Notes A birth registration was found for Ada Hannah Broadbent: Date: Jun 1881; District: Prescot; County: Lancashire; Volume: 8b; Page: 754. Parents: Hugh Broadbent and Elizabeth Makinson, married 1872, Wigan, Lancashire, England.
A death registration was found for Hugh Broadbent: Date: Jun 1885; Age: 49; District: Prescot; County: Lancashire; Volume: 8b; Page: 519.
In 1885, James Broadbent, 11, and Hannah Broadbent, 5, arrived at Quebec, Canada, with tickets for CPR to be sent to friends in Ottawa.
"Sixteenth Annual Report of the Local Government Board, 1886-87; Copy of Reports of Inspection of Children sent out to Canada, as of February 12, 1887.
Report of Mr. W. J. Wills, Government Immigration Agent at Ottawa, Ontario.
Hannah Broadbent, from Prescot Union, placed with Ralph Broadbent, 151, Kent Street, Ottawa, Ontario. Is a very fine child and neatly dressed. It would be a very great satisfaction, if possible, to get the birthday of the child."
On April 12, 1906, at Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada, a marriage was registered between Ada Broadbent, 25, born in England, to Hugh Broadbent and Sarah Makinson; and A. E. (Albert Edward) Blake McDermid, 30, bookkeeper, born in Ottawa, Ontario, to Angus McDermid and Janet McIntosh.
A. E. Blake McDermid and Ada Hannah Broadbent had at least 2 children: John Broadbent McDermid, born August 22, 1909, at Carleton, Ontario, Canada; and Evelyn Beatrice McDermid, born March 8, 1907, at Carleton, Ontario, Canada (died 1999, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada).