William Henry Varley^{[1, 2, 3]}

1882 - 1966  (83 years)

Barry's Grandfather (Relationship supported by Ancestry DNA tests)

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• Name	William Henry Varley  [4]
  Birth	27 Nov 1882	Driffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom   [5]
  Baptism	4 Jan 1883	Driffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom   [4, 6, 7]
  	Address: Driffield Wesleyan (later Trinity) Methodist Driffield Wesleyan (later Trinity) Methodist, Yorkshire England
  Gender	Male
  Census	1891	Salford, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom   [8]
  	Name: Mlliam H Varley Age: 8 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1883 Relation: Boarder Gender: Male Where born: Driffield, Yorkshire, England Civil Parish: Almondbury Ecclesiastical parish: St Emmanuels Town: Salford County/Island: Yorkshire Country: England Street address: 126 Emmanuel Ter Occupation: Scholar Condition as to marriage: Single Registration district: Huddersfield Sub registration district: Almondbury ED, institution, or vessel: 14 Household Members: Name Age Agnes Haigh 1/12 Eliza Haigh 26 Eva Haigh 5 Herbert Haigh 8 Jae Haigh 11 Meriam Haigh 9 William H Haigh 33 George F Varley 9 William H Varley 8
  Census	1901	Durham, Grey, Ontario, Canada
  	Name: William H Varley Gender: Male Marital Status: Single Age: 18 Birth Date: 27 Feb 1883 Birthplace: England Relation to Head of House: Lodger Immigration Year: 1895 Racial or Tribal Origin: English Nationality: Canadian Religion: Church Of England Occupation: Laborer Farm Province: Ontario District: Durham (West/Ouest) District Number: 56 Sub-District: Clarke Sub-District Number: C-4 Family Number: 94 Page: 9 Household Members: John McMillan 42 Jane McMillan 40 Lulu McMillan 13 Florence McMillan 12 Carl McMillan 9 Rena McMillan 5 Earl McMillan 11/12 James McMillan 44 William H Varley 18 Fanny Walker 17
  Occupation	6 Sep 1907  [2]
  	farmer
  RELMethodist	6 Sep 1907  [2]
  RELSt.	Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  	Johns Methodist Church
  Residence	6 Sep 1907	Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Census	1911	Trafalgar, Halton, Ontario, Canada   [10]
  	Name: Wm Varley Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Age: 28 Birth Date: Nov 1882 Birthplace: England Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's Name: Edith Varley Immigration Year: 1897 Tribal: English Province: Ontario District: Halton District Number: 76 Sub-District: Trafalgar Sub-District Number: 18 Household Members: Name Age Wm Varley 28 Edith Varley 22 Grace Varley 3 Fred Varley 1 Ina Varley 1/12 Source Citation: Year: 1911;Census Place: Trafalgar, Halton, Ontario. Page 16, Family No: 161.
  Find-a-Grave Link	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108454031
  Death	5 May 1966	Milton, Halton, Ontario, Canada   [4, 11, 12]
  	Address: Halton Centennial Manor Milton, ON Canada
  Burial	7 May 1966	Milton, Halton, Ontario, Canada   [4, 11, 12]
  	Address: Evergreen Cemetery Milton, ON Canada www.miltonevergreencemetery.ca
  	Resting at the funeral home of S. S. Russell and Son Dunn Street (at the lake) Oakville where the funeral service will be held on Saturday morning at 11 o'clock.
  Person ID	I360	Ancestors of Susan and Barry Reynolds
  Last Modified	10 Jun 2023

  
  

  Father	George Frederick Varley,   b. Abt 1858, Kingston Upon Hull (Hull), Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom d. Mar 1924, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom (Age ~ 66 years)
  Mother	Laura Eleanor Dry,   b. 5 Jun 1859, Driffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom d. Between Jan and Mar 1888, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
  Family ID	F203	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Edith Helen Buszard,   b. 25 Aug 1889, Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada d. 1 Nov 1918, Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada (Age 29 years)
  Marriage	6 Sep 1907	Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada   [2, 4]
  	Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928 about Edith Helen Buszard Name: Edith Helen Buszard Birth Place: Oakville Age: 18 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1889 Father Name: James Buszard Mother Name: Harriet Pratt Spouse Name: William Henry Varley Spouse's Age: 24 Spouse Birth Place: England Spouse Father Name: George Frederick Varley Spouse Mother Name: Nellie Dry Varley Marriage Date: 6 Sep 1907 Marriage Location: York Marriage County: York Archives of Ontario Microfilm: MS932_126 Source Information: Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton, Ontario, Canada). Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. [4, 13]
  Marriage Witnesses	6 Sep 1907  [4]
  	C. A. Anderson, Oakville; A. C. Perry, Toronto
  Married By	6 Sep 1907  [2, 4]
  	H. Francis Perry
  Marriage Registration	9 Sep 1907  [2, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Beatrice Grace Varley, RN,   b. 12 May 1908, Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada d. 15 Apr 2005, Lindsay, Victoria, Ontario, Canada (Age 96 years)   2. George Frederick Snelgrove Varley,   b. 18 Oct 1909, Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada d. 1 Mar 1921, , Peel, Ontario, Canada (Age 11 years) + 3. Harriet Ina Varley,   b. 30 Apr 1911, Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada d. 9 Jun 2002, Shelburne, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada (Age 91 years) + 4. James Edward Austin Varley,   b. 7 Oct 1913, Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada d. 18 Sep 1996, Grey Highlands, Grey, Ontario, Canada (Age 82 years) + 5. William Gordon Varley,   b. 30 Oct 1914, , Halton, Ontario, Canada d. 1993, Milton, Halton, Ontario, Canada (Age 78 years)   6. Harvey Buszard Varley,   b. 20 Nov 1916, , , , Canada d. Yes, date unknown + 7. Mary Ellen Varley,   b. 21 Oct 1918, Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada d. 25 Oct 2014, Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada (Age 96 years)
  Family ID	F33	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Scott   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Barbara Lee Ellen Pollock,   b. 23 Mar 1929, , , Ontario, Canada d. 5 Feb 2017, Cochrane, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F49319	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Jun 2023

