ANCESTORS (More or Less)
Abdallah Michael [with two dots over the –e-] Fayad b. 1932 Baitroumien, North Leban-on, was soon working the fields. A young man emigrating to Venezuela in ’55 he met Najla Hanna on the Mediterranean while she was heading from Lebanon for Canada. They married ’58 in Ottawa and had four handsome children, two boys and two girls. The family lived in Beirut 1968-75, then returned to Ottawa where he did maintenance at Uplands air base. Najla d. of breast cancer in ’91. He m. Fadia Abboud ’94. by then both retired. His older daughter Lily wed our #5 son Matthew here ’97. Abdallah d. late 2007.
Ada Evangeline (MacNeill) Wallace (1883-1978) my Uncle Tom’s widow. Daughter of a judge in Cape Breton descended from MacNeills of Barra. Serene mom of 15, 13 reaching adulthood, Dan a Rhodes Scholar, Ron a member of the provincial legislature and later multi-term mayor of Halifax. Men were handsome athletes, women beautiful and long lived: one brother and four sisters still alive early 2004. Tom and Ada’s descendants number in the hundreds.
Adele Grace, see Lillian Adele Grace
Alice “Aunt Allie” (Hart) O’ Connor (1838-1927). Her older sister Mary wed my Great Grandfather John Wallace Oshawa, Ont. Harts are on map of Ireland just north of Sligo where John and his father Thomas Wallace came from. Harts there were descendants of Roman Catholic refugees from religious persecution in England.
Anna Browne [Aunt Anna to all] came from Ireland to help Patrick and Caroline French settle in. It was usual in the 19th century and beyond for a spinster aunt to be part of a family household. When parents and a child died 1898 of influenza or tuberculosis, Miss Browne took on Julia, Edith and Douglas. Phil proved too much to handle so was sent to the orphanage: more about him in Kin Tale XLVIII. Aunt Anna supported them by piecework, sewing overalls and coveralls at home. As soon as the girls were old enough the bishop in St. John’s got them both into nursing in Boston ca 1915. See also Kin Tale LXIV. Anna went with them to work in the kitchen of the same hospital. This guardian returned to St. John’s on retirement in the early 1930s to a self-contained unit in Mrs. Sparrow’s home on Monkstown Road. When health deteriorated she came to live with Doug Sr.’s family on Patrick Street where she had a front room with dormer window heated by a pot bellied stove. When Frenches moved to Waterford Bridge Road after several years she had a room at the back overlooking little Waterford River and Southside Hill. She died 7 Aug. 1942, an octogenarian. Aunty Kate [see] disapproved of school uniforms. This was fine as my wife almost 14 in aquamarine was pressed into service answering the door to mourners. See also Patrick & Caroline (Browne) French, Douglas Joseph French Sr., and Phil French.
Aunty Kate, see Catherine Ellen Mary etc.
Basil St. John Carew (1901-80) Trim Uncle Buzzy had been a blue baby. His business suits had to be made because nothing that small was on the racks. Basil and young family lived on the ground floor flat of his widowed mother Lavinia’s flat on Cambridge Street in Halifax. Assistant manager of a Halifax insurance brokerage house, he hired me a couple of times when I was a student to deliver their calendars. A sea cadet officer during the Second World War, he kept a kindly eye on me in my progression 1941-47 from ordinary cadet to midshipman, RCSC. All his working life Basil was with Dale & Co., inheriting the clerk’s job held there for his older brother until Frank [see] was killed in action in the Great War. Basil missed his fallen brother every day of his life.
Belle, see Isabel (Grant) Wadden etc., or Sarah Isabelle (O’Neill) etc.
Bessie (Biddington) Wallace (f. late1800s/early 1900s) came from and returned to South Milford, Massachusetts. This was the wicked stepmother from the parish glebe house about whom Daddy ranted. Hearsay I gleaned from my oldest sister Margot and from Bernie Granville, son of Howard Senior’s little sister Greta, suggest this “street angel” to use his words was physically abusive to her charges. Uncle Joe Bessie manoeuvred into reform school and wrote publicly long after that she was “cleverly cruel”. Perhaps some of these Wallace kids had been a handful: Dad chuckled that they so neglected the family horse during one of their dad’s business trips that it dropped dead of starvation. Children still around once ran off en masse. My commercial traveller grandfather was hardly amused on his return but did break up with Bessie; “leaving her his all” recorded my Dad. Bessie’s sister Helena married Dad’s hard-drinking Uncle Edward Wallace with no issue.
Carol Ann (Bryans) Forget (1940- ) mother of Debbie, #3 son Christopher’s wife. After break-up of her marriage to Roger, she returned to her birthplace, Sault Ste-Marie, Ont., where there are relatives. Judging from Debbie, her mother has to be a fabulous cook.
Caroline (Browne) French (d. 1898) my wife’s paternal grandmother in St. John’s, Nfld., and Patrick’s wife. They and one son died of influenza or tuberculosis orphaning four. See Anna Browne who adopted their children including Douglas Joseph French in good time my wife’s dad. See also Phil French, Kin Tales XLVIII and LXIV.
Caroline Mary Theresa (French) Wallace b. 7 Oct. 1928 St. John’s, Nfld., to Doug and Mary (Brownrigg) French. Nursed in St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital there and Westminster, London, Ont. A Sub-Lieutenant (Nursing Sister) at Royal Canadian Naval Hospitals Halifax and Cornwallis, N. S. Wed Lt. H. C. Wallace RCN 14 June 1952: nine children Halifax and Ottawa. Homemaker, doctor’s receptionist, office worker, retired federal public servant, grandma to 13, church/senior volunteer, nurtures grateful spouse.
Catherine “Cack” (Comerford) Gallagher was my wife’s aunt on her mother’s side and lived to a ripe old age in St. John’s if she’s dead yet! Her husband Pat was an Irish doctor. They had no children: long ago they separated and he returned to the Old Sod.
Catherine Ellen Mary “Aunty Kate” (Grant) Brownrigg (1877-1956) St. John’s, Nfld. This was the maternal grandmother with whom my wife spent first 10 years in regrettable Newfoundland remnant of Irish fosterage. Kate was of Cape Broyle stock. During naval duty visit to the Rock I kissed a frail, smiling old woman, bedridden, then I fled the room.
Catherine (Maguire) O’Neill (1783-1864), native of Portuguese Cove, N. S., fishing village in the outer harbour of Halifax. She was Founder Father Richard O’Neill’s wife. They are ancestors through my maternal lines. Munros through mother’s line also began in the fishery there.
Corinne (Lawlor) Wallace (1898-1977) my Uncle Frank’s plain and warm-hearted wife. My mother had a crush on tall, slim and dreamy-eyed Frank but what Halifax girl of post Great War days didn’t. Corinne came from the Newcastle region of New Brunswick. My ailing Cousin Frank in Ottawa is her one surviving son.
