COBOURG
Heaven over Heaven rose the night.
"The night comes on that knows not morn,
When I shall cease to be all alone,
To live forgotten, and love forlorn."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Marianna of the South
At least eleven members of the Phillips family are buried in the family plot
marked by this head stone in St. Peter's Cemetery in Cobourg, Ontario.
I dedicate this website to those who are here remembered
and thus not forgotten; and invite you to join in my prayer:
that in addition to our having been born into this life,
we may, like Mary, the Theotokos,
bear the eternal Word and each other
into the new life that has been prepared for all God's children.
Amen.
However,
only four of them can be
identified by individual
grave markers or foot stones.
While nine of the Phillips family are included in St. Peter's Burial Register, there is no record of two others who are marked by foot stones: Thomas and Elizabeth. One of the foot stones, although not legible, may mark the grave of John and Mary Phillip's second daughter, Rebecca, who died at the age of twenty-one.
St. Peter’s Church, Cobourg where the Phillips family worshipped between 1850 and the early 1900's. The last of the Phillips had left Cobourg by the end of 1905, although Robert Nelson -- and perhaps others returned to be buried in the Cemetery. St. Peter's is on College Street at King, two blocks North of Lake Ontario and the beach
In the 1861 Canada West census, both Edward and John Phillips are listed as farmers in Hamilton Township, Northumberland County just outside of the town of Cobourg, where John, who was not yet married, lived with Edward’s family. I could not find John in the 1851 and 1871 census. From 1881 onward John worked as a mail carrier, which was probably a patronage appointment from the federal Tory government of Sir John A. MacDonald. Edward, in the various census records, is also listed as a groom and a coachman and this may add credence to his having been the proprietor of the Enniskillen Hotel as listed in the 1869 Cobourg City Directory. It was formerly called the Phillips Hotel and is located at 205 third street. Although enlarged and renovated with brick veneer and other improvements, it still exists and is now known as Kelly’s Home Inn. In the nineteenth century such a hotel would have had stables attached and the proprietor may well have been required to function as the groom or coachman as well. Below are pictures of the hotel as it is now, and how it looked when Edward managed it.
This single story painted brick house is the last of several houses John and Edward Phillips owned in Cobourg. It was bought by Edward Phillips in 1874 and, on his death (1898) left to his son, James, who seemed to have passed it onto his brother, Robert. After the rest of Edward’s and John’s families had either died or left the area, Robert lived there with his Aunt Mary Tate Phillips, until they moved to Chicago (circa 1904) when the house was sold, on behalf of Robert (or James) by our grandmother, (exor) Mary Jane Phillips Roach, who would have had to travel from Saint John in order to finalize the sale, and perhaps ready the house for the new owners. It was probably the last time she was in Cobourg. Another house owned by Edward Phillips was located at 201-203 Tremaine St. It seems John speculated on real estate and he bought this house from Edward. He also owned houses or property on 175-177,191,199 and 210 Stuart Street, which is one block west of Tremaine St. It was probably a dispute over one of these transactions that led to the deadly confrontation with Lawyer Cruikshanks. (See below)
COUNTY FERMANAGH
TO LOS ANGELES
"We have it on good authority that two children by the name of Phillips died
In Enniskillen from starvation. They were unable to buy soup¸ from the Public
Soup kitchen." - from the Enniskillen Chronicle and Ederney Packet, Sept. 1846
as quoted by Christina Kineally and Trevor Parkhill, editors, The Famine in Ulster, Ulster Historical Foundation, (January 1, 1997) P.135
I have been researching them and their descendants since 2010 and have found it an arduous and sometimes painful -- but still rewarding endeavour. They and their three children: Rebecca, Edward and John were born in Aghaleaugue, County Fermanagh, Ireland, just five km from the County Seat of Enniskillen. Both Rebecca and her husband John Marshall died in 1845 and 1847 respectively. Jane, also a widow, was thus left with the Marshall orphans, Mary 7 and Anne 3. Edward, the eldest son, had made his way to the Cobourg area (Hamilton Township) in Canada-West and married there in 1850. With the famine raging Jane and John had little choice but to follow him. Thus in 1851, they and the Marshall girls boarded the cheapest passage available, which was the J&J Cooke Line Ship, the Envoy, and crossed from Derry to Québec. (2) They then made their way to Edward's home, in time for all but John to be enumerated for the 1851-52 Canada-West Census. (John may have been scouting the US for work or simply sojourning in the back house, when the census taker came.) By the time of the 1861 Census, Jane had died and only John, Mary and Edward and their families are listed. Anne is missing. She is probably in the United States, and may well be the Anne Marshall, who according to the US 1860 census was 15 years old, was born in Ireland and was then doing ‘housework’ for the ‘Longs’, a farm family in Champagne County, Ohio. She may have returned to Canada at the outset of the US civil war. At the end of the war Anne, now in Toronto, married an American from Ohio and moved permanently to the US. She was the first of many.
