Winifred Louise Clayton

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Winifred's Mother had died. Winifred was alienated from her own Father when he had been convinced by his new girl friend to put Nan 'into service' as a maid. Winifred Louise Clayton met Gilbert George Troke when he was in the hospital recuperating from his wound suffered at Sanctuary Wood in 1916. It is reasonable to think that after having married Winifred in England, Gil would have travelled home in a troop ship - hence probably little record. While Winifred came over separately (on a Cunard ship). It appears that Gil was relieved from duty because of his wound (regardless of what the sos date is since many were sos at home). Arrived in Canada 15 April 1918 on the Mauritania. Winifred worked for GECO making ammunition during the war.

See note to Auntie Winnie" from "Little Harry". From Nephew, Harry Brandon? Son of Gertrude Maud Clayton and George Brandon.

After Edith Lucy Rose Wright aka Queenie died in 1946, William Luptonmarried Winifred Louise Clayton, Queenie's Aunt in 1947.

St. John's Norway Cemetary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada In 1853 Charles Coxwell Small deeded 3 acres of his land to the Rt. Reverend John Strachan, Lord Bishop of Toronto, for the construction ofan Anglican church and graveyard to seve the community of Norway and subsequently Toronto. Over the years the Cemetary grounds have expandedseveral times reching it's current size in 1925. The Cemetary occupies about 35 acres on the Northwest corner of Woodbine Avenue and Kingston Road in Toronto's East end. In December 1998 a Crematorium and Chapel were added. Today the cemetary hase more than 50,000 gravesites and nearly 80,000 interments. Source: St. John's Norway pamphlet dated 02/05

Nan’s last marriage was to Alfred Gaylor who had lived 2 doors down from us on Darrell Avenue. He was also the guy who would put grease on the chain at the front of his house to keep us kids from sitting on it. Source: Lorne MacDonald, October 2009

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