Alexander Caddel McNicol

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• Residence: 136 Samuelson St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-66890
• Residence: 1881, St. Ninians, Stirling, Scotland
• Residence: 1891, Barony, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland

Alexander — Annie Kay. Annie was born 1855, Glasgow, , Lanark, Scotland; died 23 Oct 1918, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Family Photograph: Annie Kay with daughters Annie, Mary & Elizabeth
• Name: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Brown
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-166794
• Residence: 1881, St. Ninians, Stirling, Scotland
• Residence: 1891, Barony, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
• Residence: 1921, 140 Francis St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Elizabeth — John Greig Brown. John was born 24 Nov 1879, Glasgow, , Lanark, Scotland; died 1954; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Family Photograph: Annie Kay with daughters Annie, Mary & Elizabeth
• Name: Annie Murray
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-123675
• Residence: 1891, Barony, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland

Annie — William Murray. William was born 12 Jan 1880, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; died 13 Jan 1945; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Family Photograph: Annie Kay with daughters Annie, Mary & Elizabeth
• Name: Mary Kay McRuer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182404
• Residence: 1921, Owen Sound, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada

Mary — Archibald McRuer. Archibald was born 27 Jan 1884, , Scotland; died 11 Apr 1959; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Honoured: McNichol Dr., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; McNichol Drive named in his honour
• Interesting: misfortune, war, military
• Military: WW1
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-66894
• Residence: 1891, Barony, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Private
• Misfortune: 21 Jun 1916, , England; died of wounds in WW1

Notes:

Unimaginable grief' when two mothers lose four sons

Ten local soldiers were killed 100 years ago, capturing a ruined French village on the Western Front.

It was among the bloodiest days this community endured in the First World War and it happened Sept. 15, 1916, at the Somme battlefield.

The telegrams reached home three weeks later. Two mothers suffered the most.

Harriet Carthy learned that her son Percy was killed in action. That's after his brother Eric was killed in an earlier skirmish. Annie McNicol learned that her son James was killed in action. That's after his brother Alexander died of his wounds following an earlier skirmish.

Percy and James climbed out of the trenches at 6: 24 a.m. They were in the first wave to attack the German front line, aiming for the ruins of Courcelette.

James, 22, checked train cars before he enlisted. He was a cheerful man who played in the battalion band. "I knew there was something wrong," Annie said, absorbing the terrible news. She hadn't received a letter from her son in three weeks....

'Unimaginable grief' when two mothers lose four sons. (2016). Therecord.com. Retrieved 15 September 2016, from https://www.therecord.com/news-story/6858427--unimaginable-grief-when-two-mothers-lose-four-sons/

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Alexander McNicol: Private Alexander Caddle McNicol was born in Glasgow, Scotland on December 16th, 1885. Prior to the First World War, Pvt. McNicol and his wife Alice lived in Guelph with their four children, where he worked as a tailor. According to his Attestation Papers, at the time of his enlistment, Pvt. McNicol was 29 years old, had blue eyes, black hair, and was 5 feet 6 inches tall. According to records, the McNicol family lived in Guelph, on Edinburgh Road before Pvt. McNicol went off to War; however, it seems as though after he was deployed, his wife Alice moved the children to live nearer her remaining family in Galt. During his service in Europe, Pvt. McNicol was attached to the 13th Battalion. Unfortunately, according to the CEF Commonwealth Grave Registry, Pvt. McNichol died on June 21, 1916 at St. Bartholemew's Hospital in London from wounds he sustained during fighting. He was buried in All Saints Cemetery in London. His death would not be the only tragedy for the McNicol family during this time. According to a newspaper clipping from the Guelph Mercury, the Galt home of Mrs. McNicol caught fire on April 5th, 1917. The fire completely destroyed the house, and killed all four of the McNicol children, leaving Mrs. McNicol to be the last surviving member of the family.


