HYNES & SOLES Family History



HYNES, DR. Leonard Dale

1. HYNES, DR. Leonard Dale, son of 2. HYNES, Thomas Richard & 3. LARSEN, Margaret Ellen.

Spouse: ROBERTSON, Claire Margaret.

HYNES, Thomas Richard

2. HYNES, Thomas Richard, son of 4. HYNES, Christopher & 5. SOLES, Betsey Hannah.

During the second world war Thomas was in the Seaforth Highlanders Regiment. It is told that he spent time as a guard at a prisoner of war camp.

He worked at several occupations. Rail road worker being one of them, and one which he enjoyed a lot.  Later, he was a skilled carpenter who built many houses in Kelowna. After a heart attack which ended his capentry career, he became involed in the car sales buisness.

Grandpa Tommy grew up on the family homestead at Parson. His father was one of the first Pioneer families in the upper Columbia Valley, near Golden, arriving in 1903.  Grandpa’s grandfather, Albert Dubois Soles settled the valley in 1909.

Grandpa Tommy learned to clear land for the farm, and how to plant and harvest grains and hay for the animals. Tommy loved horses and had his own riding horse when he was about  fourteen years old. When my dad was growing up they had horses and grandpa taught him to ride. Grandpa had a quarter horse named Sparky, and an Appaloosa named Injun Joe which my dad would ride. Sparky liked ice cream cones.

There was  a lot of hunting and fishing  to be done to provide additional food for the family (eleven children) and Grandpa Tommy learned to be a good hunter and fisher.  He later passed these skills onto my dad and his brothers. He also taught my dad and his brothers all about camping and bush lore, and took his family on lots of camping  and hunting trips.

Grandpa loved to bowl, and won many trophies and  prizes. In 1962 & 1963 his team were the league champions in Vancouver.  Grandpa collected silver dollar and silver fifty cent coins. He played the guitar and loved to sing, one of his favourite singers was Hank Williams.  Grandpa always had boats. When my dad was a teenager they lived in Kelowna and would spend Sundays out on  Okanagan Lake during the summer swimming and fishing. My Grandma didn’t like to swim off the boat in the middle of the lake because she thought that Ogopogo would get her.

Grandpa was a carpenter by trade and built many houses in Kelowna. My dad remembers that when he would help him during the summer, that at coffee break time Grandpa would send him down to the corner store to buy some grape pop for a treat. My dad said that Grandpa always understood when things went wrong and would not get angry very often, he was lots of fun to be with.

Grandpa like convertible cars, and my dad remembers driving around during the summer with the top down and having a lot of fun.  Grandpa would also take my dad and his brothers to car races on Saturday evening. Grandpa also sold Volkswagon and Porsches and liked to drive them too.

Grandpa was always interested in the latest piece of technology. He read lots of books and magazines, like popular mechanics.  He liked to go to car shows and events which displayed the latest new things, he bought a colour TV when they first came out.

If Grandpa was alive now, I bet he would have a nice computer set up and a fancy home theater....he was that kind of guy!

Written for grandaughter Amanda Hynes, by Dale Hynes.

Thomas Richard Hynes

Born:          21 January 1925  at Parson British Columbia Canada.

Parents:    Christopher Hynes and Betsey Hannah Soles.

Marriage:  29 August 1945 at Cranbrook British Columbia, to Margaret Larsen.

Died:           15 December 1975 at Kelowna British Columbia.

Buried.     18 December 1975 at Winfield British Columbia.

HYNES, Christopher

4. HYNES, Christopher, son of 8. HYNES, William & 9. TELFER, Helen/Ellen.

Christopher came to the Columbia Valley with his wife and their four eldest sons in 1909.  Chris worked on the riverboats, homesteaded and worked on the old David Thompson Fort.  Some of his other trades were that of miner, farmer, carpenter, sawmill worker and trapper.  He was gone for months at a time on his trap lines leaving his wife and children to run the homestead.  The homestead was several miles north of Parson, going from the Columbia River back into the hills. From 1948 to 1955 Chris lived in Cranbrook. In 1955 he moved to Edgewater and lived there untill his health committed him to a nursing home in Invermere. There was a short time where he lived with his son Tommy's family in Kelowna in 1967.