Dot Granville, see Theresa Agnes Mae etc.
Douglas Joseph French Sr. (1896-1976) was my wife’s orphaned father, St. John’s, Nfld., who as a widower died in Antigua, British West Indies, while visiting reverend son Harry teaching there. D. J. was a retired manager of the Newfoundland liquor control board [see Kin Tale XVII] and earlier a customs officer in the Port of St. John’s. See also Anna Browne, plus my hand-written accounts of Frenches including D. J. Could Play.
Duncan O’Neill (b. early 1800s Portuguese Cove near Halifax) my Grandma Lavinia Carew’s father whose sole legacy was a silver punchbowl spoon well worn one side. He was a Roman Catholic shoemaker in the Cove who wed Rebecca Munro against her Pro-testant father’s wishes. He sampled burgeoning social life of Halifax Irish while too young a wife buried her nose in a book. No hint of rancour between them judging from two family sources and they did get together often enough to have five or six kids.
Edgar Bazinet (1919-83) father of Lucie, #2 son Stephen’s wife. Ste and Edgar got along famously while this good-natured ex-Lowertowner approached well-earned retirement from federal public service. Cancer intervened, Edgar leaving behind a family of women, his widow Marie Poirier that was.
Edith (Fraser) Grono (f. late 18-early 1900s) wed a Grono of Glen Margaret, N. S. My Grandma Carew’s cousin was also a link to our Frasers of St. Margaret’s Bay. Aunt Edie was penniless widow housekeeper for Newfoundlander Will Tapp, widower of a Fraser and auctioneer in Halifax area. Little Aunt Edie was ever plucky, sang, played parlour pump organ, composed songs, and reared Will’s two big, bonnie girls, Phyllis and Wilma. Edie’s only son Zola had died young of influenza.
Edward Hart (c.1844-61) hailed from Oshawa, Ont. My Dad’s great uncle was killed in 1st Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, U. S. civil war. Fifty thousand from British colonies of what now is Canada fought in that conflict, many of them substituting for American boys. He was a Union [Northern] soldier casualty in this Confederate [Southern] victory. See also Patrick Hart, killed in Union victory, and Thomas Hart, veteran sailor d. 1884.
Dr. Edward Thomas Granville MD (1899-1984) my Uncle Ed of Bedford, N. S. and Hali-fax whose twinkly eyes and jowly grin visited my childhood illnesses. I last saw him make-believe grumbling about a coroner’s jury he’d struck in Halifax c. 1947. He m. Greta, Dad’s younger and only surviving sister past teen years. See Isabel Marguerita.
Edward Wallace (1856-1910) was my Dad’s uncle reared Oshawa, Ont. Dad thought him a “smooth charmer of a bachelor” and a brilliant salesman who’d drink all his commissions then get another grubstake from his mother, widow of John Wallace. Dad excused Ed-ward and Ed’s father John as “Saturday night drinkers” back in Oshawa. Significantly, Dad’s own father Thomas Patrick wouldn’t drink at all. Edward at 45 wed Helena, sister of Bessie Biddington, Dad’s stepmother. Ed and Helena had no children, lived in New England, perhaps in her hometown of South Milford, Mass. Edward d. aged 54.
Eleanor (Hayes) Brownrigg Reg.N (1910-2003) my wife’s admired aunt in St. John’s, widow of late Uncle Tom Brownrigg. Trained at St. Martha’s Hospital in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Eleanor then served in Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell’s mission in Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula. Adopted son Brian predeceased her the year before. Adopted daughter Brenda survives, wife of Doctor Robert Faries. In widowhood Eleanor long nursed everyone in her seniors’ apartment building. She liked our Christmas chronicles although she knew neither author nor our children. Then to St. Patrick’s Home in St. John’s, going blind while accepting her fate.
Eleanor “Nell” (Comerford) McCormack (d. c.1992, octogenarian) my wife’s Godmother and niece of Uncle Har, Caroline’s grandfather on her mother’s side, and widow of Will. Was tall and slim. Nell’s adopted daughter was known as Libby.
Elizabeth Mary Carew (1852-1906) #3 daughter born in Halifax to Founder Father Ste-phen Patrick Carew and Margaret Healy that was. A horse killed Elizabeth while she was alighting from a streetcar in New York that April 7. She’d been a trained nurse there some years and was returning from New Rochelle. An undated Halifax news report, showing Elizabeth in white nurse’s uniform, reads in part: “Some years ago she was among our leading amateurs in theatricals, and she invested her parts with her own pleasing manners which added to the success of her portrayals… Frank Carew, at S. Cunard & Co.’s, and James at E. Donahoe & Sons, are brothers and Miss Ellen, who conducts private school, and Madame Carew, of the Sacred Heart Convent, Montreal, are sisters.” [Clipping sent by my Cousin Anne (Carew) Hallisey.]
Ellen (Bates) Granville b. 1790 Clonmel, County Tipperary, married Irishman Michael Grandfield 1816 Halifax, himself fresh off the boat. Housewife Ellen bore him five children before dying 1848. They are Founder Immigrants of my cousins, the Halifax Granvilles.
Ellen “Nellie” Brownrigg (ca. 1900-76) was younger sister of my wife’s mother Mary Ellen and outlasted her by about seven years. She devoted her life to Sisters of Charity in Saint John, N. B., as Sister Mary John where she was long mistress of novices. She sent greeting cards without fail over many decades to niece Caroline in St. John’s, London, Ont., Halifax and Ottawa. My wife’s immediately older sister Nellie who d. aged two was named after her.
Ellen “Aunt Ellie” Carew (1854-1938) my quietly authoritative great aunt, #4 daughter of Founder Father Stephen Patrick Carew. Her private school was respected by Haligon-ians. When I visited her at the Catholic old folks’ home, a long walk, she’d produce a dime or a tiny silver Newfoundland five-cent piece for me from a thin purse. Small, clever but difficult sometimes. Pastor Quinan of St. Thomas Aquinas Church fell into her grave at her funeral and boomed at the reception after: “Wasn’t that typical of Aunt Ellie!”
Erich Jürissen b. 16 May 1938, Oberhausen, a manufacturing city in populous, heavily industrialized Ruhr Basin, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. Our #4 son Bar-naby’s former father-in-law long based in Minusio, Switzerland. Travelled widely in Canada, USA, for Italian metalworks, Volkswagen, sometimes with wife Hilla along.
Florence Wallace (d. age 3 late 1800s Oshawa or Toronto) Grandfather Tam’s #1 daughter. Of mother Polly’s 11 births, only four boys, youngest girl, got to grow up.
