Notes A birth registration was found for Mabel Prest Cassidy: Year of Registration: 1890; Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar; District: Leeds (1837-1929); County: Yorkshire - West Riding; Volume: 9b; Page: 505. Parents: Thomas and Mary Ann Cassidy. [POSSIBLE MATCH] Thomas Cassidy and Mary Ann Prest, married December quarter, 1892, Leeds, Yorkshire, England.
In 1891, Mabel Prest Cassidy, 1 year of age, was shown residing at 23 Lees Yard, South East Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Other family members included: Arthur Cassidy, 2 months; Mary Ann Cassidy, 28; and Thomas Cassidy, 30, boot finisher. (Source: 1891 Census of England; Class: RG12; Piece: 3683; Folio 28; Page 16; GSU roll: 6098793.) Her final
destination is given as Hintonburg, Ottawa, Ontario, in her admission records.
[POSSIBLE MATCH] A death registration was found for Thomas Cassidy: Estimated Birth Year: abt 1868; Year of Registration: 1896; Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec; Age at Death: 28; District: Leeds (1837-1929); County: Yorkshire - West Riding; Volume: 9b; Page: 300.
In 1901, Mabel Cassady, 9 years of age, was shown as an inmate, along with his sister, Arthur Cassady, 10, at a Home/Institution, run by Annie Farkin, matron, at 34 Springfield Terrace, Leeds, Yorkshire, England. (Source: 1901 Census of England; Class: RG13; Piece: 4224; Folio: 49; Page: 15.)
In 1905, Mabel Cassidy, 11, arrived at Quebec, Canada, along with a group of 52 children from Father Hudson's Homes, Catholic Emigration Association, 109 Shaw St., Liverpool, England, en route to St. George's Home, Hintonburg, Ottawa, Ontario and accompanied by Rev. Mother and Sister Evangeline. (Brother, Arthur Cassidy, 14, arrived in Canada on the Bavarian in 1905; and sister Lily Cassidy, 11, arrived in Canada on the Corsican in July 1909.)
In 1911, Mabel Cassidy, 18, was shown as a domestic to Jean and Valerie Robert of 397 Mountain, St. Antoine Ward, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her date of birth is shown as February 1893 and her immigration year as 1911.
A marriage registration was found in St. Patricks Catholic Church, Montreal, Quebec, Canada:
"The thirty first of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, after the publication of three banns of marriage in St. Patrick, without impediment or opposition, we the undersigned priest, vicar of the parish, duly authorized having received the mutual consent of William Burt Grannary of St. Patrick, widower of the late Elizabeth Allan, on the one part, and Mary Mabel Cassidy of St. Patrick, daughter of age of the late Thomas Cassidy and the late Mary Ann Hansgate, on the other part, have married then according to the laws and rites of the Holy Catholic Church in the presence of Joseph Groulx and Arthur Cassidy, brother of the bride who have signed with the bridegroom and the bride. Act read. Francis J. Singleton, Priest"
Mabel Prest Cassidy Grannary died in Montreal.