Lillian Caroline "Lilly" Barnes^[1]

1877 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Lillian Caroline "Lilly" Barnes
  Born	7 Dec 1877	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Lillian Caroline "Lilly" Bowlby
  Name	Lillie Barnes
  Residence	1881	Walkerton, Brant Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada   [4]
  Residence	1904	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Residence	1911	16 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Residence	1911	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Anglican
  Residence	1921	16 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  Residence	1921	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Church of England
  Residence	1938	16 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Eby ID Number	00055-3801.2
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I2072	Generations
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	John D. Barnes,   b. 18 Feb 1853, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 8 Nov 1930, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Carolina Magdalena Hoffmann,   b. 26 Dec 1858, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 20 May 1925  (Age 66 years)
  Married	26 Sep 1876	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6, 7]
  Family ID	F227363	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	David Shannon "Shannon" Bowlby,   b. 24 Jan 1874, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 11 Oct 1938, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 64 years)
  Married	23 Jul 1904	Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Children	1. Carolyn Bowlby,   b. Feb 1899, , USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Shannon B. Bowlby,   b. Apr 1907, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	10 Jun 2025
  Family ID	F185282	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Heins' First Skating Rink Better Than The "57" (By J. P. Jaffray) With his skating rink equipped ot only with a fine sheet of ice but also with a neat coffee room Peter J. Heins was for several winters the town's chief amusement caterer in the early seventies. The old Drill Shed on the corner of King End Water streets (subsequently removed to Woodside Park) served as his rink, to which he devoted unusual attention, scarcely ever falling to for excellent ice for his patrons. The holding of carnivals was one means he adopted to make it a paying enterprise. Fortunately for him the town contained a lot of young fellows who revelled in that sort of thing: for days and nights planning and making costumes suitable for wild Irishmen, portly Dutchmen, the Dockyard Negro and the "Colored Gentleman." The young ladies were also loyal to the idea, supplying Queens, Fairies, Dancing Girls and some stage characters. And some of those young women, were most graceful figures on the ice, Miss Nellie Mackie, known to the present generation as Mrs. (Dr.) H. G. Lackner, was one, and Miss Bella Jackson, the Mrs. F. Hayward of today, was another. Among the married women who were skillful on the blades were Mrs. (Dr.) D. S. Bowlby and Mrs. Jacob Oberholtzer, nee Miss Vancamp. The young fellows put in a lot of time learning the Dutch Role. the Lockstitch, the Grapevine, the Elghts, etc. It was in this rink that Charley Heins acquired the art of skating on stilts, an art that brought him in future years many engagements, as a star performer in Canada and the United States. P. J. Heins having acquired a taste for publle entertaining acquired the old Cricket Ground (now Heins ave.) and ambitiously set about making of it a Heins Park that would be the talk of the country- side. It was he the phrase maker would say a "too previous" venture. Newspaper unknown

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 802. [S340] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1911, Div. 38 Page 6. [S2264] Census - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - 1921, Sub Dist. 25 Page 7. [S298] Census - Canada - 1881, Ontario, Town of Walkerton, Pg 15. [S721] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, marriage certificate 18689 (1904), Bowlby-Barnes. David Shannon Bowlby, 31, Lawyer, Born: Berlin, residence: Berlin, son of David Bowlby and Martha Murphy Married Lillian Carolyn Barnes, 26, Born: Waterloo, residence: Berlin, daughter of John D. Barnes and Carrie Hoffman, Witn: Clara H. Abey and Annie Wolfe Both of Preston, 23 July 1904 at The Rectory in Preston. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 4 Oct 1876. 26 Sep1876 By Pastor Herlan of Plattsville, John D. Barnes of Harriston was married to Carolina Magdalena Hoffmann of Berlin. [S3002] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 11207-76. John D. Barnes, 23, occ. Clerk, b. Canada, res. Harriston, son of Abraham & Catherine, Married Carrie M. Hoffman, 18, b. Canada, res. Berlin, daughter of Isaac & Caroline, Witn: Henry Allemang, Alfred E. Ahrens & John Kackley, All of Berlin, 26 Sept 1876 at Berlin

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 7 Dec 1877 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1881 - Walkerton, Brant Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada Residence - 1904 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 23 Jul 1904 - Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1911 - 16 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Anglican - 1911 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1921 - 16 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Church of England - 1921 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1938 - 16 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth