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Thomas
Maynard Bailey and Mary Elizabeth Bright
Thomas
Maynard Bailey and Mary Elizabeth Bright came from Devonshire, England
to Bright, Ontario in 1873. They later moved to Seaforth.
In 1879 they came west through Emerson to the Killarney district and
settled in Rowland district on SE 12-4-18.
The
father was a tailor and made suits on the farm. Later, when he
moved to Boissevain, he made suits for Morrisons who had a store in
that town. The family stayed on the farm for several years.
Oxen were used. When they went to Brandon with a team of oxen, it
took four days to make the trip there and back. The trip could
only be made in certain weather as it was necessary to cross the Souris
River.
There
were seven children in the family, four boys and three girls. Mary, the
eldest girl married Ed Speers and lived in the Arcola district.
They had three children. The daughter, Mrs. Emberton, is still
farming in this area. The other two children, Tom and Bill, are
in business in Fort William, Ontario.
Lottie
Bailey married a lawyer named Turnbull. Their only child, Naomi,
died when she was quite young. Nellie, a spinster, worked as a
tailoress and lived with her parents when they moved to Winnipeg.
Two of the boys, William and Alfred died before they were six years of
age. Bob died as a result of a threshing accident in 1898.
Tom,
who was born, in 1886, began work for the Union Bank in 1903 as a
messenger boy. Later, he became manager of several branches of
the Royal Bank, including an eleven year term in Killarney. Tom
retired on pension in 1946 and he made his home in Deep River,
Ontario. He had two children, a girl and a boy. The girl,
Gwen, married Bruce Barrick, a schoolteacher. The boy, Owen, is
living in Ontario and has, for some time,
been connected with the production of electric power from atomic energy.
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