Photograph of Broatch family travelling by horse drawn wagon, Cramahe Township, 1859

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Photographs

Description

Note accompanying photograph:

Driving the Democrat (Cramahe Township) / James Broatch 1818-1893, Isabella Temple Broatch 1820-1893, Jane Marshall Broatch 1845-1937, Elizabeth Broatch 1847-1930, William David Broatch 1849-1924, George Broatch 1850-1933, John Broatch 1852-1917, James Broatch 1855-1911 (m. 1878 Maria Elizabeth Little) and Wallace Duncan Broatch 1857-1924

James Broatch came to Canada in 1844, to Cramahe Township, returned to Scotland the following year and married Isabella on 27 January 1845 at Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian. They came back to Cramahe where he was a tenant farmer and raised his children. In later life James and Isabella bought a farm in Trenton.

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Cramahe Archives does not hold the original item in its archives, but has a digital image.

Inscriptions

Inscription on mount: Taken in 1859.

Date of Original

1859

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