Leah Holmwood^[1]

1815 - 1872  (57 years)

• Name	Leah Holmwood
  Born	1815	, England   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Leah Brittain
  Occupation	1861	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Teacher
  Residence	1861	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	E. N. C.
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-273322
  Died	30 Mar 1872
  Person ID	I273322	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	Robert Brittain,   b. CA 1815, of, Armagh Co., Ireland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Emma Jane Brittain,   b. 5 Dec 1840, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 17 Feb 1929, Brantford, Brant Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 88 years)   2. Fanny Ann Brittain,   b. 23 Apr 1843, , Armagh Co., Ireland ,   d. 21 Jan 1909, Dundas, West Flamborough Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 65 years)   3. Leah Hopkin Brittain,   b. 8 Jan 1844, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 12 Jun 1933, Guelph Township, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 89 years)   4. George Brittain,   b. 14 Aug 1847, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 5 Mar 1907  (Age 59 years)
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  Family ID	F232752	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

  [S5] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - 1858-1869 Marriage Register. Christopher Frey Res. Woolwich, b. Unites States Age: 22 born abt 1837 father: Christopher mother: Dorothy married Fanny Ann Brittain Age:: 17 born abt 1842 b. Co. Armagh, Ireland Spouse res: Woolwich Township father: Robert mother: Leah married 3 Aug 1859 county: Waterloo [S915] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1861, Township of Woolwich 1861 Div. 7 Page 64.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1815 - , England Occupation - Teacher - 1861 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - E. N. C. - 1861 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth