THOMAS CHRISSLEY







Thomas Chrissley was born on June 17, 1882 in Ontario, the youngest child of Patrick and Ann Chrissley.  The photo to the right is of a young Tom in quite a dapper-looking hat.  We believe the photo was taken between 1905 and 1908 in Toronto.  Thomas and Grace were living in Toronto to earn money to enable them to buy a farm.


Tom married GRACE ESSA (ELIZABETH) WILLIAMS on January 11, 1905 in Battersea, Ontario. Elizabeth was born in Battersea, Ontario, October 26, 1884, the first child of Noxon Williams and Ida VAN LUVEN.  She went by the name Grace.





GRACE ESSA (ELIZABETH) WILLIAMS

Farm east of Inverary

The photo above is of Tom and Grace's farm located off the first cross-road east of the village of Inverary, Ontario.  Dad (Ray Valleau Gibson; Tom was his maternal grandfather) wrote on the back of the photo and referred to this as "40 acres."  Tom and Elizabeth worked in Toronto for awhile in order to save $500.00 to buy this farm.  Dad indicated it was here that his mother, Ruby Chrissley, was born.  Tom and Elizabeth and their children moved circa 1925 from this farm to a farm on Latimer Road, near Kingston, Ontario.

Tom and Elizabeth had four (4) children, all girls:

Ruby Beryl - b. February 1, 1908, Battersea, Storrington, Ontario [my grandmother]
Dora FERN - b. October 7, 1910, Inverary, Frontenac, Ontario
Nettie - b. 1913*
Vivian - b. 1928*

*actual date of birth and place of birth unknown at this time



Tom & Grace Chrissley (back and front right) with Til Gibson 
(m.s. LaBarre) and Sylvia Sherman (a granddaughter for Tom & Grace)
circa 1953/54

My father, Ray Valleau Gibson, was the son of Ruby Chrissley (and her husband, George Seymour Gibson).  Dad was born May 8, 1927, in the year before his Aunt Vivian.