Francesca “Fran” (Devanik) Rothery (1916-2003) was b. Winnipeg. Striking wife of Frank, adoptive mother of W. A. S. “ Bill” Rothery, and mother-in-law of Caroline Wallace Jr. Fran a great grandmother who d. Ottawa 2003 just eight days after Frank. He was a war veteran pilot and retired RCAF warrant officer 1st class.
Francis Brownrigg (1918-1974) my wife’s Uncle Frank was also her Godfather. He was the youngest as seventh child and fifth son of Uncle Har and Auntie Kate, my wife’s grandparents. Served in Royal Navy as able seaman and survived torpedoing in the Second World War. To the surprise of some he settled down, in Newfoundland’s picturesque Codroy Valley near Cornerbrook, and raised eight children. Burly Frank dark-haired then, good-natured.
Francis James Carew (1895-1917) my 22-year-old uncle was fatally wounded 31 Oct. in the Battle of Passchendaele [3rd Battle of Ypres] while an acting corporal battalion runner taking messages by hand to and from front lines, through blizzards of German artillery shelling. He bled to death. News reached his father Frank [see below] the day before he too was killed in the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Uncle Frankie [service no. 222047, Canadi-an Infantry, Nova Scotia Highlanders, 85th Battalion] was buried at Nine Elms British Cemetery in Belgium. His grave can be found on the web site >www.commonwealthwar- gravescommission<. See also Lavinia Carew, my maternal grandmother. The 85th was known in the Great War as The Never Fails for their courage and tenacity in the 13 battles that they fought. Passchendaele was their grimmest, the Bluenose kilties losing 13 officers and 113 privates, all of whom were slain within a radius of 550 yards from the memorial they hastened to erect soon after. About 7,000 Canadian soldiers gave their lives in this battle, total casualties almost the 17,000 forecast. Frankie’s “old bunch” – the early comrades in arms – nicknamed their buddy Dugal. I see my cousin, Father Basil Carew, in a postcard of Frankie with the other soldiers. When he’d joined up the year before Carew was five foot seven, 108 pounds. The Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914 averaged that height. Rita Carew his sister to be my mother was four foot eleven on marriage so these Carews weren’t tall. The national average of my own generation of males was five foot eight and my children’s generation, five ten. Francis Joseph Carew (1857-1917) my maternal grandfather killed in devastating Halifax Explosion of 1917. Harbourmaster first in Halifax for Samuel Cunard & Co. shipping and then for the Furness Lines, he and his volunteers had just rounded a waterfront freight shed when an ammunition ship blew. They had intended to take batten down theirs alongside before that explosion. [Frank only the day before had news of his namesake son’s death in mucky trenches overseas. See Francis James Carew and my grandmother, Lavinia.] About a third of Halifax was flattened in that explosion heard in P. E. I. Francis Redmond Wallace (1880-1969) My Uncle Frank Wallace returned a quartermaster sergeant from the Great War to run an advertising firm in Halifax. He had learned how by correspondence course and was still doing ads in his 80s after refreshers to keep topical. Because he was colour blind, Frank’s apparel, granted always of high quality, looked just a bit out of the ordinary. For an adman, that’s a plus. My Dad, twice-wounded war vet, joined him 1920 then set up a branch office, later independent, in Saint John, N.B. Mum-my worked with him. There my three older sisters and I were born. Mother and children fell back to Halifax 1933 [not ‘34 as wrongly written in When I Was a Carew]. Uncle Frank, tall, slim, dreamy-eyed gent, also used after hours a tiny office at home under the stairs to the next floor. Francis Rothery (1916-2003) b. in London, England, was retired RCAF warrant officer 1st class, veteran of airlifting fighter and bomber aircraft to European theatres from war production this side of the Atlantic. New Brunswicker Lord Beaverbrook began Ferry Command 1940 with civilian pilots from British Overseas Air Corporation, the Royal Air Force taking over 1941 and continuing a mix of civvy and military aircrew. Close to half its 1,100 fliers were killed. In that respect see also my late brother-in-law John French, Ferry Command civilian, in Section 3. Frank was husband of Fran - adoptive parents of Susan and W.A.S. “Bill” Rothery. Frank d. Ottawa 29 June ‘03, Fran only eight days later. Son is spouse of our #6 child, #3 daughter Caroline. Garrett “Garrie” Brownrigg Jr. (1903-42) b. St. John's, Nfld., engineer torpedoed and lost in the North Atlantic in a U. S. mercantile marine vessel Easter Sunday April 5. Family recollection as relayed by Rev. Brother Harry French is that Garrie made it into a lifeboat that didn’t quite clear the sinking. As their ship overturned rigging on a mast took the boat down with it. My wife's uncle, fourth child several years younger than my wife’s mother Mary Ellen, went to the USA as a youth. Widow Evelyn lived on in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. No children. Garrett Brownrigg b. 1870s St. John’s was older brother of my wife’s grandfather “Uncle Har”. Garrett “Uncle Gar” - actually Great Uncle - married local girl Agnes Maddigan. They had four children, Gary the doctor [see Garrett Mary], Mary who became Mrs. Jake Wood, Elizabeth “Betty” who m. Hubert Kelly, and Patrick, youngest and a bachelor d. 2003 aged 89. Gar owned a soft drink company, “made a mint” and d. 1953. His children all stayed on the Rock. Dr. Garrett Mary Brownrigg (1907-91) leader in Newfoundland medicine was cousin of my wife’s mom. As a young nurse my wife got to know this small, dapper chest surgeon in her role as a scrub [operating room] nurse at St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital, St. John's. Previous generations of Irish, including those of the New World, occasionally gave a boy a girl’s name, hence Gary's Mary. He's in Joey Smallwood’s Newfoundland Encyclopedia. George Munro (1798-1869) was a son of Founder Immigrant John Munro. This family at Portuguese Cove outside Halifax and then on Munro’s Point in St. Margaret’s Bay, N. S., is an ancestral line on my distaff side. See also Duncan O’Neill [shoemaker/socialite] and wife Rebecca Munro [my great grandmother with nose in a book]. Mother wrote of George: “He was considered the Squire of the district, was a Magistrate and either con-tributed heavily to the Anglican Church in Hackett’s Cove or had it built. Locally he was both feared and hated.” George Munro b. 1827 and christened at St. Paul’s Church in Halifax, first born namesake of the founding owner of Munro’s Point, N. S. Munros schooner-traded with Caribbean and New England ports. Young George was lost at sea on a