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Cloes family fonds
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Cloes family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1824-1998
- Accession Number
- 2003-28
- Storage Location
- R6 S6 Sh2 B2 F6-14
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Cloes family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Accession Number
- 2003-28
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R6 S6 Sh2 B2 F6-14
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1824-1998
- Physical Description
- 5 cm of textual records
- 13 photographs : b&w, some sepia toned
- History / Biographical
- O’Neal (O’Neil) Cloes (1792-1879) and Eunice R. Culver (Collver/Colver) were married in New Sarum, then Upper Canada, in 1821. They settled in Yarmouth Township, Elgin County. Cloes, a former resident of New York State, corresponded with various family members in different parts of Upper Canada and the United States. They had eleven children, the youngest surviving son, Lewis Cloes (b.1846) and his youngest son (of three); Floyd Cloes (b.1893) are the sources of most of the material in the fonds. The Cloes and Culver families were both large, and have a great number of descendants in the United States and Canada. Further biographical material, including a more detailed family history, can be found in Series 1 - Genealogy.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists largely of correspondence, including 20 letters received by O’Neal Cloes in the second half of the nineteenth century. Later correspondence between family genealogists and a number of family photographs and other documents including land and tax records and legal certificates are included. The fonds has been artificially arranged into the following series:
1. Correspondence, 1824-ca. 1898
2. Photographs, ca. 1860-1924
3. Personal Records, ca. 1916-1944
4. Genealogy, ca. 1976-1998
- Name Access
- Cloes (family)
- New Sarum (Ont.)
- Yarmouth (Ont. : Township)
- Arrangement
- Artificial arrangement imposed on material.
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