Stephen and Sarah Oughtred, ca1890
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Brothers William and Richard Oughtred came in 1831 from Guiseborough, England. The families settled in the small hamlet of Hammondville, Trafalgar Township, which later became Sheridan, and was located at the junction of Town Line, now Winston Churchill Boulevard, and the Middle Road which is now the Queen Elizabeth Way.
According to the "Clarkson Book" posted by The City of Mississauga and linked to this record, Richard's son Stephen, pictured here, came a few years later.
When it was necessary to rename Hammondsville, Richard, who was a blacksmith by trade and who enjoyed literature, suggested "Sheridan", after the Irish poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Richard died in 1881 and Stephen inherited the farm and brick house. The Oughtred family home in Sheridan was torn down in 1939-1940 when the QEW was built to curve south through Sheridan.
The Oughtred family were very successful strawberry farmers into the 1960's in the Clarkson - Sheridan area.
Stephen and Sarah are buried at Springcreek Cemetery, Clarkson Road, Mississauga. - Notes
- See pages 40-41 for information on the Oughtred family in the "Clarkson Book Part One" by The City of Mississauga, linked in this record.
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Sarah (Wilson) Oughtred, b. Dec. 16, 1830 d. Jan. 4, 1905. Stephen Oughtred, b. Oct. 2, 1822 d. Apr. 1, 1903.
- Local identifier
- TTJM000175
- Collection
- T
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.51681 Longitude: -79.59961
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- Recommended Citation
- Stephen and Sarah Oughtred
- Contact
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Trafalgar Township Historical Society Sponsor: Jeff Knoll, Local & Regional Councillor for Oakville Ward 5 – Town of Oakville/Regional Municipality of Halton