When I began this project, I did not even know any of the names except for my grandmother's, which as it turned out, was a pseudonym. Research was also made difficult by grandmother Phillips-Roach's propensity to lie about her age. My sister, however, did know the names of some of her siblings. Thus we found her by searching Canadian census records for her youngest sister, Zoe, and deduced that she had to be her eldest sister, Mary Jane Phillips. Why our grandmother, who may have been named for both her mother and grandmother, changed her name from Mary Jane to Jean Marshall is a mystery, although it may have to do with her father's tragic death on 31 October 1895 as widely reported in the Toronto Globe and Cobourg World, and even in the New York Times.
Cruickshanks died on 2 November and less than ten years later, all the Phillips had left the area. In fact, of Jane and James' seventeen grandchildren, only Mary Marshall Brock and her family remained in the Cobourg area, and only two others even remained in Canada: Mary Jane Phillips Roach in Saint John, New Brunswick and Jane Phillips Cooper in Emerson, Manitoba. The rest migrated to the USA; although one of the great-grandsons, Gordon Dunlop, moved back -- to British Columbia. Moreover, it is doubtful that any of James and Jane's descendants living today bear the Phillips name.
In 1915 Mary Jane (or Jean Marshall) Phillips Roach with both of her daughters in tow (Dorothy 11 and Orlo 5 years old) traveled by train from the Atlantic Coast of New Brunswick, Canada across the continent to the homes of her mother and two of her sisters: Margaret Phillips Dunlop and Ida Phillips Grimison in Los Angeles. They stopped in Chicago, (probably for about a week) where two of her siblings (Zoe Phillips Waterman and Jack Phillips lived), From this short sojourn in Chicago our mother at the age of five developed a life long friendship with her seven year old cousin, Phillips Waterman. They stopped again at the home of Mary Jane's cousin and confirmation mate, Agnes Phillips Libby in Boulder, Colorado. My mother's recollection of this journey caused me to reflect on it in terms of a spiritual search in which the scattered roots of identity were renewed for both herself and her children. My writing this family history was inspired by her telling the story of this pilgrimage and I pray it will contribute to our own pilgrimages as we attempt to keep faith with both those who have preceded us and those who will succeed us, including those yet to be born.
This picture may depict grandmother Roach and her children: Dorothy 11 and Orlo 5, as they gather in the summer of 1915 with their Los Angeles relatives and friends, before boarding the train for their return trip to Canada. The photograph
came from Alan Hayes, a great grandson of Margaret Phillips Dunlop. His father (John Joseph Hayes III) had told him that it was of his grandmother and aunts, mentioning specifically an Aunt Ida, a sister of Grandmother Roach.
The names that I have labeled the individuals with are simply my guesses. I would be happy to receive alternate suggestions as well as suggestions for the other four people in the picture)
Below are a couple of other mystery photos I have received and thus looking for corroboration of their identity. Please contact me at jim.stevenson78@gmail.com with any suggestions on these pictures and/or any other updates or corrections of the material in this blog. The picture on the left came from Mary Marshall Brock (daughter of Rebecca Phillips Marshall); she had written Uncle Fred Phillips on it. The picture on the right was sent to Deayea Dunlop (Swineford) by Margaret Dunlop. On the back she had written: a picture of ‘Phillips Stewart, son of Margaret Phillips and Dr. James Stewart, Deyea’s fourth cousin, seventy years older.’ My guess is James and Jane Phillips had two more children: Fred and Margaret Phillips Stewart, who may have stayed in Ireland or emigrated elsewhere. There is no record of a Phillips Stewart in the Canadian or US census in the mentioned time frame (1870-1881). And to date I have not found them in Irish records. If you recognize either of these people, please let me know. (See email address above.)