!The following is an excerpt from Chris's obituary. "Funeral services were held at St. Mark's Anglican Church at Galena (Spillimachine) on Monday Nov.24 at 2.00pm. Rev J.R.Hearne of Golden officiating. Mrs. E. Sole of Edgewater was organist.  The rustic setting of St. Mark's  Church built in 1878, the second church built in the valley, seemed to be well chosen as a final resting place for Mr. Hynes."

The 1901 census notes that Christopher was living at his parents home at that time.  Archive film T-6472, District 71, subdistrict # b-1

1921 Census of Canada about Christopher Hynes

Name:

Christopher Hynes

Gender: Male

Marital Status: Married

Age: 42

Birth Year: abt 1879

Birth Place: Ontario

Relation to Head of House: Head

Spouse's Name: Hannah Betsey Hynes

Father Birth Place: Quebec

Mother Birth Place: Quebec

Racial or Tribal Origin: Irish

Province or Territory: British Columbia

District: Kootenay East

District Number:17

Sub-District: Columbia

Sub-District Number:6

City, Town or Village: Hog Ranch

Street or Township: Tp 25 R 20 M 5

Municipality: Hog Ranch

Occupation: Farmer

Neighbors: View others on page

Household Members:

Name

Age

Christopher Hynes 42

Hannah Betsey Hynes  37

Henry Hynes 18

David Hynes 16

Orin Hynes 14

Irvin Hynes 11

Ellen Hynes 9

Vera Hynes 6

Earl Hynes 2

Age: 42

Province:

British Columbia

Sub-district description:

Hog Ranch, (Section de vote)

Reference:

RG31, Statistique Canada

Help page:

Census 1921

Found in:

Genealogy / Census / 1921 Census

As of Dec 2024  no record has been found of this marriage in Ontario.

SOLES, Betsey Hannah

5. SOLES, Betsey Hannah, daughter of 10. SOLES, Albert Dubois & 11. MILLIGAN, Mary Anne Melissa.

!The following is from Bettsy's obituary. "Funeral services were held at St. Mark's Anglican Church in Galena, on Thursday, March 26, at 2:00pm, for Hannah Bettsy Hynes who passed away in Victoria B.C. on March 22, 1970. Born in Frontenac, Ontario, October 16, 1883, she married Christopher Hynes in 1902 and came to live in Parson in 1909. She was pre-deceased by her husband and four of her sons. Mrs Hynes is survived by four sons: Orin of Edgewater, Earl of Calgary, Lawrence of Parson and Thomas of Kelowna; and three daughters: Mrs. Keith (Ellen) Edgell of Edgwood.  Mrs. Frank (Vera) Beebe of Saanich and Mrs Gerald (Doris) Willson of Victoria; 27 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Pallbearers were her four sons. Mrs Lillian Tegart was the organist and Rev. H. Costerton officiated".

GRANDMA'S UNDER-THE-MOUNTAIN By Gordon Hynes (grandson)

Grandma lived under a mountain. A mountain as tall as the sky, with a craggy top that reached up and tickled the clouds. Sometimes, on holidays, we would go to visit Grandma under her mountain.

One time, when we went to Grandma's in early spring, Dad put the top down on our convertible car so we could see the mountains as we drove to her house. There was still snow beside the road and it was cold, but we all put on our winter coats and stayed warm.

When we finally got there, Grandma would come out and give us wrinkly faced kisses that tickled our cheeks. She always had a big smile. As long as I can remember, Grandma had thin white hair and was as skinny and crooked as an old tree root. She wore black shoes and brown stockings that bagged around her ankles beneath a dress with flowers on it. None of this mattered, because we loved her.

Grandma lived in a ramshackle house that Grandpa had built many years ago. It had a crooked roof and faded paint. Her house didn't have a bathroom inside, but it did have a big wood stove that kept the whole house cozy, especially the kitchen. Her bird, Pretty Boy, would sing for us, but he never talked, even though Grandma said he could.

There was a pasture behind Grandma's house where the cows grazed until uncle Lawrence called them in for milking. It sloped up to the bottom part of the mountain where the trees started. Sometimes, in the afternoon I would go into the pasture and chase the gophers who lived in little houses built under the ground. They would always hide from me, and I never caught one. But if I sat really still they would come out and look to see who it was that was chasing them. At the right time of the day you could sit up high in the pasture and see the train going by down in the valley. Once I counted more than 200 cars on the train. It was like a long snake following the river that wandered through the valley.

