I: The SMITH Family of Papineauville, PQ

1. William¹ SMITH was born in Scotland. He was married to Ann MacINTOSH, who was born in Scotland ca 1828. According to Inez Wagner, one of William's grandchildren, William and Ann were not from the same place in Scotland (and therefore most likely met and married in Quebec). William died while in his 30's (the late 1860's). According to Inez, Ann subsequently married a man surnamed STEEN but the 1881 census for Montreal Centre and 1880-1882 city directories show Ann Smith living with her son William at 74 Aylmer so she hadn't remarried at that point. Ann died ca. 1887.
   
   Their children, surname SMITH, were:

1. Anne Clemence² b. 3 June 1857 in Papineauville, PQ; baptized 27 June 1857 along with her twin Adeline Mary and her brothers William and Daniel at St. Angelique parish.
2. William² b. 3 June 1853, bapt. 27 June 1857; moved to NY State when young; family named INKSTER possibly descendants (according to Inez Wagner)
3. Margaret² m. Robert LEGGATT. Margaret and Robert raised Anne's child Denis Gordon PHILLIPS after Anne and her husband died.
4. Adeline Mary² b. 3 June 1857 in Papineauville, PQ; bapt. 27 June 1857. Married _______ MacKINNON.
5. Daniel² b. 1 February 1855, bapt. 27 June 1857. Moved to the U. S.
6. Jessie²
7. Jennie² died at the age of 2 or 3 years old
8. Malcolm² died in infancy
9. Alex² m. Hattie __________
10. John² b. 24 May 1867 in Papineauville, PQ. Married Margaret TOMKINSON. Died in 1930.

SOURCES: 1881 Census records for Montreal Centre (NAC); Montreal City Directories (NAC); letters from Inez Wagner

 

II: The BROWN Family of Hemmingford, PQ

1. Henry¹ BROWN was born ca. 1820 in England. He was married (probably in Quebec) to Susan ___________, who was born in Ireland ca 1819. Henry was a cabinet maker by trade.
   
   Their children, surname BROWN, were:
   1. Matilda² b. ca 1852 in Hemmingford, PQ (twin to Susan). Married Peter ALLAN.
   2. Susan² b. ca 1852 in Hemmingford, PQ (twin to Matilda).
   3. Henry² b. ca 1854 in Hemmingford, PQ.
   4. Alfred² b. ca 1857 in Hemmingford, PQ.
   5. Frederich² b. ca 1859 in Hemmingford, PQ.
   6. Sarah² b. ca 1860 in Hemmingford, PQ.
   7. Thomas² b. ca 1864 in Hemmingford, PQ.

   SOURCES: 1871 Census records for East Huntington District Quebec (Havelock) NAC
   
   

III: The ALLAN Family

1. Alexander¹ ALLAN According to a 1969 letter from my mother's Granny (Margaret Phillips), my great great great grandparents were Alexander Allan and Sarah Duncan who were from South Ronaldsay. A search of Church of Scotland records (on microfilm) turned up a marriage between an Alexander Allan and a Sarah Duncan on 21 February 1827 in South Ronaldsay...I believe these to be my ancestors. Sarah was born ca. 1806 in South Ronaldsay. Alexander died prior to 1881 and Sarah, his widow, was living in Quebec in 1881. In the following list of their children, the ones with baptismal dates are directly from the Church of Scotland records in South Ronaldsay. My mother's Aunt Alleena wrote in a letter that her grandfather Peter, who was born in South Ronaldsay ca. 1846, had a brother named William (whom I've included in this list as a separate entry but who may have been Alexander) and a sister who married the brother of William's wife Margaret Tait.
   
   Their children, surname ALLAN, were:
   1. George bapt. 22 March 1829
   2. John Duncan bapt. 17 April 1831
   3. James Duncan bapt. 7 July 1833
   4. Sarah bapt. 3 July 1836; m. 15 December 1858 in S. R. to James GREEN
   5. Alexandrina Walls bapt. 3 March 1839; m. 12 June 1860 in S. R. to Edward GOGLE
   6. Margaret bapt. 26 September 1841
   7. Peter bapt. 21 April 1844
   8. Alexander bapt. 31 July 1851
   9. William born ca. 1851, m. Margaret TAIT (b. ca 1853). Were living in St. Anne's Ward in Montreal during the 1881 census.

   SOURCES:

2. Peter² ALLAN (Alexander¹) Born ca 1846 according to Alleena Phillips, bapt. 21 April 1844 according to Church of Scotland records. Married prior to 1878 to Matilda² BROWN (Henry¹) who was born ca. 1852 in Hemmingford, PQ, one of a pair of twins. . Peter died of influenza during the influenza epidemic in the late 1880's. Matilda subsequently married William McLAUGHLIN.
   
