Humphrey's son Frank

Fortunately, Frank's wedding information included the names of his parents or I probably wouldn't have been able to find any definitive information on him.

Frank (Francis) was born around 1832-1841 in Sligo, Ireland.  At some point he settled in  Winnipeg, Canada.  He was living there at least between 1881 and 1901.

He was in Canada when he married his wife Margaret Melissa Wilson on 24 Dec 1868, in Haldimand, Ontario, Canada.  Melissa was born around 4 Jan 1850, in Cayuga, Ontario, Canada.  She died 25 July 1904, probably in Winnipeg.

Frank supposedly returned to the "old country" and died possibly in London, but I have not found any proof of this.  He isn't buried with his wife, though, so maybe he did.  Supposedly he died after 1902.

He and Margaret had a daughter, supposedly adopted, named Winnifred.  She was born in 1884 in Michigan.  She died in 1954.  She married Norman Benson Tufts in 1906.  They had two daughters.  Kathleen Margaret Tufts, born in 1910, died in 1998, married Cecil Lorne Harding Laycock.  Irene Tufts, 1920-2009, married Cephas Durham.

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Humphrey Gillmore

Humphrey Gilmore was born about 1810 in Sligo Ireland. According to the information about his second marriage, his father was William Gillmor and his second wife's father was Hugh Gillmor, but there wasn't any known family relationship.

In 1836, he was a teacher of 78 students at St John's School.  In 1861 he was listed as a clerk and an accountant in 1862.

According to Ralph he married Margaret Allingham about 1833, but since his son John was born around 1826, he was probably married in 1825 or earlier.  Margaret must have died before 1862, since he married his second wife Jane Gilmor in July of 1862.

Humphrey died on the 20th of June 1875, and was buried at St John's Church, Sligo, Ireland.  According to Ralph he willed his property to his second wife, but asked that he be buried with his first wife, Margaret.  Also, that his daughter Rebecca be given ten pounds.

I was fortunate, in 2010 to take a trip with my daughter and one of her friends to Ireland and Scotland.  We stayed overnight in Sligo, and found St John's Church, pictured above.  It was closed, but some of the church ladies were there cleaning, so the gates were open and we were able to wander around the graveyard, which completely surrounded the church.  They let us go inside, as well, and it's a beautiful church.

My daughter's friend somehow spotted Humphrey's gravestone!  It's almost completely overgrown and behind a large bush.  As you go up the driveway, it's to the right of the drive, about a foot from the wall.  It's almost directly in line with the door of the church.  Didn't really get any good pictures of the entire stone, but took several and continued on our trip.

After I got home and had time to work on the photos, I realized that this gravestone was for JANE Gillmor and Humphrey, not Margaret.  So it appears that Jane didn't even abide by Humphrey's request to be buried by Margaret.  I hadn't though to look for Margaret's gravestone.


Jane and Humphrey didn't have any children.  Humphrey and Margaret Allingham had about 10 children, all born in Sligo.  John was born about 1826, Frank about 1834, Mariah (Maggie'sMom) about 1835, Rebecca Arabella about 1841, Margaret Frances after 1841, Robert Allingham about Oct 1841-42, William, James, and Anne, and one or two unkown, unnamed children.

There seems to be a large break between John (1826) and Frank (1834).  Maybe William, James, or Anne were born during those years.  The other possibility is that one or more children died during the Cholera outbreak in Sligo in 1832.  It might explain as well why George seems to have married so late in life.  I don't have any indications of another wife or children, but I wonder if he had married as a younger man, if a wife and children might have died in that epidemic.

I have no information on William, James or Anne, but Marvin has them listed on one of his charts, and in his correspondence seems to believe that he and my grandmother agree that these are children of Humphrey.

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Humphrey's Brother George

Second thoughts

After I posted the information on George, I realized that I hadn't paid enough attention to some of the information from RalphInLA.

While re-looking at what I had posted, I realized that George was born around 1809, but his children were born in the late 1840's to 1860's!  That is not the norm.  Fortunately, I have the 1901 census for him, showing his age as 90 and his son John as age 42, and his son's wife Elizabeth as age 24, and their son George H as 11 months old.  So according to the 1901 census he was 48 years older than his son, and his son was older when he married and had a child.  

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Humphrey’s Brother George

Ralph shows George Gilmore of Stonehall being born before 1828, and having one child, Jane Gilmore who married John Iriwn.  He also shows George Gilmore of Carrinageenah and Stonehall, (son of Hugh); born before 1826, married to Margaret Pettypiece on July 13, 1846 and having a daughter Rebecca Gilmore of Stonehall born in 1867.

