John Burnside MCCREA

1874 - 1950  (75 years)

• Name	John Burnside MCCREA
  Nickname	Jack
  Birth	9 Oct 1874	Hastings Co, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  _UID	8DA4538CB7484FC9ADC228667309D0178727
  Death	1950	Thessalon, Algoma, Ontario, Canada
  Burial	Maple Ridge Cemetery, Thessalon, Algoma, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I196	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2025

  
  

  Father	William Henry MCCREA,   b. 8 Jan 1843, Tawnawanny, Co Fermanagh, Ireland d. 4 Jul 1916, Thessalon Township, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Fannie BURNSIDE,   b. 17 Jan 1849, Sodom, Hungerford Twp., Hastings County, Ontario, Canada d. 13 Dec 1907, Thessalon Twp, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	17 Apr 1872	Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F55	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rosetta GAVIN,   b. 2 Oct 1884, Muskoka District, Ontario, Canada d. 15 Mar 1929, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada (Age 44 years)
  Marriage	30 Jun 1909	Bracebridge, Muskoka District
  Children	1. Albert Edward (Ted) MCCREA,   b. 17 Sep 1910, Thessalon, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada d. 1988 (Age 77 years)   2. Norma Margaret Frances MCCREA,   b. 1 Apr 1918, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada d. 16 May 2001, Espanola, Ontario, Canada (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F66	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2014

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Jack McCrea Cropped from group photo
  		Original McCrea Home Livingston Creek. Thessalon, Algoma, Ontario, Canada
  		Jack McCrea with his daughter, Norma Ancestry - carson189 on 7/2/2017.
  		Children of William Henry & Fannie (Burnside) McCrea - c1895 Names on Photo
  		Jack McCrea Photo has been 'colourized'

  
  

• Notes

  Known as 'Jack'. He was born in Madoc Twp in 1874, the eldest of William and Fanny McCrea’s five sons, and one year younger than their eldest daughter Lizzie. In 1879 the McCrea family moved north to the Algoma District, arriving at Bruce Mines with Lizzie, Jack and two more daughters, Lottie and Mary. The following year they moved to Thessalon Township, to homestead at Livingstone Creek. Jack was interviewed years later about homesteading and he remembered: “we walked from Bruce Mines to Maple Ridge and slept at night in the shelter of a big root. Then we built a shanty. We got a horse and brought it inside at night for shelter. During the night, the horse rolled over and knocked the bunk bed down. Our first cow was sent from Kincardine by a cousin (Fannie’s nephew?). At night, we tethered it out and in the morning it was found dead. Its horn was caught under a root.”