Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Beatrice Eugene Bradshaw RN

Sex: F
AKA: Trix Bradshaw ²³¹⁶
Individual Information

Birth Date: 5 Dec 1893 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²³²⁹ ^,2330 ^,2331 Christening: Death: 3 Feb 1945 - Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada ( at age 51) ²³²⁹ Burial: After 3 Feb 1945 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ²³¹⁶ Cause of Death: Cancer ²³³²
Events
• Alt. Birth: 5 Dec 1892, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Immigration: from Newfoundland, 1907, British Columbia, Canada.
• Departure: 24 Jul 1907, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Departure: Train to St. John's, 24 Jul 1907, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Departure: SS BONAVISTA to Montreal, 27 Jul 1907, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Residence: 3701 Palo Alto Street in the Mount Tolmie area of Saanich, Aug 1907, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. (Occupant)
• Arrival: Aboard SS BONAVISTA, 2 Aug 1907, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
• Departure: CP Rail to Vancouver, 4 Aug 1907, Montreal, Québec, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Arrival: From Vancouver via the CHARMER, 9 Aug 1907, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Education: Cedar Hill school, After 1907, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (Witness)
• Immigration: from Newfoundland, 1908, British Columbia, Canada. (Immigrant)
• Residence: 3701 Palo Alto Street in the Mount Tolmie area of Saanich, Cir 1910, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Bio of Beatrice Eugene Bradshaw and Hannah Jennings Bradshaw under the caption of those who served in WWI. They were both nurses.

The house was built by Albert Bradshaw according to the Saanich Archives.
• School: Cedar Hill School and Central Junior Highschool, Cir 1910-1917, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada.
• Census: Saanich Ward 1, Ward 6, Nanaimo District, 1911, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Albert and Sister in Law Sarah Bradshaw and her children. Clara McCoubrey and her son Alexander are shown on the same census form immediately after the Bradshaws. I suspect that they were all living in the same house, built by Albert.
• Interesting: took trip home briefly from hospital duties. Presumably did not make it up for Christmas, 29 Dec 1916, Victoria, Australia. Dec 25 At Mother's. Went to church twice. Hetty at Port Essington. [Hetty was teaching at Port Essington on the Skeena River.] Trix got up from Hospital for tea.
Dec 29 Had box of "Turkish Delight" from Nance at Salonika.
• Graduation: Nurse, Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing, 1917, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
• Military: Enlisted in Montreal, 1 Jun 1918, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
• Military: Nurse at #11 Canadian General Hospital, Between 1 Jun 1918 and 13 Oct 1919, Shorncliffe, Corbridge, Northumberland, England.
• Military: Moore Barracks, Oct 1918, Shorncliffe, Corbridge, Northumberland, England. Trix reached England in October 1918. Took 17 days going across. She & Nance working in same Hospital at Moore Barracks Shorncliffe. Trix on night duty first. Got the "Flue" but getting better while at Shorncliffe also.
.
• Illness: Spanish Flu, Between 12 Oct 1918 and 23 Oct 1918, Shorncliffe, Corbridge, Northumberland, England.
• Departure: On board S.S. TUNISIAN for Canada, 24 Sep 1919, London, Greater London, England.
• Occupation: Nurse, Resthaven Veterans Hospital, Cir 1920, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. Now:
Location: Sidney
Operator: Adventist Health Care Home Society
Address: 2281 Mills Rd, Sidney, BC V8L 2C3
Phone: 250-656-0717
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• Occupation: School Nurse, After 1920, Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

Parents

Father: Capt. William George Bradshaw ¹⁴⁶ ^,149 ^,168 Mother: Sarah Payne Windsor ⁶ ^,168 ^,282 ^,283 Marriage Did Not Marry

Notes
General:

Email from Helen Steinke and Stella Stanger 27/02/03:

"Beatrice - never married ******???????"

Name: Beatrice Eugene Bradshaw Event Date: 1945 2 3 (Yr/Mo/Day) Age: 52 Gender: female Event Place: Oak Bay Reg. Number: 1945-09-656882 B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B13186 GSU Microfilm Number: 2032323

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From Saanich Archives online