voyage to the West Indies. Meanwhile his usually stern father walked the seawall praying for his return. He told neighbours the rest of his sons together would not make one man. Confederation in 1867, its tariffs more and more skewed to protect growing Ontario and Quebec interests, in due course shackled a once-booming Maritime sea borne trade. Georgina Mary Wallace (1886/7-1901 Truro, N. S.) my Dad’s #2 sister he heard dying at night of typhoid in their Truro home along with her next younger sister Nora Kathleen. They were 14 and 12 respectively, he eight years old if that. A sick farmer delivering milk spread the fatal fever. Greta Granville, see Isabella Marguerita etc. Har Brownrigg, see Henry Joseph etc. Helena (Biddington) Wallace (f. turn of 18/19th centuries). Dad’s Uncle Edward when 45 married this sister of Bessie, Dad’s harsh stepmother. The women had come from South Milford, Mass., to which at least Bessie returned. Helena and Edward also moved to New England, perhaps Milford. Henry Joseph “Uncle Har” Brownrigg (1873-1944) was actually my wife’s grandfather on her mother's side. My wife when an infant was sent to live with him and “Aunty Kate” for the first decade of her life. A wholesale grocer and perhaps publican, Har was elected member for St. John’s West to hold the finance portfolio in Newfoundland’s res-ponsible government. That was before the Old Colony facing bankruptcy had to pull back from dominion status in ‘34. Yes, there’d been corruption but during lean times of the Dirty Thirties, revenues evaporated anyway. Har continued to serve, this time as commissioner of charity in the re-established colonial government. Upon retirement he became agent for Fidelity fire insurance of New York until his health went. He d. in his 72nd year on the way to St. Patrick’s Church for Sunday Mass. Henry “Harry” Brownrigg (1915-89) second youngest of five sons of Henry Joseph, aged 24 in 1939 joined the Royal Air Force and went off to England for training. He had been one of the founders of the Newfoundland Gliding Club. Old Colonials chose to join Brit, Canadian or U. S. forces before Confederation 1949 and still do to some extent. Brown-rigg boys certainly were no exception. Harry, who was my wife’s uncle, m. Margaret Bowen of Wolverhampton, English “war bride”. They were in St. John’s after the war where she helped my wife’s aging grandmother Kate. Then they settled in Montreal, remaining childless. Hilla Jürissen, see Reinhildis etc. Honora (Gibbons) Wallace was spouse of Thomas, our Founder Immigrant and former Inniskilling Fusilier out of Ireland. She was mentioned in his last will & testament of 1 October 1866 and survived his death 13 Oct. ’72 in the village of Oshawa, county of Ontario in the new province of the same name. Their son John had also been born in Ireland. As of 1867 with formation of Canada they were classified as British subjects resident in the Dominion of Canada. Official Canadian citizenship was a much later development. The name Honora favoured mainly in Ireland is an Anglo-Norman version of Latin Honoria. Honour is an English surname, Gibbons a diminutive of Gilbert. Howard Carew Joseph Wallace, b. 1929 Saint John, N. B., only son of Howard V. and former Rita Carew. Grew up in Halifax where boxer, footballer, lifeguard. Late teens Halifax cub reporter, midshipman in sea cadets then naval reserve. Naval career mainly public affairs based in Halifax, Ottawa, and briefly the Middle East, reaching lieutenant commander. Hit five continents. After burnout in defence headquarters was honourably released 1975 then worked briefly federal northern affairs Ottawa. Proud parent of nine children, 13 grandchildren, history browser, family antiquarian, occasional photographer and dogged, decaying golfer. Hearing said “selective”: loves music eclectic or serious. Howard Vincent Wallace (1893-1991) b. Toronto, soon in Truro, N. S. Halifax news-paperman, wartime sergeant woundedout of infantry to pilot lieutenant Royal Flying Corps. Soon casualty of 20th century's greatest feat, heavier-than-air powered flight. At Saint John, N. B., advertising proprietor hospitalized 1933; then Toronto area Second World War aircraft production work; unionizer; finally late-blooming Ottawa gardener. My father, although he wondered about this, especially when I disagreed with him after he re-entered our adult lives. Ours chuckled: we lookalikes flaunted common genes. Isabel ”Belle” (Grant) Wadden b. 25 Nov. 1895 Cape Broyle, Newfoundland. My wife’s great aunt, youngest sister of Aunty Kate Brownrigg and widow of Ron Wadden of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Belle lived to feisty 100 [19 Oct. 1996] at St. Patrick’s Nursing Home, St. John’s. Isabella Marguerita “Greta” (Wallace) Granville (1896-1992) my Dad’s youngest [4th] and only surviving sister. She worked at Wallace Advertising in Halifax then widow of Dr. Ed Granville. Wrote Dad loving letters. Prayerful mom of three priests – two Jesuits and a missionary White Father for a time – Greta confided with a gleam to grown-up grandchild Margaret her voguish gulping of live goldfish during Roaring Twenties parties in Halifax. Monsignor James Burroughs Granville (1904-91), of Halifax Archdiocese. Dr. Ed’s bro-ther exerted a benign influence on extended families, much of it unsung. Ranked in 2nd section with Ancestors though celibate. Broke leg badly in motorcycle accident England while wartime military chaplain; lameness thought to have hindered bishop prospects. James Michael “Pup” Granville (1864-1952). Wed Mary Eva “Minnie” or “Mum” Ryan. While Pup was a travelling tobacco salesman, Mum ran a boarding house in Halifax. Pup, later court crier, was diabetic so delicious fudge always handy. Uncle Frank Wallace and little sister Greta were boarders. Outcome: two Wallaces married two Granvilles. Uncle Joe Wallace married Dot Granville and Ed Granville wed Aunt Greta Wallace. All, gone. James Thomas Carew (1859-1912) Halifax, #3 son Founder Father Stephen. My mother Rita fondly remembered her old bachelor Uncle Jim walking more than 20 miles from Halifax to Glen Margaret, St. Margaret’s Bay, N. S., to join Carew family summer vacationers. He worked for E. Donahoe & Sons, which in my day was, among other handy things, a tinsmithy. Janet (Munro) Fraser (f. 1800s) my great aunt who’s our primary link to Frasers of St. Margaret’s Bay, N. S. See also Edith (Fraser) Grono, Phyllis and Wilma Tapp. Joachin Bazinet (f.1800s) franco-Ontarian great grandfather of Lucie, #2 son Stephen’s spouse. See brief story within explanation of name Bazinet in Section 4. Johann Stella “Nan” (McKenna) Carew (1906-95) was wife of my Uncle Steve and sister of Kathleen Ann. Two Halifax Carew brothers married Pictou McKenna sisters. Basil wed Kathleen, made a home in Halifax; Steve and Nan initially had a