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.
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.
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