Douglas Moffatt Turnbull

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-423741
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Douglas married Mary Adele Brayley 25 Nov 1926, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada. Mary was born 23 Aug 1901, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1 Aug 1971; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Interesting: politics, business, mill,
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-67962
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Clerk
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Elected Office: 1907, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor - Galt
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer, Woolen Mill
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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JOHN GRAHAM TURNBULL

1863-1921

John Graham Turnbull was born in Galt on November 9, 1863, a son of Robert Turnbull and Elizabeth Graham and the younger brother of Charles Turnbull. After his father died at the early age of 52 in 1879, John assisted his brother Charles in the operations of the Turnbull Knitting

Company. Mr. Turnbull served as a director and sales manager of the C. Turnbull and Co. He was a president of the South Waterloo Automobile Association and was a member of the Galt Board of Trade. Mr. Turnbull served on the Galt municipal council sitting as a councillor from 1907 to 1909, as the second deputy reeve in 1910 and 1911 and as first deputy reeve in 1912 and 1913. He also served as the chairman of the Galt and Suburban Roads Commission, was a member of the Ontario Highways Commission and was a member of the Waterloo County council from 1910 to 1913. Mr. Turnbull died on September 6, 1921 and is buried in Mount View Cemetery.

Sources:
1. Linda Foster "Biographical Information on Waterloo County Councillors", Unpublished manuscript, 1995. City of Cambridge Archives A995.071, MG1 Vol. 83.
2. Obituary Galt Weekly Reporter Thursday September 8, 1921.


Cambridge Mosaic, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [used with kind permission of Jim Quantrell]

John married Margaret Ellen Hogg 5 Sep 1894, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Margaret (daughter of George Hogg and Isabella Scott) was born 29 Dec 1866, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1 Mar 1946, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 4 Mar 1946, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Maggie Ellen Hogg
• Name: Maggie Hogg
• Name: Margaret Ellen Turnbull
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-67963
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian Canada
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Interesting: life story,
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-67966
• Occupation: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian Church
• Occupation: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hosier
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1872, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; manufacturer

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ROBERT TURNBULL

1826-1879 Married: Elizabeth Graham

Robert Turnbull was born in Hawick, Scotland and came to Galt in 1852 at the age of 26 with his uncle Adam Ker. Mr. Turnbull had served an apprenticeship in Scotland in the textile trade with Messers. William Watson and Sons as a cloth finisher. Sometime after his arrival in Galt he learned the art of woollen manufacturing while in the employ of Robinson & Howell Co. in the Galt Woollen Mill building on Water Street South. In 1859 he started a business knitting woollen underwear. In the days before central heating, long woollen underwear was greatly appreciated and Mr. Turnbull found a ready market for his product. The business operated from the rear of the Turnbull home, a big rambling rough cast house located on West Main St., later Grand Ave., near the corner of St. Andrews St. Little is known about the very first years of the business and there is some confusion in the historical record. Some of it suggests that John Deans was Mr. Turnbull's partner from the start of the business in 1859. Other sources suggest that in the early years Mr. Turnbull was associated with Adam Oliver at least until 1861. It is also suggested that shortly thereafter Mr. Oliver sold his interest in the company to Mr. Turnbull and then John Deans became a partner in the business. In any case, the business operated as Turnbull and Deans until 1870 when Mr. Deans retired and sold his interest to Mr. Turnbull. In the early years all the garments were knitted on hand knitting frames and were hand finished by neighbourhood women in their homes. In 1861 Mr. Turnbull to send to Hawick for a type of knitting machine new to North America. With these machines, Turnbull and Deans became the first and only manufacturer of full-fashioned underwear on the continent. It was this product that made the name famous throughout the province and then throughout Canada. Until the business was sold to the Stauffer-Dobbie interests in 1946, Turnbull's was the only company in North America to have full-fashioned underwear knitting machines. What made this underwear special was it's comfortable fit, its durability and its softness. Other types of underwear on the market at the time were of the "knit and cut" variety. The underwear was first knit in long tubes and as the tubing came from the knitting machines it was cut into body lengths. To these were added sleeves, legs and whatever else was necessary to make the finished product. This method produced an acceptable but somewhat ill-fitting garment. Full-fashioned underwear was shaped on the machine to fit the human body. It was narrowed at the waist and made wider to accommodate the chest. This was a much slower method of production and as a consequence this type of underwear was more expensive than the "knit and cut" variety but it fit and wore better and proved popular throughout the country. It was marketed under the brand name "CEETEE". Mr. Turnbull died on December 11, 1879 at the age of fifty-two. He is buried in Mount View Cemetery.

