Notes A birth registration was found for Lizzie Ames: Year of Registration: 1893; Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun; District: Bromsgrove; County: Hereford and Worcester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire; Volume: 6c; Page: 389. Parents: Arthur Ames and Elizabeth Willis, married 1881, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.
In 1906, Lizzie Ames, 11 (along with siblings Frank Ames, 11; Henry Ames, 10; and Sarah Ames, 15) arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, with a group of 159 children en route to the Middlemore Home in Halifax.
On January 7, 1915, at Preque Isle, Aroostook County, Maine, USA, a marriage was registered between Elizabeth Ames and Andrew Joseph Ireland, son of Joseph Ireland and Susan Whittaker.
Andrew and Elizabeth Ames Ireland had at least 4 children: One child still living; Philip Andrew Ireland, born October 24, 1916, at Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine, and died March 15, 2005, at Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine; Forrest Earl Ireland, born June 24, 1920, at Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine, and died May 25, 2008, at Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine; and an unnamed son, born and died in 1927.
Elizabeth Ames Ireland died on January 20, 1949, of bilateral pneumonia / cardiac arrest of 6 days duration, at Preque Isle, Aroostook, Maine, USA. Andrew Joseph Ireland died on March 6, 1963, of arteriosclerotic heart disease. They are buried at Fairmount Cemetery, Presque Isle, Maine, USA.