John Brant Chisholm was born on August 8, 1829 in Wellington Township, Halton County, Ontario. He is not to be confused with John Brant Chisholm (1844-1917), son of William and Sarah Elizabeth Hopkins McNaughton.
The family of thirteen settled there and John would like his father farm the land and raise a large family. However unlike his father he would remain in the area. The Chisholm family were prominent in the area and there are many branches and also many articles about the family as early as 1867, in the Acton Free Press and The Georgetown Herald as well as the Canadian Champion (Milton). John met Mary Craddock, born February 21, 1832, from Hinderwell, NR Yorkshire, England, daughter of Anthony Craddock and Elizabeth Parks. The couple married in 1949, and a year later had their first child, the first of what would be eleven. |