Tag: Quebec City
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Sergeants’ Mess
This photograph of Sergeants’ Mess was probably taken in Quebec City, I came across it on a visit to my great Uncle Herbert Jordan who lived in Montreal. The photograph belonged to his grandfather William Jordan who was a Sergeant in the Canadian Artillery in the 1880s. He started out as a bugler during the…
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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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Arrested at Age 8, Anne Reddy’s Story
A sad Irish tale in Quebec City. The Morrin Center is one of the places I visited on a recent trip to Quebec City. It is now home to the Quebec Literary and Historical Society which have called this building home since 1868. Previous to this it was the city jail. I am particularly interested…
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Finding Margaret
You know when you first started doing your family tree and it seems that every time you hit the library you found something new? Well, that’s what my memory of first starting out researching my family tree was like. It probably was a bit more onerous than that, but it’s the discoveries that suck you…
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Tracking Peter Jordan in the Quebec City Directory
A wonderfully useful tool when tracking an ancestor’s movements is the City Directories. My ancestor Peter Jordan was born in 1878 in Quebec City, in the 1881 census he is living with his grandparent’s as his father was a widow and off soldiering in Kingston, ON. In the 1891 census Peter is reunited with his father,…
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Violence in 1840 – A Fearless Female
March 19 — Have you discovered a surprising fact about one of your female ancestors? What was it and how did you learn it? How did you feel when you found out? Blog prompt from Lisa Alzo. March 19, 1840 is the day my 41-year-old great, great grandmother Elizabeth Tipper laid charges against her attacker.…
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