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John Longhurst

• born c1842
• occupation : labourer
• married Dec. 25, 1865 to Ann Whitley (born c1846; of Irish descent; daughter of William Whitley and Abigail _________ )
• notes on Whitleys... Abigail was born c1813; Ann's brother William Whitley was born c1856; Ann's sister Samar (perhaps Tamar) Whitley born c1852 and married March 25, 1873 to Isaiah Flatt (Isaiah was born c1832, son of James Flatt and Julia ________ )
• children :
  • Abigail Longhurst
    • born c1866

• Albert J. Longhurst
  • born c1868

• Catherine Longhurst
  • born ______

• William Longhurst
  • born c1872

• Tamar (or Tamer, or Lamar, or Samar) Longhurst
  • born c1875

• Charlotte Longhurst
  • born c1877

• note : John and family found in the 1881 Census for Sault Ste-Marie, Algoma, Ontario

• John Longhurst died _____ .
• Ann Whitley died _____ .

• born March 9, 1844, in Mulmur, Ontario
• family religion is Methodist
• occupation: mill labourer, farmer, yeoman
• occupation noted as lumberman when daughter Sarah was born, in 1882
• living in Mulmur, Ontario when first married
• married November 13, 1872, in Bracebridge, Ontario, to Isabella Mainhood (born in London, England, c1852, daughter of John Mainhood and Mary Ann Gordon)
• likely resided in Bracebridge or area (Lot 33, Concession 1 or Concession 2, Stephenson Township) while first children were born (see below)
• record of property
• marriage witnesses were Joseph Mainhood of Brunel and Elizabeth Ann Clark of Stephenson Township
• record of marriage
• from daughter Christiana's birth record in 1876 - Frederick is a "yeoman", of Divine Lake, Ontario
• children (first marriage) :
  • Mary Ellen Longhurst
    • born July 9, 1874, in or near Bracebridge, Stephenson Township, District of Muskoka
    • record of birth

• Anne Isabella Longhurst
  • born July 8, 1875, in or near Bracebridge, Stephenson Township, District of Muskoka
  • (Lot 33, Concession 2, Stephenson Township)
  • record of birth

• Christiana Edith Longhurst
  • born September 26, 1876, in Divine Lake, Victoria County, Stephenson Township, District of Muskoka
  • record of birth
  • occupation : teacher
  • married October 25, 1899, in Orillia Township, to Charles Joseph Smith (born c1874, from Muskoka, farmer, son of Alfred Smith and Ellen Elizabeth Taylor; younger sibling of Louisa E. Smith and Phillis Smith; Smith family recorded in the 1881 census for Muskoka District)
  • marriage witnesses were Robert Mitchell and Annie Longhurst (both of Orillia Township)
  • marriage license 014434-99
  • record of marriage

• Janet Caroline Longhurst
  • born June 23, 1878, in or near Bracebridge, Stephenson Township, District of Muskoka
  • (Lot 33, Concession 1, Stephenson Township)
  • record of birth
  • record of travel states: nurse, age 30, last resided in Toronto, father Frederick of Fesserton (likely SE of Georgian Bay, between Waubaushene and Coldwater), destination Detroit, Michigan

• Alice Louise Longhurst
  • born August 3, 1879, in or near Bracebridge, Stephenson Township, District of Muskoka
  • (Lot 33, Concession 1, Stephenson Township)
  • record of birth
  • married when residing in Walker's Point, District of Muskoka, on March 4, 1903, to Peter Fisher Austin (born 1879 in Goderich, Ontario, residing in Milford Bay, District of Muskoka, son of Henry Austin and Sarah Fisher)
  • record of marriage
  • children:
    • Cecil Austin
      • born _____________

• Victor Austin
  • born _____________

• Victor Frederick Longhurst
  • born September (11th?), 1880, in Simcoe County, township of Innisfil
  • record of birth

• Sarah Longhurst
  • born September 25, 1882, in Simcoe County, Township of Flos
  • record of birth
  • died in 1895
  • buried in Hillsdale Methodist Cemetery, Hillsdale, Ontario