Bradshaw, Beatrice Eugene (Nursing Sister)
Beatrice Eugene Bradshaw was the daughter of Sarah Payne Windsor and William George Bradshaw. A few years after her father's death, her mother, uncle and siblings moved to Victoria. The family lived in a home at 3701 Palo Alto Street in the Mount Tolmie area of Saanich. She enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1918, a year after her graduation from The Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing. She served at the #11 Canadian General Hospital at Shorncliffe, England. Beatrice later worked as a school nurse in Victoria. She passed away in Oak Bay in 1945. Beatrice is buried at St. Luke's Cemetery with two of her sisters. Information submitted by: B.Ellison. Sources: The Daily Colonist <http://www.britishcolonist.ca/>(Sat 1 Jun 1918, p.6). Photo: grave of Beatrice Bradshaw, St Luke's Cemetery, Saanich (courtesy B.Ellison). Excerpt from Oral History interview by Madeline Howden (nee Bradshaw): "And then Trix was a nurse at the Jubilee and as soon as she was through, she went off to the war. I think I have an awfully nice picture of Trix. Trix was very pretty." "Trix was a school nurse". Source: Saanich Archives Oral History Collection. Interview excerpts [PDF - 71 KB] </assets/Parks~Recreation~and~Culture/Documents/WWI_references_in_oral_history_HOWDEN.pdf> | Royal Jubilee School of Nursing Archives [PDF - 65 KB] </assets/Parks~Recreation~and~Culture/Documents/Bradshaw_sisters.pdf> | Grave Marker </assets/Parks~Recreation~and~Culture/Images/Bradshaw_Beatrice_grave.jpg> | Photo <https://saanich.accesstomemory.org/portrait-of-beatrice-trixie-bradshaw>

also

WWI Nursing Sisters: Trixie [Beatrice] and Nance [Hannah] Bradshaw
Nancy was a Royal Jubilee School of Nursing grad in 1915 from a class of 11. Her
married name was Wall. Trixie graduated from a class of 13 in 1917 and they both
served overseas.
Nance served in Gallipoli and secretly married Jim Walls from Vancouver and she lived
there after the war. She had three children, the last and youngest Elizabeth died
recently at age 90. Trixie didn't marry or have children. She lost her fiancée in the war
and she was ill with the influenza. She worked after the war at Resthaven Veterans'
hospital, and got there by train to Sidney.
Later she was the school nurse at Oak Bay for many years. She died of cancer around
1947 and is buried with family in St. Luke's churchyard.
The girls were born in Newfoundland. Beatrice was named after Queen Victoria's
youngest daughter. The Bradshaw Victoria family home is still standing, on Palo Alto
Street [in Saanich].
A framed oval sepia portrait of Trixie Bradshaw is held by the Royal Jubilee School of
Nursing Archives. A portrait of Trixie in uniform is held by the Craigdarroch Castle
Archives.
Researched by the Royal Jubilee School of Nursing Archives, October 2014

and

The Bradshaw family lived in a house built by Augustus Windsor on a seven acre property at 3701 Palo Alto Street. There were seven daughters in the family. Beatrice "Trixie" Eugene Bradshaw and Hannah "Nance" Jennings Bradshaw served as Nursing Sisters in the First World War. Trixie and Nance Bradshaw attended Cedar Hill School followed by Central Junior High School.

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210517 from the website that sold her medals and other memorabilia from WWI www.emedals.com:

Footnote: Beatrice Eugene Bradshaw was born on December 5, 1893 in Placentia, Newfoundland. She was staying at the Dorchester in Montreal, Quebec, when she signed her Officers' Declaration Paper with the Canadian Army Medical Corps, on August 28, 1918 in Montreal, having previously been taken on strength at Vancouver, British Columbia on June 1, 1918, at the age of 24, naming her next-of-kin as her mother, Mrs. Sarah P. Bradshaw of Victoria, British Columbia, stating that she had served with the Voluntary Army Medical Corps for eleven months at Military District No. 11 in Victoria and that her profession was that of Nurse. She had previously worked at the Military Convalescent Hospital at Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island. The Hospital was originally the Qualicum Beach Hotel, which the Federal government had taken over in the Summer of 1915 and converted into a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers. They continued to lease it until four years after the war ended. Nursing Assistant Bradshaw arrived at Shorncliffe, England on September 4, 1918 and was taken on strength at the Canadian Army Medical Corps Regimental Depot on September 30th. Two weeks later, she was admitted to No. 11 Canadian General Hospital at Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe, on October 12, 1918, diagnosed with "Influenza". Nine days after her admission, on October 21st, the attending doctor noted in his report that Bradshaw was "Complaining of usual symptoms on admission. Temp 102 degrees - 99 degrees for ten days. Bronchial symptoms mild toxic symptoms & myasthenia (muscle weakness) predominating. Fit for duty upon recovery". After two weeks in hospital, she was discharged on October 28th. In May of 1919, she is documented as having been in Ireland, as indicated by the taglines beside the photographs in the photo album. She was posted to No. 16 Canadian General Hospital at Orpington, on August 2, 1919. She was struck off strength of the Overseas Military Forces of Canada, sailing for Canada from London aboard the the S.S. Tunisian, on September 24, 1919, arriving in Canada on October 5th. Nursing Sister Bradshaw was discharged upon general demobilization on October 13, 1919, credited with having served in Canada and England. - See more at: https://www.emedals.com/a-first-war-canadian-nursing-group-to-sister-beatrice-e-bradshaw#sthash.7gc8FCyu.dpuf

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120817 from an interview with her sister Madeline:

Trix and Nancy got to Royal Jubilee as nurses and they both went to the 1^st World War. Nancy went down to Gallipoli, which was terrible, because everybody from Newfoundland was killed off. The Australians, the Canadians and the Newfoundlanders were the ones who were sent down there and that was the end of all the young men of those countries. The best of the countries were killed. Horrible wasn't it.