house across the harbour in Dartmouth. Both women [and Basil before them] became Alzheimer victims. Johanna “Joan” Carew (1851-73) #2 daughter of Stephen Carew, Founder Father in Halifax. John Munro (1769-1840) b. Morayshire, Scotland, Founder Father Nova Scotia branch. The 1827 census has him aged 60, Church of England, and engaged in the fishery at Por-tuguese Cove in outer Halifax harbour. The household counted three males, six females, plus male servant and maid. He had 10 acres under cultivation harvesting 50 bushels of potatoes, owned a horse, five horned cattle, three sheep and two swine. His remains were carried by mourners, family tradition said, who paced miles perhaps from Cove to his in-terment in St. Paul’s Cemetery at juncture of Spring Garden Road and Barrington Street in Halifax. If his coffin was brought to the graveyard by boat via Halifax harbour pallbearers had little pacing to do. Murrayshire carved on his tombstone is because Moray is pro-nounced murray. Son George established Munro’s Point in St. Margaret’s Bay, N. S. John Munro II christened 1795 in St. Matthew’s Church, Halifax, firstborn of Founder Father John and Susannah Seidler that was. At 45 he was listed as a yeoman with no record of wife. A Munro built a house for his fiancee but the marriage was cancelled the night before. The house was left shut to all, eventually crumbling to ruins, undisturbed even by thieves. So my mother wrote. John Wallace (b.1825/ 27 Ireland, d. ‘74 Oshawa, Ont.) my great grandfather. In ‘58 became superintendent of McLaughlin Carriage Works [later McLaughlin Motor Car Co., then General Motors Canada] recorded Dad. However, censuses of 1861 and ‘71 list him as boot/then shoemaker according to research of my late 3rd cousin Father Pat Byrne of smalltowns Ontario. John’s widow Mary (Hart) Wallace received regular investment and property cheques according to Dad, his notes inferring that they were McLaughlin and that she had earlier occupied a staff house. A restaurant in Toronto’s Union Station showed a large photograph of “Oshawa Carriage Works” with its score or more of employees ranged on the sidewalk in front. Only two are unnamed. The picture was taken 1887 on occasion of owner McLaughlin’s two young sons joining the Works. R. Samuel McLaughlin made it the motor car company. A McLaughlin Buick was involved in that significant 1939 tour of Canada by King George VI, his Queen and children. In latter years on my golf course I heard that Oshawa Wallaces continue prominent in General Motors Canada. R. Samuel’s McLaughlin Foundation in 2000 gave $10 million to the University of Ottawa. John Wallace (1870-1919) b. Oshawa, Ont. Dad’s uncle became newspaper editor as well as city, state and federal office holder in Wheeling, West Virginia. Musical. Ink-stained wretches festoon our extensive family tree. Married American Olive Dunlap, a judge’s daughter. Their daughter Marion Hart Wallace, twice widowed, kept touch with Canadian relatives. Joseph Miles Wallace (b.1857 d. age 22/23) was another of Dad’s uncles in Oshawa, Ont. He's the source of poet Joe's first name, the latter was Dad’s next older brother. Joseph Sylvester Wallace (1890-1975) b. Oshawa, educated in N. S., lived long in Toron-to and d. in a Vancouver retirement home. His first name was in memory of his uncle, Joseph Miles Wallace b. Oshawa 1857 who d. in his early 20s. His second came from his mother’s younger brother. My Dad’s older brother #3 became Canada’s foremost poet of blue-collar workers. Lionized in Communist Russia, China and their satellites and ignored largely at home outside Party circles; Uncle Joe was a bother for our country’s Cold War-riors inside our extended family. However, his and Daddy’s security dossiers were closed decades before the Cold War ended. They were mere Pinkos after all with Joe the more remarkable for remaining Roman Catholic. Finally Joe has a rightful place in CanLit, even if some multi-lettered Granville cousins of mine [he married their sweet but short lived Aunt Dot] witnessed more his obvious human frailties, less perhaps that some of his work does merit inclusion in Canada’s literary mosaic. Reviewing Wallace’s 1956 book of poems wrote the late Northrop Frye: “…A second glance indicates that a skilful and as-tute versifier is only pretending to write naïve verse.” By the way, Owen Granville’s first name is Joseph. In Florida retirement he’s a genealogist. Kate, Aunty, see Catherine Ellen Mary etc. Wife’s grandmother. Katherine “Katie” Wallace (b. Oshawa, Ont., f. latter 1800s) my Dad’s aunt he described as “pretty and stood best ever at Oshawa High School whence she graduated at 16 and entered teachers college”. Died of tuberculosis aged 42, single. She and her brother John who went to West Virginia, USA, were remembered as musical. Kathleen Ann (McKenna) Carew (1897-1995) my Uncle Basil’s widow. We called their charming and immaculate home on Cambridge Street in Halifax a doll’s house. McKennas emigrated from Ulster to Pictou, N. S., because of yet another slump in the weaving in-dustry over there. By coincidence but much earlier, Carews had been weavers of linen in France and then England, according to family lore, and perhaps Ireland as well although there was talk by then of a purchased sinecure there involving some official post. Laura (Munro) Higgins (f. 1930s) stocky black housemaid descended from Munro Point slaves in St. Margaret’s Bay, N. S. She clinched part-time job with Grandma Lavinia Carew by arguing “we’re kin” on the Munro side. She was devoted to us all and radiated immense calm despite a hard life. Lavinia Elizabeth (O’Neill) Carew (1865-1939) my maternal grandmother. When falling back from Saint John, N.B. in 1933 [not 1934 as told elsewhere] we had refuge in her up-stairs flat at then 98 Cambridge St., Halifax, until her death 1939 on eve of war. She had sacrificed 22-year-old son Frank to bloody battle of the Great War at Passchendaele in Belgium and very soon husband Frank to the 1917 Halifax Explosion that also destroyed their home. Grandma was speechless for four months over these losses, according to Wilma (Tapp) Oland, a Fraser relation of ours. Small wonder she had no heart to face another world conflagration and likely more deep sorrows. My years on Cambridge Street were happy but her death was my first real loss at 10. Ever since I’ve remembered her fondly as dumpy, dignified, spare of word yet ever of good heart and often kindly eye. Laughter was considered bold for a lady then so she went "kisk-kisk-kisk" instead. See Kin Tale IX among others about our Carews. Lillian Adele Grace b. Halifax c.1898. Her father Tom died over her crib, she a year old. My Carew grandparents Frank and Lavinia took her in so that widow Belle [see Sarah Elizabeth, etc.] could prepare for nurse work and war service. Adele was