Sources:
1. Obituary Dumfries Reformer Wednesday December 17, 1879.
2. Jim Quantrell, "Turnbull Knitting" A Part of Our Past, Essays on Cambridge's History City of Cambridge Archives, Cambridge Ontario 1992.
3. John P. Shewchuk "The Development of the Textile Trade at Galt, Preston and Hespeler 1832 - 1914", Unpublished manuscript, City of Cambridge Archives MG1 Vol. 35, A988.155.01


Cambridge Mosaic, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [used with kind permission of Jim Quantrell]

Robert — Elizabeth Graham. Elizabeth was born 1827, Hawick, , Roxburgh, Scotland; died 9 Feb 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 11 Feb 1881, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Turnbull
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-96517
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian Church
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian

Notes:

In Galt, on Wednesday morning, 9th inst., at 3 o'clock, Elizabeth Graham, relict of the late Robert Turnbull, aged 52 years and 6 months. Funeral, today (Friday), 11th inst., at 3 o'clock, pm, from her late residence, West Main St., to Galt Cemetery.

Galt Reporter Feb 11 1881 pg 8

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-68125P
• Immigration: 1829, , Canada
• Occupation: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lumber Merchant
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Occupation: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian Canada
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Retired: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Retired: 1901, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1904, Glenmorris Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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Occupation:
....Mr. [Walter] Ford some years ago joined with Messrs. George Hogg and Robert Gilholm in the Saw Mill business in Galt, carrying that on very successfully. With them he carried on also for some time the Oatmeal Mill, until that property was destroyed by fire.....

Galt Reporter Jun 27 1879 pg 2 The Death of Walter Ford of Galt

George — Isabella Scott. Isabella (daughter of William Scott and Janet Burnett) was born 22 Dec 1830, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died 20 Jan 1912; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Isabella Hogg
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-68126P
• Residence: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian Canada
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Historic Building: 142 West River Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-68122P
• Residence: 1816, Thirlestane, Parish of Ettrick, Selkirk, Scotland

Notes:

The men who took the most prominent part in organizing the first library in the village were: Rev. Dr. Bayne, Alexander Burnet, James Cowan, John Gowinlock, William Trotter, H. G. Barlow, James Harris, Andrew Elliott, Francis McElroy, Francis Hogg, Andrew Moscrip and Walter H. Benn. These men have long since passed away, but they all did good work in their day in laying the foundations of a progressive and moral community; to the older generation of Galtonians their names call up a crowd of memories of the days that are no more.

First Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society, Berlin 1913, pg 17

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Many of the principal settlers of Dumfries came in about 1830. We learn from Mr. William Cowan, River Road, that the following well-known Dumfries families all sailed in the "Argus" of Workington, England, on the 3rd June, 1829: those of Francis Hogg, Walter Cowan, James Cowan, George Barrie and Hector Rennelson. The voyage was only nine weeks and two days!

Reminiscences of the Early History of Galt and the Settlement of Dumfries in the Province of Ontario, by James Young

Francis married Margaret Brydon 19 Apr 1816, Ettrick, Selkirkshire, Scotland. Margaret was born 1794, , Selkirkshire, Scotland; died 15 Jul 1860, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Margaret Hogg
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-68123P
• Residence: 1816, Ettrickhouse, Parish of Ettrick, Selkirkshire, Scotland

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-72251
• Residence: 1818, Lyne and Megget, Peebles, Scotland

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Willam was originally buried on the family farm and actually may still be buried there, only the stone was moved or recreated.

William married Janet Burnett 18 Dec 1818, Lyne and Megget, Peebles, Scotland. Janet (daughter of Andrew Burnett and Isabel Nichol) was born 1797, , Selkirkshire, Scotland; died 5 Sep 1872, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Janet Scott
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-72258
• Residence: 1818, Lyne and Megget, Peebles, Scotland

Notes:

" Burnet (nee Nichol), born in Traquair, Scotland in 1766. Her daughter Janet married William Scott and they immigrated to Dumfries Twp about 1824. In 1831, Isabel and several of her children immigrated to Canada, but sadly, Isabel died 3 hours before the ship landed in Hamilton. She was buried on William & Janet's farm, next two her grand-children."


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