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CROMARTY TENNIS CLUB - FOUNDED 1902
Cromarty Tennis Club,
65 Cromarty Street,
Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
(Image
postmarked September 25, 1908)
CROMARTY TENNIS CLUB: MY CROMARTY TENNIS HISTORY NOTES
By
© Eric Krause, Krause House Info-Research Solutions
Rough
Draft Research Notes on the history
of the Cromarty Tennis Club, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
(and on other Cape Breton Tennis Clubs as they may be encountered in my
research)
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KRAUSE HOUSE INFO-RESEARCH SOLUTIONS NOTES
INTRODUCTION
The Lawn Tennis Tournament
in Toronto. Artist: Patterson, Andrew Dickson, 1854-1930. Date: 03 09 1881.
Canadian Illustrated News. Pagination: vol. XXIV, no. 10, 152. Notes: Drawn by A.
Dickson Patterson
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cin/index-e.html
These notes are not meant for publication. This page merely serves as place where I can keep my research findings on the Cromarty Tennis Club.. Naturally, not all of these notes may prove useful as some are possible leads which may go no where.
CROMARTY MATTERS
1803
Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
Rev. Hugh McLeod, D.D. was born in the parish of Tongue in Sutherlandshire , in 1803 ... [Charles William Vernon, Cape Breton, Canada, At The Beginning Of The Twentieth Century p. 120]
Rev. Hugh McLeod, D. D. ... Dr. McLeod was born in the parish of Tongue, Sutherlandshire, Scot land, on the 23rd of April, 1803. [John Murray, History of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton (Truro, N.S. : Printed by News Publishing Co., 1921), p. 68 - http://www.archive.org/stream/thehistoryofthep00murruoft/thehistoryofthep00murruoft_djvu.txt ]
John Murray, History of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton (Truro, N.S. : Printed by News Publishing Co., 1921), between pages 70 and 71- http://www.archive.org/stream/thehistoryofthep00murruoft/thehistoryofthep00murruoft_djvu.txt ]
1850 - 1851
Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
Dr. McLeod reached Sydney with his family of wife and three children on Saturday, August the 25th, 1850. ... Mr. McLeod lived in Sydney until the spring of 1851. He passed his first winter in a small house on North Charlotte Street, nearly opposite St. George s Episcopal Church. The following summer he bought a piece of land and built a house on the South Side of the Mira River and near where the Marion Bridge ... [John Murray, History of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton (Truro, N.S. : Printed by News Publishing Co., 1921), p. 69- http://www.archive.org/stream/thehistoryofthep00murruoft/thehistoryofthep00murruoft_djvu.txt ]
1850-1860
In the late 1850’s the game of Real Tennis” or “Royal Tennis” played indoors on a floor of flagstone with tennis balls made of cloth which would rebound off stone or brick walls, was taken outdoors using a vulcanized (process was invented in 1850 by Charles Goodyear) rubber ball that would bounce on grass.
1851 CENSUS
(Canada East, Canada West,
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia)
The 1851 Census offers a rich source of information about Canada East (Quebec), Canada West (Ontario), New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the middle of the 19th century
Cape Breton Was Not Included In This Database - Parts of the 1851 Census Did Not Survive
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/1851/index-e.html
1854
Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
Hugh McLeod, D.D owns Dodd's Sherwood House [Sherwood Estate] by July 4, 1854
Edmund Murray Dodd (1797-1876)
[Note: Edmund Murray son of the Honorable Justice Dodd. died March 12th 1862 Aged 27 years ...Edmund Murray Dodd (January 9, 1797 – July 27, 1876) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented the township of Sydney in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1832 to 1848. ... a lawyer son was shot to death in Sydney by the father of a girl whom he had raped but refused to marry. St. George's Church Cemetery; Dictionary of Canadian Biography - http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4948 ]
[DODD, EDMUND MURRAY, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. at Sydney, Cape Breton, 9 Jan. 1797, son of Archibald Charles Dodd and Susannah Gibbons; d. at Cow Bay (Port Morien), N.S., 27 July 1876. - Dictionary of Canadian Biography -
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4948 ]
Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894) and William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932) and Hugh McLeod (1843-1879)
McLEOD, William McKenzie, M.D., J.P. (Cape Breton.)