• William Gordon Longhurst
  • born August 30, 1884, in Simcoe County, Township of Flos
  • record of birth

• Charles Valentino Longhurst
  • born September 10, 1886, in Simcoe County, Township of Flos
  • record of birth
  • died October 10, 1886
  • record of death
  • cause of death - "none given"

• Alfred Longhurst
  • born _____

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• In the 1891 Census for the electoral district of Simcoe North...
• LONGHURST 1891 census 117d family 214 @ca.on.simcoe.flos_township page 47 film t6368 lds1465793

  LONGHURST	Fred	m	46
  LONGHURST	Isabella	f	48
  LONGHURST	Mary	f	16
  LONGHURST	Annie	f	15
  LONGHURST	Christiana	f	14
  LONGHURST	Janet	f	12
  LONGHURST	Alice	f	11
  LONGHURST	Victor	m	10
  LONGHURST	Sarah	f	8
  LONGHURST	William	m	6

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• Isabella Mainhood died in 1893, in Craighurst, Ontario, and is buried in Hillsdale Methodist Cemetery, Hillsdale, Ontario.
• Record of death (of Isabella). Cause of death - "general debility".
• Frederick's second marriage, on June 26, 1901 in Orillia, Ontario - to Grace Jancowski, born c1876, of Orillia, Ontario, daughter of Richard Jancoski and Milla Ora Bush
• record of second marriage
• Frederick died January 8, 1929, of influenza and pneumonia, sick for about a month previous
• Frederick is buried in Hillsdale Methodist Cemetery, Hillsdale, Ontario
• authorities informed of Frederick's death by daughter Christiana Edith (Smith)
• address at time of death was Lot 22, Concession 10, County of Simcoe, Division of Medonte
• Frederick - record of death

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Joseph Longhurst (Sr.)

• born March 14, 1846 in Mono Township, Simcoe County, Ontario
• occupation : farmer
• married December 13, 1868, in Mulmur Township, to Phyllis Turrell Young (born August 8, 1851 in Manchester, England; daughter of George Young and Phyllis _____ )
• lived on Lot 31 & 32, Conc.10, Brunel when son Joseph Roland was born (see below)
• children :
  • a son, born on October 26, 1870, stillborn or died shortly after birth

• Clarissa Beatrice Longhurst
  • born April 11, 1872

• Walter Sydney Longhurst
  • born January 28, 1874, in Huntsville, Ontario
  • moved to Greely, Iowa, with his parents in 1880
  • married Gertrude Muriel Wiltse (born June 12, 1884 in a rural area near Greely, Iowa; daughter of John Franklin Wiltse and Alice Muriel Ash)
  • moved to Dacoma, Oklahoma, in 1908
  • Notes from Debrah Duval... They moved by train, loading family keepsakes, some furniture and some livestock in a boxcar. After they had travelled for three days it was discovered that they were travelling northwest instead of southwest. Upon checking this out, they found the ticket agent at Greeley, Iowa had misunderstood them and sold them a ticket to Tacoma, Washington instead of Dacoma, Oklahoma. Everthing was then unloaded and placed on (the correct) train.
  • Their farm in Oklahoma was purchased from W.L. Witte. It was a mile west, on the south side of the road, from the town of Dacoma. There was a small two-room house on the farm. One of the first things that needed done was building a new and bigger house, along with (acquiring) more livestock and another barn for the caring of the livestock. There were no roads in those days, only foot paths. A small grocery store and a post office was located at Dacoma. Larger supplies were bought in Alva, Oklahoma - a trip which took all day from before daylight to long after dark. Flour, sugar, and coffee beans were bought in 100 pound sacks. They usually walked everywhere. When the cattle were ready for market, they were driven to the small town of Yewed, some ten miles away, to a rail head so they could be shipped by train.
  • The first years were hard, but neighbours helped each other with planting, building and harvesting. Neighbours were always there in sickness, and, when sassafras tea or hot mustard poultices were not enough, there was Dr. Linney from Hopeton or Dr. Welch from Dacoma.
  • children : 
    • Mildred Muriel Longhurst
      • born January 11, 1904, in Greely, Iowa
      • married in 1922, in Dacoma, Oklahoma, to Louis Morse
      • children :
        • Merlin Edgar Morse
          • born May 8, 1923
          • died 1986

• Louis Morse was killed September 23, 1924, when thrown from a horse
• Mildred's second marriage, on January 12, 1934, to Hardy Skaggs

• Mabel Bernice Longhurst
  • born March 10, 1906, in Greely, Iowa
  • married in 1927, in Dacoma, Oklahoma, to Rosen Devereaux
  • children :

• Rosen Devereaux died in Eugene, Oregon.
• Mable Bernice Longhurst died in Eugene, Oregon.

