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15 February 2025

David March © 2019

Mrs ALFRED CASLICK née SARAH DOBSON, JOHN CASLICK
THOMAS CASLICK & Mrs JOHN CASLICK née ELIZABETH GRANT

Alfred Thomas Caslick was born on 5 February 1840 in Pilton, Somerset, England to John Caslick (1791-1847) and Mary Salter (1804-1878). Alfred had eight siblings, James (1826-1876), Elizabeth (1827-1895), Mary Ann (1832-1922), John (1834-1847), George (1836-1907), Jane (1841-1846), Elizabeth (1841-1841) and Philip (1844-1860). John Caslick Sr was an agricultural labourer and after his death Mary married John Brain (1814-1879) on 11 September 1848.

James, Elizabeth, George and Alfred came out to Canada in about 1850 and settled in Culross Township. Mary Ann came out later as Mrs George Day having married George Day (1829-1900) on 4 May 1856 in Pilton, Somerset.

Alfred married Sarah Dobson on 6 October 1864 in Teeswater. Sarah was born on 15 June 1846 in Ottawa to Robert Dobson (b 1822) and Hannah Emmerson (1822-1900). Sarah had seven siblings, Mary (1847-1892), William (1850-1909), Isabella (1853-1872), Thomas (1853-1912), Emmerson (1855-1883), Robert John (b 1858) and James (1861-1942).

Alfred settled north of Teeswater on Lot 22, Concession 11 for which he received the Crown Patent on 28 June 1867. Alfred farmed here all his life.

Alfred and Sarah had ten children,

John (1865-1933),
Mary (1868-1934),
Elizabeth (1868-1949),
Hannah Maria (1870-1918),
Annie (1874-1905),
Thomas (1876-1945),
Maud (1878-1960),
Lucy (1880-1975),
Roy (1882-1975) and
Amelia Jane (Milly) (1887-1974).

Alfred died on 4 November 1915 in Teeswater. Sarah died on 6 January 1929 in Culross.

John married Elizabeth Grant on 6 February 1901. Elizabeth was born on 31 January 1864 in Culross to Peter Grant (1831-1899) and Bridget Howatt (1831-1907). Elizabeth had nine siblings, John (1861-1924), Margaret Jane (1862-1885), Robert (1862-1940), Donald Alexander (1868-1914), Peter (1869-1926), James V S (1871-1948), Thomas (1873-1909), Duncan (1875-1958) and David Martin (1878-1967).

The story of Elizabeth’s siblings is told on the Grant page.

Peter Grant Sr left his home in Inverness, Scotland in 1852 and came to Canada, arriving in Culross in 1854. He claimed Lots 21 & 22 on Concession 10 and obtained the Crown Deed in 1869. Elizabeth and John Caslick would have grown up on farms about 3 miles from each other.

John farmed in Culross and later Formosa, Bruce County. He and Elizabeth had no children. John died on 27 July 1933 and Elizabeth died on 11 July 1941, both in Teeswater.

Thomas married Melissa Green after 1921. Melissa was born on 16 December 1878 at Lot 20, Concession 11 in Culross to Robert Green (1844-1913) and Margaret McNutt Hodgson (1850-1887). Melissa had four siblings, Arthur (1872-1939), Levi (b 1875), Mary (1882-1977) and Clara Agnes (1887-1919). She had a further four half-siblings Elizabeth Margaret (1889-1890), Ethel Jane (1892-1970), Robert George (1895-1896) and Myrtle Esther (1899-1932) born to Robert’s second wife, Esther Henderson (1856-1932).

Robert Green Sr’s brother, James "Albert" Green (1864-1945) appears on the quilt and his story is told on the Bannerman/Forsythe/Green/Ross page.

The family tree can be found on Ancestry under the title Culross Caslick/Drehmann/Grant/ Hardy/Parker/Semple Tree.