Eleanor May (Casey) Peard (1884 - 1945)

Born 11 Oct 1884 in Northumberland, Ontario, Canada

Wife of John Henry Peard — married 4 Aug 1909 in Macleod, Willow Creek No. 26, Alberta, Canada

Died 17 Jan 1945 at age 60 in Victoria Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada

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Biography

Eleanor (Nora) May Casey was born in 1884. She was the youngest daughter of Captain Henry Samuel Casey and his wife Caroline Maria Strong.

She married John Henry Peard on August 4th, 1909 in Macleod, Alberta and according to the 1911 Census of Canada, they had a son, Henry Antony Peard who was less than a year old at the time.

The 1921 Canada Census shows no additional children.

She died on 17 January 1945, details of which can be found in a newspaper clipping on her Findgrave memorial page^[1]. Nora and was cremated, with her ashes being interred at Royal Oak Burial Park Cemetery, Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada^[2]. PLOT: Garden of Remembrance D-107

Newspaper Cutting - Marriage

North Devon Journal dated 16 September 1909^[3]

PEARD - CASEY. - August 4, at Christ Church, Macleod, Alberta, Canada, John Henry Peard, only son of the late J. H. Peard, of Sanfield, North Devon, to Nora, youngest daughter of the late Captain Casey, R.N. W M.P.

Sources

1. ↑ "Canada, British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2P-29X : 8 November 2017), Eleanor May Peard, 1945.
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201810511/eleanor-may-peard: accessed 23 September 2022), memorial page for Eleanor May Casey Peard (11 Oct 1884–17 Jan 1945), Find A Grave: Memorial #201810511, citing Royal Oak Burial Park Cemetery, Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada; Maintained by Harald Wolf (contributor 50056557) .
3. ↑ North Devon Journal dated 16 September 1909

• Newspaper cutting confirmed by Ancestry.Co.UK

See also:

• "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9P-JRJ1 : 16 March 2018), Eleanor M Peard in entry for John H Peard, 1911; citing Census, MacLeod Sub-Districts 1-35, Alberta, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,417,653.

• "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1916", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM5G-PPD : 10 August 2022), Eleanor Peard in entry for John Peard, 1916.

• "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8Z-JYP2 : 24 September 2020), Nora Peard in household of John Peard, Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada; citing Census, Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.