Re: Mary Eadie married Joe Bacon - Canada
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Re: Mary Eadie married Joe Bacon - Canada
Donald Bennett 3/15/06
hi Donald. My name is John Graham Eadie and I believe I have further information regarding your Eadie family Genealogy. I am contacting you on behalf of my father (Stephen John Eadie - born 1942) who is the son of Stephen Church Eadie - born 1985, who I believe is the brother to your maternal Grand Father James Eadie. My father has read your posts with great interest as he too shares a keen interest in our family history. Your information has proved most useful in filling in a few gaps in his findings. Further to your post regarding the marriage of Christina Church to John Eadie, my father has learnt that their marriage took place on the 15th July 1892 at 5 Cameron Street, Coatbridge Lanarkshire. Thisaddress was the home of Christina's parents . Christina was employed as a Domestic Servant to the owner of Scott's Shipyard in Bowling and then posibly at Hopetoun House near Edinburgh. As you state the couple settled in Bowling where John was employed as a Foreman Blacksmith in Scott's Shipyard. My father has learned that following WW1John set up a Blacksmith business in Alva . This eventually failed after which he went into business with his son James producing garden produce on a small holding (possibly in the Anstruther area o Fife.) This too failed at which point John Eadie retired to Bay Cottage in Lowvallyfield. He eventually passed away in Feb 1942, approxmately 2 months before my father was born at the same address!
Regarding your post Mary Eadie marries Joe Bacon, Mary Eadie is my Father's Aunt. My Father along with his sisters (Mary's nephew and neices) recall that their Aunt Mary emigrated to Canada (She returned to Scotland in later years to visit her brother (and my Grand Father)Stephen. Luckily my Dad has a photo of this visit.They also believed that she married a man called Joseph Blair(not Bacon) Apparently Joseph Blair had known Mary prior to her departure for Canada andhe subsequently followed her to Canada where they married and settled in Edmonton.We would be interested to hear where you got the name Bacon!
My father would be keen to contact you to share further information in respect of our family history. Please contact me if this would be agreeable.
Many thanks
John G Eadie