Samuel Bird Griffin and Jane Wallis
After swearing a marriage bond on December 30, 1858, Samuel Bird Griffin, a Yeoman and bachelor aged 21 years, married Jane Wallis, a spinster aged 21 years, on January 4, 1859.
After swearing a marriage bond on December 30, 1858, Samuel Bird Griffin, a Yeoman and bachelor aged 21 years, married Jane Wallis, a spinster aged 21 years, on January 4, 1859.
When James Robert Squires was born on March 1, 1872, in Chester, Cheshire, England, his mother, Sarah (nee Webb) (1842-1915), was 30. I’m not sure what happened to him…
Daniel Whelan married Bridget Phillips on August 10, 1888, in at St. Carthagh’s Roman Catholic Church in Tweed, Hungerford, Ontario.
Post updated November 29, 2024, to include further details about the couple’s family and correct Cecelia’s death date. When Cecelia Agatha McPhail was born on
Alexander McPhail, born in 1865 in Ontario, led a nomadic life as a laborer in Canada and Seattle. His life ended in a tragic accident in 1933.
Alice Webb married Charles Edmund Truscott on June 28, 1911, in Wentworth, Ontario, Canada when she was 20 years old. The couple had no children.
Just a week after enlisting, Arthur Bird Griffin married Lily Moore on September 8, 1915, at St. Luke’s Church in Hamilton, Ontario.
After being widowed with two young boys, Mary Anne Whelan remarried quickly, on September 26, 1922, to Frederick Samuel Gardiner.
Joseph Eagan married Mary Ellen Duffield on February 4, 1902. They had six children, moving from Providence, Rhode Island, and settling in Hamilton, Ontario.
Both of John Trainor’s wives were taken by mental illness – one before her time, and one who suffered for a very long time.
Michael Eagan married Catherine Trainor four years after emigrating to Rhode Island. The couple had seven children but only two survived to adulthood.
Isabella Theresa McPhail left Montreal for the Bethany Convent in St. Paul, Minnesota, becoming a postulant and eventually taking the name Sister Mary Bernadette.