Re: Wetherald Family of Ontario
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Wetherald Family of Ontario
8/25/00
I'm not sure about George,but i know a Joseph Wetherald married a Sarah Jarmy.They had several children,one of which was Thomas Wetherald who moved to Austrailia,married Helen Philp and had my father, Keith Wetherald.
The family moved back to Toronto in 1914.
Joseph & Sarah also had Rev William Wetherald (Quaker) who founded "The Rockwood Academy".It still stands in Rockwood and has a historic plaque about William out front
If you search on The Rockwood academy you will find quite a bit.Also - the University of Guelph has a very large collection of pictures and documents about the academy in it's Waterloo county collection.I visited it once and got large amounts of information.The Academy building was bought and largly restored by an artist & sculptor - Joseph Drenters.He died a few years ago but his brother, Andres still lives there and has a gallery in the Academy that's open on weekends.There's also an adopted daughter of William's daughter Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald (she was a published poet and you will find info by searching for her name)- Dorothy Wetherald Rungling (also worth searching on)that lives in Fonthill.The Academy is now owned by an Ontario Heritage foundation.
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Re: Wetherald Family of Ontario
Sara Scribner 8/01/07