The Billings Families were prominent in the village of Lyn. Water and his sister grew up on a house on the Lyn Road, which is now across from Burnbrae Farms and part of their property. Murray Billings was a cousin of Walter’s and operated a new and used car sales business in Lyn. Walter wrote of his growing up in and around the village, his stories are featured on our website under “Stories by Walter Billings”.
These are photos we have that were donated by the Billing’s Family. Some photos don’t have names, if you know who they are, please email us and let us know.
We also have included additional photos of the Howard Family, Moorehead Family and Wright Family.
For a complete history of the Billings Family you can find a book on-line that will give you all this information at:
Walter and Bessie Billings at their cottage at Five Mile Light
Billings Cottage at Five Mile Light
Bishop/ Billings General Store, Main St. Lyn.
Mary Dunster in front of Billings Grocery Store
Walter standing next to his car in front of his storeIn front of the store in winter
Alice Leeder with her bicycle in front of Billings Motors, Main Street, Lyn
Billings Car LotBillings Car LotBillings Car LotBillings Car LotBillings Car LotBillings Car Lot
Family Photographs
Photo taken in 1911
Photo taken in 1914
Blanch Howard and Winfred Wrightphoto dated 1920Bruce Howard
Winfred WrightDora (Isadora) Billings
Nellie, Marry and Bertha Billings
Kilborn and Billings Families
Nellie, Mary and Bertha Billings c1940Mary Billings
Home of Dr, Elkanah Billings on what was known then as the Chemical Road. The building is now the clubhouse for the Highland Golf Course
Billings, Ira & Ida-Home on Lyn Rd
Ira BillingsUnknown Photo #1Unknown Photo # 2
Unknown Photo #3
Unknown Photo #4Unknown Photo #5Unknown Photo #6
Unknown Photo #7
Unknown Photo #9 Unknown Photo #8
Unknown Photo #10Unknown Group on Road RollerUnknown woman in front of car
Murray Billings and his carOne of Murray’s cars
One of Murray’s CarsOne of Murray’s cars
One of Murray’s carsOne of Murray’s Cars
Murray Billing’s 1917 Buick, now on display at the Automotive Museum in Oshawa, Ontario
Recent Photo Additions
The woman in the photo is Mildred Wright (born Greer), daughter of Andrew Greer and Artimitia Greer (born Billings) Mildred Wright is buried with Ormand Wright at Bissell Cemetery on Algonquin road; but her parents are buried in Howard’s Cemetery. L-R in the photo are Mildred, standing in the back twins Ronald and Arnold, in the front are Della and Mariana, and on the right the father Ormand.
Hi,
we have many photos of Billings family members that you could add to this page (http://www.lynmuseum.ca/2017/11/30/billings-family-photos/). They are of the Abiathar-Anna Billings line. Two other related families that could be added are the Wrights and the Moorheads.
Hi, and thanks for your offer of additional photos. If you would like to send them to us with names we will post them to this page. We are always glad to receive and additions to our local history.– LynMuseum@gmail.com
Thanks, John
Good morning Stephanie,
Unfortunately we have no genealogical information in our archives on the Billings Families. Everything we have we have posted on our website under Family Photos. I will be posting a new just received Family Photo of the “Billings” on our Facebook Site. There are several descendants of various Billings Families who follow our Facebook Page. I would suggest that you keep an eye on our page and when I post this photo withing the next week, you can comment with your questions and ask if anyone has information on the family.
John
Well we certainly know some of the Dunbars. Ruth Braun, who married Floyd Dunbar, lived on Chemical Rd where her father Jacob Braun’s farm backed onto the Wright farm, (formerly the Bruce Howard farm) owned by my grandfather. Where do you fit into this lineage!? I can pull together some material on the Billings family but a really nice study was done by Jim McHugh, who lives in Saskatchewan. He is a descendant of the Billa Billings line. The Brauns lived in the former Billa Billings house. There is a chapter of Jim’s book that is about the Billings lineage, and it includes many of the photos our family has had over the years, as well as others Jim has collected. One of the other most knowledgeable people on the Billings family is Garth McGill, someone who lives near (and should be well known to) the Heritage Museum. Garth was cleaning up a map for the Museum showing the homes along the Chemical Rd, where he still lives. Let’s keep in touch. There is a lot of material now available about the Billings family that the Museum needs to have. My email: robincol@gmail.com (I can get you some photos quickly, including the Billa farmhouse).
