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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-12-18, Page 15THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1969 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS AUDREY BELLCHAMBER TELLS YOU - - - - ALL ABOUT BAYFIELD INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN ONTARIO'S PRETTIEST VILLAGE Mrs. William R. Talbot Sr. is a patient in Clinton Hospital, her daughter, Mrs. Lorraine Telford of Simcoe visited her last week for several days. The George Cantiick's and sons, Birmingham, Mich, were at their cottage for the weekend. Mrs, Fletcher McLaughlin, Megan, and Alfie of Toronto, were weekend visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Fred LeBeau. Major and Mrs. Dave Battye, Blair and Renee of Sioux Look- out arrived on Sunday to spend the holiday season with Mrs. Battye's parents, Mr. arid Mrs. Robert Blair, Mrs. Ethel Blair of Toronto joined them over the weekend. 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The Lions and their wives will entertain the patients at the Goderich Physciatric Ilospital at a bingo on January 7 at 7:30 p.m. The guest speaker of the even- ing was the Zone Chairman, Orville Oke, of Seaforth, who chose as his topic Lionism from the zone level. CHRISTMAS BINGO A capacity crowd packed the Bayfield Community Centra auditorium on Friday night for the Lions turkey bingo. Winning a Christmas turkey were: Sherry Dunn, Goderich; Mrs. Cutt, Goderich; Mrs, Fred Weston, Mrs, Don Johnston, Mrs. Lloyd Scotchmer, Mrs. June Humphries, Mrs. Norma Wallis, Mrs, Bev McClinchey, all of Bayfield; Mrs, John Broad - foot, Brucefield; Joyce Beachlor, Goderich; Mrs, Wilfred Castel, Clinton; Mrs. John Richard, Mrs, Harvey Boyce, London; 'vas. Harvey Taylor, Varna; Mrs. Andrew Parr, Zurich; Mrs. Ken Pollock, Hensall, Mrs. Ted McLean, Goderich and Mrs. Mel Graham of Brucefield. Share the wealth winners were: Mrs. Roy Telford; Mrs. Ken Hunter, Goderich, Mrs, Harvey Boyce, London, Mrs. Cooper, Bluewater Motel and Mrs. Glen Sturgeon, Bayfield. HISTORICAL SOCIETY The December meeting of Bayfield branch of Huron Hist- orical Society was presided over by Mrs. A.S. Morton. Minutes were read by Mrs. BIarry Baker and the treasurer's report by Mrs. J.E. Ma man. A number of old pictures of scenes and citizens of Bayfield were on display, and were des- cribed by the archivist Mrs. Leroy Poth, who also read a list of the many interesting items already in the local archives. The most recent donation, from G.M. Wallis, is a diary, kept diligently for over twenty years, by the late Miss Frances Sharpe of the Babylon Line. The annual meeting is sched- uled for Monday, January 12, and the nominating committee selected is; Brig. G,L,M. Smith, Mrs, W. Parker and Mrs. P. Du- Boulay. Routine business was followed by a most interesting and de- tailed account of research into the origin of "Baron de Tuyll", founder of Bayfield, by Mrs. John Land. Mrs, Land told how she and her husband had become inter- ested in their projects because Mr. Land recalled that a former Mayor of their home town of Zeist near Utrecht was a Caron Van Tuyll van Serooskerke. The fact that Bayfield's baron was sometimes referred to as Baron de Tuyll and "the Bel- gian Baron" merely made them more determined to discover the true identity of 'the man. The difference between " de Tuyll" and "van Tuyll" was of no account because Emperor Napoleaon had decreed that French should be the official language in llolland and there- fore baron "van Tuyll van Ser- ooskeoke" would sign legal papers as "de Tuyll cle Seroos- kerke." Mrs. Land next explained how a change in spelling, probably, an error on the part of the clerk, had laid a false trail and com- plicated the search. Recorded on a Gleed was the name Vincent Guilclemaster, Baron de Tuy11_de Serooskerke d"Assendoorn. Letters to friends in Holland failed to produce the desired confirmation