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m. 25 Jul 1880
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From an e-mail 26Jul2005 from Janice Dodson-jdodson<at>sprint.ca "Benjamin or Benny was just a baby when his mother Matilda died. She g pneumonia, and then TB and died in her mid-thirties. Alexandre married Matilda Poirier, about 1900, stories passed down through the family descri be her as a very wicked step-mother to Matilda's children. Anyway, I think I can imagine who Matilda named her children for; Anne I think was named for Anne Graham, the woman who raised her. John was named for John McIntaggart, Anne's grandson, who was raised alo ng with Matilda like a brother to her. Catherine, Mary, Margaret and Elizabeth were Matilda's sister's name she might have named her daughters for the four of them. Benjamin was named for Alexandre's father. Olive I think was named for Ellen, Matilda's mother. She gave Olive Guind on as her mother's name at her wedding. Her mother Ellen had re-married Patrick McAndrews after Thomas Merry's death, and she'd moved to North Dakota when Matilda was still a young girl, so I don't think she knew t much about her parents. She also gave her own name as Merrys at her wedding, possibly thinking it was a French name." References
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