Person Sheet


Name Ella May DUNHAM
Birth 17 Jan 1867, New York, NY
Death 23 Jun 1910, NY1270
Burial Ardsley, Westchester, NY
Father William Maben DUNHAM (1837-1882)
Mother Margaret Jane DAVISON (1837-1907)
Spouses:
1 Joseph Allen FORTIER
Birth 30 Apr 1866, Prescott, Grenville, Ontario, CAN
Death 26 Aug 1912, New York, NY1270
Marriage 31 Dec 1889
Children: Chester A (1890-1892)
Blanche May (1893-1980)
Notes for Ella May DUNHAM
Died of tuberculosis. Buried Ferncliff Cemetery, Westchester Co. NY, per Ruth
Mackay Hamilton.
RMH Jun 1996 said her name was "Ella Mae Dunham", but Edward Mackay 16 Jun 1996
says "Ella May Barnes".
Mary Alice Mackay 28 Jun 1996 letter says "Ella May Dunham" and gives b. 17 Jan 1867 d. 23 Jun 1910. (No sources cited in extensive Dunham descendancy chart. MAM says the Dunham information may have originated with Edith Barnes Durfee).
Buried Ferncliff Cemetery, Ardsley, NY.
Notes for Joseph Allen (Spouse 1)
Funeral 29 Aug 1912, per funeral bill from Ruth Mackay Hamilton. Buried
Ferncliff Cemetery, Westchester Co. NY.
BIRTH: b. 30 Apr 1866 per Mary Alice Mackay Jul 1996.
CHRISTENING: St. Mark's Church, Prescott, Grenville, Ontario, CAN, per FHL
film#1298999 (parish records). No middle name given in baptismal record.
from 1871 Ontario census, South Grenville, Prescott Town, p.21, FHL#349,187: ag
5, b.Ontario, Roman Catholic, French origin.
from 1881 Ontario census, South Grenville, Prescott Town, p.16, FHL#1,375,866:
age 15, b.Ontario, Roman Catholic, French origin
FHL film#1,000,864 "New York City Directories 1893-1894", "Trow's New York City
Directory: vol. CVI for the year ending July 1, 1893", New York: Trow Directory
Printing, and Bookbinding Co., 1893. 393,224 names. Fortier, Jos. painter, h 78
Amsterdam Av. (h=house)
QUESTION: neither pair of grandparents shows up in Quebec marriage indexes. Se
Kathleen Mennie-deVarennes, "Annotated Bibliography of Genelogical Works in
Canada" (6 vol.) 1986: pub. by Fitzhenry & Whiteside in association with the
National Library of Canada and the Candaian Gov't Publ. Centre, Supply and
Services Canada, p.147, which under "Dufont", says "see Legris". Both Fraser
and Legris surnames suggest Prescott County (not town), among other places.
See Hamelin, Julien, s.c., comp., "Repetoire des mariages du Comte de Prescott
(Ont.)", Centre de Genealogie S.C., janv-juin 1978. 3 vol.
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