Third s. of the Rev. Hugh McLeod, D.D., Minister of Sydney and Ex-Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, by Catherine, dau. of the late Rev. Hugh Ross, of Fearn, in Ross-shire, Scotland. B. at Sherwood House, Sydney, C.B., 4 July 1854. Ed. at Sydney Academy, Dalhousie College, Halifax, and at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Graduated as Doctor of Medicine at latter institution in March 1875. Unmarried. First returned to Parlt. in Oct. 1879, to fill the vacancy in the representation of Cape Breton Co., N.S., caused by the death of the late member, Hugh McLeod (brother to the present member) A Liberal Conservative, and supporter of the present Administration. —Sherwood, Sydney, Cape Breton, N.S.
Charles Herbert Mackintosh, Canadian Parliamentary companion and annual register (Citizen Print. and Pub. Co., 1881), pp. 184-185
[William Mackenzie McLeod] --- B. at Sherwood House, Sydney, CB, 4 July 1854 . Ed . at Sydney Academy
[John Alexander Gemmili, The Canadian Parliamentary Companion (J. Durie & Son., 1883), p. 207
1861
1861 CENSUS
Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894) and William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932) and Hugh McLeod (1843-1879)
In 1861, based on the 1881 census:, the following members of the Rev. Hugh McLeod Family living at home would have achieved the following ages Hugh Richard (58); Catharine (39); William MacKenzie (6); Annie (3); Catherine (1). In Diane R. Reid's 1861 census list for Cape Breton - http://www3.sympatico.ca/dr.reid/cbfamilies1861cbc.html - the only Hugh McLeod, as a head of family, appears in both Sydney (page 18) and Mira Ferry (page 32). - Source: National Archives Microfilm M875 - "Head of Household" census, and appears to have been abstracted from the original returns by the enumeration officer." In 1861, his older son Hugh (18) was likely still at home with the father.
1864
Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
Church Map of 1864 - Nova Scotia .... Rev. Hugh McLeod DD, Presbyterian Minister ... Sherwood
Between 1850 and 1866, Presbyterian services were held in Little Glace Bay by Rev. Dr. Hugh MacLeod, Minister of Union Presbyterian Church, Mira Ferry; MacLeod had come to Cape Breton in 1849 from the Free Church of Scotland - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul's_Presbyterian_Church,_Glace_Bay ] - Harbour Grace, Newfoundland: Rev. Hugh MacLeod, a deputy of the Free Church in Scotland http://hrgrace.ca/history.html
The Presbyterians of Sydney signed a call that went forward to Dr. Hugh MacLeod in 1849. Although few in number, they took steps about that time to organize St. Andrew’s Congregation and to build a church. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Sydney, was incorporated by an Act of the Provincial Legislature of Nova Scotia in 1849. Messrs. Hugh Munroe, M.P.P.; Donald MacQueen, Barrister; John Ferguson, Merchant; William Turnbull, Merchant; and William Kynoch, were named Trustees. Arrangements were made for the erection of the first church of that denomination on Charlotte St, just north of the Royal Bank of Canada on a lot of land donated by Mr. Murray Dodd. In due course the church was built on a lot of land 40 x 60 feet in 1855 and for 33 years. http://www.bethelpresbyterianchurch.ca/history.htm ]
In 1849 Rev. Hugh MacLeod arrived as a missionary of the free church. He was inducted in august, 1850, as minister of a congregation which included Mira, Sydney, and adjacent places. http://members.tripod.com/~lemac2/index-185.html ]
Sherwood was the name of the house of the Presbyterian minister in Sydney. This has sent many people on wild goose chases, as anyone would think that it must be a place. The manse was called "Sherwood." by George F. Sanborn Jr." - http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/NS-CAPE-BRETON/2002-01/1012536619 ]
[Here is a list of PARISHES in the CAPE BRETON area. All these registers are kept at the BEATON, UCCB - REV. DR. HUGH MACLEOD, SYDNEY, 1797-1877 - http://searches2.rootsweb.com/th/read/NOVA-SCOTIA/1998-03/0889845857 ]
SHERWOOD
Reference - Public Archives of Nova Scotia, A. F. Church, A Topographical Map of the County of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and Sydney Town [Insert], 1864
Entire Map (pcx)
Entire Map (bmp)
Sherwood Crop (bmp)
1864 / 1865
Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
Rev. Hugh McLeod 1864/1865 - "Sherwood," Fresh Water [Creek] [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canadiandirectories - Hutchinson’s Nova Scotia Directory, for 1864/65]
1868 / 1869
Hugh McLeod (1843-1879) and Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
Hugh McLeod 1868/1869 - Hugh McLeod, barrister and Hugh Mcleod, D.D. - [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canadiandirectories - Lovell's Province of Nova Scotia Directory for 1868/1869]
1873
Tennis
In 1873, the first lawn-tennis ball was made of rubber covered with flannel.
Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
d. sherwood, sydney, Wednesday morn., 23rd April, 7 o'clock, George McLEOD second s/o Rev. Dr. McLEOD, age 26.- May 5, 1873, The Daily Telegraph (Saint John) - http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NewspaperVitalStats/default.aspx?culture=en-CA - Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics: Volume 33 Number 1911
1874
Tennis
ENGLAND - In 1874, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patented a “New and Improved Court for Playing the Ancient Game of Tennis,” which he called “Sphairistike,” soon abbreviated to “Sticky” which then became “Lawn Tennis,” that included plain rubber balls, 4 pear-shaped racquets, a triangular net and was played on a hourglass-shaped court
NEW YORK - That year Mary Outerbridge set up a Wingfield court at the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club (New York), the first example of “Lawn Tennis" being played in the Americas
1875 - 1879
William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932) and Hugh McLeod (1843-1879)
From 1875 until 1879, he[William MacKenzie McLeod] practiced his profession in Sydney, ... and was elected MP to succeed his brother, the late Hugh McLeod, to represent the County of ... ] [--- GET MORE FROM William Cochrane, John Castell Hopkins, W. J. Hunter, The Canadian Album: Men of Canada : Or, Success by Example, in Religion ...
1875 - 1890
Tennis began to develop and spread in Canada soon after its popularization in England. J.F. Helmuth formed a club in Toronto that is believed to be the forerunner of the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club (founded 1875). The first Canadian tournament was held at the Montreal Cricket Club in 1878 and the first indoor tournament took place in Ottawa in 1881. The 1880s saw clubs formed in Winnipeg, Man; London, Ottawa, Niagara, and Kingston, Ont; Fredericton and Saint John, NB; Halifax, NS; Victoria and Vancouver, BC; Regina, Sask; Lethbridge and Edmonton, Alta (1891). In 1890 the Canadian Lawn Tennis Association was formed and the first Canadian championships were held in Toronto.
[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007917 ]
1876
Tennis
HALIFAX - First public Lawn Tennis courts (Oldest in Canada) was established in the Halifax Public Gardens
Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
m. Sherwood House, sydney, C.B., 23rd ult., by the bride's father, assisted by Rev. Matthew Wilson of sydney Mines and Rev. David Drummond of Boularderie, Rev. Alexander FARQUHARSON, St. Andrew's Church, sydney / Barbara McLEOD eldest d/o Rev. Dr. McLEOD - December 9, 1876, Watchman (Saint John Newspaper) - http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NewspaperVitalStats/default.aspx?culture=en-CA - Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics: Volume 38 Number 2397
1878 - 1879
Hugh McLeod (1843-1879)
- Date of Birth: 1843;
- Place of Birth: Logie Easter Parish, Ross-shire, Scotland
- Deceased Date (yyyy.mm.dd): 1879.08.05 (36 years old);
- Lawyer Political Affiliation: Liberal-Conservative (1872.10.12 - )HOUSE OF COMMONS
Constituency | Date of Election (yyyy.mm.dd) | Result |
---|---|---|
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia | 1878.09.17 | Elected |
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia | 1874.01.22 | Defeated |
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia | 1872.10.12 | Defeated |
1879
Hugh McLeod (1843-1879) and Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
McLEOD, HUGH, B.A. (Cape Breton.)
Eld. s. of the Rev. Hugh McLeod, D.D., Minister of Sydney and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, by Catherine, dau. of the late Rev. Hugh Ross, of Fearu, Scotland. B. in the Parish of Logie Easter, Rosshire, Scotland, of which his father was then minister. Came to this country when a child, in 1850, with his father and family. Ed. in Sydney Academy, Truro Normal College and McGill Univ., Montreal, where he graduated B.A. Called to the Bar of N.S. in 1868. First returned to Parlt. at last g.e. A Liberal-Conservative. — Sherwood, Sydney, Cape Breton.
