Emma Homewood^[1]

1811 - 1877  (66 years)

• Name	Emma Homewood
  Born	1811	, England   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Emma Crooks
  Residence	1861	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	E. N. C.
  Residence	1871	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Ch. off Eng.
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-111554
  Died	18 Dec 1877	Townsend Township, Norfolk Co., Ontario   [3]
  	Cause: heart disease (two weeks)
  Person ID	I111554	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	John Holmwood,   b. Abt 1780, Brighton, , Sussex, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F4515	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomas Crooks,   b. 1812, Flamboro, Wentworth Co., Ontario ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. James H. Crooks,   b. 1836, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Thomas C. Crooks,   b. 1838, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Sarah E. Crooks,   b. 1840, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Emma Crooks,   b. 1845, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Edward George Crooks,   b. 1847, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 15 May 1867, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 20 years)   6. Jessie Crooks,   b. 1849, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Jasper Crooks,   b. 1 Oct 1850, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 5 Dec 1934, Oakland Township, Brant Co., Ontario  (Age 84 years)   8. Mary Ann Crooks,   b. 8 Nov 1852, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 Feb 1854, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 1 years)
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  Family ID	F28485	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  John Holmwood came to the township of Flamborough from Brighton, Sussex, England. In his family there was John, who lived in Flamborough; George married Margaret Brander and lived near Winterbourne ; Henry kept a hotel in Dundas ; Walter, married Mary Ann Thompson ; Robert Penfold Holmwood, who married Elizabeth Millard; Leah married Robert Britton and after his death taught school in Winterbourne, about 1850; while Jane married Wm. Mann, who then owned the land that most of Winterbourne is on; and Emma was the wife of Thomas Crooks, of Crook's Hollow, in West Flamborough. When the Crooks estate put Capt. Smith off the farm, which had for so long been his home, it was Thomas Crooks who came to live on it. The Crooks Tract, as it was called, included all the land for some distance on either side of the river road from Capt. Smith's old home, which is now the Stroh farm, up to and including part of the Millard farm. The German Company's Tract is said to have taken in from what is now the north part of the Millard . farm to the town line between the townships of Woolwich and Pilkington. After Thomas Crooks had come to live in Capt. Smith's old home, his brother in law, Walter Holmwood, came to what was then Cox's Creek and started the first store, the site of which was half way up the hill, on the north side of the creek and on the west side of the road. Having opened this store, his brother, Robert P. Holmwood, came to clerk for him and remained in Winterbourne until his death. His son, Robert Penfold Holmwood, is now living in his father's home, and this is the house that Capt. Smith built after he had to leave his first one. As a specimen of a well-built log house it is well worth examining, while the historical incidents associated with it make it still more interesting. To many this house will be better known by explaining that it is the one which is close to Holmwood's cider mill. The Early History of Elora, Ontario, and Vicinity by John R. Connon

  
  

• Sources

  [S713] Vit - ON - Death Registration, death certificate 8837 (1934), Jasper Crooks. Jasper Crooks, b. 1 Oct 1850 Waterloo County, d. 5 Dec 1934 Scotland, Ontario, s/o Thomas Crooks (b. West Flamboro) & Emma Homewood (b. England), cause: arterio scleriosis (3 years) [S141] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1851, Div 1 Pg 1. [S116] Vit - ON - Death Registration. Emma Brooks d. 18 Dec 1877 aged 64 years, b. England, d. Townsend. cause: heart disease (two weeks) [S604] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 4. [S915] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1861, Township of Woolwich 1861 Div. 7 Page 71.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1811 - , England Residence - E. N. C. - 1861 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Ch. off Eng. - 1871 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: heart disease (two weeks) - 18 Dec 1877 - Townsend Township, Norfolk Co., Ontario  = Link to Google Earth