Mary Ellen Peacock was born the 27th of May, 1884. She was the second daughter and sixth child of John Peacock and Mary Ellen Oliver and she was born at Falkenburg. She appears in the 1891 census with her parents when her Grandfather Thomas Peacock was living with the family and then in 1901 when she was 16 years old. Also, in this census, was a young man named Harry Byford who was a lodger with the family.Photo above: Harry Byford and Mary Ellen Peacock about 1906
Harry Byford's name appears in the Canadian Home Children data base of the Library and Archives of Canada. The following information is given:
Harry Byford, 11 years old, arrived on S.S. Sardinian in 1888
Departed from Liverpool on the 12th of April and arrived in Halifax on the 21st of April.
Comments:
Unidentified party of 7 males and 1 female to four different locations. James Gibson & Harry Byford to Bracebridge, Ont; John Bass & Fred Priest to Richmond Junction; Amy New to Armand ??; James Jones, William Moore & James Moore to Sherbrooke, Que.
Source:
Library and Archives Canada
Reference: RG76 C 1 b Microfilm: C-4514
Type of Record: Passenger Lists
I have been unable to locate Harry Byford in the 1891 census of Muskoka District, but the 1901 census gives his date and place of birth as October 27, 1876 in England. He gave his parents names as Joseph and Ellen Byford when he married.
Henry appears in the 1881 Census for Leek, Staffordshire, England
5 Weston Street
George Wood, 26, b. Staffordshire, Braid Weaver
Ellen Wood, 28, b. Staffordshire, House or Shop Keeper
Ernest Edward Byford, 6, stepson, in school, b. Staffordshire
Henry Byford, 4, stepson, b. Staffordshire
The BMD website has an 1880 death for a 28 year old Joseph Byford
in Leek, Staffordshire. Henry's brother stayed in England.
Henry and Mary Byford were married in the little church at Falkenburg on April 2nd, 1902. Mary's eldest brother, Fred, witnessed the marriage, as well as 'Caroline' Peacock, possibly a mistake in transcription. It could have been Catherine, the daughter of Robert and Mary (Moffett) Peacock who attended school with Mary in Falkenburg.
12124-02 Henry BYFORD, 24, laborer, England, Bracebridge, s/o Joseph & Ellen, married Mary PEACOCK, 17, Ontario,Macauley, d/o John PEACOCK & Mary E. OLIVER, witn:Caroline & Frederick PEACOCK of Scotia Junction,2 April 1902 at Falkenburg.
Their first child was born April 7, 1903 and the couple was still living in Macaulay Township.
#027648-03 Audry Nelson BYFORD, male born 7 April 1903 to Harry BYFORD and Mary Ellen PEACOCK. Dr Williams in attendance of birth. Informant-Wm Naismith. Occupation and residence of father-laborer, Macaulay. Registered 10 June 1903.
By 1911, the couple had four children and is living in Stephenson Township, north of Falkenburg.
1911 Stephenson Twp - Muskoka
Byford, Harry, Head................b. Oct-1877, 34
Byford, Mary E., Wife..............b. May-1884, 27
Byford, Audry N., Son..............b. Apr-1903, 8
Byford, William L., Son............b. Jun-1906, 5
Byford, Ellen L., Dau................b. Feb-1907, 4
Byford, Henry L., Son..............b. May-1908, 3
In later years, the Byfords lived in Beamsville in Lincoln County, Ontario, and when Mary's mother died in 1935, the obituary states that they Byfords lived in St. Catherines.
MARY ELLEN PEACOCK (1884-1952)
= Harry Byford
Children -
1. Awdrey Nelson b. 1903 = Eleanor Cummings
2. William
3. 'Nellie' Ellen Lavinia = Tyler Dockstader
4. Harry
5. Russell
6. Catherine
7. Beverley
8. Howard
9. Lois
10. Ronald
11. Lloyd
002053-24 Awdrey Nelson BYFORD, 21, clerk, Utterson, Beamsville Lincoln Co., s/o Harry BYFORD (b. not given) & Mary PEACOCK married Eleanor CUMMINGS, 19, Ireland, Beamsville, d/o David CUMMINGS (b. not given) & Gertrude PERRY, witn: Miss Nettie BYFORD of St. Catharines & Harry CLARKE of 65 Boston Ave., 14 June 1924
046491-26 (Welland) Tyler DOCKSTADER, 19, trucker, St Catharines, St Catharines s/o Richard Harcourt DOCKSTADER (b. Aldershot Ontario) & Blanche COTTS married Ellen Lavina BYFORD, 19, home duties, Muskoka, Grantham twp d/o Harry BYFORD (b. England) & Mary PEACOCK wtn: Arlington DOCKSTADER & Madeline Lavine DOCKSTADER both of 8978 Rohns Ave in Detroit, 30 September 1926 at Welland.
School Photo of Mary
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