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Thanks for your help, I'll be sure to follow up on the Runnalls.

Mary Trayes

1851 Census Canada West Northumberland County District Hamilton surname written Ronalds
1861 Census Canada West Northumberland County District Hamilton surname Runnalls
1871 Census Canada Ontario Northumberland West Haldimand surname Runnalls
1881 Census Canada Ontario Northumberland West Haldimand surname Reynolds
1887 death July 1 Haldimand

her children

Elizabeth 1835 b St.Breward
Jane 1838 b St. Breward
John 1841 b St. Breward d Cobourg 11 Feb 1899 informant George Lumley
William 1845 b WC (Canada West) d 1918
Ellen 1846 b Cobourg Canada West m Joseph McMurray (my 2nd grgndfather) 18 Oct 1870 Grafton Ont.
                  her marriage records lists John and Mary Reynolds as parents, witnesses are Mary Jane
                  McMurray (Joseph's sister or sister in law) and Thomas Bell (Joseph's brothers Arthur and
                  James marry Bell sisters Elizabeth and Mary Jane) d 24 December 1906 Haldimand Township
Ann 1848 b WC m Erastus Barrett 11 July 1873 witnesses Ester Eddy, (Joseph McMurray's sister Ellen
                  marries Eli Eddy), Frederick Runnalls - she is listed as Annie, d 22 March 1937 name on
                  death record and headstone is Mary Ann parents John Runnalls, Mary Trays  informant
                  daughter Mrs. D Church
Frederick 1851 b WC
Matilda 1855 b Cobourg Canada West m Thomas Coffey 10 July 1889 residence listed as Vernonville
                    (the McMurrays settled in Vernonville) witness Matilda Lumley - Matilda's daughter Mary
                     marries Gordon McDonald the brother of Ellen's son Frederick's wife - great grandpa Fred's
                     cousin married his brother in law - boatload of names tying families together on that
                     record)
Lucinda 1858 b WC 20 May, m Peter Louks of Vernonville Dec 1999 (when she was 41), married in
                      Brighton Township of Hamilton, d 23 January 1937 Dorset, Haliburton parents listed as
                      John Runnalls Mary Trays informant neice DW Church, burial Paint Lake Cemetery
 
Mary is buried in St. George's Anglican Church Cemetery in Grafton (along Lake Ontario, just east of Cobourg, west of Colborne and Brighton, south of Vernonville). It is one of the oldest monuments in the cemetery and is directly behind the church. The headstone is for John Runnalls and wife Mary. Beside this monument is one for her sons John and William and beside that Thomas Coffey and Matilda.

I have found the information for Ellen's siblings incidentally as I researched her. I will now go back and see what else I can find - perhaps it will lead to some Runnalls/Hoskins clues.

Looking through the Trease website has helped me tremendously. It has given me incite on how I might look for information in other sources (besides census, birth, death records), pay more attention to witnesses, informants and such and track related and neighbor families more thoroughly. (Although finding Eddys, McMurrays and Broomfields living side by side for 4 decades and intermarrying had me thinking along those lines I particularly liked reading the reasoning/proofs for assumptions - I'm going to start listing the same in my notes. I find when I go back I often forget why I listed what I did and where I got the proofs and have to take the time to search my notes and line it all back up again before I go forward.
 
I have photos of the monuments in St. George's Cemetery, but don't know how to share them here.
I will start a Runnalls thread now that I know a little more about how to navigate here.

Thanks again for all your help. I hope I have helped to fill a small space in your research. We are all very proud here to have roots in Cornwall and have a connection to the Trayes family.

For John Runnalls
From transcribed list of births/baptisms from St. Brewards Parish Clerk Office - Feb. 13, 1809 mother Jane, father John
1841 Cornwall age 30
1851 (which was actually taken in January of 1852) Northumberland, Canada West age 42
1861 Northumberland, Canada West age 51
1871 Northumberland County Ontario age 64
Death record   January 10, 1873  age 67     headstone January 10, 1873  age 68

The Canadian records are definitely all the same family - other family records confirm information and several family members are buried together.

I found a St. Breward record for John Runnalls b 1804 mother Ann, but he may have died in St. Breward at age 80 in 1884.
I found a St. Breward record for John Runnalls b 1811 parents Robert and Elizabeth but he appears to have died at age 4 in 1815.
I found a St. Breward record for John Runnalls b 1809 - I'm thinking maybe he is the one I want. It seems it might fit the 1841 - 61 Census records .... he seems to have added years toward the end of his life 
The added years toward the end of his life have made me hesitant to follow the 1809 John.

Thanks for your response, I appreciate any advice you could give me on following the St. Breward Runnalls.