
Stealing from the dead “…crimps have been reaping a rich harvest by robbing the bodies of the dead” in Quebec City, 1857
Who are the children in these tintype pictures?
I would like to encourage you when researching death notices in newspapers to check multiple dates. Yesterday I was browsing through the Quebec Chronicle newspaper, the focus was the date of the death of Hannah Pozer (Jeffery) Norton my 2x great grandmother. Hannah died in Montreal, having had lived most of her life in Quebec…
Day 5 of the 11-day Military Challenge Alfred was born in Sorel, Quebec in 1888 to parents Thomas Lee Norton, a baker and his wife Esther Douglas, joining siblings Thomas Lee and Alyce May. Four more children were born after Alfred but only one of his younger siblings survived. When Alfred was ten he lost…
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…
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…
My Friday night fun was reading through The Weekly Chronicle on the BAnQ website (Quebec archives) and I came across this letter to the editor – Census Sir, – Reading Mr. Lortie’s letter in yesterday’s Chronicle, reminds me that I was never called on by the census official. This makes three more unregistered citizens, and I…