Thank you Jim M and Robin C for sharing the family research! I thoroughly enjoyed the way each of shared the facts and your thoughts. Well done! I have been following this Billings line (my name at birth). The mentioning of minced meat pie, Christmas gifts of gloves, reading, farming, building homes, and apples… all great memories of traditions carried on by my grand parents and father, too! I’m hoping to find the parents’ lineage of Lucy Gokey who married Burns Billings (Joseph Gokey and Lucy Haines/Haynes). They were both born in Ontario, Canada, but to whom? Thanks again. Lisa
Jim’s ancestry page shows parents of Joseph Gokey as Joseph-Francois Gautier (sic), born 1770 in Baie St Paul Quebec, so presumably Gokey was an anglicized Gauthier, and he was married to Rose Barney (b. 1775 in France) Parents of Lucy unknown
April 17, 2018 @ 10:31 am
Hi,
we have many photos of Billings family members that you could add to this page (http://www.lynmuseum.ca/2017/11/30/billings-family-photos/). They are of the Abiathar-Anna Billings line. Two other related families that could be added are the Wrights and the Moorheads.
Robin
April 17, 2018 @ 11:47 am
Hi, and thanks for your offer of additional photos. If you would like to send them to us with names we will post them to this page. We are always glad to receive and additions to our local history.– LynMuseum@gmail.com
Thanks, John
April 17, 2018 @ 11:53 am
I dumped a few into a directory here; some may be interested in the group photos in particular.
http://web.ncf.ca/fs766/BillingsHowardMoorheadWright/
I’ll add more later,
Robin
March 6, 2019 @ 12:07 pm
Hi Robin,
I am a descendant of Abiathar-Anna (McCready) Billings. I’m interested in any information that you could share.
(Bruce Howard-Dora Billings)
Stephanie Dunbar
March 8, 2019 @ 7:42 am
Good morning Stephanie,
Unfortunately we have no genealogical information in our archives on the Billings Families. Everything we have we have posted on our website under Family Photos. I will be posting a new just received Family Photo of the “Billings” on our Facebook Site. There are several descendants of various Billings Families who follow our Facebook Page. I would suggest that you keep an eye on our page and when I post this photo withing the next week, you can comment with your questions and ask if anyone has information on the family.
John
March 8, 2019 @ 9:34 am
Stephanie and John,
Well we certainly know some of the Dunbars. Ruth Braun, who married Floyd Dunbar, lived on Chemical Rd where her father Jacob Braun’s farm backed onto the Wright farm, (formerly the Bruce Howard farm) owned by my grandfather. Where do you fit into this lineage!? I can pull together some material on the Billings family but a really nice study was done by Jim McHugh, who lives in Saskatchewan. He is a descendant of the Billa Billings line. The Brauns lived in the former Billa Billings house. There is a chapter of Jim’s book that is about the Billings lineage, and it includes many of the photos our family has had over the years, as well as others Jim has collected. One of the other most knowledgeable people on the Billings family is Garth McGill, someone who lives near (and should be well known to) the Heritage Museum. Garth was cleaning up a map for the Museum showing the homes along the Chemical Rd, where he still lives. Let’s keep in touch. There is a lot of material now available about the Billings family that the Museum needs to have. My email: robincol@gmail.com (I can get you some photos quickly, including the Billa farmhouse).
Robin
March 8, 2019 @ 9:37 am
Actually Jim’s book is linked above. Go to the section on the Billings family:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7JYsC04PGFcdXVwbE1EXzJwamc/view?usp=sharing
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Thank you Jim M and Robin C for sharing the family research! I thoroughly enjoyed the way each of shared the facts and your thoughts. Well done! I have been following this Billings line (my name at birth). The mentioning of minced meat pie, Christmas gifts of gloves, reading, farming, building homes, and apples… all great memories of traditions carried on by my grand parents and father, too! I’m hoping to find the parents’ lineage of Lucy Gokey who married Burns Billings (Joseph Gokey and Lucy Haines/Haynes). They were both born in Ontario, Canada, but to whom? Thanks again. Lisa
April 1, 2023 @ 1:13 am
Jim’s ancestry page shows parents of Joseph Gokey as Joseph-Francois Gautier (sic), born 1770 in Baie St Paul Quebec, so presumably Gokey was an anglicized Gauthier, and he was married to Rose Barney (b. 1775 in France) Parents of Lucy unknown