Archive Record
Metadata
Accession # |
A2015.37.5 |
Title |
Reverend C. E. Thomson family, Elora, letters, course notes, sermons, 1832-1894. |
Date |
1832 - 1894. |
Description |
Reverend C. E. Thomson family, Elora, letters, course notes, sermons, 1832-1894. Charles Edward Thomson (1832-1903) was the son of Hugh Christopher Thomson and his wife Elizabeth Ruttan (1798-1876). Charles' father died in 1834 and his mother remarried The Reverend Adam Townley, who thus became his step-father. In 1857, C.E. Thomson was ordained as an Anglican minister and he married Margaret Geddes Gilkison (1837-1928) in Elora, where he had been appointed to the Church of St. John the Evangelist. The Reverend Thomson served in Elora until 1877, when he was posted to All Saint's, Hamilton. He served in other parishes in southwestern Ontario, ending at St. Mark's, Toronto Junction, where he died in 1903. - file 1: Hugh Christopher Thomson, 1824-1833. Includes 3 letters from: Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Kingston (invitation); H.C. Thomson, York (to his wife Elizabeth); note re payments, 1833; George Hamilton, Quebec to Archibald McMillan, Grenville. [Hugh Christopher Thomson was the biological father of Charles Edward Thomson, whose step-father was The Reverend Adam Townley]. - file 2: C.E. Thomson. Sermon and course notes, 1852-1861. [File Includes additional sermon notes with few if any identifying features.] Item 1: Easter Term, Genesis XVI.13, 1852. Item 2: No.4, Spectator No.215, 13 February 1852 - 25 April 1853. Item 3: St. Paul's 2nd Ep[istle] to the Corinthians. [At midpoint] 4 November 1856. Item 4: Isaiah V, [verse] 4, Extempore Notes, Easter 1861. Item 5; 1 John IV, [verse] 21, Extempore Notes, St. John's Elora, 2 June 1861. Item 6: The Church. Notes of sent lectures, 1861. - file 3: Letters to Charles "Charlie / Charley" Edward Thomson, 1857-1873. Includes 13 letters from: Edward McTravrie, Trinity College; Richard Denison, Denison Terrace; [his brother] Hugh C. Thomson [Jr.], Toronto; Adam Townley, Paris [his father]; E.W. Beaven, Toronto; [his cousin] Mary Adelaide T. Townley, Paris; [his aunt] Mary Ruttan, Cobourg; [his mother] E. Townley. - file 4: Letters to The Reverend C.E. Thomson, 1857-1887. Includes 15 letters addressed to Elora, from: J. Nancy Lewis, Brockville; A.I. Broughall, Trinity College [Toronto]; Reverend Stewart Houston, Arthur; Reverend Edward M. Stewart; Reverend Eugene A. Hoffman, Elizabeth, New Jersey; Reverend Fortune C. Brown, Avon, Western New York; Alexander Luttrell, Eramosa; John [Strachan, Bishop of] Toronto; Canada Permanent Building and Savings Society, Toronto; Adam Crooks, Toronto; A. N. Bethune, Archdeacon of Toronto, Cobourg; G. Helmuth, Archdeacon of Huron, Huron College, London; [illegible], South Cockerington vicarage, [Lincolnshire, England]; Reverend C.W. E. Brody, Provost, University of Trinity College, Toronto. - file 5: Letters to and from Mrs. Elisabeth Townley, 1858-1869. Includes 6 letters to "Dear Mother" from C.E. Thomson, Trinity College, Toronto; Cobourg; and Elora; and from her to un-named children (un-dated). - file 6: Marriage Banns, 1858-1863. On reverse, sermon notes in the hand of the Reverend C.E. Thomson, undated. Item 1: Hugh Roberts, widower, and Elizabeth Whitlaw, widow, both Pilkington Township [married 17 March 1858]. Item 2: William Moore, and Margaret Anne Steenson, both Township of Wallace, County of Perth, 13 January 1859. Item 3: Robert Cook and Mary Stockford, both Nichol Township, 19 November 1860. Item 4: William Leybourne, Garafraxa Township and Hannah Hutchinson, Nichol Township, 27 November 1860. Item 5: William Miller and Eliza Cunningham, both Peel Township, 16 April 1863. - file 7: Letters to and from "Maggie" Margaret, Mrs. C.E. Thomson, 1858-1871. Includes 22 letters addressed to Elora, from: Jane [name], Elizabeth [name]; [her