Hennings of Ontario

General Notes: Herbert had 13 brothers and sisters. He worked on the Railroad in Upper Canada.

Herbert married Elizabeth (Lizzie) NICHOLSON Hennings, daughter of NICHOLSON and Unknown. Elizabeth was born in Pontipool, ON.

Second Generation

Edwin married Ethel Arthurs HENNINGS, daughter of William ARTHURS and Georgina BRADLEY Arthurs.

Third Generation

Edna married Albert HUNT, son of John HUNT and Florence IRVING Hunt, on 21 Jul 1928 in Dartmouth Cres, Mimico, Ont. Albert was born on 10 Oct 1907 in Allandale, ON and died on 27 Aug 1983 in Toronto, ON at age 75.

Marriage Notes: Edna and Al were married at the home of Mr and Mrs Edward Motton, in Mimico Ontario. Edna Motton was the twin sister of Grandmother Ethel Hennings.

General Notes: Al was born in Allandale, Ontario, on the south side of Barrie. He grew up in Mimico, first on Manchester Street and then on McDonald Street. He was an avid sportsman and played lacrosse growing up. One of his favorite stories was of trying to hitch-hike to a game somewhere on the Lake Shore in he early 1920s. A big car pulled over and offered him a lift. He got in the back and one of the men in the car started to strike up a conversation. The man asked him his name. When he replied Al Hunt, the man said "why that's my name too,... Al... Al Capone." He was riding in the car of one of the most notorious gangsters of the day. It was the days of Prohibition in the US and Al Capone and his friends had come up to Canada looking to buy some liquor. Al knew of a few local bootleggers and gave them directions.

Al was 18 when his father died in 1925. He and Edna Hennings were married in 1928. They lived in Long Branch on Elder Avenue. He worked at Anaconda for a while but times were tough and jobs were scarce in the 1930s. He sold screen doors in the summer and Christmas trees in the winter to make ends meet. Al continued to be active in lacrosse on the Lakeshore as a coach and team manager and league organizer of youth lacrosse. He had many friends through lacrosse and loved to talk about those he knew who had gone on to fame and fortune in other endeavours, such as the Mohawk Indian Jay Silverheels who played Tonto in the Lone Ranger and Bob Pulford a Leafs star of the 1960s. In those days Al would take me to the Lacrosse games in Long Branch at the lacrosse box behind the Bapco Paint plant on the Lakeshore. After the game we would carry on to his evening work as a cleaner at Wylie's Press and several other industrial plants in the area. In his later years Al drove a delivery truck for an auto parts firm in Toronto. He drove all over the city for years until his eyesight began to fail. He began to have difficulty with his kidneys and went on dialysis treatments. He was finally hospitalized because of his kidney failure and died shortly after.

14 M ii. Ernest Warren HUNT was born on 20 Oct 1930 in 57 Elder Ave, Longbranch On.

15 F iii. Ruth Elaine HUNT Paterson was born on 13 Apr 1935 in 51 Elder Ave, Longbranch, ON.

Ruth married David Walter ATKINSON in Feb 1957 in St James Esquimalt Garrison Church, Esquimalt, BC.

Fourth Generation

General Notes: Gloria was born at Aunt Edna Motton's house on Dartmouth Crescent in Mimico. Aunt Edna was a twin sister of Grandmother Ethel Hennings. At the time the Hunt family lived in Long Branch. Gloria recalls that she lived at 51 Elder Avenue from the age of five. She was the eldest of three children to Edna and Al. She attended Daisy Avenue school where she first me Herb. One fo her school friends was Patsy, Herb's younger sister. After Gloria and Herb were married in 1949, she and Patsy went to England to join Herb who was in training with the RN. Gloria was a homemaker and a seamstress. She took pride in making most of her own clothes. In the 1970's she opened a consignment clothing shop in Sidney called Pandora's Closet. In the early 1990's she sold Pandora's and started a new business, a Tuck Shop in the Dunsmuir Lodge in Saanich. After several successful years Gloria sold the shop.

