Trayton Cane

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-255634
• Occupation: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Miller
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Episcopalian

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Trayton Cane and The Findon Windmill

The occupier of the Findon windmill in West Sussex, England abt 1842 was Trayton Cane. He was a youthful miller and maltster. He resided in one of the Mill Cottages which by now had been built on the adjacent land. Trayton married Elizabeth Hersee on 16th June 1842 in nearby Angmering. The marriage record stated he was "of Findon, miller". Trayton had two children while living there before moving to Galt, Ontario, Canada. There was only two mill cottages at the mill, the residence of the other cottage was Harriet Cane and her son William, possibly brother and mother of Trayton. Trayton is buried in the Trinity Anglican Cemetery in Cambridge, Ontario.

Adapted from https://www.findonvillage.com/0077_in_the_footsteps_of_the_first_miller.htm by Valerie Martin 1997

Trayton married Elizabeth Hersee 16 Jun 1842, Angmering, , Sussex, England. Elizabeth was born 1824, , England; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Harriet Robinson
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-255636
• Occupation: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Woolen Weaver
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1863, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Harriet married James Robinson 24 Jan 1863, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. James was born 4 Jan 1840, , New York State, USA; died 12 Oct 1893, Paris, Brant County, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Paris Cemetery, Paris, Brant Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-255637
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Spinner
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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• Name: Frances E. "Fanny" Dunning
• Name: Frany Cane
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-152754
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1886, Woodstock, Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada

Frances married William Dunning 20 May 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. William was born 1844, , England; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-255639P
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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In Galt, on Monday afternoon, at two o'clock, Martha Anne, third daughter of the late Trayton Cane, aged 17 years, 5 months and 2 days.

Galt Reporter Oct 17 1873 pg3

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• Name: Bertha Walker
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-255640
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

Bertha — George Walker. George (son of John Walker and Isabella "Bell" Milner) was born 1852, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Interesting: life story, tragedy, life story, drowning
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-152758
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Misfortune: May 1878, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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SAD ACCIDENT AT GALT

A Pleasure Steamboat Goes Over The Mill Dam -- 8 Drowned

May 23, Galt. --The little steamer EMPRESS OF INDIA, which had been placed on the Grand River, and which on Monday last commenced its trips for the season on Blain's Dam, to all appearance was perfectly safe for the business required of it, and the calamity which has overtaken it was totally unlooked for.

Last evening about eight o'clock a party of some fifteen young men and two young women embarked on the vessel for a sail up the river. As the boat was crossing the dam something appeared to go wrong with the rudder, and the head of the boat could not be turned sufficiently up the stream to enable it to counteract the effects of the current caused by the flow over the dam. The west side of the dam was reached without mishap, however, but the point where the boat would have touched being rough and rocky, an order was given to reverse the engine, which was done. The boat again getting out into the stream, an effort was made to turn the bow up the stream but again it seemed as if the rudder would not work, and when at last it did, it unfortunately was turned the wrong way, and the boat headed directly for the fall, and before those on board could realize their position the steamer drifted broadside to the fall, and in a moment went crashing over into the boiling water beneath. Before it took it's final leap, however, two of it's occupants, John and William Ovens, jumped into the water, and the latter, in an almost miraculous manner, managed to obtain a foothold on the very edge and to resist the current until he reached the shore. His brother John was not so fortunate, being carried over the faIl, but he was eventually taken out of the river some distance below in an insensible condition.

Of those who went over with the boat, eight were lost, the rest having in various ways managed to reach shore. Both of the young women were saved, one, Miss Landreth, having had an escape that was perfectly miraculous, she floated down the stream until she struck the western pier of the upper bridge, against which the water pressed her so tightly that parties were enabled to get ropes and rescue her.

The following is a complete list of the drowned: -

Jas. Montgomery (engineer and owner), Edward Wren, Andrew Jackson; John Fraser; Frederick Cane; H. J. Jaffray (of the Galt reporter); Thomas Elliott and David Scott. The body of Mr. H. J. Jaffray was taken out of the water within a short time of the accident, but the most unremitting exertions on the part of the medical men present failed to restore life. It is the general impression, that when the boat went over the fall he must have been struck and stunned.

Efforts to recovers of the bodies were made during the night but without success. This morning the boat was turned over where she lay below the falls, t being supposed that some of the bodies must be entangled in the wreck, but none were discovered. The dam is about ten or twelve feet high, with about a foot of water flowing over the fall. The depth of water above the fall is from fifteen to eighteen feet.


Meaford Monitor Friday, May 31, 1878

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-152759
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-216445
• Residence: 1886, Woodstock, Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada

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• Name: Fannie Bethia Wight
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-205767
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1944, 212 Main St. E., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Fannie — Quentin A. Wight. Quentin (son of William Wight and Mary Ann Davidson) was born Sep 1869, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 4 Feb 1956; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-71773

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-205768
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist