Mary Jane Daniels (Edmonds) Family

Mary Jane Daniels and Ebenezer Edmonds married December 19, 1870.

They proceeded to have the following children:

    Clara Gertrude 1873

    Annie Fenton 1875

    Norman Francis "Frank" 1879 

    Mabel Susan 1880

    Edith Lillian 1883

    Arthur Stanley 1887

    Harry Burt "Roy" 1889 

Edith was the only one of the girls to get married. She married Dr. Claude Victor Johnston and they lived in New York and had one son William.

Frank married Minnie C. Olds June 29, 1904. He died Jan 17, 1914. He lost an arm in the mill machinery and subsequently died. In the 1911 census there are no children listed in his family, only a cousin, Arthur Edmonds. 

Arthur married Mildred Abigail Perry June 6, 1917 he died in 1951. Arthur and Mildred had a son Robert and a daughter Helen.

Roy was born 28 April 1889 and after that I have no record of him except for this picture.

Mary Jane DANIELS (EDMONDS)

At the beginning of March 2020 I received a DNA match from Ancestry with Robert Michael Edmonds. I sent him a brief message, feeling that he would be a descendant of Mary Daniels (Edmonds), my great grand aunt. A week later he replied, but I did not see it for two months, so when I did see the message I replied immediately!

Since then I have been in close contact sharing our family history. He connected me with his brother David, their family historian, and he was able to send me some pictures. This is my first time to see a picture of Mary Daniels. She is with her husband Ebenezer Edmonds. 

We are working through our family history stories now, trying to get the facts straight. Mary and Eben had four girls and Three boys and adopted a British home child Mary Madden, she can be found in the 1881 census, https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1881/Pages/about-census.aspx. They ran a grist mill on  the Lynn River just south of Simcoe, Ontario.

Here is a letter she sent to her brother Frederic. I have not been able to find her birth record in France yet, but Mike and David do have her as being born there on Sep 8, 1846 in Rouen.

When Mary’s parents John and Jane died she would have been 7 years old and she went to live with Richard and Alice Quance. Richard Quance was the brother of Rebecca Quance (Daniels) the wife of George T. Daniels, Mary’s uncle. You can find her in that family in the 1861 census, https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1861/Pages/about-census.aspx.

I sit here looking at her picture sensing a familiarity. I compare her picture to the one of Frederic and Margaret's family, she does remind me of grand aunt Millie. I think about how it was for Mary, losing both her parents and then being separated from her brothers and sister. She seems somewhat hesitant to contact her brother, she mentions that in correspondence with her sister Sarah. For me this is emotional, reaching into the past, being able to see her picture and connect with her descendants. I guess that is why I enjoy genealogy research so much.

St. Bartholomew's Church continued

Today's blog is a continuation of last months. Inside St. Bart's church there were pictures of changes to the spire. This picture in 1809 before the spire was demolished when it became unsafe.

The next picture shows the spire as it looked between 1816 and 1874 when this second spire was removed. This would have been how the church looked in 1839 when John and Jane were married here.

The next picture is the look of the church after the second one was replaced after 1874.

Here are the names of the vicars from over the years at St. Bartholomew's. Notice the Name William Coles Bennett in 1832. He was the vicar who married John and Jane. you will find his name on their marriage record.