Braldey's of Montreal Rd.

[Karen Prytula]

Hello

 

First of all, I don`t know if this group is active or not, so I`ll keep this short.

From what I`ve been told by distant relatives my great+ grandfather lived at 313 Montreal Rd. between 1825 until 1865 about.....his name was Clements Bradley. (George Edward Clements Bradley).  The house no longer exists buy I am wondering if anyone knows where a picture of it might exist?

 

Again, from what I`ve been told, a religious order bought the place, added on to it, and later in burned down.  I would like to know about what year this occurred so I can search the old newspapers to find a story about it, and possibly a picture.  Apparently there was a shrine on the property, don`t know if that was before or after the religous order bought it.  Apparently it was very close to Notre Dame Cemetery and possibly was even on the grounds where the cemetery is today.  And apparently a picture of the place was in a coffee table book.  The distant relative can not remember the name of the book, but saw it at least 25 years ago, maybe 50 years ago....

 

Does anyone have any advice for me?

Thank you

Karen Prytula

karenpr...@gmail.com

[Karen Prytula]

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[sherry woodburn]

 If homes were sold to Notre Dame Cemetery no doubt the cemetery would have names of the people on the deeds. Have you checked there? There were a number of religious orders along Montreal Rd.  Are any of your ancestors buried at Notre Dame or Beechwood Cemetery.............for you could check the records there.  They usually keep good records. This was in the township of Gloucester.  Have you checked in the City of Ottawa archives under the township of Gloucester?
 
As places were bought up in town, the families moved further on out into the country and there is a family of Bradleys in Navan..............John Bradley presently runs the Bradley General store and perhaps he could offer you some information on this.  There was also a family of Bradleys (chicken farmers) on Russell Rd. but don't know where they came from or where the family presently is.

 

Sherry and Doug Woodburn

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[Karen Prytula]

Hello Sherry

 

Thank you for the information you have provided.  Next time I`m at Notre Dame, I`ll ask them about the deeds.  In fact now that you mention it I think there is a book about Notre Dame at the library.  Thanks for confirming my thoughts about the number of religious orders along Montreal Rd.  I was starting to get a little confused, but now that I know there was more than one, I will research them more closely.  I have many ancestors buried at both Beechwood and Notre Dame.

 

As for the Bradley`s in Navan, or on the Russell Rd.  They could very well be related. I have not made a connection with them yet.  Will put it on the to-do list.

 

My main goal is to find an old picture of that house, 313 Montreal Rd.  If none exists, my next goal is to find out the year it was taken down, or burned down.  I might have my locations mixed up, but I saw an advertisement in an 1866 newspaper that said it was now a `land-keeping`business, selling trees, shrubs and plants, located at the `late residence of Clements Bradley`.....so now I think he sold the house to someone else before it became a part of a religious order.  (a distant relative told me that Clements was a co-founder of the first Gloucester Horticultural Society, so having a lovely property adds up)

 

Thank you for all the tips.

Karen Prytula

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[CLIFFORD SCOTT]

Karen:  I don't know how far they go back, but the National Archives has microfilms of Ottawa newspapers. The Citi

tizen was the Bytown Packet at first The microfilms are easily accessible after you get a visitor's pass.   Cliff Scott, Ottawa Historical society PS If you see Serge Barbe at the City archives he may know something. He has, or is, writing a book on Ottawa St. names from the beginning of the city.

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Subject: Re: Bradley's of Montreal Rd.

Hello Sherry

 

Thank you for the information you have provided.  Next time I`m at Notre Dame, I`ll ask them about the deeds.  In fact now that you mention it I think there is a book about Notre Dame at the library.  Thanks for confirming my thoughts about the number of religious orders along Montreal Rd.  I was starting to get a little confused, but now that I know there was more than one, I will research them more closely.  I have many ancestors buried at both Beechwood and Notre Dame.

 

As for the Bradley`s in Navan, or on the Russell Rd.  They could very well be related. I have not made a connection with them yet.  Will put it on the to-do list.

