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Event Date : Tuesday, April 04, 1972
Event Type : Death

Description : Died at her home, Bradford. Beloved wife of Gordon Bantam. Dear mother of Colleen, loving daughter of Norbert and Gertrude Moriarty, sister of Bill of Bradford, Louis, Barrie, Irene, Bradford, Mary (Mrs. Charles Ham), King City, Constance (Mrs. Donald McLean), Elmvale, and Margaret (Mrs. Bill Patton), Gilford. Sister-in-law of Helen Bantam of Bradford. Rested at the Lewis Funeral Home, 30 Simcoe St., Bradford. Requiem high mass was held in the Church of the Holy Martyrs of Japan Saturday at 10 a.m. Interment McGann's Cemetery, Bradford.

Event Date : Thursday, December 17, 1959
Event Type : Death

Description : At Bradford. Wife of the late Frank Bantam. Mother of Helen and Gordon. Rested at the Lathangue-Kilkenny Funeral Home. Service in Trinity Anglican Church. Interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Event Date : Sunday, June 28, 1953
Event Type : Death

Description : Mrs. Wesley Banting of Toronto passed away early Sunday morning, June 28, in her 80th year, at the home of her brother, Ferris Donnell. Mrs. Banting was the wife of the late Wesley Banting, who were former residents of Cookstown. Left to mourn the loss of a loving mother are Mrs. L. Hariot (Louise), Mrs. G. Young (Rhoda), Frank and John, all of Toronto; Donnell of Foote's Bay, and Clara Banting of Timmins. Two brothers, Ferris Donnell of Toronto and H. G. Donnell of Cookstown, and one sister, Mrs. R. H. Sim, Toronto, also survive. The service was at the Turner and Porter Funeral Home, 436 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto, on Wednesday, July 1. Interment at Lewis' Cemetery, Cookstown. Thirty-four relatives and friends attended the short service at Lewis' Cemetery, when the Rev. Mr. Marsh of Toronto conducted the service.

Event Date : Tuesday, December 27, 1949
Event Type : Death
Municipality : Toronto

Description : In his 84th year. Husband of Sara Lavina Earle, 409 Walmer Rd. Toronto. Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Little Bemrose of Bradford. Father of Earle and Josephine Hamer (Mrs. John Copithorne, Moorestown, N.J.). Funeral at the Chapel of A.W. Miles, 30 St. Clair Ave. W., Toronto. Service Friday at 3 p.m. Interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Event Date : March 29, 1892
Event Type : Death

Description : Died at his residence, "Fairview" in Bradford. Age: 78 years. Has lived in Bradford 37 years. Operated various hotels for 30 years. Retired seven years ago. Was married to his second wife seven years ago. From his first marriage he had four daughters (Mrs. Nicol, Mrs. Hogaboom, Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. J.S. Boddy) and two sons (Messrs. Will R. and George Bingham). Interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Event Date : February 17, 1899
Event Type : Death

Description : Age: 74 years, 5 months.Born in Mohill, County Letrim, Ireland, and came with his parents to Canada when he was seven.They first settled in Lloydtown, and then Bond Head, where the deceased spend twenty years of his life, first in the hotel business, and then as a merchant.He then settled in Bradford in 1864, and farmed and ran a shop, which his sons now do.Had nine children: six sons - William and John predeceased him, James, Elder, Walter and Briton; and three daughters - Mrs. Rev. Wass, of Brantford, Mrs. J. McL. Stevenson, Esq., of Barrie, and another.Interred at Mount Pleasant.

Event Date : Saturday, June 13, 1936
Event Type : Death

Description : Bohoniuk, 25-year-old Ukranian, of Toronto, was drowned in the Holland Marsh irrigation canal, at the point where the canal skirts the rear of Mr. J. W. Wilson's farm. He had arrived in Bradford two days before and secured work with Anglo del Zotto and F. Bollsanelo, market gardeners. Having finished work, he decided to bathe in the canal. When he did not appear for supper, a search was instituted, police were called, and eventually his body was found in about nine feet of water. The body was removed to the undertaking rooms of T. Kilkenny & Son, Bradford. Coroner Dr. J. A. Cummings did not feel that an inquest was necessary.The brother of the dead man had the body removed to Toronto for burial in Mount Hope Cemetery.