One afternoon, while I was chasing gophers in the pasture, my two older brothers came shouting down off the mountain where they had been hiking. They jumped right over the fence without even stopping. They had met a bear on the mountain and it scared them. I wasn't scared, but I went back to the house anyhow. That evening, the bear came down to eat apples in the orchard next to the pasture. Dad and uncle Lawrence went out and chased it back to the mountain, because bears don't belong in orchards.

After dinner my Dad and uncle Lawrence would talk and tell stories about when they were kids. Sometimes Dad would talk about when he worked on the railroad. But my favorite story was when he told us about riding his bicycle down a road late one night. It was a cloudy night with no moon. As he raced down the hill he ran right into a horse that was coming up the hill. I think maybe the horse was as surprised as Dad.

When it was my bed time I would go to sleep in Grandma's big bed under her feather comforter. It was fluffy, but heavy. Her room had wallpaper that was made from pictures out of old magazines. There were lots of faces and things, but my favorite was a picture of a very large rock by the ocean being blown up. When I asked Dad about it he said it was called Ripple Rock, and they had blown it up because ships kept running into it. It was a very famous blast.

In the mornid I would wake up in another bed or sometimes on the couch. Mornings were always cool under the mountain, and I would run barefoot across the grass to the outhouse, before I even changed out of my pajamas. Sometimes we had hotcakes for breakfast and sometimes we had eggs, but they always tasted great at Grandma's house. When it was cool like that I liked to sit close to the stove and just listen to the grown-ups talk.

When it came time to leave, Grandma would come out into the front yard to wave goodbye. She would stand by the apple tree waving as we drove down her very long driveway. She would wave until we went around the corner and her ramshackle house disappeared behind the mountain. Grandma's house under the mountain was my favorite place to go for holidays, but the drive home always seemed awfully long.

In the 1901 census Betsey’s birth date is given as Oct 15 not the 16th.

A piece of information from the Frontenac County News.

Contributed by: Jennifer Cullen

Note: My guess is that this is either from the Perth Courier or the Kingston Whig Standard.

The above pictures are different views of the handsome memorial erected at Mountain Grove to honour the pioneers of Olden Township. The cairn and ornamental wall and steps are of field stone and standing as it does on a hillside; the memorial attracts the attention of every visitor. The pioneer families that settled the township between the year 1854 and 1865 are listed on the plaque as follows: Abbott, Armstrong, Aspell, Babcock, Barr, Bender, Beverly, Bevis, Bermish, Brown, Burley, Burke, Canning, Caplam, Coulter, Conboy, Cox, Crawford, Cronk, Crozier, Desharme, Drake, Drew, Flynn, Fraser, Freeman, Garrett, Godfrey, Gibbs, Hanes, Haskins, Hawley, Johnston, Johnson, Keating, Kennedy, Laidley, Lewis, Lennon, Love, Loyst, Marshall, MacDonald, McKnight, McCharles, McGuinis, McPherson, Miller, Mills, Mossman, Parks, Parker, Peters, Price, Quinn, Raycroft, Riely, Robinson, Rushaw, Sanderson, Scott, See, Smith, Soles, Stinchcombe, Stone, Schultz, Tucker, Tryon, Thompson, Uens, Veley, Wagar, Watson, Waterstone, and Wisterd. Persons bearing these honoured names still take a large part in the affairs of Olden but some sons and daughters and grandsons and granddaughters of the pioneers have moved to other parts of the county, to other counties, to distant provinces, and even to other lands. Olden has set a notable example to erecting a permanent memorial to its pioneers.





HYNES, William

8. HYNES, William, son of 16. HINES, James & 17. SADLER, Elizabeth (Bessy).

!William was married when he was ninteen, 1859.

The First record of William  is  on May 17 1865 when a survey of the township of Raglan, Renfrew county, right next door to Carlow,  revealed that William Hynes and a William Allison had built their shanties on the same lot.

The solution was simple, move one across the line to the next lot. William was a prominant figure in the community. He was township councilor, Reeve and Justice of the Peace at various times.  Many stories about William  and his family can be found in the book Before The Memories Fade.(Published by "The Senior Citizens of Carlow Township", printed by The Bancroft Times Ltd, Bancroft Ontarion.)  To list all the tales about his family would require rewriting that book.

!In the book 'Historic Hastings County", William Hynes, Andrew Telford and  John Stewart are mentioned as some to the first settlers of Carlow township.

