John Griffin and Sarah Jane Goodland
2020-11-04
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
Sister Mary Bernadette (Isabella Theresa McPhail)
2020-10-14
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
Thomas Longworth and Margaret Moir
2020-10-01
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 and Mary Elizabeth Derbyshire and Mary Ann Pearl Condon
2020-09-10
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 and Dorothy Wilkes
2020-08-23
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
Eleanor Webb and Her “Husbands”
2020-07-30
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
Who is Huff Hobbs?
2020-05-04
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
75th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Forces, 11th Brigade
2019-11-08
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 and Margaret Josephine Aldcroft
2019-03-27
Henry Matthew Ireson emigrated from England and married Margaret Josephine Aldcroft on November 28, 1908, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.Continue Reading
World War I: May, 1917, France
2018-11-18
I found the photo above in one of my grandmother’s photo albums. I hadn’t removed it—but when I did, what a find. The back had a list of all of the people in the picture and where they were from. I believe the pic dates to May 24th, 1917, onlyContinue Reading