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270917 from "Gone But Not Forgotten - A History of St. Luke's Churchyard", by Pam Gaudio and Bev Ellison. 2009. ISBN: 978-1-926747-49-1:

BRADSHAW, Sisters
Beatrice, died February 3,1945
Henrietta, died January 31, 1940
Madeline, died 2000
Row H west, Plot 18
In 1907, Sarah Bradshaw and her seven daugh-
ters moved to Victoria, British Columbia, from New-
foundland. Sarah's brother-in-law, Albert Bradshaw,
moved west with the family.
Henrietta and Madeline attended Cedar Hill
School then Victoria High School, eventually becom-
ing schoolteachers. Henrietta, taught at Port Essing-
ton on the Skeena River. She moved back to Victo-
ria and taught at Girls Central School, then Quadra
School, where she remained until her retirement in
1956.
Madeline taught at Pachelqua, near Lillooet,
for one year then moved to Prospect Lake School for
three years. She attended Stanford University in Cali-
fornia and when she returned to Victoria, married Ma-
rried Patrick Howden, a teacher at St. Michael's Uni-
versity School. Over the years she taught at George
Jay, Monterey and Willows Elementary Schools. She
was a substitute teacher until age 72.
Beatrice became a nurse and served overseas
with the nursing sisters in World War I. The Brad-
shaw sisters spent many evenings playing badminton
at St. Luke's Church Hall and had a reserved pew
at St. Luke's Church.

Daughter Bradshaw

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 26 May 1889 - Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵³ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Capt. William George Bradshaw ¹⁴⁶ ^,149 ^,168 Mother: Sarah Payne Windsor ⁶ ^,168 ^,282 ^,283

Notes
General:

090620 from Gert Crosbie CD:

Name: Bradshaw, Baby
Age:
Sex: F
Parents: Bradshaw, W.G.
Event Address:
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 05/26/1889
Reference Date: 06/08/1889
Source: 1) Times and General Commercial Gazette 1832-1895

Presumbaly died at birth or shortly afterwards.

Daughter Bradshaw

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: 2 Jun 1867 - Gaultois, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵³ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Richard Bishop Bradshaw ¹⁷⁸⁷ Mother: Lucinda Cook Hooper ¹⁷⁸⁷ ^,2333

Notes
General:

090620 from Gert Crosbie CD:

Name: Bradshaw, Baby
Age:
Sex: F
Parents: Bradshaw, Richard
Event Address: Gaultois, Hermitage, Newfoundland
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 06/02/1867
Reference Date: 06/11/1867
Source: 1) Public Ledger 1820-1882 (issues available begin 1827)
2) Express (Newfoundland Express) 1851-1876
Comment: Father was Richard Bradshaw, H.M. Customs. ¹⁵³

Ellen Bradshaw

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir Apr 1881 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵³ Christening: Death: 29 Jan 1890 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 8) ¹⁵³ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Henry Francis Bradshaw ¹⁵³ Mother: Katie Hutton ¹⁵³

Notes
General:

090620 from Gert Crosbie CD:

Name: Bradshaw, Ellen
Age: 08.09
Sex: F
Parents: Bradshaw, Henry
Bradshaw, Katie
Event Address:
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 01/29/1890
Reference Date: 01/29/1890
Source: 1) (Newfoundland) Colonist 1886-1892 ¹⁵³

Emma Bradshaw

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Bef 4 May 1845 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²³¹⁷ Christening: 4 May 1845 - Argentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²³¹⁷ Death: 26 Apr 1922 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁹⁸⁶ Burial: After 26 Apr 1922 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁹⁸⁶ Cause of Death:
Events
• Will: Estate file for Emma Bradshaw, 1923, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Will: Will of Emma Bradshaw, spinster, 17 Apr 1923, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Will of Emma Bradshaw
from the Newfoundland will books volume 12 page 381 probate year 1923

In re EMMA BRADSHAW. DECEASED.

In the name of God Amen: This is the last Will and Testament of me Emma Bradshaw of Placentia Spinster.
I appoint Wm. F. O'Reilly Stipendiary Magistrate Executor of this my last Will and Testament.

