| Husband: | William von Moll Berczy (1744-1813) | |
| Wife: | Jeanne-Charlotte Allamand (1760-1839) | |
| Children: | Charles Albert Berczy (1794-1858) | |
| Marriage | 1 Nov 1785 | |
| Name: | William von Moll Berczy | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1744 | Wallerstein, Germany |
| Death | 5 Feb 1813 (age 68-69) | New York City |
| Name: | Jeanne-Charlotte Allamand | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 16 Apr 1760 | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Death | 18 Sep 1839 (age 79) | Sainte-Mélanie, Lower Canada |
| Name: | Charles Albert Berczy | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Ann Eliza Finch ( - ) | |
| Birth | 22 Aug 1794 | Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada |
| Occupation | 1846 (age 51-52) | -; Postmaster, York County, Ontario |
| Death | 9 Jun 1858 (age 63) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Johann Albrecht Ulrich Moll, better known as William Berczy, was born in Wallerstein, Germany c.1744, the son of a prominent diplomat. He was an adventurer in his youth and travelled throughout Europe. More than once this adventurous spirit got him into trouble. He once found himself in a situation where he was captured and held hostage by a band of brigands. His personality so impressed his captors that they gave him the nickname “Berczy”, meaning “Little Albert”, a name that stayed with him for the rest of his life.
Berczy was an accomplished artist, an architect, and a writer. He had studied art in Vienna and made a living painting miniature portraits of people. Berczy was able to turn to his artistic talent for financial support in difficult times in his life. It was during these hard times that he created some of his most celebrated works of art. While in Europe he painted, among many others, King George III, the Battle of Trafalgar, and Admiral Horatio Nelson. In Canada he painted portraits of many prominent people.
In 1791 Berczy was in London when he heard of plans to purchase 1,250,000 acres of land in New York State. This land had belonged to the people of the Six Nations Confederacy who had left the United States for Upper Canada (Ontario) after the American Revolution (1775-1783). Berczy arranged to bring some 200 settlers from Germany to the new settlement, but when they discovered that they would be only tenant farmers on the New York State lands, Berczy led his settlers further north to Upper Canad
Today William Moll Berczy is recognised as a co-founder of the city of Toronto. He was commissioned by John Graves Simcoe to build Yonge Street - Toronto's main street and the "longest street in the world" - but failed to finish it; he left Toronto in 1804 and settled in Montreal. Toronto's Berczy Park is named for him, and there is also a street, Moll-Berczy-Strasse, named for him in Wallerstein, Bavaria.
Source: http://www.city.markham.on.ca/mpl/history/williamberczy.htm
See also Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36383&query=Berczy