Maude Mary Ellen (1860 - 1944)

Born 13 Jun 1860 in London, England

Ancestors

Wife of Percy Cannon — married 8 Sep 1887 in Erith, Kent, England

Descendants

Died 29 Apr 1944 at age 83 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Biography

The sixth of 13 children, and daughter of a tea dealer, Maude Mary Ellen was born at home on June 13, 1860. The family lived at #30 St. Paul's Grove, in Canonbury, Islington, Middlesex, England. She was baptized August 12, 1860, at St. Paul's Church in Islington.^[1][2]

The family moved within that year to Erith, Kent. She attended Park House School in Lee, Kent, with her sister Jessie.^[3][4]

Maude had lost her sister Florence Augusta and father Edward Henry before the time she was married. She wed Percy Cannon, a dairy man, in Erith, Kent at St. John the Baptist Church on September 8, 1887.^[5][6][7]

The couple had six children, who all survived to adulthood. They lived at Cotton Farm in Stone, Kent. Maude was repeatedly looking for hired help, whether it was nurses for the children or general servants for the farm.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Her husband was bankrupted in 1893. Perhaps it was the idea of land ownership that brought the entire family to Canada in 1906, sailing from Liverpool to Quebec on board the S.S. Kensington. They settled on a homestead near Tisdale, Saskatchewan, located at NW 23-46-14-2 (except for son Howard, who obtained his own homestead nearby.)^[12][13][14]

There were a few years of loss for Maude, losing her mother in 1908, and her husband Percy in 1910.^[15][16][17]

Maude and her children moved east to Winnipeg, Manitoba, a few years later. They lived at 76 Smithfield Ave., next door to Samuel and Isabella Shaver, who were the parents of her future daughter-in-law, Florence.^[18]

Her son Kenneth Edward Cannon was killed during the war in Ypres, Belgium, on June 10, 1916. Her son Aubrey Percy Cannon also served in the war, in the Royal Air Force.^[19][20]

Maude moved around after this, living with son Aubrey until he married Florence Shaver, and then with her daughter Una. She lost her daughter Gladys on Christmas Eve of 1927.^[21][22][23]

Maude died intestate on April 29, 1944. She is buried in St. John's Cemetery in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she had been a member of the congregation and involved with the women's auxiliary of the church.^[24][25][26]

Sources

1. ↑ UK, General Register Office, birth registration, Maude Ellen, Islington, 1860; copy in personal files of Bess (Cannon) Trenchard.
2. ↑ Church of England Parish Registers, London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library Manuscripts, baptism, Maude and Jessie Ellen, Islington, St Paul, Canonbury, 1860.
3. ↑ 1861 Census Returns of England and Wales (Public Record Office), The National Archives of the UK, Dartford, Erith Parish, Edward Ellen household, Class: RG 9; Piece: 466; Folio: 77; Page: 44; GSU roll: 542643.
4. ↑ 1871 Census Returns of England and Wales (Public Record Office), The National Archives of the UK, Dartford, Lee Parish, Park House School, Class: RG10; Piece: 765; Folio: 37; Page: 8; GSU roll: 824730.
5. ↑ UK, General Register Office, death registration, Florence Augusta Parish, Dartford, 1882; copy in the personal files of Bess (Cannon) Trenchard.
6. ↑ UK, General Register Office, death, Edward Henry Ellen, Dartford, 1886; copy in the personal files of Bess (Cannon) Trenchard.
7. ↑ Bexley Parish Registers, Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, St. John the Baptist Church, marriage, Cannon/Ellen, 1887, Reference Number: PA137/1/D/7.
8. ↑ 1891 Census Returns of England and Wales (Public Record Office), The National Archives of the UK, Dartford, Stone parish, Cannon household; Class: RG12; Piece: 641; Folio 105; Page 2; GSU roll: 6095751.
9. ↑ Maidstone & Kentish Journal, British Newspaper Archive, Situation Vacant, 27 Aug 1889, page 8, first column, third item.
10. ↑ The Kentish Mercury, British Newspaper Archive, General Servant Wanted, 17 Jan 1890, page 4, third column.
11. ↑ The Norwich Mercury, Nurse and General Wanted, 2 Aug 1890, page1, second column.
12. ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette, Percy Cannon, 28 Mar 1893, page 319, first column.
13. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Passenger Lists, 1865-1922, Item: Passenger lists of the KENSINGTON arriving in Quebec, Que. and Montreal, Que. on 1906-06-24; accessed:26 Oct 2022.
14. ↑ Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, Homestead Files, Howard Cannon, S42 2272495; copy in personal files of Bess (Cannon) Trenchard.
15. ↑ UK, General Register Office, death, Eliza Ellen, Bromley, 1908.
16. ↑ Saskatchewan, Canada, Burial Index, 1802-2011 (Regina, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Genealogical Society), Cannon, Percy; 1910, Saskatchewan, Tisdale, Tisdale Community Cemetery - SE11-45-15-W2.
17. ↑ Woolwich Herald, DEATHS. CANNON, obituary of Percy Cannon, page 1, column 1.
18. ↑ Henderson's Directory Winnipeg, Peel's Prairie Provinces, 1914, p. 842; accessed:26 Oct 2022.
19. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Personnel Records of the First World War, K Cannon, regimental #71792.
20. ↑ Royal Air Force Nominal Index of Airmen and Airwomen 1918 to 1975, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey, England, AP Cannon, AIR 78 28 01.
21. ↑ Henderson's Directory Winnipeg, Peel's Prairie Provinces, 1928, p. 687; accessed:26 Oct 2022.
22. ↑ Henderson's Directory Winnipeg, Peel's Prairie Provinces, 1933, p. 626; accessed:26 Oct 2022.
23. ↑ Government of Manitoba, Vital Statistics Branch, registration of death, Gladys Maude Cannon, 1927; copy in personal files of Bess (Cannon) Trenchard.
24. ↑ Government of Manitoba, Vital Statistics Branch, registration of death, Maude Cannon, 1944-06-016252; copy in personal files of Bess (Cannon) Trenchard.
25. ↑ Manitoba Archives, probate file, Maud Cannon, 26 May 1944, #32564; copy in personal files of Bess (Cannon) Trenchard.
26. ↑ Winnipeg Free Press, obituary, Mrs. Percy Cannon, 1 May 1944, page 2.