uncle] T. Ruttan, Cobourg; [her husband] C.E. Thomson, Paris; Iroquois; Baltimore (Maryland); Chelsea Lodge (Duncannon, Ireland), and the steamer Culloden at St. Catharines Wharf on the Thames, [London, England]; includes letters to un-named daughters, and to an un-named cousin, signed M.G. Thomson. - file 8: Letters from C.E. Thomson to his father, 1858-1881. Includes 14 letters, addressed to "My dear Father," Canon Adam Townley, Paris from his son, Charles Edward Thomson, Elora; and Hamilton, 1875-1881. - file 9: Printed and various materials, 1859-1908. Includes Illustration of Knickerbocker House, Livingstone County, N.Y.; advertisement for the Folsom Miller Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, maker of the Electro-Thermo washing machine; sketch of the tombstone of Mary Miller, who died at Elora 13 Sept. 1865 / on reverse: very detailed measurements for "Brampton Ch[urch]; letter from the Provincial Secretary's Office, 1866; Financial Report for Bradford District, Rosemont Circuit Methodist Church, 1887 [including Rosemont, Ebenezer, Mulmur, Mount Zion, Jenning's, Wesley, Primrose, Mount Pleasant]; Recipe for Hair Tonic signed Dr. A.H. Paget, Elora 1908. - file 10: Division of the Estate of the late Robert Gilkison by David Foote, Elora, 1866. Robert Gilkison died in 1849. This document, "as authorized by a certain demand bearing date 10 October 1866," divides the real estate listed in portions identified as C's share, I & D's share, E's share (which was subdivided into F's share, G's share, H's share. - file 11: Accounts, 1878-1894. Includes 22 documents, receipts, invoices, promissory notes related to C.E. Thomson and/or St. Mark's Church, West Toronto Junction, regarding: Bishop Strachan School, Toronto; Hart & Rawlinson, Toronto; Timms, Moore & Co., Toronto; Hirschfelder's Biblical Expositor, Toronto, Rosedale; Mrs. Thomson, making dress; Henry T. Reed, photographic studio, Tottenham Court Road, [London, England]; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [S.P.C.K.], London [England]; Mayhew & Co., hatters [London, England]; Ladies Sewing Society of St. Mark's Church, West Toronto Junction; Miss Charlotte Thomson for cleaning and varnishing woodwork; T.A. Edwards [Treasurer?], St. Mark's Church; Ladies Aid, St. Mark's Church, Carlton; Junction Comet and West York Gazette [newspaper]; committee of the Wakefield's Garden Party, Carleton West; George S. McKonkey, confectioner, Toronto; includes printed letter from C.E. Thomson asking for One Cent A Day to help pay off the School House debt. - file 12: Includes letters and parts of letters where the some or all of the date, place, addressee or author are missing, making them hard to file appropriately. - file 13: Thomson family, 2015. Photocopies made in researching this family. |
Creator \ Maker |
Thomson, Charles Edward (Rev.) |
Item Name |
Advertisement Correspondence Invoice Letter Receipt Report Speech Statement |
Person \ Organization |
Bishop Strachan School Cook, Robert Cunningham, Eliza Foote, David Gilkison, Robert Hutchinson, Hannah Leybourne, William Miller, Mary Miller, William Moore, William Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge St. Mark's Anglican Church Steenson, Margaret Anne Stockford, Mary Thomson, Charles Edward (Rev.) Thomson, Hugh Thomson, Margaret (Mrs.) Thomson, Margaret Geddes Townley, Adam (Rev.) Townley, Elizabeth |
Place |
Arthur Baltimore Bradford Brockville Cobourg Duncannon Elora England Eramosa Garafraxa Twp. Hamilton Ireland Kingston Lincolnshire London Maryland Mount Pleasant Mulmur Township New Jersey New York Nichol Twp. Paris Peel Twp. Perth County Pilkington Twp. Primrose Rosedale Rosemont Toronto USA Wallace Twp. West Toronto Wisconsin York |
Subject |
Advertisement Architecture Commercial Family Life Religion |
Year Range from |
1832 |
Year Range to |
1894 |
Accession # |
A2015.37.5 |
Containers |
MU 1270 |