Archibald James Jacob McPhail married Cecelia Garrow on October 10, 1892, at Cathédrale du Précieux-Sang in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada (the church no longer stands).Continue Reading
After being widowed with two young boys, Mary Anne Whelan remarried quickly, on September 26, 1922, to Frederick Samuel Gardiner.Continue Reading
George Edward Webb and his wife Dorothy Griffin had two children and settled at 57 Houghton Avenue North, Hamilton.Continue Reading
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
As a Canadian, I haven’t traveled extensively in the US. Sure, I’ve done Disney and made a few trips down to NYC (and I got married in Central Park), but until the last couple of years, I hadn’t seen much of the US. I was lucky this year to spendContinue Reading
When Joanna (“Annie”) Longworth was born in 1878 in Adlington, Lancashire, England, her father, John Longworth (1832-1880), was 46, and her mother, Alice (née Loxham) (1839-1891), was 39. She had seven sisters and four brothers. She married Hugh Blackledge Sanderson on July 19, 1905, at St. James Church in Chorley,Continue Reading
Just a week after enlisting, Arthur Bird Griffin married Lily Moore on September 8, 1915, at St. Luke’s Church in Hamilton, Ontario.Continue Reading
Selina Charlotte Webb married Edwin Henry Dyke on December 12, 1865 at St. John Church in Chester, Cheshire, England. They had ten children.Continue Reading
James Edward Webb married Sarah Kathleen Payne on January 1, 1910, in Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. They had four children.Continue Reading
If she’d lived this long, my grandmother, Dorothy Irene Griffin would have been 100 years old today. I’ve spent the past couple of days going through her old albums and thought I’d share some pics. Gran was born while my grandfather, Arthur Bird Griffin was away at the great warContinue Reading
