Person:Ann Anderson (2)

Ann Anderson was born in Nova Scotia in 1823. "Grandmother Ann", as she was known in the family, lived at one time in the house at 37 Jamieson Street in Dartmouth and moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1900 where she died. Her obituary in the Portland paper reads: "Mrs. Ann Faulkner, 99, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Wilcox, 512 Sixty-second AVenue, Southeast, August 29, came to Portland 25 years ago. She was born in Novia (sic) Scotia of Scotch parents, July 18, 1823.

Due to an accident she had been confined to her home for nearly five years. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Margaret Wilcox and Mrs. Isabel Wilcox of Portland and Mrs. Mary Faulkner of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and one son, Isaac Turple, of Portland. She is also survived by 24 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren."

Ann's first husband, Isaac Turple, died when the baby Isaac was one year old. Her second husband was Peter Godfrey Faulkner of Musquodoboit Harbour. In the 1871 census is listed the following:

   Jeddore - Faulkner   -Peter 31 German
                                   -Anne 40 Scotch
                                   -Mary 6 
                                   -Isabel 4
                                   -Wallace 2
                                   -Margaret Turple 15

It is said that she spent quite a lot of her childhood with one of her father's sister, known as "Aunt Wallace". This Aunt Wallace was Anne Anderson, eldest daughter of John Anderson Sr., who was born in Scotland in 1799. When forty years of age she married Dr. Alexander Wallace (1778-1845), Surgeon of the EAsy India Co., who had served in the Crimean War. After his death she returned to Musquodoboit Harbour and built a house next to that of her father. Aunt Wallace had no children of her own brought up several nieces. The name Wallace, used as a Christian name, runs all through the family - and this may well be where it originated.

After Peter Faulkner's death, Ann moved to Portland, Oregon, where several of her children had settled. At some time before her move she owned and lived in a double house in Dartmouth, on the corner of what is now known as Hester and Jamieson Streets. This house was destoryed in the Halifax Explosion and a single family dwelling built on the same foundation. This is the house in which Edith Faulkner Rowlings lived for seventy years before selling it in 1995. The property was held in trust for Ann Faulkner until the early 1900's when it was sold to Alfred and Victoria Swaffer and later, about 1925, sold to Edith's parents, Isaac and Florence Faulkner.

Although Ann is said to have been able to read and write, on two documents having do do with the transfer of the above property she has signed with an X.

Isaac Turple and Ann Anderson were married by the Rev. A. Forrester. Witnesses were John Bayers and Ann Anderson [Family Bible].

1.   Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 1881 census
   FHL Film 1375805 NAC C-13169 Dist 10 SubDist M Div 2 Page 4 Family 14, 1881.

   Sex Marr Age Origin Birthplace
   Peter FAULKNER M M 41 German Nova Scotia
   Occ: Miller Religion: C. Methodist
   Annie FAULKNER F M 58 Scotch Nova Scotia
   Religion: C. Presbyterian
   Isabella FAULKNER F M 17 German Nova Scotia
   Religion: C. Presbyterian
   Mary FAULKNER F 13 German Nova Scotia
   Religion: C. Presbyterian
   Wallace FAULKNER M 12 German Nova Scotia
   Religion: C. Presbyterian
   Alec MCDONALD M 36 Scotch Scotland
   Occ: Shoemaker Religion: C. Presbyterian