[Source: CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION AND ANNUAL REGISTER, 1880. EDITED RY C. H. MACKINTOSH ESTABLISHED, 1879. OTTAWA ], p. 200
Hugh McLeod (1843-1879) and Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
[Source: The Dominion Annual Register and Review for the Thirteenth Year of the Canadian Union 1879 - Page 414]
William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932)
McLEOD, WILLIAM MACKENZIE
- Date of Birth (yyyy.mm.dd): 1854.07.04
- Place of Birth: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Deceased Date (yyyy.mm.dd): 1932.06.13 (77 years old)
- Occupation: Physician
- Political Affiliation: Liberal-Conservative (1879.10.23 - )HOUSE OF COMMONS
Constituency Date of Election (yyyy.mm.dd) Result Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
1882.06.20 Defeated Cape Breton, Nova Scotia 1879.10.23 Elected http://www2.parl.gc.ca/ParlLigner/Highlighter.aspx?Query=
MCLEOD+WILLIAM+MACKENZIE&lang=e&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww2.parl.gc.ca%
2fParlinfo%2fFiles%2fParliamentarian.aspx%3fItem%3d43a56d30-69b2-4ef2-8541-600a8393e1ca%26Language%3dE
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Breton_(electoral_district)
William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932) and Hugh McLeod (1843-1879)
William Mackenzie McLeod (July 4, 1854 – June 13, 1932) was a Canadian physician and politician.
Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, McLeod was educated at Sydney Academy and Dalhousie University. He took his medical course in New York City at Bellevue Hospital Medical College graduating in 1875. In 1889 and 1890 he also took special courses in the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat at New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. From 1875 until 1879, he practiced his profession in Sydney, when he entered the political field and was elected to the Canadian House of Commons succeeding his brother, Hugh McLeod, to represent the riding of Cape Breton. A Liberal-Conservative, he was defeated in 1882. In 1883, he was appointed Medical Superintendent of Quarantine at Sydney. In 1886, he organized the Sydney Battery of Field Artillery (Canadian Militia), of which he was the Major in command.
He was president of the Cape Breton Medical Society, and a member of the Nova Scotia Medical Society. In religion he was a Presbyterian.
William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932)
William Mackenzie McLeod (July 4, 1854 – June 13, 1932) Book: Memoirs, Sydney, privately published, nd., 34pp, Apps
Hugh McLeod (1843-1879) and Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
The death of Hugh McLEOD, M.P. for Cape Breton Co. is announced. The Halifax 'Herald' says he died at his residence at Sherwood, sydney. He was a son of Rev. Hugh McLEOD, D.D. of Presbyterian Church. He was educated in sydney Academy, at the Normal School, Truro and at McGill College, Montreal where he took the degree of B.A. He was called to the Bar in 1868. August 8, 1879, The Times (Moncton) http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NewspaperVitalStats/default.aspx?culture=en-CA - Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics: Volume 49 Number 2533
1880
William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932) and Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894) and Hugh McLeod (1843-1879)
McLEOD, WILLIAM McKENZIE, M.D., J. P. (Cape Breton.)
Third S. of the Rev. Hugh McLeod, D.D., Minister of Sydney and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, by Catherine, dau. of the late Rev. Hugh Ross, of Fearn, in Rosshire, Scotland. B. at Sherwood House, Sydney, C.B., 4 July 1854. Ed. at Sydney Academy, Dalhousie College, Halifax, and at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Graduated as Doctor of Medicine at latter institution in March 1875. Unmarried. First returned to Parlt. in Oct. 1879 to fill the vacancy in the representation of Cape Breton Co., N.S., caused by the death of the late member, Hugh McLeod, (brother to the present member). A Liberal-Conservative and supporter of the present Administration - Sherwood, Sydney, Cape Breton, N.S.
[Source: C. H. Mackintosh, editor, Canadian Parliamentary Companion and Annual Register, (Ottawa, 1880), p. 207]
1881
The Lawn Tennis Tournament
in Toronto. Artist: Patterson, Andrew Dickson, 1854-1930. Date: 03 09 1881.
Canadian Illustrated News. Pagination: vol. XXIV, no. 10, 152. Notes: Drawn by A.
