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Aunt Nell My mother Jessie had a younger sister Nellie, who lived with her husband Harry (Neil) Wallace three miles toward Dafoe from our farm on section 10. Nellie's parents (my grandparents) Thomas & Amelia Gunn immigrated to Canada from Bristol England in 1878 and settled at Peterborough Ontario. Nellie was born on December 3rd. 1886, being the fourth child born in Canada after Uncle John, Mother Jessie and Aunt Emma Maude. Nell had two older siblings Caroline and Charles, who were born at Devonshire England, and came over in the boat with Thomas & Amelia. Nellie was 33 years old when she married Neil on July 16, 1919. Neil's fist wife Olive (Ireton) had died of typhoid fever in 1911 when she was just 25 years old. Born in Nova Scotia in 1883, Neil homesteaded 1/4 section SW.34.31.18 in 1904 when he was 21 years old. He and Olive had worked very hard so they expanded by purchasing the adjoining 1/4 section SE.33.31.18 to the West from National Trust Company for $3,680.
Aunt Nell mothered three boys, William, John and
Thomas (Ted).
Aunt Nell died on January 16, 1963 in Wynyard due
to a stroke.
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