THE FIRST FOUR GENERATIONS
What follows is the first four generations of James and Jane’s descendants (only people who are now dead or those for whom I have received permission to publish their names) in the hope that some living relatives might see it and learn to feel deeply, as I have, for the pain and sadness as well as the joy and triumph of this family. I have also included brief notations on the sources of the information. Thanks are due to both Alan Hayes and Kathleen McKenny, who provided a treasure load of information as well as pictures of the Dunlops. Thanks too to Ross Harper who also sent pictures of the Dunlop children. Thanks as well to Peter Brotherhood, who showed me around St. Peter's cemetery and identified the Phillips grave markers for me; to Dianne Brock who provided me with the picture of the Brock family as well as the Cobourg property records for John and Edward Phillips but most importantly for helping to trace the Phillips to County Fermanagh, and finally to Linda Waterman Blatnik, who provided most of the other pictures.
The First Generation
1. James Phillips b. circa 1788, and Jane Phillips b. 1792 came from Aghaleague, County Fermanagh, Ireland and were married circa 1816 in St. Mary's Church, Enniskillen, Parish of Maheraculmoney. James died in 1826 at the age of 38.(1) Jane married a second time to James Elkill (or Elkin) a widower on 1 January 1839 in St. Mary's Church, Enniskillen. Witnesses to this marriage were her son, Edward and son-in-law, John Marshall.(1) The fate of her second husband is unknown and by the time she emigrated (1851) to Hamilton Township, Northumberland County, Canada-West, with her son John and her granddaughters: Mary and Anne Marshall (2), she referred to herself as Jane Phillips, widow of James Phillips. (3) According to the 1851 Canada-West Census her age is then 60. Jane died at the age of 65 and was buried in St. Peter's cemetery Cobourg, Ontario on 22 July 1856.(3)
* What became the Province of Ontario with Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1867 was previously known as Canada-West and Prior to 1841 as Upper Canada or Haut-Canada.
* What became the Province of Ontario with Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1867 was previously known as Canada-West and Prior to 1841 as Upper Canada or Haut-Canada.
The Second Generation: Children of James and Jane Phillips:
2. i. Rebecca Phillips b. Aghaleague, County Fermanagh, Ireland circa 1818 (Baptism at St. Mary's Church, Enniskillen, August 23, 1818) (1).d. 26 December 1845. Rebecca married John Marshall on 27 April 1838 in Tubrid Church, Kesh, County Fermanagh, Ireland (4). John was born circa 1810 and died in 1847.
3. III. Edward Phillips b. Aghaleague, County Fermanagh, Ireland circa 1821 (Baptism at St. Mary's Church Ennisskillen 26 Jan 1823) (1) emigrated to Canada on or before 1850. Edward was married on 31, Aug 1850 in St. Peter's Church, Cobourg, Northumberland County, Canada-West to Elizabeth Hermiston b. Scotland 1830. Elizabeth died in March 1897 and Edward died in August 1898. Both Edward and Elizabeth are buried at St. Peter's Cemetery. (3
4. iii. John Phillips b. Aghaleague, County Fermanagh, Ireland,1825 (Baptised in St. Mary's Church Enniskillen 24 August 1825) d. 31 October, 1895. John was married circa 1865, to Mary Tate b. Northern Ireland (5) on 28 May 1847 daughter of Mary Mac Cormack and James Tate b. 1814, d. 5 Feb 1893 in Cobourg. James Tate's death notice in the 'Cobourg World' refers to him as the father of Mrs. John Phillips and the only record of his wife is in his daughter's death Certificate.(5) It appears that James was a widow when he and Mary immigrated to Canada in 1864. (6) Mary Tate Phillips migrated to the US in circa 1904..(9) She lived in Chicago until about 1913 when they moved to Los Angeles, California. She died in Los Angeles on December 18, 1925. Her interment took place at the Inglewood Mausoleum on December 22, 1925.