McNicol, Alexander . (2016). Guelphpl.ca. Retrieved 15 September 2016, from https://www.guelphpl.ca/archives/famous_person.cfm?id=290

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Four Children Lost in Blaze at Galt, Ont. - The Mother Went Visiting and Left Small Family Sleeping in Bed - Galt, Ont. April 4 - the four little children of Mrs. Alexander Caddie McNicholl were burned to death tonight in a fire which destroyed her house on Stanley Street. The children were Alexander, aged 6; Alice, aged 5; David, aged 2 and a half; and Bessie, an infant of about one year. The mother was out visiting, after leaving the children in bed and did not learn of the tragedy until an hour after it happened. A soldier of the 122nd Battalion, discovering the fire, tried to save the children but the roof fell in and he could do nothing. Three of the bodies have been recovered. Mrs. McNicholl declared that when she left the house all the fires were out. She and her sister-in-law, Mrs. John Brown, were overcome and were ordered to the hospital. Mrs. McNicholl's husband, Private A.C. McNicholl, was killed at the front last June. Two brothers-in-law were also killed at the front, another is a prisoner of war, and her father-in-law died a few months ago.

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Alexander married Alice S. Justice 19 Nov 1900, Glasgow, , Lanark, Scotland. Alice was born Abt 1885; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Honoured: McNichol Dr., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; McNichol Drive named in his honour
• Military: WW1
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-66889

Notes:

Unimaginable grief' when two mothers lose four sons

Ten local soldiers were killed 100 years ago, capturing a ruined French village on the Western Front.

It was among the bloodiest days this community endured in the First World War and it happened Sept. 15, 1916, at the Somme battlefield.

The telegrams reached home three weeks later. Two mothers suffered the most.

Harriet Carthy learned that her son Percy was killed in action. That's after his brother Eric was killed in an earlier skirmish. Annie McNicol learned that her son James was killed in action. That's after his brother Alexander died of his wounds following an earlier skirmish.

Percy and James climbed out of the trenches at 6: 24 a.m. They were in the first wave to attack the German front line, aiming for the ruins of Courcelette.

James, 22, checked train cars before he enlisted. He was a cheerful man who played in the battalion band. "I knew there was something wrong," Annie said, absorbing the terrible news. She hadn't received a letter from her son in three weeks....


'Unimaginable grief' when two mothers lose four sons. (2016). Therecord.com. Retrieved 15 September 2016, from https://www.therecord.com/news-story/6858427--unimaginable-grief-when-two-mothers-lose-four-sons/

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182403
• Epidemic: 1818, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Influenza

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• Name: Harry McNicol
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182401
• Residence: 1921, 22 Charles St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1923, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; shoe worker

Henry married Jennie Pearl Gordon 22 Aug 1923, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Jennie was born 6 Mar 1905, Nassagaweya Twp., Halton Co., Ontario, Canada; died Feb 1991. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-71111
• Occupation: 1921, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; fireman
• Residence: 1921, 140 Francis St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• Name: Annie Kay Larkin
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-166792
• Residence: 1921, 140 Francis St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1925, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Annie married Thomas Frederick Larkin 10 Oct 1925, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Thomas (son of Thomas William Larkin and Sarah Jane Waller) was born Jul 1899, , England; died Yes, date unknown; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: Presbyterian
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-71112
• Residence: 1921, 140 Francis St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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BROWN, John Robertson

