Byard
Fraser
Brenton
Born in Middle Stewiacke, Colchester Co., NS
Ancestors 
Son of Alexander Brenton
and Ann (Jeffers) Brenton
Brother of
Frederick Cornell Brenton
Husband of
Gertrude Hazel (Archibald) Brenton
— married
1915 (to 1968) in Middle Stewiacke, Colchester Co., NS
Died
at age 72
in Ingersol, Oxford Co., Ontario
Profile last modified
| Created 25 May 2014
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Biography
Byard was born to Alexander Brenton and Ann Jeffers in 1895. He was a twin to Frederick Cornell. He enlisted in July 1917 with the Nova Scotia Regiment and served in Canada, England and France in WW1. He married Gertrude Hazel Archibald and had two children. The family resided in Birch Hill, then in Brookfield for a while and then on to Ontario. He died in 1869 at Ingersol, Oxford Co., Ontario at age 73 and was buried at St. Marys Cemetery. (see tombstone)
Children born to Byard Brenton and Gertrude Archibald:
- Eleanor Drosella Brenton married William McMillan
- Hazel Ann Brenton married Jack Fairbanks
Sources
- Personal knowledge (I was at the funeral)
- Brenton Genealogy & documents
- Vital statistics of Nova Scotia and Ontario
- Canada Census
- War information submitted by the Stewiacke Valley Historical Society.
- Ancestry.ca websearch 4151 & h 274619 - burial at St. Marys Cemetery in Perth Co. Ontario in 1968.
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