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      Demarius Norton moved from Tapleytown to Palermo at the time of her marriage to Andy Wilkinson. All of her children were born in Palermo, including her daughter shown here, who was called Ethel, not Clara. Demarius Norton 1854-1942 was one of three children of John Norton and Elizabeth Clark of …

      George Henry Wilkinson 1842-1916 and wife Maria Patterson 1863-1939. George Wilkinson was one of the seven sons and three daughters of francis Wilkinson and Clarissa Simons.

      Morley 1886-1931 was the only child of George Wilkinson and Maria Patterson

      Clarissa Simons' father Bildad Simons was one of the first settlers of Trafalgar Twp. A land patent for lot 30 1 SDS was granted to him in 1806 as settlement duties had been fulfilled. Francis Wilkinson and Clarissa Simons were married 2 November 1831. Clarissa 1807-1886 & Francis 1795-1884. Their …

      Please look through all the pages to your right of unknown photos of family members in the Wilkinson Norton Family Album. They are most likely relatives of Robert Wilkinson of Palermo and Louisa Norton of Saltfleet.

      Demarius Norton 1854-1942 was the third Norton sibling to marry a child of Francis & Clarissa (Simons) Wilkinson of Palermo. She married James Andrew Wilkinson 1850-1934. There children were Herbert 1882, Kenneth, Samuel, and Clara Wilkinson 1884.

      St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Palermo, built 1845, is now being raised and a foundation will be built under it. Surrounding it is a quaint country churchyard in which tombstones bear the names of pioneer families of Palermo, sheltered by pine trees whose bare roots reach out like gnarled hands.

      Stanley Wood, husband of Ethel, had owned and run the Palermo general store. After Stanley's death, Mac and Myrtle McGill took it over.

      Mrs Ada Hill, a prominent resident of Palermo, through playing music entirely by ear, has marked ability in that line. She can and has filled in when the pianist of an orchestra form the city failed to turn up. She is a past president of the Palermo Women’s Institute, a …

      Information here has been taken from the Nelson Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History in which Palermo is covered in Book III, pages 41-87, which was prepared sometime about 1960. Also from the writing and documents in the collection of the Trafalgar Township Historical Society. A photograph of the Hall built in …

      The Palermo general store, W.P. Sargent, grocer.

      In the background is the Palermo Church. The house is on the corner of Hwys 5 and 25.

      Early land registry records and Trafalgar census records from 1851, 1871, 1881 use the family surname spelling, "Hagar". However, the 1861 census and the family gravestones in the Palermo cemetery use the spelling "Hager". Please research under both spellings.

      Children’s choir, Palermo united church, Palermo, Ont. Mrs Darlington on the organ, Ethel Wettlaufer directing. The girl at top left is Janice Bullock. The dark haired boy in the second row is her brother Murray. April 6th.

      Children’s choir, Palermo United church, Palermo, Ont. Mrs Darlington on the organ, Ethel Wettlaufer directing. The girl at top left is Janice Bullock. Her brother Murray is in the second row on the far right. April 6th.

      Ethel Wettlaufer is at the bottom left. The lady on Ethel’s left is Gwen Lister. Ethel Wettlaufer taught at the Palermo public school, 1940's-1950's. She married Eckhardt Reiner Elton Wettlaufer in 1924. Book III, page 66 of the Nelson Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History has a handwritten history of the Palermo …

      A watercolour painting of a Greenhouse in Palermo, Ontario.

      A painting of The House, a fine dining restaurant in Palermo, Oakville.

 appeared in Burlington Gazette, 13 Mar 1912, p. 1     At Palermo, Halton county, on Friday, March 8, 1912, Margaret Coverdale, wife of Herbert Inglehart, in her 46th year....

      Oldest son of John Peter Inglehart and Elizabeth (Betsy) Fisher. William Cyrus farmed at Con 2, SDS, Lot 31, Trafalgar Twp, Nelson Cty. He built the house known as "Oakhurst" in the late 1800s with his second wife, Eleanor. William Cyrus was married twice. The certificate for his first marriage …