• Lawrence Melborn Longhurst
  • born April 1, 1908, in Dacoma, Oklahoma
  • married on July 30, 1935, in Wichita, Kansas, to Beulah Lydia Bonner (born December 6, 1908, in Alva, Oklahoma)
  • From notes of Debrah Duval... Lawrence married Beulah Bonner, daughter of James and Minnie Bonner on July 30, 1935 and moved to a rented farm northeast of Dacoma, Oklahoma. Having planned on getting married for a while, some livestock was purchased ahead of time and was being pastured by their folks. Times were hard and they worked almost day and night to make ends meet. Beulah raised turkeys and herded them along roadways to catch grasshoppers in place of buying feed. They milked cows and sold cream along with eggs to by staple foods that was needed. Hogs were also raised and some sold and some were butchered for the family and the rest was for $5 each, if fat. Small pigs sold for ten cents each. A good milk wen sold would bring ten dollars. Eggs went for ten cents a dozen and the cream for eight cents a pound. Everyone raised big gardens to can vegetables and had fruit trees. Some was made from lye and lard, cooked in large open kettles over an open fire outside. Washing was done on a wash board, with the water being heated in a large kettle also outside over an open fire. There was no electricity and keresene lamps were used for lights. Food was cooked on a wood or coal stove. The house was also heated by a wood or coal stove.
  • Then came the "dust bowl" days. Some of the soil in their community eroded and was blown about by the strong winds. The worst of the dust came in like a dark cloud from the northwest - coming from the Oklahoma panhandle, western Kansas and eastern Colorado. It would be almost dark, the dust was so thick. People and cattle died from dust pneumonia. Wet cloths were sometime layed across faces at night to keep from breathing so much dust. Wet towels were layed in windows and wet blankets were hung over doorways. When the storms ended, houses would have to be cleaned and windows washed.
  • When Gerald was born, Lawrence and Beulah still lived on their rented farm northeast of Dacoma. Before Louise was born the family had moved to a farm northwest of Dacoma. When Louise started to make her appearance it was in the middle of a snowstorm. Lawrence had to pull the pickup behind a tractor to the highway and was met by a snow plow in order to get Beulah to the hospital.
  • Things became better for the family for a while, then in the fall of 1954 Lawrence was severely injured in a car accident. This brought hard times back upon the family, forcing them to move to Wichita, Kansas in 1956. Both Beulah and Lawrence found jobs with the Board of Education there, but their hearts were on the farm and they continued to operate the farm, hoping things would improve as they did, and in spring of 1960 the family moved back to the farm. For more income they started follwing the harvest from Texas to Canada, doing custom harvesting.
  • The family continued to farm and custom harvest until Lawrence suffered a heart attack in March of 1970. This forced them to retire from custom harvesting and to let their son, Gerald, do the farming for them.
  • For the next ten years, they travelled about seeing the country. Having a pickup truck and camper trailer they could go south in the winter, where it was warmer and north in the summer where it was cooler. They were in southern Texas by the Gulf when Lawrence became ill and passed away shortely after in Wichita, Kansas. Beula bought a house in Alva, just two doors down the street from where Gerald lived, and she lived there until shortly before her death.
  • children :

• occupation: carpenter, farmer, custom harvester
• Lawrence Melborn Longhurst died of cancer of the bone, on April 8, 1980, in Wichita, Kansas.
• Beulah Lydia Bonner died of a heart attack on March 5, 1998. She is buried in Union Center Cemetery, Woods County, Oklahoma.