 

My main goal is to find an old picture of that house, 313 Montreal Rd.  If none exists, my next goal is to find out the year it was taken down, or burned down.  I might have my locations mixed up, but I saw an advertisement in an 1866 newspaper that said it was now a `land-keeping`business, selling trees, shrubs and plants, located at the `late residence of Clements Bradley`.....so now I think he sold the house to someone else before it became a part of a religious order.  (a distant relative told me that Clements was a co-founder of the first Gloucester Horticultural Society, so having a lovely property adds up)

 

Thank you for all the tips.

Karen Prytula

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:58 AM, sherry woodburn <swoo...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

 If homes were sold to Notre Dame Cemetery no doubt the cemetery would have names of the people on the deeds. Have you checked there? There were a number of religious orders along Montreal Rd.  Are any of your ancestors buried at Notre Dame or Beechwood Cemetery.............for you could check the records there.  They usually keep good records. This was in the township of Gloucester.  Have you checked in the City of Ottawa archives under the township of Gloucester?
 
As places were bought up in town, the families moved further on out into the country and there is a family of Bradleys in Navan..............John Bradley presently runs the Bradley General store and perhaps he could offer you some information on this.  There was also a family of Bradleys (chicken farmers) on Russell Rd. but don't know where they came from or where the family presently is.

 

Sherry and Doug Woodburn

Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:03:05 -0800
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Subject: Bradley's of Montreal Rd.

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On Saturday, January 26, 2013 5:53:07 PM UTC-5, Karen Prytula wrote:

Hello

 

First of all, I don`t know if this group is active or not, so I`ll keep this short.

From what I`ve been told by distant relatives my great+ grandfather lived at 313 Montreal Rd. between 1825 until 1865 about.....his name was Clements Bradley. (George Edward Clements Bradley).  The house no longer exists buy I am wondering if anyone knows where a picture of it might exist?

 

Again, from what I`ve been told, a religious order bought the place, added on to it, and later in burned down.  I would like to know about what year this occurred so I can search the old newspapers to find a story about it, and possibly a picture.  Apparently there was a shrine on the property, don`t know if that was before or after the religous order bought it.  Apparently it was very close to Notre Dame Cemetery and possibly was even on the grounds where the cemetery is today.  And apparently a picture of the place was in a coffee table book.  The distant relative can not remember the name of the book, but saw it at least 25 years ago, maybe 50 years ago....

 

Does anyone have any advice for me?

Thank you

Karen Prytula

karenpr...@gmail.com

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Thank you

Karen Prytula

STONES UNTURNED

karenpr...@gmail.com

https://sites.google.com/site/stonesunturned1/

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[Glenn Clark]

Hello Karen,

 

Clements Bradley is certainly a familiar name when I was doing research at the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa Archives (located at Christ Church Cathedral on Sparks Street near Bronson). His name popped a number of times when reviewing early Anglican records relating to Gloucester Township.

 

There are articles written about him in the Gloucester Historical Society publications titled ‘Who was Who in Gloucester, Eastview/Vanier and Rockcliffe Park’  and the ‘Pioneer Families of Janeville’ both written by our President, Robert Serré.  A copy of this e-mail is going to him as he knows quite a bit about Vanier which was formerly known as Eastview and Janeville.  According to the latter book, Clements Bradley died at his residence in Gloucester in 1876.  

 

313 Montreal Road is today appropriately near the intersection of Bradley Avenue but this is quite a bit west of Notre Dame Cemetery.  The best way to get a history of a property is to go to the Land Registry Office on the 4^th floor in the Provincial Courthouse on Elgin Street at Laurier Avenue, right next to Ottawa City Hall.  In order to find a photograph, you may wish to search Ottawa City Archives photo collection and also the Topley photo collection at the National Archives.  There is an on-line index of the Topley photo collection and some photos are available on the website.  The on-line index is linked from the Resource Page on Gloucester Historical Society website, www.gloucesterhistory.com.  Another good place to look is at the Ottawa Room of Central Ottawa Public Library on the 3^rd floor on Metcalfe Street at the corner of Laurier Avenue.