maybe a year younger thus closest to Cousin Rita Carew, later my mother. Great Aunt Belle remarried and gathered up her daughter for the USA but Adele near 18 tragically died. Lillian Brownrigg was baby sister to my wife’s grandfather, Henry J. Brownrigg (1873-1944) St. John’s publican, Newfoundland government minister and then commissioner. Tiny and frail, she married Will Comerford but they managed to have four healthy chil-dren. Sturdiest was Nell, soon my wife’s godmother, later Mrs. Dunstan McCormac. Margaret Anne (Bowen) Brownrigg d. 3 Jan. 2007 in an old folks home in Carbonear, Nfld., aged 83. She was the widow of Harry Brownrigg, a Newfoundland Second World War veteran of the Royal Air Force. They were aunt and uncle of my wife, the former Caroline French of St. John’s. Margaret and Harry postwar lived in St. John’s until death of his mother, the widow Kate Brownrigg. Then they built in Montreal but remained childless. Margaret’s parents were Job and Alice Bowen of Wolverhampton, England. A sister, Eileen Lee, survived her in Lockerbie, Scotland. Margaret, who faithfully exchang-ed Christmas cards with us half a century, was a member of the War Brides Association. Margaret (Healy) Carew [pronounced hayley by Haligonians, heely by Newfoundland-ers] (b. Ireland d. 1892 Halifax) widow of Founder Father Stephen Patrick Carew. On his death 1877 “not old” she tried to carry on with their mom & pop ships’chandlery [nauti-cal supplies & victuals] in Halifax as a single mom. A lot of bills from Newfoundland vessels remained uncollected. Margaret Mary Sylvesta “Sylvia” Carew (1893-1972) my mellifluous awnty, older sister of Mummy. She was supervising nurse in a swank Manhatten hospital. See my Carew stories, especially for my oldest sister Margot's fond recollections of Souci’s late love. Margarita Isabel “Rita” (Carew) Wallace (1897-1985) my Mummy. Ad writer, news-paper columnist, secretary Wartime Ration Board in Halifax, ghostwriter, genealogist, all tackled while tiny single mom. Courageous throughout mostly trying times. To give us kids a good country holiday; she quit her job at the newspaper every summer. She and Daddy got together in Ottawa after 30-year separation and, as she began her decline into senility, were split apart again for their long, lonely, final years. They loved each other and us as best they could, and broke my heart. Marie (Poirier) Bazinet b. 18 July 1922 Ottawa, widowed mother of Lucie, #2 son Ste-phen’s wife. She's been digging up Poirier family history, thrills and closet skeletons! Marion Hart (Wallace) ?Melville later Ashton, b. 1902, twice widowed daughter of John Wallace, Oshawa, Ont./Wheeling, West Va., and American Olive Dunlap that was. Kept in touch with Canadian relatives. Mary Agatha “Minnie” (Hart) Gifford (1881-1984) Dad’s cousin who in 1967 visited Ottawa telling of Upper Canada/ Canada West/Ontario Harts and Wallaces. My grand-father Tam Wallace had gone to Nova Scotia around a century previously so that meant plenty of catching up. I was introduced at Dad and Mother’s to plumpish, elderly Min-nie, who had clear blue eyes, good teeth and firm chin. Madame/Mother Mary Anne Carew (1849-1932) gifted #1 daughter of Founder Father Stephen Patrick Carew, first of our Carews b. Nova Scotia. A Sacred Heart Congregation teaching nun mostly in the northern USA, Madame Carew learned to write separate items with each hand on the chalk board simultaneously after an injury forced her to ambi-dexterity. Quite a classroom attention-getter: actually, she was considered clever. Mother Carew directed a free school for Italian immigrant children 1903-09 in Detroit. My Aunt Sylvia travelled inland especially to visit Mother Mary Anne. On her arrival at the convent nuns were gathered in a circle to see if Sylvia could recognize her aunt. Without hesitation, Sylvia went straight to her. Our nun caught bronchial asthma during Christmas holidays which turned into pneumonia. She died conscious amidst prayers of her community. Mary (Cashin) Grant (f. latter 1800s) my wife’s maternal great grandmother from Cape Broyle, Nfld., b. into powerful Newfoundland political dynasty. Husband was Thomas. Mary Ellen (Brownrigg) French (1897-1969) mother of my wife. Predeceased her hus-band Douglas Joseph French. Mary’s agreeable looks in later life are fulfilled in her daughter as I figured after meeting mum during a naval duty trip to St. John's, Nfld. Mary Eva “Minnie”/ or “Mum” Granville (1872-1959) wife of James Michael “Pup” Granville. For a time ran boarding house in Halifax where two Wallaces lived, others congregated resulting in two other Wallaces marrying two Granvilles. Joe Wallace wed Dot and Ed Granville married Greta. “Mum” reared real success stories in her offspring as described in my Melding Hearts, Wallaces & Granvilles in the 20thCentury. Mary (Hart) Wallace (1836/7-1909 my Grandfather Tam’s mother. When he attended newborn Canada’s first-ever business school in Toronto she went with him to look after him until he graduated age 14. She became widow 1874 of John Wallace, Oshawa. Mary Munro (d. 1777) came to the New World to join her army officer spouse with son in tow. This may be mother of Founding Father John Munro of Portuguese Cove, N. S. See booklet about the Munros co-authored by Mummy and my oldest sister Margot. Munro family documents were destroyed by fire at Munro’s Point, N. S., mere ashes in the false bottom of a scorched trunk to show any claim to a Clan seat in Scotland. Mary “Polly” (Redmond) Wallace (1856-98) Dad’s mother who bled to death in Truro, N. S., giving birth to stillborn twins when 42. They would have been her 10th and 11th children. My Dad was five years old and inconsolable throughout his remaining 93. She was an orphan of parents who succumbed to “ship fever” [typhus] ashore in Quebec City Lower Town after running the gamut of Irish Famine and a mid-19th century coffin ship crossing of the broad ocean. An O’Brien family, likely close aunt and husband, gathered in Polly, 4, and her brother Sylvester, 2, both born Quebec City. May Brownrigg was a younger sister to my wife’s grandfather, Henry Joseph Brownrigg (1873-1944). She was widow of Thomas H. Carter, killed in a car accident. Their son Thomas d. very suddenly in early manhood sometime in the ‘30s while my wife was still a youngster. There was talk of suicide. Great Aunt May, pillar of the Church, promptly sponsored a young man for the priesthood. She was still alive to mourn brother Har when he d. 13 Aug. 1944 on his way to Sunday Mass. Michael French (f. early 1800s) Founder Father in Newfoundland of my wife’s family. The family believes he hailed originally from the Sligo region of Ireland. The redheaded sailor swallowed the anchor to set up as a cobbler in historic Harbour Grace. Son Patrick was raising a family in the capital, St. John’s