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Hoggarth John [Male] b. 27 JAN 1891 Yorkshire, England - d. 6 JUN 1974 Barrie, Ontario

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Title: canada.GED

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Title: canada.GED

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Title: canada.GED

Event: Fact 4 (2): 1974

JOHN HOGGARTH AND LILLIE BRAY
Evelyn (Hoggarth) Cochrane


Lillie Bray, the eldest daughter of William Bray and Mary Spiers, was born on the family farm in Brunel Township south of Huntsville, Ontario on December 9, 1887. She attended the Union School in Stisted Township and later took up dressmaking as a vocation. She went to live with a cousin at Uno Park in the Temiskaming District and here she hired out her sewing skills at the homes of people in the area. It was here that she met her future husband, John Hoggarth.

John Hoggarth was born in England on January 27, 1891 near the village of Hunmandy on the north east shore of Yorkshire County. After finishing his schooling, John worked on a thousand acre farm and during his last year in England he was the foreman of nineteen teams of horses. In 1911 he came to Canada with his family, the trip taking ten days to cross the Atlantic ocean before landing at Quebec City. The Hoggarth family travelled to Uno Park, north of New Liskeard, Ontario while John remained in southern Ontario for a year before joining his family. Here he worked for various farmers until he had saved enough money to buy one hundred and fifty acres of farmland for $1.00 per acre.

John and Lillie were married at her parents home in Brunel Township and returned to Uno Park to live. It was here that two of their four children, Evelyn and Clarence, were born. On December 7, 1918, shortly after the death of Lillie's brother, Clarence Bray, they sold their farm at Uno Park and moved to the Bray farm in Brunel Township where their other two children, Reta and Jacke, were born. The family became faithful members of the Madill United Church which was officially recognized as a Historic Church and marked with a plaque on July 29, 1962.

On April 16, 1931 the family moved to a farm north of Ivy, south-west of Barrie, Ontario and after twenty years there they sold the farm and moved into the village of Ivy. For many years they were faithful members of the Ivy Presbyterian Church and Lillie became active in the Women's Missionary Society and the Ivy Women's Institute. John and Lillie celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on September 17, 1973. John died in 1974 in his 84th year. Lillie passed away in 1983 in her 96th year. Both are buried in the Ivy Presbyterian Cemetery.

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