beachville (near Ingersoll).
• Mary Bower Lewis Parsons (b. 1811 Sherborne, Dorset, Eng. - d. 1898 Ingersoll,  ON) +1861+;
  • m. Dec. 29, 1834 @ Diocese of Bath & Wells;
  • dau. of Robert Lewis Esqr (b. 1777 Somerton, Somerset, Eng. - d. 1816 Babcary, Somerset, Eng.) & Albertina Willmott Lewis (b. 1782 Sherborne, Eng. - d. 1828 Babcary, Somerset, Eng.), m. 1802 Castleton, Dorset, Eng.

Children

• • William Newton Parsons, Jr. (1835-1839 Ringwood, Eng.)
  • Albertina Parsons (b. 1836 Ringwood, Eng. - d. 1907 Ingersoll, ON) +1861+
    • bapt. 1837 @ "Lower Meeting - Independent, Ringwood, Hampshire, Eng."
  • Sarah Harriet Parsons (b. 1839 Ringwood, Eng.) +1861+
  • Henry Parsons (b. 1840 Ringwood, Eng.) +1861+
  • Mary Parsons (b. 1842 Ringwood, Eng.) +1861+
  • Louisa Newton Parsons (b. 1844 Ringwood, Eng.) +1861+
  • Ellen Parsons (b. 1846 Ringwood, Eng. - d. 1915 Hamilton, ON) +1861+
  • William N. Parsons II (b. 1848 Broomfield, Somerset, Eng.) +1861+
  • Samuel Newton Parsons (b. 1850 Broomfield, Somerset, Eng.) +1861+
    • 1880 @ Beamsville, ON m. Mary Maud Cornwall (b. 1859 St. Catherines, ON), both Episcopalian;
  • Cairline (sic?) Parsons (b. 1852 Broomfield, Eng. - d. 1854 Emerald Isle ship)
  • infant Parsons (b. 1854 Broomfield, Eng.? - d. 1854 Emerald Isle ship)

Sources

• Ancestry.com
• mikeparsons.org.uk