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The Mortons
of Tinahely, Holland Landing, Bradford and Toronto

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William E.H. Morton
(1913-2000)		 You can tell when you listen to our Grandfather's family stories how important they are, and how they have meaning and realness not only as stories from the past. When my sister and I were children, Poppa always shared the memories of his special times as a youth. He valued his own experiences so much, he would do more than share a story, he would recreate the circumstances and give us a new experience based on his. 

As a pre-schooler, Poppa lived with his Aunt Minnie and Aunt Eliza in Bradford, Ontario. During the colder seasons they stayed in town, and in the summers he would live with Minnie's brother, Uncle Clarence, on his farm a few minutes to the north. Even after Poppa returned to his parents' Toronto home for grade school, he visited Clarence in the summers and treasured the times he spent on the farm. 

When Poppa retired, and sold his home on Lake Simcoe, my sister and I were very young. He bought a farm north of Bradford not far from Clarence's, and the next year the property across the road, and gave our family a summer place we called the Holiday House. Every summer, for more than ten years, my family would stay in the Holiday House, and visit Poppa and Gum Gum across the road. I didn't learn until later that Poppa was seeing us reliving those times he had had with Clarence -- fixing fences, taking in the hay, raising chickens and cutting our own Christmas tree from the back bush. His lesson was that the best stories were worth reliving through sharing experiences. 

Here are many of the stories of our Morton ancestors, who came from Tinahely, Ireland and made homes in Holland Landing, Bradford and Toronto.
Discovering the earliest Mortons Poppa's Aunt Nancy wrote "The Morton Family" in 1968 during her 92nd year. With that 7 page document, Poppa's help and more research, the story of the Morton family now reaches back to Ireland around the 1840's and concludes around 1917. 

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The Mortonscontinue this story, 
The Elliottscontinue this story, 
The Holtorfs, Hulses and Doylescontinue this story.