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Alan Cock was born at Stratford in east London in 1926. After graduating in Zoology at Cambridge University in 1947, he worked for a decade as research assistant to Michael Pease at the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) Poultry Genetics Unit, Cambridge. Michael Pease had been the assistant of Reginald Punnett who, prior to becoming the first Professor of Genetics at Cambridge in 1912, had been the assistant of William Bateson. Thus, Cock could claim the latter as his scientific great-grandparent. The Pease laboratory was still using Bateson’s shorthand system for recording the characters of newly hatched chicks, so Cock was well prepared to analyze the original Bateson–Punnett notebooks held at the Cambridge Department of Genetics.

Cock’s switch to biohistory followed a distinguished scientific career. In 1957 he moved from Cambridge to the Poultry Research Centre, Edinburgh, where he obtained a doctorate in Genetics. In 1964 he joined Professor Leslie Brent as Lecturer in the Department of Zoology (later Biology) at the University of Southampton. Of undoubted interest to Brent, a transplantation immunologist (Brent 1997), would have been Cock’s collaboration with Morten Simonsen, which provided a fundamental understanding of the graft-versus-host reaction.

Around 1970 he made a decisive career shift from genetics to biohistory with the aim of writing a definitive Bateson biography. To this end, he repatriated the William Bateson papers from the USA in 1975 and began their curation and cataloguing. In the course of this work he corresponded with many leading mid- to late-20th century scientists and historians. Yet, while he wrote several important papers and made a start on the biography, dogged by illness (bipolar depression and a pituitary tumor) his aim was not achieved. He passed away in 2005.

To date, little is known about the Code family aside from the knowledge that they resided in Smith Falls, Ontario at the end of the 19th century. Samuel Barber and T.F. Code both, attended the University of Toronto's School of Practical Science to study civil engineering. Samuel Barber Code graduated from the program in 1907. There is no further mention of T.F. Code. The material attributed to Thomas Singleton contains deeds of land and a record of financial transactions both of which suggest he was a wealthy resident of Smith Falls. It is assumed Samuel Barber Code and T.F. Code were related, but from the existing material no connection has been made to Thomas Singleton.

The family business of Freedman Company Limited was originally founded in 1887 as S. Freedman Sons and Co. Ltd. It was taken over in 1906 by Lyon Cohen, a Montreal industrialist, who in 1913 also took over the business of Friedman Bros. which had been an early pioneer in the men's clothing industry in Canada. In 1937 Mr. Lyon Cohen died and Mr. Horace Cohen, his son, became the Managing Director. From 1941 to 1947 Horace Cohen served as Federal Administrator of Fine Clothing for the Canadian Government during which time the company, in addition to their regular business, became the largest manufacturer of officers' uniforms in Canada. The company was reorganized and officially incorporated as a joint stock company in 1948, with Mr. Horace R. Cohen, and Mr. Moe Levitt acquiring control. In 1952 David D. Cohen, son of Horace, joined the company and was appointed Director in 1962, with particular responsibility for advertising, styling and presentation of the company's products.

In 1955 the company moved to its own building at 5300 Molson Street which served as its head office housing all offices, showrooms and manufacturing facilities. Freedman employed over 650 people and had a capacity of over 3,500 garments at its production height. It was an Amalgamated Clothing (and Textile) Workers of America shop for over 50 years and the recipient of the only citation ever given by the Retail Clothing Merchants Association of Canada for business integrity.

In the 1960's Freedman broadened its market to include Great Britain and the United States. The British market was expanded for several years until a change in the tariff act and devaluation of the pound caused it to dwindle. The American market continued to exand. Freedman clothing was sold through specialty and individual fine men's wear stores and the better clothing divisions of major department stores, such as Eatons and Simpsons, throughout Canada as well as to certain select accounts in the United States.

The Freedman Company Limited dissolved in 1982.

Allan Justus Cohoe (1911-2007), a banker and historical researcher, was born in Burgessville, Ontario on 31 October 1911. He began working with the Royal Bank of Canada in 1929 in Burgessville, and served in 15 different posts, including two as branch manager. In May 1942, he signed up as an Ordnance Auditor with the Canadian Army. He later tranferred to the Canadian Intelligence Corps and served with the 5th Armored Division in Britain, Italy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands until he was discharged in January 1946. He received the B.L. Montgomery Merit Award in 1946. He became a Mason in 1949 at North Bay Lodge No. 617, and continued with affiliations and memberships with various Lodges throughout Ontario. He has also served at various times as President of the Kingston Historical Society, Frontenac Historic Foundation, and Ontario Motor League (Eastern) Ltd., Kingston Day Care Inc.; Director and Treasurer of the Victorian Order of Nurses (Kingston); Treasurer of the Frontenac County Historic Committee; Case Counsellor with the Federal Business Development Bank; and Chairman of the St. Lawrence College Board of Governors.

Allan married Margaret (Peggy) Redclift in Glasgow, Scotland in 1945.

The youngest daughter of the Rev. J.E. James and Selina W. Redclift, Margaret M. (Peggy) Cohoe was born in Stirling, South Australia. The daughter of a Congregationalist minister, she came to Canada in 1947, via Great Britain. She had won a scholarhip to the Bromley Art School in 1938, but with the commencement of hostilities she earned a Primary Specialist Certificate at the University of London instead. During the Second World War she held teaching positions in both England and Scotland. As a teacher, she taught in many fields, including early childhood education, and was responsible for establishing the first nursery schools in North Bay and Hamilton Mountain. On moving to Kingston, Peggy Cohoe became the only instructor qualified to teach early childhood education at St. Lawrence College and, in 1998, was awarded an Honourary diploma in recognition of her services there. In Kingston, Mrs. Cohoe was an active member of both the Kingston Historical Society and the Kingston Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. Peggy Cohoe died, in Kingston, 25 February 2002.