Eliza Amelia Giff (Gift)
I am searching for information regarding the ancestry of Eliza Amelia Giff (Gift). This is what I know about her:
1. born in Waterford, Ireland 1797/8
2. emigrated to Quebec as "quite a young girl" with a family named Link
3. married James Forbes Keays of Kings County (Offaly)in Ile de Bois, Quebec on 16 Jan 1818.
4. Had three children:
Eliza Keays (b. 21 Sept 1823, Ile de Bois, Quebec, married Isaiah Wright 22 Jun 1846 in Ontario, d. 10 Jun 1896 Augusta, Grenville, Ontario)
James Forbes Keays who died young
William Keays who was educated in Toronto and who married in 1855 in Augusta, Grenville, Ontario and settled in Goderich, Ontario and perhaps Jamestown, N.Y.
5. moved to Ottawa where her husband died in 1832.
6. was given a land grant in North Augusta, Ontario where she moved with her two children and an elderly servant and his wife
7. married (widower) Samuel Bellamy and raised both families' children.
8. d. 7 Apr., 1862 North Augusta, Ontario