Gloria married Herbert Thomas ADDISON, son of Herbert James ADDISON and May PAXTON Addison, on 9 Apr 1949 in Dunn Memorial Presbyterian Church, 26Th Street, Long Branch, ON. Herbert was born on 21 Apr 1928 in Toronto, ON and died on 6 Aug 2002 in Sidney, BC at age 74. The cause of his death was Cancer (Metastising Melanoma complicated by Lymphocetic Leukemia).

Marriage Notes: Description: The reception took place at HMCS York in Toronto.
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General Notes: Herbert Thomas Addison was born in east end Toronto but grew up in Long Branch. His family moved to 31 Elder Avenue when he was about 6 or 7 and he went to Daisy Avenue School where he first met Gloria. She was a year younger than he and a best friend of his younger sister Pat. As a youngster Herb loved sports and played lacrosse, hockey and golf. In 1945-46 he attended the University of Toronto and studied actuarial science. He used to visit his Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Ida Paxton while he was in the city for classes. The travel back and forth on the street car made for long days though and after one year he decided to join the RCN. In April '46 Herb left home for Esquimalt, then known as HMCS NADEN for his first 2 months of training as an Ordinary Seaman. After a month Herb was selected for officers' training. He and his mates George Schober, Stan Mahan, John Chekan, Ron Dobney and Red Bowen were assigned to HMCS UGANDA, a former RN cruiser from the RN's Pacific Fleet, where they met and Bill Brown and several other officer candidates in training who soon became life long friends. Their first taste of life at sea was a cruise up the coast to Prince Rupert and Dutch Harbour, then south to the Panama Canal where the WARRIOR joined them after transiting the canal from Halifax. At Christmas time in '46 Herb, Red Bowen and Ron Dobney (who was from Owen Sound) returned home to Toronto from Victoria by train. On 30 May 1947 Herb and his mates were promoted to Midshipman and told that they would be sent to the UK to do 3 years of naval officer training. They first went to STADACONA in Halifax for some basic navigation training. Then in July '47 they transited the Atlantic in HMCS WARRIOR, Canada's first aircraft carrier. WARRIOR was being used as a troop ship and was taking a number of Boy Scouts to a Jamboree in Grenoch, Scotland. Once in the UK in the summer of '47 Herb and his mates were billeted in the famous RN cruiser RENOWN in the stream in Devenport, across from Portsmouth.
After a time they started their training on the Junior Officers War Course in Grenwich, the RN's Naval College. Later that year the group of Canadians was split up. Stan Mahan went to the frigate LOCH VIETY, George and Snuffy (John Chekan) went to frigates, Red Bowen went to the CRISPIN, and Herb joined the County Class Cruiser NORFOLK, the Flagship of C in C East India (Trincomalee). At some point in '47 Herb took leave and visited his mother May's family in Ireland. He took the boat and then the Belfast County Down Railway to Newcastle and stayed with Uncle John Paxton (a shoemaker) and his wife Rebecca and their daughters Mona and Emma who lived on Railway Street near the Slieve Donerd Hotel. He spent Christmas 1947 in Trincomali, Celylon. 30 Sep 1948 Herb was promoted to Acting Sub-Lieutenant and continued his training in the UK, at RNC Greenwich where most junior officer training was done. He returned home in 1949 to marry Gloria and she went to the UK with him while he finished his training with the RN. Herb and Gloria returned to Newcastle in May 1949 to visit Uncle John and Rebecca. Herb was promoted to Sub-Lieutenant 30 May 1949. He left Gloria in Newcastle for three months while he went to Londonderry to do Sub-Lieutenant summer training on board HMS CREOLE, a Crescent Class Destroyer in the 3rd Training Flotilla. He then went on to complete his Subs courses in Portsmouth before returning with Gloria to Canada in July 1950.

