Grannies

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  1. 2. Galway Ireland is the ancestral home. Several boys have this family name as their first name.
  2. 4. One of two young sisters escaping the Irish famine by coffin ship to Quebec. Catherine married 1st generation William Edwards of Quebec. Her sister married a cigar salesman and moved to USA
  3. 6. W. H. Gaulbert famously invented the flesh-toned stained glass colour. He was also an architect, furniture designer and repaired ancient cathedral windows.
  4. 8. The French Protestant Huguenots fled to Charleston, South Carolina, USA to escape the slaughter by the Catholics. They were rice plantation owners. 100 years later after the Civil war they immigrated to England. One ancestor invented the Newbank Nail and owned a foundry that also funded a school for employee's children. Vardie immigrated to Canada to marry JFB O'Sullivan. She raised her daughters in the jungle of South America, and boarding school in England during WWII.
  5. 10. Maria Hope was from a prominent Welsh family. She married Lucas Cordes and raised her family in England.
  6. 12. Bridget was an Irish immigrant who married John Ryan Sr. and farmed in Thornhill, ON.
  7. 14. Mary, of Skibbereen, Ireland, married Jeremiah O'Sullivan.
  8. 15. Annie Isobel was part of a prominent British family. They are noted for being Protestants who became devout, evangelical Catholics.
Down
  1. 1. He was a shoemaker, his son a typewriter salesman and pianist.
  2. 3. born in England, Mary Ann married John Blake and raised her family in Claddagh House, Galway, Ireland.
  3. 5. Mysterious Irish immigrant to the USA/Canada during the famine. Catherine Margaret married the mysterious John Giblin Sr.
  4. 7. Maria born 1867, York, ON, was a 1st generation Canadian born to the Thornhill farmers. She married James J. Ryan and farmed in Thornhill, ON.
  5. 9. as a teenager, JFB sent from Swansea, Wales to Pincher Creek, Alberta.
  6. 10. Ellen was an Irish immigrant she married Thomas Breen, an Irish immigrant and they farmed in Thornhill, ON.
  7. 11. Farmers in York, Ontario became landlords who wouldn't collect rent in the Dirty Thirties. Gertrude married the charismatic piano player.
  8. 13. Catherine was 1st generation Irish Canadian, born 1850 in Quebec. She married a travelling shoe maker and lived in Toronto, ON.