Robert and Hannah were married at North Frodingham, near Driffield, Yorkshire, England where Robert farmed 26 acres. In about 1852 they emigrated to Peel County in Upper Canada with four of their children and took up farming in Toronto Gore Twp. Robert passed away before 1871 and Hannah married Joseph DEAN in 1872. In 1872 their son William along with his wife Sara Jane HALLIDAY and two young boys moved to Bruce County where the family grew to ten children. |