I will that my just debts be paid as soon as possible after my death.
I will devise and bequeath my dwelling house and land to my niece Annie Blewett.
I will to my niece Lena Sinnott the sum of Ten dollars.
I will to the Convent Placentia the sum of One hundred dollars.
I will the sum of One hundred and fifty dollars for the celebration of one hundred and fifty masses for the repose of the souls of myself and friends.
I will to Lucy Lannon the sum of Twenty Five dollars also one Side board and to her son Michael One bed, bedstead & bedding.
I will the sum of Twenty dollars to Johanna Delaney.
The balance of my property I will devise and bequeath to my niece Annie Blewett.
I will devise and bequeath to Mrs. Patrick J. Delaney one bed, bedding and bedstead.
I will devise and bequeath to my nieces Annie Blewett and Hannah Sinnott the land at the Swans known as the Doctor's Meadow and to the latter I will one card table.
I will my watch to George Blewett and chain to Fred Bradshaw.
The balance of my property of every description I may die possessed of both real and personal I will devise and bequeath to my niece Annie Blewett for her own use for ever.
I hereby revoke all wills by me at any time heretofore made.
Signed published and declared at Placentia this 17th day of April A. D. 1923 in the presence of the witnesses. EMMA BRADSHAW.
Signed by the Testatrix and acknowledged by her to be her last Will and Testament in our presence who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other we have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. James M. Kent. Patrick Delaney.

CORRECT.
William F. Lloyd
Registrar of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland

(Listed in the Margin next to this will the following)
Fiat June 1 /23
Horwood C. J.
Probate granted
to Wm. F. O'Reilly
June 1 /23
Estate sworn
at $1789.16.
• Alt. Death: Bef 1 Jun 1923, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Will: Estate file for Emma Bradshaw, 1935, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Parents

Father: Dr. Francis Lodge Bradshaw Jr. ²³¹⁹ ^,2320 Mother: Hannah Phippard ¹⁵³ Marriage Did Not Marry

Emma Agusta Bradshaw

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1827 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²²⁹⁴ Christening: Death: 18 Apr 1917 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( about age 90) ²²⁹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: William George Bradshaw JP ¹²¹⁸ Mother: Hannah Power

Spouses and Children

1. *Capt. Duncan James Kevin Boyle ²²⁹⁴ Marriage: 16 Feb 1847 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²²⁹⁴ ^,2296 Children: 1. William Boyle 2. Mary Emma Bradshaw Boyle 3. Sarah Amelia Boyle 4. Charles Boyle 5. Duncan J Boyle 6. Aloysius Mary Boyle

Notes
General:

170620:

There is an intriguing story here. In Robert Carter's diary on Wednesday the 24th of February 1847 he writes that: "Acc't of Emma Bradshaw having been married at Placentia on Shrove Tuesday last to the Capt'n of a vessel put in there in distress."

Ethel May Bradshaw

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: May 1890 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁶²⁷ ^,745 ^,2331 Christening: Death: 29 Jan 1951 - Saanich, British Columbia, Canada ( at age 60) ²³²⁹ Burial: 31 Jan 1951 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ²³¹⁶ ^,2334 Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Played piano at Uncle Gus's theatre, Turlock, Stanislaus, California, United States of America.
• Alt. Birth: 1889.
• Immigration: from Newfoundland, 1907, British Columbia, Canada.
• Departure: 24 Jul 1907, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Departure: Train to St. John's, 24 Jul 1907, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Departure: SS BONAVISTA to Montreal, 27 Jul 1907, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Residence: 3701 Palo Alto Street in the Mount Tolmie area of Saanich, Aug 1907, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. (Occupant)
• Arrival: Aboard SS BONAVISTA, 2 Aug 1907, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
• Departure: CP Rail to Vancouver, 4 Aug 1907, Montreal, Québec, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Arrival: From Vancouver via the CHARMER, 9 Aug 1907, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Education: Cedar Hill school, After 1907, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
• Immigration: from Newfoundland, 1908, British Columbia, Canada. (Immigrant)
• Occupation: Teaching privately at Mrs. Tennison's, 19 Jun 1908, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada.
• Education: Began learning stenography, 1 Dec 1908, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
• Occupation: Worked briefly at BC Hardware's office, May 1909, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
• Occupation: Began working at Coles & Oddy's Real Estate, Insurance and Financial Agents, 5 Jul 1909, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 1205 Broad St.
• Residence: 3701 Palo Alto Street in the Mount Tolmie area of Saanich, Cir 1910, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Bio of Beatrice Eugene Bradshaw and Hannah Jennings Bradshaw under the caption of those who served in WWI. They were both nurses.
• Occupation: Stenographer, Vancouver Island Power Company, 24 Jul 1910, River Jordan, British Columbia, Canada. Jul 24 Sunday left Victoria for the Jordan River as Stenographer for the Vancouver Island Power Co. Ltd. Were supposed to leave on the tug Beatrice at six a.m. I got up at four. Left Mount Tolmie at five a.m. Will and Claude drove me in. When we arrived at the wharf, found that the boat would not leave until 9 a.m. Just then the Carpenter's [Mrs E.E Carpenter of San Francisco] arrived on the scene in hacks so we all waited at the docks until 9.

Should have reached Jordan River at 2 p.m. Instead did not arrive until 5 p.m. The scow which we were towing with our freight and belongings, began to leak so we had to anchor at a small bay near Sooke and have her pumped out. I was seasick also all next day.
.
• Census: Saanich Ward 1, Ward 6, Nanaimo District, 1911, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Albert and Sister in Law Sarah Bradshaw and her children. Clara McCoubrey and her son Alexander are shown on the same census form immediately after the Bradshaws. I suspect that they were all living in the same house, built by Albert.
• Occupation: Stenographer - Office, 1911, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada.
• Residence: 1941 Ernest Ave., Mt. Tolmie near Cedar Hill, 17 Oct 1912, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
• Arrival: One week visit to the mainland from Victoria, Between 8 Jan 1915 and 15 Jan 1915, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ethel May [Bradshaw] Lytton and her first cousin Elsie Leone [Morry] Noel went together. Ethel's husband was away on a buying trip to England during the height of WWI. Elsie's husband was a sea captain and may have been away at the same time.
• Residence: 4070 Torquay Drive, 29 Jan 1951, Cedar Hill, British Columbia, Canada.

Parents

Father: Capt. William George Bradshaw ¹⁴⁶ ^,149 ^,168 Mother: Sarah Payne Windsor ⁶ ^,168 ^,282 ^,283

Spouses and Children

1. *Leonard Claude Melville Lytton ¹⁴⁹ ^,150 Marriage: 17 Sep 1912 - Cedar Hill, British Columbia, Canada ²³²⁷
Marriage Events
• Engagement: 22 Jun 1911, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
• Minister/Priest: Rev. H. A. Collison, 17 Sep 1912, Cedar Hill, British Columbia, Canada.
• Witnesses: Albert Skilton and Hannah Jennings (Nance) Bradshaw, 17 Sep 1912, Cedar Hill, British Columbia, Canada. Best man Albert Skilton - English army friend of Claude's, Bridesmaid Nance (Hannah Jennings) Bradshaw - Ethel's sister
. Marriage Notes

Groom Name: Leonard Claude Lytton Bride Name: Ethel May Bradshaw Event Date: 1912 9 17 (Yr/Mo/Day) Event Place: Cedar Hill Reg. Number: 1912-09-022573 B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B11370 GSU Microfilm Number: 1983527
Children: 1. Gerald Bradshaw Lytton 2. Evelyn Margaret Lytton 3. Brian Claude Lytton 4. Roger Eric Lytton 5. Beatrice Joyce Lytton

Notes
General:

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210517 from Barb Prescott, volunteer at St. Luke's in Victoria:

"An excerpt from Oral History interview by Madeline Howden (nee Bradshaw, one of Sarah's daughters) in with the Bradshaw information is very interesting, too: "We were the first generation of girls who'd ever had to earn a living. But that's why Mother came to Victoria. She knew we'd have to earn our own livings. So my sister Ethel was a stenographer, Nancy was a stenographer, too, but changed to be a nurse and she went off to the First World War. And she was down in Gallipoli during the war."

Email from Helen Steinke and Stella Stanger, Feb. 27, 2003:

"Ethel and Leonard LYTTON; had 5 children Gerald, Evelyn, Roger, Brian,Joyce.

Name: Ethel May Lytton Event Date: 1951 1 29 (Yr/Mo/Day) Age: 61 Gender: female Event Place: Saanich Reg. Number: 1951-09-001703 B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B13207 GSU Microfilm Number: 2032699

170717:
Thanks to an introduction from Barb, I got to know John Wheeler and his wife Shannon. John is the great grandson of Ethel. Between the two of them they have transcribed a daily diary kept by Ethel from the day that they left Placentia on July 24, 1907 until 1939, but with decreasing frequency of entries as the years went on. This is actually more than a transcript because Shannon and John have added much to the information contained, including tombstone data on births, marriages and deaths as well as many photographs from the era. I have requested but not been given permission to distribute the document as a whole but feel that I can extract information from it to improve the family tree and will acknowledge their efforts each time I quote or use such information or photographs.

