Re: Balfour, Ontario Canada
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In reply to:
Balfour, Ontario Canada
Roberta Darnbrough 5/30/02
I think we may be related.My husband's great grandfather was Earnest BALFOUR born in Omeemee, Ontario, Canada on May 26, 1887.His great grandmother was Anne (Annie) FREEBURNE.She was born on January 19, 1891 in Goraghwood Co, Armagh,Northern Ireland (According to her son's birth certificate and "Clauhinny or Clauhwinny" according to her birth certificate - could be the name of the home that she was born in).Annie was one of apparently 12 children (a guess at the sibling names are Elizabeth, Willie, Fred, Emily, Mabel, Molly, Albert, Evelyn, Maureen, Dorothy).She lived to the ripe old age of 106 1/2 and passed away in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1997.She immigrated through Ellis Island in 1913 at the age of 21 (she had two sisters in New York) .She immigrated to Canada and married Earnest BALFOUR (b. 26 May 1887) on 13 August 1915 in Kenora, Ontario, Canada.Her first son Walter Freeburne BALFOUR (my husband's grandfather) was born on 10 May 1916.