It does establish the family in Simcoe County in the 1850's even though the 1851 Census is no longer available for this County. Ford Faulkner an older brother is listed as being born in Toronto, between 1847 and 1849. This gives us a time frame for the family. William senior and his wife Annie Jane came from Ireland with 2 children born in Ireland between 1844 and 1845. If Ford Faulkner was born between 1847 and 1849 the family must have emigrated in that time period. Likewise they must have moved from Toronto to Simcoe County by July 1, 1850, where William senior was the first tailor in Newton Robinson.
William Joseph Faulkner married Saphronia Diana Garbutt in West Gwillimbury, Simcoe, in 1880. They lived in Simcoe County and then by 1891 the family had moved to the Muskoka area, where William was a baker.
William and Saphronia Faulkner had at least 4 children:
Lewis Norman Faulkner 1881 - 1908
Henrietta Jane Faulkner 1885 - 1965
William Garbutt Faulkner 1889 - 1970
Florence M. Faulkner 1895 - 1931
The Vintage postcards website indicates that William Joseph Faulkner had a bakery and confectionery shop in Sundridge, Muskoka County, but it burnt down in 1903. This shop was at Paget and Main Streets and was next to his brother John Crosby Faulkner's photography shop.
William died in 1905 while working with his son William Junior on a harvest excursion in Strathclair Manitoba. William Senior worked as a baker for the harvest. Another researcher sent me a newspaper article, date and paper unknown, that recounts his death. However, the article indicates he died on the excursion in Strathclair, while his death registration was in South River, Parry Sound, Ontario. Strathclair is about 2,000+ km west of South River, so I'm not sure how accurate the newspaper article is. The article goes on to say, that the body was brought home for interment and William is buried in the South River Cemetery in Sundridge, Ontario
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There are no known pictures of William Joseph Faulkner, but here is a nice one of his son William Garbutt Faulkner (1889 - 1970). This has been shared with me, by a descendant of William Faulkner's family. I always think it odd that there aren't more photographs of the Faulkner family, since John Crosby Faulkner was a professional photographer. I guess it's like the old story of the cobbler's children never having any shoes.
At some point the family had land in Saskatchewan. Saphronia Diana Faulkner is listed on the Saskatchewan Homestead Index. Charles George Gandier and Thomas Edward Casson. is also listed in the same area, which I think was near Battleford, Saskatchewan. As the property is listed in Saphronia's name I'm assuming this was sometime after 1905.
I've just found the family in Battleford, Saskatchewan on the 1916 Census. It was a tricky one to sort out. The Ancestry Index had her listed as "Sophronia Din* *Lronor". Oh, well, now I'll have to be creative to find out where they were on the 1911 Census.
Henrietta married Charles George Gandier in Ontario in 1903 and they are living near Battleford. William Garbutt Faulkner married Blanche Pike in 1915, in Saskatchewan and Thomas Casson and Florence Faulkner were the witnesses Saphronia Diana Faulkner is living with William Garbutt Faulkner.. Florence Faulkner is listed as a spinster so she must have married Thomas Casson after that period. According to the Census they moved west in 1909.
Saphronia Faulkner died in 1921, but the exact details are not known. Possibly she died in Saskatchewan.
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