Herb and Gloria got a flat on Bayers Road in Halifax in 1950. Their first child Janette, was born in Toronto in September 1950 while Herb was at sea in HURON doing his Bridge watchkeeping training. From January until November 1951 Herb served in HMCS HURON during her employment in Korea as CAYUGAs replacement. On 30 April 1951 he was promoted Lieutenant, RCN. He then joined the QUEBEC (formerly called UGANDA) in December '51 and sailed with her through the Panama Canal in early 1952 to Halifax. From March to June 1952 he attended the RN P and R T Course. Christmas 1952 was spent back at home in Toronto on 35th Street with family. Then in January '53 he and Gloria rode the train across Canada to Victoria, where Herb took on the task of Officer in Charge of the Pand RT School in NADEN. In August '54 the Addisons' second child, Timothy, was born. In September '54 Herb was posted back to sea in HMCS ONTARIO on the training staff. In 1955 he made a round the world cruise in ONTARIO with stops in Australia and Europe. On his return home to Victoria he was posted to the Naval College, HMCS ROYAL ROADS in Colwood, BC where he was the Director Athletics and Squadron Commander for two years.

Following ROYAL ROADS Herb was posted to Halifax where he served first at STADACONA as the P and RT officer and then at sea as the senior Watchkeeper in the aircraft carrier, HMCS BONAVENTURE. On 30 April 1959 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander. In August 1960 the Addisons moved again, this time to Deep Brook, NS, where Herb continued as the Officer in Charge of the P and RT School at the Navy's main recruiting and training base, HMCS CORNWALLIS until 1963. Another move across the country took place in 1963 when the Addisons returned to Victoria and Herb assumed duties as Exectutive Officer in the training squadron frigates, JONQUIERRE and NEW GLASGOW. In 1965 Herb joined MARPAC Personnel for a short stint before being posted to NDHQ to DPER 4 in 1966. In March 1967 Herb joined the D INT Foreign Liaison Office in the old A building. After 3 years with the FLO in 1970 another move took the Addisons to the USA where Herb took up a position in Current Naval Intelligence in SACLANT Headquarters, Norfolk, VA. His final posting in August 1973 was back to the west coast as Senior Staff Officer, Intelligence to the Commander Maritime Forces Pacific in Victoria, BC. He retired from the Canadian Forces 21 April 1975.

After his naval career, Herb worked for ten years with Canada Trust doing income taxes and securities as a portfolio manager. He then took a turn at local politics as an Alderman in Sidney BC. He was on Sidney Town Council 1986-90 and was instrumental in establishing the Sidney Whale Museum. He was also Sannich Water Board chiar in 1991. Always a keen golfer, his final career move at age 65 was to become a professional golf caddy. He toured Canada and the US, caddying and selling yardage books at Canadian Professional Golf Association tournaments and other major golf events. At 71 he decided to stay home in Sidney, BC to work on his own game. He passed away 6 August 2002 at home, 9342 Webster Place, Sidney.

+ 17 M ii. Timothy Herbert ADDISON was born on 26 Aug 1954 in St Joseph's Hospital, Victoria, BC and was christened in Esquimalt On Board Hmcs Ontario.

Fifth Generation

Janette married J. Robert LEITCH on 5 May 1973 in Kingston, ON. J. was born on 12 May 1950.

17. Timothy Herbert ADDISON was born on 26 Aug 1954 in St Joseph's Hospital, Victoria, BC and was christened in Esquimalt On Board Hmcs Ontario.

• Graduation: Princess Anne High School, Virginia Beach VA. Graduation Surety:0

Timothy married Susan Jeanette NEWHOOK Addison, daughter of Lloyd Walter NEWHOOK and Joyce Ellen POWELL Newhook. Susan was born on 21 Mar 1951 in Grand Falls, Newfoundland.

20 M i. Timothy James Herbert ADDISON was born on 10 Jan 1983 in Victoria, BC At St Joseph's Hospital and was christened in Mar 1983 in Esquimalt On Board Hmcs Terra Nova.

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