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270917 from "Gone But Not Forgotten - A History of St. Luke's Churchyard", by Pam Gaudio and Bev Ellison. 2009. ISBN: 978-1-926747-49-1:

LYTTON, Ethel May
Died January 29, 1951
Row H west, Plot 19
Ethel M. Lytton born in Placentia, Newfound--
land, was the eldest daughter of Sarah Windsor and
William George Bradshaw. In 1907, she moved to
Victoria with her widowed mother and seven siblings.
They lived on Palo Alto Drive in the Shelbourne Val--
ley. She worked as a stenographer before her mar--
riage to Leonard C. Lytton at St. Luke's Church in
1912. Lytton raised five children and was a faithful
member of St. Luke's Church, devoting almost half a
century to various church activities.

Fanny Mary Bradshaw

Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir Jun 1871 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵³ Christening: Death: Bef 17 Aug 1872 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Henry Francis Bradshaw ¹⁵³ Mother: Katie Hutton ¹⁵³

Notes
General:

090620 from Gert Crosbie CD:

Name: Bradshaw, Fanny Mary
Age:0.10
Sex: F
Parents: Bradshaw, Henry
Bradshaw, Katie
Event Address:
Event Type: Death
Event Date:
Reference Date: 08/17/1872
Source: 1) Times and General Commercial Gazette 1832-1895
2) Courier (Morning Courier & General Advertiser, Morning Courier) 1844-1878 ¹⁵³

Florence Hilda Bradshaw

Sex: F
AKA: Floss Bradshaw ²³¹⁶, Flossie Bradshaw ²³³⁷
Individual Information

Birth Date: 7 Dec 1894 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ¹⁵⁰ Christening: Death: 15 Feb 1937 - Saanich, British Columbia, Canada ( at age 42) ⁷⁴⁵ Burial: After 15 Feb 1937 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ²³¹⁶ Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1895, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Alt. Birth: Dec 1895, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Alt. Birth: After 1898, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Immigration: from Newfoundland, 1907, British Columbia, Canada.
• Departure: Train to St. John's, 24 Jul 1907, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Departure: SS BONAVISTA to Montreal, 27 Jul 1907, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Residence: 3701 Palo Alto Street in the Mount Tolmie area of Saanich, Aug 1907, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. (Occupant)
• Arrival: Aboard SS BONAVISTA, 2 Aug 1907, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
• Departure: CP Rail to Vancouver, 4 Aug 1907, Montreal, Québec, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Arrival: From Vancouver via the CHARMER, 9 Aug 1907, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Education: Cedar Hill school, After 1907, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (Witness)
• Immigration: from Newfoundland, 1908, British Columbia, Canada. (Immigrant)
• Illness: Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Dec 1909, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Started a series of operations at Jubilee Hospital for growth on brain.
• Residence: 3701 Palo Alto Street in the Mount Tolmie area of Saanich, Cir 1910, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Bio of Beatrice Eugene Bradshaw and Hannah Jennings Bradshaw under the caption of those who served in WWI. They were both nurses.
• Census: Saanich Ward 1, Ward 6, Nanaimo District, 1911, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Albert and Sister in Law Sarah Bradshaw and her children. Clara McCoubrey and her son Alexander are shown on the same census form immediately after the Bradshaws. I suspect that they were all living in the same house, built by Albert.
• Illness: Appendix operation, 30 May 1911, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
• Departure: Going to Newfoundland, 25 Jun 1915, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (Travelling together)
• Arrival: From Newfoundland, 23 Oct 1915, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (Travelling together)

Parents

Father: Capt. William George Bradshaw ¹⁴⁶ ^,149 ^,168 Mother: Sarah Payne Windsor ⁶ ^,168 ^,282 ^,283 Marriage Did Not Marry

Notes
General:

Email from Helen Steinke and Stella Stanger 27/02/03:

"Florence - never married: Could this be your Florence:- this one in Saanich:

Name: Florence Hilda Bradshaw Event Date: 1937 2 15 (Yr/Mo/Day) Age: 42 Gender: female Event Place: Saanich Reg. Number: 1937-09-524740 B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B13158 GSU Microfilm Number: 1953022 *** There is a listing for a Florence Amy Bradshaw - m Robert McLean Waugh -1926 - Nanaimo."

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It would appear from the 1911 Census that Florence Hilda and Anna Windsor were twins.