!Information for this mariage from  "Mariages Protestants de l'Outaouais"

!From the Canadian Archives  is the following information, William Hynes of Carlow Land Parcel #1 Land Parcel # 2 Lot:                S1/2 of lot 13 & 14 W1/2 of lot 15 &S1/2 of lot 12 concession:     6 6 Date of issue:  none                               none Trans Type:   1 Type:        Free Grant Free Grant Type of lease/sale: AA AA Reference # 10C13 149 174 # 01 C13 149 229

1911 Canada Census list William and Ellen as living in Carlow township, Lot 14 consession 6.  Their daughter Ellen and her two sons, Earl and Dougal were living with them.  Ellen was reported as being widowed.

Name: William Hynes

Titles:

Death date: 25 Mar 1914

Estimated death year:

Age at death: 77 years 3 months 6 days

Death place: Matheson, Timiskaming, Ontario

Birth date: 19 Dec 1837

Estimated birth year:

Birth place: Fitzroy

Gender: Male

Marital status: Married

Race or color (expanded): Canadian

Race: White

Ethnicity: Canadian

Spouse name:

Spouse titles:

Father name: James Hynes

Father titles:

Mother name: Elizabeth Sadler

Mother titles:

GSU film number: 1861979

Digital GS number: 4170201

Image number: 974

Reference number: yr 1914 cn 31204

Collection: Ontario Deaths 1869-1947

Canada Census, 1851 for Wm Hynes

Name

Wm Hynes

Gender

Male

Age

15

Estimated Birth Year

1836

Birthplace

Canada

Province

Canada East (Quebec)

District

Ottawa County

District Number

20

Sub-District

Clarendon

Sub-District Number

263

Page Number

7

Line Number

30

Library and Archives Canada Film Number

C_1131

The following is from the Ontario Death records of 1869 - 1938

Timiskaming District, Town of Matheson.

Full Name:                        Hynes William

Sex, Race:                         Male, Canadian

Date of Death:                  25th March 1914

Date of Birth:                    19 December 1837

Age, Place of birth:            77 years, 3 months, 6 days, Fitzroy.

Place of death:                   Fouth avenue, Matheson.

Occupation:                        Gentleman.

Single, Married, Divorced:   Married

Name of Father:                  James Hynes

Name of Mother:                 Elizabeth Sadler

Name of atten. physician:    C.F. Dorsey,  M.D.

Certified by:                        William Levoy

Address:                             Matheson Ontario.

Date:                                  27 March 1914

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Medical Certificate of Death.

I hearby certify that I attended the deceased.

Name:                                William Hynes

I saw this person alive on:  24th March 1914

That the death occured on: 25th March 1914

CAUSE OF DEATH

Primary:       Bronchial Pneumonia.

Duration:     Three days.

Immediate:   Bronchial  Pneumonia.



TELFER, Helen/Ellen

9. TELFER, Helen/Ellen, daughter of 18. TELFER, Andrew Wheathaugh & 19. STEWART, Ellen "Helen".

Birth dates for William and Helen are taken from the 1901 census

Name: Ellen Hynes

Titles:

Death date: 05 May 1924

Estimated death year:

Age at death: 90 years

Death place: Matheson, Cochrane, Ontario

Birth date: 1834

Estimated birth year: 1834

Birth place:

Gender: Female

Marital status:

Race or color (expanded):

Race:

Ethnicity:

Spouse name:

Spouse titles:

Father name: John Telfer    Andrew Telfer was her father,  John Galbrath was her  step father.. The two names were mixed up in the record.

Father titles:

Mother name: Ellen Stewart

Mother titles:

GSU film number: 2022136

Digital GS number: 4170923

Image number: 1398

Reference number: 10967

Collection: Ontario Deaths 1869-1947



SOLES, Albert Dubois

10. SOLES, Albert Dubois, son of 20. SOLES, Joseph & 21. BURLEY, Sarah  Elizabeth.

!Listed on the 1871 Ontario Census as living in Addington County. Albert's family came to B.C. in 1908 Occupation: Woodsman, trapper, farmer and homesteader. He and his family were the first to homestead in the Parson area of the Columbia Valley.