• Phyllis Iva Longhurst
  • born April 1, 1910, in Dacoma, Oklahoma
  • married on September 20, 1930, in Dacoma, Oklahoma, to Elmer Dunn

• Clyde Gordon Longhurst
  • born March 29, 1914, in Dacoma, Oklahoma

• occupation: schoolteacher, farmer

• Gertrude Wiltse died of an ovarian cyst on September 22, 1928, near Dacoma, Oklahoma. Gertrude is buried in Union Center Cemetery.
• second marriage, following the death of Gertrude, to Mabel Thorndike
• Walter Sydney Longhurst died of a stroke, on a farm near Dacoma, Oklahoma. Walter is buried in Union Center Cemetery, Woods County, Oklahoma.

• Joseph Roland Longhurst (Jr.)
  • born February 17, 1877
  • Ref.: #017935-77, Muskoka District

• Phyllis Ernestine Ethel Longhurst
  • born October 15, 1879

• Mary Myrtle Longhurst
  • born September 21, 1882

• George Jason Longhurst
  • born July 29, 1885
  • left home as a young adult and was never heard from again

• from son Joseph's birth record - in 1877, Joseph is a farmer, of Lot 31 & 32, Conc.10, Brunel, Ontario
• notes from Debrah Duval... Joseph was born in Mulmur Township near Shelburne, Ontario, Canada. He married Phyllis Young, who was the daughter of George and Phyllis Young of Manchester, England. They were married by Minister J. Rawson, of the Canada Wesleyan Methodist New Connexion. The marriage was witnessed by Edwin Young, brother of the bride and Christiana Longhurst, sister of the groom. When Joseph was 27, he acquired a free grant of land on Lot 32, Concession 10, of Brunel Township, near Huntsville, Canada. The land transaction took place on September 13, 1873. His brothers, George, Frederick and Albert also acquired land in this same area. Later, the family moved to Greeley, Iowa.
• Joseph Longhurst (Sr.) died September 21, 1888 in Greely, Iowa, U.S.A.

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Moses Longhurst

• born c1848 in Mono Township, Simcoe County, Ontario
• married January 31, 1867 to Sarah Matilda Hamilton (born 1848 in Tecumseh, Ontario, died c1933)
• children :
  • Thomas Edward Longhurst
    • occupation : mechanic, at age 29 in Simcoe Township, Ontario
    • married Sept. 6, 1899, in Todmorden, Ontario to Harriet Dallimore (born 1880, of York Township, daughter of John Dallimore and Mercia _____ )
    • marriage license #017478-99, York County
    • marriage witnesses were Edward Dallimore of Toronto & Jennie F. Longhurst of Todmorden

• Sarah Jane Longhurst
  • born _____

• Bertha Longhurst
  • born _____

• Moses Longhurst died c1923.

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"Albert Edward was born in Dufferin County, just four miles north of Shelburne, about five miles from where Jemima Minoa Hamilton, his wife was born. Albert came to Muskoka as a young pioneer teacher. After teaching one term at Stoneleigh in McCauley Township, he settled on 100 acres of free grant land in Franklin Twp. between Emberson Post Office and North Portage. He was the first in the log school house at South Portage, Lake of Bays (outside Huntsville), and here is where he taught."

• born January 15, 1853 in Mulmur Township, Simcoe County, Ontario
• first marriage, in Orangeville, Ontario - October 15, 1872, to Jemima Minoa ("Jemmie") Hamilton (born August 17, 1855 in Melancthon Township, Gray County, Ontario; died April 6, 1909 in Watt Township, Muskoka District, Ontario)

• children by first marriage :
  • Albert Edward Longhurst (Jr.)
    • born March 14, 1873 in Stephenson Township, Muskoka District, Ontario
    • occupation : farmer
    • living in Whitfield, Ontario when wed
    • first marriage - in Horning Mills, Ontario, on July 24, 1894 to Elizabeth Jane Henry (born October 25, 1874 in Whitfield, Ontario, died October 30, 1926 in Toronto, Ontario; daughter of "Parsons & Caroline" ?)
    • marriage witnesses were George Adamson and Annie Reburn, both of Whitfield, Ontario
    • children :
      • Caroline Minoa Longhurst
        • born 1896
        • married June 14, 1916 to David Elgin Rowan (born 1892, died 1969)
        • children :

• Caroline Minoa Longhurst died in 1983.