Dr. Francis Bradshaw JP

Sex: M
AKA: Dr. Francis L. Bradshaw J.P. ¹⁷⁸⁷
Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1750 - Ireland ²³⁴⁰ Christening: Death: Bef 5 Jul 1821 - Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²³⁴¹ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Interesting: Family lore or legend about why Francis L. Baadcock left the service of Prince William, Between 21 Jul 1786 and 5 Sep 1786, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. In letter from Sir John Hope Simpson on his visit to Placentia:

"One of the women who showed us around very voluably was a Bradshaw [Jen (Bradshaw) Mitchell] one of the old Protestant family who married the Catholic Magistrate & is a catholic herself now. The story of the Bradshaws is interesting. William IV was stationed at Placentia for 7 months when he was Prince of Wales and only 17 years old. The doctor of the ship was a Bradshaw who also was new to N.F.L. They had a quarrel one night [ see footnote below] and ... Prince William had him put off the ship -- marooned at Placentia & there he married & ...

Footnote: Legend has it that Bradshaw accused the Prince of cheating at cards."
• Appointment: Justice of the Peace, 1792, Trepassey, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Appointment: Justice of the Peace, 1795-1813, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Appointment: Appointment as JP and Magistrate, 2 Oct 1800, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Membership: No. 250 Freemason Lodge of Harmony, 11 Aug 1807, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Elevated to rank of Master.
• Appointment: Justice of the Peace, Collector of the Customs, Comptroller of the Customs, Naval Officer, 1817, Placentia, Newfoundland.

Spouses and Children

1. Living Children: 1. William George Bradshaw JP 2. Marmaduke Hare Bradshaw 3. Dr. Francis Lodge Bradshaw Jr. 4. Wilson J. Bradshaw 5. Const. James Bradshaw

Notes
General:

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It seems incredible that it has proven impossible to find the parentage and origins of a man with such an unusual name and indeed a medical doctor. The best I have seen is that he is from Ireland but that has proven fruitless in searchs. Family lore in the Bradshaw family has it that he and a brother William were both on the HM Pegasus with Prince William when it came to Placentia in the 1780s. That lore suggests that William was captaining the ship and Francis was the military surgeon. But there are no historical accounts that back up this lore and in fact it seems more likely that the William in question was the son of Francis, not his brother, and was born in Newfoundland.

In an article in the Daily News on July 18 1925, the entire text of the Address by Doctor L. Keegan, President of the Newfoundland Medical Society at the opening of its second annual convention of Monday, July 13, 1925 was published. It dealt with a "Historical Sketch of The Progress of Medicine in Newfoundland". In that address, Dr. Keegan mentions that Dr. Francis Bradshaw was one of seven doctors who were the earliest in their profession to practice medicine in Newfoundland:

"The men who practised medicine in Newfoundland before the 1800 year were: Jonathan Ogden, Francis Bradshaw, Doctor Mayne, Rev. M. Dingle, David Duggan, John McCurdy, and a doctor named Moore who was a Jersey man.

Doctor Francis Bradshaw was justice of the Peace at Trepassey in 1792 and afterwards removed to Placentia where he practised medicine, he also had the responsibility of ministering the law, for which he received no remuneration. It is an illustration of the difficulties and hardships these men had to endure, always supposed to work for honour and glory and a word of thanks that might be handed out to them from time to time. For eighteen years Dr. Bradshaw did duty as magistrate without pay and then had the temerity to memorialize the Governor asking for some remuneration. His letter is dated June 1813 and the reply of Governor R. E. Keats is as follows:

Fort Townsend
July 29, 1813

I have received your memorial. Though perfectly willing to acknowledge the advantage which the Government and the people at large derive from the services of a magistrate, who exercise authority with the same justice and integrity, which I believe you have done, the situation nevertheless is neither without example or totally destitute of those rewards which are peculiarly gratifying to one's feelings and which I doubt not you have often experienced. Though I willingly admit your merit, I cannot acknowledge a parallel in the labours of the magistrate of the populous town and district of St. John's and those of Placentia and much as I should regret and feel the loss of your services in the Commission of the Peace, I nevertheless cannot entirely approve or consent to recommend to His Majesty's government the memorial.

Signed R. E. Keats, Governor

Within a month the same government sent Bradshaw the following interesting Placebo.

I send you by the PHEASANT 2 nine-pounder guns together with a proportion of powder and ammunition, which I shall be anxious to hear have been mounted, and which I doubt not, the zeal and patriotism of the inhabitants of Placentia, will induce them, to make the best use of, in case the enemy should give them an opportunity. You will please to sign and return the receipt by the Pheasant.

I find no record of Dr. Bradshaw's reply to this document. Bradshaw continued to practice in Placentia until 1825.

The Rev. M. Dingle, Missioner and doctor worked in Bay Bulls and Ferryland in the year 1794. Here he was also in the capacity of Magistrate without pay, in his case the higher motive complex was better developed than in Bradshaw, for apparently he did not memorialize anyone until he was penniless.

In Placentia proper, Francis Bradshaw referred to before, practised until 1825. He was an Irishman, an ex-naval surgeon and was succeeded by his son Francis L. Bradshaw who was there from 1825 until 1873 when he died at the age of 74."