Listed on the 1901 census as living in Hastings north, Carlow township.  There were only Martin, Joseph and  Betsy at home when the census was taken



MILLIGAN, Mary Anne Melissa

11. MILLIGAN, Mary Anne Melissa, daughter of 22. MILLIGAN, Benjamin & 23. BROWER, Kathryn Adelia.

1921 Census of Canada about Annie Milligan

Name:

Annie Milligan

Gender:

Female

Marital Status:

Widowed

Age:

73

Birth Year:

abt 1848

Birth Place:

Ontario

Relation to Head of House:

Mother

Father Birth Place:

Scotland

Mother Birth Place:

Ireland

Racial or Tribal Origin:

Scotch (Scotish)

Province or Territory:

Alberta

District:

Battle River

District Number:

1

Sub-District Number:

43

City, Town or Village:

Municipal District of Melberta

Section Number:

5

Township Number:

50

Range Number:

8

Meridian Number:

4

Municipality:

Melberta

Neighbors:

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Household Members:

Name

Age

Joseph Milligan

40

Gordon Milligan

51

Annie Milligan

7316 HINES, James, son of 32. HINES, William & 33. WINNE, Marion.

!Movements within Canada:

1. Quebec City after jumping ship from Ireland, 18

2. Pakenham Mills Ontario.

3. Fitzroy Ontario, after being married.

4. Moved to Clarendon Quebec in 1874, where he died.

Occupations: Ships Captain's boy en-route to Canada. Logger. log boom pilot.

Manager of a lumber camp. Farmer.

Much is written  about James in the booklet  "Memoirs of James Hynes" by his daughter Carrie. Link Below

www.familysearch.org

Household Record 1881 Canadian Census

although these dates are not exactly a match to birth dates, there seems to be no other Hynes family in that area at the time of the census.

Household:

Name Marital Status Gender Ethnic Origin Age Birthplace Occupation Relig

ion

James HYNES M Male Irish 71 Ireland Farmer Weslyan Methodist

Ellizabeth HYNES M Female Irish 66 Ireland Weslyan Methodist

Mary A. HYNES Female Irish 28 Ireland Weslyan Methodi

Bengiman HYNES Male Irish 26 Ireland Farmer Weslyan Methodist

Elizabeth HYNES Female Irish 23 Ireland Weslyan Methodist

Nely HETHER Female English 16 England Weslyan Methodi

Jrances MCCREY Male Scottish 13 Scotland Weslyan Methodist

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Source Information:

Census Place Shawville & Clarendon South, Pontiac, Quebec

Family History Library Film 1375862

NA Film Number C-13226

District 98

Sub-district E

Page Number 52

Household Number 220

Memoirs Of James Hynes    Hynes Family History Book

Recorded as Sole, Soul, Soles, and possibly other variations, this is  an English and sometimes French surname with at least two different  potential origins. The first is a topographical name deriving from the  word "sol" from pre 7th-century times, meaning muddy, which  interestingly appears in the village name Soles in the county of Kent.  Surnames based on places were among the earliest, as both natural and  man-made features in the landscape in the small medieval communities  provided easily identifiable distinguishing names, although place names  were mainly used as a means of identification for those leaving their  birthplace to settle elsewhere.

Early examples of the surname from surviving rolls and records  include William de la Sole from Sussex in 1207; Hamo de Soles of Kent,  1242; and Thomas atte Sole of Surrey in 1294. The second source of the  surname is the Old French word "sol or soul," derived from the Latin  word "solus," meaning "alone." It was thus either given as a nickname to  an unmarried person or an individual, or perhaps with the robust humor  of that Chaucerian era, vice versa. Geofrey le Soule was recorded in the  Hundred Rolls of Essex in 1274, while William Sole (1741 - 1802) was a  notable botanist whose primary work was titled "Menthae Britannicae."  The first recorded spelling of the family name is that of Osbert Sole,  dated 1203, in the "Curia Regis Rolls of Norfolk," during the reign of  King John, known as "Lackland," 1199 - 1216. Surnames became necessary  as governments introduced taxation of individuals. In England, this was  known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames have continued to  evolve in all countries, often leading to remarkable variations of the  original spelling.

This surname is derived from a geographical locality, specifically  'at the sole,' referring to a pond. This explanation is supported by  historical instances such as Peter de la Sole in Kent in 1273 according  to the Hundred Rolls, as well as other records of individuals like  Richard atte Sole and John de Soles in the same region during the same  period.

According to Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley in his "A Dictionary of  English and Welsh Surnames" (1896), the name Sole refers to a pond in  Kent.

Courtesy of  https://coatofarmsof.com   

Soles Family History Book