• Albert Edward Clyve Longhurst
  • born 1898
  • died 1898

• Verna Myrtle Longhurst
  • born 1900
  • married May 8, 1923 to Lloyd George Gowland
  • children : 

• Verna Myrtle Longhurst died in 1958.

• John Wesley Whitfield Longhurst
  • born 1904
  • died 1905

• Howard Lymon Longhurst
  • born 1906
  • married May 18, 1935 to Muriel Jennings
  • children : 

• Albertha Elizabeth Longhurst
  • born 1908
  • married September 10, 1938 to Allen Wright (born 1911, died 1992)
  • children :

• second marriage - c1928, to Evelyn _____ (born _____, died _____)
• no children by second marriage
• (Albert Edward Jr.) died March 23, 1958 in Toronto, Ontario

• Rebecca Elizabeth (Lizzie) Longhurst
  • born March 11, 1875 in Muskoka District, Ontario, died April 12, 1959 in Southwold Township, Elgin County, Ontario
  • married on May 20, 1896 in Windemere, Ontario, to Thomas Aitken Fife (born March 7, 1868 in Windemere, Ontario; occupation : farmer; died February 12, 1917 in Southwold Township, Elgin County, Ontario; grandson of David Alexander Fife)
  • marriage license #8418-96
  • marriage witnesses were V.R. Hart and Ellen Fife, both of Windemere, Ontario

• "(Red Fife Wheat) was the first wheat that actually flourished in Canadian soil," says Sushil Saini, a member of the Vancouver Island Slow Food Convivium and the joint coordinator of a Heritage Wheat Artisan Bread Tour stretching across the country this year. "We know that it first came to Canada in 1842, to a farmer named David Fife near Peterborough, Ontario." Over coffee, Saini reverently describes the legends associated with the arrival of just a few grains. "Some say it arrived stuck in a hatband that had been accidentally dropped in a bin aboard a Ukrainian ship. Others maintain it was an impure sample of grain arriving from Scotland." The rest of the story is clear: the wheat that David Fife sprouted in Ontario matured earlier and resisted disease better than anything else being grown in Canada at the time. Red Fife allowed the Prairie provinces to develop and is the granddaddy of all the other strains of wheat that prospered on the Prairies and earned Canada the reputation as the breadbasket of the world."

  From Agriculture Canada... "The Red Fife wheat variety arrived in Canada in 1842. Mr. David Fife requested wheat seed from a friend in Glasgow, Scotland who obtained a handful of wheat from a boatload of wheat that was being unloaded in the harbour. It is believed the boat had been loaded in Danzig (Gdansk, Poland). This wheat was planted in the spring of 1842 by David Fife at Otonobee (near Peterborough). (The local chamber of commerce at one time had erected a cairn to commemorate this event). All of the wheat kernels except for one were of winter type and did not head out. There was one kernel of spring wheat in this shipment which sent up 5 heads. Two were eaten by the family cow before being chased away by Mrs. Fife. The seed from the surviving three heads was increased and distributed. Thus the variety Red Fife was born in Canada. It had high yields and superb baking quality and eventually became a prominent variety throughout Canada and northern USA, occupying thousands of acres. Its minor faults were that it was somewhat tall and later in maturity.

  What was the origin of that single kernel that gave rise to Red Fife? Sir Charles Saunders obtained some evidence in 1905 that identified the origin. He reported to a parliamentary committee that Red Fife was identical in baking quality to a variety from Galicia that had been obtained from a German grain merchant who in turn obtained it from a farmer in Galicia (a province in Ukraine)."

  The David Fife cabin, built in 1820, has been moved into the Heritage Village at Keene, Ontario. Can you imagine one room and cabin is 16 x 20 and eight people living there? ...comments by Frank Fife (in the picture, with wife Connie), website contributor.