The Third Generation: Grandchildren of James and Jane Phillips
2. Children of Rebecca Phillips Marshall (James) and John Marshall
(It may well be that Mary Jane (see 6 below) adopted the pseudonym 'Marshall' from her Aunt Rebecca, or more probably from her cousins Ann and Mary.)
Below is Mary Marshall and
Thomas Brock's gravestone in
The Bowmanton Cemetery
5. i. Mary Elizabeth Marshall b. 20 August 1838, Kesh, County Fermanagh, Ireland married Thomas Brock, age 22 on 24 August 1858, in Cobourg, Northumberland County, Canada-West. (6) Thomas died in 1884 and Mary died on 8 July, 1912. Both are buried in Bowmanton Cemetery, Haldimand Township, Northumberland County, Ontario. The gravestone lists Mary's birth year as 1834, but it appears, partly because of their sequence, and partly because of her age in 1851, that the Tubrid Church record (1838) is correct. (The full record of Mary and Thomas Brock's family can be found on P2222 of 'treesbydan.com')ii. Anne Marshall b. Ederney, County Fermanagh, Ireland circa 1844 m. William Windsor, 17 July 1865 in Toronto, Canada-West. William was the son of William and Matilda Windsor of Cincinatti, Ohio. Edward Phillips, Anne’s uncle and perhaps surrogate father and guardian, was one of the two recorded witnesses of the marriage. After their marriage, Anne and William settled in the Madison area (Dane County) of Wisconsin.9 As for as can be ascertained they did not have children, although a nephew and a niece of William lived with them. (Cf 1870 US census.) (Record of Anne and William Windsor's marriage from the Archives of Ontario via Family Search.)
3. Children of Edward (James) and Elizabeth Hermiston Phillips
ii. James b. Hamilton Township, Northumberland county, Canada-West b.19 Oct 1853 m. 24 November 1884 in Brighton ON where he worked as a banker to the widow of John Bray Eyre, Adelaide Eyre Stevens b. 1838 d. 23 Feb 1907 in Toronto, ON. daughter of Samuel and Eliza Stevens of Belleville, Canada West. James, who had no children, died after 1908 as he is mentioned in the 6 Feb. 1908 issue of the Ottawa Journal’s death notice as the step father of Adelaide and her first husband’s eldest child, William John Eyre b. 1858 d. 1908. (Cf. Web Site ‘Trees by Dan’ for records of the Eyre family.)
iii Thomas Wilson b. Hamilton Township, Northumberland Canada, Canada-West 15 Nov.1855 d. June 1878, interred in St. Peter’s Cemetery Cobourg, ON..(3)
iv. John Wellington b. Hamilton Township, Northumberland, County, Canada-West 13 Oct. 1857 d. 5 Sep 1902, resident of Chicago, interred St. Peter’s Cemetery, Cobourg ON, 8 Sep 1902.(3)
v. Robert Nelson b. Hamilton Township, Northumberland, County, Canada-West 13 Oct. 1857, resident of Chicago, d. 21 June 1912, interred in St. Peter’s Cemetery 24 June 1912, In 1901 Robert was living in Cobourg with his widowed aunt, Mary Tate Phillips,(6).This picture taken circa 1865 shows Edward Phillips and Elizabeth Hermiston Phillips' four sons: (from Left to Right, with their estimated ages when the picture was taken) James, (12) Robert (8), John (8) and Thomas (10). Robert and John were twins.
There are some discrepancies between Robert's death certificate (see below) and St. Peter's Records: Willington vs. Nelson and the birth date given as June 1857. I believe, the Church records are correct. Robert and John were twins and it seems they came to Chicago together in May of 1902. Sadly like many of the Phillips family, John and Robert were destined to die young and without descendants: John only four months after their arrival in what had become the Phillips' hometown of Chicago, and Robert ten years later. The informant listed on Robert's death certificate was his cousin John E. (Jack) Phillips (see below.)