Dickson Patterson
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cin/index-e.html
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Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
page 162, #108 Thomas W. Publicner (?), 25, barber res. Sydney, birth Dartmouth parents James & Elizabeth, painter Flora Buchanan, 22 res. Sydney, birth Sydney parents William & Margaret, farmer Aug. 9, 1881, Sherwood by license, Presbyterian Rev. Hugh McLeod, D.D. witnesses: Thomas Harold, Annie C. Inuggah (?)
page 185, #62 Daniel Buchanan, 40, farmer res. Grand Lake, birth St. Ann's parents Murdoch & Christian, farmer Effie McKinnon, 26 res. Moire, birth Moire parents Donald & Janet, farmer Sept. 16, 1884, Sherwood by banns, Presbyterian Rev. Hugh McLeod witnesses: Sandy McKinnon, Jno McPherson
1881 CENSUS
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1881/001049-100.01-e.php
Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
Province: Nova Scotia
District Name: Cape Breton (6)
Sub-District Name: Sydney (P)
Division: 2
Page: 10
Microfilm: C-13167
Reference: RG31 - Statistics
Canada
Inhabited House 44 - Family 44
Hugh Richard McLeod (1803-1894)
Name: McLeod, Hugh Rchd.Sex: MAge: 78Place of Birth: ScotlandReligion: Can PresbyEthnic Origin: ScotchOccupation: Clergyman
Catharine McLeod
Name: McLeod, CatharineSex: FAge: 59Place of Birth: ScotlandReligion: Can Presby
William McLeod [William MacKenzie McLeod] - (1854-1932)
Name: McLeod, WilliamSex: MAge: 26Place of Birth: N S (Nova Scotia)Religion: Can PresbyEthnic Origin: ScotchOccupation: Medical Pract.
Annie McLeod
Name: McLeod, AnnieSex: FAge: 23Place of Birth: N S (Nova Scotia)Religion: Can PresbyEthnic Origin: Scotch
Catharine McLeod
Name: McLeod, CatharineSex: FAge: 21Place of Birth: N S (Nova Scotia)Religion: Can PresbyEthnic Origin: Scotch
John Knot McLeod [[J. K. McLeod (1863 or 1864-)]]
Name: McLeod, John KnotSex: MAge: 18Place of Birth: N S (Nova Scotia)Religion: Can PresbyEthnic Origin: ScotchOccupation: Student
Thomas C McLeod
Name: McLeod, Thomas C.Sex: MAge: 15Place of Birth: N S (Nova Scotia)Religion: Can PresbyEthnic Origin: ScotchOccupation: Student
Depey McKay
Name: McKay, DepeySex: FAge: 40Place of Birth: ScotlandReligion: Can PresbyEthnic Origin: Scotch
Daniel Ferguson
Name: Ferguson, DanielSex: MAge: 22Place of Birth: N S (Nova Scotia)Religion: Can PresbyEthnic Origin: Scotch
Mary McPhee
Name: McPhee, Mary
Sex: F
Age: 21
Place of Birth: N S (Nova Scotia)
Religion: R Catholic
Ethnic Origin: Scotch
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1881/001049-119.01-e.php?id=
NS_556767&interval=20&PHPSESSID=10oj7jo0g8b7uj1ukl58naqcg5
IMAGE: Census188HughMcLeode008116269.pdf
Hugh Ross (1870-1938)
Name: Ross, Hugh
Sex: M
Age: 8
Place of Birth: N. S. (Nova
Scotia)
Religion: C. Presbyterian
Ethnic Origin: Scotch
Occupation:
Province: Nova Scotia
District Name: Cape Breton (6)
Sub-District Name: Cow Bay (M)
Page: 6
Microfilm: C-13166
Reference: RG31 - Statistics
Canada
Father: Daniel Ross (Carpenter) - 41 years old, b. c. 1840 Mother: Issabella Ross (45) - b. c. 1836 Sister: Mary Johanna (13) - c. 1868 Note: Hugh Ross is still in Cow Bay in 1891 |
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Generation No. 4 16. D ONALD "DAN"4 ROSS (DONALD3, DONALD2, JOHN "MERCHANT"1) was born 15 Feb 1839 in St. Anns, Cape Breton, and died Unknown. He married ISOBELLA MACNEIL 04 Aug 1866. She was born 24 May 1835 in Mira, Cape Breton, and died Unknown.More About DONALD ROSS and ISOBELLA MACNEIL: Marriage: 04 Aug 1866 Children of DONALD ROSS and ISOBELLA MACNEIL are: i. HUGHENA5 ROSS, b. Abt. 1868, Cow Bay, Cape Breton; d. Unknown. Notes for HUGHENA ROSS:Twin of Mary Johanna ii. MARY JOHANNA ROSS, b. Abt. 1868, Cow