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• Name: Agatha Guggisberg
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-95882
• Residence: 1836, Dundas, West Flamborough Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada

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Agatha is reported to have been born in Baiersbronn, Württemberg, Germany

Agatha married Samuel Guggisberg 20 Dec 1836, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Samuel (son of Christian Guggisberg and Magdalena Moser) was born 31 Mar 1815, Uetendorf, , Berne, Switzerland; was christened 16 Apr 1815, Belp, , , Switzerland; died 8 Apr 1853, Woodstock, Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Riverside Baptist Cemetery, Richwood, Blenheim Township, Oxford Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Frederick Guggisberg
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-84457
• Residence: 1868, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Store Keeper
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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We this week have the melancholy duty of chronicling the death of Frederick Guggisberg, which occurred on Tuesday last the 25th ult. at Toronto; where he has been, since the beginning of the year, under treatment of Dr. Hodder, for a disease of the law and facial membranes, which ultimately extended to the brain.

Coming to Galt at the age of twelve, he entered the store of Fraser & Warnock, as message and shop-boy and with plodding industry, perseverance, and application to business which characterized his after career; he gradually raised himself, step by step, to the position of one of the principal merchants in Galt. Identifying himself with its progress, he occupied the several positions, of Ensign in the Volunteers, Councilor for Ward 4, and Church Warden for Trinity Church, faithfully well. The cares of his rapidly extending business, of late, required all of his attention, and when compelled, in October last, by the disease to which he ultimately succumbed, to withdraw from the management of the "Waterloo House"; few thought that the old familiar features would never again be seen on Main street. After a lingering illness by his prolonged sufferings, gave way under a painful operation, on the morning of the 20th ult. On the Saturday following, he became unconscious and continued so to the time of his death, on Tuesday evening at half past six. His body was brought from Toronto on Friday morning, and was received at the station by members of Galt Lodge (of which he was a member), Alma Lodge and the Waterloo Chapter of Royal Arch Masons; together with a numerous concourse of friends. As the funeral cortege slowly wended its way to Trinity Church, crowds of spectators lined the way, and on Main street the shops were closed as a mark of respect. The service of the Church of England for the burial of the dead was read by the Very Rev. the Dean of Huron, assisted by the Rector, the Rev. I. Brock; and at its conclusion, P. M. Cranston read the Masonic service with the brethren assisting in the customary solemn ceremonies. Few there were who could not join with the brethren in saying "Let us cast around his foibles, whatever they may have been, the broad mantle of a mason's charity, and let us cheerfully render to his memory, the praise to which his virtues have entitled him.

The Dumfries Reformer, and Waterloo County Commercial and General Advertiser, 2nd April 1873

Friedrich married Dora Louise Willson 28 Oct 1868, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada. Dora was born 14 Jan 1848, Winona, Wentworth Co. , Ontario, Canada; died 3 Apr 1922, , England; was buried , Highland Road Cemetery, Portsmouth, , Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Frank Guggisberg
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• Occupation: 1871, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; merchant
• Occupation: 1872, Walkerton, Brant Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada; merchant
• Occupation: 1877, Walkerton, Brant Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada; merchant
• Occupation: 1901, Walkerton, Brant Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada; merchant grocer

Franklin — Matilda Weber. Matilda (daughter of Rev. Solomon Weber and Catherine Roos) was born 23 Aug 1845, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 18 Aug 1925, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Name: Lena Guggisberg
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• Name: Gordon Guggisberg
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-91914P
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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Frederick Gordon Guggisberg was born in Galt 25 Jul 1869 the son of store keeper Frederick Guggisberg. After the death of his father in 1873 the family remained in Galt for about three years. In 1876 Dora then moved to England where he was educated first a school in Hampshire and later at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. In 1889 he joined the Royal Engineers and from 1893 to 1896 served in Singapore. On his return to England he was appointed Instructor in the Fortification at the same Royal Military Academy where he had been a student. In 1902 was sent to Ghana as Assistant Director of Surveys. In 1905 he became a Major in charge of the surveys of the Gold Coast and Ashanti. From 1910 to 1914 he worked on laying out the boundaries of Nigeria. During WWI he served in France and obtained the rank of Brigadier-General. In 1919 after the war was appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast.

In 1922 he was knighted for his services, In 1928 was became the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of British Guiana, he resigned after two years due to health and died in 1920.


Cambridge Mosaic , Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [abbreviated snippet from original text in book]

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Brigadier-General Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, KCMG, DSO, (20 July 1869 - 21 April 1930), soldier and administrator, was born in Galt, Ontario, Canada, a second-generation descendant of an immigrant from Berne, Switzerland, the eldest son of Frederick Guggisberg, retail-goods merchant, of Galt, by his wife, Dora Louisa Willson. Guggisberg published a number of works on military topics and Africa.

Moving to England about 1879, Guggisberg was educated at Burney's School, near Portsmouth ; entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1887, and was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1889. He served in Singapore from 1893 to 1896, and became instructor in fortification at Woolwich in 1897, where he distinguished himself by reforming the methods and syllabus of instruction. In 1900 he published The Shop: The Story of the Royal Military Academy, and, under the pseudonym "Ubique", Modern Warfare, in 1903.