(Click on these images in order to enlarge them to a readable size.)
vi. Jane b. Hamilton Township, Northumberland, County, Canada-West 3 Oct 1860 m. 29 Sep 1890 William John Cooper, 25, Customs Official, Enniskillen, Ireland and Emerson, Manitoba s/o Charles and Jane Cooper. Witnesses to the wedding were Robert Shields, James Phillips and Agnes Phillips.(3)
vii. 6. Agnes Rebecca b. Hamilton Township, Northumberland, County, Canada-West 8 Dec 1865 m. St. Peter's Church, Cobourg 30 Dec 1890 Melancthon Fenessy Libby, b. 4 Mar 1864, Port Hope Canada-West d. Boulder CO 1921, son of Robert Stephen Libby and Mary Libby. (3)
4. Children of John Phillips (James) and Mary Tate Phillips. (4)
7 .i Mary Jane (aka Jean Marshall) b. 20 Jan 1867, Cobourg, Canada-West, confirmed in St. Peter's Church, Cobourg (along with her cousin, Agnes) 18 Nov. 1884 (3) d. 13 May 1944, East Riverside, NB m. 7 August 1900 in St. Peter's Church, Cobourg, ON, to Frederick William Roach b. Sussex NB 18 Dec. 1867 d. 2 Aug. 1940, East Riverside, NB son of Richard Roach and Marion Smith. To the right is a picture of Frederick Roach, taken on November 5, 1898.(14)ii. Rebecca b. Cobourg, ON Nov. 9, 1869 d. 15 Dec. 1890, interred in St. Peter's Cemetery.(3)
iii. Ida Elizabeth b. Cobourg, ON 5 May 1870
m 14 Sep 1898 in St. Peter’s Church. Cobourg
iv. James Alexander b. Cobourg, ON 1 Aug 1871 d. 15 Aug. 1892, interred family plot, St. Peter's Cemetery.(3)
v. John Edward (Jack) b. Cobourg, ON 17 Aug 1874 d. Chicago IL 3 July 1925 m.16 July 1904, Margaret Sutherland of Orangeville, ON, daughter of Alex Sutherland and Martha Steele. To the right is the wedding picture of John and his wife, Margaret. According to his death certificate, his body was interred in Orangeville, ON. John and Margaret had one unnamed son born on 6 May 1909. However he only lived for one day.8. vi. Margaret Adelaide b. Cobourg, ON 11 Feb 1875 d. Los Angeles, 20 Oct 1956 m. 6 Dec. 1897, Toronto, York, ON Herbert Arthur Dunlop b. 27 Jun 1876, Westmeath, Renfrew, ON d. april 1964, (resided in Los Angeles). (8)
vii. Thomas William b. Cobourg, ON 12 Sep 1878 d. 19 Jan 1899 and interred in St. Peter’s Cemetery in Cobourg ON. Thomas was an electrician and at the time of his death was a resident of Chicago, IL. He was probably named for his cousin Thomas, who had died thee months before his birth. (see above). (3)
9.viii. Zoe Arian b. Cobourg, ON 8 Feb 1881 m. 23 Jun. 1906, Albert Lloyd Waterman, b. 12 Jan 1873, Brooklyn NY. Zoe was the Maid of Honour at her sister's (Mary Jane's) wedding. The picture on the right is of Zoe Phillips Waterman and of her mother, Mary, It was taken on Mary’s balcony in the Hyde Park area of Chicago, probably by her daughter Ida,The Fourth Generation: Great grandchildren of James and Jane Phillips
5. Children of Mary Marshall Brock (James, Rebecca) and Thomas Brock (7)
Below is a picture of Mary Marshall Brock and Thomas
Brock's family celebrating a Marriage, possibly Isaac's.
ii. Rebecca Brock b. 1861
iii. Robert Brock b. 1863
iv. Thomas Brock b. 1867
v. David Brock b. 7 Oct 1870
vi. James Alexander Brock
b. 10 Sep 1872 d. 28 Feb. 1929
vii. Margaret Brock b. 1875
viii Isaac Brock b. 1877
ix. Mary Brock b. 1879
x. E. Maud Brock b. 9 Apr 1882
xi. Elizabeth Brock b. 35 Sep 1888
Below is the Cooper
Family gravestone in
Emerson Manitoba from
The Billion Graves Website
6. Children of Jane Phillips Cooper (James, Edward) and
William John Cooper Customs official of Enniskillen, Ireland and Emerson, Manitoba, b.circa 1865 d 11 August 1933
