Joseph Siddall was born on the 28th of February, 1819 in Barmby Moor, Yorkshire, England. The names of his parents are not yet known.  According to census information, Joseph was a Wesleyan Methodist.

On the 16th of October, 1845 at Islington, Peel, Ontario, Joseph Siddall married Catherine McKay.  Rev. G. R. Sanderson performed the ceremony.  Catherine McKay was from Whitchurch Township, York, Ontario.  She was born on the  26th of May 1824 in Ontario.  Her parents (names not known yet) were from Scotland.  Catherine was also a Methodist.

On the 26th of July 1846, Joseph and Catherine had a son, William Siddall.  He died just before his sixth birthday on 20 July 1852.

By 1871 Joseph and Catherine had young Annie Dorsey living with them, who was going to school, and also Margaret Ralph, who was listed in the census return as a servant.  I suspect that Annie Dorsey was their neice, otherwise I cannot explain why she would be living with them when her brother and sister were still living with her father Robert Dorsey and his second wife Susannah just a few houses away.  Catherine McKay could have been the sister of Annie's dead mother Margaret McKay Dorsey.  Annie must have lived much of her life with the Siddalls because in her own bible she listed them as her 'parents' instead of Robert and Margaret Dorsey.  Annie also listed Margaret Ralph as the Siddalls "child"... so Margaret must have been more than just a servant to the family.

Joseph SIDDALL was a very prominent member of the community.  He owned
SIDDALL's Waggon Shop in the tiny hamlet of Sand Hill, which appears on a
famous map of Peel County.  Siddall's Waggon Shop was on the southeast corner of what is now Burnhamthorpe and Dixie Roads.  Robert DORSEY always wrote down his occupation in censuses and County Directories as a "waggon maker", but never had a shop.  Given the small size of Sand Hill (which later became Burnhamthorpe), I suspect he worked with Joseph SIDDALL in his waggon shop.  And especially given the fact that Joseph SIDDALL was raising his daughter, I think they were business partners/brothers-in-law.  Joseph SIDDALL's name appears on the deed which transferred the ownership of the Sand Hill cemetery (southwest corner of Burnhamthorpe and Dixie Rds) over to the adjoining Methodist church.  A new church was built across the street in 1875, which still stands today in 1998 although it is presently abandoned and for sale.

Joseph Siddall died on the 12th of January, 1891 in Burnhamthorpe, Peel, Ontario, Canada of heart failure.

In the 1901 census Catherine Siddall was living alone as a widow.
 
Catherine died on the 30th of January, 1909.  She and her husband are buried in the Burnhamthorpe Primitive Methodist Cemetery in the same plot as their "daughter" Annie Dorsey McKay and her husband William McKay.  Later, in 1915, Annie's young daughter Myrtle was buried in the same plot.  In 1932, Annie's husband William was also be buried in the same plot.