Margaret Emma (Maggie) FERN[1]

Female 1881 - 1938  (57 years)


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  • Name Margaret Emma (Maggie) FERN 
    Born 13 Feb 1881  Salford, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    • Another record showed DOB as 8 Feb 1881.
    Gender Female 
    Buried Mar 1938  Hamilton, ON Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Alan Eatock has recorded that Margaret, his mother, is buried in Whitechapel Cemetery, Hamilton, ON but, in the same paragraph, he quotes the death notice saying, "Interment in Westmount Memorial Park Cemetery."
    Died 24 Mar 1938  Hamilton, ON Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Person ID I315  Jay Moore Family Tree
    Last Modified 3 Nov 2005 

    Father Henry FERN
              b. 23 Jun 1857, Hulme Charlton, Manchester, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 29 Aug 1937, Bolton, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Ellen DOWNES
              b. 10 Sep 1859, Louth, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 25 Mar 1902, Bolton, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years) 
    Married 7 Mar 1880  Salford, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    • Henry and Ellen were married at St. Clement's Church, Salford, Lancashire.


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    Family ID F13  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Timothy EATOCK
              b. 6 Jun 1879
              d. Oct 1961, Hamilton, ON Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 17 Jun 1905  [1, 2
    Children 
     1. Stanley EATOCK
              b. 21 Mar 1906, Bolton, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 9 Mar 1973, Hamilton, ON Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     2. Frederick EATOCK
              b. 23 Jan 1908, Bolton, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 8 Jan 1993  (Age 84 years)
     3. Living
     4. Lillian Frances EATOCK
              b. 20 Oct 1917, Saltfleet Twp. ON Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 7 Sep 2006, Hamilton, ON Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years)
     5. Margaret Ellen EATOCK
              b. 20 Oct 1917, Saltfleet Twp. ON Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 20 Jun 2012, Guelph ON Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 94 years)
    Last Modified 4 May 2001 
    Family ID F102  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • After coming to Canada, the family was quite poor and Margaret Emma had to go out to work doing house-cleaning. In 1916 Timothy decided to join the Canadian Army and was sent overseas in 1917. Later in 1917, Maggie had twin daughters, Margaret and Lillian. The family lived in the Cochrane Road Survey in Saltfleet Township (now part of Hamilton). For a time, her brother Wallace Taylor Fern, his wife elizabeth Ellen, and daughter Audrey Fern lived in the survey also. After World War 1, the family moved to
      Hamilton's East End. Margaret Emma was happy to have some of her siblings nearby.


      After a difficult life, Margaret Emma lived long enough to see her family's proospects improving:Timothy receiving a fair War Disabilities Pension; Stanley working at the wholesale hardware company, Wood, Alexander and James Ltd.;Frederick teaching a growing class of violin students; Alan teaching elementary school; Lillian and Margaret doing office work. [3]

  • Sources 
    1. [S15] Family History of Alan James Eatock, Alan Eatock / Colin Eatock.

    2. [S14] Moore - Personal files of James Henry Moore, James Henry Moore.

    3. [S15] Family History of Alan James Eatock, Alan Eatock / Colin Eatock (Reliability: 3), 3 Nov 2005.