The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Boright family. The fonds consists of Boright family papers and an interesting collection of photographs, some of them dating back to the 1850's.
The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Call family, including documents and photographs.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the Cooper family, particularly the descendants of William Brill Cooper and Sarah Jane Davis who were born in Bolton.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the Cutter family from Sutton.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents about the Draper family, particulary in relation with John Colburn Draper and his wife Harriet Alma Downs, and their son Dennis Colborne Draper, who became brigadier-general during WWI.
The fonds consists of primary source information relating to the Dryburgh family. It includes an official document and a certificate for a Victory Loan, owned by James Arthur Dryburgh (1875-1969) and his daughter-in-law Ruby Geraldine Dryburgh (1900-1987).
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents and photographs of the Erskine family, particularly in relation with Kenneth Erskine, who was a bank manager in Knowlton from 1910 to around 1930.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the Esty family of Mansonville. It includes legal documents pertaining to Elwin James Esty (1843-1909), and documents about Farrand Chauncey Esty (1863-1943), son of Franklin James Esty and Mary Eliza Elkins, including his diaries.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the French family.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the Frosst family.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the Greene family of South Bolton.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the Hawley family. It includes textual records, a photo album and an oversized book about the Hawley family history, published in 1890, that incorporates handwritten genealogical information.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to Dr. Robert Tyre MacDonald of Sutton, consisting mostly of photographs of him at different moments in his adult life.
Robert Tyre MacDonaldThe fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the McLaughlin families, who came to live in West Bolton and Knowlton, all descendants of James McLaughlin and Elizabeth Andrew, coming from Argyll, Scotland.
The fonds consists of a primary source document relating to Thomas D'Arcy McGee.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source information regarding the Mills family.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source information regarding the Mitchell family. It includes documents and photographs relating to George Mitchell and Jane Armstrong descendants, and Malcolm M. Mitchell and Homer Acton Mitchell. The photo album is related to the Hagan-Mitchell family.
The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Mizener family, including Karl A. Mizener.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the Nichols family of Potton Townships. They include documents, photographs and diaries of Joshua Levi Nichols, his wife Jemima Carter and their son George Nichols.
Nichols, Joshua LeviThe fonds consists of primary and secondary source information regarding the Prime family, particularly the two brothers Benjamin Worcester Prime and Thomas Merrell Prime who owned Prime Tavern. The photographs also includes pictures of the Prime Tavern and of Dr. Thomas Merrell Prime Jr.
Prime FamilyThe fonds contains primary source information regarding the Proper family, including Peter Benjamin Proper, married to Sarah Traver, and their son Arthur Proper, married to Lillian Sears of Sutton.
The fonds contains secondary source information regarding the Skinner family, including Family Charts of Thomas Skinner (b. 1731).
The fonds contains secondary source information regarding the Slade family, including information on Edward and Euphemia Tuder Slade and on the Black Lake American Asbestos Mines.
The fonds consists of primary and secondary source information regarding the Taber family, including the East Farnham's families of: Joseph Taber (1806-1873) and Deborah P. Hoskins (1808-1888), and Rev. Curtis Phelps Taber (1837-1925) and Ruth England (1836-1922). There are also information about Georgia Taber Muirhead (1873-1921) and Mary Taber McCutcheon (1900-1983). The photographs concern East Farnham families, including Charles Taber, Curtis Phelps Taber and his grand-son Curtis Penn Taber, and Joseph Taber and his wife Deborah Hoskins and their children. The photo album probably belonged to Eli Hoskins Taber's family (1842-1878), who became a famous photographer, along with his older brother Abner Bedee Taber (1832-1866), even though their career ended too soon.
The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Tarbell family, mostly relating to the Tarbell-Kimball and Tarbell-Farmer couples. It includes personal documents and an impressive collection of photographs taken in and out of traditional studio portraits.
Tarbell-Kimball FamilyThe fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Traver (or Travers) family, including many legal official documents relating to the lots 813-814, 817-818-819, and 821-822 of range 7 of Potton Townships, owned by the Traver family for more than a century, genealogical information, some documents about Ernest Bradley, married with Millie [?] Traver, and a Raw Milk Permit plaque.
The archival fonds pertains to the life of Rufus Whitcomb (1784-1831) and consists of one textual record (will, 1831).
The fonds contains the following serie :
BCHS138, S1 Personal life.
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