to link the two families. The matter rested there awhile until Mrs. Oddleifson showed Mrs. Land a deed signed by the Baron, which Mrs. Bailey had among some old papers. Mrs. Land inspected the deed and discovered that the "Bayfield Baron" was "Vincent Gildemees- ter, baron de Tuyll, de Seroosk- erken d"Ysencloorn," The next step taken by the Lands was to devote some of their time visit- ing relatives and friends in Hol- land ol-land to continue their recent search for "rhe Baron." Their diligence was rewarded and Mrs. Land told of the records which they perused showing that a Knight Hugo Lord van Tuyll lived in a town, now known as Tuyll, in the province of Gelder- land, holland, Continuous records of "our" NOTICE All Branches of HENSALL DISTRICT CO-OPERATIVJ. WILL :E CLOSES CIIRISTMAS AND OXING DAY December 25 and 26 NEW YEAR'S DAY January 1 There will be No Feed Grinding or Deliveries Prom December 24 to Dece de Tuyll family date from the start of the 14th century accord- ing to Mrs. Land. She harped Gysbmt van Tuyll "the old" who married Geerburg Bothvand- er Een. He died in 1349, at which time a war started and continued, on and off, for over 100 years. His son Reinter, then left Tuyll in 1369 and settled in Brabant in Steenbergen - the Lands almost lost the trail at this point as the records in Tuyll ceased abruptly ; and they were very fortunate in discovering the likn between the fancily in Tuyll and that in Bra- baut. Mrs, Land next traced the fam- ily through Vincent Maximilian Van Tuyll van Serooskerke 1744- 1794 who married Dorothea Hen- rietta Marie Louise, daughter of Carl Lodewyck, Lord of Ysen- doom. Their son Carl Lodewyk baron van Tuyll Van Serooskerken, Lord of Ysendoom, born Utrecht June '7, 1784 was the Founder of Bayfield, but not our "well known" Baron. Carl Lodewyk married Marie Louise Gildenre- ester on March 4, 1811, in Lon- don ondon and their son Vincent was the "Bayfield baron." Vincent Gildemeester, baron Van Tuyll, van Serooskerken, van Ysencloorn was born March 13, 1812 at Bath, England. Upon his father's death in 1835, he inherited the title and the prop- erties in Canada. "A part of his bachelor years, " said Mrs. Land, "he spent in Canada, where he was a friend of Tiger Dunlop and belonged to the Colborne Clique. Accord- ing to a Canadian history book, PAGE FIFTEEN he had a jolly good time over here. "He went back to Europe and Married, in 1844, Charlotte Henrietta Mansfield, in London, England, Her name is on one of the papers of Mr. Bailey's". Mrs. Land then said that their first child, a son, was born in Munich, Germany in 1845 and the second, a daughter, Marie Louise Ottelina Niagara was bron on July 25, 1848 in Niagara, Canada. A third child born in the Hague, 1850 was named Sophie, Mathilda Henriette Bel- litonia, the last name, Bellit- onia, was given because her father, Vincent, was chairman of the board of directors of the tim company of Billiton, an island in the Dutch East Indies, between Sumatra and Borneo. Three children were born later in Germany. Mrs. Land commented on the adventurous spirit of van Tuyll and the difference between the months he and his bride had spent on the ocean compared with the seven hour crossing which sufficed to bring Mr. and Mrs. Land back to Bayfield after their vacation and successful search for the "van Tuyll" fam- ily in Holland. 0 CRACK -DOWN ON DRINKING It is now a criminal offence to be in the care or control of a motor vehicle if you have con- sumed enough alcohol to register more than point zero eight (.08) on a breath test ... that is, if you have more than 80 milli- grams of alcohol per 100 milli- litres of blood. e with ®Comfortable Home Service When the weather turns cool your home needs fuel for the cozy warmth that means a comfortable home for your family all through winter. But fuel oil is just the start of being really comfortable. 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