Marvin has his birth around 1810, and I found an Irish census for 1901 showing his age as 90, that would make his birth about 1820.  He died in Sligo around 1904.  His wife Margaret was born around 1826 and died around 1899 in Sligo, Ireland.  (In case you are confused, James Gillmore’s daughter Margaret Gillmore married a Thomas Pettipiece, and this George married Margaret Pettypiece; I imagine there is a relationship, but I haven’t researched it).

I have found information on 8 children: Anne born in Sligo in 1847, Jane born in Sligo in 1849, John born in 1855, Maria born in 1858 in Sligo, Sarah born in 1865, Rebecca born in 1867 in Stonehall, Sligo, and Eliza, and Margaret.

Eliza died unmarried according to Marvin’s letters.

Margaret married William Lockhart and had no children as of 1894. 

Anne was born about 1847 in Stonehall, Sligo, Ireland.  She died in 1919 in Sligo, Ireland.  She married John Sherlock, 1830-1905.  They had 6 children:

     John Sherlock, 1878-1902, Sligo

     George Sherlock, 1880-1919, Sligo

     Rebecca Sherlock, 1882-1932, Sligo

     Sarah Anne Sherlock, 1885-1947, Sligo

     Emily Jane Sherlock, 1887-1958, Sligo

     Fanny Florence Sherlock, born abt 1891, Sligo, died in

1957, Toronto, Canada.  She came to Canada in 1920, after her mother’s death. She married Albert Hamilton in 1920, in York, Ontario, Canada.  They had two children, John and Margaret.  Margaret had a daughter, and we are a DNA match.  Which is great, because it

supports my research on this branch of the Gilmore’s.

Jane born abt 1850 in Sligo, was living in 1901 in Sligo.  She married John Irwin.  In 1894, they had 8 children and one grandchild. 

     Lizzie Irwin born abt 1872, Sligo

     Robert Irwin 1874-1944, Sligo

     Margaret Irwin 1876

     James Irwin 1879, Sligo

     Sarah Jane Irwin, 1879

     George Irwin, 1883

     Rebecca Irwin, 1886

     Minnie Irwin, 1888, married Michael Lindsay

John born abt 1855, died 1908, married Elizabeth.  They had three children.

     George H Gilmore born abt 1900 died 1945, Sligo

Charles William Gilmore, born abt 1904, married and

had a daughter.

Annie Elizabeth Gilmore, born abt 1906.

Maria born abt 1855, Sligo, died abt 1892, Chicago.  She married Fred D Earll abt 1879, in Chicago.  They had one son.

     Walter Earll was born abt 1886, in Chicago.

Sarah, 1866-1942, Sligo, married Gilbert Mitchell in Sligo in 1886.  They had 4 children.

     Gilbert Mitchell, born abt 1888, County Laois, Ireland

     Thomas Archey Mitchell, born 1889, Tralee, Ireland,              died 1913, Sligo.

     Louise Mitchell, born 1891, Co Kerry, Ireland

     Rebecca Mitchell, born 1893, Co Galway, Ireland, died            1946, Stonehall, Sligo, Ireland.

Rebecca born 1867, died 1940 in Sligo, married in 1895 Thomas Craig 1806 to 1917, Sligo.  They had three living children and two stillborn.

     Robert Craig, 1896-1954, Sligo, married Veitch Noble.

     Walter Craig, 1898-1968, Sligo, married Ellen Winfred            Noel Gregg.

Mary Ann Craig, born 1906, Sligo, married George                 Alexander Carnegy.

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Jackson Family Pictures

Among my mother’s things, I found 3 wonderful pictures of the Jackson family, but they are almost useless, since I have no idea who the people are.  I can identify my mom and dad, myself and my brother, but no one else.  These are professional pictures, taken by a photographer in Manitou Springs, Colorado.  There are Christmas decorations on the wall, so likely taken at a family Christmas party.  I am most likely just over a year old, so the pictures would have been taken in December of 1949 (maybe 1950).  I have some vague memory of a Christmas party at my father’s cousins, so I assume that these are Jacksons.   I would love to be able to identify these people and would appreciate anyone who knows who they are to please contact me with the information.

I have scanned the pictures and numbered all the people in them.  I didn’t make any attempt to give the same numbers to the same people in each picture, so each person may have 3 different numbers.

Picture Number One seems to be couples with their children:

 In picture number one, my father, Floyd Dana, is #12, my mother Estella is #6, my brother is #17, and #18 is me, Linda Dana.  I pity my mother having to deal with me!

Picture Number Two is all women and mostly female children:

In picture number two, my mother Estella Dana is #11 and I am #12

Picture Number Three is all men and boys, no babies:

In picture number three, my father, Floyd Dana is #10 and my brother is #18.

I'm really hoping that someone (s) can help identify these people as they are great pictures, and would mean a lot to the family if we know who they are!  Thanks for your help.

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