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I am following up on the veracity of the family lore concerning the arrival of two, not one, Bradshaw men with Prince William. Nowhere have I found online any support for this theory and all the records suggest that only Francis L. Bradshaw arrived in Placentia alone and from him all the Bradshaws from that community descend. I have been debating this with Paul O'Keefe of Stevenville whose family tree on Ancestry.com contains a very comprehensive and well-researched branch for the Bradshaw's which all go back to Francis. He pointed out to me that he had learned of this family lore from a reference in a book by Peter Neary entitled "White Ties and Decorations" about the time in Newfoundland of Sir John Hope Simpson, the first of the Commissioners from England to guide the Commission of Government in the 1930s. In that book, which is based entirely upon the letters of Sir John Hope Simpson now found at Oxford University, he mentions a meeting he had with a woman named Jen (Bradshaw) Mitchell who told him that the Bradshaws descended from one (or two? I cannot see the whole book online) Bradshaw men who fell out with Prince William over his alleged cheating at a game of cards and left his service to remain in Newfoundland. But this too is pure hearsay, not evidence, and simply shows that the family lore has been taken up by more people than just Madeline Bradshaw.

Here is what Madeline Bradshaw had to say on the matter:

120817 from an interview with Madeline Bradshaw sent to me by Shannon Wheeler:

Bradshaw Family History

Family came to Newfoundland in the late 1790's or early 1800's. They were connected with the Keligrews of Kilkenny, Ireland.

Family history says one Bradshaw brother was a Captain and one the Doctor on Duke of York's [Duke of Clarence actually] boat which sailed to North America. William (King) was very hard on the crew and wouldn't let them land in Newfoundland after a long trip up the coast. So the Bradshaws left the ship after William later King William IV of England, Queen Victoria's father. He gave up his large morganatic family so his new children would be heirs to the throne, married a German??

Another story is that he met the Bradshaws on a stay in Ireland then gave them the land in Placentia, the old French Capital. (no wonder the present King's generations behind them of libertines). There were two branches, Bradshaws in St. Johns - very accomplished music and painting. When Mother, Sarah Payne Windsor, of Aquaforte married William Bradshaw she joined the household in Placentia. Uncle Albert ( Member of Parliament) and Aunt Sarah (Sally) who helped raise us all. We were about the only non-catholics in a very Irish environment in Jersey Side - the town side was the main part across the Gut a narrow inlet into the Bay. We used to be taken across in a boat, sculled across like a ferry (now a bridge). There is a small museum in Placentia with information on us there, is a fish cannery where our ? cannery used to be called Placentia Bay - go and see it soon. Lots of relations in St. Johns.

In his book "White Tie and Decorations", Peter Neary transcribes a letter from Sir John Hope Simpson dealing with the same legend. I can see parts of that account online but then it is cut off. Here are the sentences I can see:

"One of the women who showed us around very voluably was a Bradshaw [Jen (Bradshaw) Mitchell] one of the old Protestant family who married the Catholic Magistrate & is a catholic herself now. The story of the Bradshaws is interesting. William IV was stationed at Placentia for 7 months when he was Prince of Wales and only 17 years old. The doctor of the ship was a Bradshaw who also was new to N.F.L. They had a quarrel one night [ see footnote below] and ... Prince William had him put off the ship -- marooned at Placentia & there he married & ...

Footnote: Legend has it that Bradshaw accused the Prince of cheating at cards"

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the HMS PEGASUS at this time:

"In 1786 Henry Harvey became captain of the recommissioned Pegasus for service on the North America station but was disappointed to discover that his first lieutenant was Prince William Henry. The issue was that the Admiralty expected Harvey to turn over the captaincy to his subordinate as soon as the ship was at sea. Controlling his disappointment, Harvey conducted the affair with "such discretion as secured to him the lasting friendship of His Royal Highness".[5] Within weeks, Harvey had been transferred to HMS Rose and aboard her joined Pegasus in peacetime maneuvers off the North American station until Rose was paid-off in 1789.

From 1786 to 1788, Pegasus, under Prince William Henry, was largely assigned to patrol the east coast of Canada and Newfoundland, as well as the West Indies. In late 1786, Pegasus was stationed in the West Indies under Horatio Nelson, who wrote of Prince William Henry, "In his professional line, he is superior to two-thirds, I am sure, of the [Naval] list; and in attention to orders, and respect to his superior officer, I hardly know his equal."

I think that this leaves little doubt that there was only one original Bradshaw in Placentia and that it was Dr. Francis L. Bradshaw, formerly the surgeon on board the HMS PEGASUS under the command of Prince William Henry. There is no suggestion that he had a brother acting as Captain on board with him named William George Bradshaw.

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