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Marriage: James Parris & Gertrude Mary Slavin, Montreal 1926

From the records of St. Michel Archange Church

This twenty-eighth day of June, 1926, after the publication of three bans of marriage we, the undersigned priest, has asked and received the mutual consent to marriage of James Parris of St.Willibrord’s Parish, son of the William Parris and Margaret Collins of the one part and Gertrude Mary Slavin, of this parish daughter of the late Patrick Slavin and Annie Murphy of the other part: and we have blessed this marriage in the presence of Thomas Coyne and John P. Slavin, brother of the bride, who signed with the contracting parties and us. The Act was read.

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I had a wonderful time today with my sister’s daughter Gabrielle Harvey. For the last year I’ve been tracing her family tree through her father’s lines and today she shared a lot of new information she’s been collecting about her father Daniel Harvey’s family. So far, I haven’t been able to share this research online because I hadn’t gone back far enough in time but now that I’m making more progress, I’ve decided to  begin publishing some little bits and pieces from her English background. By way of introduction, I’d like to say that her major patronym is Harvey – but it branches out into Ross, Parris, Slavin, Murphy, and Collins, and all these families seem to have roots back in England (apparently London and Manchester). Read more »

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