Category: Quebec City
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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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The Census-Taker Missed Them
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…
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Following Her Footsteps
There always so much to see when I travel to Quebec City and I made a point to visit some places that I knew were frequented by my ancestors. Before leaving I created a list of places to visit and on the list was the Jeffery family home in the 1840s. Robert and Elizabeth (Tipper)…
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