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- Birth Registration 022976 Archives of Ontario microfilm MS929 Reel 21. His funeral card said born November 1, 1877. Was born on Lot 36, Concession 4, Minto Township. Never married. In 1898 was living in Manitoba when his mother died. Served overseas during WW1. Death Registration 034784 Archives of Ontario microfilm MS935 Reel 260. Suffered from Myocardial weakness for 8 months but died immediately from heart failure under the care of Dr. H.B. Coleman. (Sharon Mulder's notes from Mabel Kriter, Robert died from a heart attack in a horse stall). (Minto Memories - Families, Facts and Fable, 1988 reported Robert died from a kick by a horse). Robert took over the Thomson homestead, Lot 36 & 37, Concession 4, Minto Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada, along with his sisters Elizabeth and Mary, when their father died. Funeral service was held from the Thomson home. Buried beside his parents in Plot CC-1-37F in Harriston Cemetery.
A "home boy" from an orphanage in England, Leslie Kleiser, came to live at the Thomson farm. They educated him and he worked on the farm until Robert died. The last Mabel Kriter heard of him, he had a small fruit and vegetable farm in Bay of Quinte area, Ontario. (Francis Marion (Bridge) Clark remembers that Mary Thomson was responsible for Leslie and that Leslie's farm may have been at Brighton, Northumberland County which is in the Bay of Quinte area).
Leslie was 10 when he came to Canada in 1912 as part of Dr. Bernardo's program. He sailed from Liverpool 14 June 1912 on the S.S. Tunisian and arrived in Quebec City 23 June 1912, destination Toronto. (from Archives Canada database). Leslie received a bequeath from Robert's Will.
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1875 - 1919 (43 years)
