Re: Copeland Millers in Simcoe County>Ont.
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Copeland Millers in Simcoe County>Ont.
Taylor Kennedy 3/10/01
Taylor Kennedy
Picked up your address from GENEALOGY.COM in a message asking about GEORGE COPELAND, Tiny Township
I think that you and I are going to have a lot of fun with this one !!!!!
George Copeland (1815-1890) of PENETANGUISHENE, Ontario and TINY TOWNSHIP, miller, entrepreneur extra-ordinary,
was my Great-great-Grandfather, THROUGH HIS FIRST WIFE CHARLOTTE WESTCOTT (1819-1854)
SEVEN CHILDREN - have their names, one of whom was HENRY WATSON COPELAND, my Great Grandfather
George's second wife was Elizabeth Johnston (1836-1914)
SEVEN MORE CHILDREN - have their names, one of whom was GEORGE EDWIN COPELAND (b1865)
another was CHARLES ERNEST COPELAND(B. 1867)
Here is where it gets complicated - at least from your prespective !!!!
Henry Watson Copeland married MARGARET FITZPATRICK , of Tiny Township in 1865
They had NINE CHILDREN - have their names
THREE of their children were GEORGE COPELAND ( 1869-1932 )and
CHARLES WATSON COPELAND ( B 1885 ) and
HANNAH MAE COPELAND (1871-1951) MY PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER married William Smith Robins
Eight children - have the scoop, one of whom was
AULDEN COPELAND ROBINS ( 1897-1936 ) married Grace E. McDermid (1895-1973 )
Four children - one of whom was ME !!!
Paul Alexander Robins ( 1932 - )
How complete is your information - and how much do you want ?
To correct some information from your message 2197 of March 5, 2001 :
The village of HILLSDALE was in MEDONTE TOWNSHIP but under re-organization, was given to FLOS TOWNSHIP
and is now known as SPRINGWATER TOWNSHIP. ELMVALE was in FLOS and is now part of Springwater.
If you are not familiar with the area, look on your map of Ontario for the Village of WAVERLEY .
Waverley used to straddle the four townships - if you think of the village as a clock , the 9 to 12 was TINY , 12 to 3 was TAY
3 to 6 was MEDONTE , and 6 to 9 was FLOS(OLD HWY #93) was the divider between Flos and Medonte.
A few miles south was another four corners in the Village of CRAIGHURST . This time, in the same sequence was FLOS,
MEDONTE, ORO and VESPRA.Oro and Medonte are now amalgamated as ORO-MEDONTE and Flos and Vespra are
now SPRINGWATER.
My interest , primarily, has been my straight-line descendancy, but have added a lot of peripheral information on each family in the tree.
I live in WASAGA BEACH , having been raised in ORO TOWNSHIP, spent my working years in BARRIE.
Look forward to hearing from you, chances are I can add to some of your original information.
Paul Robins
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Re: Copeland Millers in Simcoe County>Ont.
paul robins 1/31/04