Zavitz Bycraft Family Collection

Identity area

Type of entity

Family

Authorized form of name

Zavitz Bycraft Family Collection

Parallel form(s) of name

  • Anna Bycraft Ward

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      c1850-1980

      History

      The records are a collection of family research, articles, journals, diaries, and photographs from the Zavitz and Bycraft families. These were early Society of Friends families and provide a good overview of the families' relationships and stories. The records were organized by Anna Mary Bycraft Ward who worked on a history of the Bycraft/Zavitz families in Coldstream, Ontario (part of the former Lobo Township). The records were deposited in the archives by Anna's family. The following is from the genealogy and explains some of the records that will be found in this colleciton.

      Places

      Coldstream, Ontario

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      Mandates/sources of authority

      Internal structures/genealogy

      The following identifies the families that appear in this collection.
      George Ott Zavitz married Anna Susannah Hampton- daughter Mary Eliza Zavitz m. John Edward Bycraft. Their children are: Ethel; Edward who married Flossie Brown (children Ruth Marion m. Donald M. Zavitz; James m. Thelma Tomlinson; Robert m. Patricia SHewan; Bruce married Lorna Sinclair. There is also Esther Bycraft who married Sherman Tummonds and then Less Tummonds; children are Mary E. m. Bill Dow; Charles married Sophia Bakker; The final child is George who maried Florence Axford and adopted Evelyn and Jack; their daught Anna Mary married Kenneth Ward.

      General context

      Relationships area

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Occupations

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      Middlesex Centre Archives

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      RAD

      Status

      Final

      Level of detail

      Full

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          Records from Zavitz Genealogy; David Zavitz, Anna Bycraft Ward and Ruth Bycraft Zavitz

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