i. Frederica Jane Hermiston Cooper b 26 April 1892 d 7 Dec 1897
ii. Constance Veronica Cooper, b. 30 Sept. 1894 d 30 Sept 1895
7. Chidren of Agnes Phillips Libby (James, Edward) and Melancthon Libby of Toronto, ON and Boulder, CO (10).
i. John Hermiston Libby b. 27 Dec 1891 Toronto, York, Ontario d. May 20, 1944 m. 1 June 1922, Violet Kelway-Bamber, b. 7 Aug 1892 d. 24 Oct.1981. John and Violet had three children: John Hermiston Kelway Libby Jr. b. 13 June 1926, Edward Kelway Libby b. 2 Sept. 1928, Anne Kelway Libby b. 13 April 1930.
To the left is the wedding announcement for John Libby and Violet Kelway-Bamber which appeared in the New York Post on 5 May 1922. Below right is John Libby's
gravestone in The National
Cemetery in Arlington, VA.
ii Margaret Agnes Imogan Libby, b. 26 Mar 1893, Toronto, York, Ontario. (She is not in the 1901 Ontario census; she may have died.)
iii. Kate Constance Louise Libby, b. Jul 1894, Toronto, York, Ontario m. in Boulder CO on Dec. 1 1917 To Mr. Cope Judson Hanley b. 1894 d. 1977, son of Charles Walker Hanley of Jasper Indiana b. 1865 d. 1944 and Harriett Lectutia Hopkins Hanley b. 1867 d. 1957. In 1930 Kate and Cope were living with Cope’s parents in Jasper, IN, while in 1940 Kate and Cope were living in Chicago. They did not have children. (cf the 1930 and 1940 US Census)
iv. Clare R. Libby, b. 1903, Boulder, Colorado d0(8).2 d, 1986 Darien, Connecticut m. Jasper, Indiana 6 Jan 1924. Thomas K. Meloy b. 13 Jan 1894 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania d, 6 Jan 1979 Washington DC son of Andrew Meloy and Alice Kronenburg. Claire and Thomas had a son and a daughter: Thomas Phillips Meloy of Morgantown, WV b. 14 Sep 1925 d. 25 Dec 2009 and Consuelo Meloy (Mrs. John Nussbaum) of Stamford CT b. 8 Feb 1927 d. 4 Dec 2018.
V. James Edward Paget Libby, b. Boulder, Colorado 2 July 1910 d. 24 June 1965 Chicago, IL m. 1, 25 August 1937 Grace Marie Kneipple, Howard IN. m.2, Courtland D. Libby (Date and place unknown - source: Cook County, IL Death Certificate, 1965). James was a teacher. He and his first wife Grace Marie had one child: Peter Cove Libby, who died without issue.
Children of Mary Jane (or Jean Marshall) Phillips Roach and Frederick William Roach.
8. The Roaches were from County Wexford now in the Republic of Ireland. John Roach, Frederick's great grandfather, joined the British Army and fought in the revolutionary war. After he was mustered out (circa 1780), he was granted land in what is now called Roachville near Sussex Corners, in what was then, Nova Scotia (now in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick). According to the Canadian census records, Frederick's family moved to Saint John between 1881 and 1891. Both Frederick and his father (Richard) worked as travelers for the dry goods company of ‘Vassy, Brock, Manchester' of Saint John and Halifax and my guess is that Mary Jane Phillips, a Milner by trade, was one of Frderick's customers. Grandfather Roach became vice-president of the company and ran their associated department store in Saint John: 'Manchester, Robertson, Allison' (colloquially knows as 'MRA's’)
8. i Dorothy Reeve Roach (James, John,
Mary Jane) b. Saint John NB 5 Oct. 1903,
d. 18 Jan 1985 m 8 Aug 1939 Roland
Dickson Darling of Hammond River
NB. Above are Pictures of Dorothy
at various stages of her life: 1 ) at her
baptism, 2) as a young girl and
3) as a beautiful young woman .
Opposite is a picture of Dorothy’s
Wedding. The woman on the
right front is her mother, Mary Jane
or Jean Marshall Phillips Roach.
