The grandmother of the author of this page. She moved with her family when very young to “Riverside”, a property on the South Branch of the Muskoka River, upriver from Matthiasville and across the river from Uffington. She related to the author of this page that when she was very young, she climbed from a tree onto the roof of the house, and startled her mother by flapping her arms and shouting “I’m an angel! I’m an angel!” She was a school teacher for a few years before getting married, teaching in one-room school houses and often commuting several miles over rough forest roads by bicycle. Our Family History (p. 129) relates that she was the only girl in the family to ride a bicycle. She also had a horse named Betsey. When she first started teaching, her oldest pupil was only two years younger than her. After getting married she moved to Bracebridge, Ontario, where she lived on Manitoba Street for many years. She sang in the choir at Uffington, and later at St Thomas’ Anglican Church, Bracebridge.
Events
Date of Birth: 26 March 1897.
Place of Birth: “Salem Corners”, Pickering Township, Ontario County, Ontario, Canada.
Her date of birth is given in her birth registration. Her marriage registration gives her place of birth as “Pickering”. The 1901 census gives 26 March as the month and date of her birth, but incorrectly gives 1896 as the year. (It correctly gives her age as 4. The census began on 31 March 1901). The 1911 census gives her birth date as March, 1897. Our Family History (p. 27) gives her birth date as March 26th, 1897, and her birth place as “Salem Corners”. Ella Gertrude Adamson’s daughter agrees that 26 March 1897 is the correct birth date. The author of this page recalls Ella Gertrude Adamson stating that she was born at “Salem Corners”. The property was at the south-west corner of what is now the intersection of Highway 7 and Salem Road.
Date of Death: 5 January 1991.
Place of Death: Ingersoll, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada.
Place of Burial: Bracebridge, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada (St Thomas Anglican Church Cemetery).
Her gravestone is here.
Relationships
Father: Henry Gamble Adamson (1849 - 1935).
Mother: Elizabeth Beatrice Cooke (1857 - 1920).
See the Commentary section.
Spouse: George Adam Crozier (1890 - 1957). Married 28 July 1920, Uffington, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada (St. Paul’s Anglican Church).
The marriage registration gives the date and place of marriage (Uffington, Draper, Muskoka).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
John Henry Crozier (born 29 May 1921 in Bracebridge - died 1 September 1985 in the Isle of Man) married Phyllis Adrienne Costain 25 August 1960 in Rushen, Isle of Man.
Madeline Louise Crozier (born 27 August 1923 in Bracebridge - died 18 October 1997 in Owen Sound, Ontario) married Cecil Richard Rhodes Wright 13 August 1945 in Bracebridge.
Isabel Yvonne Crozier (born 17 September 1936 in Bracebridge - died 5 June 2022 in Ingersoll, Ontario) married Daniel Roderick Allan Ward 1 July 1963 in Bracebridge).
Commentary
Ella’s parentage:
Ella was the grandmother of the author of this page, and told me her father was Henry Gamble Adamson and her mother was Elizabeth Beatrice Cooke.
Ella’s marriage registration gives her parents as Henry Gamble Adamson and Elizabeth Beatrice Cooke. (Henry Gamble Adamson was also a witness.)
Ella’s birth registration given her parents as Henry Adamson and Elizabeth Beatrice Cooke (The informant is not recorded.)
In the 1901 census, Ella is recorded as living in Pickering with her father Henry Adamson and his wife Elizabeth B Adamson.
In the 1911 census, she is recorded as living in Draper township, Muskoka, with her father Henry G Adamsom and his wife Elizabeth B.
The family is described by Ella’s sister in Our Family History.
The evidence for Ella’s parentage is sufficient.
References
Ella Gertrude Adamson, Ontario birth registration: County of Ontario, Schedule A, County of Ontario, page 62, number 45 (26 March 1897); digital image, Ancestry.ca (http://ancestry.ca : accessed 8 March 2014), citing MS 929, reel 139, Archives of Ontario, Toronto. A digital image is available at FamilySearch: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMDL-GQ7
George Adam Crozier--Ella Gertrude Adamson, Ontario marriage registration 014887 (28 July 1920); digital image, Ancestry.ca (http://ancestry.ca : accessed 8 March 2014), citing MS 932, reel 534, Archives of Ontario, Toronto. Digital images are available at FamilySearch: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27D4-RPT
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27D4-RPG
Henry Adamson household, 1901 census of Canada, Ontario, Ontario (west) (district 99), Pickering Township (subdistrict B), division 6, page 4, family 23 (family begins on page 3); digital image, Library and Archives Canada, Censuses (https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx : accessed 8 March 2014), citing LAC microfilm T-6487
A digital image can be viewed here: http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1901/z/z002/jpg/z000089839.jpg
Image of the previous page here: http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1901/z/z002/jpg/z000089838.jpg
Henry G Adamson household, 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, Muskoka (district 98), Draper Township (subdistrict 5), page 11, family 111; digital image, Library and Archives Canada, Censuses (https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx : accessed 8 March 2014), citing LAC microfilm T-20385
A digital image can be viewed here: http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1911/jpg/e002003478.jpg
George Crozier household, 1921 census of Canada, Ontario, Muskoka (district 104), Bracebridge Town (subdistrict 23), page 28, family 252; digital image Ancestry.ca (http://ancestry.ca : accessed 8 March 2014)
A digital picture of her gravestone can be seen at the Northern Ontario Gravemarker Gallery:
Hawn, Elizabeth Beatrice Adamson. Our Family History. Gravenhurst, Ontario: Baxter Press Ltd., October 1969.
[Elizabeth Beatrice Adamson Hawn, the compiler, was an elder sister of Ella Gertrude Adamson.]