Category: 2017
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The Normandie Roof in Montreal
Here is a great picture of a men’s social gathering on the Normandie Roof in Montreal. A Google search tells me that the Normadie Roof was located in the Royal Hotel in Montreal. My grandfather John Melody Dever is a part of this group of men. Grandpa appears to be in his late thirties so…
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The Gazette – Feb.19, 1943 B/M/D Notices
I have old newspaper clippings that belonged my grandparents that I will be sharing in the hopes of helping other people that are researching their roots. This clipping is from The Gazette, Montreal dated Friday, February 19, 1943, pg.12 The names listed are in the B/M/D notices are: Births Carlisle Penton Perigoe Shea Deaths Coady…
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Robert Andrew Jeffery
Robert Jeffery lived until he was 69 years old, and during his lifetime he was married three times and had twenty children. Robert was one of three sons born to Robert Jeffery and Elizabeth Tipper, he was the only one to have children, and have them he did. Robert’s first marriage was to Delphine Guenet…
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Mary Ann, Harriet & Julia Heathfield
This last entry in the Jeffery sisters series, it is more of a tribute page as these three girls had short lives. There were three young Jeffery girls that died very young and because of that there is not a lot of information to be found. Mary Anne Jeffery is the first-born child of Robert…
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Elizabeth Jeffery
This is the fourth installment of the Jeffery sisters blog series about Caroline, Margaret, or Hannah. There will be one last installment in this series. Elizabeth was the youngest of the Jeffery sisters to survive to adulthood. She was born in 1834 in the district of Beauce where her father was working as a mason for…
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Hannah Pozer Jeffery
Part three of a series I am writing about the Jeffery sisters. If you want to read more Part I & Part II are here. Hannah was almost a New Years baby, as she was born Dec. 30, 1832, in Quebec City. At her baptism, the following month which took place at St. Andrew’s Church,…
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