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Birth - 27 Nov 1882 - Driffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Baptism - Address: Driffield Wesleyan (later Trinity) Methodist Driffield Wesleyan (later Trinity) Methodist, Yorkshire England - 4 Jan 1883 - Driffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Census - 1891 - Salford, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Census - 1901 - Durham, Grey, Ontario, Canada RELSt. - Johns Methodist Church - - Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada Residence - 6 Sep 1907 - Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada Marriage - 6 Sep 1907 - Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada Census - 1911 - Trafalgar, Halton, Ontario, Canada Death - Address: Halton Centennial Manor Milton, ON Canada - 5 May 1966 - Milton, Halton, Ontario, Canada Burial - Address: Evergreen Cemetery Milton, ON Canada www.miltonevergreencemetery.ca - 7 May 1966 - Milton, Halton, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth
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  Varley, William Henry (1882 - 1966) William Henry Varley

  
  

  Headstones

  Varley, William Henry (1882 - 1966) Halton Centennial Manor Marker For a Large Number of Graves in This Plot [Plot Owned by Allendale Seniors' Residence] William Henry Varley / 1882 - 1966

  
  

• Notes

  In the early 1890s George (Senior) was prevailed upon (most probably by his mother-in-law, Hannah Dry) to allow the boys to go into a children's home, and places were found for them at "The Fagan's Home for Boys" in Southwark Street in London, just south of the River Thames. Conditions in children's homes in Victorian England were very harsh and there is no reason to believe that the Fagan's Home in Southwark was any different. Discipline would have been rigid, corporal punishment severe, and the chores and work within the Home repetitive and monotonous. On the plus side, the inmates of the Home were fed, they had beds to sleep in, they were safe from the depredations of a life on the streets, they were educated in the three Rs, and they were normally taught some kind of trade outside the Home. Many of them were also given the opportunity to emigrate to overseas countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where there were better prospects for them to prosper, and we know that this is what happened to George's younger brother, William Henry, who sailed from Liverpool for a new life in Canada in 1897, when he would have been 14 years old. He helped build bridges on the QEW and that he was an expert stone mason. William Varley smoked a pipe and would make one filling last the whole day. He boarded at the home of James and Harriet Buszard. (Grace (Varley) Reynolds) [4, 14, 15]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1006] Mary Ellen (Varley) Nielsen, Personal - Varley, Mary Ellen, (18 June 1999 and 14 July 1999, Letters, Oakville, Ontario, Canada), File: Varley; Varley, Mary. [S39] Archives of Ontario, Vital - Can., ON - Marriage - Varley, William & Buszard, Edith - 1907, (1907, Microfilm LDS Film # 1871703 Record 003531), File: Varley; Varley, William Henry. [S1066] National Archives of Canada, Census - Can., ON, Clarke - 1901, (Clarke, Ontario, Canada. Microfilm T-6464), Div 4 Page 9 Entry 2 Family 95, File: Varley; Varley, William Henry. [S6] Ancestry.com, 20 Aug 2011. [S1067] Carol Atkin, Web Site - Family of Carol Atkin, ((Carol Atkin, 30 March 2008), http://trees.ancestry.co.uk), 28 Mar 2008. [S767] Web Site - Driffield and Wolds Genealogy, ((April 2008), http://www.driffield.org.uk/), 24 Apr 2008. [S1068] Baptism Register - Driffield Wesleyan (later Trinity) Methodist Circuit - 1878 – 1891, 14 Nov 2008. [S1072] Census - England - 1891, (digital images), 21 Apr 2008, RG12; Piece: 3563; Folio 94; Page 17; GSU roll: 6098673. [S2564] Grace Reynolds, Personal - Reynolds, Grace (Varley) - July 1999, (July 17, 18 1999, Barry Reynolds, Notes, Toronto,Ontario,Canada), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, John Murray. [S824] Newspaper, 7 Jul 2011. [S1005] Oakville Daily Journal Record, Newspaper, Death Notice - Varley, William, ((Oakville, Ontario, Canada, 6 May 1966), Microfilm of newspaper p 14), File: Varley, Varley, William Henry. [S1069] Evergreen Cemetery, Cemetery - Can., ON, Halton, Milton - Evergreen, (Tombstone Inscriptions(Milton, Halton, Ontario, Canada, June 2005)), 19 Jun 2005. [S17] Ancestry.ca, (Genealogy Data(Ancestry.ca) , www.ancestry.ca). [S1070] Grace Varley, Personal - Varley, Grace Evelyn- January 2001, (January 2001, EMail), 12 Jan 2001. [S1071] Richard Dukes, Biography - George Frederick Varley, 30 Oct 2012.