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Cecilia Mary WALKINSHAW[1, 2, 3]

Female 1838 - 1900  (62 years)


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  • Name Cecilia Mary WALKINSHAW 
    Born 5 Mar 1838  USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Gender Female 
    Died 16 Oct 1900  Toronto Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Buried St Catherines, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I93  John Cowan Family Tree
    Last Modified 24 May 2020 

    Family Andrew S. JEFFREY
              b. 6 Apr 1837, Cobourg, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 11 Apr 1910, Raleigh, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Children 
     1. Professor Edward Charles JEFFREY
              b. 21 May 1866, St Catharines, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 19 Apr 1952, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
     2. John Strachan JEFFREY
              b. 1867
              d. 1942  (Age 75 years)
     3. Minnie JEFFREY
              d. 1 Mar 1892, Toronto, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Cecilia E JEFFREY
     5. J. N. JEFFREY
    Last Modified 8 Aug 2020 
    Family ID F31  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Death Notice (JAnet Jeffrey Library Item 4 Page 5):
      "Deceased who was 62 years of age was a prominent member of the Board of the Women's Foreign Mission Society and had special charge of the Indian work in the Northwest and British Columbia. She was also President of the Aged Women's Home."
      Spoke at the WFMS in Stratford, several times, home of her brother-in-law Andrew Jeffrey. Lived at 4 St Vincent St Toronto at time of death. (is that now St Vincent Lane near Bay and Grenville?) LDS notes she lived in St Catherines Ontario!

      Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School near Kenora (https://presbyterianarchives.ca/2018/08/17/cecilia-jeffrey-school/) was named after her. It was founded in 1901 in her honour by the Presbyterian Church on good principles (https://archives.algomau.ca/main/?q=book/export/html/23716). However, as with all residential schools in Canada that ended up 'taking the indian out of the indian' and thus creating much trauma down the generations, it is the location of a recently famous story about stuudent Chanie Wenjack who died when trying to walk away from the school to go home in 1966. That story is immortalized in a book by Gord Downie called Secret Path, and song, in roughly 2017.

  • Sources 
    1. [S15] Andrew Jeffrey, Library/Andrew Jeffrey/10-Family of Andrew Jeffrey according to Eileen Hutchison., Item 10 - Page 1, 1 Nov 2017.

    2. [S57] William Campbell, William Campbell, Andrew Jeffrey Page, 28 Aug 2018.

    3. [S58] Andrew Jeffrey Jr.

    4. [S26] Janet(Jessie) Jeffrey's Visitor Book, Library/Janet Jeffrey/4-AuntJessCalendarBook., Page 5 (Reliability: 3), 24 Nov 2017.
      Death Notice

    5. [S58] Andrew Jeffrey Jr, Cecilia.
      LDS ID: MJB9-7TS