 

Regarding the Bradley’s of Navan Road, when the Belden Atlas prepared in 1879, William Bradley owned 400 acres at the corner of today’s Renaud Road.  A new subdivision named ‘Bradley Estates’ honours this family.  William is not a son of Clements Bradley.

 

I should also mention that the Ottawa Citizen archive is available on Google News archive.  It is keyword indexed but it is an imperfect copy of what is available on microfilm.  Editions for certain dates are missing and pages are sometimes unreadable.  I have also been told that the Ottawa Journal archive will soon be available on the pay website Ancestry.ca but will not be fully keyword indexed.  The link to the Google News Archive can be found on the links page of our website.

 

Sincerely,

Glenn Clark

Vice-President

Gloucester Historical Society

 

 

 

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[sherry woodburn]

This is a tremendous amount of great information for you Karen.
Just one thing..........the Bradleys on Navan Rd, I believe, are a different family of Bradleys that lived in the village of Navan.............and now John Bradley is operating the J T Bradley store, that his grandfather or great-grandfather started.  They also had a milk transport business also......transporting milk from the Navan, Vars, Sarsfield etc areas in cans and selling it to the Ottawa dairies.

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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:16:55 -0500

[KathyK]

Note that the Ottawa Journal 1885-1980 is now available online via ancestry.ca.

You can purchase access to the Ancestry databases or access for free in the branches of the Ottawa Public Library.
The newspapers are grouped in sections according to date, so if you're looking for a particular day's stories, it's not too hard to find.

On Sunday, January 27, 2013 11:16:55 PM UTC-5, gbclark wrote:

Hello Karen,

 

Clements Bradley is certainly a familiar name when I was doing research at the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa Archives (located at Christ Church Cathedral on Sparks Street near Bronson). His name popped a number of times when reviewing early Anglican records relating to Gloucester Township.

 

There are articles written about him in the Gloucester Historical Society publications titled ‘Who was Who in Gloucester, Eastview/Vanier and Rockcliffe Park’  and the ‘Pioneer Families of Janeville’ both written by our President, Robert Serré.  A copy of this e-mail is going to him as he knows quite a bit about Vanier which was formerly known as Eastview and Janeville.  According to the latter book, Clements Bradley died at his residence in Gloucester in 1876.  

 

313 Montreal Road is today appropriately near the intersection of Bradley Avenue but this is quite a bit west of Notre Dame Cemetery.  The best way to get a history of a property is to go to the Land Registry Office on the 4^th floor in the Provincial Courthouse on Elgin Street at Laurier Avenue, right next to Ottawa City Hall.  In order to find a photograph, you may wish to search Ottawa City Archives photo collection and also the Topley photo collection at the National Archives.  There is an on-line index of the Topley photo collection and some photos are available on the website.  The on-line index is linked from the Resource Page on Gloucester Historical Society website, www.gloucesterhistory.com.  Another good place to look is at the Ottawa Room of Central Ottawa Public Library on the 3^rd floor on Metcalfe Street at the corner of Laurier Avenue.

 

Regarding the Bradley’s of Navan Road, when the Belden Atlas prepared in 1879, William Bradley owned 400 acres at the corner of today’s Renaud Road.  A new subdivision named ‘Bradley Estates’ honours this family.  William is not a son of Clements Bradley.

 

I should also mention that the Ottawa Citizen archive is available on Google News archive.  It is keyword indexed but it is an imperfect copy of what is available on microfilm.  Editions for certain dates are missing and pages are sometimes unreadable.  I have also been told that the Ottawa Journal archive will soon be available on the pay website Ancestry.ca but will not be fully keyword indexed.  The link to the Google News Archive can be found on the links page of our website.

 

Sincerely,

Glenn Clark

Vice-President

Gloucester Historical Society

 

 

 

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[Karen Prytula]

Thank you Sherry and Doug for your advice....just getting caught up on my emails.

 

Karen Prytula

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:58 AM, sherry woodburn <swoo...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

[Karen Prytula]

Thanks for the great tip Kathy.....I have an ancestry account, and so I will search the Journal this weekend!

 

Karen Prytula