Bay, Cape Breton; d. Unknown. Notes for MARY JOHANNA ROSS:Twin of Hughena iii. MARGARET ROSS, b. Abt. 1870, Cow Bay, Cape Breton; d. Unknown. iv. DONALD "DAN" ROSS, b. Abt. 1872, Cow Bay, Cape Breton; d. Abt. 1943, Seattle, Washington. v. HUGH ROSS, b. Sep 1870, Cow Bay, Cape Breton; d. 1938; m. HELEN OWEN LORWAY, 25 Oct 1899, Sydney, Cape Breton; b. 23 Feb 1863, Sydney, Cape Breton; d. 30 Dec 1942, Sydney, Cape Breton. Notes for HUGH ROSS: Justice, Nova Scotia Supreme Court More About HUGH ROSS: Occupation: Barrister More About HUGH ROSS and HELEN LORWAY: Marriage: 25 Oct 1899, Sydney, Cape Breton vi. WILLIAM ROSS, b. 01 Apr 1875, Cow Bay, Cape Breton; d. 03 Feb 1944, Mira, Cape Breton; m. MARY MACDONALD, 09 Jun 1920, Glace Bay, Cape Breton; b. 13 Mar 1885, Glace Bay, Cape Breton; d. Unknown. |
1881 Cow Bay
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1881/001049-119.01-e.php?id=
NS_550279&interval=20&PHPSESSID=d810s7fqjppiqh0s0s3uacus02
Family Reconstitution
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/o/h/Russell-W-Johnson/PDFGENE12.pdf
HUGH ROSS [September 1870-1938] and HELEN OWEN LORWAY (23 Feb 1864 - 30 Dec 1942): Marriage: 25 Oct 1899 [Registration Year: 1899 - Book: 1805 - Page: 37 - Number: 101], Sydney, Cape Breton - MARRIAGE: 25 Oct 1899, St. George's Anglican Church, Sydney, NS - http://www.gabarus.ca/d0000/g0000329.html
1891 Cow Bay
1877-1882
Tennis
1877
Tennis
HALIFAX -
"Among the excellent houses of entertainment of the public is the
popular Waverley Hotel [Completed as a house in 1866; renovated as a
hotel in 1876] ...the Misses Romans thoroughly understand management of an
establishment of this kind. The building is large, three storey with a
frontage of 150 feet...the grounds are beautifully and tastefully laid out
and contain five lawn tennis and croquet lawns...a staff of courteous
assistants ever at hand...accommodation for one hundred guests...this
popular house is certainly one of the best in the City." [
Our Dominion, 1887]
LAWN TENNIS, a modified form of the old game of Tennis (q. v.), has recently become a popular pastime alike for ladies and gentlemen. The ground on which it is played is a strip of turf (sometimes asphalt), 78 feet in length by 30 in width at the extremities. Across the center extends a net 5 feet high, stretched from poles 24 feet asunder. Lines are drawn marking the boundaries, and dividing each of the portions of ground separated by the net lengthwise into a right court and a left court. Any number of players may join; but the best game is played by two or four persons. The player who begins stands just on the back boundary of the right court on his side, and must strike the ball with his racket so that it shall fall over the net into the nearer part of the right court diagonally opposite him. His opponent there is bound to strike back the ball after the first rebound. It is then returned again by the first player, either before it touches the ground ('volleyed ') or after the first rebound; and the first player continues to play till he fails to return the ball, sends it without the boundaries, or commits some of the other ' faults' recognized by the rules; when his opponent takes his turn. - Henry A. Powell , Chambers's Encyclopaedia: a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people ..., Volume 5, (New York: Collier, 1887), p. 72
1885
Tennis
LAWN-TENNIS TOURNAMENT, MARITIME PROVINCES — The St. John (N.B.) Lawn-Tennis Club has seen but two seasons, yet it now has a membership approaching seventy-five. The second tournament under its auspices was held September 15, 16, 17 [1885]. Although competition was open to all clubs of the Maritime Provinces, the players were chiefly from Halifax and St. John ...
