Annie Connor left home at sixteen as she was not able to get along with her step mother. She went to Boston and lived with Martha Vaughn. This was told in a letter written by her daughter Helen McCaughey. Annie's mother Martha died when she was approx. 10 years old. Her father Thomas Connor married about a year later a Mary A. VanWart Feb. 10, 1886.
Sources
Ruby May (Burlock) Dickinson (Family Group sheets) - A History of the Dickinson Family compiled by Joyce Dickinson Estabrooks.
1881 Census of Canada, New Brunswick, District: 31, Carleton County, sub-district: C, Wakefield, Div.1; citing Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: RG1-C994; digital images. Page 4, Family 12.
1891 Census of Canada, New Brunswick, District: 12, Carleton County, sub-district: H, Wakefield, Div.1; citing Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: RG1; digital images. Page 4, Family 22. *http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1891/pdf/30953_148100-00156.pdf
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