• children :
• • Vera Ellen Fife
    • born April 20, 1897 in Windemere, Ontario
    • ref. : #026828-97 registered May 13, 1897
    • note : Mrs. Barber in attendance of birth.
    • married in 1928 to William Charles McLandress (Sr., born November 15, 1901 in Dutton, Ontario, died March 19, 1970 in St. Thomas, Ontario)
    • children :

• Vernon Wilson Fife
  • born December 20, 1898 in Windemere, Ontario
  • married December 26, 1923 in Talbotville, Ontario, to Harriet Hansley (born September 27, 1899 in Sperling, Manitoba, died July 25, 1983 in St. Thomas, Ontario)
  • children :

• Elmer Sifton Fife
  • born November 13, 1900 in Windemere, Ontario
  • married Lillian Storeker
  • children :

• Lorna Alberta Fife
  • born December 7, 1902 in Windemere, Ontario
  • married Milford Andersen
  • children :

• Lorna Albertha Fife died December 28, 1978.

• Warren Ellwood Fife
  • born July 31, 1904 in Windemere, Ontario
  • died July 31, 1911 in Scotsville, Ontario

• Thomas Wilfred Fife (Jr.)
  • born November 5, 1906 in Windemere, Ontario
  • married November 5, 1924, in Rodney, Ontario, to Dorothy Veryl Harris (born October 6, 1906 in St. Thomas, Ontario, died November 29, 1978 in Talbotville, Ontario)
  • children :

• (Thomas Wilfred Fife, Jr.) died November 1, 1951 in Talbotville, Ontario

• Irwin Dewaine Fife
  • born January 31, 1909 in Talbotville, Ontario
  • married February 5, 1951, in Toronto, Ontario, to Margaret Nimmo (born May 23, 1915 in Erie, PA, died Nvember 1, 1999)
  • children :

• died January 19, 1986 in London, Ontario

• Ruth Lillian Fife
  • born September 15, 1912 in Talbotville, Ontario
  • died February 17, 1914 in Scottsville, Ontario

• (Rebecca Elizabeth Longhurst) died April 12, 1959 in Southwold Township, Elgin County, Ontario

• Caroline Edith (Carrie) Longhurst
  • born October 8, 1876 in Franklin Township, Muskoka District, Ontario
  • married in 1907, in Ufford, Muskoka District, Ontario, to Thomas David Smith (born February 16, 1879, died January 13, 1947 in Ufford)
  • children : 
    • Donald Albert Smith
      • born January 17, 1909
      • married Murien Mallory
      • children :

• Thelma Dorine Smith
  • born September 7, 1910
  • married in 1932 to Wilfred Lawrence Kilgour (born October 4, 1904, died November 11, 1968, buried in Barrie Union Cemetery, in Barrie, Ontario)
  • children :

• (Thelma Dorine) died December 29, 1995 in Collingwood, Ontario
• buried in Barrie Union Cemetery, in Barrie, Ontario

• Helen Edith Smith
  • born June 14, 1914
  • married Henry Godfrey (born August 24, 1904
  • children :

• (Helen Edith Smith) died May, 1972

• (Carrie Edith Longhurst) died January 28, 1960

• William Samuel Longhurst
  • born August 17, 1879 in Franklin Township, Muskoka District, Ontario
  • at age 23 - millhand in Gravenhurst, Ontario
  • married May 13, 1903, in Windemere, Ontario to Ellen Marion Fife (born August 18, 1877 in Windemere, Ontario, daughter of David and Ellen Fife, died May 10, 1956 in St. Catherines, Ontario)
  • marriage witnesses were John A. Longhurst and Caroline Longhurst of Ufford, Ontario
  • marriage license #013217-03, Muskoka District
  • children :
    • Gladys Ellen Longhurst
      • born January 21, 1904 in Gravenhurst, Ontario
      • married October 8, 1927, in Toronto, Ontario, to Jackson Arthur McCullough (born in 1902, in Gravenhurst, Ontario, died in 1954 in Toronto, Ontario)
      • died December 15, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario

• William Melvin Longhurst
  • born December 1, 1905 in Gravenhurst, Ontario
  • married Isabel ___ (born April 18, 1904)
  • died October 22, 1966 in St. Catherines, Ontario

