Frederick Samuel Gardiner and Mary Anne Whelan (and Clayton Loucks)
After being widowed with two young boys, Mary Anne Whelan remarried quickly, on September 26, 1922, to Frederick Samuel Gardiner.
After being widowed with two young boys, Mary Anne Whelan remarried quickly, on September 26, 1922, to Frederick Samuel Gardiner.
Catharine married Ralph Horatio Sherwood on July 25, 1910 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Their story is marked by tragedy.
Sarah Gardiner’s prospects were bright. Although she didn’t marry, she trained to be a schoolmistress. Sadly, her life was tragically interrupted after a bike ride in September 1902.
Samuel Gardiner Jr. married Catharine Jones on December 20, 1854, in Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, Wales. They had 12 children in the next 15 years.
Frances Dorothea Bowen married William Guy “Red” Hill on June 12, 1935 in Tonawanda, New York. She was dead less than three months later.
Robert Martin Gardiner emigrated from England to Canada where he married Laura Eleanor Bovaird on May 18, 1892.
It took a long, slow troll of the Hamilton Spectator, but I was able to locate the full obituary for my great-grandmother, Mary Ann Whelan,
I found amongst my grandmother’s photo collection the obituary for her mother. I knew she died in 1957 (as I’ve got a record of the grave site), but wasn’t clear on the actual date.
Leading Aircraftman Leonard Joseph Gray was killed in a tragic, preventable accident that led to changes in the way night flying is conducted in the military.
On June 30, 1922, 34-year-old Hilda Mary Gardiner married 24-year-old Frederick Geroge Bowen in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Phyllis Winnifred Gardiner was born on December 14, 1897, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She had one son.
My great-great-grandparents, Samuel Gardiner and Teresa Stevens, likely met on the Circassian when emigrated with family members to Canada. They were married six years later.