Sir Frederick Gordon GuggisbergIn 1902 Guggisberg was employed by the Colonial Office on a special survey of the Gold Coast Colony and Ashanti, and in 1905 was appointed director of surveys in that colony. In 1908 he returned to Chatham for regimental work: but in 1910 was appointed director of surveys in Southern Nigeria .

Nigeria gave him full scope for his energies and organizational skills, and he compiled The Handbook of the Southern Nigeria Survey (1911) for the guidance of his assistants. Of this work the director-general of the ordnance survey wrote: The duties of all members of the staff were strictly defined and, in particular, sensible rules were laid down as to the relations of the staff with the civil administration. Much attention was paid to the treatment of villagers; unpaid labour was forbidden; all goods bought were to be paid for at the recognized rate, and great care was to be exercised not to damage the crops... They were model instructions and the survey of Nigeria was a model survey..

On the union of Southern Nigeria and the Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1913, Guggisberg was appointed surveyor-general of Nigeria. In 1914 he was appointed director of public works on the Gold Coast, but he rejoined the army on the outbreak of World War I . He commanded the 94th field company, Royal Engineers, from 1915 to 1916, and was in command of the Royal Engineers in the 8th division during the battle of the Somme (July 1916), and in the 66th division from November 1916. He was brigadier-general commanding the 170th infantry brigade 1917-1918, assistant-inspector-general of training, general headquarters, France, in 1918; and in command of the 100th infantry brigade in 1918. He was mentioned in dispatches five times, and was awarded the D.S.O. (1918).

Sir Frederick Gordon GuggisbergIn 1919 Guggisberg was appointed governor and commander-in-chief of the Gold Coast. There he energetically undertook works of development and extension of railways, and created the deep water harbour of Takoradi, superseding the use of surf-boats for handling traffic. In 1923 he commissioned the construction of Accra 's Korle-Bu Hospital, the finest and most modern institution of its kind in colonial Africa at the time. During his time in the Gold Coast, as during his time in Nigeria, Guggisberg was lucky to be able to benefit from the advice of the geologist Albert Ernest Kitson, who took a keen interest in developing local infrastructures.

Close association with native Africans during his survey work convinced Guggisberg that the African races are capable of eventually attaining the development levels of Europe. Toward the close of his life he wrote: "My practical experience... during the last twenty-seven years has convinced me that what individuals have achieved, in spite of ill-selected systems of education, can be achieved by the race generally, provided we alter our educational methods". In order to carry out that purpose he founded Achimota College for the training of native teachers and instructors; it was to become the largest and most complete establishment for the education of native Africans.

The aim of Guggisberg's policy was the development of the country by and for the natives rather than for the benefit of European capitalists. In 1928 Guggisberg was appointed governor and commander-in-chief of British Guiana, but owing to failing health he was obliged to leave the colony in 1929, and soon afterwards resigned the appointment. He introduced drastic administrative reforms and devoted himself energetically to the problems of maintaining and improving the system of drainage and irrigation upon which the sugar and rice cultivation of the colony depended. He also promoted immigration and peasant settlement and the development of the production and marketing of rice. These activities were cut short by his illness and resignation in 1929. He died at Bexhill-on-Sea at the age of 60.

During his last illness Guggisberg addressed to his personal friends a remarkable letter setting forth the aims which he had had in view in his administrative work in British Guiana, his confidence in divine guidance and in the spirit of Christianity, and his hope of being able to return to Africa "to try to do some more work for the African races.... As you know", he concluded, "my heart is in Africa, and I believe that away from the trammels of the Colonial Office, there is opportunity for me to do something useful both for the Empire and for the natives of Africa."

Guggisberg was a tall and athletic figure, as a young man very handsome, and always of impressive and dignified presence. His personality was attractive and inspiring. He was for some years captain of the Royal Engineers' cricket eleven, and was a fine player of polo, racquets, golf, and football . He was created C.M.G. in 1908, and K.C.M.G. in 1922, and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1917.

Guggisberg was twice married:

on 20 September 1895 in Trichinopoly, Madras Presidency, South India, he married Ethel Emily Hamilton Way, daughter of Colonel Wilfred FitzAlan Way, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, whom he divorced in 1904 and by whom he had three daughters

on 15 August 1905 in Staines to (Lilian) Decima Moore, the actress, daughter of Edward Henry Moore, of Brighton, county analyst. She accompanied him on his survey journeys, and their joint book, We Two in West Africa (1909), is an interesting study of a transitional phase in West African development.

In 1973 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the construction of Korle-Bu Hospital in Accra, the Ghanaian government honoured Guggisberg with the erection of a large statue, a rare tribute paid by a post-colonial government to one of its colonial governors.

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• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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Rosetta — Alexander Hesse. Alexander was born 13 Aug 1848, Ryckman's Corners, , Ontario; died 5 Apr 1932, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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