• Orma Dorine Minoa Longhurst
  • born August 23, 1907
  • married in 1927 to Henry Galbraith (born 1903 in Gravenhurst, Ontario, died 1944
  • children :

• second marriage - 1945, to J. Gerald Murphy (born 1903 in Gravenhurst, Ontario, died July 29, 1991)
• children :

• (Orma Dorine Minoa) died 1994

• Eric Edward Longhurst
  • born April 18, 1910 in Gravenhurst, Ontario
  • married August 29, 1936 to Katherine Noon (born February 11, 1912)
  • children :

• Harvey Kenneth Longhurst
  • born September 27, 1911 in Gravenhurst, Ontario
  • married July 29, 1939 to Ella Edith Goit (born February 27, 1917)
    • children :

• (Harvey Kenneth Longhurst) died March 1987 in St. Catherines, Ontario

• Margaret Elva Longhurst
  • born April 25, 1913 in Gravenhurst, Ontario
  • married September 9, 1929, to Edward Mouradian
  • children :

• (Margaret Elva Longhurst) died October 1, 1965 in Toronto, Ontario

• Jean Patricia Longhurst
  • born October 13, 1919 in St. Catherines, Ontario
  • married October 25, 1941, to Angus Sinclair Ralph (born November 10, 1915)
  • children :

• (Jean Patricia Longhurst) died July 21, 1991 in Hamilton, Ontario

• (William Samuel Longhurst) died March, 1960 in St. Catherines, Ontario

• John Alexander Macdonald Longhurst
  • born June 20, 1882 in Franklin Township, Muskoka District, Ontario,
  • married in Toronto, Ontario, on May 31, 1905 to Louisa Margaret Walser (born November 2, 1884 in Draper Township, Muskoka District, Ontario, died July 12, 1971 in St. Thomas, Ontario)
  • News article, Toronto Star, Newmarket, November 5, 1936. Members of St. Thomas Hunting Party Taken to Hospital: Five persons were removed to York county hospital here early today following a collision between a truck and a car with attached trailer on the Yonge St. highway. Provincial Constable Alex. Ferguson investigated and laid charges of driving without an operator's permit and driving with improper license plates against James Hennigan, 17, of Pottageville, driver of the truck, The Star learned. John Longhurst, 54, and Douglas Malotte, 19, passengers in the northbound car which contained a hunting party of four from St. Thomas, were injured about the back, chest and hips. Hennigan suffered a cut lip while Russell Hennigan, 19, riding in the rear of the truck suffered back injuries. Aileen (Jellis), riding in the front of the truck, received cuts about the face. Driver of the car, Clarence Longhurst of St. Thomas, and Alvin Longhurst, a passenger, escaped injury as did Edna Morden, Josephine Kelly of Pottageville, passengers in the truck.
  • children :
    • Donald Edward Longhurst
      • born November 21, 1907
      • married in Gravenhurst, Ontario on August 29, 1930 to Evelyn Margaret Harbridge (born October 13, 1911 in Gravenhurst, Ontario, died February 25, 1982 in Shelbourne, Ontario)
      • children :
        • Donna Louise Matilda Longhurst, (website contributor), born July 20, 1940, in Gravenhurst, Ontario
        • married in Talbotville, Ontario on July 16, 1966 to Donald Harvey Coakley (born November 25, 1938 in Dutton, Ontario, died November 3, 1980 in St. Thomas, Ontario)
        • died August 6, 2005
        • from Donna's obituary... "Gone Home to be with her Savior, on Saturday, August 6, 2005, at the St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, in her 66th year."

