Hello! Sharing my brick wall query as I hope someone finds any of these names familiar. My g-grams birth father was Richard Edwin ASHTON (b. 1882 in Warwickshire ENG, died 1959 in Toronto, have a fair bit of info including obit) His first wife Mary Ethel PROBYN (d. 1907 in Orangeville, have a fair bit of info) His second wife Gertrude NELSON (d/o William NELSON and Christina McLEAN; b. 1890, married 1907, died 1944 in Toronto, have a bit of info including obit) His third wife Emma BULL (have no information) Richard and Mary had 3 children in Ontario - my g-grams, Ruth "Viola" ASHTON (1905-1974) who was adopted by Peter and Maggie (nee WHITE) BLAIR; her sister Mary Irena Alice ASHTON was adopted but no information is known other than she was born 28-Apr-1901; and her brother Albert Walker Edwin "Bert" ASHTON (b. 25-Jul-1903) was adopted into the family of John and Martha (nee MARSHALL) HAMMOND but nothing further is known Richard and Gertrude had a daughter, Dorothy who married a ZOHN and was living in Chicago at the time of her father's death in 1959 <have her exact address at the time of his death in my files>. She doesn't appear in the 1911 census, so I have to guess that she was born sometime after 1911. The only other piece of the puzzle is Gertrude had a sister living in Chicago at the time of her death, by the name of Mrs. Helen SAVABE (as typed exactly from Gertrude's obituary, possibly SAVAGE?). Most of these mysteries should be in the Toronto and greater surrounding area, possibly including the counties of Peel, Dufferin, Simcoe, York and Wellington as well as Chicago. They are linked to the FUNSTON/FUNSTIN line on my maternal side. Anyone with any link or finds any of these names familiar, please let me know. This is the branch of my family tree that seems to be encased in cement and I'd love to put a deep crack into it. With sincere thanks, Janet Jones http://www.ontarioobits.com "Where Every Little Obit Helps" (over 600,000 new and historic obit indexes online from all over Ontario)