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Myra and sister Mary were twins. Myra died in infancy. ref manuscript from Barbara G. Sniffen. Dec 8, 2000. |
1 Margaret Ann Winch, 21 page family history manuscript, Barbara G. Sniffen, Margaret Ann Winch, 21 page family history manuscript.
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Ross, Beatrice, letters, 1969, Beatrice ( Greenwood) Ross, letter dated June 10, 1969, July 22, l969. :
According to Beatrice Greenwood Ross, in a letter dated June 10, 1969, she was the daughter of John Greenwood, eldest son of George Greenwood and Margaret Winch. [Mrs Lincoln Ross, 17 Alma Street, St. Thomas, Ontario] In a letter dated July 22, l969, she told more about the family. She stated that George and Margaret 's children were born on a farm two miles from Wellesley Village, Ontario. She listed the children as John, Jennie Witt, Belle Mertz, James Greenwood, Mary Sproule and her twin sister Myra who died in infancy, William Greenwood, Lillian Hackett, George, Richard and Victoria Mortimer Willcox.
Margaret had her first child at age 19 and last at age 41. She was a widow for 41 years, not counting her unsuccessful second marriage.
She said her father built a stone house from rocks gathered from his own land "over l00 years ago." The 1861 census lists him living in a log house, built in 1859. She said the owner of the property in l969 still lived in the stone house. The house was built on a hill which "today...still carried the name "Greenwood's Hill". Beatrice recalled that as a child she was so frightened that the horse pulling the buggy with "Dad and myself would never get us to the top". She noted that today, with all the improvements on roads for cars, the old hill does not look very steep. Her grandfather George, aged 46 years, died 6 September 1875, and is buried in Rush's Cemetery, a few miles from Wellesley. She stated that "Grandma Greenwood" (Margaret Winch), died at age 83, and is buried in Croswell, Michigan. She did not know the date, but it was "more than fifty years ago." It would seem she died about 1916. Beatrice said that "Aunt Vic's daughter" was only 53, and didn't remember. She hopes to find "Grandm's" Bible which has marriages, births and deaths recorded. Beatrice said "Aunt Vic prized it so much"; Eleanor (Vic's daughter], remembered the Bible being in her mother's possession. [Aunt Vic by this time was 98 years old, and her memory had apparently gone. ] Beatrice described Vic as a very "ambitious, energetic, loveable person, and done so much for others."
Beatrice went on to say that Grandma Greenwood went to the Western States (exact place unknown to her) after Grandpa's death;. Later she married her sister's brother-in-law, a Mr. Rowles. [Other sources refer to Rolles] "This union was not a success and she returned east and settled in Michigan. I am wondering if your dad [ James Greenwood, who according to the census records of Beauliew Township, North Dakota of l890 or 1900 immigrated to US in l882] I believe Aunt Jennie Witt did, also Rich and Vic Grandma, I believe, always went by the name "Greenwood" after she returned from the west. "
"Grandpa Greenwood is buried in Rush's cemetery next to where my parents, two sisters and a brother's graves are. The three children were stricken with diptheria, which there was an epidemic of the dreaded disease and so many families lost some little ones." [Beatrice]
Mabel Tobin, a daughter of George Greenwood--she refers to him first as Samuel George--says "Grandma's father was a Doctor, I know." [That is, Margaret Winch's father]. She refers to Margaret as Margaret Ann Rolle.
Eleanor Mortimor Moore, daughter of Victoria Greenwood, youngest child of Margaret Winch and George Greenwood, said in a letter to John Albert Greenwood of Wolf Point, Montana, that "Your father was born on Greenwood Hill, Wellesley, Ontario, Canada. It is still there." They [the family] went to Cross Hill, Episcopal Church. Eleanor stated that Margaret married Rolls after George's death. She said Margaret died at her mother's [Aunt Vic, Margaret's youngest child] at 83 years. "Mr Rolls went out to California to get gold, she wouldn't go with him to leave her family. She worked the farm l00 acres, big stone house. She was an awful worker. She would go out in the fields, the girls worked harder than the boys as she worked with them. She made bread and sold it and she ran the mail route too. She worked hard but was always prosperous.
