Did Matthew Ireson Die and Leave His Widow and Children Destitute?
Did Matthew Ireson leave his family in England and start a new life in Canada? The records point to a surprising connection with a St. Catharines mail carrier.
Did Matthew Ireson leave his family in England and start a new life in Canada? The records point to a surprising connection with a St. Catharines mail carrier.
While researching the death of my 2x great uncle, I found a cluster of deaths related to a particular hotel in Seattle. So, I dug deeper.
Sarah Gardiner’s prospects were bright. Although she didn’t marry, she trained to be a schoolmistress. Sadly, her life was tragically interrupted after a bike ride in September 1902.
When I originally researched my second great-grandparents William Richard and Elizabeth Webb, I noted an issue on the 1901 England Census. The family wasn’t together.
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.
Records suggest that Gertrude Webb was blind and attended Institute for Blind Welfare and School for the Partially Sighted in Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire.