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Hello, again. When looking for different cemetery records in the Bowmanville area, I found that Thomas Trewin & his wife Ann Kinsman are buried in "Bowmanville Cemetery Section B", with Thomas Trewin Died May 8, 1896, age 74, and Ann Kinsman died May 19, 1898, age 69.  As far as I know, this cemetery still exists. I have not been to it yet. I am looking for Slemons, but none until 20th century can I find. However, I found a photograph of these Trewins' stone, and the side of the same stone is a Joseph James Trewin, 1864-1923, and wife Mary Fobbes 1863-1903, and these must be your family, Gr-uncle & wife, I figure. Could the elder Thomas Trewin be at same site, at an unreadable stone?

Hello, I was born Susan Bishop & my mother was a Slemon, her father Leo Rex Slemon (known as Rex), born 1903 in Ottawa, his father Edward Trewin Slemon, 3rd of 4 sons of: William Slemon (son of Richard Sleeman) and Joanna nee Trewin. Thank you for confirming that ancestry of Joanna (Trewin) Slemon; I thought I had it but was not sure. I've been on Ancestry.ca about a year; I have found the 1861, 1871, and 1881 censuses for the Slemon's, but it was spelt "Slimon" in 1861, Slemen in 1871, & settled to Slemon in 1881. I mention this because there was a William Trewin age 13 living with them in 1861 (? A cousin of Joanna?, I thought possibly an orphan). There was A dentist, born a few years earlier than my grandfather "Dr. Garnet Trewin", we called him uncle, but probably a cousin of my grandfather. That connection, & the identity of young William on the census are my dilemmas.  Your search for Trewins may be also hampered by the census-takers' spelling, handwriting, and transcription of such, being an unusual name, I have a marriage record where Trewin was taken for "Lewin", so try that.