After being widowed with two young boys, Mary Anne Whelan remarried quickly, on September 26, 1922, to Frederick Samuel Gardiner.
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Category: Great-Grandparents
Mystery Solved – Mary Ann Whelan died October 11, 1957
It took a long, slow troll of the Hamilton Spectator, but I was able to locate the full obituary for…
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When Did Mary Ann Whelan Die?
I found amongst my grandmother's photo collection the obituary for her mother. I knew she died in 1957 (as I've…
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Arthur Bird Griffin and Lily Moore
Just a week after enlisting, Arthur Bird Griffin married Lily Moore on September 8, 1915, at St. Luke’s Church in Hamilton, Ontario.
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George Leonard Archibald “Nipper” McPhail and Alice Elizabeth Eagan
When George Leonard Archibald McPhail (known as Leonard or "Nipper") was born on February 11, 1898, in Soulanges, Quebec, his father,…
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William Alfred Webb and Louie Shepherd
William Alfred Webb married Louie Shepherd on December 31, 1904, in Bradford, Lancashire, England. They had five children, but only two survived to adulthood.
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