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Searching~Griffin~Bagley~Babson Bailey~Cass
Quimby~in the Eastern Townships & New Enland
(direct line - see Mini Bio below)
Missing Links ? Questions ? Comments ? email ~Linda ~ [email protected]
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Mini Bio
(direct
line)
My Earliest Ancestors
known to date is Silas Griffin,
born in Massachusetts
in 1799, Silas had 5 or six brothers, one known,
John Griffin who
was born in 1782 in Lee, Strafford County , New Hampshire,
As early as 1804 this Griffin family is found in Stanstead, Quebec
where they bought
up a large parcel of land,
divided it between 6
or seven sons,
and after some years
the area became known as Griffins Corner.
"Griffins Corner
was small settlement that boasted a school ,
a church (which burned
down in the 1930's),
a hotel , a cemetery,
a tavern , a post office & a stage stop."
I believe Silas &
John were
the sons of Dudley
Griffin & Esther Bowes
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Silas Griffin
married Hannah Babson Bailey b.1793
~ the marriage produced
six children ~
Augustus , Rimmon,
Wilder, Lucy, Silas & Willard
Silas Sr is found in
Stanstead ,Quebec in the early 1800's.
In 1850 Silas,
Hannah
and the younger children
moved south to Derby Line ,Vt.
Silas died "of paralysis"
on his 75th birthday.
Silas & Hannahs
gravesite is yet to be found-probably in Vermont.
His brother , John
Griffin, married
Rebeckah Brockwood b.1784
They were married in
Newport Vermont, on March 15th 1804 ,
they were both residents
of Stanstead at the time of the marriage
~ the marriage produced
these known sons~
John , Martin, and
William.
In the early 1800's the family is found in Newport,Vermont.~John
Sr and his wife, Rebeckah,
are buried in the Griffin
family plot in the East Main Cemetery in Newport, Orleans
county, Vermont.
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Willard Mack
According to the 1861
Census for Stanstead ~ Willard was born in Quebec, to date
the earliest known record
of Willard in the
Eastern townships of
southern Quebec is his marriage record...
On March 20, 1844
Willard married
Hepseba
Cass Quimby in Eaton Baptist Church
Hepseba & Willard
were both from Clifton when they married &
lived in Leavitts Mills,
PQ.after the marriage.
Willard's
will mentions two sons John Q. and George A.
and a daughter Nancy
E.
George Albert Augustus
married Minnie Florence Bagley.
This union produced Rosa(mond), Nellie
Emma and Josephine , followed by
twins Burton & Bertha, shortly after this birth both Bertha
and her mother died ,
presumably from complications
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George then married
the Griffin School teacher, a 'Mrs.Louise(Wallace)
Miller'
and this
marriage produced another
son, Gleason Griffin ~Burton lived his
whole life in the Eastern
Townships.
Gleason died of Pneumonia
as a young man, while visiting his
sisters in Saskatchewan.
He suffered from severe Asthma his whole life
All three of George
and Minnie's
daughters became nurses
, Rose and Josephine became Registered Nurses
and Nellie
Emma was a Midwife working on confinement
cases with Dr Merson
in Northern Saskatchewan
from 1920 to 1949. Rose married Victor Chivers Wilson, an accountant
for the Bank of Montreal,
Josephine married Chester Cline.
Nellie Emma and her
husband Thomas Timothy Morgan homesteaded in Lloydminster,Sask.
Thomas was born in Wales,
near Cardiff, grew up in England worked for a short period of time as a
butcher
and emigrated to Canada
at age 21.
T.T. or "Tommy" as he
was always known , lived in Toronto for a short time before moving on to
Saskatchewan
& later went
to war. After the Second World War, October 8th ,1950,
Tommy and Nellie
moved to
the Lower Mainland of
British Columbia, they had a small farm
about an hour
away from their home in town - built by
Tommy & Nellie,
their 5 sons & a daughter.
Their son, G.H.Walter
Morgan,
married Jane Susan Springle.
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