When my mother was twelve, they came over here to live and settled in Roseberg, Michigan. I make that 1883 or so when they came to the US. [James claimed he immigrated in l882, to Pembina, North Dakota. BGS]
I have a note--origin unknown--that Margaret's mother died in about l842.
From Reid, William D., Death notices of Ontario, Huntedon House,
Lambsville, N.J. , 1980, p. 343, taken from British Colonist, Toronto,
1840-1849: 9 September 1847: An inquest was held on 28th ult, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Winch, in 5th Concession, East Gwillimbury, who was found dead in her bed. [There was also a notice: There was an inquest at Holland Landing, East Gwillimbury, on 7th inst, on the body of Mary Murphy, who was found dead in a field belonging to John Orris.]
The census records of Wellesley Village, 1881, list Mark Rolls and Margaret Rolls, followed by the Greenwood children George, Elizabeth, Mary, Victoria and Andrew R, (Richard?
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Greenwood, George and Margaret Ann, family group sheet, Barbara G. Sniffen, of Oshkosh, WI, Family of George Greenwood and Margaret Ann Winch. :
FAMILY OF GEORGE GREENWOOD AND MARGARET ANN WINCH
George: b. Carters, Bolton by Bowland, Yorkshire, England, April 5, 1828
Married. May 26, 1851, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
d. September 26, 1875, Wellesley Village, Ontario
Father: John Greenwood
Mother: Isabella Wray
Margaret: b. 1833, New Market, Ontario
D, May 8, 1917, Port Huron, Michigan
Father: Samuel Winch jr
Mother: Elizabeth Mounteny
Other spouses: J. Mark Rolls
Children: All born in Wellesley Village, Ontario
John, b. April 15, 1852
m. March 27, 1877, 13th Concession, Wellesley
d. June 9, 1911, Wellesley Village
spouse: Elizabeth Ann Hackett
James Albert, b. June 10, 1854
m. July 7, 1885, Pembina, North Dakota
d. January 25, 1916, Pembina
spouse: Annie McTavish
William Henry, b. August 16, 1857
m. December 14, 1887, Linwood, Waterloo, Ontario
d. August 12, 1848, Vancouver, BC
Spouse: Helen (Ella) Elizabeth Rowles
Hannah Jane Jenny, b. February 13, 1859
d. About 1936, Port Huron, Michigan
Spouse: Winfield Witt
Isabella, b. July 22, 1861
m. About 1880, Wellesley Village, Ontario
Spouse: John Mertz
Samuel George, b. November 4, 1863
m. July 3, 1895, Lennox, Michigan
d. March 30, 1959, Port Huron, Michigan
Spouse: Ella May Normandie
Elizabeth Ann (Lillian), b. 1868
m. September 8, 1891, Owen Sound, Bruce County, Ontario
d. After 1920, Port Huron, Michigan
Spouse: John Angus Hackett
Mary, b. 1869
m. Before 1890
d. July 20, 1957, Kingston Township, Frontenac County, Ontario
Spouse: Sidney James Sproule
Myra, b. 1869, d. 1869
Victoria, b. May 26, 1872 d. 1973, Port Huron,Michigan
Spouses: William Mortimer, Harvey Wilcox
Andrew Richard, b. February 21, 1875, d. May 1 1962, buried in Croswell, Michigan, Croswel Cemetery
Spouse: Sarah Simms
4 Greenwood, George and Margaret Ann, family group sheet, Barbara G. Sniffen, of Oshkosh, WI, Family of George Greenwood and Margaret Ann Winch.
5 Ross, Beatrice, letters, 1969, Beatrice ( Greenwood) Ross, letter dated June 10, 1969, July 22, l969.
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