Ethel May Reynolds: Waterloo Region Generations

Generation: 1

Ethel May Reynolds was born 1 Aug 1889, Petersburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (daughter of William John Reynolds and Mary Jane McRoberts); died 3 Dec 1962, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Pleasant Cemetery, London, Middlesex Co., Ontario.

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Eby ID Number: Waterloo-96833
Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
Residence: 1911, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Generation: 2

William John Reynolds was born 7 Sep 1860, Lenox, Macomb, Michigan; died 23 Nov 1921, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Pleasant Cemetery, London, Middlesex Co., Ontario.

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Name: W. J. Reynolds
Eby ID Number: Waterloo-96828
Immigration: 1862
Occupation: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Railroad Station Agent
Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
Occupation: 1901, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Grand Trunk Railroad Agent
Occupation: 1911, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Agent GTR Station
Residence: 1911, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Elmira as a Shipping Centre [excerpt]

Had the Grand Trunk [railway] authorities ransacked the entire list of their staff of Agents, it is a question whether they would have found a more suitable and popular representative for Elmira than is Mr. W. J. Reynolds, who has held the position ever since the Waterloo-Elmira Branch was opened for traffic. To his genial accommodating manner and his straightforward and reliable method of doing business is due, to a great extent, the popularity of the Elmira station. Passengers and shippers invariably receive courteous treatment. Mr. Reynolds was born at Lennox, Mich., in a railway station. He came to Canada in 1863, with his father, who is the oldest Railway Agent on the G.T.R. He had been many years in charge of the Brampton station. Having lived in a railway station during the whole of his childhood, Mr. Reynolds, jr., was unusually well fitted for the position of Agent when he chose railway life as his profession, in the year 1877. For a considerable time he was Releiving [sic] Agent. Then he took charge of Mosborough station near Guelph. Later he went to Petersburg, where he did duty six years. When the Elmira road was opened, in 1891, he was stationed here, where he has filled his position with great acceptability to the community and, no doubt, great profit to the G.T.R. System.

Enterprising Elmira Souvenir, An historical, descriptive, and illustrated Book of the Village of Elmira, Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada, published by George Klinck, 1903.

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In concluding this sketch I must not neglect to thank Mr. W. J. Reynolds, the obliging and painstaking representative of the Grand Trunk Railroad Co. here, for valuable favors rendered. Mr. Reynolds is a natural born railroad man and was born in a railroad station at Lenox, Mich., in 1865. When a small boy he came to Canada with his father, who is also an old railroad man. Mr. Reynolds came here with the rail road and has been a faithful and reliable employee of the Company ever since.

Waterloo County Chronicle 27 Jan 1898, p. 1, 2, 3

William — Mary Jane McRoberts. Mary was born 11 Jan 1862, , Ontario, Canada; died 19 Feb 1945, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Pleasant Cemetery, London, Middlesex Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

Mary Jane McRoberts was born 11 Jan 1862, , Ontario, Canada; died 19 Feb 1945, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Pleasant Cemetery, London, Middlesex Co., Ontario.

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Name: Mary Jane Reynolds
Eby ID Number: Waterloo-96829
Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
Residence: 1911, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Children:

Frederick Southard Reynolds was born 23 Feb 1886, , Ontario, Canada; died 1911; was buried , Mount Pleasant Cemetery, London, Middlesex Co., Ontario.
Mary Annette "Anna" Reynolds was born 9 Dec 1887, Petersburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 3 Dec 1902, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Pleasant Cemetery, London, Middlesex Co., Ontario.
1. Ethel May Reynolds was born 1 Aug 1889, Petersburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 3 Dec 1962, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Pleasant Cemetery, London, Middlesex Co., Ontario.
David John Harold "Harold" Reynolds was born 7 Mar 1893, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 25 Dec 1977, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada.