Willya Camille Fairfax Allison (1886 - 1974)

Born 26 Jan 1886 in Minnesota, United States of America

Ancestors

Died 2 Mar 1974 at age 88 in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

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Biography

Camille was born in 1886. Camille Allison was the daughter of Isabelle McKay and an unknown man born in Illinois of Irish heritage surnamed Allison. Her mother married James Borland when she was about 10 years old and he became her stepfather. She lived in North Dakota with them until adulthood. By 1920 Camille was working as a stenographer in Seattle, Washington. In 1930 she was working as a stenographer for a furniture store in Riverdale, Multnomah, Oregon. She never married and was living in Canada when she passed away in 1974.^[1]

Sources

1900 United States Census of Rolette County, North Dakota, original page online at US Genweb archives[1] Camille Allison in household of James Borland, age 14, born Minnesota, father born Illinois, mother born Canada.

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch [2] : accessed 14 April 2016, Camille W F Allison in household of Lucian S Hawley, Seattle, King, Washington, United States; citing sheet 6A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,926.

"United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch [3] : accessed 14 April 2016, Camille Allison, 1930.

Obituary in the Turtle Mountain Star, March 28, 1940, p. 1 "Mrs J.A. Borland dies early Friday Morning" Miss Camille Allison of Vancouver, B.C. is listed as a surviving daughter.

1. ↑ "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLB2-KKS : accessed 14 April 2016), Willya Camille Fairfax Allison, 1974.