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.
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.
Michael Eagan married Catherine Trainor four years after emigrating to Rhode Island. The couple had seven children but only two survived to adulthood.
William Alfred Webb married Louie Shepherd on December 31, 1904, in Bradford, Lancashire, England. They had five children, but only two survived to adulthood.
John Duffield was a dairyman who married Margaret McGaw on March 6, 1857, in Templepatrick, Antrim, Northern Ireland. They had three (known) children.
Edward Dutton (1824-1884) married Mary (née Ackerley) on November 15, 1846, in St. Elphin’s Church in Warrington, England.
I thought I’d be stuck in Rhode Island and never able to trace my Duffield family back to Ireland. With just one record, I was able to break through that brick wall.
Samuel and Lizzie Duffield left their native Ireland with their young family for the United States, landing in Providence, Rhode Island.