Birth: 10 December 1891 Woolwich, Conestogo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Father: Benjamin Thomas Clayfield 1864-1944
Mother: Caroline Struck 1866-1913
Marriage: November 1917 Hambledon, Surrey, UK
Wife: Dorothy May Roe 1898-1965
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Mary Ethel Robinson [Leffler] 1902-1979
Death: 6 October 1981 Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Buried: # K.2.10, Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
By Dorothy
Donald Arthur Clayfield 1920-1993
John (Jack) Clayfield 1921-2011
Raymond Thomas Clayfield 1924-a2020
Entry in the Ancestry Ontario, Canada Births, 1858-1913 for Benjamin Clayfield on 10 December 1891 in Woolwich, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, parents Thomas Clayfield, an engineer, and Caroline Strack, informant Thomas Clayfield of Conestogo on 14 January 1892.
In the 1901 census as Benjmin G Clayfield aged 9, born 10 December 1891, and living with his parents (Thomas born in England and Carlina born in Canada), brother (Clarens) and two sisters (Anna J and Lizzie C) in Woolwich, Waterloo, Ontario.
In the 1911 census as Benjamin Clayfield aged 19, born in Ontario, single, employment illegible, and living with Alexander Farbes (aged 37, single, born in Ontario) and his widowed mother (Mary Ann Farbes aged 62 and widowed) in Woolwich, Conestogo, Waterloo, Ontario.
Entry in Ancestry Canada, WWI CEF Personnel Files, 1914-1918 for Benjamin Albert Clayfield 602119 born 10 December 1892 (sic) in Conestogo, Waterloo, Ontario, father Thos Clayfield, a carpenter, single, had served in 108 Regt 6 months, attested 16 February 1912 at Guelph, aged 23 years 2 months, height 5 ft 5in, girth 36+4 in, ruddy complexion, blue eyes, dark brown hair, a scar on calf of right leg and mole on right shoulder blade, arrived in England 1 November 1915 on SS California, transfered to 17th Res Battn Shorncliffe 15 March 1916, served in France in 7th Bttn 10 August 1916, granted permission to marry 10 November 1917, from 1 December 1917 his $20 pay was sent to Dorothy M Clayfield of Rose Villa, New Villa, Sicklemere, Haslemere, Surrey, granted 14 days leave 21 February 1919, posted to Seaford 10 March 1919 for return to Canada with dependents, discharged 25 May 1919, address 121 Benton Street, Waterloo, Ontario.
Marriage of Benjamin A Clayfield and Dorothy M Roe in FreeBMD in October-December 1917 in Hambledon (2a 442).
In the 1921 census as Bengiman (sic) Clayfield aged 29, born in Ontario, father born in England, mother in Ontario, a fire (in the index, could be wire) worker income 1200, and living with his wife (Dorathy) and son (Donald) in a single storey brick rented house (24) in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario.
Two entries in Ancestry Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980 for Benjamin Clayfield, a rubber worker, address 37 Ezra Avenue, Waterloo, Ontario in 1935, other occupant his wife, and a miller, address 37 Ezra Avenue, Waterloo, Ontario in 1957, other occupant Mrs Dorothy Clayfield (wife?) in 1957.
His wife died in Hartsville, Darlington, South Carolina on their return from vacation in Florida on 5 March 1965 as a result of a traffic accident in which he was injured.
Entry in Ancestry Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980 for Benjamin Clayfield retired, address 37 Ezra Avenue, Waterloo, Ontario in 1972, other occupant Mrs Ethel Clayfield (wife?) and another for Ben Clayfield retired, address 7 Ezra Avenue, Waterloo, Ontario in 1974, other occupant Mrs Ethel Clayfield (wife?).
His wife died in Waterloo on 4 April 1979.
Entry in Find A Grave for Benjamin Albert Clayfield born 10 December 1891 in Conestogo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, parents Thomas and Caroline Clayfield, his wife Dorothy Mae Clayfield, his son Donald Arthur Clayfield, his death on 6 October 1981 in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and burial in Section # K.2.10, Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. "Clayfield/In Memory of/Benjamin A Clayfield/1891-1981/And Beloved Wife/Dorothy Roe/1898-1965". Ben Clayfield was the 4th eldest of 9 children of Thomas Clayfield & Caroline Struck. He was born in Conestoga, Woolwich Township, Ontario, Canada in 1891. Birth Registrar #033823. He served his Country, Canada in WW1 during 1914-1918. He married Dorothy Mae Roe in Hambledon, Yorkshire West in England in 1917. After the war they moved back to Kitchener in Ontario, Canada and he sired 3 children. He passed away in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada in his 89th year.
Three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Benjamin Albert Clayfield born in Waterloo, Ontario on 10 December 1892, two adding his parents as Thomas Clayfield and Carole Struck, his marriage to Dorothy Mae Roe in Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire West Riding in two, Hambledon, Surrey in one in December 1917, his two sons, his marriage to Mary Ethel Robinson in one, and his death in Kitchener, Ontario on 6 October 1981.
Entry in Waterloo Region Generations for Albert Benjamin Clayfield born 10 December 1891 in Conestogo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, parents Bejamin Thomas Clayfield and Caroline Struck, in WW1, 34th Battalion, Service #602119 and WW1, Private, 108th Regiment / 34th Battalion, his marriage to Dorothy May Roe in Yorkshire in 1917, a son Donald A, and his death on 6 October 1981 and burial in Mount Hope Cemetery, Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Entry in The Murrays of Ontario, Canada for Albert Benjamin Clayfield born 1891 in Conestoga, Ontario, parents Thomas Clayfield and Caroline Struck, his marriage to Dorothy Mae Roe, and to Mary Ethel Seffler, his three children by Dorothy (Raymond, Donald A and Jack), and his death in 1981. Includes:
Benjamin Albert Clayfield was the husband of Dorothy May Roe, great grandneice of Ellen Kate Luff, wife of Frederick Baker, my first cousin twice removed.
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