Isabella Theresa McPhail left Montreal for the Bethany Convent in St. Paul, Minnesota, becoming a postulant and eventually taking the name Sister Mary Bernadette.Continue Reading
After being discharged from the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, John James Joseph “Jack” McPhail married Annie George. The couple had five children together.Continue Reading
John Griffin married Sarah Jane Goodland on March 24, 1884, in the parish church of St. Paul in Kewstoke, Somerset, England. They had five sons and one daughter.Continue Reading
Thomas Longworth married Margaret Moir on July 4, 1885, at St. James’ Church in Chorley, Lancashire, England. They had three children.Continue Reading
Elijah Loxham Longworth married Mary Elizabeth Derbyshire in 1909 at St. Peter’s Church in Chorley and then moved to Canada, without her.Continue Reading
John Harold Griffin left his family in England and emigrated to New Zealand. After a stint in the military, he married Dorothy Wilkes and had a family.Continue Reading
My great-aunt Eleanor Webb was a bit of an outlier – I wasn’t even aware she existed until I found her marriage record in Ontario.Continue Reading
I’ve been attempting to identify several men who were identified by their nicknames in a World War I era photo that features my great-grandfather, including “Huff” Hobbs.Continue Reading
I found this fantastic postcard amongst my grandmother’s photo albums. My great grandfather, Arthur Bird Griffin is on the left behind the big guy in the front.Continue Reading
Henry Matthew Ireson emigrated from England and married Margaret Josephine Aldcroft on November 28, 1908, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.Continue Reading
