Emma Catherine Wright

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Emma's birth date matches the one inscribed on her tombstone and was somewhat validated by checking the 1891 Census for Flos Twp. where she had been reported as six. My grandmother gave me one birth date (1883), although her own records match the tombstone inscription. Emma gave her age as 18 on her 1900 marriage register, although she was still 18 in the 1901 Census in Flos Twp., and her birth date was listed as Aug. 8, 1882. A series of family tragedies and her father's re-marriage may have disrupted her childhood, as well as her sense of the passage of time, and in any case, like so many of the Ontario born Dwinnells, she was illiterate.

Source, birth place : Canada. Ontario Vital Statistics. Marriages, 1869-??? #14918 (Flos Twp).

My daughters have asked me why Emma married a man so much older than herself, but I have no idea, other than that her own mother was dead, her father had re-married and she may have dreamed of running her own home. But whatever her dreams, her marriage to Jim Wright was over before she was 25.

In addition to raising her own children, who went to work as soon as they were able, Emma also reared her son Norm's daughter Marion, who was also unschooled and possibly mentally handicapped. After Emma's death, Marion went to live with Emma's daughter May.

Emma is buried as the wife Herbert M. Johnston (1891-1959).

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=108405072

Birth: Aug. 30, 1885 Death: Jul. 15, 1966

Married to James Dwinnell on 28 May 1900,Elmvale, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. He was 30 yrs. and she was 18. His parents were John Wright & Diana Lennard Her parents were John Dwindle & Ann Blunsen.

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Parents:

 John Charles Dwinnell (1850 - 1916)

 Ann Eliza Bronson Dwinnell (1858 - 1895)

Spouses:

 Herbert M. Johnston (1891 - ____)

 James Wright (1862 - 1941)

Children:

 Ruth Hildred Wright James (1901 - 1991)*

 Epsie May Wright Dierlam (1908 - 1981)*

Siblings:

 Barney Dwinnell (1874 - 1904)*

 Annie Dwinnell Wright (1877 - 1961)*

 Charles John Dwinnell (1881 - 1904)*

 Emma Catherine Dwinnell Wright (1885 - 1966)

 Jasper Allan Dwinnell (1894 - 1974)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Waverley United Church Cemetery Waverley Simcoe County Ontario, Canada