• Donald Edward Longhurst died 1940
• Evelyn Margaret Harbridge re-married in 1942 - see Alfred Alvin Longhurst, below

• Grace Edna Longhurst
  • born July 1, 1909 in Ufford, Ontario
  • unmarried
  • children :

• died May 31, 1981 in St. Thomas, Ontario

• Clarence Russell Longhurst
  • born March 7, 1912 in Ufford, Ontario
  • first marriage : in London, Ontario on November 8, 1932 to Ruth Evelyn Stewart (born May 13, 1913, died May 17, 1956)
  • children :

• (Clarence Russell Longhurst) second marriage - in Bracebridge, Ontario, on September 14, 1957 to Margaretta Grace Flaherty (born February 20, 1925, died December 25, 1989 in Kelowna, BC.)
• children :

• third marriage : February 20, 1991 in Winfield, BC to Margaret Alice Kerr (born July 20, 1918)
• (Clarence Russell Longhurst) died November 20, 1995 in Desert Springs, California

• Lester Allen Longhurst
  • born October 16, 1915 in Ufford, Ontario
  • married October 16, 1937 to Mary Lavina Harris (born October 1, 1918)
  • children :

• Alfred Alvin Longhurst
  • born August 4, 1918 in Bracebridge, Ontario
  • married July 10, 1942 in Gravenhurst, Ontario to Evelyn Margaret Harbridge (born October 13, 1911 in Gravenhurst, Ontario, died February 25, 1982 in Shelbourne, Ontario)
  • children :

• Alfred Alvin Longhurst died April 19, 2001

• Thomas Hamilton (Ted) Longhurst
  • born October 13, 1933 in London, Ontario
  • married in Picton, Ontario on October 23, 1961 to Lillian Alice Ferguson
  • children :

• Thomas Hamilton Longhurst died July 24, 1996 in Deep River, Ontario

• (John Alexander Macdonald Longhurst) died January 1960, in St. Thomas, Ontario

• Henry Emberson Duane Longhurst

• born February 20, 1884 in Franklin Township, Muskoka District, Ontario
• married on November 20, 1907 to Edith Forge (born February 20, 1885, in Windemere, Ontario, died April 3, 1972)
• children :
  • Kathleen Edith (Kay) Longhurst
    • born September 18, 1908 in Windemere, Ontario
    • married August 27, 1938, in Windemere, Ontario, to Lloyd Lorne Parker (born November 13, 1911)
    • children :

• (Kathleen Edith Longhurst) died December 23, 1988 in Windemere, Ontario

• Mervin Henry Longhurst (father of Katherine Lackie)
  • born November 8, 1910 in Windemere, Ontario
  • married November 28, 1936, in Toronto, Ontario, to Ada Jean Smith (born October 22, 1912, died February 10, 1991)
  • children :

• (Mervin Henry Longhurst) died October 20, 1984

• Milton Duane Longhurst
  • born November 8, 1910 in Windemere, Ontario
  • married November 27, 1937, in Toronto, Ontario, to Jane Webster (born March 4, 1905, died 1992)
  • children :

• (Milton Duane Longhurst) died December 18, 1983

• Evelyn Longhurst (?)
  • born _____

• Marjorie Longhurst (?)
  • born _____

• Florence Audrey Longhurst
  • born August 12, 1922 in Windemere, Ontario
  • married May 15, 1942, in Toronto, Ontario, to Clarence Houghton French (born July 31, 1914 in Buffalo, NY, died November 28, 1990 in BC)
  • children :

• 1976 article about Henry
• WINDERMERE
• The community of Windermere came into being on January 1, 1868 when a post office of that name was established at Archibald Taylor's sawmill at the mouth of the Dee River. It was named after Lake Windermere in the Lake District of England. The post office moved to the home of Thomas Aitken in 1870. Aitken's home grew into Windermere House, one of the pre-eminent tourist resorts of Muskoka. The original settlers in the area were Frank and Elizabeth Forge, David and Ellen Fife, and Thomas Aitken.
• Thomas Aitken, a Shetland Islander, established Windermere House in a commanding location overlooking Lake Rosseau. He also convinced the Muskoka Navigation Company to make Windermere a port of call for the first steamboats on Lake Rosseau, the Waubamik and Nipissing, by agreeing to supply them with wood for the boilers. Windermere became an important stopping point between Port Carling and Rosseau.
• The Village of Windermere was incorporated on April 17, 1924. It was the smallest village in Ontario at that time. Henry Longhurst was elected reeve by acclamation. Council meetings were held in private homes or at the United Church Sunday School until 1953, when a municipal building was built.