8. ii Orlo Reeve Roach (James, John,
Mary Jane) b. Saint John NB 20 Oct
1909 d. 11 June 2000 Nepean ON m.
1937 to Charles Stuart Stevenson b.
5 Jun 1906 Toronto ON d. 6 Jan
1974, Orlando FL. To the right is
Orlo and Stuart’s wedding picture.
Below are three pictures of Orlo at
various stages in her life: 1) possibly
her baptism; 2) possibly confirmation;
3) as a strikingly attractive young
women. This photo is a bit of a
mystery to my sister and me.
We had not seen it until a first and a
second cousin of ours sent us two
separate copies of it in response to our
request for material for this project.
8. Children of Margaret Adelaide Phillips Dunlop (James, John) and Herbert Arthur Dunlop of Toronto, Ontario and Los Angeles, California. Herbert was the son of James Gordon Dunlop and Elizabeth Am Huntington of Westmeath, Ontario in the Ottawa Valley. The Dunlops had come from Renfrewshire, Scotland to Upper Canada, circa 1840.(13) Margaret and Herbert were referred to as ‘Lover’ and ‘Dearest’ respectively by their immediate family and their descendants. (They did not like ‘Gramma’ and ‘Grampa’). (18) In Los Angeles Herbert managed ‘The May Company’ department store and was subsequently the regional sales manager for ‘The Diamond Match Company’ and was thus relatively well off. But that did not prevent him from being ‘careful’ (a Canadian expression for miserly). Below to the left is a picture of Margaret with her granddaughter, Pat. The other picture is of lover and dearest in later years.
12. i. Marion Audry (aka Nana) (James, John, Margaret) b. Cobourg, ON 23 Sep 1898 d. 23 July 1978, Woodland Hills, California. Nana had an unconventional and difficult Life. She was both argumentative and opinionated and struggled with alcohol. From what her family tells me, it seems to me she might have been bi-polar. She was married at least five times and either married her third husband (Hull) twice or merely reunited after a fairly lengthy separation. This list of husbands is probably incomplete: 1. 26 July 1917 Erastus F Gould Chapman, divorced 5 Jan 1920; 2. 10 April 1920 John Joseph Hayes II b 1 Jan 1896, divorced 1927 or 1928, d. 14 Jan 1935, son of John Joseph Hayes and Pauline A. Hayes of Atlanta, Georgia; 3. 1928 Dr. Foster Miller Hull, a highly successful physician and chemist/inventor of patent medicines, but who became addicted to prescription drugs and died from suicide in El Monte, California on 8 February 1949. 4. Burley Carlson (dates unknown) 5. Geroge L. McConnell, 15 Feb. 1955. One or two of her relationships in the late 1920’s and early thirties resulted in her children’s being cared for, for a couple of years by ‘lover’ and ‘dearest’ (ie. her parents, cf. 1930 US census). She was an extra in several Hollywood silent films and met her second husband (Hayes) on a movie set. Hayes had a few minor parts in a number of films. Marion had three children by Hayes: Pat, John Joseph III and June; and one by Hull, Foster Miller Hull jr. The picture is of Herbert, Margaret, Marion and Foster Hull with the three Hayes Children.
Below are pictures of both of Margaret and Herbert’s children: Marion and Gordon at the age of 19. Gordon is at the historic Sturtevant Camp in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California. The photo of Marion may have been a studio shot.