when parents and some of their children died of disease. Descendants no longer recall the name of Michael’s wife. [My Grandfather Tom’s Grandfather Thomas Wallace also came from Sligo.] Michael Grandfield (b. 1792 in Kerry, Ireland) founds Nova Scotia Granvilles 1816 Halifax, marrying there Ellen Bates (b. 1790 in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary). A labourer, he left a bit of property, his will signed with an X. My Uncle Joe and sister Greta Wallace married their later descendants Dot and Ed. See my Melding Hearts, Wallaces & Gran-villes in the 20th Century. Minnie/Mum Granville, see Mary Eva “Minnie” etc. Minnie (Hart) Gifford, see Mary Agatha etc. Najla (Hanna) Fayad (1924-91) was b. in Aita El Foukhar, a village remembered for its pottery in the fertile Beqa’a Valley, Lebanon. Najla immigrated to Canada 1955 and m. here 1958. She d. of breast cancer after bearing husband Abdallah Michael Fayad attractive children here, two sons and two daughters including Lily, wife of our #5 son Matthew. Najla is short for Arabic Najila, brilliant-eyed. Lily is said to possess her mother’s fine qualities. Nan, see Johann Stella etc. Nell McCormack, see Eleanor “Nell” (Comerford) etc. Niall of the Nine Hostages (d. 405 AD possibly killed by lightning at sea) perhaps a Con-nacht prince who became high king of Ireland and pirate raider of what is now Wales, Eng-land, and Scottish isles. From him descend O’Neills and MacNeils. Tradition says Niall captured a young St. Patrick from his family’s British estate and sold him into slavery to be a shepherd in Eire. The hostages of Niall’s title were sons of nine subject northern kings held partly to discourage revolt. As an Irish confederacy Airgialla meaning hostage givers was pretty small potatoes but Niall from his new base at ancient Tara managed to disrupt the old balance of power and five-province system. As for his hostages, these were usually young: it’s likely he died long before he had reason to lay hands on them. Nora Kathleen Wallace (b. 1888/9 Toronto, d.1901 Truro, N. S.) Dad’s #3 sister who aged 12 with sister Georgina, two years older, died of typhoid, spread by infected farmer delivering milk. Dad, barely aged eight, heard their murmurs to each other in the night as they died. Two beautiful teenagers lost to the world. Odilon Bazinet (1890-1934) grandfather of Lucie, wife of #2 son Steve. Odilon was that family’s first Ottawa Lowertowner. He married a French/Irish girl called Nellie, a name almost every deliveryman was beginning to give his mare. Her kids would holler "Whoa, Nellie!" to his chagrin. Lower Town reclamation later crashed a vibrant French culture. Olive Duane (Dunlap) Wallace (b. 1875 West Liberty, West Virginia, d. West Alexander, Pa., 1967) a judge’s daughter. My Uncle Tom praised her as “quite a sport”. Widow of my Oshawan Great Uncle John Wallace who had set up in newspaper, government ser-vice at Wheeling, West Virginia. Daughter Marion Ashton, twice widowed, kept in touch with our kinfolk in Halifax. Patricia Gayle (Latimer) Harder (1944-2001) Alberta health and social worker, was mother of John Harder, husband of #4 daughter Cecily, our youngest child. Pat under-went routine surgery at the University of Alberta Hospital, went toxic and died aged 57 soon after John and Cecily reached her bedside. Her other offspring are Shane, Lorena, Tammy and Troy and several grandchildren. Second husband Abram, then also 57, has remained in their Fort Assiniboine home. Patrick Hart (c.1845-1862) Dad’s Oshawa, Ont.-born great uncle killed in action in the U.S. civil war Battle of Antietam, Maryland. Colonies north of the border sent 50,000 men to fight, often as substitutes for Americans unwilling. Grandfather Thomas Patrick Wallace honours his name. It was a pivotal victory for the North, Patrick a Northern i. e Union soldier. Patrick’s brother Edward, a year older teen, had also been a Union soldier, dead in the earlier Confederate [Southern] victory at 1st Bull Run, Va. Third brother Tho-mas, U.S. navyman, lived long enough to swallow the anchor, d.1884. Patrick French was my wife’s paternal grandfather. He and his wife, Caroline Browne that was, and a son fell to influenza [or T. B.?] 1898 St. John’s, Nfld. Four surviving children, her dad Douglas Joseph youngest. Caroline’s maiden sister Anna took them in. See Kin Tale XLVIII for more about Phil and LXIV about their girls. Paul Edward Glen Carew (1907-11) menopausal Grandma Lavinia’s # 4 son b. Glen Mar-garet, St. Margaret’s Bay, N. S., at habitual Carew summer vacation spot. Sweet, much loved according to my oldest sister Margot, he died of “a complication of measles”. All too often measles brought on incurable diseases until wonder drugs mid-20th century. Phil French a.k.a. James or Johnnie French. See Anna Browne, Kin Tales LXIV, XLVIII for background on children orphaned in St. John’s and reared by Miss Browne. An older brother of Douglas Joseph French Sr., my wife’s father, Phil was briefly a baker in St. John’s then on to the mainland as professional boxer out of the Halifax region. He had five daughters and three sons. Names of his Edith and Jule honour Phil’s sisters long off to New England and married there. Son Doug who predeceased him recalled his youngest brother Douglas Joseph who became my wife’s father. Phil died c.1974. Polly Wallace, see Mary “Polly” etc. Pup Granville, see James Michael etc. Reinhildis “Hilla” (Struck) Jürissen b. 1937 Riesenbeck, Germany, #4 son Barnaby’s former mother-in-law. Retired teacher and grandmother of Clara Marguerite and Gavin Wallace. Clara was first grandchild of Jürissens retired at scenic Minusio, Switzerland. Rebecca (Munro) O’Neill (d. ?1880s Halifax of Bright’s Disease in her 50s) mother of my Grandma Lavinia (O‘N) Carew. Lavinia’s older sister was Ann, the younger, Sarah Eliza-beth "Belle". They had two or three brothers. Rebecca wore the name of her mother and a sister of her father. A beauty at sweet 16 she married Duncan O’Neill, 36, her parents objecting to a popish suitor rather than he being much older which really mattered more. Rebecca Sadler f. 1800s Down East. According to the record at venerable St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Halifax, in 1825 she married George Munro, son of N. S. Founding Father John Munro. Her maiden name was anglicized from Germanic Seidler but of a family surely distinct from that of George’s mother Susannah Seidler that was. George’s sister, also Rebecca, married a Fitzgerald in Halifax. These fussy details 175 years after the fact and from almost 1,500 kilometers away may refute any whiff of consanguinity about severe, straight-laced George, Anglican Church builder and resolute squire. Richard O’Neill (1784-1862) Founding Father of his Nova Scotia branch. Like Founder John Munro, Richard took