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Note: Clerk of the Peace, County Register, Marriage Register for Halton + Peel (listing various denominations) 1858-1869. LDS film 1030057. Wesleyan Methodist New Connection Thomas Pickard Age 20 of Esquesing, b. in Esq. son of Wm. Pickard, Jennet Pickard m. Frances Cunningham Age 20 of Trafalgar, b. in Trafalgar, dau. of Andrew and Jane Cunningham. witnessed: Christopher Preston of Esq., Mary Ann Beatty of Trafalgar. 23 Mar. 1859. -------------------------------------------
Thomas Pickard DID NOT marry the Frances Cunningham that married Christopher Preston. They are 2 different Frances Cunninghams. ----------------------------
THOMAS PICKARD (from Greenock Township History 1856-1981)
Thomas Pickard was born in Halton County, Upper Canada, in ~1838, a son of Thomas (*should be William*) Pickard of England. He came to Glamis in 1864 and built a log house. He and his brother-in-law, Joseph Cunningham, operated a saw mill in the Greenock Swamp for several years. Then he built a saw mill and a cheesebox factory in Glamis on Lot 24, Con. 13. Another brother-in-law, John Howson, built Mr. Pickard the beautiful brick house, complete with a cupola. (The house has now been restored to its original beauty by Mr. and Mrs. Ivan White.) Thomas Pickard married Frances Cunningham in 1859 and they had seven children: William, Jane, Thomas, Albert, George, Edgar and Frances. Mrs. Pickard died in 1876. Thomas remarried to Annie (Howson) Leslie and they had three children. Thomas was a charter member of the Glamis Baptist Church and served one term on Township Council in 1878. The Pickard name has all but vanished in the Township, the closest descendant being in Paisley. However the name of Thomas Pickard, like John Phelan and other prominent settler names, are not forgotten. Old records of early development tell of men like Thomas Pickard and their activities in building the Township. Thomas Pickard and his wife Annie moved to Toronto in 1906. He died in May of 1914 and she died in July of the same year.
Here is a later one:
THOMAS AND FRANCES PICKARD (from Greenock Township 150 Years, Published 2002)
Thomas Pickard and his wife, Frances Cunningham, left Halton County and came to Glamis where they built a log house opposite Crawford's store. He operated a sawmill along with his brother-in-law, Joseph Cunningham. The following year Thomas purchased the McIntyre mill and later bought two farms, Lots 24 and 25, Concession 13, from John and Richard Preston in the 1870s. At the time of Frances' death in 1876, they had seven children: William, June, Thomas, Albert, George, Edgar, and Frances. In 1877, Thomas married Annie (Howson) Leslie, born in Halton County. She was the widow of William Leslie and the mother of Ada and Bertha. Thomas and Frances had three children: John, Jennie, and Judson. By 1883, Thomas had added a cheese box factory to the sawmill business and supplied about twenty cheese factories with an annual production of 40,000 boxes. An article in the Paisley Advocate June 25, 1885, states, " First and foremost comes the mills of Mr. Thomas Pickard. This gentleman has done much for the village and he is looked upon as the backbone of the place. He owns over two hundred acres on the Greenock side of the place, the greater portion of the village lots in that section being surveyed from his land. Mr. Pickard has on one section of his property a saw and shingle mill and on the other a cheese box factory. The sawmill is a fine large one, fitted up with the latest machinery. In the yard is a very large number of logs ready to be made into lumber, lathes and shingles. In the other factory there are five of the latest improved machines used in the manufacture of cheese boxes, besides lesser machines. Mr. P's reputation as an A-i cheese box maker is growing fast; two years ago he started in this line and to-day he has more than he calculated for." Thomas was also a member of the firm Pickard and Rowan who held extensive timber rights in northern Bruce and Grey Counties. They operated a large sawmill in Owen Sound. The years 1884-1889 saw the building of a large Italianate-style yellow brick home, with a cupola that was removed at some later date, on Lot 24, Concession 13, southeast of the village. The new residence, with extensive landscaped gardens, was called Spruce Lawn, and the same spruce and weeping birch trees grace the property today. Much entertaining took place in this large beautiful home full of young people. Spruce Lawn was the scene of a wedding when Frances (Fannie) Pickard married John McLennan in 1901. John and Fannie lived on a farm at the edge of Glamis in Kincardine Township. Annie taught a year at Bradley School in 1893. Her obituary in 1914 stated, "The late Mrs. Pickard was a woman of exceedingly bright intellect, well read, and in her younger days wrote verse of no mean order, it having been published in many journals." The Pickards sold their farm in 1906 to Thomas Kirktown for $5,200 and retired to Toronto. Local residents said this was a very reasonable price. Thomas died in May 1914 and Annie five weeks later on June 25. They are buried in Purdy Cemetery. The Pickard house now belongs to Dean Benvenuto and Margaret Scott. ----------------------------
5 boys and 1 girl ______________ Error in spelling in the 1881 census....it should be PICKARD not RICHARD
1881 Census Place: Greenock, Bruce South, Ontario, Canada Source: FHL Film 1375911 NAC C-13275 Dist 176 SubDist G Div 2 Page 9 Family 46 Sex Marr Age Origin Birthplace Thomas RICHARD M M 42 English O. <Ontario> Occ: Saw Miller Religion: Baptist Anne F(oster). RICHARD F M 39 English O. <Ontario> Religion: Baptist Thomas A. RICHARD M 16 English O. <Ontario> Religion: Baptist Albert E. RICHARD M 14 English O. <Ontario> Religion: Baptist George H. RICHARD M 12 English O. <Ontario> Religion: Baptist Bertha Ella RICHARD F 12 English O. <Ontario> Religion: Baptist Edgar Jackse RICHARD M 9 English O. <Ontario> Religion: Baptist Frank H. RICHARD M 4 English O. <Ontario> Religion: Baptist Fanny RICHARD F 4 English O. <Ontario> Religion: Baptist John P. J. RICHARD M 2 English O. <Ontario> Religion: Baptist ___________
I think Fanny is supposed to be Jenny
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