13.2 R. Gordon Dunlop (Royle Gordon on his birth record) b 28 April, 1900 Toronto, ON d. 8 April 1970, Vancouver, BC m. 1) 4 July 1930 divorced circa 1935, Leota Belle Tipton, b. Colorado 1900, daughter of James B Tipton and Laura Seelinger, m. 2. circa 1935 to Thelma Flora Jones (aka Tel) b. 22 July, 1901 d. 3 July 1996, daughter of James William Jones and Amanda May Keith Jones of Lake Valley, Hillcrest, Sierra, New Mexico Territory. Tel and Gordon separated sometime after the decennial US census (April 1940) as they were still together when it was taken. Moreover, Tel must have been pregnant with their second child at that time (see below). m. 3, Edith Christina Grange Wilson b. 1904 London UK d. Vancouver BC 11 Feb 2002, daughter of George John Grange and Emma Mary Wellerd. Edith was the widow of Victor Wilson. (17). Tel and Gordon had two children: a daughter, Deyea Vonne Dunlop b. 5 Nov. 1936; and a son, Robert Campbell (his surname is Swineford on his birth record) b. Los Angeles 16 July 1940 d. Henderson, Nevada, 19 Aug 2017. (12) According to his Legacy.com obituary, Robert retired as a detective in the Sacramento, California Police Department after thirty years of service. (12) After Tel and Gordon’s divorce, Tel married (16 Jan 1948) Howard M. Swineford b. 26 Jan 1908 d. 22 Jan 1994, son of Jay and Nellie Swineford of Mesa, Colorado. Howard adopted Deyea, which was confirmed by a new birth certificate in her new name. (19). Sadly Deyea and Robert lost all contact with Gordon and his parents. In my telephone conversation with Deyea, she stated that she had no memory of her Dunlop grandparents. Below left is a picture of Gordon with Deyea. The back of the picture had a note, written by Deyea’s grandmother, Margaret Dunlop: “...and is Gordon proud of her. He compares her to every other baby he sees, and thinks she is tops.” The picture on the right is Gordon and his first wife, Leota.
9. Children of Zoe Ariel Phillips Waterman (James, John) and Albert Lloyd Waterman of Chicago, Il.
14. i Phillips Lloyd Cushing Waterman b. Chicago, IL 9 Oct 1907 d. 18 Dec. 1984, Palm City Fl m. 1. Estelle Fern Stillson, 21 March, 1936, divorced. (15). m. 2. Margaret Basinger of Grand Rapids Michigan. Phillips (with an ‘s’) was named for the Phillips family. Below is Phillips’ obituary as it appeared in the Grand Rapids Press. (16)
15.ii George A. Waterman b. Chicago, IL 26 Feb 1915 d. Dec 1984 Lake, IL.
Postscript:
From starvation in Ireland, to tragedy in Ontario, the Phillips and associated families seemed to be marked by a pattern of despair followed by recovery, either partial or masterful. As I recorded this material, I was struck by how many early+ deaths, and how much loss one family could endure. Yet, my most lasting impression is of their resilience, and how in spite of their foibles and failures they could and often did respond with compassion, grace and character, as they attempted to support one another and to renew and restore their lives. — often by moving to another place, with mixed results.
Of course there are now at least another four generations of these families. It is my hope some of them, and all those who follow might read this material in order to remember the difficult stuff but more importantly to celebrate the renewal and joy that encourages and calls us to continue to live in faith, hope and love.
SOURCES (Notation of Sources, when appropriate, are included in the individual entries)
(1) Parish Register, St. Mary's Church Enniskillen, Parish of Maheraculmoney, Church of Ireland, County Fermanagh, Ireland.
(2) Mitchell, Brian, Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871 from Londonderry to America on the J&J Cooke Line.
(3) Parish Register, St. Peter's Church, Anglican Church of Canada, Cobourg, Ontario.(2) Mitchell, Brian, Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871 from Londonderry to America on the J&J Cooke Line.
(4) Tubrid Church Records, Church of Ireland, Kesh, County Fermanagh, Ireland.
(5) 'Cobourg World death notice for James Tate and California State Board of Health Death Certificate for Mary Phillips.
(6) Canada-West and Ontario Census records: 1852, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 2001, 2011.
(7)Trees by Dan: Dan Buchanan's Genealogy and History Website.
(8) California Death and; Social Security Register.
(9) U.S. Census for 1870,1880,1910,1920,1930 and 1940.
(10) Ontario records of births, deaths and marriages.
(11) California Marriage Records.
(12) Telephone conversation with Deyea Dunlop Swineford, September 2014.
(13) Website: Ancestors of Wayne Bower and Laurie McBurney.
(14) Provincial Archives, The Province of New Brunswick, Canada.
(15) Website: The Stilson Family Tree.
(16) Margaret Waterman, Obituary, Grand Rapids Press
(17) Roots Web Canada
(18) emails from Alan Hayes and Kathleen McKinney, August 2020
(19) California Birth Index 1905-1995
