WHITFORD - Cornwall, Ontario
Looking for information about the WHITFORD clan from Cornwall, Ontario Canada.Gertrude May Whitford was born in 1894 and baptised at the Good Shephard Anglican Church in Cornwall, Ontario.Her parents were EDWARD WHITFORD and ELIZA (cld. be Elizabeth).I have siblings as George (b: 1879), John (b: 1880), Edward (b: 1881), and Gertrude May.There may be more.Edwards parents may be:Robert and Charlotte but I need to verify this information.
Gertrude May - MAY as she was known married Evert ROY WILLIS O'NEIL (son of Edward O'Neil and Almira - Mina Kier/Kyer) in 1923 in Cornwall, Ontario.They had four children (Willis Roy, Edmond DOUGLAS, Hilda May, and Eldon Roy (died as an infant as it would appear from Church baptismal records).The couple were apparently divorced in 1931 (this is when divorce was permitted).This was a mixed race marriage - common in this area in those times.
The children were sent to live with Roy and his new wife Margaret Olga Romhild in or about 1945 +as they were with his mother on a farm in the Cornwall area and she went blind from diabetes.
Any information about the CORNWALL ONTARIO WHITFORD FAMILY or the O'NEIL linkage would be very much appreciated.
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Re: WHITFORD - Cornwall, Ontario
Susan Finkelman 3/13/09