Hi Carolyn:
I¹ll see if I can dig out a few more obits next week sometime for this
family like Henry, Robert and Harding¹s to see what they might say .
Dave
On 1/28/09 1:23 PM, "Carolyn Simpson" <carolynsimpson@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Thanks Dave,
>
> The confirmation of my suspicions and the additional information is much
> appreciated.
>
> -- Carolyn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Winter
> To: nscumber
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [nscumber] Mc/MacAloney Family
>
> Hi Carolyn:
>
> I have the mother as Mariam Best and am keeping it at that for now. I feel
> Maria, Marion & Miriam are all the same person.
>
> I have Janie as Jane Netta ³Jennie² MacAloney
>
> M/1 Thomas H. Welton, s/o Eli Welton and Eliza (?); issue of Willard and
> Gertrude Welton. Thomas dies before 1900 (also of T.B.?)
>
> M/2 her brother-in-law, Amos Welton, s/o Eli Welton and Eliza (?); issue of
> Viola and Belle Welton. Amos dies of T.B. on 18 Aug 1910 in Parrsboro.
>
> M/3 Charles Douglas Porter from River Hebert on 21 Jun 1911, Presbyterian,
> River Hebert
>
> Feel something happened to Willard Welton before 1908 as he¹s not on the
> 1911 Census or the NSARM Death Records. Gertrude, Viola and Belle are on the
> 1911 Census living with their maternal grandparents while their mother is
> employed as a servant over in River Hebert and m/3 C.D. Porter a few months
> later. Then Jennie dies 3 Jun 1916 at Joggins Mines with heart problems.
>
> That¹s the way I see it.
>
> Dave
>
> On 1/28/09 3:11 AM, "Carolyn Simpson" <carolynsimpson@...
> <mailto:carolynsimpson%40shaw.ca> > wrote:
>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Dave, et al,
>> >
>> > Further to the two obits you posted earlier today (Tuesday), I have been
>> > trying to figure out why there is a difference in the name of James
>> Alexander
>> > Mc/MacAloney's wife and mother of his children. I can find only one
>> marriage
>> > for him and that is to Maria Best and that clearly shows her mother as
>> > Elizabeth Best with no father being named. It also shows Maria living in
>> > Parrsboro; born abt 1851 though her place of birth is blank.
>> >
>> > I have found the death registration for the wife of James Alexander
>> McAloney
>> > on the nsgenealogy site: year 1913, book 5, page 489, number 2932. It
>> reads:
>> >
>> > McAloney, Mariam
>> > dod: 12 Jul 1913
>> > age: 62 yrs [therefore, born abt 1851]
>> > res: Parrsboro
>> > married
>> > sp: James Alexander McAloney
>> > born: Ireland
>> > cod: apoplexy
>> > bur: Presbyterian cemetery, Parrsboro
>> > inf: Robert McAloney
>> >
>> > I'm wondering if Maria Best and Miriam/Mariam/Marion are one and the same
>> > person... possibly Maria Marion Best. That might explain why the
>> Mc/MacAloney
>> > children show their mother as Maria, Miriam and Marion. It might possibly
>> also
>> > explain the confusion as to her birth surname. Do you have any thoughts >>
or,
>> > better still, firm knowledge of this?
>> >
>> > While I'm on this family; daughter Jane is listed on the 1891 census. On 3
>> May
>> > 1893 she married Thomas H. Welton, 25, lumberman, R&B: Parrsboro, s/o Eli
&
>> > Eliza, farmer. At that time she is Jane, 19, R&B: Parrsboro, d/o Alex &
>> Maria,
>> > laborer.
>> >
>> > On 17 Nov 1900, Janie Welton, 25, spinster [sic], R&B: Parrsboro, d/o
>> > Alexander & Miriam, laborer, married Amos Welton, 21, lumberman, R&B:
>> > Parrsboro, s/o Eric & Eliza, laborer.
>> >
>> > The 1901 census shows Amos and Janie Welton living next door to James and
>> > Maria in Parrsboro with a son and a daughter, Williard [sic] b. 2 Sep 1897
>> and
>> > Gertie b. 2 Nov 1898.
>> >
>> > Evidence seems to indicate that Jane and Janie are the same person.
>> Evidence
>> > also seems to indicate that Jane married Thomas, had two children, and
>> > following his death(?), married his brother? Again, do you have any
>> thoughts
>> > or, better still, firm knowledge of this?
>> >
>> > -- Carolyn
>> >
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