James Elias Durham

     James Elias Durham was born in 1846 at Grantham Twp., Lincoln Co., Ontario, Canada. He and Mary Jane Hodgkinson, daughter of Eleazer Alexander Hodgkinson and Elizabeth Jane Wilson, were married by John W. Thorne on Friday, 24 May 1872 at St. Catherines, Lincoln Co., Ontario, Canada. She was 26, born and living in Grantham, spinster, Episcopal. He was 24, living in Petrolia, born Grantham, bachelor, overseer, Episcopal. Sidney Yates Secord and Mary Catherine Durham witnessed the marriage.