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| Robert & Lizzie & friend at Mary's wedding in 1917 |
Name: Elizabeth
Curran
Called by Grandkids:
Grandma Park, I think.
Birth: 1862
Death: 1954
Spouse: Robert
James Park
Marriage: 1883
Children: Jennie
Curran, Helen Brown, Robert Curran, Elizabeth, Mary Dunlop, Rhoda, Margaret,
George Dunlop, Florence
Parents: Thomas
Curran and Jennie Blair
Siblings: Anna,
Sarah, John, Thomas, Sarah Jane, Joseph, Rhoda
About: Elizabeth was
the eldest child of Thomas and Jennie Blair according to my records. She had
seven siblings I know of, and it's possible there were more, though at one
time, I only knew of her and two of her sisters, Sarah and Rhoda. She was born
in Antrim, Ireland, possibly in or near Belfast, or possibly in the town of
Antrim. Though I know little of her early life, I am pleased to have found this
much, and hope to eventually find more.
She and her husband likely married in Ireland before
emigrating to America and settling in Philadelphia, where they raised all their
children. Two of their children, their eldest two died in infancy. They lived
in a larger Irish immigrant community, but when times got difficult in America
for immigrants, she and her husband decided to move the family back to Ireland.
They settled in Belfast for a time, where most of their children grew into
adulthood. They were there for less than ten years, though, when one of their
daughters married and moved to Canada, then wrote letters back to the family
speaking of her new home country in glowing terms, and so the rest of the
family migrated there as well, settling in Vancouver, where most of them met
their spouses and lived for the rest of their lives. Elizabeth and her husband
lived happily in Vancouver until their deaths, his in 1930, and hers in 1954.
She was lucky enough to meet three of her great-grandchildren before her death.
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| Lizzie (right) at grandson George's wedding, with his other grandmother Harde on the left, 1939 |
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