Name/Title
101 Main Street West- Jane McClatchey residenceDescription
A Real Photo Postcard [ between 1907- c1911]
The message on the reverse reads:
Grimsby October 8th - To Mrs. R.H.De La Mate ? Attercliffe, Ontario.
“This is a photo of Miss McClatchy's house. Miss Sangster is standing and Miss Mc is sitting on a chair in the yard. You will recognize me sitting on the veranda. Don’t I look prime? My room is upstairs, the first window. On Sunday I shall write you a letter. Miss Strang and I are invited up to Mr Smith's, Winona, to tea tomorrow night. Inspector has not yet arrived.” Lena
The individuals in the photo:
Margaret Jane McClatchey - sitting in the yard just inside the gate.
Miss Sangster, standing
Lena Aker, sitting on the veranda was the writer of the postcard, a clerk at the Grimsby Post Office and a border with Jane McClatchey.
Information from "Lives Lived - Jane McClatchey" © Wayne Mullins:
"This house - 101 Main Street West was constructed on the east side of Main Street on one of the “village lots” Colonel Robert Nelles had surveyor George Ball lay out in 1834. While the lot next door to the north was first occupied by the “Seamstress” Mary Ann Nelles Richardson in 1845/46, on which the Grimsby stone residence was built for her, this lot did not sell during Nelles’ lifetime. It remained vacant until acquired by John Soper, a local carpenter. Soper built the home in 1876/77 and sold the residence in June 1877 to Nelson J Teeter for $1,000 - Village Deed #50.
Nelson Teeder was a machinist at the Palmer Grout Agricultural Works. When the Works foundry burnt down in 1879, Teeder helped rebuild the plant and became the Foundry Supervisor, a role he held until the plant closure in 1901. Teeter was elected to Grimsby Village Council in 1889 and served two terms - 1889-1891 and 1897/’98. In May of 1897 Council appointed him Reeve [Mayor] when Reeve Thomas Johnson passed away while in office.
In October 1907, Jane McClatchey, the daughter of Rev. George McClatchey purchased the home from Nelson Teeter for $1,300. She remained here, working as a seamstress, until 1923 when she deeded the home to her cousin, Margaret Jane Bonham. Jane McClatchy died in Grantham in 1928 at age 84.Collection
GHSDimensions
Height
3-1/2 inWidth
5-1/2 in
