Amelia (Forsey) Estano (1859 - 1929)

Born 3 Jan 1859 in Grand Bank, Newfoundland

Ancestors

Wife of Clarence Estano — married 5 Apr 1880 in Grand Bank, Newfoundland

Descendants

Died 8 Jan 1929 at age 70 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada (134 Cottage Rd)

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Biography

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Amelia Forsey was born in Jan 1859 at Grand Bank in Newfoundland, daughter of Aaron Forsey and Frances "Fanny" Rose. There she married Clarence Estano (from Halifax, NS, Canada) in 1880, where their first two children were born. From information recorded in the Census of Canada 1901, it appears that the family moved between Apr 1882 and Mar 1884 to rural New Brunswick in Canada, where their other four children were born. (The date of migration is inferred from place of birth and dates of birth of children -- although the census also gives "1880" as the date of immigration for Amelia and the two oldest children. In my experience, the old census manuscripts are quite unreliable about reported dates, including birthdays and ages - J.deR.) I believe that Clarence's family had moved to the Moncton area of New Brunswick (something I will be rechecking, & will revise this text accordingly).

Sometime between the fall of 1893 and the day of the 1901 census, they settled in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Notably, 1893 was the year that a large corporation took over and consolidated the coal mines encircling Sydney, and the turn of the century saw construction of a steel mill - all of which produced a quite sudden in-migration to the locale.

It was around 1900 that the family moved into 134 Cottage Road in Sydney's South End. (This last date comes from her death certificate, which says she came from Nfld 45 years earlier and had lived at the Cottage Road address for 28 years.) Her death certificate gives "housewife" as her occupation. It attributes her demise to "general debility" (if I've correctly interpreted the wretched handwriting from the microfilm shot on my computer screen). She was buried on Jan 10, in nearby Hardwood Hill Cemetery.^[1]

Sources

• Census of Canada. 1901. Accessed online 21 Sept 2007, at [1].

• John deRoche, including family oral history.

• Jim's Cornish Family Tree (March 21, 2008) at [2]

• "Newfoundland Vital Statistics, 1753-1893," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9Y-38GR : 11 March 2018), Clarence Estano and Amelia Forsey, 05 Apr 1880; citing Marriage, Grand Bank, Burin, Newfoundland, Canada, Provincial Archives, St. John's. Accessed 12 Apr 2018.

• Vital Statistics, Province of Nova Scotia, accessed online 27 July 2012 at [3].

1. ↑ Entered by John deRoche, Dec 17, 2011