OUTING: AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF RECREATION, VOLUME V11, October, 1885 - March, 1886 (New York: The Outing Publishing Company, Limited, [1886]), December, 1885, No.3, p. 358 - http://books.google.ca/
books?id=5h0uAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA358&dq=Maritime+Provinces+lawn+tennis+
tournament&hl=en&ei=sDVTIHcF8Kt8AbN79zbAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=
result&resnum=2&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=
Maritime%20Provinces%20lawn%20tennis%20tournament&f=false
1889
Tennis
CHARLOTTETOWN - The Charlottetown Lawn Tennis Club adopted its constitution and elected its first president on 14 May 1889. This original constitution had three categories of members, active (all male players), associate lady players who could play but had no say in the management of the club, and honorary members. This would undergo changes several times over the years. Before the end of the month two other clubs, the Micmac Tennis Club and the Fitzroy Tennis Club, had amalgamated with the Charlottetown Club. The club very quickly got down to electing new members, amending the constitution, and planning dances, social events, and entertainments to bring in money to finance the care and improvement of the courts and the new club house which was built in 1891 at the courts in Victoria Park. Much time was spent in the arrangement of tournaments both locally and in affiliation with Maritime and Canadian tennis associations. From 1912 to 1915 the courts were turned into clay courts and in 1957 discussions were underway for asphalt surfaces. [ http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ - Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island]
1890
Tennis
In 1890 the Canadian Lawn Tennis Association was founded. [Encyclopedia Canadiana, 1975]
In 1890 the first annual Maritime Provinces lawn tennis tournament was held, grounds of the Truro Lawn Tennis Club, August 5 and 7.
Wright & Ditson officially adopted lawn tennis guide, 1891, pp. 202-203 - Google Books
1890
http://www.national.gallery.ca/sva/ns/cap_01/pg_11e.htm
1890 - 1897 [1890-1894]
Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
Reverend Hugh McLeod,
presbyterian, h Great George -------
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- McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory, 1890-97
Howard S. Ross (1872-post 1926) and Hugh Ross (1870-1938)
Howard S. Ross and Hugh Ross are not mentioned in Sydney in McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory, 1890-97 -------- [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/canadiandirectories/001075-119.01-e.php?&d_id_nbr=5841&page_id_nbr=5518&interval=20&&type=1&&PHPSESSID=eeqs2c0jdmj9ujjj3q12k9vv21 ]
1891 Census
Howard S. Ross (1872-post 1926) and Charles B. Ross (1875 or 1877 or c. 1879-February 28, 1935)
Name: Ross, Howard S.
Student
Baptist Family includes:
A.C. Ross (Father - Super
Electric Lights - 43 years old ,[b. 1848] in Scotland)
Marian Ross (Mother
- 42 years old, [b. 1849] in Nova Scotia)
George J.
Ross (Electrician - 21 years old, [b. 1870] in Nova
Scotia)
Howard S. Ross (Student - 19 years old, [b. 1872] in Nova Scotia)
Mabel D. Ross
(15 years old, [b. 1876] in Nova Scotia)
Charles B. Ross (12 years old, [b. 1879] in Nova Scotia)
[Note: Charles B. Ross (1875 or 1877 or c. 1879-February 28, 1935) died in Glace Bay, Nova Ssotia and was buried in the Hardwood Hill Cemetery, Sydney. He was the son of A. C. Ross, Sydney. - Cape Breton Post, March 1, 1935]
Hugh Ross (1870-1938)
Sex: Male
[Living with the Alexander Matheson family, born Nova Scotia, no profession; Lodger)
Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)
Sex: Male
Hugh McLeod: Minister
At Home: Wife Catherine McLeod (69); Annie McLeod (30); Catherine McLeod (28); Thomas C. McLeod - Medical Student (24); John K McLeod (31) - Physician and two others: Jessie McKay (50) and Angus Campbell (16)
1891
There is capital lawn-tennis and foot-ball playing in Charlottetown, where was held the first tournament of the Maritime Provinces Lawn-Tennis Association ...
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, The Canadian Guide-Book, The Tourist's and Sportsman's Guide to Eastern Canada and Newfoundland ... (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1891), p. 196 (Tennis played in Fredericton, p. 149), (Tennis played in Pictou, p. 205), (Tennis played in Halifax, p. 225), and (Tennis played in Fredericton, p. 249).
1892
MARITIME PROVINCES LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT - 1892
AUGUST 9-11
St. John Daily Sun, July 12, 1892, p. 8 - Google Books
Halifax, August 9
No one from Cape Breton participated in this tournament
St. John Daily Sun, August 10, 1892, p. 8 - Google Books
See also: St. John Daily Sun - Aug 11, 1892, p. 5; St. John Daily Sun - Aug 12, 1892, p. 8; St. John Daily Sun - Aug 15, 1892, p. 8