up the fishery in Portuguese Cove just outside Halifax, and married local girl Catherine Maguire. Robbie Reevie, see Rolande Marie "Robbie" etc. Robert Fraser (f. 1800s St. Margaret’s Bay, N. S.) husband of Great Aunt Janet, daughter of George Munro of Munro’s Point a few miles further along. Robert owned livery stables located at Head o’ the Bay and about halfway along the road to Peggy's Cove. Robert Munro was last of nine surviving children listed in the 1869 will of George Munro of Munro’s Point, St. Margaret’s Bay, N. S., who died that very year. Robert got the family property despite being “mild and lazy”. My mother when a child met him when her family was vacationing at Glen Margaret. Her grandmother Rebecca had been a Mun-ro. “He walked the several miles and despite summer heat arrived in a rusty morning suit, boiled shirt and a silk hat.” Roger John Forget b. 1939 Thornloe, Ont., a franco-Ontarian, our #3 son Christopher’s father-in-law. Ardent hunter and golfer, Roger managed bank branches where both pur-suits were readily available, retiring in Bracebridge, Ont. He often touched base with daughter Debbie in Ontario locales by getting her to caddy for him as he tried out some handy course during his quick visits. Rolande Marie “Robbie” (Deshaies) Reevie (b. 1936 Timmins, Ont.) cheery single mother of 10. Her Tina is wife of our #1 son Duncan. Wee Robbie lives in Barrie, Ont.; makes the occasional cold-weather visit to Tina and Duncan in North Carolina. Sarah Isabelle "Belle" née O'Neill (c.1875-1952) b. Halifax, was my Grandmother Lavinia (O'Neill) Carew's younger sister by about 10 years. Widowed within two years of mar-rying Tom Grace, mother of baby Lillian Adele, Belle later became Mrs. E. C. Champion, he a well-to-do Pennsylvania Quaker "in steel", widower with three children. Our Great Aunt Belle was fairy godmother to single parent Rita and her four children. O'N sisters good friends, Ann, oldest [wed a ?Harney]. These girls had two or three brothers. Stephen John Carew (1865-92) Halifax, #5 son of Founder Father Stephen Patrick. Stephen O’Neill Carew (1906-86) of Halifax and Dartmouth. Grandma’s youngest child b. when she was 42. My mother helped raise Uncle Teabun who became a stocky, brawny athlete, inventive employee of Imperial Oil’s refinery across the harbour, and keen militia officer. Uncle Steve was kind to me when we stayed at Grandma’s 1933-39. [Daddy was left in mental hospital in Saint John, N.B., later sprung by brothers to stay with brother Joe in Toronto and, as ex-pilot RFC/RAF, do war work in an aircraft factory.] Stephen Patrick Carew (d. 1877 Halifax) Irish Founder Father of Bluenose Carews. See my Carew materials. When things didn’t pan out with Carews in Newfoundland this young Irishman sought his fortune in Halifax. He worked at first with horses, the Irish being gifted that way; became a ship's chandler, selling victuals and supplies. He died "not old"; five succeeding generations there having someone named Stephen Patrick. Susannah Seidler (1794-1869) married Founder Immigrant John Munro, aged 25, in the Old Dutch [deutsch] Church, Brunswick St., Halifax, in 1794. See The Munros written by Mummy and my oldest sister Margot and published by Brian Hanington, Margot’s #2 son. John and Susannah had 10 children in Portuguese Cove to seaward of Halifax City. Sylvester Redmond (b. c.1860 Quebec City) the younger brother by two years of Grand-ma Polly Wallace. My late Uncle Joseph Sylvester Wallace honoured his name. Know-ledge otherwise has melted away: our old ones surely deserve to be better remembered. Sylvia Carew, see Margaret Mary Sylvesta "Sylvia" etc. Theresa Agnes Mae “Dot” [nickname not a diminutive of Dorothy] (Granville) Wallace (1896-1927) Halifax. My Uncle Joe’s bubbly first wife soon lost to TB. Thomas Brownrigg (1908-74) was my wife’s uncle on her mother’s side. He married Eleanor Hayes Reg. N who had served in the Great Northern Peninsula’s Grenfell Mis-sion Hospital. A tavern owner, his Hamilton Inn was open to sailors in uniform during the Second World War unlike certain watering holes in St. John’s. The Brownriggs adopted Brian and Brenda through the good offices of his sister Nellie, Sister Mary John of the Sisters of Charity Convent, Saint John, N. B. They’d been offered a choice bet-ween an infant boy and a girl six months apart in age. These softies couldn’t make up their minds so took both. Tom later had businesses in St. John’s and Florida and returned to open two fish & chip shops that thrived. Their summer cottage in Topsail Pond was luxurious my wife found. A gentleman except in his cups who wisely went on the wagon yet always had a joke to tell. To my wife her Uncle Tom was funny and a pussycat. Thomas Grant (f. latter 1800s) b. Cape Broyle, Newfoundland, my wife’s maternal great grandfather, whose wife was former Mary Cashin there of a powerful family. Thomas Hart (b. Oshawa, Ont., d. 1884) Dad’s great uncle was a U.S. Navy career sailor in the time of the War Between the States which my oldest sister Margot’s Virginia ac-quaintances called The Recent Unpleasantness. Two more Hart brothers of Oshawa died in action; teenage Edward and Patrick were Union, i.e., Northern soldiers. Thomas John Wallace (1882-1949) Dad’s #2 brother, astute Nova Scotia businessman, realtor, high-profile Halifax citizen, father of 15 good-looking children, 13 making it to adulthood and most of them successful. Wife Ada was a MacNeil from Cape Breton. Thomas Patrick “Tam” Wallace (1854-1919) brought a growing family from Toronto to Truro, N. S., as hub of his travelling sales job with a stationery firm. He had closed his Toronto classical bookshop in the 1892 recession. “…My father…once owned a book-store, ” wrote my Dad when 76, “but drove off trade by knocking cheap novels he found his customers wanted.” Smoker, non-drinker, smart and clear, clean of tongue, quiet but tough was our Tam. Killed at a railway crossing 1919 a decade before I was born, to me a great deprivation. Nova Scotia successors number in hundreds. Thomas Redmond (b. 1800s Wexford, Ireland) was father of Grandma Polly Wallace. He and his wife died of “ship fever” [probably typhus] in Quebec City. First they survived Famine Ireland; then the perilous ocean crossing in coffin ships that could take miserable months; the arrival processing though Grosse Ile immigration station where 5,000 Irish famine refugees of that period are buried; only to succumb in that city’s crowded Lower Town. Orphaned toddlers Polly, four, and Sylvester, two, b. there were taken over by O’Brien immigrant neighbours, she likely a former Redmond. My Grandmother Polly died 1898 at 42 trying to birth twins in Truro, N. S. My late Uncle Joe Wallace’s middle name memorialized Sylvester of whom we have no trace.
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