Philip Puley was the grandfather of my grandmother, Edith Puley. Edith had a sister, Alta, and a brother John Puley. John was in the first world war, an officer, and afterwards worked in the war compensation office in Toronto. He was murdered by a disgruntled customer...I believe he was hit on the head with an axe. His wife was Mary and they had two children, a son and a daughter. The daughter was a singer with Leslie Bell singers, and the son, John, had two girls, one of whom , became Martha , well known as Martha of Martha and the muffins. She had changed her name from Martha Puley to Martha Johnson. That name change upset my grandfather a great deal. My grandmother Edith, married Walter Edward Lionel Llewellyn Stevenson, and had one daughter, Verna, who married Woodrow Junkin in 1938. Questions , if any may be addressed to Shirley Junkin ...
ochrejoe@sympatico.caI am quite familiar with the name Nevison, and others... and also with the Oke name. Pooley is a corruption of the Puley name, and Oak is a corruption of the Oke name.