   Their children (first 5 born to Matilda and Peter, surname ALLAN; last two born to William and possibly Matilda, surname McLAUGHLIN):
   1. Susan³ ALLAN
   2. Elizabeth³ ALLAN
   3. Margaret W.³ ALLAN was raised by her uncle and aunt, William and Margaret Allan, after her mother remarried (didn't approve of her mother marrying an Irishman)
   4. Peter³ ALLAN
   5. Alexander ³ALLAN
   6. William³ McLAUGHLIN
   7. Nell³ McLAUGHLIN

   SOURCES:

IV: The PHILLIPS Family of Papineauville, PQ

1. John¹ PHILLIPS born ca 1851 in Quebec. Married Anne Clemence² SMITH.(William)¹ prior to 1880. John and Anne died in the influenza epidemic of the late 1880's, leaving their son to be raised by Anne's sister Margaret and her husband Robert Leggatt.
   
   Their child, surname PHILLIPS, were:
   1. Denis Gordon² b. 17 July 1880 in North Nation Mills, PQ

   SOURCES:

2. Denis Gordon² PHILLIPS (John¹) Born 17 July 1880 in North Nation Mills (a logging camp in Quebec that no longer exists). Married to Margaret Wilhemina³ ALLAN (Peter² Alexander¹). Gordon started working at a very young age and worked at various times as a deliveryman, a lumberman, a "chipper", and making ammunition. He was a long-time Mason, becoming Master of the Lachine lodge and was involved in the Boy Scouts from the 1920's until he was quite old. During the Depression, he worked at many jobs, including selling vacuum cleaners and cemetery plots. He died 6 June 1952 in Montreal and is buried in Montreal Memorial Park. Margaret Allan was born 9 October 1881 in Hemmingford, PQ, and died 9 February 1971 in Chateauguay, PQ.
   
   Their children, surname PHILLIPS, were:
   1. Gordon Allan³ b. 13 March 1906
   2. Ross Carmichael³ b. 3 April 1911 in Montreal. Married to Lea
   3. Dorothy Anne³ b. 6 January 1913 in Montreal. Married 14 August 1935 to Royden L. R. DUNN.
   4. William³ died young
   5. Alleena Mae³ b. 19 May 1922. Married 3 June 1944 to Richard J. LONG
   6. Lorne Alexander³ b. 18 October 1923. Married 5 May 1947 to Audrey JUDD.

   SOURCES: Uncle Ross's genealogy timeline; letters from Aunt Dot and Aunt Alleena; 1881 census for Montreal;
   

3. Gordon Allan³ PHILLIPS (Denis Gordon² John¹) Born 12 March 1906 in Pointe Claire, PQ. Married on 25 October 1930 in Lachine to Norah Eileen WARD.
   
   Norah was the daughter of William George Ward and Margaret Morrison of Toronto. Her mother (and possibly her father) had died long before that, her mother when she was very young and her father sometime after that. Her father was a shipper and had to move from job to job -- he always left Norah with the boarding house landlady while he worked. Norah went to live with an aunt and cousin in St. Lambert when she was in her teens and went to work in an office. I do not know when William died but shortly after Norah's first child was born Norah received a small inheritance -- either William had died near to that time or the inheritance was held until she "came of age" at the age of 19.
   
   My grandfather served in WW II in England and Europe (from January 40 to late in 1944) and while he was away, my grandmother met a man named Howard, whom she fell in love with. Howard was a part of my mother's life from her earliest memories to the time her mother died. My mother's memories of Howard and her mother are all nice -- he was by all accounts a decent, hardworking man who loved Norah and her children a great deal. When Gordon returned from Europe, he filed for divorce but Norah died before it became final. Norah died of bowel cancer at her home in Greenfield Park shortly after her 35th birthday. Gordon took the children and moved west after the funeral, leaving Howard to grieve for both his common-law wife and the children he had grown to love. My mother never heard from Howard again. I managed to track down Howard in 1990 but, unfortunately, he had died in 1982. His widow, Jean, whom he married shortly after Norah died told me that he spoke often about Norah and her children. He missed them all of his life and always hoped that one of them would track him down. Jean said she always understood that his heart belonged to Norah but that it was OK with her. Howard and Jean never had any children.
   
   My grandfather remarried on 5 August 1948 in Winnipeg to Martha (Mang) Kramer. She had three children from her previous marriage -- Norma, Irene, and Gwendolyn. My grandfather died 3 May 1982 in Saskatoon, SK.
   
   Gordon and Norah's children, surname PHILLIPS:
   1. Georgene Mildred⁴ b. 1 September 1931 in Lachine, PQ. -- my mother remembers being called Gene's "birthday present". Gene married very shortly after her mother's death to Henry BENOIT. She was not with him very long but bore him a child, James. She was living in a poorer section of Winnipeg when my mother was a teenager and my mother remembers babysitting Gene's children (at that time Bruce and Judy). There was some bad will between Gene and her father and my mother last saw her sometime before 1958, when Gene was living with a man named Hal (with whom she had a son Hal Jr.). There has been no contact with Gene in all this time.
   2. Gordon S. Smith⁴ b. August 1933 in Lachine, PQ
   3. Donald Ian⁴ b. 15 January 1935 in Lachine, PQ
   4. Gweneth Elda⁴ My mother. Born 1 September 1937 in Cornwall, ON. Worked as a nurse. Married Gerald MacALPINE on July 12, 1958, in Brandon, MB.

   SOURCES: Actual birth/marriage/death certificates; conversations with some of the people involved.

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