Passed away on Wednesday, December 10, 1986, at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital. John Brown of 59 Concession St., in his 83rd year. Beloved husband of the late Glad Halls and dear father of Greig and his wife Ruth of Don Mills, Barbara (Mrs. James Greer) of West Hills, Beverly (Mrs. Denys Jones) of Brantford. Dear brother of Stewart of Cambridge, James of Brighton, and George of Cambridge. Dear brother-in-law of Georgina Halls. Also survived by eight grandchildren and two great-granddaughters. Mr. Brown was predeceased by his parents, John and Elizabeth Brown and four brothers, Archie, Alec, David and Willie and a sister, Ann Weber and a grandson, Greig Jones. Mr. Brown was born in Glasgow Scotland on January 10, 1904 and has been a resident of Cambridge most of his life and was a retired car salesman. A member and elder of St. Andrews (Galt) Presbyterian Church and a past president of the Galt Lions Club and a memeber of Alma Lodge 72, and a chartered member of the Cambridge Shriners and a member of the Senior Mens Coffee Club of the Y.M.C.A. Resting at Coutts and Son Funeral Home, 96 St. Andrews Street, where the family will receive friends this evening, from 7-9 p.m. and on Friday, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral services will be held at St. Andrews (Galt) Presbyterian Church, on Saturday, December 13, at 1:30 p.m. Interment, Mount View Cemetery.

Cambridge Reporter 1986

John married Hyslop Gladys "Glad" Halls 15 Oct 1929, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Hyslop was born 15 Feb 1902, Elora, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died Bef 1986. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-58017

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• Name: Archie Brown
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-71113
• Residence: 1921, 140 Francis St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-71114
• Residence: 1921, 140 Francis St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-74255
• Residence: 1921, 140 Francis St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-137461
• Residence: 1921, 140 Francis St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-112258
• Residence: 1921, 140 Francis St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Stewart — Ann Elizabeth Lengyell. Ann (daughter of Steven Lewis Lengyell and Anne Christina Schwartz) died 22 May 1993, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-126673

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-126674

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• Name: Margaret R. "Peggy" Irving
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-134599

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IRVING, Margaret R. (Peggy)

Passed away, peacefully, at Cambridge Memorial Hospital, on Friday, Feb. 1, 2002, in her 92nd year. Beloved wife and best friend for 51 years of the late George Irving (1999). Devoted and much loved mother of Pat Hoshoian and George and his wife Judy; cherished grandmother of Janine McNab and her husband Steven, Garnet Irving and his wife Tracey, Jason Irving, Darin Hoshoian, all of Cambridge and Stephanie Brand of Stoney Creek and Nicole Brand of Quebec; loving great-grandmother of Brogan and Georgia McNab and Zachary Irving; dear aunt of Joyce Elrick and her husband Lloyd of Cambridge. Margaret was predeceased by her parents, William and Annie (McNicoll) Murray; her sister, Anne Kay Murray; her brother, John (Jack) Murray and her sister-in-law, Maudie Murray. She graduated from Hamilton General Hospital as a registered nurse and worked at the old Galt Hospital, for many years, as well as doing private and industrial nursing in Galt. Margaret was an active and devoted member of Knox's (Galt) Presbyterian Church for 55 years, serving on many committees. She was also a past president of the Galt Kinette Club and a member of the Independent Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.) Our heartfelt thanks to the staff at Hanning House for the excellent, loving care given to Mrs. Irving. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2002, at 11 a.m., at Knox's (Galt) Presbyterian Church, Queen's Square, Cambridge, Rev. Wayne Dawes officiating. Cremation has taken place.

Cambridge Reporter 2002

Margaret — George Irving. George (son of George Irving and Jennette) was born Apr 1909, , Scotland; died 11 Jan 1999, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Interesting: fire, accident, misfortune
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-123598
• Misfortune: 4 Apr 1917, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; burned to death with 3 siblings

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• Interesting: fire, accident, misfortune
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-123649
• Misfortune: 4 Apr 1917, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; burned to death with 3 siblings

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• Interesting: fire, accident, misfortune
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-123674
• Misfortune: 4 Apr 1917, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; burned to death with 3 siblings

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• Interesting: fire, accident, misfortune
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-399089

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• Interesting: fire, accident, misfortune
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-123616
• Misfortune: 4 Apr 1917, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; burned to death with 3 siblings

Patricia — Hoshoian. [Group Sheet]