Mary (Edmunds) Smail
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Mary Elizabeth (Edmunds) Smail (1906 - 1997)

Mary Elizabeth Smail formerly Edmunds
Born in Teesdale, Middleton, UKmap
Ancestors ancestors
Sister of , , [private brother (1910s - 1980s)] and
Wife of — married Dec 1926 in Rothbury, Northumberlandmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 90 in Burnaby, British Columbiamap
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Biography

Mary Elizabeth Edmunds was the daughter of [[Edmunds-222|George Frederick Edmunds] and Elizabeth Wilkinson. Mary was born August 13, 1906 in Teesdale, Middleton, UK. Her mother died when she was nine-years-old, and her father remarried [twice?]. She grew up in a coal-mining family in Northumberland.

At the age of 20, she married Andrew Smail and was soon pregnant with their first child, John. After John’s birth, the decision was made by the couple to break away from the coal-mining life and try their luck in the New World. In April 1928, the couple and their young son embarked on the Canadian Pacific Steamer - Montcalm, leaving Liverpool.

She was big on the St John’s Ambulance Brigade as a volunteer. She then got her Industrial First Aid certificate and went to work for Boeing at Sea Island when they were building the B29s. The most common accident was someone working on the wing getting a drill through the wing up into his palm. [1]

Birth

Date: 13 August 1906
Place: Teesdale, Middleton, Derbyshire, England

Immigration

To: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Date: 08 Apr 1928
CP Montcalm out of Liverpool
Age: 21

Residences

1911
Age: 5; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland, England
1960? - 1990?
New Westminster, British Columbia

Marriage

To: Andrew Smail
Date: Dec 1926
Place: Rothbury, Northumberland, England

Occupation

St John’s Ambulance Brigade/Industrial First Aid

Death

Date: 5 March 1997
Place: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Age: 90

Sources

  • Free BMD Index
  • Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Class: RG14; Piece: 31048
  • Passenger Lists, 1865–1935. Microfilm Publications T-479 to T-520, T-4689 to T-4874, T-14700 to T-14939, C-4511 to C-4542. Library and Archives Canada, n.d. RG 76-C. Department of Employment and Immigration fonds. Library and Archives Canada Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  1. As told by Mary's son Andrew





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