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Thomas Stoddart - Miner, Paymaster, Magistrate, Musician

Henry Stoddart was born on September 27, 1834 in Selkirk, Scotland. 

Henry married Jane Smith, a grocer on August 15, 1864 at Hayton, Averdeen County, Scotland.  In the 1871 Census of Scotland, Henry and his family lived on Hayton Rd Street in Old Machar, Aberdeenshire.  His occupation was skinner. In 1891 he was a mill foreman in a paper mill.  He had also worked as a wood sorter

Jane was born September 8, 1834 in Dyke and died May 30, 1891 in Scotland.  After her death Henry followed his family to Copper Cliff.  Henry Stoddart died April 4th, 1902 in Copper Cliff, Nipissing District.
  • Son George Henry Stoddart arrived in 1886, he married Christina Ann Bruce Marr May 6, 1892 in Sudbury, a family story was that Christina had been jilted by his brother, Thomas
  • Daughter Anne Kynoch Stoddart married Robert Christopher Archibald and arrived in Quebec in 1907, in the 1911 census they were living in 316 Oxford Road, Copper Cliff
  • Anne’s twin Jessie died May 1, 1871
  • Daughter Jane Phin Stoddart married John Thomson, they moved to Copper Cliff in the early 1900’s, their youngest son, Bill was born there
  • Son Henry 'Harry' Robert Stoddart died at Ypres, Belgium October 26th, 1917
  • Peter Alexander Stoddard married Annie McDonald August 30, 1899 in Copper Cliff
  • Harriet Alice Stoddart married Alexander 'Sandy' Roderick McDonald of Copper Cliff.
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Left Jane (Stoddart) Thomson, in carriage Sandy and Harriet (Stoddart) McDonald, Right John Thomson in Copper Cliff about 1908. Ancestry and Descendants of Henry Stoddart and Jane Smith.
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Harry Robert Stoddart, in England shortly before being sent to France. Ancestry and Descendants of Henry Stoddart and Jane Smith.
Henry and Jane’s son Thomas Stoddart arrived in Sudbury in 1890.  He was born 7 Jun 1866 in Old Machar, Aberdeenshire and died 11 Aug 1939 in Copper Cliff.  Thomas married Euphemia (Effie) Barbara Pitt on February 18, 1891 in the Rainy River District, Rainy River, Ontario.  Effie was born 22 Aug 1874 in Westmeath, Ontario.  Thomas and Effie had 14 children, born in Copper Cliff.

Thomas was a Canadian Copper Company miner and paymaster, Sudbury District magistrate and coroner, musician and he loved fishing.   In June 1904 Thomas was appointed as a notary public.

Nomination for Mayor and Councillors

On the last Monday of the month of December [1901] after the passing of this Act, it shall be lawful for Thomas Stoddart, or the Clerk of the Township of McKim for the time being, who is hereby appointed the returning officer after giving notice thereof by public advertisement in a newspaper published within the Township of McKim for at least one week, to hold the nomination for the first election for mayor and councillors at some place in the said Town of Copper Cliff to be stated in the said notice at the hour of noon, and he shall preside at the said nomination, or in the case of his absence the electors present shall choose from amongst themselves a chair- man to preside at said nomination, and such chairman shall have all the powers of a returning officer and the polling for said election (if necessary) shall be held on the same day of the week in the week next following the said nomination, and the returning officer or chairman shall at the said nomination publicly announce the place in each of the said polling sub- divisions at which the polling shall take place.  www.archive.org

From the 1911 Census of Copper Cliff, 30 Granite Street:  Thomas Stoddart, age 34, married, immigrated in 1890, paymaster, his wife Effie Barbara Stoddart, age 35, son William Harry, age 19, timekeeper, son Thomas, age 17, son Earl, age 16, Audrey, age 15, son Cecil, age 13, daughter Arethusa, age 12, son Gerald, age 7, son Ernest, age 6, son Almon, age 4 and son James Gordon, age 1.

Thomas and Effie’s son William Harry Stoddart was born in 1892 in Copper Cliff; he was an accountant and company treasurer.  Thomas Stoddart was born in 1893 in McKim Township; he enlisted on March 10, 1916, served as a gunner in World War I and was commissioned in the Royal Air Force in 1918.  Peter Alexander Earl Stoddart was born in 1895 in Copper Cliff and served in the First World War.  In 1914 Peter lived at 130 Rink Street.

Audrey Blanche Stoddart was born in 1896.  Augus Cecil Lawrence Stoddart was born in 1897 and served with the 159th battalion in France and Belgium.  Arethusa (Toddy) Margaret Stoddart was born in 1899.  Elizabeth Wilvina Stoddart was born in 1901 and died in 1902.  John Thompson Stoddart was born in 1902 and died in 1909 from eating poisonous berries.  Gerald Roland Stoddart was born in 1903.  His twin Geraldine lived for 2 months.  Ernest Stoddart was born in 1905.  Russell Almon Stoddart was born in 1906 in Copper Cliff and was with the accounts office at Inco.  Zoe was born in 1908 and lived for 2 months.  Gordon James (Mickey) Stoddart was born in 1909 in Copper Cliff.

Thomas Stoddart lived at 30 Granite Street in 1914. 
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Thomas Stoddart and family, Copper Cliff, about 1906. Ancestry and Descendants of Henry Stoddart and Jane Smith
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